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OU students can enroll in the Student Health Plan through Feb. 7 to receive university-sponsored healthcare for the spring and spring/summer terms.

The plan offers students basic or enhanced coverage. It is available to undergraduate students enrolled in at least nine credit hours for the spring or fall terms, graduate students enrolled in at least five credit hours or graduate students with two thesis or dissertation hours. Students enrolled in at least three hours for the summer term can also sign up for the plan.

“The Student Health Plan is designed with OU students in mind,” said Marcella Fleming, coordinator of communication for OU Human Resources, in an email.

Academic Health Plans began managing the insurance, and BlueCross BlueShield began administering benefits and care in August, providing students with a larger coverage network than before, Fleming said.

Student Health Plan coverage begins the day after students sign up. If students enroll online, their premiums will be charged through their bursar accounts.

The Sam Noble Museum of Natural History and OU’s Sutton Lecture Series invites the public to “Humanizing Science: Lessons Learned from Artists” on Feb. 6.

Jamie Gillooly, University of Florida biologist, will speak at 7 p.m. and a reception will follow.

One of the goals of a college education is to be able to connect different ways of knowing about the world, said Michael Kaspari, presidential professor and director of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate program in OU’s zoology department.

Gillooly will talk about his work at the University of Florida, bringing together artists and scientists and exploring what they have in common, as well as how each can benefit from knowing how the other sees the world, according to the press release.

“How many of us were budding artists and scientists when we were in kindergarten, and then, somehow along the way, lost the thrill of drawing, or painting, studying bugs or looking at the stars?”

Kaspari asked. “Gillooly points out that it is never too late.”

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coping out two seats toward the front of the classroom, Van and Candace Hottle arrive early for their documentary film course. Soon, the room begins to swell with their fellow OU students as they spill into the lecture hall. Grinning, one student jostles his classmate about the last “test” he “failed.”

Of course, it’s all good-natured fun. Classes through the Oklahoma Lifelong Learning Institute, or OLLI, shed traditional grades and tests to, instead, foster an appetite for curiosity and share decades of insight through spirited discussions among students over age 50.

The Hottles’ class consistently booms with high attendance but not to fulfill mandatory general education requirements or trudge through weed-out courses. OLLI students come to class early, hungering to continue exploring ideas as a learning family.

This spring, OLLI’s culture of community learning expanded beyond OU’s Norman campus to offer additional non-credit courses ranging from documentary film to the Oklahoma tobacco industry at the Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City.

The program’s Oklahoma City location will offer four courses at the Samis Family Education Center, which can accommodate large-scale seminars and symposiums in addition to smaller, disThis group of cussion-focused courses.

S i n c e O L L I h i t i t s professors that we 500-member goal in 2010, have, I believe, are the program is looking to the finest that I’ve widen its membership base, continuing to engage older had anywhere.” students through passionPACER FASELER, ate instructors and experiOLLI STUDENT ence-rich discussions.

“The thesis is just because someone ages, it doesn’t mean they want to quit learning,” OLLI student Ken Johnson said.

Members can enroll in courses year-round and participate in a combination of six-week seminars and one-day courses with topics that change each semester to align with faculty and student interest.

“I like it because you have a knowledge base, but you don’t have the test, you don’t have the pressure of what grade you’re making,” OLLI student Candace Hottle said.

Walking into a classroom with other students around their age and experiencing community interaction is the biggest draw for students who boast amazing life stories, OLLI director Chris Elliott said.

One student owns a Norman bike shop; another collects antique cars. One member traveled the globe while married to a U.S. diplomat, but everyone comes together to playfully converse and explore ideas as a classroom family.

“There are no strangers in the OLLI program,” Elliott said, “They all get to know each other very well.”

Besides establishing deep ties with one another, students genuinely engage with instructors who volunteer out of desire, rather than obligation, said Pacer Faseler, who has 100 OLLI courses under his belt.

“This group of professors that we have, I believe, are the finest that I’ve had anywhere,” Faseler said.

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THURSDAY, JAN. 30 Adams Center’s Johnson Tower, third floor (on campus), 1:06 a.m. The defendant was contacted during an odor investigation and subsequently charged in municipal court with possession of marijuana.

Mosier-Everest Indoor Athletic Facility (on campus), 11:56 a.m. The victim reported that an unknown suspect(s) stole her wallet and contents. No suspect or witness information available.

Physical Sciences Center (on campus), 7:23 p.m. An OU student reported intimidating behavior by an unknown person on campus.

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he squad has been to back-to-back national championships and it brought home the title last year after a dominating season. Having already accomplished the ultimate goal, motivation could understandably be wavering.

But for the 2014 Oklahoma softball team, its will to return to a third straight national championship appearance couldn’t be stronger.

There are fresh faces on the team and some are missing from last year including National Player of the Year, Keilani Ricketts.

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FRIDAY, JAN. 31 Couch Center, eighth floor west (on campus), 12:31 a.m.

Officers responded to investigate a suspicious odor. Officers obtained a warrant to search the room.

Gaylord Hall (on campus), 7:03 a.m. A staff member reported a suspicious person, and that person was subsequently issued trespass warnings.

Walker Center (on campus), 1:16 p.m. An OU Student reported receiving harassing telecommunications to her personal cellphone.

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SATURDAY, FEB. 1 Oklahoma Memorial Union (on campus), 1:07 a.m. The defendants were contacted for suspicious behavior and subsequently arrested and charged in district court with public Intoxication.

Parking lot, Elm Avenue and Elmwood Street SW (on campus), 1:12 a.m. The defendant was stopped for an equipment defect on his vehicle, and was subsequently arrested for Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol. The charge was filed through Cleveland County District Court.

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Couch Center, ninth floor west (on campus), 2:31 a.m.

Officers responded to a suspicious odor investigation. Both defendants were issued municipal dockets for possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia.

SUNDAY, FEB. 2 Boyd Street and Asp Avenue (public property), 1:22 a.m. The Defendant was stopped for a traffic violation and subsequently arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol, unlawful transport of loaded firearm and failure to stop for a red traffic signal. All charges filed in District Court.

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Assistant coach Melyssa Lombardi made it clear the squad can’t replace the talent it lost but was confident in saying there are plenty of players ready to step into a new role.

Lombardi stood in for coach Patty Gasso during the team’s media day Monday evening and was joined by several members of the squad.

As the team fielded questions about its upcoming season, here are five things to know before the Sooners open their schedule at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Fullerton, Calif., versus Kentucky.

PITCHING BY COMMITTEE Perhaps no stat shows how dominant the pitching duo of Keilani Ricketts and Michelle Gascoigne was than the combined record the two amassed last season — 54-4.

Either Ricketts or Gascoigne started and finished nearly every game for the Sooners a year ago, but this season’s pitching rotation won’t look nearly as similar.

“It’s just going to be a tag-team all over the place,” junior Lauren Chamberlain said. “We have five different pitchers with five different looks, and I think it’s going to throw some people off.”

According to Lombardi, the team’s pitching coach, there are five players she foresees to be in the rotation.

But instead of one arm tossing a complete game, as Ricketts and Gascoigne often did, the Sooners will use a committee approach.

“Instead of having one go, you might see two or three in the game,” Lombardi said. “Almost like baseball when you have a starter, middle relief, and somebody to come in and close.”

REPLACING LOST LEADERSHIP Last year’s senior class of Keilani Ricketts, Michelle Gascoigne, Brianna Turang and Jessica Shults might have been the most talented class ever to play at Marita Hynes Field.

But even more difficult than replacing the skillset of each might be how this year’s squad works to replace the leadership of each.

“I was chosen as captain by my teammates so that’s one thing I definitely want to work on,” Chamberlain said. “But it’s not just me as a captain, I depend on a lot of my teammates.”

“We had a lot of time to learn from them,” Martinez said of last year’s seniors. “We’re just picking up where they left off.”

NO CEILING FOR CHAMBERLAIN In just two years with the program, the star first baseman has already crushed 60 career home runs and has a batting average north of .400. Now in her junior year, it’s hard to imagine Chamberlain can get better, her coach said otherwise.

“A lot better,” Lombardi said. “Lauren has the opportunity to get stronger and stronger each year. I think you’re going to see her continue to get better.”

Chamberlain, who this season will likely capture the all-time record of career home runs at Oklahoma, isn’t buying into records just yet.

“It’ll mean something when I do it, but it’s not something that’s in my mind right now,” Chamberlain said.

One thing the California native did say she is focusing on is improving her .458 batting average she tallied last year — an already incredible mark.

DEFENDING WHAT’S THEIRS The team may not get to the Women’s College World Series as easy as it did in 2013. The Sooners might not compile 57 wins in just 61 games like last year. But somehow someway, OU just wants to get back.

“It’s really motivating to have the chance to do it two times in a row,” junior Shelby Pendley said. “The talk that we’re not going to be as good as last year is super motivating. We are good and we have the ability to do it again. It may not look the same but we do have the ability.”

With seven returning starters, the team insisted its run at another national championship is the primary goal.

“Our goals and expectations are the same as last year, I just think it’s a different journey,” Lombardi said.

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largest study abroad programs, and has an intercommercial that aired during the Super Bowl are national studies major that has become one of our unwarranted and backward. fastest-growing fields of study, according to OU’s website.

As OU students, we experience the diversity that Unless you are a Seattle Seahawks fan, you probably didn’t get too much out of Sunday’s Super Bowl. exists all around the country on a daily basis, and we are better for it.

Not only did football fans have to suffer through a What deeply saddens us about the backlash to blowout, but viewers watching for the hyped comCoca-Cola’s Super Bowl commercial is that it clearmercial breaks didn’t come away winners, either. ly illustrates the truth that racism is not dead in the Other than a Budweiser commercial featuring an U.S. adorable puppy and horse, the commercials were When, in 2014, a company cannot even run a nothing to write home about.

However, one innocuous Coca-Cola commercial commercial showing a diverse group of people without being branded as communist, it’s pretty caused a firestorm on social media Sunday night. obvious Americans still have deep issues regarding The commercial, followed by the tag “America Is race.

Beautiful,� features people of various ethnicities, This isn’t the first time people have displayed ages and genders singing “America the Beautiful� their ugly side in response to a TV commercial in different languages. showing racial diversity. Let’s think back to the Unless you were really paying attention during sickening response to Cheerio’s 2013 commerthe commercial break, you probably missed it. It’s that benevolent. Some people took to social media, cial that featured an interracial family. The racial slurs and worse left in the comment section of the especially Twitter, after the commercial aired and YouTube version of the commercial are enough to started the counter-hashtag “Coke sucks.� Some make anyone realize that racism is most definitely tweets claimed the Coca-Cola commercial was still a problem. “communist� or “un-American,� and demanded However, we applaud Cheerio’s for not shying “America the Beautiful� only be sung in English.

Right. Because all Americans speak only English away from controversy when it ran another comand have the exact same cultural and ethnic iden- mercial during this year’s Super Bowl that showed the same interracial family. We hope that Cocatity. We forgot. But seriously, America is widely Cola will do the same and continue to run ads celeknown and accepted as the meltThe Our View brating America’s diversity. ing pot of the world. The U.S. is is the majority Refusing to acknowledge a problem does not not homogeneous, which is one of opinion of make it go away. Yes, the U.S. has obviously made the many things we love about our The Daily’s country. eight-member strides toward overcoming racism, but it is a beThere is no reason for people to editorial board lief that, unfortunately, is ingrained in the lives of many Americans. be offended by Coca-Cola’s comSo, we urge you not to avoid topics that involve mercial because it doesn’t show race and not to accept that our country should be anything controversial; it simply shows the reality represented by any one type of person. Movements of the diversity that exists in the U.S. like last year’s Gap ad campaign featuring a Sikh In fact, our one grievance with the commercial is that it does not feature any Native American lan- model and Barney’s upcoming ads showing transgender models are encouraging steps in the right guages, the only cultural group who can factually claim America as theirs. We’re sorry if reality bites, direction.

Although the football wasn’t great, this year’s but the fact is that nearly everyone in this country is Super Bowl didn’t fail to drum up controversy or was an immigrant at some point. and spark what we hope will be a constructive naThere is no national language and there is no national religion. It is ridiculous to scream into the tionwide conversation about America’s identity. void of social media that it is “un-American� to sing America is beautiful and it is beautiful because of “America the Beautiful� in any language other than its complexity and diversity. Let’s not belittle or tarnish that because we feel uncomfortable hearing or English. We believe it’s actually one of the most seeing people unlike ourselves.

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Oklahoma folk musician blends classic American genres KEATON BELL • LIFE & ARTS COLUMNIST arker Millsap burst onto the local music scene when he was barely out the door of Purcell high school in 2012. A collaboration with his friend Michael Rose, who played bass on the record, “Palisade” is a mix of religion-laced parables, relationship tales and more, all backed by simple bass and guitar.

Millsap is primarily a folk musician with a little blues, country and gospel thrown in the mix. “Everything about it is just really honest,” Millsap said. “What I like most about folk is that it just comes from a more personal space.”

Raised in a Pentacostal church, the Oklahoma native has been performing in front of audiences since he was 5 years old. “At my church, there was something called a ‘special,’ which is when somebody sings a karaoke version of a Christian song,” Millsap said. “There are many tapes of me busting out ‘I’ve been redeemed!’ I’ve been doing it forever.”

Millsap has come a long way since his days of church karaoke. Today marks the release of his debut solo record, “Parker Millsap.” And while Millsap has mostly stuck to the folk and blues music that inspires him, he insists the new album is not a simple rehash of “Palisade.”

“It’s a departure, in a lot of ways. This one has electric guitar, horn arrangements and, in general, just a lot bigger sound,” he said.

The difference of content between the two records is also apparent. “Palisades” had a poetic nature to it, almost as if we were reading snippets from Millsap’s diary or getting a look into his headspace.

“This new record is definitely a little more far-reaching. ‘Palisade’ was more introspective,” said Millsap. “This new one is more about stories and reaches a bit further.”

Stories are the driving force behind Millsap’s creative process as a songwriter. “All of my

songs start off with an idea. A lot of times I’ll just overhear people say something, like a one-liner. I’ll write it down, hold onto it and then I’ll latch on and try to expand on it,” said Millsap. “I have a phrase, and I try to pull a song out of it, like a piece of an idea and scratching at it until a whole song falls out.”

But even as his star continues to rise, Millsap would be the first to point out that working as a professional musician should never be just a hobby. “You have to be committed.

Every penny you make you kinda have to fight for,” Millsap says. “The fun part is the thing people only look at — like when you’re on stage performing and connecting with an audience — but there is a whole other level of difficulties.”

For now, Millsap is just excited to be returning to the road. When asked why he chose to pursue a career in music, Millsap could only chuckle at first.

“When I’m onstage singing, I know that performing is what I’m supposed to be doing.”

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