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Project promotes self-esteem Project Illuminate creators use religion to encourage women with insecurities KATE BERGUM

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After seeing widespread low self-esteem in the women they knew, a group of OU students created an online video movement this fall to provide support and encouragement.

Project Illuminate, created by students Chloe Prochaska, Kristin Kohlmeyer and Sheridan Hall marries religion and social media to give women positive messages about their identities and worth.

Project Illuminate has a website, a blog, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages that share scriptures and

resources for women struggling with self-esteem.

Prochaska, Kohlmeyer and Hall have solicited friends and acquaintances to share their struggles with self-esteem in two to three minute videos. So far, Project Illuminate has one video on social media, secondary education junior Prochaska said.

The students are working on editing a second video they filmed last week, psychology junior Hall said.

Prochaska said she, Hall and Kohlmeyer, broadcast and electronic media junior, didn’t expect their first video to reach many people, thinking it may reach some OU students and friends back home. However, after the women shared the video on their Facebook pages, it had over 1,500 views, Prochaska said.

Women from different universities around the country have reached out to Project Illuminate on Facebook,

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Prochaska said. Additionally, people have told her that they’ve watched the videos at church youth groups.

Hall said OU students have also approached her and told her they’ve seen the video. The reach of the video affirms how important it is, Hall said.

“This is something needed in our campus and needed in our world,” Hall said.

Prochaska said she and her friends were chatting over breakfast one day when they came up with Project Illuminate, realizing they all know women who struggle with insecurity and low self-worth.

These negative feelings are manifested in many ways, including perfectionism and eating disorders, Hall said.

Though this low self-esteem was prevalent, Prochaska, SEE CONFIDENCE PAGE 2

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Ukrainian riots hit home for freshman Sooner worries about her family in Europe because of upset in Kiev EMMA SULLIVAN Campus Reporter

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University College freshman Spencer Smith (right) plays video games in his dormroom with his buddies University College freshmen Yafet Ghirmai (middle) and Billy Viera (left).

For the love of Taco Bell The Freshmen Experience tells of plays, loss and love EMMA SULLIVAN Campus Reporter

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idway through their second semester of college, members of the Freshmen Experience spend some time talking about Valentine’s Day, unhealthy relationships and life in general.

The last couple months have been everything from enlightening to boring for freshmen Christina Hamilton, Spencer Smith, Jessica Graro, Melanie

Purdy and Audra Brulc.

Brulc participated in the university’s production of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues,” a collection of monologues Ensler wrote after interviewing women of all ages and races and from all walks of life.

“Being in the Vagina Monologues feels like you’re a part of something big and important and it doesn’t just feel that way. It really is important,” Brulc said.

Spending time with the cast made Brulc feel comfortable talking about things that in her private high school might have been considered more

taboo.

“For as progressive and developed of a society we would like to think we are, we have this tendency to not want to talk about issues of sexuality, especially female sexuality,” Brulc said.

Hamilton’s first few months back at school were not as joyful. She received a call while at a movie from her mother, who said her aunt had passed away at the age of 96.

“She was an integral part of my life.

She was like a second grandmother to me,” Hamilton said.

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While tensions are still high in Ukraine since protesters ousted former president Viktor Yanukovych, at least one Sooner from the country is left to contemplate the fate of Ukraine from afar.

Despite Russia’s foreign minister’s vow not to intervene militarily in Ukraine, Russia has been carrying out military exercises as a display of strength. The country is filled with both anti and pro-Russian protestors while the names of the nominees for the new government were read to the public.

“What’s happening right now is a fascinating combination of political and historical processes,” said Paul Goode, Center for the Study of Nationalism coordinator and political science professor.

OU currently has six international students enrolled from Ukraine, according to the OU Factbook. Though University College freshman Nataliya Krempovska is not included in that number because she isn’t an international student, she did live in Ukraine until she was in sixth grade.

Krempovska and her mother are the only members of her family living in the U.S. The rest live in Odessa, Ukraine, near the Black Sea, Krempovska said.

“It’s kind of scary that we’re here and not there,” Krempovska said.

The majority of the rioting is taking place in Kiev, Ukraine’s capital, but Krempovska said her aunt has heard people walking up and down the streets at night in Odessa, screaming at people to wake up and saying that everyone should be rioting, Krempovska said.

If we consider it to be part of Europe, Ukraine is one of the largest countries on the continent. It is vital in bridging economies and is also strategically important, Goode said.

The people are rioting because the European Union and Russia both want Ukraine to join them. The government wants to go with Russia, but the people want to go with the European Union, Krempovska said.

The problem is that Russia is Ukraine’s gas supplier, so if they went with the European Union, they would probably be cut off, Krempovska said.

Although things are very uncertain right now, one solution would be to quickly hold full, free and fair democratic elections, Goode said.

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OU honored for most Davis United World College Scholars UWC aids students with study abroad KYLE MARGERUM Editor-In-Chief @Kyle_Margerum

OU was presented with the Davis Cup Thursday for having the highest number of Davis United World College Scholars in the nation.

Close to 100 people, including 45 Davis United World College Scholars, gathered in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Beaird WEATHER

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OU has the highest number of scholars, coming from all 12 United World Colleges and representing more than 40 countries, scholarship coordinator Craig Hayes said.

President David Boren said that out of all the accomplishments OU has achieved over the years, being honored with the Davis Cup is one of the most exciting.

“We were pretty thrilled when Heisman Trophies come here. We were pretty thrilled when the Sugar

Bowl trophy came … But I have to tell you, having the Davis Cup here, and having all of you here who are the embodiment of what it means, means so much for us,” Boren said.

The Davis United World College Scholars Program allows students from all around the world to travel to other universities to learn.

Shelby Davis, founder of the program, envisioned that students enrolled in the program would make a difference in the world.

“UWC students are

change makers,” Davis said.

OU is the only public university in the U.S. to receive the distinction, according to a press release.

Boren agreed to become a partner in the Davis United World College Scholars program in October 2007, joining 90 other colleges and universities in the U.S. that participate in the program, Hayes said.

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freshmen: Students find joy, grief on V-day Continued from page 1

AT A GLANCE Project Illuminate

Almost immediately Hamilton booked a plane ticket to go home. She spent a week in Trinidad with her family helping them cope with the loss and prepare for the funeral, where she did a reading.

“My family needed me and I needed them. I felt an obligation to be there to help,” Hamilton said.

Unlike the first semester where being a member of the Pride of Oklahoma’s drum line took up almost all of his time, Smith’s second semester has been relatively uneventful — except now he’s 100 pounds lighter than he was a year ago.

“As of Feb. 6, I have lost 100 pounds in a year and that’s something I can really hang my hat on,” Smith said.

Graro spent her Valentine’s Day with her boyfriend and since both are low on spending cash, they decided to create their own restaurant experience similar to the Melting Pot, their favorite restaurant.

“It was a lot of fun because we could be goofy and silly and not worry about all of the people in a restaurant,” Graro said.

Purdy passed Valentine’s Day less romantically by continuing with her inconsistent relationship that began before college. Now she is unable to picture herself without her significant other — Taco Bell.

“That’s right. Taco Bell is always there when I need it. The only startling thing is how much money I’ve put into this relationship,” Purdy said.

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The women involved with Project Illuminate pose for a promotional photo for their blog. Project Illuminate is a social media entity created by three juniors, Chloe Prochaska, Kristin Kohlmeyer and Sheridan Hall that uses religion to promote a better self image.

Confidence: Message of hope and self-love Continued from page 1

with insecurity right now,” Prochaska said.

The videos and written Kohlmeyer and Hall real- messages are available ized it was a dark topic, one online to help girls and that people usually didn’t women struggling with feel comfortable talking self-esteem, Hall said.

That is why the students decided to name their movement Project Illuminate, Prochaska We just want women to said. Their watch these videos and to goal is to probe encouraged that they are vide light and hope for peonot the only one. They are not ple who need it. alone in this battle.”

“This is just Chloe Prochaska, a way that Secondary education junior will be easy for girls to reabout. alize, ‘Oh my gosh, there “I can’t really imagine is hope for me. And I’ve myself going up to some- been afraid to talk about one and being like ‘Hey, I’m it before, but through this actually really struggling video or through this blog

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I read alone in my room, I know that there is hope,’” Prochaska said.

Hall said she and her friends considered separating religion from the movement. It wasn’t true to their beliefs, however, because they found hope and healing through Christianity, Hall said.

“If we were to promote self- love and be more secular, it wouldn’t get to the root of who we are and where our identity is really found,” Hall said.

Additionally, Prochaska said she thinks many Christian girls and women feel they need to be perfect.

This movement is designed to teach them how to embrace their imperfections, Prochaska said.

Most importantly, Prochaska said, the goal of the videos is to show support for girls and women of all ages.

Instagram: @projectilluminate Twitter: @proj_illuminate Facebook: www.facebook.com/ theprojectilluminateX

“We just want women to watch these videos and to be encouraged that they are not the only one. They are not alone in this battle,” Prochaska said.

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University college freshmen Christina Hamilton and Jeremiah Gentle sit down to their first course of many at Couch Cafeteria Thursday evening. Hamilton voiced her concerns over her meal about this upcoming spring tornado season, as she is from Trinidad and has never experienced one before.

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We’ve got 29 Rhodes Scholars, and you could be No. 30 Students interested in studying for two years at Oxford University can attend an informational meeting Monday concerning the Rhodes Scholarship, which funds the educational experience.

The Rhodes Scholarship, which began in 1904, is a nationally competitive scholarship received by 32 students nationwide.

The meeting will guide students through the scholarship application process, which includes a campus interview and an additional regional interview for finalists, University Programs specialist Melanie Wright said.

The meeting will feature two previous recipients of the scholarship: Andrea DenHoed, who received the scholarship in 2008; and Mubeen Shakir, who is currently in the program. They will discuss their experience as students at Oxford, as well as their experience through the application

AT A GLANCE Eligibility Requirements for the Rhodes Scholarship • U.S. citizen • Graduate by August 2015 • Between the ages of 18 to 24

process, Wright said.

OU has had 29 Rhodes Scholars, while no other Oklahoma university had more than three, according to OU’s Public Affairs website.

The informational meeting will begin at 4:30 p.m. on March 3 in David L. Boren Hall, room 180 and 181.

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Nutritional Science junior Raine Fitzgerald, international studies sophomore Jessica Kirk and human relations sophomore Morgan George check out different vegan and gluten-free options at a Housing and Food Services booth in Cate Center Wendesday. The free booth, including tomato and vegan mozzarella salad, spicy grit cakes and more, is part of a Housing and Food Services initiative to educate students about controlling portions, living with common food allergies and maintaining general health by eating a vegan diet, student assistant JeLeisa Grayson said.

Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, a CNN Hero Award recipient, will be accompanied by Reggie Whitten, co-founder of Pros For Africa, a local non-profit also formed by former OU All-Americans: Adrian Peterson, Roy Williams, Tommie Harris, and Mark Clayton, at the Norman store for a book signing of Sewing Hope which shares its title with a documentary film narrated by Forest Whitaker.

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Education can help stop eating disorders Our View: Raising awareness about

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eating disorder. Instead, we should eating disorders is important for all support and encourage our fellow stustudents, and educating ourselves dents to seek help to overcome the poabout healthy eating habits is the first tentially life-threatening disorders. step.

Fortunately, OU offers several outlets for eating disorder sufferers, inSaturday marks the end of 2014’s cluding counseling and dietician National Eating Disorders Awareness services at Goddard Health Center, Week, but just because the week according to The Daily archives. Eating is coming to an end doesn’t mean disorders often develop out of stress, awareness should. Eating disorders with those afflicted using food as an are often lifelong batoutlet for control in a chaotic world.

The Our View tles, and we believe So, if you notice a friend skipping is the majority it is essential to remeals, taking strange trips to the bathopinion of main informed about room or otherwise interacting unThe Daily’s eating disorders and eight-member healthily with food don’t just brush it healthy eating habits editorial board off. Ask your friends about their beyear-round. havior, but be kind and open-minded.

As college students, Overcoming the mental and physical many of us feel pressure from various holds of eating disorders often requires outlets to make great grades, parcompassion and understanding, not a ticipate in extracurricular activities, lecture about proper eating habits. have full social lives, hold down jobs It’s also important for us to educate and conform to society’s standards of ourselves on nutrition to ensure our beauty. Sadly, young adults frequent- own healthy eating behaviors. It’s hard ly suffer from eating disorders. Over to help someone else if we can’t help 50 percent of adolescent females try ourselves. We all know to eat our fruits to control their weight through skipand veggies, but also be aware of recping meals, fasting, smoking, vomiting ommended caloric intake and body and taking laxatives, and 33 percent mass indexes according to your own of adolescent males use unhealthy weight and height. weight control methods, according to People should not feel the need National Eating Disorders Association to starve themselves or develop unstatistics. healthy relationships with food in College is often a time of great order to meet someone else’s ideal of change and vulnerability for students. beauty. No two people look the same Eating disorders are frequently labeled and, to us, that’s a beautiful thing. as “silent” diseases, with victims suffering for years unnoticed. However, Comment on this at OUDaily.com no one should feel ashamed about an

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Controversial can be good, creates healthy discussion This is letter to the editor is in response to the Feb. 26 editorial “Speaker for president’s dinner questionable.”

While I join you in praising students who used their rights of free speech to peacefully protest and make known their views about the drone policy of the CIA, I must disagree with your conclusion that we should avoid bringing controversial speakers to campus.

A university should be a free marketplace of ideas in which we have speakers who may be controversial but whose views will stimulate our independent thinking. We have been careful over the past few years to bring both Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives and those of different religious and social views. Some of those speakers I might agree with personally, and some, I certainly do not.

The dinners, which began in 1979, are for the OU Associates. They are called Associates Dinners and are

given as part of the agreement between the university and members of the President’s Associates program. Associates are donors to the university, who give gifts to support scholarships and other university causes of at least $1,000 per year and are invited to dinners with great speakers. After I became president, I revised the program to make it possible for students and other faculty and staff members to also be included in the audience for these dinners, free of charge.

In a free society, it is extremely important for us to debate important issues facing us. I cannot think of another country in the world where the director of the intelligence service would have such an open session where no questions from the audience were off limits. Indeed, John Brennan took two questions about the drone program, one of which came from me. Another question came from a student who highlighted the fact that while the use of drones may save the lives of American combat soldiers, the use of drones can also have the effect of creating ill will in other countries, and

the possibility that innocent human lives are sometimes, although rarely, tragically lost in the process.

Brennan was also asked about the NSA (National Security Administration) and the Snowden case, which he discussed quite openly. Many other pointed questions were asked by the audience. I truly believe that this is a healthy process.

I also believe that our students have the right to peacefully protest against any speaker on campus. I made sure that those rights would be carefully protected during Mr. Brennan’s visit.

All in all, whether you agree with Brennan or strongly disagree, I think that it was a healthy discussion for us to openly have at a university. I hope The Daily will reconsider its position. We should not be in favor of free speech for only those with whom we agree or only for those whose actions we support. Free speech must be free speech for all.

President David Boren

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Don’t take democracy for granted, consider Ukraine

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assistant opinion editor such as the southern fter months of protesting and dismay, city Crimea, that oppose the parliament of Ukraine’s economic ties and Ukraine, now dominated by potential entrance into the the opposition party, ousted European Union and would President Viktor Yanukovych rather maintain a close from office. Shortly thereconnection with “Mother after, interim presidential Russia.” authority was given to parliaThe situation in Ukraine Rachael Montgomery mentary speaker Oleksandr may seem remote and inrachaeljmo94@gmail.com Turchinov, who is a member significant to us, but that is of the opposition party. far from true. As we’ve seen While the ousting of Yanukovych lead to in Egypt and Libya, most protests that culthe release of political prisoners including minate in the overthrow of a powerful govYulia Tymoshenko, former Prime Minister ernmental figure don’t end well and usually and leader of Ukraine’s 2004 Orange leave a mark on the global community.

Revolution, this bold act could potentially According to U.S. national security advisdivide the country instead of uniting it with er Susan E. Rice, “this is about whether the the European Union. people of Ukraine have the opportunity to Protests of up to half a million people fulfill their aspirations and be democratic began taking place in Kiev in Nov. 2013 when and be part of Europe, which they choose to Yanukovych renounced an “association be.” agreement” with the European Union and U.S. citizens, used to democratic ideals opted for a “customs union” with Russia in- and a system of free elections, find it easy to stead. The death toll among protestors has take democracy for granted. To Americans, already reached 82. the word protest often seems extreme and, However, there are still parts of Ukraine, for the most part, remote. That’s because it

is not typical that we hear about mass protests in the U.S., much less those resulting in casualties.

However, for countries seeking democracy and simple day-to-day freedoms, protesting is a way of life. Many see it as a duty, comparable to voting.

We have seen this scenario time and time again. A peaceful resolution is rare in a country torn between the opposition and the party in power, and although the situation in Ukraine is in its infancy, dramatic changes can occur at the drop of a hat.

It is our duty as citizens of a democratic country to be aware of countries such as Ukraine, Egypt and Libya that seek to promote democracy and basic rights. Although we should, by no means, poke our noses into situations we should have no involvement in, we should seek to extend our support in any way possible to those who fight for something important that we so often take for granted.

Rachael Montgomery is a public relations sophomore

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This years Mardi Gras parade will take place Saturday March 1. It is the 20th annual nighttime Mardi Gras parade in Norman.

Fat Tuesday parade begins Saturday From 30 participants to 300, the parade has grown significantly

“I just hope there will be a yellow submarine,� Flanigan said.

Rook said OU students are open to participate in any way possible, be it When: Saturday as a group or even just two people.

OU is such a big part of the Norman Where: Downtown Norman community, and having the students in an event as lively as Mardi Gras Price: Free would be a great combination, Rook Info: The parade will run along said.

Main St. from Jones to Crawford “I will take float entries until 15 at the Judges Station. minutes before it starts. If I can line you up, I’ll get you in there,� Kercher said. “Be as creative as you want and Kercher said the advantage of being come party with us.� in the parade is that it’s a great way for students to showcase their skills and Sama Khawaja Sama.Khawaja-1@ou.edu highlight social issues. “If you want to watch the parade, that’s always fun,� Kercher said. “But I would encourage you to participate in it.�

Mardi Gras Keywords Compared to the first year when they only had 30 participants, they Krewe: a private organization are now up to 300 this year with 4,000 staging festivities (as parades) during Mardi Gras in New spectators, and the crowd is still growOrleans. ing, Rook said. “The reason ours has been so sucMardi Gras: the Tuesday before cessful is because it is family friendly,� the beginning of Lent that is Flanigan said. often celebrated with parades Unlike the New Orleans parade, and parties.

Norman’s Mardi Gras is an hour and a half long, keeping it short and enterBacchanalia: a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with taining for the entire family, Flanigan dancing, song, and revelry. said.

At the end of the night, awards are Zydeco: popular music of handed out to those with the craziest southern Louisiana that float, the wackiest family and even a combines tunes of French origin “Fabulous Flanigan Award� for the with elements of Caribbean overall winner. music and the blues.

The theme for this year is Beatlemania, Rook said.

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The year was 1994, and business was running slow for Flanigan’s Costumes shop in Norman. Owner Jeanne Flanigan was fresh out of ideas. That was when her committee said, “What about Mardi Gras?�

On Saturday, Norman’s only nighttime Mardi Gras parade will be celebrating its 20th successful year. Even though the event is celebrated on such a grand scale, OU students don’t seem to know much about it. “It has amazed me how people have lived here for 20 years and not known about the Mardi Gras parade,� said Aimee Rook, parade director.

Mandy Boccio, University College freshman, said she didn’t know there was such an event.

Amy Kercher, head float wrangler, said she’s been trying to raise awareness on campus but that it’s not easy reaching out to such a large and diverse student body.

The parade is hard to miss, with its colorful multitude of performances ranging from unicyclists to stilt-walkers to extravagant floats. Jeanne Flanigan, founder of the parade and Mardi Gras queen this year, said that was one of the goals of the parade. “I thought, ‘let’s give the artists, the musicians and circus artists a way to show what they can do,’� Flanigan said.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -Recreation and entertainment are the order of the day. Romance, travel, or interesting pastimes will generate excitement. Put mundane activities on hold for the time being.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- There are many places where your talents can be put to good use. Make others aware of your capabilities by confidently presenting what you have to offer.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Even if you are happy with life, new and rewarding experiences are worth checking out. Take advantage of opportunities that promise to broaden your horizons and indulge your curiosity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Take steps to cultivate beneficial partnerships, deal with

unsatisfying financial matters and initiate new strategies for moving forward. You need a concrete agenda and decisive action to get what you want.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Use a confident and direct approach in all your affairs today. Be assertive when asking for what you want.

Sitting back quietly and hoping for results will accomplish nothing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- It’s a good day to reassess your love life and family relationships. If you are not satisfied, now is the time to make a positive change. Consider the needs of others as well as your own.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- You’ll become irritated and upset over minor issues. Rather than allowing yourself to become distraught over small details, bite your tongue and save your energies for more important matters.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Put your worries on the back burner. Disagreements, work and problems with meddlers will lead to bitterness. Get outside to remind yourself of the beauty of nature.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- You have good ideas and should plan to move forward. The encouragement you receive will help you reach your destination.

Strive for success and share your victory with loved ones.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- You may have been neglecting your self-improvement goals.

Engage in some pleasurable physical activity, and you will be rewarded with better health, renewed energy and a sense of fulfillment.

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orman-based band Rainbows Are Free has been melting faces since 2007 with their unique blend of proto hard rock and stoner doom metal. Guestroom Records released their

We didn’t want a name that would anticipate our sound. Being a band that plays heavy music, we thought it an appropriate contrast to call the band Rainbows Are Free.

Usually Richie (Tarver, guitarist), sometimes Chad (Hogue, bassist), will bring in a riff or a skeleton of a song, and the band fleshes it out. Brandon (Kistler, vocalist) will then bring in a vocal melody and lyrics.

A great many things in this universe inspire RAF, but upon closer inspection of our sound/lyrics I guess it would seem that we are preoccupied with lambasting organized religion, fortean phenomena, the occult, evolutionary origins of life, altered states of consciousness, sci-fi, denizens of hell, sexual magnetism and Lemmy.

I’m thinking we are getting into official state song territory now.

sophomore album, “Waves Ahead of the Ocean,” earlier this month. Guitarist Richie Tarver took the time to answer a few questions for The Daily ahead of Rainbows Are Free’s next show 8 p.m. Saturday at Opolis.

solidifying our place in the OK music scene by playing the music we love rather than being concerned with playing music just as an extension of a social affectation.

The most immediate difference is that on “Waves” we had written most of the material with our drummer, Bobby (Onspaugh). Whereas “Believers” was tracked with a s t u d i o d r u m m e r, Ma t t Duckworth (Stardeath and White Dwarfs, A.M.P., Brainwasher, etc.) who is a friend that bailed us out of a real jam. Beyond that, the new album is a sophomore effort, so ideally it will be better than the previous record.

Tony Roberts has done our last two albums, and if we are lucky he will do all

Past influences: Any early heavy rock bands circa 19691978 that were verging on proto-metal/classic metal like Uriah Heep, Gun, High Tide, Iron Claw, Pentagram, etc.

Some of the more obvious influences I guess would be Haw kw i n d , Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and The Stooges.

“Waves Ahead of the Ocean,” as well as all of our other recordings, were done by Trent Bell of Bell Labs here in Norman.

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The women’s basketball team has a must-win game on Saturday at TCU. Check out our online preview to get prepared for the key contest.

Men’s Basketball

Sooners set for Red River sweep Careers of two senior Sooners have come full circle Ryan Gerbosi

Men’s Basketball Beat Reporter @RyanGerbosi

At the end of Cameron Clark and Tyler Neal’s freshman year, the Sooners had lost to Texas three times, finished 10th in the Big 12 and failed to make the NCAA tournament.

They like their current situation a little more.

Oklahoma (20-8, 9-6) hosts the next edition of the Red River Rivalry, hitting the hardwood against Texas (217, 10-5) tomorrow at Lloyd Noble Center.

Clark and Neal will be celebrating their senior day, though OU still plays West Virginia at home Wednesday.

“It’s kind of hitting me this week,” Neal said of his career winding down. “It’s been a fun last year. What’s more fun is that each game we can build on our progress and keep improving.”

Clark was nostalgic about his time at OU, giving advice to the underclassmen.

“It just goes by so fast,” Clark said. “I’ve been telling these young guys, man, just cherish every moment cause it goes by so fast.”

Clark’s career may have gone by fast, but OU’s Big 12 opener against Texas this season feels like ages ago.

Since Oklahoma’s 88-85 win on Jan. 4 in Austin, both teams have stayed near the top of the standings, upsetting teams projected to finish

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Senior forward Cameron Clark slices through Baylor defenders on a Feb. 8 game at the Lloyd Noble Center. The Sooners blew past the Bears 88-72. Clark now has the chance to lead the Sooners against the Longhorns as Oklahoma goes for the Red River Rivalry series sweep.

Texas was a good team at the time, but they’ve got even better. But we’ve gotten a lot better too.”

ahead of them in the Big 12.

The Longhorns’ 10-5 conference record puts them in second, behind only Kansas, while OU is just one game behind.

“It seems like a long time ago that we played them,” Neal said. “Now that we look at it, that was a great win, as great as they’ve been playing.

Obviously we thought that at the time, and it’s always good

Buddy hield, sophomore guard

to beat Texas, but they’re playing really well.”

Sophomore Buddy Hield said the win was great at the time, but both teams have improved and evolved since then.

“Texas was a good team at the time, but they’ve gotten even better,” Hield said. “But we’ve gotten a lot better too.”

Oklahoma will have to fight with Texas down low to

sweep the Red River Rivalry.

The Longhorns are the fifth best rebounding team in the country, averaging 41.8 boards per game thanks to 6-foot-9 center Cameron Ridley and 6-foot-8 forward Jonathan Holmes.

After playing a similar style opponent in Kansas on Monday, the Sooners seem ready to deal with the Texas frontcourt.

“Very similar size, maybe even bigger than Kansas,” said OU coach Lon Kruger about Texas. “I thought our big guys, at Lawrence, Kan., fought their tails off, but we’ve got to get an even greater effort against Texas and try to do a better job on the boards.”

The Sooners lost that game against KU 83-75 but were within a few points until the last two minutes. Despite the result, OU looked strong throughout.

“It is encouraging, but we’re still a little disappointed that we got that loss,” Hield said. “But I feel like if we just keep on executing, we should

Women’s Gymnastics

No. 2 OU returns home after lengthy road trip Sooners face Illinois in fight to regain top ranking Jennifer Rogers

Gymnastics Beat Reporter @jenrogers315

Second-ranked Oklahoma returns home after a dominant two-week stretch on the road to take on No. 15 Illinois today at Lloyd Noble Center.

The Sooners dropped from their top spot, despite their win last weekend at the Perfect 10 Challenge in Oklahoma City.

Last weekend against No. 5 Alabama, No. 7 Michigan and West Virginia, Oklahoma came out on top, scoring a 197.200 overall, leaving Alabama in second with a 197.100. The Sooners were competitive across all four events with one winner, sophomore Haley Scaman, who scored a 9.925 on floor.

OU battled all the way through the last event of the evening. Junior Rebecca Clark said the team’s performance was beneficial beyond just the win.

“Last week, we demonstrated the fight that we need to as a team,” Clark said. “The fact that we fought and did not let up was a good quality to know we have going forward.”

Scaman was honored for

the third consecutive time with the Big 12 Gymnast of the Week. She was a driving force in the Sooners’ victory at the Perfect 10 Challenge where she posted a 9.9 or higher on both vault and floor.

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I want to see them get a little swagger.

They are the best team that does not know it.”

K.J. Kindler, coach

Her performance on floor was what sealed the victory for Oklahoma as it edged out Alabama for the win. She recorded a perfect 10 and multiple clutch scores and as coach K.J. Kindler said, it is part of a days work for Scaman.

“Haley has a lot of charisma. She is such a humble young lady. She does her job and thinks not much of it,” Kindler said.

This week’s Big 12 honors also included freshman Kara Lovan, who was awarded Newcomer of the Week for the first time this season. She posted two individual season-best scores in vault and floor.

“It means a lot to me,” Lovan said. “It demonstrates that I am helping our team out and am able contribute to everything we are accomplishing this season.”

The Sooners have not had a home meet since their close loss to LSU on Feb. 9. After two important victories on the road in both the Metroplex Challenge and Perfect 10 Challenge, Oklahoma is ready to be back in Norman.

“Being away, you are aware you’re in someone else’s house,” Clark said. “Being home, you have the crowd in your favor, and you know that they are there to watch you.”

As Oklahoma moves forward to a 6:45 matchup tonight at Lloyd Noble Center, Kindler wants to see more confidence from her team.

“I want to see them get a little swagger,” Kindler said.

“They are the best team that does not know it.”

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be really good going into the game.”

Clark said they learned a lot from playing long teams like Kansas and Texas, preparing them for the rivalry rematch.

“We’ve got to box out the bigs,” Clark said. “Just help big on the post. They’ve got a lot of athletic guys out there, big and strong, so we’ve got to come together as a collective group and box out on rebounds and help each other out.”

With the standings as close as they are, this game will affect seeding for the conference tournament and, possibly, the NCAA’s as well.

“On Saturday is March and we get Texas for a rivalry game,” Hield said. “We’ve just got to keep on grinding and grinding and make plays and win as many ball games as we can so we get a better seed in the NCAA tournament.”

Fighting for seeding may again become the norm for the men’s basketball team.

But for the two seniors who experienced the fall and rebirth of the program, it’s brand new.

“It’s something I haven’t really experienced until this year,” Neal said. “Obviously we made the tournament last year but you could say we kind of squeaked in there.”

“Now it’s kind of fun to play and be able to improve your seeding.”

Ryan Gerbosi rgerbosi@ou.edu