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FROZEN FORECAST What’s the difference between snow and graupel?

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Students walk across the South Oval during Monday’s winter weather. Campus closed at 1:30 p.m.

Monday and reopened at 10 a.m. today.

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he much-anticipated winter weather rolled in early Feb. causing many to dream of a full snow day.

A mixture of snow and graupel, also referred to as “snow pellets,” coated the ground, causing some students

Shannon McConnell, financial risk management junior, walks on campus Monday. Students shuffled across an icy campus on their way to class until campus closed at 1:30 p.m.

to question if campus would be open.

You might have mistaken graupel for small hail or snow, but it actually consists of small pellets of ice formed w h e n s u p e r- c o o l e d water droplets cover a snowflake. For graupel to form, super-cooled water or a liquid that exists below 32 degrees, must be present at the cloudy layer in order to cover the snow flake.

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Student group urges college to UPB presents stop investment in oil industry Mid Day Music performances

OUr Earth pushes for divestment of fossil fuels at OU

Students have several opportunities to showcase musical talents in the Union

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OUr Earth, a group of students invested in sustainability, hopes to rally support for divestment in fossil fuels on campus.

To c e l e b r a t e G l o b a l Divestment Day on Feb. 13, environmental sustainability freshman Sara Lowe held a rally on the South Oval during which she and members of OUr Earth informed other students about divesting from, or removing investment in, fossil fuels.

Though the holiday is

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OU’s OUr Earth group urges OU to go fossil free in a rally Feb 13. Students involved with the group are asking the university and individuals to pull holdings in companies that support the oil industry.

over, the movement for divestment is not, Lowe said.

Lowe said by encouraging OU to divest from fossil fuels, students are asking the university and individuals to pull holdings in companies that support the oil

industry.

“These are some of the most powerful and wealthy organizations that have existed in history, and so it’s really difficult to change what they’re doing just by telling them that what

they’re doing is wrong, that it’s hurting people,” Lowe said. “I think that the best way to influence them is with the dollar.”

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Mid Day Music is a year-round event organized by Union Programming Board where students can showcase their musical talents from noon to 1 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Will Rogers food court, UPB graduate advisor Zachary Kampf said.

The event is scheduled 3-4 times a week and provides a lively and upbeat atmosphere, Kampf said.

“We want to provide an outlet form to showcase student talent,” Kampf said.

Joan Kirungi, industrial and systems engineering sophomore, is performing at noon Wednesday in the Union. The Daily sat down for a question and answer session with her.

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STRESS E-LIMINATOR

Campus club holds week-long event to let engineering students unwind The OU Engineers’ Club, or E-Club, will host its annual E-Week events this week.

From noon to 3 p.m. Feb. 24 in ExxonMobil Lawrence G. Rawl Engineering Practice Facility room 200, GE Oil & Gas will host the Stress E-Liminator event to give engineering faculty, staff and students the chance to unwind.

E-Week is an event that happens at universities across the country and happens about the same time each year, E-Club President Andrew Lambeth said.

Lambeth said that E-Week is geared toward busy and stressed engineering majors, but if you aren’t an engineering student, they won’t ask you to leave.

E-Week chairperson Cody Shell said the main goal of the event is to give everyone in the engineering school the chance to relax.

Shell said there will be chair massages, video games, healthy snacks and puzzles for the people who attend the event.

There are other events occurring throughout the week around the Engineering Quad. These can be found on their website.

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Joan Kirungi, industrial and systems engineering sophomore, plays piano Monday in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Will Rogers Cafeteria. Kirungi will play at noon Wednesday in the Will Rogers Cafeteria as part of Mid Day Music.

Gloria Noble, News Reporter

MUSIC: Engineering student to play at Union Continued from Page One

Q: What’s your favor- Q: How did you get ite song to play?

Q: How many songs do you know?

A:

With regard to number of songs, I don’t think there can be a finite number of songs a pianist can play. Once you understand piano chords you can play pretty much any song.

With classical pieces, though, I think I can play between 15 and 20 compositions off-script, each one being an average of 12 minutes long.

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started in music?

I don’t have a favorite song because there are too many songs, but my favorite musical composition to play would have to be “La Tarentelle in D minor” by the German composer Friedrich Burgmüller.

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Q: When do you play?

A:

I usually play on Mondays, Wednesdays o r F r i d ay s b e t w e e n 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. It depends on the Mid Day Music schedule.

I ’v e a l w a y s l ov e d piano. I’ve been playing since I was 11 years old when I was enrolled into the British Royal Academy of Music affiliate back home. I currently hold two certificates in piano. I’ve p e r f o r m e d at a f e w concerts but its always been more of a hobby.

I’ve also been trained in voice since I was about 14. It’s nice to be able to combine the two.

UPCOMING MID DAY MUSIC EVENTS Darius Aruho noon to 1 p.m.

Friday Joan Kirungi noon to 1 p.m.

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Darius Aruho noon to 1 p.m.

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MONDAY, FEB. 23

THURSDAY, FEB. 26

“Soccer, Italian Style” by Maurizio Vito 1-2 p.m. • Kaufman Hall 230, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

“El Nopal, the magic cactus plant of Mexico” by Estrella Morales 12:30-1:30 p.m. • Kaufman Hall 230, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

“El Mole, the magic condiment of Mexico”

by Miriam Romero 3-4 p.m. • Kaufman Hall 230, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

TUESDAY, FEB. 24 “The Chinese Dumpling, the magic holiday food of China” by Yanrong Qi and Nian Liu 12:30-1:30 p.m. • Kaufman Hall 230, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics “Persian Poetry” by Marjan Seirafi-Pour 1:30-2:30 p.m. • Kaufman Hall 230, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

“CAS Research Celebration Day” Noon to 5 pm, remarks at 4:15 pm.

Molly Shi Boren Ballroom, OMU. Displays of research efforts from 25 departments and programs in the college.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25 “Explore Japanese Games” by Nana Onishi 3-4 p.m. • Kaufman Hall 230, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

“The Kibbutz in Israel, a social and economic perspective” by Dr. Ori Kritz 2-3 p.m. • Kaufman Hall 230, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics “French Songs, then and now” by Dinah Stillman 3-4 p.m. • Kaufman Hall 230, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics “Insecure Majorities: Congress, Party Competition and the Permanent Campaign” by Frances E. Lee 7 p.m. • Gould Hall Gallery, 830 Van Vleet Oval, Political Science

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI LECTURES “Passion, Power and Possibilites: Leaning In to Social Work Leadership”

by Gail Lapidus Thursday, Feb. 26 • NOON • JJ Rhyne Community Room, Zarrow Hall ”From Pre-med to Young Alum: How Mice, Mentors, and Making the Most of Undergraduate Opportunities Shaped My Success” by Brandi Coyner Thursday, Feb. 26 • 1:30 p.m. • Dodson Lounge, Price Hall “Banking in Oklahoma: Past, Present, and Future” by Homer Paul, with Ken Fergeson, NBC Oklahoma; Sean Kouplen, Regent Bank; and David Westman, BancFirst Thursday, Feb. 26 • 3 p.m. • Dodson Lounge, Price Hall

FRIDAY, FEB. 27

”Henna, Moroccan Mint Tea and Henna Designs” by Nisrine Slitine El Mghari 12-1 p.m. • Kaufman Hall 230, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics ” Self-Governed Agency and Fitness to Be Held Responsible: A Consideration of Patient Non-Compliance” by Ruth Tallman Friday, Feb. 27 • 2:30 p.m. • Dale Hall Tower 607, Department of Philosophy

For accommodations on the basis of disability for the Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics lectures, contact Shawn Gralla at shawn.m.gralla-1@ou.edu For accomodation on the basis of disability for the Distinguished Alumni Lectures, contact Kristi Morgan at kcain@ou.edu

Tuesday, February 24, 2015 •

NEWS

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OUTSIDE IN THE SNOW

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A group of students plays basketball in the Walker-Adams mall Monday afternoon. Campus closed at 1:30 p.m. Monday and reopens at 10 a.m. today.

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A campus employee spreads salt on icy sidewalks on campus Monday.

WEATHER: Conditions not dangerous enough for full snow day on campus Continued from Page One

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Biology freshman Samantha swings while she waits for her friends Monday in the Walker-Adams mall.

About one-fourth inch of wintry mixture led to some slick spots on the roads in the morning, but overall road conditions in Norman were decent and not dangerous enough, with good judgment, to close campus.

Kevin Kloesel, university meteorologist and member of the OU Office of Emergency Preparedness team said there were fewer accidents on campus today than there have been on some rainy days.

The day went on, and numerous people on Twitter asked me why campus was

open today. I personally didn’t want campus to be open because I had a midterm scheduled for tonight, but if you bundled up for the windchill and drove slow, it really wasn’t that bad.

Later in the morning, another band of snow formed to our west, leading to a meeting with OU President David Boren.

At 10:30 a.m., the OU Executive Policy Group was told the afternoon snow had the potential to disrupt travel by reducing visibility and accumulating very quickly on roads.

Boren made the decision to close at 1:30 p.m. to allow people to get settled and safe

before the heavier snow hit, Kloesel said.

An hour after campus closed, a burst of heavy snow came down on campus grounds.

The rest of the afternoon displayed on-and-off snow and graupel showers. These were pretty to look at but didn’t really cause roads to be more dangerous.

That being said, we will stay below freezing Monday until Tuesday afternoon, so there may be slick sports on your way to class Tuesday morning.

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EARTH: Students can encourage OU to invest more in renewable energy Continued from Page One Lowe started planning the rally after seeing information about Global Divestment Day on Facebook, she said.

Hoping to bring awareness of divestment to OU, she planned the rally with advice from members of OUr Earth and the Norman chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, Lowe said.

“I do want to make some sort of measurable change on campus about how our university holds its investments,” Lowe said.

At the rally, about 130 students signed up to be emailed information about the divestment movement, Lowe said.

Lowe also hopes to create

Facebook and Twitter pages for students who are interested in divestment and stopping climate change, as well as a divestment advocacy student organization by next semester, Lowe said.

Education is crucial in starting a coalition of students interested in fossil-fuel divestment and the search for renewable energy, Lowe said.

“A lot of people here probably don’t think about these things or haven’t heard of divestment at all,” Lowe said.

However, students have a lot of power because of their influence on their universities — which have a large influence on oil companies, Lowe said. If students can encourage OU to invest in more renewable energy it would

send a strong message to oil companies, Lowe said.

By encouraging divestment in fossil fuels, students are not trying to punish the oil companies or take away their money, said OUr Earth President Will Goree.

Instead, they are trying to encourage these companies to change their processes.

Divestment in fossil fuels is a particularly important part of environmentalism because they lie at the heart of climate change issues, Goree said.

“We want the university to be invested in students’ futures in a real way, and that means not investing and supplying money to processes that are going to make the world much harder to live in for us,” Goree said.

In addition to encouraging “We want the OU to divest in fossil fuels, Lowe hopes to see the uniuniversity to be versity increase education in invested in students’ renewable energy.

“The switch to renewable futures in a real way, energy is happening right and that means now,” Lowe said.

Located in a key enernot investing and gy-producing state and known for its engineering supplying money to programs, OU could be on processes that are the cutting edge of renewable going to make the energy training, Lowe said.

OU is a unique school beworld much harder cause of its strong petroleum engineering program and its to live in for us.” stake in the petroleum inWILL GOREE, OUr EARTH dustry, Lowe said. However, PRESIDENT Lowe does not want the divestment movement to cre“I really want this to be a ate animosity between petro- movement for all of us,” Lowe leum engineering students said. and environmentalists, Lowe To help enact change, stusaid. dents should know that they

do not have to dedicate their lives to environmentalism, Goree said. Simple actions, such as writing to representatives and staying informed can help the movement, he said.

“That doesn’t mean you have to turn into a total planet warrior or a super tree hugger, but if you just give a tiny bit of thought and energy, you can be a part of something to create meaningful change,” Goree said.

For more information about divestment on campus, students can visit the OUr Earth Facebook page, Lowe said.

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Thomas transitions to Norman Ryan Spangler helps recent junior transfer TaShawn Thomas adjust to a new athletic culture and environment TRENT CRABTREE

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In the Lloyd Noble Center training room, Ryan Spangler and TaShawn Thomas talk over boxes of Raising Cane’s fried chicken as they relax on cushioned training tables.

It’s late afternoon and practice has just ended, so Spangler, a junior forward from Bridge Creek, Oklahoma, and Thomas, a senior forward from Killeen, Texas, are there to have the stresses of the season massaged out before they play yet another game in the nation’s best conference. Their conversation flows naturally, so one might assume they have known each other since high school, but in reality they met just a few months ago.

Thomas recently came into the picture as a highly touted, 6-foot-8-inch dynamo from the University of Houston.

The announcement of his decision to transfer to OU in May — and the subsequent NCAA eligibility case that ensued — caused quite the stir among the basketball fans of Sooner Nation.

“For TaShawn, it was a little more sudden with his transfer and playing right away, and he didn’t get that year as a redshirt,” OU coach Lon Kruger said about Thomas’ preseason circumstances. “He’s handled it well.”

The valuable redshirt year that Kruger referred to is one that Spangler received upon his transfer from Gonzaga University shortly before the 2012-13 season. Thomas, on the other hand, had already filled his graduation requirements, so the NCAA decided he could suit up in his first year.

This meant that Thomas had to face the adversity of being CHRIS MICHIE/THE DAILY a transfer athlete — adjusting to a new town and finding his place on a new team in an unfamiliar athletic culture — Junior forward Ryan Spangler charges down the court during OU’s game against Oral Roberts University Feb. 16, 2015. within a condensed time frame.

“It was pretty easy for me. to show me how things work around here.”

“Those guys look at it, not in terms “I feel like Ryan helped I was happy to be back close As elite athletes, Spangler and Thomas are inherently of competing against each other, but out a lot because he alto my family,” Spangler said. competitive. This competiveness is just another area where ready knew what it was like complementing each other and helping the “It was easy for me to transfer the two Sooners relate, but they don’t, however, let their to transfer into Norman,” home. [Thomas] transferred respective desires to win affect the team’s mission to win other to be successful.”

Thomas said. “From from further away, so it was championships.

Houston to Norman is a probably harder for him.”

As evidenced by Spangler’s increased efficiency on the ofLON KRUGER, big difference, like from a Spangler said he arrived in fensive end, the inclusion of Thomas’ versatility has added OU BASKETBALL HEAD COACH city to a college town. He the summer of 2012, which more than just a new face. It has made them both better was one of the people that helped me get used to how it was allowed him to spend an entire offseason as well as regu- players. before the season started.” lar season with his new team. According to Spangler, Kruger “Those guys look at it not in terms of competing against Spangler was a positive influence. He knew what the made the adjustment that much easier. each other but complementing each other and helping the journey was like. He was a young kid from a small town in Kruger’s coaching style, in fact, is arguably the biggest other to be successful,” Kruger said. the heartland who suddenly found himself in Spokane, reason why Spangler and Thomas’ bond as transfers is so Washington playing for Gonzaga coach Mark Few’s strong. With Kruger, new faces are treated as if they were alBulldogs. He was over a thousand miles away from home. ways in the locker room.

Trent Crabtree Where Spangler’s story differs, however, is that it involved trent.j.crabtree-1@ou.eduv “The hardest thing is figuring out how your coaches are a return to his roots. and what they do,” Spangler said. “In that month he was able

Little brings team to second place in Big 12 Guard Peyton Little transferred from Texas A&M

her unprecedented shooting points per game and boasts performance almost never a team-best 36 steals. happened.

OU has always been a part OU coach Sherri Coale of Little’s family, though. aggressively recruited the Peyton’s uncle, David Little, JOE BUETTNER Women’s Basketball Reporter 5-foot-11-inch guard from played for the men’s basket@Joe_Buettner Abilene, Texas. However, ball team during the Billy Little committed to Texas, Tubbs era and became a Bad decisions on the bas- A&M after taking a visit to Bedlam hero by draining ketball court are a rarity for College Station, Texas and a last-second shot to win a sophomore Peyton Little. played all 35 games as a tough road game at OSU in She torched the Kansas freshman for the Aggies.

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State Wildcats for a caFollowing the 2012-13 Little wasn’t alive yet to reer-high 30 points Saturday season, Little realized she see her uncle play, but she in Manhattan, Kansas, but made the wrong choice and grew up watching Coale’s contacted Sherri Coale in t e a m s a n d t h e v a r i o u s hopes of receiving a guards the long-tenured OU second chance. coach has produced over the “ S h e c a l l e d years. and said she “I remember watching wanted an op- Whitney Hand and Danielle p o r t u n i t y t o R o b i n s o n ,” L i t t l e s a i d . p l a y h e r e ,” “Whitney was absolutely C o a l e s a i d . amazing. I immediately fell “She said ba- in love with Oklahoma.” sically, ‘I made Little now has the opa bad decision,’ portunity to make a name and I really liked for herself at OU along with the kid when we recruited OU’s large group of freshher. I thought she was a per- men and sophomores this fect fit for our program. ” season.

While Little’s path to Fellow first-year Sooner, Norman was unusual, she is freshman Gabbi Ortiz, is currently the team’s leading enjoying the opportunity to scorer, and she’s helped OU pair up with Peyton Little in climb to second place in the the Sooners’ backcourt and Big 12 standings. says she loves competing The sophomore Children Chil Ch ildr dren en tto o King Kin Ki n guard Size with her. was forced to sit out last “We’re usually out on the season due to NCAA trans- court at the same time, and fer rules, but senior guard we really learned to play off Sharane Campbell-Olds one another,” Ortiz said “I alsays Little was lighting it up ways have fun going to battle in practice as a member of with her. I know she’s always the scout team. going to have my back, and “It’s incredible, especially I’m going to have hers.” when you can be that perLittle has certainly son that can make that pass formed a bond with her and just seeing her get hot team, which has experiand having fun,” Campbell- enced virtually no injuries Olds said. “It’s exciting see- and hasn’t seen too many ing someone have so much different lineups this season. success after they worked so Oklahoma will benefit hard.” in the future from mainCampbell-Olds said this taining such a young core season wouldn’t be the that’s already competing at same without No. 10 on the a high level. However, Coale court a sta-636-1486 doesn’t believe Little’s ceil2409 24 09 S Agnew Agn gnew ew who Ave Avehas become (405) (4 ple in Oklahoma’s starting ing has been reached in her Monday to Saturday Sunday 1:00-4:45 lineup9:00-5:45 and averages& 13.4 young career.

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The Sooners have a game this coming Wednesday versus Baylor University.

“I love her anticipatory skills on defense. I think that’s one of the things that separates her,” Coale said.

“I don’t think we’ve seen the best out of her yet. I think the total package, Peyton Little, has yet to be seen.”

Coale noted Little’s versatility, as well as her competitive nature. The sophomore guard knows she’s been able to put the ball in the basket, but she’s contributing on both ends of the court and providing whatever her team needs to win.

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“I’ve been shooting the ball pretty well,” Little said as she literally knocked on the hardwood floor at the Lloyd Noble Center. “Whatever my team needs from me that night is what I try to do, whether it’s to score, get rebounds or get steals.”

Little and the Sooners will face the 26-1 Baylor Bears Wednesday night in their penultimate home game of the regular season. Though Little says the team can’t predict the future, it’s clear OU women’s basketball

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“We’re a young team. I think our connection and our trust on the court is only going to grow even more than what it already is, and we’re going to keep building on that,” Little said. “We’re going to be scary when we get older.”

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Norman CCEW interns from the fall semester pose for a photo. Interns learn to become leaders in economic development and social impact through semester-long internships with CCEW.

Students can earn a stipend, learn more about their field and boost their résumés

“[Our interns] learn a great deal about whatever their project is about, and they’ll be able to apply that knowledge to making a difference in a market,” Boutelle said.

“We work with our interns not only on their projects but DAISY CREAGER News Reporter on their personal goals for their career.” @daisycreager There are six separate tracks students can apply for, The Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth is accept- each focusing on different types of projects. ing applications for its fall 2015 internships until March 27.

While two tracks are exclusive to business or engineerCCEW, an organization that focuses on ing students, the other four are open to “A lot of school is students of any major who can dedicate technology commercialization, software business acceleration, startup ventures and prodso independent, 20 hours each week to their team, Boutelle uct design, will accept applicants of any major. said.

Interns will work in groups of four on a proj- and this is a chance Students earn a stipend of $1,200 to ect that requires them to become an expert in to thrive in a team $2,000 depending on their selected track, a particular field in order to find a solution, according to the organization’s website. environment.” said CCEW strategic analyst Alyssa Boutelle.

Acker said that working in a group of “It’s largely on the teams to decide the diBENJAMIN ACKER, students of different majors brings in ENGINEERING SENIOR rection they take their projects, as long as they unique perspectives. can support it with the appropriate research “A lot of school is so independent, and and evidence they should be doing as part of their intern- this is a chance to thrive in a team environment,” Acker ships,” Boutelle said. said. “It brings everything to the table.”

Benjamin Acker, industrial and systems engineering seCCEW is hosting an open house on March 11 at their ofnior and current CCEW intern, said that he applied because fice for students interested in applying. Attendees should he knew it would give him a new perspective. dress in business casual and RSVP at https://ccew.wufoo.

“There’s a lot of engineering internships out there, but this com/forms/rsvp-for-ccew-open-house/. is a chance to look more at the business side of things,” Acker Applications and more information about the internsaid. ships can be found on their website.

Boutelle said that the internship allows students to gain expertise in a new area, network with professionals and gain Daisy Creager professional skills.

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This weekend the Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth will work with people from the OU community and the Oklahoma City metro area to create the next great startup company.

The CCEW will host Startup Weekend, an event that brings together people interested in forming their own startups, at OU from Feb. 27 to March 1, said CCEW director Reneé Selanders.

Susan Moring, a strategic analyst at CCEW, said that this will be OU’s fifth startup weekend. In the past, about two-thirds of attendees have been students, Moring said.

Some students come with specific business ideas, and others just want to be a part of the startup environment, Selanders said.

Michael Rose, a finance freshman, is not bringing a pitch to the event but wants to get out of his comfort zone with the team he joins.

“I want to learn different industries,” Rose said.

The first event on Friday will task attendees with submitting pitches. These pitches are 60 seconds long, Selanders said. Some attendees know what they want to pitch ahead of time, while others come up with them on the spot, she said.

“Really, you can’t deliver a bad pitch at Startup Weekend,” Selanders said.

On Friday night the attendees will break up into around 20 to 30 teams, Selanders said. These teams work for the rest of the weekend to create a business, Selanders said.

These teams will be assisted by professors and entrepreneurs who act as volunteer coaches and mentors, Selanders said.

On Sunday afternoon, the teams pitch their plans to three judges. One of the judges, Daniel Maloney, started his company Tailwind partly because of his experience at a startup event in New York, Selanders said.

Startup Weekend OU usually focuses on tech startups, Moring said. CCEW tries to recruit tech professionals to the event, Moring said.

This year Startup Weekend OU is partnering with the OU Innovation Hub to bring in a mobile fabrication lab, Selanders said.

This should help non-tech companies create a product to present to the judges, Selanders said.

Some of the businesses created at these startup weekends become real businesses, Moring said.

I’m Next, an online directory service formerly known as Service Chicken, started at Startup Weekend OU. People can register online at ou.startupweekend.org.

Registration for the event costs $50, though OU students can get a discount by using the promotional code “STUDENT,” Selanders said.

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