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Big Event applications out today Volunteers to give back to surrounding community in annual service day RACHEL CERVENKA The Oklahoma Daily

Applications for The Big Event 2011 are available today to students, faculty and staff.

Since its inception in 1999, The Big Event has been a student-led effort to promote volunteering, event chairman Taylor Krebs said.

“Our goal is to help volunteers make connections to the organizations, understand their meaning and to make it more than a one-day service project,” Krebs said.

More than 4,000 OU students, faculty and staff unite one day each spring in an effort to say thank you to the community for its support of the university, according to the event website.

In 2009, The Big Event had a record 4,992 The Big Event is an amazing resource for volunteers sign up to work at 162 job sites, ac- those organizations that lack the tools and cording to event’s website. manpower to get projects done, Krebs said.

Volunteers work with city park departments, Health For Friends, a local health center that neighborhood organizations, school districts provides health services to low-income citiand any other group that plays zens, has participated in The Big a vital role in the community, Event since its inception.

Krebs said.

The organization depends Big Event administrators proon The Big Event each year for vide volunteers the majority of help with its largest projects, » Job-site applications the tools necessary for work inHealth For Friends CEO Brian due Feb.11 cluding landscaping, making care Karnes said. packets, cleaning parks and other “We have a lot of needs that » Volunteer applications special projects, Krebs said. need to be met, and to have The due March 4 In preparation for The Big Big Event come in for free is pheEvent, 102 nonprofit and comnomenal,” Karnes said. munity-based organizations have signed up to Volunteer applications are due March 4. be job sites for this year’s event.

Students can apply as individuals or as groups, The deadline to apply as a job site is Friday. according to the event website.

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CAMPUS LEFT IN SNOW DAZE

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Above: Norman resident Kristi Hanusch piles on University College freshman Gwyn Stackable and sociology junior Taylor Crowder as they walk down Lindsey Street on Wednesday. OU canceled classes for four days after a winter storm hit early Tuesday morning.

Top right: A fountain in front of the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium’s north entrance is frozen over Tuesday.

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University College freshman Branden Katona sleds down stairs on a pizza pan Thursday afternoon at Nielsen Hall.

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fter four consecutive days of campus closures last week, the spring semester is once more under way.

Despite the number of classes canceled, professors must use remaining lectures to cover material and cannot schedule additional classes, OU Vice President and Provost Nancy Mergler said.

“The faculty is asked to make up that lost time in the remainder of the class period,” Mergler said. “They should cover the same material without scheduling additional classes.”

The way professors decide to tweak their syllabuses and class outlines depends on the class, and the university leaves it to the discretion of the professor, she said.

I’ve been running on While students spent their unanticipated free time catching up on schoolwork, sleeping about two to three in, playing video games and watching movies, hours of sleep recently.

Facilities Management Director Brian Ellis It’s been a very said his department undertook an unprecstressful few days.” edented campus cleanup in the wake of the winter storm.

—BRIAN ELLIS, FACILITIES “I’ve been running on about two to three MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR hours of sleep recently,” Ellis said Thursday.

“It’s been a very stressful few days.”

Facilities Management did its best Tuesday and Wednesday to clear campus, but the roads in and around Norman weren’t safe for travel, Ellis said.

University College freshman Dan Phillips said he spent his time off practicing piano in the Cate Center social lounge.

A St. Louis native, Phillips said he had never experienced anything like a sixday break from school in the middle of a semester.

“This isn’t the most snow I’ve seen, but it’s definitely the longest break I’ve ever gotten,” Phillips said.

University College freshman Kenyon Calcote said he missed more than school. Calcote said he is originally from the Fort Worth, Texas, area and was planning on traveling home for the Super Bowl.

The National Weather Service website predicts another winter storm will hit Norman this week, with more snow likely Tuesday and Wednesday.

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Disputes surround hookah health Hookah contains more nicotine than cigarettes, professor says CARMEN FORMAN The Oklahoma Daily

Cigarettes may not be the only legal smokable substance posing a health hazard for users.

Hookah bars across Oklahoma offer smokers alternatives to cigarettes and cigars. However, Laura Beebe, epidemiology professor and co-chair of the OU Cancer Institute Outreach Advisory Committee, feels hookah is just as threatening as cigarettes.

“The scientific studies that have been done on the hookah have demonstrated that the dose of nicotine is just as high, if not higher, because of the longevity of the smoking session, as compared to cigarettes,” Beebe said.

In Oklahoma it is legal to own and operate a hookah bar where patrons order a hookah and share it amongst themselves. Moe Davani, who owns Moe’s Hookah Bar, says the water in the pipes protects users.

“For the filtration they use a pure water, and [the smoke] goes through the water and it will filter it,” Davani said.

However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information contradicting Davini’s statement.

According to the CDC, the charcoal used to heat the substance increases the health risks by producing high levels of carbon monoxide, metals and cancer-causing chemicals.

The smoke then passes through water, but that doesn’t stop the smoke from delivering these chemicals into the body. Irritation from exposure to tobacco juices increases the risk of developing oral cancers. The irritation by tobacco juice products is likely to be greater among hookah smokers than among pipe or cigar smokers because hookah smoking is typically practiced more often and for longer periods of time.

Beebe feels smoking a hookah also presents other problems.

Smokers tend to smoke a hookah for much longer periods of time than they would smoke a cigarette, Beebe said. On average a person may smoke a cigarette for five to seven minutes, while a person smoking a hookah pipe smokes for upward of 40 minutes, Beebe said.

Another overlooked problem with smoking a hookah pipe is second-hand smoke, which is just as much of a problem with smoking hookah as it is with smoking cigarettes, Beebe said.

Sharing the hookah pipe can be dangerous, Beebe said. The warm, moist environment of the mouthpiece can easily share bacteria or germs from one smoker to another.

The health hazards that come with smoking a hookah pipe don’t stop some students, zoology junior Lauren Beltran said.

“Smoke isn’t going to be good for you no matter what, but I think everything in a certain amount of moderation is OK.”

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THUMBS DOWN ›› Another winter storm is headed to Norman this week

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OUR VIEW

Weather shouldn’t put classes on ice Welcome back to the spring semester. school. Because of the weather, this semester now only We enjoyed the time off — snow days often make us feel has 15 weeks of classes. like we’re back in elementary school. But by day four of no Students pay set tuition and fees for classes, and when classes, we were actually aching to get you divide it out over 16 weeks, each day back to school and learn something. missed can cost resident students more And after a six-day weekend, many than $25.

But in the event of professors are going to be struggling to Administrators and professors, howevweeklong weather, keep students on schedule. er, are literally paid to stay at home. Could professors should be People can go back and forth on we make it fair and have the administrarequired to e-mail whether the university should have cantion give students a refund for their lost their students at celed school Friday and whether lawweek? makers should invest more in the state’s If this isn’t a possibility, it needs to be least once a day, road-clearing abilities. But the fact is a requirement that faculty and staff start suggesting work for we have now missed an entire week of thinking about creating backup plans students so everyone school. for conducting class online as much as can be prepared when possible.

As we mentioned in our Jan. 21 editoclasses resume.” rial — after OU’s campuses were closed Students pay a significant amount in because of a much less severe snowtechnology and connectivity fees, and storm — canceling classes means students and parents there’s no reason that professors couldn’t use the Web to aren’t getting what they’ve paid for. We have paid tuition keep students up to date on assignments and lectures. and fees that were meant to cover the cost of 16 weeks of Some professors do a decent job of using the resources

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available to them and updating students on class assignments through e-mail and Desire 2 Learn, but many simply wait for the next day of class to begin again. Assignments and lectures are either eliminated or crammed into an inadequate amount of class time.

We’re fine with professors not engaging students during one random snow day. But in the event of weeklong weather, professors should be required to e-mail their students at least once a day, suggesting work for students so everyone can be prepared when classes resume.

Professors can use technology in unique ways as well, such as recording lectures and posting them as MP3 files on D2L. Something needs to be done. If there’s not enough money at the city level to get enough snow plows out to clear the roads, then the university needs to make an effort to keep classes going as much as possible, even if students are stuck at home.

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English literature senior Alex Schaefer, left, and anthropology senior Miranda Thomas, right, sit and play World of Warcraft at Thomas’ house. The students, who began dating in 2008, are both regular World of Warcraft players. The game debuted in 2004 and its most recent expansion, “World of Warcraft: Cataclysm,” came out in December.

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ith more than 12 million subscribers worldwide, “World of Warcraft” has a stranglehold on the online-gaming market. Since Blizzard released the original title in 2004, the game has continued to evolve.

As time went by, new expansions came out — most recently, “World of Warcraft: Cataclysm” in December.

The game follows most of the conventions of the multiplayer online-gaming genre — choose a faction, create a character, complete quests and dungeons, level up, get better gear and repeat the process while making new friends and allies to assist you in your adventures.

Unfortunately, the game has a reputation in our culture for attracting the lazy nerd who doesn’t have much of a life outside of their individual game. South Park’s episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft” directly satirizes the game and its players. Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny become fat and lazy while they try to defeat a notorious, high-level character who stalks them.

These negative stereotypes are common, but the game’s large subscriber base renders these insults moot. Examples of this are Miranda Thomas and Alex Schaefer — two World of Warcraft players in a relationship with each other and active OU students.

An anthropology senior and English literature senior, respectively, Thomas and Schaefer met in 2008 on the South Oval while waiting on an apartment shuttle.

The couple met when their shuttle ran late, Schaefer said.

“He made a joke, and I started laughing. We just started

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talking,” Thomas chimed in. and I got pretty ticked because it was like I never saw him Schaefer has played World of Warcraft since the original and even if I did, he was raiding.” came out in 2004. He and others pushed for Thomas to start Schaefer and Thomas said they now don’t have any probplaying. lems trying to spend time together, with friends or getting “Now she’s horribly addicted and even if we break up, anything else done. Their friends are in similar places. she’s going to be horribly addicted for years and years to “The best thing about the game is the social aspect of come,” Schaefer said jokingly. “I’ve done my work; I have it,” Schaefer said. “I keep coming back because there are ruined a life.” times when I’ve had more meaningful conversations with As popular as the game has become, it’s not too hard to my guild mates than I have with some people in real life. find people who play.

Instead of parties and the like, my guild mates and I get on“Most of the people I know who play WoW, I knew they line, eat and go on raids.” played before I started playing, or I found out after I met Even those with a heavier workload can still find time to them that they played.” Thomas said. enjoy playing the game. William Parker, a business adminThe main concern people associate with istration graduate student, also working on the game is the possibility of addiction. This a master’s in management and information was a problem for Schaefer, who once played systems, is a friend of Schaefer and plays the I’m not gonna lie, for 36 hours straight. game casually.

I still skip class “When I first started college, I was addict“I started playing WoW almost two years occasionally to play ago,” Parker said. “I had always been intered to this game. I didn’t go to class, and I almost flunked out,” he said. “I’m not going to ested in computer gaming ... I had wanted the game if I don’t lie, I still skip class occasionally to play the to play WoW for some time, but I was confeel like going.” game if I don’t feel like going. If I’m not in cerned about time management and some class, at work or hanging out with [Miranda of the social stigmas that come along with — ALEX SCHAEFER, Thomas], I’m probably playing WoW.” playing [massively multiplayer online role ENGLISH LITERATURE In spite of their common enjoyment of the playing games]. I had a friend move back SENIOR game, they usually don’t play together on the into town, and he was playing, so I decided same server, Schaefer said. to start playing. I was hooked from day one.”

“We tried playing together when I first started, but it just With his obligations as a teacher’s assistant and his graddidn’t work very well,” Thomas said. uate work, as well as his friends, Parker knows how to manIn their relationship and their lives surrounding the game, age his time. the couple has experienced one rough patch.

“I try to make sure that I take care of all the things that “He joined one of the top raiding guilds on that server at I need to before I play,” Parker said. “WoW is my stress reone point, and he was busy that semester,” Thomas said. liever; it is what I do at the end of the day after school and “He worked three or four nights a week, and he had a night work. Most people come home and watch TV, but I come class one night, and the rest of the nights were raid nights, home and play WoW.”

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TOMORROW ›› ts Daily staffer Tobi Neidy recounts her experience at Super Bowl XLV

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OU survives the Cyclones Women rebound from tough Baylor loss by edging Iowa State

» Six Sooners notch season-bests in New York City At the New Balance Collegiate Invitational, the OU women’s sprints and jumps groups set six season bests and broke OU records.

Junior college transfer Shelleyka Rolle won her first collegiate title with OU in the 500-meter dash.

A pair of Sooners finished with top-five OU times in the 60-meter dash, topped by junior Candyce McGrone’s 7.29 seconds, the third-fastest time by a Sooner.

Junior Shawna Anderson’s 7.33 was the fifth-fastest in OU history.

Senior Ti’Anca Mock continued a streak of winning the long jump event, extending her season mark. Mock has not lost to a collegiate athlete in the last four meets.

Sophomore Chenale Smith matched her personal best in high jump but finished second in the event. Fellow sophomore Kristen Rice finished seventh. » Singh, Miller shine at Husker Invitational Senior K.P. Singh took home the weight throw title from Lincoln, Neb., for his first event title of the 2011 season.

Senior Scottesha Miller won the 60- and 200-meter dashes, both qualifying times.

Junior pole vaulter Alexandra Acker, who laid down the fourth-best height in OU history, became just the fourth Sooner female pole vaulter to clear 13 feet.

Junior thrower Bailey Wagner recorded the second-longest throw in OU history, improving her previous best by more than a foot.

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Senior guard Danielle Robinson (13) dribbles against an Iowa State defender in OU’s 65-62 win over the Cyclones on Saturday in Norman. Robinson scored 20 points.

Saturday CROSS COUNTRY

them, pressure on the point guard… just making them play a little faster than they wanted to play,” OU coach Sherri Coale said.

Despite the Sooner defense, the Cyclones closed to within three, 24-21, but with four minutes remaining in the half, senior forward Carlee Roethlisberger opened it up with a 3-pointer.

The Sooners took a 14point lead into halftime.

Iowa State started the second half on a 6-0 run to close to 38-30, but two points from freshman guard Aaryn

Ellenberg cut the rally short.

Hand pushed the Sooner defense early in the second half, forcing two consecutive turnovers by Iowa State that resulted in buckets for OU to put the Sooners up, 54-44.

The Cyclones didn’t stay down long, though, when a 3-point basket from the visitors cut the lead to five and then to three, 54-51, on the ensuing possession with 8:38 to play.

Iowa State put the Sooner offense on ice — OU shot 29.6 percent in the half — and the Cyclones carried the 13-2 run under five minutes

to play, taking the lead at the free-throw line, 57-56.

“I thought our looks were good; we just went cold,” Coale said.

Robinson ended the drought with a pair of free throws to reclaim the lead, 58-57.

But the back-and-forth basketball began, and that is how it would finish.

Robinson ended the game with 20 points and Ellenberg added 15.

Next stop for the Sooners is a We dnesday tr ip to College Station, Texas, to face Texas A&M.

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Free throws drop Sooners in Bedlam OSU attempts Big 12-best 44 free throws in 81-75 win over OU in Stillwater

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21-6

Lead OU held over Oklahoma State before the Cowboys charged back

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S T I L LWAT E R — T h e Sooners fell short in the Bedlam Series to the Oklahoma State Cowboys, 81-75, on Saturday. This brings OU to 12-10, 4-4 Big 12, this season.

Free throws played a big part in the loss as the Cowboys scored 36 points from the foul stripe. Early foul trouble for sophomore guard Steven Pledger and senior guard Cade Davis haunted the Sooners throughout the game.

In total, 70 free throws were shot from 49 fouls called. The 44 free throws shot by OSU are the most by any Big 12 team this season.

“Down the stretch there, I guess we couldn’t play without fouling,” OU coach Jeff Capel said. “And offensively in the second half, we struggled.”

The Sooners jumped out to an early 21-6 lead before the Cowboys scrapped their way back to within five by halftime. Oklahoma pushed the lead back up in the second half, to as much as 12, but were no match for the Cowboys.

OU got as close as two in the final minute of the game, but OU turnovers and OSU free throws sealed the Sooners’ fate.

Oklahoma was led by sophomore forward Andrew Fitzgerald, who scored 18 points and grabbed five rebounds. Davis also scored 18 points, nine of those in the first seven minutes.

After scoring a careerhigh 25 points against

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The Oklahoma women’s basketball team pulled off a 65-62 nail-biter against Iowa State on Saturday after blowing a 14-point halftime lead to trail in the final minutes.

With less than a minute remaining and OU down by one, sophomore guard Whitney Hand forced a Cyclone turnover, and senior guard Danielle Robinson took care of business at the free-throw line.

“I was confident the whole time, and I was confident in the A&M game, but it just didn’t fall,” Robinson said.

“I just knew I wasn’t going to make the same mistake twice and went up there and knocked them down.”

A missed 3-pointer by Iowa State and two OU points at the free-throw line by junior guard Jasmine Hartman left the Cyclones down 65-63 with eight seconds remaining.

Unlike the pressure at the end, the first half was all OU. Robinson opened the game 3-for-3 to kick-start a lead that OU would not relinquish in the half. Robinson finished the half with 10 points.

The Sooners shot 50 percent in the first half, and the Cyclones just trailed at 45 percent, but unlike OU, Iowa State had nagging turnover troubles.

The Sooner defense forced the Cyclones to commit 15 turnovers, which led to 16 points off turnovers for OU. “I felt like we rushed

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Free-throw attempts for Oklahoma State, the most by any Big 12 team this season

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Free-throw percentage for the Sooners, who made 24-of-26 from the charity stripe in a losing effort

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Points each for sophomore forward Andrew Fitzgerald and senior guard Cade Davis to lead OU

» Poland first Sooner named to national cross country team Freshman Ryan Poland earned a spot on the U.S. Junior National Cross Country Team with his performance at the U.S. Cross Country Championships in San Diego.

Poland is the first Oklahoma cross country member to be named to the team.

WRESTLING » OU wins third straight Big 12 contest The 10th-ranked Sooners beat No. 12 Missouri, 18-12, at McCasland Field House to win their third straight Big 12 conference bout for the first time since 2002-03.

Senior Zack Bailey, ranked sixth nationally, notched his 100th career win after beating 12th-ranked Todd Schavrien of Missouri, 9-6.

MEN’S GYMNASTICS » Dalton wins 2011 Winter Cup Sophomore Jacob Dalton won the all-around title at the 2011 Winter Cup in Las Vegas to retain his position on the U.S. Senior National Team.

Dalton follows current OU graduate assistant coach Chris Brooks to become the second straight Sooner to win the Winter Cup all-around title.

Brooks, sophomore Alex Naddour, senior Steven Legendre and former OU star — and Olympic silver medalist — Jonathan Horton round out the Sooners, past and present, on the U.S. national team.

The five current and former Sooners make up a third of the national team, giving OU the most members from the same NCAA Division I men’s gymnastics program ever on the senior national team.

TRACK & FIELD » Sooners rewrite four top-five record times in 3,000-meters Sophomore Kevin Williams broke the OU record in the 3,000-meter run with the fastest Big 12 time this season.

Williams finished fourth in the event at the GaReat Collegiate Invitational in Geneva, Ohio.

Sophomore Kevin Schwab, junior George Alex and sophomore Bill Kogal followed by clocking the third, fourth and fifth-best 3,000-meter run times in OU history. » Shump, Brooks reach qualifying marks Sophomores Karen Shump and Tia Brooks hit NCAA automatic qualifying marks in the women’s shot put after finishing first and second, respectively, at the Husker Invitational.

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Assists for sophomore point guard Carl Blair, who entered the contest averaging 5.3 dimes a game in Big 12 play this season

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Senior guard Cade Davis (34) posts up on an Oklahoma State defender in the Sooners’ 81-75 loss to the Cowboys on Saturday in Stillwater. Davis scored 18 points to help lead the Sooners with sophomore forward Andrew Fitzgerald, who also scored 18.

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Field goal shooting for freshman guard Cameron Clark after he scored a career-high 25 points against Baylor on Wednesday

6 B ay l o r o n We d n e s d ay , freshman wing Cameron Clark went scoreless in the game.

“We didn’t lose the game because of him,” Capel said.

“We lost the game because of our inability to make tough plays. One of the things I told our guys coming in was that the team that usually wins this game, with this rivalry, is the tougher team, and I thought they were a little bit tougher.”

Sophomore Carl Blair scored 13 points with no assists despite turning the ball

over six times. Going into Saturday’s contest, Blair was second in the conference in assists, averaging 5.3 per game.

Oklahoma is hoping to learn from this experience as it gears up for the toughest stretch of its season.

Next up for the Sooners will be another rivalr y matchup against the Texas Longhorns at 8 p.m.

Wednesday in Lloyd Noble Center.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

Points for junior forward Barry Honoré, who saw his first action in six games off the bench with 13 game minutes against OSU

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Turnovers committed

by Oklahoma in the losing effort, good for the second-fewest this season

.071

3-point percentage for Oklahoma State (1-of-14) in the contest after the Cowboys hit 50 percent (14of-28) last year in Stillwater

— Source: OU Athletic Department

» Sooners upset Razorbacks with surging singles play The 31st-ranked OU squad upset No. 14 Arkansas, 4-3.

Oklahoma claimed the doubles point and three singles overthrows.

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS » No. 5 Oklahoma stays unbeaten against Huskers The Sooners posted a season-high score against No. 10 Nebraska in Lincoln, Neb. OU’s 196.300 secured the fifth win over a ranked opponent in eight contests this season.

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THANK YOU! Frank Elkouri and Edna Asper Elkouri For the largest one-time contribution in the history of the OU College of Law. Generations of OU students will benefit from your historic $6 million gift to fund law student scholarships.

University of Oklahoma President David L. Boren (standing, left) and OU College of Law Dean Joseph Harroz (standing, right) meet with OU Law Professor Emeritus Frank Elkouri and his wife, Edna Asper Elkouri, to discuss details of their historic $6 million gift – the largest one-time contribution in the history of the OU College of Law – which will be used to support student scholarship programs in the college.

The Elkouri’s have been partners in their devotion to the OU College of Law for almost 60 years.

Frank Elkouri, who served on the OU law faculty for 58 years, collaborated with his wife throughout their legal careers. Their gift is an incredible example to the university community.

The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution.

- THE PRIDE OF OKLAHOMA

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All undergraduate, graduate and professional students as well as full-time faculty and staff members on OU’s Norman, Oklahoma City and Tulsa campuses are eligible to be nominated for the $20,000 Otis Sullivant Award. Only members of the OU community are eligible to be considered for the prize.

The award is funded by a $500,000 endowment established by Edith Kinney Gaylord of Oklahoma City shortly before her death in 2001. It is named in honor of the late Otis Sullivant, the chief political writer for the Daily Oklahoman who for 40 years was one of the state’s most influential journalists.

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