Wednesday, October 31, 2012

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‘The power of students on this campus is really surprising’ Jen Cox, sexualassault survivor and OU graduate student

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he criminal-justice system hasn’t put anyone in prison for a sexual assault at OU in the last 12 years, according to police and court records. And although the university system has a better track record of punishing those responsible for sexual assault — OU has taken disciplinary actions, including expulsion, in 11 out of 16 cases since 2000 — it is limited in its ability to punish offenders.

Reports of forcible sex offenses on campus are increasing.

The number jumped from four in 2010 to 16 in 2011, according to the 2012 Sooner Safety and Fire Report.

Vice President for Student Affairs Clarke Stroud said he doesn’t believe the increase was

due to more attacks, but rather a result of more students coming forward to report their assaults.

“We have broken the barriers down and encouraged sexualmisconduct victims to come forward,” Stroud said. “We have provided them an avenue to seek justice and to provide education

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to prevent these events from happening.”

The university has made concentrated efforts — some because of student pressure — to strengthen its sexual-assault policy and provide more resources as possible to students. Last year, OU lengthened its statute of limitations from 30 days to 365 days after Ward’s proposal brought attention to the university’s policy.

Ward also advocated for changes to OUPD training and the addition of a sexual-assault class for incoming freshmen, which was implemented this semester as an online course.

The university also defined consent more specifically — outlining that silence is not consent

Poor Moon to play Halloween show at The Opolis

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unior cornerback Aaron Colvin (14) has emerged as one of the best players on the OU defense. Colvin has played cornerback and safety for the Sooners and led the team in tackles in 2011. Defensive coordinator Mike Stoops says Colvin has all of the intangibles to be successful. (Sports, B1)

The Magazine Interest Group and the Ad Club’s annual New York City trip was canceled because of Hurricane Sandy. Both organizations typically visit New York around the same time each year but have different agendas.

The Magazine Interest Group visits different magazine offices, while the advertising group visits different advertising agencies. Both groups take this trip to get students acquainted with the businesses and how to get an internship or job in the industry.

After watching the storm last week, the Magazine Interest Group had a meeting Monday to reschedule the trip, group president Adeline Alford said. They decided the trip would be unsafe and essentially wouldn’t have a purpose because they would have to reschedule meetings with the different magazine offices they were planning to visit, she said.

“We were supposed to leave Wednesday, Oct. 31, however Hurricane Sandy, a full moon and an artic blast are supposed to hit tomorrow,” Alford said. “Most of the magazine companies we planned to visit on our trip will be closed. The New York City mayor shut down all subways see storm page A3

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TIMElINE Sexual assault survivor works with ou to change policy

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Jordan Ward was raped during a fraternity party

Today around CaMPus reference assistance will be provided by ou libraries from 10 a.m. to noon in rawl Engineering Practice Facility’s iT lab and adams hall’s Business information Computation lab.

Mid-Day Music sponsored by union Programming Board will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in oklahoma Memorial union’s food court. atiba Williams will play piano.

Haunt the Union: OU scared?, sponsored by union Programming Board, will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in oklahoma Memorial union.

The film “ParaNorman” will be screened at 6, 8 and 10 p.m. in oklahoma Memorial union’s Meacham auditorium.

A trombone choir concert will be held from 8 to 10 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s sharp Concert hall.

Thursday, nov. 1 reference assistance will be provided by ou libraries from 2 to 4 p.m. in adams hall, room 110.

A student success series seminar titled “leveraging Technology for your academic success” will be held from 5 to 6 p.m. in Wagner hall, room 245. comedy Fight Night, sponsored by union Programming Board, will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in oklahoma Memorial union’s Meacham auditorium.

Friday, nov. 2 Guess the score, sponsored by union Programming Board, will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the oklahoma Memorial union’s first floor lobby.

The musical Avenue Q will be performed by university Theatre at 8 p.m. in the Fine arts Center’s rupel Jones Theatre.

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A database or electronic document of registered vehicles of students, staff and faculty with ou parking permits for Spring 2012 — To see how many people register with ou’s Parking services

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contract regarding the purchase of 146 Page St. — To see the details of the contract, such as the price of the purchase, and ou’s plans for the property

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Ward works with Women’s and gender studies student organization to change the policy

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The university changes sexual misconduct statute of limitations to 365 days

Ward sits on committee, proposes ouPd undergoes better sexual assult training

Continued from page A1 and alcohol and drugs can remove a person’s ability to give consent. The latter is important as almost half of sexual assaults involve alcohol consumption by both parties, according to a 2004 study published in the Psychology of Women Quarterly.

Consent is defined as active but also informed, knowing and voluntary, according to the Institutional Equity and Title IX Office.

This office was created to consolidate gender equity issues for three growing campuses after a summer advisory committee indicated the need for a centralized office, university spokesman Michael Nash said.

These new policies may help encourage victims to come forward. Seeking justice can be traumatic for survivors who must relive their attack through testimony, not to mention other psychological problems, such as nightmares, eating disorders and fear of others, said Karen Vaughn, a psychologist at the Oklahoma Health Consortium. “ The healing process after sexual assault is often difficult and may take time, but with support and help,

OU Police Department 405-325-1911 (emergency) 405-325-2864 (non-emergency) Norman Police Department 405-321-1600 or 405-321-1444 Women’s Outreach center 405-325-4929 counseling center 405-325-2911 counseling Psychology clinic 405-325-2914 sexual Assault Hotline 405-701-5660

healing can occur,” Vaughn said in an email. “It is possible to come through this experience with renewed strength and purpose.

Anyone who has experienced sexual assault need not see himself or herself as damaged but as resilient.”

It is important for sexualassault survivors to come forward and receive the help they need, she said. *** Multidisciplinary studies s enior Jordan Ward said she struggled with an eating disorder and fear of crowds after she was raped

sexual Assault response Team 405-615-0013 Women’s resource center 405-364-9424 Number Nyne crisis Line 405-325-nynE rape crisis center 405-701-5660 sexual Misconduct Officer 405-325-2215 Women’s shelter for Battered Women 405-701-5540

on campus in January 2010.

The loss of control she experienced after her assault caused her to be angry with her family and led to slipping grades and a disinterest in life, but counseling and support helped her life improve, she said.

The effects of sexual assault have no time limit, and some survivors, such as studio arts senior Alicia Smith, feel the effects for many years.

Her cousin sexually abused her when she was 5 years old, and it occurred several times in an 11-year period. Now 22, Smith said she still is averse to oral sex

There have been 61 reports of sexual assault filed with the ou Police department since 2000. This includes 31 incidents of forcible rape, 12 incidents of sexual battery, seven incidents of forcible fondling and 11 incidents of other sexual assaults at the university.

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“I felt like it made me feel like the most perverse human being,” Smith said.

Survivors are often blamed — either by themselves or others — for what happened. Graduate student Jen Cox was a rape-crisis advocate for four years, but despite her training, Cox said she still found herself thinking it was her fault after an OU professor raped her.

What began as a consensual encounter turned forceful, and he wouldn’t stop even after she said no.

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Her mental health deteriorated after the attack, and she couldn’t work or focus on school. Cox said her life is improving since the assault, but that healing process took a year. sEE sex criMes PagE a3

Forcible sodomy: oral or anal sexual intercourse with another person, forcibly and/or against that person’s will or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent.

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Sex crimes: Victim blaming puts pressure on survivors Continued from page A2 “It made me hate myself,” she said. “Even though I knew not to blame myself, I did it anyway.”

The Women’s Outreach Center offers programs that teach students how to be advocates against sexual assault and to offer counseling for survivors through the Sexual Assault Response Team, which is available 24/7.

The university also has offered emergency housing changes after reports of sexual assault.

The goal of the center is to advocate for survivors, to give them back the control they lost after the sexual assault occurred and to help motivate them — but not force them — to come forward about what has happened to them, said Kathy Moxley, Women’s Outreach Center director.

“For many people, they just want to try and forget what happened,” Moxley s a i d . “ T h e re i s a l o t o f shame and embarrassment, and that’s horrible, but it’s a reality.”

S e xu a l a ssau l t i s o n e of the most underreported crimes in the country,

“For many people, they just want to try and forget what happened. There is a lot of shame and embarrassment, and that’s horrible, but it’s a reality.”

Kathy Moxley, Women’s Outreach Center director

with 73 percent of the incidents going unreported to police, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

This makes it difficult to pin down how often it happens and even more difficult to determine if survivors are receiving help.

Survivors also can use resources outside the university to deal with the emotional fallout after a sexual assault happens. Even then, the decisions can be hard, especially when family and friends try to sway the person toward a particular decision, Moxley said.

This sometimes leads to what Cox described as victim blaming — when others question why or how survivors put themselves in that position. People might ask things like “What were you

wearing?” or “Why didn’t you fight off your attacker?” that put a lot of emotional pressure on survivors, she said. *** It’s impossible to know if these recent policy changes and survivor health focused programs will buck the trend of underreporting sexual assaults. What students and sur vivors should focus on is creating a community that better deals with sexual assault by speaking out or reaching out to someone they know has been harmed, Cox said.

“I can’t tell you how many people ... when I tell them about my assault, say, ‘Oh that happened to me,’” Cox said. “I think people need to reach out and do whatever they need to do to help survivor’s heal … but that we shouldn’t lose the sight that often other students can be people’s biggest resources on campus.

“The power of students on this campus is really surprising. It’s really awesome.”

Was it rape?

How to know if you were assaulted If you answer “no” to any of the following questions, what happened to you was sexual assault.

1. Did you actively, verbally and explicitly say yes to the sexual activity?

2. Did you feel safe to say no?

3. Did you consent freely, without pressure, intimidation or threats?

4. Were you sober enough to understand what was happening and actively agree to sexual activity?

5. Did you consent to every type of sexual activity and each escalation of activity?

6. Did you continue to consent for the duration of the encounter without withdrawing that consent?

If you were silent for any reason — including fear — or were under the influence of drugs or alcohol, you did not give consent. Absence of active protest is not the same as active consent.

Consent is two or more people actively and explicitly deciding to pursue the same kind of sexual activity without being influenced by fear, pressure, intimidation or a power difference.

Without your active, verbal and continued consent, what happened to you was an assault.

If you have been assaulted, you can take the first step toward getting help by calling the Sexual Assault Response Team at 405-615-0013.

Chase Cook, chaseacook@gmail.com

Source: The university’s definition for consent in the sexual misconduct policy

Construction begins on weather center’s radar laboratory A ceremony Tuesday marked the beginning of construction on a new research laboratory located east of the National Weather Center.

The new laboratory, called the Radar Innovation Laboratory, will house facilities spanning the full spectrum of radar development. The lab will allow faculty and students to design, fabricate and test radars, said Robert Palmer, director of the OU Advanced Radar Research Center, and associate vice president for research.

The lab will feature new equipment like a microwave laboratory that will aid in designing and testing microwave circuits, which are components that go inside the radar, Palmer said.

Along with the microwave lab, the building will be home to a high-bay garage for

mobile radar trucks, prototype fabrication facilities, a machine shop and a space for creating and collaborating known as the “Ideas Room,” according to the press release.

The groundbreaking ceremony took place at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the future location of the building east of the National Weather Center. The ceremony featured speeches from OU President David Boren; Kelvin Droegemeier, associate vice president for research; Jessica Ruyle, professor of electrical and computer engineering; and Palmer, according to the press release.

Construction of the lab is expected to be complete by the end of fall 2013.

Paighten Harkins, Campus Reporter

Storm: Trips moved to November Continued from page A1 and public transportation so we would have transportation issues there.

Also, we wouldn’t want to get stuck in New York and have power outages at the hotel.”

The Magazine interest group rescheduled its trip to Nov. 28 through Dec. 2.

“There is a silver lining to this situation because we get to visit New York when it will be decorated for Christmas,” Alford said. “Some students are talking about going to see the Nutcracker.”

The ad group planned on leaving for New York today as well.

“We planned this New York trip in the summer,” said David Tarpenning, faculty advisor for the Ad Club. “We visit six advertising agencies, so it takes a lot of planning. We found out last Thursday that there was supposed to be 30 inches of snow, so I emailed the students as soon as possible to let them know that they should notify their parents about this.”

The Ad Club rescheduled its trip to Nov. 14 through Nov. 18 so the December graduates can go. Tarpenning is working on rescheduling with the advertising agencies.

The clubs also are dealing with extra charges from their airline services with rebooking their flights.

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“Don’t you tell me someone can’t tear you down enough to force you. I’ve been there. I was lonely and scared and sad and he would make it worse ... I wasn’t ‘in danger,’ but I did not willingly give consent.” (mlettkeman, RE: ‘Sex crimes at OU: Choosing which road to take can be difficult for survivors’)

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• Supports marriage equality • Supports abortion rights • Would pardon and release all prisoners convicted of drugrelated offenses • Would end the war on drugs • Opposes regulation or restriction of the Internet by government

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Robert Murphy — Libertarian

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Pat Martin — Modern Whig Party

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Course to explore the Westboro Baptist Church protests along with others

Arianna Pickard Campus Reporter

OU students, faculty and staff will run from zombies to support a local charity at the 3rd annual Zombie 5K from Saturday.

The race, organized by the Union Programming Board, will start and end at Oklahoma Memorial Union, Mariah Najmuddin, public relations and Spanish junior and UPB executive member, said in an email.

Runners are encouraged but not required to race in costume after choosing whether they will run as a human or a zombie, according to the UPB w eb s i t e. T h e t h re e t o p men’s and women’s run times will receive a skull trophy, and the runner with the best costume also will be recognized.

“It’s an awesome sight s e eing s o many p e ople dressed up for the Zombie 5 K ,” N a j m u d d i n s a i d .

“You would think only the ‘zombies’ dress up, but since we first started the event people have even dressed as ‘humanly’ as possible.”

She said that two years ago someone ran the race in a Lederhosen costume.

“People get really excited about the theme, which is what makes our event so unique,” Najmuddin said.

Patrick McSweeney, UPB president, said the board wanted to play off of the zombie theme made popular by shows like the “Walking Dead” to “make an exciting and unique event.”

The zombie theme was chosen by Michael Giesecke, UPB Coordinator, as a T-shirt idea when he

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Emily Leahey, diet and nutrition senior from UCO, finishes the 2011 Zombie 5K. The Zombie 5K and Survival Fun Run were events put on by the Union Programming Board.

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read a sign for another 5K that read “run with us,” Najmuddin said.

“He thought how novel it would be to have shirts that read ‘run from us,’ and thus the Zombie 5K was born,” Najmuddin said.

A $20 registration fee is required for the race, and it

is open to anyone, according to the board’s website. The money raised will benefit Bridges of Norman. “Bridges is a nonprofit formed through a collaboration of the Norman community, Norman Public Schools and the Norman Housing Authority,” according to the organization’s website. The nonprofit offers housing a n d m e nt o r i ng t o h ig h school students who have lost a parent to death or incarceration and live alone as a result.

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“The Union Programming Board is very passionate about this organization because they are giving back to our local community,” Najmuddin said. “Bridges of Norman addresses an often forgotten need here in Norman — our youth.”

The UPB also just started a discount code to give runners a 50 percent discount, making the registration fee $10 instead of $20, McSweeney said.

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A new Honors course will make its first appearance at OU during the upcoming December 2012 Intersession.

Entitled “Modern Protest Movements,” the colloquium-like course will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Mondays through Fridays from Dec. 17 to Jan. 11, excluding holidays.

Brian Johnson, director of the Honors College Writing Assistant P ro g ra m, w i l l b e t h e instructor of the course.

The junior-level, threehour credit course fulfills one of the two required Honors courses, Johnson said. Honors students must take one class that is considered a perspective, or lower-division, and one class that is a colloquium, or upperdivison, according to the Honors College website.

“I was thrilled to hear that I got the opportunity,” Johnson said. “I analyze popular culture and often think about the way that music and cinema both reflect and shape our contemporary society.

This course is very much in keeping with that sort of attitude about how extra lingual usage, such as images and protests, is such a major sculpture of human behavior.”

Johnson said the course i s g o i n g t o p r i ma r i l y focus in on American movements.

“During the 50s

through 70s, we had a very specific and different form of protest, which is exemplified by freedom marches in Alabama,” he said. “A lot of the protests in our country had a progressive political agenda.”

To d ay , p ro t e s t s are done across the political spectrum, from conservatives to liberals, he said.

“Now, we have the Westboro Baptist Church, which most people don’t associate with left-link politics but, clearly, uses the same modes of protest that Occupy does,” Johnson said In addition to the Westboro Baptist Church and Occupy Wall Street movement, main subjects matters include the Tea Party, Chick-fil-A and Kony 2012 movements, Johnson said.

“There’s a continuance of what the Internet allows for nowadays,” he said. “It’s not something we had in the 60s when Martin Luther King Jr. was really active or the 70s when gay rights marches were taking place.”

Johnson said the course caps at 30 students and about 16 students have enrolled.

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Homes in Fenwick Island, Del., are surrounded by floodwaters from superstorm Sandy on Tuesday. Officials said Fenwick Island and nearby Bethany Beach appeared to be among the hardest-hit parts of the state. Gov. Jack Markell lifted the state of emergency on Tuesday in New Castle and Kent counties, but has kept the order in place for Sussex County because some areas remain flooded.

Hurricane floods coast from Maine to Carolinas on Tuesday Northeast robbed of electricity in Sandy’s wake ALLEN G. BREED and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK — Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without electricity, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air as superstorm Sandy steamed inland, still delivering punishing wind and rain. The U.S. death toll climbed to 38, many of the victims killed by falling trees.

The full extent of the da mag e i n Ne w Je rs e y , where the storm roared ashore Monday night with hurricane-force winds of 80 mph, was unclear. Police and fire officials, some with their ow n depar tments flooded, fanned out to rescue hundreds.

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Water cascaded into the gaping, unfinished construction pit at the World Trade Center, and the New York Stock Exchange was closed for a second day, the first time that has happened because of weather since the Blizzard of 1888. The NYSE said it will reopen on Wednesday.

A huge fire destroyed as many as 100 houses in a flooded beachfront neighborhood in Queens on Tuesday, forcing firefighters to undertake daring rescues.

Three people were injured.

New York University’s Tisch Hospital evacuated 200 patients after its backup generator failed. About 20 babies from the neonatal intensive care unit were carried down staircases and were given battery-powered respirators.

A construction crane that collapsed in the high winds on Monday still dangled precariously 74 floors above t h e s t re e t s o f m i d t ow n Manhattan, and hundreds of people were evacuated as a precaution. And on Staten Island, a tanker ship wound up beached on the shore.

With water standing in two major commuter tunnels and seven subway tunnels under the East River, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was unclear when the nation’s largest transit system would be rolling again.

It shut down Sunday night ahead of the storm.

Jo s e p h L h o t a , c h a i rman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said the damage was the worst in the 108-year history of the New York subway.

Shunned by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin is instead turning to former presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich to help raise his profile and cash in the closing week of his campaign.

Gingrich was to appear with Akin at a series of events Tuesday and Wednesday in the Kansas City area. Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill had no campaign events scheduled, because she’s taking time off following the death of her mother.

Romney abandoned Akin after the suburban St. Louis congressman remarked in August that women’s bodies have ways of avoiding pregnancy in what he called “legitimate rape.” But Gingrich and former GOP presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee have stood behind Akin after he apologized.

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The Republican presidential candidate is making a final-week bid to defeat President Barack Obama in territory long considered safe for Democrats. No Republican presidential candidate has carried the state in nearly a quarter century. Recent polls suggest the race there is close.

Republican officials with knowledge of the plan report that Romney’s campaign will begin running ads statewide as soon as Wednesday. The buy includes the expensive Philadelphia broadcast market, where Romney’s campaign was reluctant to invest earlier in the month. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss campaign strategy.

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Sections of Manhattan were inundated with water and power was shut off to thousands of people and businesses Monday night.

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Sooners to battle Red Raiders at McCasland Field House Oklahoma is 6-1 in games immediately following losses so far this season Chris Tyndall Sports Reporter

When the OU volleyball team takes the court at 7 tonight at McCasland Field House, it hopes to get its season back on track after

being swept in its last two matches. Enter Texas Tech.

The Sooners (16-8, 5-4) h av e d e f e a t e d t h e R e d Raiders in 14 straight matches since 2005, including a 3-0 sweep two weeks ago in

Lubbock.

Oklahoma is ranked fifth in the Big 12 Conference after going 3-3 in its last six Big 12 games. It’ll have the chance to get back into the hunt with three games in the next week against two teams at the bottom of the standings and a revenge game against Iowa State,

who swept the Sooners last week.

“We just have to play e ve r y tea m t h e way w e played against Texas in the first set, if we do that we can beat anyone,” freshman setter Julia Doyle said The first set Doyle referenced was a 23-25 loss, which the Sooners played

last Sunday against No. 8 Texas, before being outscored 50-18 in the final two sets of a sweep.

The Sooners are 6-1 following a loss this season, with the lone loss coming last Sunday against the Longhorns.

Coach Santiago Restrepo attributes his team’s ability

to bounce back to its strong character.

“We play with very short memor ies, and nobody wants to lose two in a row,” Restrepo said. “It shows the type of character that we have on this team to be able to bounce back after a loss.” see Tech page B2

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Junior cornerback Aaron Colvin dons the famous Golden Cowboy Hat after the Sooners dominated Texas, 63-21, on Oct. 13. Colvin recorded his first career interception in the game. Colvin has played both cornerback and safety at OU and led the team in tackles last season playing as a safety. He attributes his strong play to a competitive mind-set that was instilled in him as a child.

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With 9:36 remaining in the second quarter of OU’s evisceration of Texas, the Longhorns lined up in the shotgun for a 2nd and 10 from their own 25.

Sophomore quarterback David Ash took the snap, faked a handoff to freshman receiver Michael Zaring and launched a pass 31 yards down field to senior receiver Mike Davis.

The play was perfectly executed: Ash placed the ball just above OU junior cornerback Aaron Colvin’s left shoulder, and Davis hauled it in, tapping his feet in bounds as he landed near the Texas sideline.

“It couldn’t have been a better throw and catch,” defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said.

Down 27-2, the Longhorns — who, before that play, had tallied just 14 yards of offense — had picked up their first first down of the game.

But after the play, Colvin rushed to the nearest official to protest the catch, vehemently pleading his case to the side judge who had made the ruling.

“He didn’t catch that,” Aaron Colvin said after practice the following Monday. “He bobbled it, and it hit the ground.”

But the play stood.

So with the officials unreceptive

Position: Cornerback 2012 Statistics: 34 tackles, two interceptions and six pass breakups through seven games

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Junior cornerback Aaron Colvin (14) covers a Kansas State wide receiver in a game against K-State on Sept. 22. Colvin is second on the team with two interceptions this season.

to his rhetoric, Colvin took matters into his own hands: playing the role of vigilante and exacting justice by picking off Ash on the very next play.

“When I gave up that (catch) — first first down all day — it kind of hurt,”

Colvin said. “It still hurts me right now; it hurts to talk about it. But I mean, I just tried to come back and make a play afterwards, and I felt like I did, and I got the interception.

“But still, I shouldn’t have let that

happen.”

Suffice it to say, Aaron Colvin has a bit of an itch for competition.

In only his second year as a starter — and first at cornerback — Colvin just may be the supergiant of the Sooners’ star-studded secondary.

“He’s got all the intangible qualities that all great players have: He plays hard; he practices hard; he’s intense; he’s focused; he’s very detailed; he’s got a lot of pride in the way he plays,” Mike Stoops said. “He takes it on as a personal challenge: Nobody’s going to catch a ball on him all day.”

Cultivated through competition As seen by his reaction to giving up the first down against Texas, Colvin’s competitiveness is an integral part of his game.

“It’s in my heart,” Aaron Colvin said.

“It’s just something I’ve always grown see Colvin page B2

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Soccer

Sooners to take on UT in round 1 Forward Cuellar gives team chance to win Ross Stracke Sports Reporter

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Junior cornerback Aaron Colvin (14) leads the Sooners out of the tunnel at a game against Texas on Oct. 13 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.

Colvin has led the team out of the tunnel in several games this season.

The OU women’s soccer season is on the line in the Big 12 Tournament when the Sooners play rival Texas for the second time this season today in San Antonio.

In the first matchup, the Sooners were beaten 1-0.

Te x a s b r o u g h t a n intensity in the first 10 minutes of the game that Oklahoma did not match and could not recover from.

Th e g o a l wa s g i ve n up on a corner kick that sophomore midfielder Sharis Lachappelle headed in.

Corners have been a problem for Oklahoma this season, giving up a goal on corners in other crucial situations like in games against UNLV and West Virginia.

Coach Matt Potter said that the team has been working on stopping set

plays following the West Virginia game.

“We gave up a goal on a set piece from a corner kick (against WVU) and that’s something we’ve detailed,” Potter said. “That’s one of the things we’ve been looking at is being more disciplined, being more focused in critical moments and obviously a set piece is a critical moment.”

Unlike the first match, the Sooners know that to be able to advance to the NCAA tournament, they have to win the Big 12 Tournament, or at least make it to the finals to be considered by the selection committee.

O k l a h o ma d o e s hav e momentum on its side, though, winning three of it’s last four games.

The Sooners also have the newly-crow ned Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year senior forward Renae Cuellar on their side.

If Cuellar catches a hot streak, OU’s season could be far from over.

Ross Stracke ross.stracke@ou.edu

Colvin: Junior says playing with confidence is key Tech: OU can’t sleep on Big 12 teams, Doyle says Continued from page B1 though, it was sports that side, just him, and make ultimately helped Aaron feel at home.

“Because he was so good at ever ything he did, it allowed him to make friends very quickly, so he did pretty well,” Bryant Colvin said.

“He’s always been one of the favorites.”

up with. I’m definitely a big competitor. My family is very competitive, and, you know, we don’t like to lose.”

Colvin and his younger brother Caleb were born in Nashville, Tenn., to parents Bryant and Lisa Colvin, and their family is one fueled by Playing with swagger competition.

With competitiveness “My family is filled with comes confidence, and men, so you have to be Colvin attributes much of pretty competitive in my his success to his swagger. family,” Bryant Colvin said.

“If you don’t have a “And he just kind of took swagger out there on the off with it. He’s always been field, you don’t have any that way.” confidence,” Colvin said.

According to his father, “Confidence translates to C o l v i n ’ s a t h l e t i c i s m the field, and when you a n d c o m p e t i t i v e n e s s have confidence, you can were apparent from the play with anybody.” beginning.

Fellow defensive back, “I could tell when he was junior safety Tony Jefferson, at a very young age (that he agrees. would be special),” Bryant “(When) you’re going Colvin said. “Most kids against teams that we’ll have toys b e facing, to play with “I could tell when he y o u n e e d — he didn’t confidence, p l a y w i t h was at a very young especially age (that he would i n t h e any toys. The only thing he defensive be special).” played with backfield,” were balls.

Jefferson Bryant Colvin, Aaron’s father “He always said. “I e xc e l l e d at think that what he did. He was so good all ties in with being a great that we would put him up a defensive back : having grade (in sports).” attitude and confidence.”

But when the Colvins Driven by competition moved to Owasso, Okla., in and defined by confidence, the winter of 2000, Aaron Colvin’s exuberance on the struggled to adjust. field has garnered him a “He was always on the reputation as one of the top best athletic teams, so he cornerbacks in the nation. missed all his fr iends,” And with that recognition Bryant Colvin said. “He took h a s c o m e a h i g h l e v e l it pretty tough, actually. The o f r e s p e c t f r o m h i s culture was different. It took teammates. him a little while to get used “Playmaker,” Jefferson to it.” said of Aaron Colvin. “You Appropriately enough, can lock him up on that

that easier on the other side.

It helps our scheme out.

“It can make things a lot simpler when you’ve got guys out there that can lock up any receiver in the country.”

Last season, Colvin led the team in tackles while playing safety, but this year, he moved back to cornerback — the position he played in high school and signed at OU to play.

“It feels good (to be back at corner); it feels real good,” Aaron Colvin said. “It’s just so natural to me — I mean, every little move is natural for me at corner — so I feel like that’s where I’m best at.”

The move allowed Jefferson to play a true safety position instead of the linebacker-safety hybrid he’d been playing and gave the Sooners one of the top cornerback tandems in the country with Colvin and senior Demontre Hurst. “ It g i v e s y o u a l o t o f confidence going into e a c h g a m e,” d e f e n s i v e coordinator Mike Stoops said. “If those guys can play well, we’re going to make it hard on a lot of people.”

Aaron Colvin said the coaches’ and team’s confidence in him pushes him to play even better. “ I f e e l l i k e i t ’s b e e n s omewhat motivating,” Aaron Colvin said. “I still got a lot of stuff I can learn and be better at, but I feel like the defense is starting to put trust in me, knowing that I’ll take care of my side of the field.”

And that’s exactly what Colvin has done.

L a s t y e a r ’s “s h a r k s ”

BY THE NUMBERS Colvin’s career

152

Total tackles in Colvin’s career. He led the team in tackles in 2011.

20

Total games started by Colvin at OU. He has played in 33 total.

2

Number of positions played

by Colvin as a Sooner.

He played safety in 2011.

Source: SoonerSports.com

moniker has yet to make an official return, but at least one Sooner defensive back is feasting on opposing offenses like chum in open water.

And he’s embracing the competition.

“I don’t let anybody catch t h e ba l l o n m e,” A a ro n Colvin said. “If a guy catches the ball on me, it’s a great catch.”

Although, Colvin’s future is uncertain — he’ll be eligible to enter the NFL Draft at season’s end — there’s one person who has complete confidence in his ability to succeed.

“Oh, I’ m s o p ro u d o f that kid he doesn’t even understand how proud I am of him,” Bryant Colvin said. “His confidence level in everything he does is so high, I really don’t see a limit to what he wants to do.”

Continued from page B1 D o y l e e c h o e d h e r c o a c h’s s e n t i m e n t s .

“We just focus on the team we’re playing next because thinking about the past doesn’t change what happened,” Doyle said.

The Red Raiders (13-12, 2-7) have not played well in the Big 12, with their only wins coming against West Virginia who has not won a match in Big 12 play.

Despite their poor record, Doyle said the Sooners can’t rest in any conference matchup.

“You can never feel too comfortable playing teams in the Big 12 because any team in the Big 12 can beat everyone else on a given night,” Doyle said.

Texas Tech freshman outside hitter Meghan Stacy became the fourth Red Raider this year to earn a Big 12 weekly award, as she was named Rookie of the Week on Monday. The freshman totaled 19 kills for the secondstraight match against Kansas State and West Virginia.

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Bands to haunt Opolis tonight P oor Moon will perform with Horse Thief at 9 tonight at The Opolis, located at 113 Crawford Ave. The Daily’s Life & Arts reporter Emily Hopkins talked with Poor Moon’s Christian Wargo and Horse Thief’s Cameron Neal in phone interviews. Wargo talked about his musical process, his creative relationships and his time in other bands like Fleet Foxes and Crystal Skulls. Neal discussed the band’s evolution, Texas versus Oklahoma music scenes and the process of coming up with and recording ‘psychedelic’ rock songs.

Horse Thief talks musical influences, writing process The Daily: You guys have been together for a while. How do you think your sound and style have evolved since your early days as a band?

Cameron Neal: We’ve been playing together for almost five years now. When we started out, it was more simple, but we’re trying to get to a more complex sound — still staying minimalistic but trying to get more into how everything sounds in the studio and the live show, trying to add more elements to the sound and adding an atmospheric sound over the minimalistic folk kind of sound.

The Daily: Where does the name Horse Thief come from?

Neal: It comes from a trail we hiked when we were writing our first album up in Creede, Colo. We pulled out a big book of maps of local mountains and stuff like that, and Horse Thief was one of the trail names.

The Daily: You’re from Texas but have adopted Oklahoma City as your home. How do the two music scenes compare?

Neal: Denton is where we grew up. We spent a lot of time doing music there and made a lot of good friends. We came up here because of [UCO’s Academy of Contemporary Music]. The school’s helped us adopt Oklahoma, and we had a different perspective of what Oklahoma would be like when we first moved up here. Actually, living here and getting to know people and understanding the music scene is really an amazing thing that most cities don’t have. Texas is just so big … there’s a Dallas scene and a Fort Worth scene and a Denton scene, and it’s hard for them to kind of work together, whereas in Oklahoma, it’s smaller. You have Tulsa, Norman and Oklahoma City as basically just an Oklahoma music scene. Everyone kind of knows each other, and we found that to be a really cool thing — to be able to get to know the bands and know who you’re playing with and be able to really love the other music that you’re hearing.

The Daily: How would you describe your sound?

Neal: We label us as psychedelic See more folk rock, but it almost changes with online everyone who listens to it. It’s like a Visit free folk kind of sound.

OUDaily.com The Daily: Who are some of your for the biggest musical influences? complete Neal: I’ve been listening to a lot of story Jonathan Wilson, Grizzly Bear’s new album, Josh T. Pearson … bands like oudaily. that for new stuff. David Byrne and St. com/l&a Vincent, those are two that I’ve been listening to a lot. We all have different backgrounds, and we all enjoy similar music, but at the same time we all listen to really different music. Our drummer and keyboard player listen to a lot of electronic music, and our bass player listens to a lot of prog rock, and then I listen to old ’60s folk stuff. It kind of all blends together in a weird fashion.

The Daily: What is your writing process like?

Neal: We usually get together, and I’ll have a shell of a song that we kind of all build on. Then the rest of the band adds their own little bits and pieces to it, and then usually it turns out to be something completely different from what I originally had in mind. It’s a lot of experimenting and a lot of trying out different things and making sure that we all really like the parts that are being played.

The Daily: You just released your debut album in December, correct?

Neal: Yes. But we’re actually re-recording some of the songs to release an EP that will be coming out in January.

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Christian Wargo, a former member of Fleet Foxes, will perform tonight at the Opolis with his band Poor Moon.

Poor Moon ‘raw, a little more rock’

The Daily: How did you get the idea for Poor Moon? line will come, and then I’ll build a story around that line Christian Wargo: I just had a bunch of songs. Honestly, without ever having a real intention for a message. I allow when I joined Fleet Foxes, I didn’t really know what the music to create the vibe, and it really just depends my role was going to be. I had come from more of a on the mood I’m in. I just try to go with the flow and not frontman background even though I had played in other criticize myself for what’s happening, and then edit it later, bands. I definitely wanted to be involved more, so I did or sometimes it just happens all at once. some arranging. But the songs I was writing for Fleet The Daily: How would you say Poor Moon compares with Foxes just didn’t seem quite in line with the overall vibe. Fleet Foxes, Crystal Skulls and Pedro The Lion?

So I had a bunch of songs that I wanted to do something Wargo: It’s much worse. I don’t know, it’s totally different. with. I sent my demos around to my friends in the I’ve just been trying to get better at songwriting and same way that they send recording, and it’s just me theirs, because we something that I do and have a genuine interest something that I enjoy.

GO AND DO in what each other is The Daily: What have Poor Moon and Horse Thief doing. We had some time you learned from being in while [Fleet Foxes] was several different bands and When: 9 p.m. recording “Helplessness from playing with lots of Blues” to do some different musicians over the Where: The Opolis, 113 N. Crawford Ave. tracking. Ian was going to years?

Price: $8 in advance $10 day of show school for some recording Wargo: Man, everything. stuff, and we just set up a It’s a very defining part of Info: $2 surcharge for people under 21 studio in his house. So we my life … the interactions just thought we’d give it and relationships that I’ve a shot and started laying made with people creatively some stuff down. are some of my most valued The Daily: The band is named after the Canned Heat relationships. I couldn’t really give you anything in a song, but why pick that one as opposed to any of your nutshell. That’s a really good question, but a really hard other favorite songs? one to sum up. You just learn about life. You learn how Wargo: I don’t know. I was reading a book about Alan to interact with people and treat each other with respect Wilson at the time we were making the record and knew and encourage each other’s musical ideas and encourage that we really needed a name. It wasn’t something that I creativity. You share a spiritual and musical language with had really thought about much. It’s pretty hard. You think each other and learn to trust each other. I think people’s of something and then go online, and there are 12 different creativity is something that’s precious to them, and you bands with that name. So with that particular song, it have to find ways of coaxing it out of each other. So I just sort of resonated with me, not necessarily because think that’s why I’ve really enjoyed having longer musical I felt like a stylistic connection to it but more lyrically relationships with people and making music with people and conceptually. that I’ve known like It’s hard to know “You just learn about life. You learn how to interact 14 years. It’s not what exactly he about wailing with people and treat each other with respect and just was thinking — but on a guitar; it’s when I listen to that encourage each other’s musical ideas and encourage about really getting song, I’m taken to to know someone’s creativity.” another world. I strengths and to Christian Wargo, felt like that was a focus on those Poor Moon quality that I liked things and try to about songs in bring them out in general and hoped music. to someday achieve in my own music — to create The Daily: How would you describe the sound of the each song as its own little universe with its own set Illusions EP versus the self-titled LP? of rules. While it may seem sort of laughable to tell Wargo: It was all done at the same time. While [Fleet people, the idea of the moon being blown up and not Foxes was] making “Helplessness Blues,” we just recorded being in the sky anymore, all 16 songs, 10 of which are on the album, and five are on I’m sure it was very real to the EP, and one is on a 7” that you could’ve gotten from him, and I think that that’s Sub Pop if you had pre-ordered the album. We didn’t something that happens really know how it was going to go when we started it, but a lot of times in music if for some reason, when we finished, that was the way it you want to hear someone seemed to fit together to us. believe in something. And The Daily: What can people expect from your show in I’m always sort of charmed Norman on Halloween? by songs that are a little offWargo: It should be pretty cool. I don’t know if we have kilter or like breakup songs anything out of the ordinary planned. We may have some or something. And beyond sort of costumes involved, and I’m not opposed to that that, I liked the initial VPM, idea. They can expect to hear songs from the album and and I liked all the “ohs” … it the EP but just in a little bit different way … we definitely had a cool amount of “ohs.” try to cover all the parts that we recorded, but I think in a It had a good “oh” factor. cool way that a live band has sort of evolved and is more The Daily: What is your raw and a little more rock, dare I say. writing process like?

The Daily: How does playing in a college town compare Wargo: It usually starts with playing festivals or other larger shows? around midnight, and I’ll be Wargo: Festivals tend to be some of my least favorite in my bedroom. I’ll usually shows, though I’ve played some great festivals. It’s start with some music or something about being outdoors, and the sound just a baseline or a beat or sort of gets lost, as opposed to when you’re in a smaller some sort of ingredient, venue and you can feel the energy bouncing off the walls. and then I’ll kind of build It’s definitely what I prefer. It’s all great, but I really enjoy it like a puzzle to create a college towns and smaller shows where I can just connect vibe musically and then with people. It’s a really cool vibe. photo provided just allow the lyrics to come Texas band Horse Thief has found a home in Oklahoma and will perform tonight at the Opolis. to me. Sometimes it’s just Emily Hopkins, ehopkins@ou.edu gibberish at first, and then a

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Students take folk dance outdoors A group of OU students performed an American folk dance as part of a class Tuesday in front of the Bizzell Memorial Library.

The dance was made up of about 40 students learning about dance styles in an alternative way.

The idea for the performance came to Miranda Arana, Introduction to World Music professor, during her May intersession class, she said. ”[Students] are required to attend one of the Norman community dances and to write about it,” Arana said. “They decided they wanted to do their own dance instead, and I went with it.”

The Norman community dance group meets at First Baptist Church’s Life Center on Comanche Street on the first Friday of each month.

“We started the Norman dance group a year ago with the intention of getting the OU community involved,” Arana said.

“It is my mission for OU students to find out more about this type of dance.

It’s becoming more and more popular in the U.S. and is attracting more and more young people. If students were to see this, they might think it seems interesting and fun.”

The 20-minute dance included live guitar and fiddle performances by students and Arana playing the flute.

Erica Laub, Life & Arts Reporter

Left: Mechanical engineering senior Alyass Hasan (right) and women’s and gender studies sophomore Sandra Cantu dance the dos-i-do to guitar, flute and fiddle music next to Bizzell Memorial Library on Tuesday afternoon.

Students performed folk dances on campus as part of a class.

Below: Accounting sophomore Ashley Richter and microbiology senior Michel Essien dance together outside of Bizzell Memorial Library on Tuesday.

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