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Dead week study perks available to students Extended library, Wagner Hall hours will begin the week before finals Annelise Russell News Editor

Jalisa Green Staff Reporter

Couches across campus will be a hot commodity this week as bleary-eyed students with pillows in tow prepare for the long haul of dead week.

Despite the abundance of snoozing students, OU will be anything but dead this week.

According to the OU Faculty handbook, students can be assigned new work — as long as it is less than 10 percent of the total grade.

Any work worth more than 10 percent must be AT A GLANCE assigned 30 days prior to Dead week dead week, according to the handbook.

• Pre-finals week will be To help students face defined as the seven the final weeks before calendar days before the the winter break, Bizzell first day of finals.

Memorial Library and • Faculty may cover new Wagner Hall will be open course material throughout 24 hours. this week.

• Assignments, The librar y and its examinations or projects more than 5 million volworth less than 10 percent umes began its extended of a student’s grade may hours Friday. be assigned at any time An OU police officer prior to pre-finals week and will be stationed at the limay be due during prebrary between midnight finals week. and 7:30 a.m. for student • No assignments, safety. All OU faculty and examinations or projects students who enter durmay be due on the last two days of pre-finals week. ing the late night or early morning hours will be required to show an OU ID. Before finals begin, the library will partner with OU Housing and Food to provide healthful snacks, and OU health educator Nicole Pritchard will lead relaxation exercises.

Wagner Hall began its 24-hour policy Monday. The Student Learning Center will have extended hours and there may be supplemental tutoring offered to students, but it will be up to the individual tutor, said Mark Walvoord, director of the Student Learning Center.

Schedules for the week will be posted at tutor.ou.edu and schedules for action tutoring are accessible at uc.ou.edu/action. see study page 2

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Occupy

Movement establishes local division Occupy Norman set up two-week camp Saturday Jake Morgan Staff Reporter

While a boiling pot of water gently roared, Bethany Clement of Dallas sorted through the plethora of coffee supplies, fruits and packaged snacks of Occupy Norman’s headquarters at Andrews Park.

Having run the on-site kitchen at Occupy Dallas, Clement said she feels at home working in the makeshift pantry.

“Don’t mind me; I just need to organize everything here.”

Occupy Norman began its two-week garrison of the

oudaily.coM Video: Occupy Norman has set up camp in Andrews Parks. See what the movement hopes to accomplish locally. park Saturday night. While the group does not have a permit, political science and geographic information science senior Grant De Lozier said Occupy Norman has spoken with the mayor and the Norman Police Department regarding its inhabitancy.

“We consider it our first amendment right to gather here,” De Lozier said.

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Sooners craft gingerbread mansions at craft fair

Whether you agree with the movement, this right is in danger. (Page 5)

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Girl Talk sits down with Daily staff

OU volleyball season cut short by Tulsa

Gregg Gillis discussed his type of music and road to fame. (Page 3)

Sooners lose to in-state foe in first round of NCAA tournament. (Page 8)

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Norman native and Oklahoma City Community College sociology student Nicholas Reid prepares a sign for the Occupy Norman movement see Occupy page 2 Sunday at Andrews Park.

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Crew members use paint rollers to cover the crowd in toilet paper at the Girl Talk show Saturday night at The Opolis. Gregg Gillis, the man behind Girl Talk, played his mashup songs for his Sooner fans. Tickets were free to students and the show was sponsored by the AXE One Night Only concert series. French Horn Rebellion was the opening act to Girl Talk. (Page 3)

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Study: Organizations will not meet during week Continued from page 1 Campus activity will continue, but Student Congress has previously proposed minimizing students’ coursework during the prefinals week.

UOSA Student Congress Chairwoman Alyssa Loveless said an attempt to alter the

dead week policies were halted by the Faculty Senate. oudaily.coM Last fall, Student Congress Link: Find a list of finals proposed changes prohibitand dead week policies. ing professors from assigning coursework due during Link: Find information pre-finals week worth more about library hours. than 5 percent of a student’s grade without department chair approval, according to address the pre-finals week Daily archives. policy until 2014, Loveless The faculty voted not to said.

Classes will continue, but student organizations will not require attendance during dead week.

No UOSA organization may hold meetings, banquets or receptions, or sponsor or participate in any activity, program or function that requires student participation, according to OU policy.

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“Luckily, the mayor and the police have been very friendly, and we have formed a working relationship.”

The community also has helped the occupants by donating food and gathering trash from the facilities, De Lozier said.

The headquarters is organized around two castle-like structures with duct-taped plastic sheets for windows and navy tarps for doors.

One of the fortifications, called the media room by De Lozier, is complete with a wireless router, a flat screen TV and a control panel of laptops.

“We’re living pretty well compared to most Occupy groups,” De Lozier said.

The group spends most of its time working through smaller group meetings such as transportation and public relations, De Lozier said.

Every day at 7 p.m., the occupants will hold an open-tothe-public General Assembly that follows certain protocol to arrive at a consensus.

Saturday night, the General Assembly decided to lead a Monday morning march to Dale Hall, De Lozier said.

Clement, who can usually be found in the food pantry across from the media room, said she came up to Norman after being evicted from Occupy Dallas about two weeks ago.

Spring 2012 registration continues until Jan. 13.

An exhibit of students’ photos will be on display all day at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Lightwell Gallery. The display is a presentation from the F-Stop Society, a new student-art organization.

An opening reception for the exhibit will take place from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The exhibit will be on display until Dec. 9.

Free test supplies will be available from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Oklahoma Memorial Union’s first floor lobby.

Supplies are being provided by the Union Programming Board.

A seminar on overcoming procrastination will take place from 2 to 3 p.m. at Muldrow Tower’s Housing Learning Center Room 105. This event is part of the student success series.

tuesday, Dec. 6 A young artist event will take place from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s Dee Dee and Jon R. Stuart Classroom.

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General Assembly WHEN: 10:30 a.m.

WHERE: Begins at Andrews Park, ends at Dale Hall INFO: Occupy Norman plans to pass out pamphlets, present statistics and outreach toward students.

“I was actually arrested when they drove us out,” Clement said. “They held 17 of us for 18 hours but didn’t book us.”

Occupy Dallas included about 160 occupants and lasted for 41 days before it was ended, Clement said.

Since she had never participated in a protest before Occupy Dallas, Clement said she wasn’t sure why she was drawn to the movement at first.

“I heard about what was going on in Wall Street and decided to go out and connect with the people,” Clement said. “It’s a progression, and it’s all about everyone building a community and rising up.”

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Occupy Norman has taken up this space at Andrews Park, utilizing the structure on the left as a media room to stay in touch with other occupations and the structure on the right as a kitchen and dining room.

De Lozier said his interest in grassroots democracy led him to participate in Occupy Norman. “ The most impor tant movements have happened through grassroots efforts,” De Lozier said. “As the 99 percent, we have to pick up the pieces when the economy fails.”

Another previous Occupy Dallas member, who goes

by Liza, said the group’s small collection of tents has been holding its own against Oklahoma’s bitter North wind.

“[Saturday night], we had a problem with one tent blowing around, but the combination of rain and wind is horrible,” Liza said, crunching on a mouthful of granola.

Despite the rather inclement weather, Liza said Occupy Norman is starting from a good position.

“They have been taking to accent what other Occupy groups have done, and as long as they use these two weeks to their advantage, they will continue to work together amazingly.”

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alking into The Opolis on Saturday night to see Girl Talk, one would assume that the crowd would be filled with giggling, drunken females ­— but the opposite was true.

With a gaggle of frat guys chanting “USA, USA,” while raising their brewskies high in the air, chaos was sure to ensue.

After being packed like sardines in the tiny, oneroom venue, the crowd settled in for the long wait before the opening act, French Horn Rebellion, was to go on.

Finally, two raven-haired men appeared behind the two laptops monogrammed with the opening act’s initials. The brothers, Robert and David Perlick-Molinari, who make up French Horn Rebellion, kicked off the show with the playful banter common with brothers.

After 15 painstaking minutes with only glimpses of the crew setting up the equipment for the next part of the show, the crowd began chanting, explicitly demanding Girl Talk’s appearance.

Silenced by words contorted with slow motion, the

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Girl Talk’s Gregg Gillis plays a show at The Opolis on Saturday. The show was announced on Facebook early last week and was sponsored by the AXE One Night Only concert series.

crowd grew still. As the track sped up, the angry anxiousness that had been occupying the room left, leaving nothing but pure excitement in its wake. Soon, the track was chanting “Girl Talk” over and over again, and the crowd got what they were demanding.

With the release of balloons, the stage was filled with beautiful women clad in black, surrounding a scrawny man with wily hair kept in place by a terry cloth headband. The man behind the music, Gregg Gillis, had

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arrived along with his mashup masterpieces.

To enhance the upbeat rhythm, Girl Talk’s girls, including one feisty Asian woman, always had something up their sleeves.

Armed with a leaf blower with a paint roller attached, the girl blew roll after roll of toilet paper into the crowd, while simultaneously grooving to the music. When she grew old of the toilet paper, she shot bottles of water and handfuls of confetti into the crowd.

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had gimmicks with every twist of the beat, aiming to keep the crowd pumped and simulate a house-party vibe.

Though the performance lasted a few short hours, the intensity of the atmosphere seemed to suspend time.

Ending with a flurry of glitter confetti and the thunderous screams made by the concert goers, the crowd dispersed into the cold, leaving trails of tissue paper behind them.

Caitlin Ruemping is a University College freshman.

Girl Talk Megan Deaton

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Gillis: I’m usually hurting Gregg Gillis, more from the show the night widely recognized as Girl before every day when I Talk, discussed his music wake up. I mean I wake up and some interesting relatively close to the show. aspects of being a wellI just woke up at like 3 p.m., known musician. and I usually go on like Girl Talk performed at seven or eight hours later The Opolis on Saturday so me and a couple friends, night in cooperation with who also perform on stage the AXE One Night Only with me who help out with concert series. props, I feel like we all just kind of slowly stretch all The Daily: There has day long, try to loosen up a been a lot of talk about little bit, try to stop hurting why you are playing at from the night before. We such a small venue as never need to pump each The Opolis. Why did you other up. It’s almost like, choose to go there? you know, we kind of don’t Gillis: I feel like a lot of need to go there because bands and fans kind of as long as we’re feeling understand that the more stretched out and loose intimate venues have and feeling good, I kind something special to of feel like once we hit the them, and I spent many stage the transformation years playing venues of happens. this size, and it’s been a few years since I’ve been The Daily: I did a little able to do venues of this research and read that size. So it’s like coming you studied biomedical into a venue that’s of 200 engineering before and, you know, bringing becoming a musician the same amount of stuff full time. How did that that you would bring to a transition happen? festival where I’m playing Gillis: Growing up, the to, you know, 20,000 or people I knew making something like that. So music were never really that whole idea was very making money off it. So I exciting to me. This is planned on going to school the fourth show tonight. for biomedical engineering, The first three have and I started doing the “Girl definitely been awesome. Talk” project right when You know, definitely a I started college. Doing breath of fresh air. It’s cut-up music on a laptop just a different vibe at and performing it live, kind of that small club there’s really no precedent and you know people of that being something who are there are really that’s successful and passionate about being definitely not successful in there, and you know it’s like a career sort of way. I a show they didn’t even graduated school, and then know existed two days I got a job and that was ago. kind of always the plan. I kept doing Girl Talk, but The Daily: Do you have any sort of pre-show see band page 4

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band: Personality quit job to make, mix music Continued from page 3

The Daily: How do you choose what songs you want to work with in your mashups? like I said, I never really Gillis: It’s a really kind of intended for the project drawn out trial-and-error to be something that was process. The majority of a career. In 2006 I was working in my job for about the songs I choose to want two or two and a half years to work with don’t make it into a show or on an album. at that point, and I put out I have a running list in the a record that just kind of computer of songs I want blew up. It was definitely to use. That comes from a shocker and a surprise you know going to a bar and kind of the reaction to or hearing something on it came out of nowhere. It a jukebox or going grocery was just really crazy, and shopping and hearing it kind of got to the point something. It could be where it was like I had to pick one or the other. It was a song on the radio or sometimes I’m just flipping really hard for me to come through CDs so every day to terms with quitting this job that basically my whole kind of running into things. life I had in my mind that I It definitely is a small just had to have a sort of job percentage of material that like this. Now it’s been four I think I’m going to work with that actually makes it or five years, so it’s been a into a show. really weird ride.

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Fans wave and cheer for Girl Talk’s Gregg Gillis on Saturday night at The Opolis in downtown Norman. The show was announced on Facebook earlier last week, and free tickets were handed out on campus for the show.

The concert was sponsored by the AXE One Night Only concert series and was the fourth show on the tour. Gregg Gillis formed Girl Talk in college and later made the switch to a professional performer.

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“Students fail to realize how much these evaluations impact a professor, especially a young one just starting out. You should provide very detailed feedback, how to make the class better, or if it is good say why.” (kiku, Re: Fewer students reviewing courses)

EDITORIAL

Occupy has a right to protest Our View: As the Occupy movement spreads and government reaction intensifies, it’s even more important to support occupiers’ right to protest.

complying protesters and using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse peaceful crowds. The majority of the Occupy groups across the country have been targeted in one way or another — for eviction, arrest or Starting Sunday, a group of Normanites officially brutalization. began occupying Andrews Park, to protest corpoThis level of orchestrated response from police rate corruption and wealth inequality. Many will and local government is a clear abuse of power and stay there in tents overnight, every night, a violation of the nation’s most basic ideals. through cold and rainy winter days.

In essence, this country was created beThe Our View While Occupy Wall Street solidarity cause colonists were being denied the right is the majority groups across the country are facing police to redress their grievances or to protest their opinion of brutality, baseless permit denial and forcible leaders in any real way. They wanted their The Daily’s evictions from their sites, Occupy Norman voices to be heard, and they went to war to 10-member has chosen to go forward with their occupaeditorial board procure that right. tion. We laud them for this brave support of And yet, U.S. history is rife with examples the right to protest in the face of possibly vioof protest movements being violently relent opposition. And, no matter your political beliefs, pressed by the government. Just think about those you should, too. iconic images of dogs let loose on civil rights proWhen The Daily first reported on the Occupy Wall testors or the students killed during Vietnam War Street movement in September, when most media protests at Kent State. The response to the Occupy had yet to pick up the story, we urged readers to sup- movement is just the latest in a long line. port the protesters’ fundamental rights regardless of It’s time this trend was stopped. It’s time citizens their personal views on the movement. We stand by stand up and demand that the government respect that message. their most basic and essential rights. Without the The Occupy movement has been accused of disright to protest, citizens are powerless to effect real, organization and aimlessness. And that may be true. immediate change. And if you don’t fight to protect Maybe they are just a bunch of wannabe hippies sit- your rights, you’re destined to lose them. ting around in a drum circle not accomplishing anyThe occupiers are fighting to protect our right to thing. Maybe every criticism you’ve heard of them protest in a meaningful way. They are fighting for the is true. Maybe they’re communists and crazies and power of citizens. Whether you support their overall everything in between. message or goals, any citizen who values basic freeBut it doesn’t matter. doms has the responsibility to vocally support the They have a right to express their views nonviooccupiers’ right to occupy. lently. They have a right to use public space to exAmerica’s history is being written right now. Will press their dissatisfaction with their government. the United States go down as the greatest democracy And they have a right to stay, to keep pushing and to in the world and a firm protector of human rights, or demand — and expect — actual results. will it be just another nation so afraid of dissent that The photos from Occupy Wall Street and Oakland it must attack its own people? It will all come down and many others speak for themselves: These rights to how willing the people are to stand up and deare in danger. mand change.

Local governments are revoking permits without Which story do you want to be telling your chilstating a cause and allowing police to use full riot dren someday? techniques to arrest groups of unarmed, nonviolent civilians. Police are pepper-spraying seated, Comment on this at OUDaily.com

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he Transportation Security Administration flagged personnel that a purse with OPINION COLUMNIST a teenage girl flying home from Norfolk, Va., caus- a fake gun sewn in is not ing her to miss her flight. dangerous.

The girl’s offense? Carrying a purse with a picture of a Furthermore, TSA should gun on it. not be interfering with pasThe TSA claimed flying with the purse was a federal ofsengers’ apparel. Fliers have fense because it could be mistaken for an actual weapon. the right to freedom of exHowever, pictures of the purse show the gun was merely pression. No government a design. The purse is rectangular, and the “gun” is clearly agency should be passing Kate McPherson plastic, non-functioning and sewn into the bag. judgment on people’s clothkmcpherson@ou.edu I understand why TSA is wary of guns and of things that ing or accessories — so long could be mistaken for guns. I don’t really as they clearly want my plane to be evacuated because of a dangerous.

“It’s time for TSA areIfnot kid’s fake grenade. However, the gun in quesTSA is willing to stop a teenager for having to check its power an innocent design on her bag, where does it tion is clearly fake. This incident exemplifies why many people hate flying: TSA is abusing draw the line? Are “Do You Have Your Tickets and use some its power.

To The Gun Show?” shirts allowed? They common sense.” do reference firearms. Can you fly with your To be clear, I’m not a TSA-hater. I appreciate the fact that I’ve not once been injured Confederate-flag belt buckle? It certainly refers by a maniac on a flight, and to a certain extent, I am supto a very violent past. What about tiny toy soldiers that have portive of the measures the agency takes to make sure I’m miniature plastic (read: fake) swords? safe. I am OK with the full-body scanners that were so conIt’s time for TSA to check its power and use some comtroversial earlier this year, and I’m happy to put my travelmon sense. There’s no reason that a teenager carrying a sized liquids in a resealable bag. purse with an obviously fake gun on it should be hassled.

But this latest incident is not like the necessary, if timeAll citizens deserve freedom and privacy, whether or not consuming, rules TSA has used in the past. Delaying they’re in the air. this teen’s flight over a design on a purse is ridiculous. Common sense would tell any passenger or flight Kate McPherson is a journalism sophomore.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

OU Parking Services scams students The week before college started, I got in a car accident. (I was driving responsibly on the way to a yarn boutique, which is hilarious if you think about it.) Needless to say, I did not have a car for the first half of the semester. I was raised in Oklahoma City, where you cannot even pick up a gallon of milk without a car. My bicycle sufficed for a while. That is, until it was stolen.

Finally, around the beginning of October, I got my car back.

After a trip to buy some ramen noodles (it’s usual 20 cents as opposed to $2 at the university), I was shocked at how long it took me to find a parking place. It took at least 30 minutes.

Obviously, I was annoyed. Especially since there were plenty of free spaces in the “priority housing” parking. Housing permits cost $195 for a year, and it’s ridiculous that we can’t even park in front of our houses. I have seen people with stacks of

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tickets on their windshield, but I was not about to let that happen to me.

Until Nov. 28, I had a spotless parking record.

The night before, I did my usual 30-minute parking spot search and found none. I had no other choice but to park in priority housing. I woke up to a ticket of course. The exact same thing happened Nov. 29.

OU Parking Services is setting us up for disaster. It sells more permits than there are parking spaces, thus assuring ticket revenue.

I’m tired of the greed, and I’m certain there are others out there who are too.

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Adults need a weekly dose of ‘My Little Pony’

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f you type the OPINION COLUMNIST phrase “why do boys like” into Google’s search engine, one of the first suggestions to appear is “why do boys like ‘My Little Pony.’”

Google’s search sugSteven Zoeller gestions are based off steven.v.zoeller-1@ou.edu popular queries by users, so clearly this is a question gnawing at the public consciousness.

It’s probably a reaction to the cartoon, “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic,” which has amassed a colossal online following of college-aged males despite its saccharine subject matter.

These older fans call themselves “bronies.” Chances are many readers have been made aware of their existence already, either by one of the tens of thousands of pony-related videos on YouTube or via message boards.

But back to the original question: Why are people, especially grown men, drawn to a show marketed toward preadolescent girls?

“Friendship is Magic” is a cartoon about candycolored ponies learning about friendship. They occasionally break out into song, but they mostly just trot around “Ponyville” looking adorable.

A typical episode focuses on ponies overcoming their flaws or discovering something about themselves. The lessons range from basic grade-school etiquette — sharing is caring — to stuff that even adults need to be reminded of — the most recent episode emphasized the importance of remembering where you came from.

Behind the show is a talented team of animators, voice actors and writers. For example, Lauren Faust, the executive producer of season one, was responsible for the brilliant “Powerpuff Girls” cartoon you won’t admit you watched.

I doubt more praise of the show’s talent or further elucidation of its premise will help readers to un“ As someone who is derstand, so I’ll just skip easily discouraged to why so many people and pessimistic by outside the little-girl demographic — myself innature, I find the cluded — find the formula weekly injection of so irresistible.

My generation was colorful ponies quite raised on cartoons, so healthy. In a culture animated shows in general of negativity, this hold a very special place in heart. This is especially cheerful spirit is just my true today, when the overwhat many people all quality of cartoons has plummeted. sorely need.”

“Friendship is Magic” proved to me with funny writing, good music and lively animation that the medium isn’t dead. It brought back my childhood, when I would spring out of bed on Saturdays to watch a new episode.

Another appealing aspect of the show is its brightness and authenticity. The show takes its subject matter to heart, resisting cynicism and producing a sincere, positive vibe. As someone who is easily discouraged and pessimistic by nature, I find the weekly injection of colorful ponies quite healthy. In a culture of negativity, this cheerful spirit is just what many people sorely need.

Those are just two reasons, but I feel they encompass the majority of what most people my age adore about the cartoon.

As silly as it might sound to students who still have no idea what I’m talking about, I’ve heard “Friendship is Magic” helped some viewers through depression and others to become friendlier people.

Now that readers know why grown men watch a show about cute ponies, I suggest they try it out for themselves to see if they like it for the same reasons so many others do. For starters, I recommend Episode 3 of Season 1.

And guys, if you aren’t secure enough with your sexuality to give the show a quick watch, remember: I’m a guy, and I wrote about it in the college newspaper.

Steven Zoeller is a journalism sophomore.

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The OU men’s basketball team defeated Sacramento State, 82-53, on Friday at Lloyd Noble Center.

James Corley, sports editor dailysports@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666

Volleyball

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Tulsa finishes OU’s season

Oklahoma falls to Ohio State

Golden Hurricane defeat Sooners in NCAA first round

Coale disappointed by loss but values the learning experience for Sooners

Luke McConnell Sports Reporter

The OU volleyball team’s 2011 season came to a bitter end Friday night as the Sooners lost to Tulsa in the first round of the NCAA tournament, 3-1 (22-25, -18, 22-25, 18-25), in Los Angeles.

The Sooners hit .278 for the match and held Tulsa to a .235 hitting percentage. However, the Golden Hurricane had 69 kills to the Sooners’ 52.

Tulsa outside hitter Tyler Henderson was the star of the match, going off for 30 kills and just five attack errors on 57 swings for a .439 hitting percentage.

Kellie Culbertson had 17 kills and 15 digs for the Golden Hurricanes, who will advance to play the winner of USC and Yale at 9 p.m.

Saturday.

A trio of Sooners had 10 kills for OU, including senior right side Suzy Boulavsky, who played her final game for the Sooners.

Ju n i o r o u t s i d e h i t t e r Morgan Reynolds and sophomore middle blocker Sallie McLaurin were the other two Sooners with 10 kills.

Senior setter Brianne Barker had a double-double in her final game in an OU uniform with 45 assists and 17 digs.

Junior libero Mar Ă­a Fernanda had a match-high 24 digs to lead the defense.

The first set was a backand-forth affair until Tulsa took a 19-15 lead on several OU attack errors. OU rallied to tie the score at 19, but Tulsa pulled away down the stretch to take the set, 25-22.

In the second set, the Sooners broke a 2-2 tie with a quick 3-0 run, and the rout was on. The Sooners led by as many as 11 in the set as they

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Senior middle blocker Carlee Roethlisberger spikes the ball during a game earlier this season. The Sooners’ season ended at the hands of the Tulsa Golden Hurricane, 3-1, on Friday in Los Angeles.

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rolled to a 25-18 win.

The Sooners hit .406 and benefited from eight Tulsa attack errors in the set.

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the Sooners and Golden Hurricanes battled back and forth in much the same manner as the first set. Tulsa grabbed a 16-12 lead, but the Sooners went on a 5-0 run to take a 17-16 lead.

The two teams exchanged leads until, at 20-20, Henderson rattled off five straight kills to give Tulsa the set, 25-22. Henderson had nine of her 30 kills in the set.

In the fourth set, Tulsa jumped out to an early 9-5 lead and never looked back.

OU got no closer than three, thanks to nine more kills from Henderson, as Tulsa ended

the Sooners’ season, 25-19.

OU finishes the season 21-12 and appeared in three straight NCAA tournaments for the first time in program history. The Sooners will lose seniors Barker, Boulavsky, Caitlin Higgins, Kylie Cowan and Carlee Roethlisberger to graduation but will return three starters in 2012.

Ohio State junior guard Tayler Hill hit four free-throws in the final 15 seconds to seal a 69-63 victory for Buckeyes against the Sooners on Sunday.

The Buckeyes scored a quick 3-pointer on the first possession of the game, and the Sooners couldn’t overcome that lead.

The Sooners were led, once again, by their starting back court. Sophomore guards Aaryn Ellenberg and Morgan Hook scored 14 points each with junior Whitney Hand and sophomore Nicole Griffin adding 11 and 10 of their own, respectively.

But the Sooners’ best efforts weren’t enough to take down the No. 17 Buckeyes and their guards. Ohio State senior Samantha Prahalis and Hill scored 20 and 19 points, respectively, and five assists.

Prahalis was forced to the bench for more than three minutes due to a fourth personal foul with 9:16 left in the game. During that time, the Sooners cut the lead to three and pulled within one just after Prahalis reentered the game.

In the next three possessions, Prahalis had four points and an assist. Prahalis’ impact on Ohio State’s success was clear, Hill said. “It is real essential. It is very essential,� Hill said. “She’s our leader, so it’s real essential to get her back in the game.

She hit a couple of clutch shots at the end.�

Ohio State coach Jim Foster said his point guard played like a senior.

OU’s starters — who played 178 of a possible 200 total minutes — combined for 54 points, 34 rebounds and eight steals.

Junior forward Joanna McFarland had 16 of those rebounds and five of those steals — both career highs. OU coach Sherri Coale said she was impressed. “That was quite a heroic effort and something I hope she understands she can do against a lot of teams,� Coale said. “It’s going to be something that’s going to be very important for us.�

Coale said she was disappointed by the loss but knew it was a good learning experience for her young team. “This is why you play teams like this when you’re really young — so you can grow up and figure things out. We’re doing that slowly but surely,� Coale said. “We’ll find out that it’s a lot easier to play from ahead.�

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Sophomore running back Roy Finch is swarmed by Oklahoma State defenders during OU’s 44-10 Bedlam loss against Oklahoma State on Saturday in Stillwater. The loss snapped an eight-game win streak against OSU.

Bedlam loss demotes OU to Insight Bowl Sooners to face off against Iowa Hawkeyes on Dec. 30 GREG FEWELL

Assistant Sports Editor

After two losses knocked the Sooners out of contention for a national title, OU was hoping to find some solace by making a return trip to the Fiesta Bowl this bowl season with a shiny new Big 12 championship trophy in hand.

Oklahoma State had other plans, though.

The Cowboys’ 44-10 thrashing of Oklahoma Saturday night leaves the three-loss Sooners relegated to the Insight Bowl against OU coach Bob Stoops’ alma mater, Iowa, at 9 p.m.

Dec. 30 at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Ariz.

Going into Bedlam on Saturday, Oklahoma had no chance of vaulting all the way into the national championship game. However, a win would have secured the team’s second consecutive BCS bowl bid.

The Sooners got the BCS monkey off their backs last year by beating Connecticut to win the Fiesta Bowl.

Saturday’s loss and the subsequent BCS snub added insult to injury for Oklahoma, though. The Sooners started the season ranked No. 1 in the nation with aspirations for a national title.

“Obviously the season didn’t go the way we planned,” junior center Ben Habern said.

“Our goals every season are to win a Big 12 championship and a national championship. For those goals not to be met, it’s obviously frustrating. We have to take ownership of what happened.”

The team will need to get over its disappointment quickly and get back to work if it hopes to avoid another loss.

The Iowa Hawkeyes are 7-5 overall this year and 4-4 in the Big Ten Conference. Iowa also has had plenty of postseason success in recent years, and the Hawkeyes will be looking for the program’s fourth straight bowl victory in this year’s Insight Bowl.

Although No. 3 Oklahoma State will playing No. 4 Stanford in the Fiesta Bowl, the

Cowboys have relegated OU to a lesser bowl with a deflated morale.

The key now for the Sooners will be whether the team can get over the loss to Oklahoma State and get excited for a bowl they never intended to play in.

“We got beat really bad,” sophomore fullback Trey Millard said. “We’ve got a few days to get over this one. I think we’re going to come back and finish strong. We have enough character to do that.”

The Sooners missed the boat for a national championship, conference championship and BCS bowl.

All that’s left now is one game for the team to show just what kind of character it has.

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Jones cracks under pressure against Cowboys SPORTS COLUMNIST

by an injury junior center Ben Habern is working back from was pushed around by the Cowboys’ stout defensive front, which placed a lot of pressure on Jones. He cracked under the pressure, throwing two interceptions and fumbling twice.

James Corley Against Nebraska, the jcorley@ou.edu Sooners failed to reach the andry Jones had a end zone, and a lone field rough day Saturday goal was the only thing sepaas the Sooners lost rating OU from a shutout. to Oklahoma State, 44-10, in Although Oklahoma’s their most lopsided Bedlam redshirt freshman quarloss since 1945. terback Blake Bell scored After the game, Jones a touchdown Saturday to readily stated where to lay build on a lone field goal, the blame for the loss.

OU coach Bob Stoops said “You can’t put it on anyhe doesn’t count it because one but me tonight,” he said. the score — which occurred “I singlehandedly lost this with just under three mingame for us. That’s just the utes left in the game — came KINGSLEY BURNS/THE DAILY way it is. I had the ball in my against OSU’s second- and Junior quarterback Landry Jones (12) reacts during OU’s 44-10 loss to Oklahoma State on Saturday in third-string players, and the hands, and coach put the Stillwater. Jones had two interceptions and two fumbles in OU’s most lopsided Bedlam loss since 1945. ball in my hands to win the Pokes only had 10 of them game, and I lost it for us.” on the field.

The junior quarterback “I don’t even consider with a turnover.

Nebraska in Lincoln, Neb. passes, you’re going to want that a touchdown,” Stoops turned the ball over four Jones attempted 50 passAs a redshirt freshman, to complete more than I did said Saturday after the game. times, failed to get his team and take care of the ball bet- “We didn’t get any touchinto the end zone and lost a es, connecting on only 27 of Jones attempted 58 passes, them, and the result was a completing only 26 of them, ter than I did, too.” key road game during OU’s downs today.”

Against Nebraska, an OU 44-10 loss to Oklahoma State disappointing road loss in a and the result was one of The past always can rerivalry game. several disappointing losses offensive line slowed by inon Saturday in Stillwater. peat itself — despite how far Sound familiar? It should. that season. juries was pushed around Oklahoma was crippled Jones has come since 2009, Jones found himself in a And Jones blamed no one by the Huskers’ stout defen- old habits die hard. by key injuries to two key ofsimilar situation two years but himself then, too. sive front, which placed a fensive players, and Jones ago, when the Sooners — “You can’t have turnovers lot of pressure on Jones. He James Corley is a journalism was stuck with the task of without Heisman Trophyand expect to win the game cracked under the pressure, senior and the sports editor winning with a half-speed winner Sam Bradford and a like that,” Jones said after throwing five interceptions. for The Daily. You can offense that consistently key offensive cog, tight end the 10-3 loss Nov. 7, 2009.

During Saturday’s game, follow him on Twitter at seemed out of sync and ended each promising drive Jermaine Gresham — faced “Ideally, when you throw 58 an OU offensive line slowed @jamesfcorley.

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Receiving yards by sophomore fullback Trey Millard against OSU, a career high; Millard also tied his career high for rushing attempts (5)

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Margin of victory for the Cowboys against the Sooners on Saturday, the largest for Oklahoma State since a 47-0 win in 1945

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Wins OSU has in the overall series after Saturday’s game; OU leads the series, 82-17-7

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Rushing touchdowns this year for redshirt quarterback Blake Bell in the last five games, tying him with Charles Thompson (1987) for the most rushing touchdowns by a freshman quarterback in OU history

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Consecutive meetings the Sooners had won against the Cowboys before Saturday’s game

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Travis Lewis’ ranking among Oklahoma’s all-time leading tacklers after Saturday’s game; Lewis also moved up to third in career tackles in Big 12 Conference history

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