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HOUSING

First semester of genderneutral housing concludes Future plans to be determined in January Campus Reporter

Editor’s note: Mike Wormley moved into one of the upperclass co-ed housing floors on Dec. 1. His story has been edited to ensure objectivity.

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Students protest outside President Boren’s office at Evans Hall on March 7. Students marched from the South Oval to Evans Hall to demand reform in the current housing legislation. The students marched to show their support for gender-neutral housing.

other after leaving the dorms. it comes to room allocation.

“A lot of us are going to Students for a Democratic be rooming with each other Society members wanted so we can continue to see to create a survey for stueach other and so we can dents living in the coed comcontinue to get tomunities this segether,” Walsh said. “What I like mester, but those The future of about this p l a n s f a l t e r e d the program will when the survey be determined in community was presented to Ja n u a r y , D i a n e is we have Housing and Food Brittingham, di- each others’ Services officials, rector of resiMalatinszky said. backs.” dence life and asHousing and Food sociate director of JOSHUA WALDEN, Services officials Housing and Food informed him that UNIVERSITY Services, said. At COLLEGE FRESHMAN surveys distributthat time, Housing ed through its ofand Food Services will look fice either are given to all at satisfaction reports and residents or through tainterest data and determine bles set up at Cate Center. whether or not to request an Students for a Democratic expansion of the program Society members will refrom President David Boren. draft the survey in light of George Malatinszky, eco- these requirements, and nomics senior and member Malatinszky said he will ask of Students for a Democratic if he can approach resident Society — the group that or- advisors for its distribution. ganized the initial push for Additionally, Students for gender-neutral housing — a Democratic Society memsaid the coed program has bers will host information sesbeen a step in the right direc- sions throughout the spring tion, but the organization will semester, reaching out espebe continuing efforts toward cially to incoming freshmen housing communities that who may not be aware of this do not regard gender when effort, Malatinszky said. He

Feb. 9 — Boren says gender- neutral housing implausible because of Okla. conservative values

April — Housing and Food officials says residence halls would have upperclassmen coed floors

2010 Mar. 2 — GLBTF and SDS host panel discussion for professors who advocate gender-neutral housing; Student Congress passes resolution in support of gender-neurtral housing

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High-profile positions announced Regents approve UOSA name change; millions in scholarship gifts announced

MIKE WORMLEY

A semester has passed since the implementation of coed housing at OU, a program that was created as a direct response to a studentled push for gender-neutral housing.

Currently, 24 women and 26 men live on the freshman coed floor on the east side of Walker Center’s fifth floor, said Amy Buchanan, assistant director of marketing and communications for Housing and Food Services. Additionally, 23 women and 27 men are living in the upperclassman coed floors on the 10th, 11th and 12th floors of Adams Center’s Johnson Tower.

University College freshmen living on the coed floor in Walker Center said they feel a strong sense of community.

Joshua Walden, University College freshman, said he thought coed housing would make for interesting interactions.

“What I like about this community is we have each others’ backs,” Walden said.

“We make sure no one is falling down or behind.”

L i n z e e Ma n o r, University College freshman, said she wasn’t sure what to expect from the housing arrangement.

“I was worried about relations on the floor,” Manor said. “But it’s more of a brother-sister kind of thing and not awkward at all.”

Kate-Lynn Walsh, University College freshman, said many of the people on the freshman floor intended to live with each

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also said the group would be reaching out to other student organizations for support.

“We want to expand,” Malatinszky said. “[Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Friends] has been very supportive, but we need to get other student organizations on board.”

Brittingham said the program has been a positive exper ience for her a n d t h e re si d e nt s w i t h whom she has had contact.

“I’ve worked with coed arrangements at other schools, and this has been fairly status quo,” Brittingham said. “I haven’t heard any major complaints, and when I don’t hear from a floor, we’re doing good.”

Brittingham said her staff addresses issues as they are brought to the attention of Housing and Food Services, and her staff is caring and alert to the issues as long as communication has been established.

Mike Wormley m.wormley@ou.edu

Sept. 2011 — SDS and GLBTF meet with Housing Center Student Association to discuss proposals May 3 — Boren meets privately with coalition to discuss proposals

April 18 — Gender Neutral Housing Coalition’s overnight protest in the Union broken up by OUPD

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Mar. 7 — GLBTF and SDS organize rally and made proposal to President Boren

April 13 — Majority of students support genderneutral housing according to a survey

June 19 — Boren announces OU will not adopt gender-neutral housing but will have a coed freshman area

OKLAHOMA CITY — Two high-profile administrative appointments, an approved name change for student government and millions of dollars in scholarship gifts came out of the OU Board of Regents meeting Friday.

President David Boren announced Kyle Harper, classics and letters professor and director of OU’s Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage, as senior vice provost, effective Jan. 1.

Boren also announced Suzette Grillot, international studies professor, as dean of the College of International Studies, effective Saturday.

Boren said Harper, award-winning KYLE HARPER educator and author, would assume the duties as senior vice provost “as an additional activity.”

“His primary responsibility will continue to be teaching and serving as director of the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage,” Boren said. “He will assist the provost on a part-time basis on major, new academic initiatives, including working with the President’s Task Force on comprehensive curriculum review and delivery methods for first-year classes and as a liaison to the new working group on digital technology.”

Harper recently created and introduced Freedom.ou.edu, an OU website featuring a weekly series of short lectures on constitutional law and constitutional history. The website provides content produced by the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage, a program founded in 2009 to emphasize the teaching of constitutional foundations as part of the college curriculum.

SUZETTE He recently was named recipient of GRILLOT the James Henry Breasted Prize by the American Historical Association for his book, “Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275-425,” published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. His next book, “From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Ethics in Late Antiquity,” is due to appear from Harvard University Press in the spring of 2013.

Harper, who earned a bachelor of arts degree in letters summa cum laude from OU and master’s and doctoral degrees in history from Harvard University, teaches a range of courses on Greek and Roman history, early “Suzette Grillot is a Christianity, late antiquity gifted educator and and ancient law. administrator. Under Grillot has served as interim dean of the College her leadership, the of International Studies college is continuing since July 1 and previousto establish itself ly served as the college’s associate dean for four as a national leader years. She also will serve in international as the William J. Crowe Jr. studies.”

Chair in Geopolitics, professor in the Department PRESIDENT DAVID BOREN of International and Area Studies and as vice provost of International Programs. In June, she completed a 10-month appointment as Facultyin-Residence at OU’s study-abroad program in Arezzo, Italy.

“Suzette Grillot is a gifted educator and administrator,” Boren said. “Under her leadership, the college is continuing to establish itself as a national leader in international studies.”

Grillot teaches courses focusing on subjects such as global security, international activism, illicit trafficking, SEE REGENTS PAGE 2

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Student selected for national entrepreneurship program Program aims to drive economic development in under-performing cities SARAH SMITH

Campus Reporter

OLIVER LI

An OU student has been selected to be part of the second class of a national entrepreneurship program that aids the economies of under-performing American cities.

Oliver Li, industrial engineering and economics senior, was selected in November for the 2013 class of fellows for Venture For America (VFA), a program that seeks to give entrepreneurial experience to college graduates by employing them in emerging businesses in lower-cost cities like Detroit and New Orleans, according to the VFA website.

VFA pitches its fellows’ applications to partner companies, who then choose applicants to interview and then to hire. Partner company interviews with current fellows will begin in February.

Li said he applied for the program because it would provide entrepreneurial experience, a network of other VFA fellows and staff, combined with the ability to make social change in some of the cities that need it the most.

He would like to be hired for one of the venture capital startups, which currently exist in Cincinnati and Detroit, and maybe in Cleveland and other cities where VFA will expand this year, Li said.

He was particularly interested in a startup currently partnered with VFA in Detroit, Li said.

“There’s a ton of changes that can be made there to help the city,” he said. “Being able to have some capital to invest in different promising startups and then working with them to actually develop them I think would be really cool.” The matching process with companies begins in February.

He said being able to pursue both an engineering and an economics degree at OU allows him an extra benefit: being able to communicate between engineers and businessmen within industries.

Two OU alumni are currently fellows in the first class of 40 VFA Fellows; both, like Li, also are alumni of OU’s Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth.

Li, who found out about VFA through CCEW alumni Barry Conrad and Scott Lowe, said his experience with CCEW was what motivated him to apply for the program.

“Having that experience [with CCEW] was pivotal to not only getting the Venture for America fellowship, but to excelling at it and to really being prepared amongst my peers,” said Conrad, finance alum and VFA fellow.

Conrad said he was nervous when beginning the program that he wouldn’t be able to compete with students from Ivy League schools and small private schools, but his experience with CCEW, which he said is unlike anything the other universities, enabled him to stand out from the crowd.

“Neither Scott, nor Oliver, nor myself would be in the tradition that we are today without CCEW,” Conrad said.

Conrad was hired in May 2012 by a Las Vegas startup called the Downtown Project, a $350 million initiative by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh to revitalize downtown Las Vegas.

“The crowd’s kind of shoddy, there’s a lot of crime and homelessness down here, the education is really bad,” he said.

But Hsieh wants to create a “community-centric” center for business in the city to help, Conrad said.

Scott Lowe, engineering physics alumnus and VFA fellow, said “[VFA] seemed like a great segway into an entrepreneurial career.”

He was hired as an analyst for a custom software company called Digerati, where he tests and designs software and analyzes the company’s market and customers, Lowe said.

“One of the things that I really like about startups is getting to do a lot of different jobs at once, not just being a cog in a big organization,” he said.

Although the VFA fellowship

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once they know it, they don’t know what the ‘student association’ is. We want students, when they hear it for the first time, to know what the student government association does — it gives an idea of what this body is.”

Tyrus Ernst, economics and letters junior, wrote a letter to the editor Nov. 5 arguing against the name change.

“You should vote against this proposal for three reasons: unnecessary cost, limited benefits and a misleading message... the cost associated with this decision is whatever that money could have been spent on, such as familiarizing students with UOSA,” he said in the letter.

Political Science, International Politics and Contemporar y Security Policy, among many others. She recently co-edited the book, “Understanding the Global Community,” which will be published in 2013, and co-authored the books “Protecting Our Ports: National and International Security of Containerized F r e i g h t ,” a n d “ T h e International Arms Trade,” published in 2010 and 2009 respectively. Additionally, she hosts the award-winning weekly World Views radio show on OU’s NPR affiliate, KGOU. Grillot earned bachelor’s Millions in and master’s degrees from scholarships Boren also announced Oklahoma State University and a doctoral degree in millions in scholarship gifts political science from the supporting study abroad and the College of Medicine.

University of Georgia.

OU received a $1 million UOSA no longer gift designated for study The Regents approved abroad scholarships for stua name change to student dents participating in OU’s government. The University study abroad program in o f O k l a h o m a S t u d e n t Arezzo, Italy. The gift came Association, commonly from the Lobeck Taylor referred to as UOSA, now Family Foundation of Tulsa.

Members of the Lobeck will be called the Student Taylor Family Foundation Government Association.

Students overwhelming- include OU alumna Kathy ly voted to pass the name Taylor, a former mayor of change referendum dur- Tulsa who is on OU’s College ing campus elections in of International Studies November. Of the 1,103 votes Board of Visitors; her huscast, 75 percent voted ‘yes’ band, Bill L obe ck ; and daughters, Elizabeth Frame on the name change.

U O S A p r e s i d e n t J o e Ellison, also an OU alumna, Sangirardi avidly supported and Molly Pellegrini.

In the past decade, the the name change since its inception. In a Nov. 5 article, proportion of OU students he said, “So many students studying abroad during their have trouble understand- time at OU has increased ing what UOSA is, and even from 2 percent to almost 25

percent, according to a press release.

Arezzo is OU’s most popular OU study abroad location, according to the release. Nearly one in five OU students who earn credit abroad go to this city in the Tuscan region of Italy. The program is operated out of facilities administered and led by OU faculty and staff while also making use of local instructors.

The other scholarship gift was given to create a scholarship fund in the College of Medicine.

The $1.5 million gift came from the estate of the late OU alumnus Dr. Crockett Page. It is the first in a series expected to total $3.7 million, according to a press release.

At the request of Page, all of his gifts will be aime d to the College of Medicine’s Second Century Campaign for Scholarships.

The scholarship fund will be named after Page’s grandmother, Kjeston Moss Hildreth, to whom Page attributed all his success.

Page graduated from OU with two degrees, including an undergraduate degree in chemistry in 1958 and a medical degree in 1961. Throughout Page’s medical career in the U.S. Navy, he specialized in family medicine and dermatology.

Pa g e d i e d Ju l y 3 a t the age of 77 in Albany, Georgia.

IN DEPTH Venture for America Venture For America (VFA) applies the Teach For America model to startups around the country, placing top college graduates into early-stage companies for two years in underperforming cities with the purpose of educating a new generation of entrepreneurs and creating jobs. VFA’s goal is to create 100,000 jobs by 2025.

Source: Venture For America website

lasts for two years, Conrad said the end date is de-emphasized because VFA wants its fellows to stay in their communities to continue to help them grow.

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Students to impact Daily’s future JAKE MORGAN

Campus Reporter

Students will be able to give their preferences for possible changes to The Daily in a survey Student Media plans to email students next semester.

The survey would be the last major component of Student Media’s semesterlong study called, “Imagine the Future: Campus Media

in a Digital Age,” which looked at possible changes to The Daily in response to an ever-changing media environment.

Student Media wanted to look at how students seek news at OU and what’s going to make students pick up the paper, said Brian Ringer, director of Student Media.

The survey will be modeled after the last “Imagine the Future” roundtable called “Dot Democracy,” in which students indicated the changes they preferred

by placing dot stickers on a variety of boards detailing possible scenarios to change the Daily and its website.

The seven scenarios ranged from dropping one paper out of the week to limiting publication to once a week while increasing website content, according to the “Imagine the Future” blog.

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“I have kind of a life philosophy that’s like, ‘say yes to everything unless it’s heroin or unprotected sex.’”

Jerod coker, Marshall scholarship recipient

academics

Scholar snapshots: Historic year for Sooners A brief look at OU’s history-making scholars: their past, present and future

AT A GLANCE Rhodes, Marshall and Mitcheel Scholarships, and OU’s History

Paighten Harkins Campus Reporter

Editor’s note: Mubeen Shakir and Jerod Coker are former Daily opinion columnists.

Mubeen Shakir, Jerod Coker, Robin Tipps. These men made history this semester when they won the Rhodes, Marshall and Mitchell scholarships, respectively, marking the first time the scholarships have been given to three students at OU at the same time.

The three won the scholarships through a series of fortuitous events, all of which culminated randomly, but nonetheless serendipitously, in each of their lives.

In biochemistry junior Shakir’s case, it was a chance to do research with a former Rhodes scholar at Columbia last summer. For economics senior Coker, his chronic inability to say “no” to new experiences and opportunities. For Tipps, sociology-criminology senior, a study abroad opportunity that sent him to Ireland for a month.

This is the story of their lives, the people in it, the chance circumstances under which they applied for the scholarships and how their lives will be molded by the experiences they get because of the scholarships.

Mubeen Shakir Shakir’s parents came to America from India for their medical residency and so their children could get a better education.

“My parents coming from [India], came here for us basically,” Shakir said.

“Because they wanted their kids to get an education, and Mubeen shakir this is the best place to.”

Thus, from an early age, education always was tremendously important to Shakir. He also had three older brothers who were doing very well in academics, all coming to OU and becoming physicians.

He looked up to them, and their success pushed him to work harder.

“I saw my brothers being successful from a young age, and I kind of aspired to not be like them but work as hard as them and put in as much effort as them,” he said.

For Shakir, the opportunity to study at Oxford University means a lot in itself. It is an experience no one would be able to turn down, to be around some of the smartest and most ambitious, driven people for two years, he said.

“You can go to Harvard, you can go to Princeton, but you still wouldn’t get the same experience as you would at Oxford with the Rhodes Scholarship,” he said.

Rhodes Scholarship

Established in 1902 under the conditions of the will of British politician and businessman, Cecil John Rhodes, the scholarship, given annually, provides full financial support for 32 students at American universities to pursue a degree or degrees at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

OU has produced 29 Rhodes scholars

Marshall Scholarship

Established in 1953 after British Parliament’s passage of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Act, the scholarship, given annually, provides full financial support for 40

students at American universities to study for a degree at a UK university in any field of study.

OU has produced six Marshall scholars

Mitchell Scholarship

Established in 1998 by U.S.-Ireland Alliance’s president Trina Vargo, the scholarship, given annually, provides full financial support for 12 students at American universities to pursue a master’s degree at any university in Ireland.

OU produced its first Mitchell scholar this year

Source: Rhoeds Scholarship, Marshall Scholarship and Mitchell Scholarship’s websites

Being a Rhodes Scholar means more to Shakir than just an experience, though.

Almost a year ago, his father died from leukemia. He found out right after Thanksgiving break, and he almost wanted to quit, just put his education on hold for a while, but the people at OU, like dean of the Honors College David Ray, were there for him and helped him make the decision to stay and continue with school.

That led him to an opportunity last summer to do research with a former Rhodes Scholar, Siddhartha Mukherjee, at Columbia University. Mukherjee encouraged Shakir to apply for the Rhodes, and now that he’s gotten it, he plans to continue the research at Oxford in some form.

The research primarily focused on blood-forming stem cells and its mutations in those cells that cause leukemia. “[Leukemia] is obviously something that’s impacted my life,” Shakir said. “He was diagnosed when I was 9 years old.

That really motivated me to have an interest in science. But as I saw him progress through his disease and get worse, it really drew me to oncology, to medicine.”

For Shakir, the chance to study at Oxford gives him the opportunity to study and do research on the disease that took

his father from him so that he will be able to help someone in the same position one day.

When Shakir was notified he had won the scholarship, it was a moment of disbelief.

“When they call your name, it’s all very shocking,” Shakir said. “I’m still pretty shocked. I just didn’t believe it … I was in another phase, another level, I guess. It didn’t feel real.”

Jerod Coker Coker credits his academic success on a genetic drive he can’t explain, he said.

“I’ve always been a perfectionist and super competitive,” he said. “Even in elementary school, if I got a 98 on a math test, I’d be pissed that I missed those two points. It’s like a genetic problem with me.” jerod coker Coker said his parents wanted him to do well, but they never pushed him and never said he had to be successful. He just was.

“I didn’t have a tiger mom lording over me,” he said.

Coker received his call from the Houston British Consulate in an open bar in New York.

He saw the Houston area code pop up on his phone and answered it, trying to hear the woman on the other line over the noise of the bar. After what seemed like an eternity of phone call formalities, she finally got to the point. They were pleased to announce Coker had won the Marshall Scholarship.

“I didn’t even listen to the rest,” he said. “She said something about paperwork. I didn’t care. I went back to the bar and abused it.”

As a Marshall Scholar, Coker has the benefit of being a member of a prestigious club of individuals, and, on a simpler level, the relief of having the next two years of his life mapped out.

“On a selfish level, I finally know what the hell I’m doing next year,” Coker said. “I had no idea before.”

To him, the experience of going to the London School of Economics is going to be valuable and eye opening.

“It’s an added bonus in life,” he said.

Coker said he could have been anywhere doing any manner of things, because he simply doesn’t say no to most opportunities.

“I have kind of a life philosophy that’s like, ‘say yes to everything unless it’s heroin or unprotected sex,’” he said.

Before winning the scholarship, Coker had no idea where he would be. He had applied to about 10 law schools and two business schools because, statistically, the chance of getting the scholarship is incredibly low. see academics page A 5

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Wagner Hall services: quiet study rooms, equipped with whiteboards and available for reservation (call 405.325.2072) wireless service computer lab textbooks, laptops and iPads available for in-room use (Student Learning Center, Room 245) Writing Center walk-in hours 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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academics: Awards set standard for Sooners media: Publication has Continued from page 4 evolved to fit culture Next year, he might have been in Boston or New York, maybe still in Norman. Now it’s set he’ll be in London, studying at the school Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones graced with his presence (or so Coker heard from his dad).

Robin Tipps Tipps’ drive to succeed was instilled by teachers in his pre-collegiate career.

Tipps attended the private school Oak Hall Episcopal f o r e l e m e nt a r y s c h o o l , which laid his educational foundation. “[People at the school] actually were fairly invested in robin tipps how well I did,” Tipps said.

“So from that young age, I could see that academics were very important and a sure way of getting beyond Ardmore.”

Tipps said he learned the most important things in high school, which was integral to his success in college.

“College has been great, and you learn a lot in college, but the most important things you learn, you learn in high school,” he said. “You should already know how to write before you get here. College just kind of helps you hone those skills.”

Tipps still can’t find the words to describe how it felt to win the scholarship and get the chance to go back to Ireland.

“I don’t really know how to say how it feels,” he said. “It feels great.”

Getting the chance to study in Ireland will broaden his perspective on the economic and legal side of the country and give him insights he can use when he starts his career, he said.

Tipps traveled to Ireland almost on a whim one summer semester and stayed there for a month. During that time, he was able to find parallels between his culture, a Quapaw Native American, and Ireland’s culture.

“Ireland was under foreign control for hundreds of years,” he said. “The language was suppressed. The religion was suppressed. The music was suppressed. A bit like the Native Americans, especially my tribe, what we had to deal with.”

Tipps also bought his fiancee’s wedding ring in Ireland, so the country holds a special significance to him, he said.

chart, but I probably wouldn’t even get half of it,” he said.

All three mentioned Melanie Wright, director of the Honors Curriculum, and Brian Johnson, director of the Honors College Writing Center, as instrumental to their success.

Wright and Johnson worked with all three scholars on preparing the applications after the university had nominated them, Wright said.

“It’s a funny enterprise because you’re working with kids who are achieving at the highest levels,” Johnson said. “We’re working with really strong students. I think a lot of the times students are confronted with a weird fact, which is that they’ve never been invited to write a personal statement before, or they’ve never been asked to imagine why they’d want to go and live in Country X for two years.”

The two work with students to develop the overall tone of the application and to try to figure out how they can make each piece: the personal statement, the transcript, the résumé work together cohesively and present a picture of who the student is, Wright said.

What Johnson always tries to remind the students is the pieces of paper they submit have to give a clear-cut picture of themselves, he said.

“You don’t get to meet those people,” Johnson said.

“You get to give them a bunch of pieces of paper that represent you.”

OU’s scholared history

OU has produced 29 Rhodes Scholars, while no other Oklahoma university has more than three.

Coker’s Marshall win was OU’s sixth in its history, and Tipps’ Mitchell win was OU’s first.

This year it was the only comprehensive public university in the nation with Rhodes, Marshall and Mitchell scholarship winners, according to OU Public Affairs’ website.

OU attracts great students and gives them the opportunities to succeed, Shakir said. “[OU] has this innate force in it that makes its students great,” he said. “It just provides endless opportunities.”

Coker thinks it has something to do with the students OU is able to attract, primarily through the National Merit Scholar campaign, he said.

“I think it’s a rough cut,” he said. “If you have 1,000 National Merit Scholars, something cool is probably going to happen, even if 900 of them don’t care.”

Tipps said it was the people he met at the university that really helped him achieve.

“The people here are wonderful,” he said. “For such a large university, it never ceases to surprise me how The role of the university devoted the faculty are to making sure their students While the chance to study abroad means a lot, each man succeed, even in large classes.” attests he would not have gotten where he is now without And with that, these scholars made history for OU this the help of family, friends and faculty at OU. year.

“It’s been a very humbling experience because you just realize this is partly my accomplishment, but it’s partly everyone else’s too,” Shakir said.

Coker equated his involvement in his own success to a Paighten Harkins pie chart. paighten.harkins@ou.edu “I don’t know how you’d break down the credit in a pie

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Continued from page 1 rebranding Friday’s paper as a weekender, received 21 votes, the most for any of the scenarios.

While this roundtable was described as “democratic,” the results will not dictate what changes, if any, Student Media will make to the newspaper, Judy Gibbs Robinson, faculty adviser for The Oklahoma Daily, said.

Student Media professional staff will use data collected from the study to form recommendations to university administration for possible changes to The Daily.

Changes in news industry prompted self-study Changes in publication frequency of other college n e w s p a p e r s p ro m p t e d Student Media to initiate the study as a way to ensure it could cautiously proceed and justify any such changes to The Daily, Ringer said.

“We don’t want to be haphazard by saying, ‘we’re going to do this,’ without a plan,” Ringer said.

The University of Georgia’s student newspaper The Red & Black stopped printing a daily newspaper altogether to fo cus on its w ebsite last July before switching back this August, and the University of Oregon’s Daily Emerald chose to stop daily publication in favor of an improved website and two weekly publications this May, Robinson said.

Market data detailing the effects of substantial changes in publication frequency upon revenue are very scarce; Student Media only has one year of revenue data from Georgia, Ringer said.

“It comes down to what’s

going to get us back in a profitable state,” Ringer said.

“What do we, as a college market, need to do to get back in the black?”

The Daily has run as a five-day-a-week publication since it began as such in 1916. The newspaper added a website to make stories available to those outside of the university in 1995, and since then, the organization has added more and more, Robinson said.

OUDaily.com has gone from simply posting print stories online to becoming a separate publication in itself, and the newspaper now manages Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts, Robinson said.

“That’s no small feat for full-time students to put out a full-time newspaper,” Robinson said. “[The website] is a whole separate publication with its own life, its own deadlines and its own needs. And those needs are very ‘feed the beast’ needs; it is hungry every minute.”

The additional workload brought on by the effort to be a “digital-first” organization falls onto full-time students who have to work around schedules and other commitments while producing a daily publication, Robinson said.

A work schedule of about 40 hours a week is typical for a member of the newspaper’s editorial board, and students who put in the time cannot guarantee they will be able to find a job with the experience, Robinson said.

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Our View: Now is the time to join The Daily’s staff.

As finals rush by and the semester comes to a close, you’re probably thinking about how you’ll spend all that free time over winter break. But here at The Daily, we’re already deep in preparations for next semester’s newspaper.

We have to say: There’s a lot to be excited about.

This coming semester, even more so than most, a group of fresh faces will be taking over the newsroom, excited about trying new things and leading the paper in a new direction.

As proud as current and future staff members are of The Daily’s legacy, one of the best things about student media is student journalists have the freedom to innovate and change.

And you have a chance to be involved next semester and shape the course of that change.

If you want to help Sooners find the information they need, you can do that here.

If you want to tell stories that fascinate, inspire and challenge — through words or photographs — you can learn to do so.

If you’re tired of not seeing students like yourself in our pages, you can help change that.

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Editorials: —What has changed?

It’s time to eat more chicken: In September,

after years of debates and boycotting, it looked like Chick-Fil-A finally had joined the 21st Century and quietly renounced its donations to anti-gay hate groups.

But while the company did uphold its promise to stop donating to these organizations through its charity arm — in exchange with permission to open a franchise in Chicago — it did not uphold the spirit of that promise and stop donating to these groups altogether.

Now, the company merely uses its branding and resources to bring in donations for these hate groups directly. Nothing has changed, except that the company has revealed its willingess to mislead.

For this misdirection and its continued support of hate-filled, deceitful politics, it looks like the boycott is back on for good.

Israel-Palestine peace starts with accurate debate at home: As

tensions between the two nations escalated, we corrected some common misconceptions about the conflict we often hear from students and urged for a more level-headed, informed debate.

The Sooner community heard us. Students from Sooners for Israel and the Arab Students Association responded with letters presenting each side of the conflict in an informed and balanced way.

Contributions like these improve the discussion and further elucide the situation from both perspectives.

University’s silence put students in danger:

In October, a former OU student came to campus with the self-identified aim of killing a student-athlete.

While administrators had prior warning of the threat and knew this unstable man was on campus, they failed to warn students – even while warning each other.

Emails circulated among some administrators warning of the threat and specifically instructing recipients not to post the warnings. At the same time the student alert system, which has been used in the past to warn students about possibly dangerous situations on campus, was not activated.

The Daily decried this inaction, the lack of a standard protocol for such situations and the danger it put students in.

In response, President David Boren announced he would examine the university’s safety protocols.

No changes have yet been announced.

For affirmative action ballot question, ask: Are all Americans equal yet?:

In November, Oklahomans voted on a ballot question that banned affirmative action programs from state government operations, except where the lack of such a policy would lose the state federal funds.

We argued that such policies should not be eliminated until no trace of discrimination remains in hiring decisions and other operations affected by such policies. That time clearly has not come.

Unfortunately, this ballot measure passed.

Fortunately, it is unclear exactly how the wording of the question will affect actual state policies.

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ou have been opinion columnist missing out if you have not been reading the online comments at OUDaily.com this semester.

From controversial to hilarious, our one-time contributors and regular Mark Brockway trolls have made reading mark.d.brockway@ou.edu the discussions of our articles disturbing and entertaining. The ambiguity of online personas allows for insults to fly and personal truths to be revealed.

As a constant observer to these discussions, I have found some comments particularly amusing. So, as the semester wraps up, let’s take a look back at the best, worst and ugliest comments from fall 2012.

Comment: “notorious troll Adolf Hitler” From SUP in “Speaker came from out of the closet, under the bridge” Response: SUP is right, we need to all remember the king of trolls and the preferred reference of all trolls: Adolph Hitler.

Comment: “So by your standards, lesbians could very well claim that HIV is a straight disease, since it doesn’t affect them as much as straight people.”

From braceyourself in “Know your status to make future HIV-negative” Response: As one of our most prolific contributors, braceyourself has been increasingly coherent in comparison to our new set of more radical commentators.

The end must be near.

Comment:

From briareus in “Follow Western states’ lead, legalize weed” Response: ...

Comment: “Moonbeams and unicorn horns forever.”

From briareus in “1 in 7 of your neighbors needs help to eat” Response: In an epic turn of events, briareus has finally seen the light of braceyourself’s arguments and given up his capitalist job to live in a treehouse commune outside of Eugene, Ore. Happy trails my friend, happy trails.

Comment: “We already see how illegal alien offspring and perhaps some illegal aliens themselves are changing the electorate.”

From SlaveToTruth in “Voters made horrible mistake” Response: First demons, now aliens, it sounds like SlaveToTruth finally figured out The Daily’s editorial board is really the recovered souls of aliens who once ran the New York Times.

The secret is out!

Comment: “I’m patiently awaiting some well-reasoned, polite and thoughtful counter-arguments, but all I see are people complaining that the Opinion page has an opinion in it.”

From mythman in “Why you can forget about the president — and go vote” Response: I would like to personally thank mythman for his comment. Even though some think we are pod people, the editorial staff does have an opinion that they express, you know, on the opinion page.

Comment: (In response to the Justice For All abortion posters) “It’s actually a plot to increase Housing & Food revenue, because the signs make people so hungry” From nettt in “Justice For All displays inspires shame, not genuine dialogue” Response: Mmmmm … fetus.

“I’m sure virtually your entire staff is liberal…. I’m a bit like a demon in hell poking you liberals/progressives with a pitch fork.”

From SlaveToTruth in “Stop dividing the U.S. with talk Comment: of secession” Response: Euphemisms aside, our staff is actually quite “Do you even have a penis?” politically varied.

From braceyourself in “Circumcision decisions should As much as it would please me to get poked by be left to those being circumcised” SlaveToTruth, the daily grind of creating a newspaper has Response: And the award for best comment of the year sucked the soul out of most of our editorial staff. goes to … braceyourself!

In other words, they are the ones that do the poking.

Although I wish I didn’t know so much about his swimsuit area — oh, the nightmares.

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s the semester opinion columnist winds down and avid Daily readers (or critiquers) consume less news and more study guides, I would like to thank you for your online comments and letters to Kayley Gillespie the editor. kayley.m.gillespie-1@ou.edu But don’t stop there.

The Daily values your opinion. In fact, we could not have an opinion page without your opinions.

As the opinion editor last summer, I often developed editorials from reader responses, and columnists addressed hot topics The Daily’s online community was discussing. You guys made the page.

The opinion section is yours. It is a conversation facilitated by the university community fueled by reader response. It is a forum meant to serve you.

It is exciting to see a column, letter to the editor or editorial that has five, 10 or 30 or more comments.

It means we’re doing our job by providing the OU community with perspectives and offering challenging viewpoints. Stimulating conversation arises from these different viewpoints. Now is the time to disagree, challenge views and learn from one another.

You may just learn that Person X is impossible to reason with, but it is valuable to interact even with the trolls.

For example, if you missed Dan Savage’s talk, what better way to understand the support for him and criticisms against him than to read the impassioned views on each side?

And do not feel stifled. Columnists and the editorial board aren’t the only ones with megaphones. Submit a guest column or letter to the editor when you want to address an issue within the OU or Norman community.

To go further, consider working for us.

Commentors have said The Daily is too liberal, too converative and even communist sympathizers. We want variation. If you feel your views aren’t represented on the opinion page (or any page), please join us.

From the user with more than 400 comments on OUDaily.com (thanks for your consistency!) to the new user who has yet to share his or her voice: we need you.

Create a username on OUDaily.com, email dailyopinion@ou.edu and join the conversation.

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All faiths can give

What’s new?

Bible verses, bad science have no place in U.S. law: Oklahoma County Judge Bill Graves denied name

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Mayor Roger Van Horn rings the bell for the annual Salvation Army Red Kettle Christmas Campaign in Nacogdoches, Texas. The Salvation Army is seeking volunteers for bell ringing shifts to raise funds to help families in need.

Volunteers of all faiths should be able to serve

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opinion columnist re-dentistry senior Fatima Abdullah went to Ministries of Jesus, a charity, expecting to be vetted for a volunteer position. But instead of an interview, she got an attempted conversion.

Rather than taking Steven Zoeller Abdullah to his office, a steven.v.zoeller@ou.edu representative led her to a conference room with a Bible on the table. He then asked her what she, an observant Muslim, believed about Jesus.

“I told him in Islam he’s our prophet,” Abdullah said. “He’s important, but we don’t believe in him as the son of God.” This wasn’t what the representative wanted to hear. He began to read from a script about how Abdullah should accept Jesus Christ as her savior. After a few minutes, he discerned she wasn’t interested and asked her to leave.

“It was kind of a rough experience for me,” Abdullah said.

“I was completely denied because I’m Muslim.”

Abdullah had been led to believe her faith wouldn’t be an obstacle. She had told a representative over the phone she was Muslim and written it on the application form. Yet she was invited to the offices anyway, only to be preached to.

Sadly, Abdullah’s story is not unique. Well-meaning people are blocked from participating in charitable work on the basis of their religious beliefs or lack thereof.

Why? It’s one thing for a religious group to exclude

outsiders from activities specific to that faith, but charity can hold meaning for anyone. If it’s the goal of a non-profit to help as many people as possible, it is counter-productive to turn away volunteers.

There are only two superficially plausible justifications for how Abdullah and others are treated. The first is those with diverse faiths couldn’t work together. The second is said organization might want to keep up appearances of a united front for evangelism purposes.

The first justification quickly breaks down. Abdullah gladly would have made compromises if it meant she could work at Ministries of Jesus. It wouldn’t be difficult for a religious charity to make accommodations for people of different faiths, and vice versa.

As for the second justification, the benefits of keeping a united front are overrated. While it might have evangelical value, recruiting others to your faith shouldn’t be the point of a charitable organization. Giving people food and shelter should take priority over giving them Bibles.

Abdullah has volunteered with the Salvation Army, a group that, despite its Christian affiliation and flaws, accepted her help. Others should adopt a similar policy.

The holiday season is one of the most popular times for charity work — for people of all faiths. This should be an opportunity for all to unite behind their mutual desire to eliminate suffering, not isolate each other.

Steven Zoeller is a journalism junior.

changes to two transgender citizens. Graves appealed to Bible verses and misguided science to argue allowing name changes for transgender people is fraud.

Not only was this a clear violation of the separation of church and state and an overreach of judicial power, it clearly was motivated by transgender hatred.

In November, the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals rightly overturned one of these decisions, ruling Graves abused his discretion and made decisions without evidence. The woman now will be able to change her name.

The second case is now on appeal and hopefully will be overturned quickly.

Baseless blood donor restrictions risk lives: The Bedlam Blood Drive in November brought into focus the damaging effects of America’s restrictions on blood donations.

We called for the lifetime ban on donations from men who have sex with men to be lifted. The ban should be replaced with a policy based in science and similar to other policies regarding high-risk individuals.

Our suggestions, and the suggestion of a studentsponsored petition, was to institute a one-year ban on donations. The Oklahoma Blood Institute helped to organize an event to gather signatures for this petition alongside the blood drive. As of press time, the petition had gathered BLAH signatures.

You can sign the petition at OUDaily.com.

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Winter fashion (Page B7) Carmen Forman, life & arts editor Kedric Kitchens, sports editor dailyent@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com/life&arts • Twitter: @OUDailyArts

— Monday, December 10,

semester in review

Marvelous OU moments

Sophomore quarterback Blake Bell muscles his way into the end zone to tie Bedlam at the end of regulation.

OU won the game in overtime, 51-48.

Musical theater students perform in “Avenue Q.”

Students, faculty members and Norman citizens chose from hand-made bowls for the School of Art and Art History’s Chili Bowl.

Sophomore middle blocker Grace Whitley (right) and junior outside hitter Keila Rodriguez (left) block a spike against Kansas on Oct. 10. The Sooners lost, 3-2.

Junior fullback Trey Millard hurdles and trucks a defender during his 73-yard reception in OU’s 63-21 thumping of Texas.

Drama students perform in “And When We Awoke There Was Light and Light.”

Junior guard Morgan Hooks shoots a runner against Northwestern State on Nov. 29. The Sooners exorcised the Demons, 96-35.

Senior guard Sam Grooms pushes the ball up the floor. Grooms is one of five returning seniors on OU’s basketball team.

Dance students perform in a holiday spectacle with the ballets “Valse Fantaisie” and “Cinderella.”

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eason recaps are inSPORTS COLUMNIST herently difficult.

In a single column, it’s nearly impossible to summarize, evaluate and produce some sort of comprehensive final judgment of the successes and failures of a 12-game football seaDillon Phillips son. Seven hundred twenty dphillips85@ou.edu minutes of football and the countless hours in between are not reduced easily to 500 words.

So that won’t be happening here.

In no way will this column attempt to be a complete summary of this season, and no judgments will be made intentionally (but I’m sure a few inevitably and unconsciously will sneak in).

Think of this as SparkNotes for the 2012 season. Let’s start from the top: Ever the perennial powerhouse, OU’s football team began the season ranked No. 4 and was predicted to win conference title No. 44. The Sooners also had an outside chance of returning to the national championship game for the first time since 2008.

But before the season started, the Sooners lost two seniors — guard Tyler Evans and All-Big 12 center Ben Habern— on an already-thin offensive line for the entire year because of injury.

OU had yet to step onto the field, and the infamous injury bug that plagued otherwise-talented OU teams in the past and undermined their high expectations — most recently in 2009 — had struck again.

But the Sooners persevered, going 10-2 and winning a conference title (which is blemished by a “co” prefix that just so happens to be invalidated by a loss to the other cochampion — Kansas State — but let’s not get caught up in technicalities).

This season was just another par for the course under coach Bob Stoops, who has won at least ten games in 11 of his 14 seasons and a conference title in each evennumbered year since 1999.

This season also saw Stoops and senior quarterback Landry Jones etch their names into the record books, immortalizing themselves in Sooner lore.

Stoops surpassed legendary OU coach Bud Wilkinson for second place on the Sooners’ all-time wins list, and at 149, he’s just nine wins away from supplanting “The King” Barry Switzer as the winningest coach in OU football history.

The often-criticized Jones overcame scapegoat status following his costly two-turnover performance in the

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Junior cornerback Aaron Colvin (14) celebrates with his teammates on the field after the Sooners beat Oklahoma State in overtime, 51-48, Nov. 24 at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

Sooners’ loss to Kansas State and became the winningest quarterback in OU history and the Big 12’s all-time leader in passing yards. He also ranks fifth in NCAA history in that category.

But with the good comes the bad, and 2012 marked the first time OU lost two games at Owen Field since 1998, when the John Blake-led Sooners went 5-6 — the Sooners’ last losing season.

In OU’s defense, both losses came to top-five teams, and even with them added, one still can count on a single hand the number of home games the Sooners have lost during Stoops’ tenure. But the Sooners’ once widely-recognized reputation for being unbeatable at home is marred, at least for now.

With all that in mind, the Sooners now are back in Norman — mythical conference championship in tow — and will be headed to the Cotton Bowl to play former conference playmate Texas A&M, which, incidentally enough, caught some flak before the season for claiming co-Big 12 championships as conference titles after departing to the SEC. So was 2012 a success or a failure?

Depends on whom you ask, but most would probably say it’s just another typical OU season.

Dillon Phillips is a journalism junior and assistant editor for The Daily. Follow him on Twitter at @DillonPhillips_.

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OU must overcome loss of senior captain sports columnist

senior forward Lindsey Cloman retired because of a nagging back injury.

Depth went from one of the Sooners’ strengths to one of their biggest questions — and it wasn’t done yet.

Freshman guard Maddie Manning worked her way Kedric Kitchens into the starting lineup by kitchens_kedric@ou.edu game four and shined in her he OU women’s first three starts — averaging basketball team 11 points, five rebounds and started the season 2 .7 assists per game in that as preseason No. 2 in the Big stretch. The Sooners were 12 and No. 12 in the nation. adjusting to having four OU touted a team whose guards on the court, and it marks were depth, promisseemed like the team was on ing newcomers and veteran track. leadership — most notably But then Manning tore her from senior guard Whitney ACL during practice, and OU Hand. was down to nine players.

Cut to nine games later, The Sooners were a shalthe Sooners are 8-1 and have low team, but they still had dropped just one spot to No. veterans leading the way in 13 in the Associated Press junior guard Morgan Hook Poll. and Hand.

But the team has been After two quick wins over ravaged by injury.

Northwestern State and The second day of pracMarist, North Texas came tice, sophomore forward to town, and the Sooners’ Kaylon Williams went down world was shattered. for the season with a rupNear the end of the first tured Achilles’ tendon, and half against the Mean Green

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on Thursday, Hand went down clutching her knee, which an MRI later confirmed as an ACL tear.

OU won the game against North Texas but lost its best player, and leader, in the process.

The Sooners are at an impasse for their season.

It’s a major uphill battle from now on for coach Sherri Coale’s squad.

OU is down to eight players on its active roster and still has the entire Big 12 schedule left — a conference that includes No. 3 Baylor, No. 12 Texas, No. 16 Oklahoma State, No. 17 Kansas and No. 22 Iowa State.

To beat UNT, several Sooners had to step up to replace different aspects of what was lost without Hand on the court. OU didn’t just lose her 12.1 points and 7.5 rebounds per game, but her leadership, hustle and other intangibles as well.

You saw it against North Texas: Hook picked up her leadership, senior forward

PLAYER PROFILE Whitney Hand Year:

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Position: Guard

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12.1 points and 7.5 rebounds per game prior to injury this season

Joanna McFarland picked up her rebounding — she finished with a team-high 11 boards — junior center Nicole Griffin picked up her scoring with 15 points in the game, and freshman guard Nicole Kornet had some key minutes off the bench.

The Sooners won the game because they played hard; they played for each other; they played for Hand.

The Sooners will need to do all that and more to do anything the rest of the season.

OU may not be

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Coach Sherri Coale tends to senior guard Whitney Hand after Hand suffered a season-ending knee injury against North Texas on Dec. 6. Hand tore her ACL, but the Sooners prevailed, 71-68.

threatening to go undefeated anymore — it lost a game with Hand and Manning healthy — but it still has eight strong players and, if the Sooners can make up for even 80 percent of what Hand brought to the table,

they still should be just fine.

Kedric Kitchens is a journalism junior and sports editor for The Daily.

Follow him on Twitter at @KedricKitchens.

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Sooners’ soccer season characterized by inconsistent play

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n Halloween, the sports columnist OU soccer season came to an end with a disappointing, lopsided 3-0 loss to rival Texas in the first round of the Big 12 tournament.

The game marked just another of the Sooners’ many Ross Stracke games this season that were ross.stracke@ou.edu plagued by inconsistency, mainly on offense.

The Sooners were outshot by opponents, 235-309, this season, and 88 of OU’s shots were taken by senior forward Renae Cuellar.

Cuellar was the only bright spot for the Sooners’ offense.

She scored 12 of OU’s 23 goals, and the next closest to her

total on the team were junior midfielder Samantha Howell and sophomore forward Kelly Price, who scored two goals each.

Cuellar also made Sooner history, becoming the first OU player to win Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year.

Unfortunately, Cuellar graduates this year, and there is no clear standout to replace her.

Early in the season, senior goalkeeper Kelsey Devonshire and the scrappy Oklahoma defenders put the team on their back.

Devonshire broke the career saves record this year — a testament to Devonshire’s ability as a goalkeeper and a condemnation of the Sooners’ offensive impotence.

Once the Sooners finally adjusted, their offense was efficient, and they won three of their last four regular season games and out-scored opponents 7-3 during that stretch.

Looking back on the season, it can’t be deemed a success

or a disappointment.

OU could have had a 10-win season and maybe a better chance at an NCAA berth. The real success here is the intensity and potential Oklahoma showed against teams that were supposed to kill them.

Outside of West Virginia and Virginia Tech, the Sooners gave every higher ranked team a run for its money or just flat out beat it — like OU did when Oklahoma State was ranked third in the country.

When it comes down to it, Potter did much better than any previous coach had in its first season.

And he’ll do better than any before him have from this year forward.

Ross Stracke is a journalism sophomore.

Follow him on Twitter at @RossStracke.

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Men’s Basketball

Volleyball

Young guards lead way for OU

Sooners have recordbreaking season

Sooners left with two games until Dec. 29

Seniors make it to NCAA tournament all four years of college career at OU

Dillon Phillips

Assistant Sports Editor

With finals week upon us, OU’s students are gearing up for the semester’s last lap before returning home for the holidays and winter break.

And for the men’s basketball team, which will only play two games between now and Dec. 29, it’s no different.

After its 81-78 loss to Arkansas on Tuesday, the Sooners won’t play again until Dec. 15, when they take on Texas A&M in the AllCollege Classic. Three days later, OU will play against Stephen F. Austin before taking another 11-day break.

So with that break comes a little reflection.

At this point last season, OU was 7-1 with its only loss coming to Saint Louis, which beat the Sooners by 20 before going 26-8 and advancing to the second round of the NCAA tournament. This year, the Sooners have one more loss but sit in virtually the same position.

OU’s two losses have come to Arkansas and undefeated No. 10 Gonzaga, which beat the Sooners by 25 on its way to taking first place at the Old Spice Classic in Orlando.

Despite the pair of losses, OU has looked improved this season, most notably in the athleticism and depth departments, and those improvements can be attributed mostly to the arrival of the Sooners’ three freshmen guards — Isaiah Cousins, Je’lon Hornbeak and Buddy Hield.

The three are averaging 20.4 minutes per game with Cousins and Hornbeak in the starting five and Hield coming off the bench.

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Tobi Neidy

Sports Reporter

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Freshman guard Isaiah Cousins (11) makes a pass during a game against Northwestern State on Nov. 30. The Sooners won the game, 69-65, marking coach Lon Kruger’s 500th career win.

Cousins runs the point for the Sooners and is second on the team in assists, and Hield leads the freshmen in scoring with 8.5 points per game, including a 17-point performance that fueled the Sooners 63-59 victory against Texas-Arlington on Nov. 16.

But this young team has plenty of experience, and with five seniors on the squad, OU has a balanced mix of young and old.

Senior forward Romero Osby and senior guard Steven Pledger bring leadership to the Sooners’ starting lineup. Osby, OU’s loud leader, is first on the team

in points and second in rebounds. He also brings versatility and a physical defensive presence.

Pledger, who was the Big 12’s leading returning scorer this season, has been relegated to a jump-shooter role, but he’s been invaluable in the development of OU’s trio of freshmen guards and a solid perimeter defender.

Although the Sooners appear to be improved from last year, a few of OU’s weaknesses from a season ago remain, namely the lack of a true post player.

In OU’s two losses, a talented, physical post player dominated the Sooners

down low — Gonzaga’s senior forward Elias Harris scored 18 points against OU and Arkansas’ junior forward Marshawn Powell dropped 33 on the Sooners.

And with the Sooners missing a true center and choosing to go with a threeguard small-ball lineup, OU will continue to be susceptible in the paint.

But with four games until the beginning of conference play, the Sooners have plenty of time to improve in this young season.

Dillon Phillips dphillips85@ou.edu

The OU volleyball team continued to build a reputation of success during its 2012 campaign.

The Sooners (22-11, 10-6 Big 12) capped off their season with a fourth-consecutive trip to the NCAA tournament, the first time in the program’s history an OU team appeared in the postseason four straight seasons.

OU’s 22 wins this year also broke a 27-year-old record, completing the third-consecutive 20-plus win season since accomplishing that feat from 1983-85.

However, the team’s appearance in the NCAA tournament was cut short by then-No. 12 BYU in the second round.

But securing the feat was another animal entirely for a team in the top-heavy Big 12 conference.

The reigning Big 12 champion, Texas, was selected to top the conference polls at the beginning of the 2012 season, while the Sooners were voted to finish in fourth place behind Iowa State and Kansas State.

OU came out swinging to start the season, winning the Nike Invitational with threeconsecutive victories. The Sooners dropped four nonconference contests, compiling an 11-3 record before Big 12 action.

The Sooners won five of their last seven matches — including wins over TCU and KSU during the final weeks — to earn an Sallie at-large bid for the postseason tournament, Mclaurin but the Longhorns won their second straight title this year with a 15-1 conference performance, and OU found itself in the same place it was predicted to finish after getting swept by UT, ISU and Kansas.

With the five-set win over Arizona State in the first round of the NCAA tournament, OU advanced to the second round for the fifth time in the program’s history and fourth time under current coach Santiago Restrepo.

Three members of the team earned Big 12 postseason awards: Junior middle blocker Sallie McLaurin was named to the All-Big 12 first team, while newcomers Julia Doyle and Kierra Holst were named to the All-Freshmen team.

McLaurin also earned All-Central Region first team honors after leading the team with averages of 2.83 kills, 1.37 blocks and 3.60 points per set this year.

Senior libero Maria Fernanda didn’t receive any conference honors, but the libero also made history for her individual performance this season.

Fernanda finished her career with 2,204 digs, solidifying her spot with the second-most career digs in the Big 12 conference’s record book, while becoming the only player in OU’s history to total more than 2,000 digs.

Tobi Neidy, tneidy@gmail.com

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Survive finals with study spots, stress relievers Life & Arts columnist

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reshmen: The idea of leaving your shoebox-sized dorm seems unfathomable with your first round of finals quickly approaching.

But, you can and must relax.

Upperclassmen: You are the nobility of all-nighters, the historians of blue books and the champions of this post-Thanksgiving, take-no-prisoner testing marathon.

Here is a survival guide

to collaborate with classmates. The rooms usually are first come, first serve, but renting also is available.

3. Lions Park, 450 S. Flood Ave. In case of unusually For studying warm weather, outdoor 1. Gray Owl Coffee 223 E. study sessions still are Gray St. a possibility. Lions Park If you want a study spot has several covered and off campus, Gray Owl uncovered tables. Also, the provides a spacious venue playground equipment and low-key lighting with could serve as a stress the perfect background reliever. buzz of independent music, For stress relief quiet conversation and shots of espresso hitting the 1. Fred Jones Jr. Museum bottom of ceramic cups. of Art 2. Lissa and Cy Wagner With free admission for Hall everyone, look through Studying in groups works the “Selected Works” and well in the individual “Indigenous Aesthetics” rooms in Wagner. Most exhibitions from the James rooms have white boards T. Bialac Native American and comfortable chairs Art Collection before they

for both finals week rookies and veterans. Its contents will help soften the glare of your laptop screen and clear the tunnel of faded flashcards that rapidly is closing in on you.

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2. Marc Heitz Chevrolet ice rink, Interstate 35 and Lindsey Street Norman’s first outdoor ice skating rink will remain open from noon to 9 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Saturdays and 1 to 7 p.m.

Sundays. Admission is $10 with a rental of skates and $7 without. The money will benefit the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.

3. Second Chance Animal Sanctuary, 4500 24th Ave. Northwest For your first time volunteering, you can play with the cats indoors or walk the dogs in the surrounding acreage.

You can download the application off its website.

Molly Evans is a journalism sophomore.

Finals Week playlist:

To help you survive 1. “Brainy” • The National Although “Boxer” (2007) is ideal for a deep study session, this track sets a steady pace for starting off. Plus, the deep warmth of lead singer Matt Berninger’s voice is basically what hot tea or coffee would sound like if it could sing.

majors will appreciate a Shins’ song from 2001.

2. “2 Atoms in a Molecule” • Noah & the Whale This track from the London band’s first album makes science adorable with a whimsical beat lasting a fleeting two minutes. If you like “Juno”-esque tunes, “2 Atoms in a Molecule” will do the trick.

6. “Know Better Learn Faster” • Thao The instrumentation is motivational while the repetition of “Know Better Learn Faster” in the chorus is just outright demanding.

3. “A Simple Answer” • Grizzly Bear As one of the best albums of 2012, Grizzly Bear’s “Shields” includes this gem midway through the record. If you’re working tirelessly through limits, functions, derivatives and integrals, let Grizzly Bear serenade you with “A Simple Answer.”

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Students study at Gray Owl Coffee shop at 223 E. Gray St. Lissa and Cy Wagner Hall and Lions Park are other good places to study for finals or relieve stress when you get tired of studying.

4. “Know Your Onion!” • The Shins This track was chosen mostly for its title, but maybe you classics

5. “Cult Logic” • Miike Snow If you’ve made it this far through the playlist, you’ve earned an upbeat number. Cue brief dorm room dance break.

7. “Fiction” • The xx After three years, The xx finally gave us something to sustain us musically early in the semester.

“Fiction” and the other 10 tracks should hold you through the duration of the semester.

8. “Vision of Division” • The Strokes The Strokes barge in this playlist with their alternative flare and guitar gusto just as abruptly as the person breaching the 24-hour quiet policy on your floor. It’s OK to get a little bit loud.

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Holiday music new, old to get in holiday spirit

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LIFE & ARTS COLUMNIST he minute all of the Thanksgiving leftovers have been devoured, it’s time to break out the lights, sparkle, and, of course, the holiday music.

Whether you celebrate Christmas Emily Hopkins or Hanukkah ehopkins@ou.edu Chrismahanukwanzakah or something else entirely, it’s hard to enter December without changing up your playlists a little bit.

I’m definitely not one of those people who sets my ringtone to “Jingle Bells” and refuses to listen to anything that isn’t seasonally appropriate — but when I do feel like getting into the holiday spirit, these are some of the songs I always go to.

The Classics

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Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” is one of this semester’s films likely to be nominated for the 2013 Academy Awards. Kathryn Bigelow, director of “Zero Dark Thirty,” will likely give Spielberg competition for winner of Best Director.

but there are many films biding for the coveted best picture: Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” Ben Affleck’s “Argo,” Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi,” Tom Hooper’s “Les Misérables” and Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty” all are poised to Brent Stenstrom take home the most prized Brent.E.Stenstrom-1@ou.edu filmmaking award. rom Clint “Life of Pi” will give “Argo” Eastwood’s and “Lincoln” a run for their “Trouble With the money, but the Academy Curve” to Steven Spielberg’s is notorious for picking return to the director’s chair timeless films over modern for “Lincoln,” this semester’s marvels. “Lincoln” likely movies have given us some will follow in the footsteps award-winners for sure. of past winners “The King’s At the end of every Speech” and “The Artist.” year, the members of the The Best Actor Academy of Motion Picture award will go to either Arts and Sciences vote on “Lincoln’s” Daniel Daywhich films to nominate for Lewis or “Flight’s” Denzel the Academy Awards.

Washington.

This year’s Oscars Day-Lewis’ portrayal of may not have the most President Abraham Lincoln star-studded lineups,

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was spot on, inspirational and could take home the gold statuette.

But not so fast — Washington’s performance in “Flight” as a drug and alcohol-addicted pilot was just as tremendous. Both actors really deserve Oscars, but personally, I’m pulling for the underdog: Denzel Washington.

The fight for winner of Best Actress in a leading role will come down to “Zero Dark Thirty’s” Jessica Chastain or Jennifer Lawrence for her role in “Silver Linings Playbook.”

Although “Zero Dark Thirty” has not been released in the U.S., it has been awarded best film of 2012 by the National Board of Review.

Lawrence deserves the Oscar because she made the

movie’s quirkiness into a great romantic comedy.

The Academy Award for best director will come down to two directors.

Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” was flawless, and his name will carry heavy influence with voters.

Then, there is Kathryn Bigelow, director of “Zero Dark Thirty.”

Bigelow already has a best director Oscar for “The Hurt Locker” (2008), but she is looking to walk away with another.

It’s unlikely Spielberg will lose best director, but there have been surprises before, so we have to wait until February to see.

Brent Stenstrom is a broadcast and electronic media junior.

You can’t have a holiday playlist without some of the oldies but goodies — think classic crooners like the Rat Pack, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland and Elvis.

“Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” — Dean Martin “Sleigh Ride” — Ella Fitzgerald “Winter Wonderland” — Frank Sinatra “Blue Christmas” — Elvis “The Christmas Song” — Nat King Cole

Old Turned New The best part of holiday music is that, more than likely, your favorite artist has put out a Christmas album or at least did its own take on a classic song. Here are some of the best modern covers (and a few originals): “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” — She & Him “Joy To The World” — Sufjan Stevens “I Got My Love To Keep Me Warm” — Carole King “Please Come Home For Christmas” — Jon Bon Jovi

Fresh Cuts Some artists decide to buck the norm and put out holiday albums with completely original material.

Sometimes it works … sometimes it doesn’t.

“A Great Big Sled” — The Killers “Christmas Isn’t Safe For Animals” — Of Montreal “Christmas Card From A Hooker in Minneapolis” — Tom Waits “It Often Doesn’t Snow At Christmas” — Pet Shop Boys “Oh You (Christmas Blues)” — LCD Soundsystem “Christmas At The Zoo” — The Flaming Lips “Winter Wonderland” — Animal Collective “Christmas Song” — Mogwai Emily Hopkins is an advertising junior.

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Holiday fashion for every party LIFE & ARTS COLUMNIST

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is the season for holiday parties and festive fashions. Here are a few trends to make you stand out as you’re making the rounds at holiday celebrations.

Holiday Parties The little black dress has been a holiday party staple for years. This year is no exception, but look for new variations on this classic. The little black dress is being updated with Shannon Borden gold accents and shimmer. These slight variations can take shannonborden@ou.edu your look to the next level.

The summer dress trend of hemlines that are shorter in front and longer in the back is transforming into a winter trend. However, the color of the dress is really what will set you apart, according to Dainty Hooligan manager Gina Kenny. Deep reds and purples will be hot this winter.

Chevron is the pattern of the season, Kenny said. The contrast from black to white is dramatic, and the zigzag pattern is unique and eye-catching. If you can pull off confidence in this look, you’re sure to stand out.

“Much like the wand chooses the wizard, the tacky sweater chooses its owner.”

Tacky Christmas Sweater Parties One of the most adorkable themed Christmas parties is the ugly or tacky Christmas sweater party. It is surprisingly difficult to find a sweater tacky enough to wear to a tacky sweater party.

Goodwill is hit-or-miss, but it still is a good idea to check it out. You may stumble upon the perfect reindeer sweater with a red cotton-ball for a nose.

And an elderly lady literally may grab that sweater out of your hands (I’m not bitter).

If you don’t find what you are looking for, other thrift stores usually have some good sweaters. If all else fails, try Walmart.

The hardest thing about tacky sweater shopping is that the only real way to find the right one is to stumble upon it. Much like the wand chooses the wizard, the tacky sweater chooses its owner.

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University College freshman Casey Callahan models a homemade Christmas sweater. Tacky or ugly Christmas sweaters are a fun addition to any holiday outfit. Tacky Christmas sweaters can be found by the dozen at Goodwill or other thrift stores.

Public relations sophomore Hannah Van Amburgh models a party dress from Forever 21 and shoes from Aldo.

New Years Eve Parties Ring in 2013 in style. Sequins are back in full swing for New Year’s Eve festivities. It may be the one time a year it is acceptable to wear a dress covered in sequins, so take full advantage.

One surprisingly fresh New Year’s Eve trend this year is a winter white dress rather than a dark color. All white outfits are crisp and chic. Since most people will lean towards darker colors, those who rock a white dress will stand out among the crowd.

Shannon Borden is a professional writing sophomore.

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