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Teach-in brings experts to OU Sooner family This year’s teachings will focus on the Civil War era CAITLIN SCHACHTER Campus Reporter

The university community will come together to spend the day learning about the Civil War on March 10 during OU’s third annual Teach-In. Six historians will lead the event and share their perspectives on this era during talks throughout the day, according to a press release.

Each year the Teach-In focuses on an important era in U.S. history. This year some of the nation’s leading historians on the Civil War era will speak at the event, said university spokesman Michael Nash. Students, faculty and staff, as well as the public can attend. Interested individuals can make their reservations online under the RSVP tab at the Teach-In website, Nash said. The event will begin at 9:30 a.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall, where Gary Gallagher,

University of Virginia professor, will give a talk titled “The Seductiveness of Turning Points: How Important was Gettysburg?” The dis cussion w ill continue throughout the day, switching to the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom for the lunch address. John Wilmerding, American art professor at Princeton University, will give a talk titled “Visualizing the Civil War: Three American Artists,” according to

GYMNASTICS These athletes trained their whole lives for their sport, but when they graduate in may, it will all be over.

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The OU community lost a Sooner this week when he died unexpectedly during a visit to his home in Oklahoma City. That Sooner was University College freshman Connor Ha m i l t o n , w h o ma n y knew as Bubba. Hamilton died around 3:15 p.m. on Feb. 18 from having a pulmonary embolism, also known as an ar ter y blockage in the lung, his sister April Hamilton said. April Hamilton, zoolHe’s the type of ogy senior, said Bubba person that can Hamilton had a common genetic mutation that make anyone laugh, caused his blood to be more prone to clotting. and he treats every She said because of how person like an old quickly it occurred, there wasn’t anything anyone friend. He loves with could do to help him his whole heart and when it happened. lives every day to the B u b b a H a m i l t o n ’s fullest.” death was sudden and unexpected, and April APRIL HAMILTON, Hamilton is thankful for BUBBA HAMILTON’S SISTER the strong relationship she had with her brother while he was alive. “He’s my very best friend,” April Hamilton said. “He’s the type of person that can make anyone laugh, and he treats every person like an old friend. He loves with his whole heart and lives every day to the fullest.”

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tanton Rehkemper has been a gymnast since he was 2 years old. He started with children’s classes and moved up to team gymnastics when he turned 6. “I’ve been competing ever since,” Rehkemper said. “Gymnastics has been my life.” Through Plano Senior High and the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy, Rehkemper stuck with it. He was rewarded with the opportunity to compete at OU, one of has been my the nation’s foremost men’s gymnastics programs, and struggled for two years to crack the lineup until finally he got his shot last season. And in less than two months, it STANTON REHKEMPER will all be over. Rehkemper is not a football player. He’s not a basketball star or a promising baseball prospect. For him, and thousands like him across the country, senior year is his final opportunity to play the sport he loves, and then it’s on to the real world. For Rehkemper, the real world involves graduate school here at OU. He hopes to become a physical

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2nd Hillel Passion Project kicks off Group to meet every Tuesday EMMA SULLIVAN Campus Reporter

This is the second year OU Hillel’s Passion Project will seek to help students discover their social justice passions and then act on that discovery in a way that makes a difference. The students will meet Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. for six weeks to delve into a two-part leadership training. The group’s first meeting was Feb. 11. The first part is from the main text, “The Generosity Plan,” written by professional global activist Kathy LeMay. The second part is made up of Jewish learning, said Sasha Joseph, engagement and leadership associate. “We want to target underclassmen to enhance

Opinion: OU should favor ethics over policy and return painting stolen by the Nazis. (Page 3)

their leadership skills and help them get in touch with their passion,” Joseph said. The idea for the Passion Project came from Jason Oruch, Hillel’s director of Student Life. He previously attended the Harrison Leadership and Professional International Development Initiative, or Harrison LAPID, and was one of only 12 chosen from around the world. At the end of Harrison LAPID, participants were instructed to create their own initiatives. Their initiatives needed to fit their locations or campuses. Oruch chose to create The Passion Project because he wanted students to see social justice through a “Jewish lens” in relation to their own passions and personal Jewish experience, he said.

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