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Wrapping up Jack White controversy WIlliam Morris Endeavor blacklists OU due to article Jack White came to OU Feb. 2, performed and left — but that’s not all that happened on OU’s campus between The Daily, Campus Activities Council, William Morris Endeavors entertainment and Jack White.

Here’s what happened, from CAC planning the concert, to The Daily reporting White’s contract details, to

William Morris Endeavor’s subsequent blacklisting of OU. Setting Up the Concert In December, The Daily published an article that White was coming to OU. Each semester CAC puts on free shows for the university. This semester, with $42,500 allotted from Student Government Association’s student fees, CAC’s Concert Series officials were looking for artists to bring in, and White was a good deal.

Before signing White, CAC officials contacted agencies that expressed interest in putting on a concert.

At f i r s t C AC o f f i c i a l s didn’t think they would be able to afford White, who normally charges around $200,000, but after talking to his agent and discussing the price of college shows they realized it was a possibility, said Emilye Lewin, CAC Concert Series chairperson.

White had never played on a college campus before

and wanted to for this tour.

Because he hadn’t done shows for a college before, the cost to bring White here was only $80,000. “ [ Ja c k W h i t e a n d h i s band] were really excited about coming here especially with the history behind McCasland [Field House] — Jimmy Hendrix played there — and the prestige of the university,” CAC chairperson Layne Ferguson said.

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Anthropology Senior Jinnie Pratt walks away victorious after her first MMA match. Pratt’s match against Katie Wade was her debut match at the okc MMA event “Rage in the Cage.”

Former rugby player wins first MMA match at Rage in the Cage JESSE POUND News Reporter @jesserpound

In the second round of her first MMA fight, Jinnie Pratt went on the offensive. She grabbed her opponent around the legs, lifted her up and then forced her to the ground. She began throwing jabs with her left hand as she worked for a better positioning.

Finally, she pinned her opponent, threw her right arm,

the referee stepped in and it was all over. Pratt did not even know that she had won.

“I didn’t realize I won until everyone rushed into the cage,” Pratt said.

The process for the fight — held on Jan. 16 at Rage in the Cage OKC — began almost as quickly as it ended. Pratt said she accepted the fight with just nine days’ notice, after one of the original competitors was injured in a car accident.

Pratt, an anthropology senior at OU, had not been trained in martial arts, but she had always been an athlete, having played multiple sports in high school from track to tennis to basketball.

“We didn’t really have anything else where I was from so I tried to do everything I could,” Pratt said.

One of Pratt’s main trainers for the fight was Nathan Trepagnier. Trepagnier and Pratt share a love of another sport — rugby.

While she was still in high school, Pratt watched her brother play in a rugby match for Texas A&M. During the course of the match, one player suffered a head wound and played through it. Pratt was hooked.

“I thought he was a badass,” Pratt said.

Rugby was a natural fit for Pratt.

“Part of her persona is pushing boundaries and testing lines and seeing how far she can go,” said Rachel Fischer, a criminology senior and fellow rugby player.

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Nancy Mergler has retired from her nearly 20-year position as OU Senior Vice President and Provost and has returned to the classroom.

Mergler is teaching a one-credit-hour class titled “The Academic Habit.”

In order to recommit to students and their education, Mergler felt she needed to return to teaching.

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eight events throughout the a university is the engage“Administration can be stressful and ment with the students, and semester and write an essay the whole point of a university is the discussing each event they I missed it,” Mergler said. engagement with the students, and I attended.

The Academic Habit, In addition, Mergler has which was created about 26 missed it.” years ago, will enhance stuchosen sections out of four dents’ experiences with the different books for the class NANCY MERGLER, FORMER SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND PROVOST OU community. to discuss, and they cover “This class is intended writing, common caring and to stretch [students] and intellectually have them sample how we learn to respect and love one another despite disthings they might not think they will like or understand, and agreements, she said.

This class is not intended to be stressful, but joyous, she then write about it in ways that are hopefully compelling,” said.

Mergler said.

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FIRST FIGHT: Mixed martial arts match a turning point for Pratt’s life Continued from Page One Pratt started her college career at Texas Tech, but she transferred to OU after one semester. Once she got to OU, she injured a finger during a match, making her intention to pursue a degree in music nearly impossible.

She switched majors and kept playing rugby. She excelled, participating in different camps and winning OU’s Michelle Corr award for the team.

In the fall of 2014, however, Pratt hit a rough patch.

“I mentally checked out,” Pratt said Pratt, who bounced between different housing situations, including foster homes, as a child, was struggling with a variety of personal issues.

“As the semester went on … her life kind of crumbled a little bit,” Fischer said.

Pratt said she lost 25 pounds, stopped going to

“I literally hit rock bottom. I hit rock bottom, and I’m fine. I didn’t think I was going to be fine. I tried to kill myself, for God’s sake. I really didn’t think that there was going to be any going back, but there is.”

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the gym and lost focus on school.

“I literally hit rock bottom. I hit rock bottom, and I’m fine. I didn’t think I was going to be fine. I tried to kill myself, for God’s sake. I really didn’t think that there was going to be any going back, but there is,” Pratt said.

The MMA match gave her a chance to focus again.

“When this opportunity popped up, it was kind of a blessing … it was something that I felt like I needed to do for myself,” Pratt said.

“I think that fight was a real turning point in [Pratt’s] life … she’s finally back to

where she was,” Fischer said.

As Pratt sat in the holding area before her fight, she did yoga and listened to classical music to stay calm. The only other female in the room was her opponent.

Pratt’s fight was only the second one at Rage in the Cage to feature two women, said Kimber Shafer, media director for Rage in the Cage.

Pratt said that this gender disparity is emblematic of a bigger problem.

“Girls don’t participate in athletics as much as they should,” Pratt said.

Pratt said that she thinks that sports help women with

their confidence.

“It is empowering to know that you’re strong and that you’re capable,” Pratt said.

Pratt plans on fighting again in the future, possibly with another match in April.

However, she said she’s not focused on it.

“I need to get some more technique down before I throw myself into a cage with someone else,” Pratt said, adding that she was not going to let training for fighting interfere with graduating on time.

After graduating, Pratt plans to move to California and play rugby.

“I want to go to the Olympics. I want to play rugby for the rest of my life,” Pratt said.

This ambitious attitude is not a surprise to those that know Pratt well.

“She’s one of the most competitive people I know … she always wants to be the TONY RAGLE/THE DAILY best,” Fischer said.

Anthropology Senior Jinnie Pratt overpowers MMA fighter Katie Wade Friday evening at the Birdhouse in OKC mid-January.

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Anthropology Senior Jinnie Pratt fights MMA fighter Katie Wade Friday evening at the Birdhouse in OKC mid-January.

Anthropology senior Jinnie Pratt pauses a moment before entering the ring into her first MMA fight in OKC mid-January. Pratt had her debut match at the okc MMA event “Rage in the Cage.”

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University radio station to return after 40 years Radio station will provide students with new experience KATE BERGUM

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A student-run on-air radio station will be revived after about 40 years of dormancy after an application for an FM radio license was approved Thursday.

Faculty were inspired to apply for the station because many of them got their journalistic starts in radio, said John Schmeltzer, journalism professor who oversaw the application.

One of those faculty members was Joe Foote, Gaylord College dean.

Foote started working for his local radio station when he was a 16-year-old in high school, Foote said, he worked as a DJ and a journalist.

Foote’s experience with radio gave him a place to fit in and belong when he became an OU student and joined the staff of the KUVY student radio station — even though he came from a small town and small high school,

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OU’s student radio The Wire’s radio station in the union.

Foote said.

“Being as lost as I’ve ever been in my life, that radio station — KUVY — that was my anchor,” Foote said.

Foote met many life-long friends working on the station and it is exciting that students will have the same experience for professional development today, Foote said.

“Radio is an exciting culture, by any standard. It’s a

zany place, but it keeps you hopping,” he said.

The station will allow students to experiment and gain experience, along with The Wire, the college’s online radio station, Foote said.

Some students agree.

“I think it’s a great opportunity to keep expanding OU’s radio station and all the opportunity of students to go to a larger audience,” said Jamison Short, advertising

senior.

Students shared their name suggestions for the radio station.

“OU OnDemand,” said Anastasia Malouf, religious studies junior.

“Sooners Station,” said Raigan Davis, business marketing freshman. “ The B o omer S o oner Station,” said Paige Earley, public relations sophomore.

WHITE: Free speech has a cost for OU students Continued from Page One

“We will not do business with OU until this policy is modified. That’s my free speech and free choice.

They cost themselves a business relationship.”

OU was one of four concerts that White is playing on college campuses during his Lazaretto tour.

Lewin’s Concert Series MARC GEIGER, team gave three proposals HEAD OF WME’S MUSIC DIVISION to the CAC executive board.

Everyone weighed in on Days Leading Up to the The Daily was taking picwho to look into bringing Concert tures outside of McCasland to OU. On Jan. 29, five days be- Field House and was told After that the CAC members focused on the likeli- fore the concert, The Daily to delete the images off the hood of being able to sell posted White’s rider and camera’s memory card or tickets at OU during a pre- contract. Some people saw give up their camera.

The photographer desentation to the general it as mocking White and WME contacted CAC, withleted the photos, but they council to get approval for out The Daily being aware, were recovered when they the concert.

According to W hite’s saying it needed to be taken got back to the newsroom.

At the concert, guacamoArtist Tour History Report, down.

Marc Geiger, who runs le was brought on stage in a White has a 94 percentage tickets sold per show aver- the music area of WME, response to The Daily’s post age, with an average audi- emailed Nguyen and said, of White’s rider that includence size of 4,425 and aver- “Please communicate to the ed a guacamole recipe.

White also commented age gross of over $231,000. OU daily and administraT h i s a v e r a g e a u d i - tion that their desire for free on The Daily, the Freedom ence size correlated with speech cost the students of of Information Act, jourMcCasland Field House, OU any further shows from nalists, lawyers, philosophy which can seat about 5,000, this agency until this policy and OU’s smoking ban. is modified to not dissemiThe Daily published a Ferguson said. concert review that night. “ H e h a s c o m e t o nate private information.”

Geiger also said, “We will After the Concert Oklahoma before but has not do business with OU The next day, The Daily always chosen to play at Cain’s Ballroom because until this policy is modi- published a response to of the history behind it, so fied. That’s my free speech White’s comments.

The day after that, on Feb. McCasland seemed like a and free choice. They cost t h e m s e l v e s a b u s i n e s s 3, The Daily received a letgood fit because it’s around ter to the editor from Lewin the same size,” Lewin said. relationship.”

At this time reporters and Ferguson stating that CAC general council allocated $115,000 of non-stu- were trying to contact CAC “WME would never play an dent fees for the concert. members about the con- OU show again.”

The Daily called WME to This money was left over cert’s costs. CAC members from sponsorship money were on a retreat that week- confirm this information from other events C AC end and didn’t respond to before the letter ran, but had done. The rest of the reporter inquiries over the WME decline to comment saying any questions could money, about $15,000, was weekend.

Concert Day be emailed to them. from student activity fees.

On Feb. 2, the day of the On Feb. 5, The Daily met The deal was made and concert, Sooner yearbook, with CAC officials to discuss White was coming to OU. During that time, emails The Norman Transcript, the ban and concert costs.

The total cost to put were sent back and forth a n d Th e Da i l y rea ch e d out to en confirm their b e t w e e n a n d W i l l i a m Ch Children Chil ildr dren tto o King Kin Ki n press Size o n W h i t e ’ s c o n c e r t Morris Entertainment em- passes for the concert. The w a s $ 1 3 3 , 7 4 7 . 6 1 a n d ployees to negotiate who groups didn’t receive pass- $132,875.00 was earned was providing what for the es because White didn’t back from ticket cost sales, concert, such as lighting want press in his concert, according to receipts preand sound equipment, and something that is becoming sented by CAC. The group making sure McCasland increasingly common in the essentially broke even on the concert, which is what Field House could handle music industry.

“Let’s just enjoy this with they intended to do. the amount of electricity our eyes and ears,” White “Ultimately our goal needed for the concert.

R e p o r t e r s e m a i l e d said in an inter view on wasn’t to make money,” White’s management with CONAN about asking au- Lewin said. “The reason we q u e s t i o n s s u c h a s w hy diences not to record. “It’s charged $25 instead of $65 White chose to play at OU better to be in the moment.” was so that we could put it White makes photos from on for the students.” and what he was most exeach concert available on $42,500 from student accited about. tivity fees allotted to CAC Rhett Holmes, a private jackwhiteiii.com.

The Daily sent reporters is set aside for the Concert production manager hired

by OU to coordinate parts outside of McCasland Field Series at the beginning of of White’s concert, emailed House to get pictures of set the year. up andAve up for636-1486 Some of this money is put back and forth and 2409 24 09said S he Agnew Agn gnew ew Apeople ve lining (405) (4 the show. into Must Stay Weekend, was prepping the questions to Saturday Sunday 1:00-4:45 One9:00-5:45 photographer & from which CAC puts on with the to goMonday to management.

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Union Programming Board and other organizations on campus. However, a majority of funds used to put on the concert was from sponsorship money, with almost all of it being earned back.

“The reason we didn’t get [$231,334] is because we had the cheapest tickets on tour,” Ferguson said. “We spent weeks trying to figure out how we were going to make this the best for the students, the cheapest price, the best investment and how to create a culture here that is going to bring more big headlines at a good price.”

This meeting also confirmed that WME had blacklisted OU. WME called Nguyen and Ferguson right before The Daily’s interview telling CAC officials to tell The Daily that WME didn’t want to talk to The Daily and that OU was blacklisted, Ferguson said.

The Daily ran the letter to the editor that night and wrote an article about the black listing.

News organizations around the U.S. started writing about the events between The Daily and White following WME’s barring of OU. White’s management, Monotone Inc., sent out a press release responding to WME’s blacklist stating at no time did Jack White or White’s management say that they would never play at OU again. The Daily posted White’s management’s response that day.

Although the letter refers to White’s rider as private, the rider was a part of the contract between OU and White, making it a public document. In the state of Oklahoma, under the Oklahoma Open Records Act, “persons who submit information to public bodies have no right to keep this information from public access nor reasonable expectation that this information will be kept from public access.”

Since OU is a state public university, all documents are accessible to any member of the public through an open records request email.

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MERGLER: Class is for students of any major Continued from Page One Being comprised of students from various majors, it is not uncommon to have a student majoring in journalism and a student majoring in petroleum engineering in the class, Mergler said.

Students may have diverse intellectual interests, but the class should connect and intrigue them through different events, she said.

Kunal Naik, petroleum engineering junior and Student Government Association president, said he attended TEDxOU 2015 as his first event.

Naik was able to self-reflect as he watched Victoria Bautista perform slam poetry about Asian representation in the media.

“I’ve never considered [Asian representation] on that level before,” Naik said.

He said The Academic Habit makes you truly think about different events and themes and implores you to explore those themes more.

“I hope to make a habit out of going to these events,” Naik said. “It’s going to be a natural thing.”

Naik said he hopes to attend a performance-based event next.

Hunter Ash, mathematics and physics senior, said the most enjoyable aspect about the class is the discussions.

“Given the small number of students and cozy setting in Dr. Mergler’s beautiful office, the conversation has been excellent,” Ash said. “All of the students are engaged and energetic, and Dr. Mergler keeps us on track while leaving some room for interesting digressions.”

Thus far, Ash has written essays on an art exhibit at MainSite featuring Don Holladay as well as a talk Devin Hughes gave to the OU economics club about gun control, he said.

Furthermore, Mergler said the class has been reconfigured and requires some oversight.

“It takes a bit of oversight “All of the students and someone to try to find are engaged and and tell students all about the events across campus, energetic, and Dr. and you have to dig a bit to find some of the stuff,” Mergler keeps said. “So, I decided us on track while Mergler I wanted to give it a try beleaving some room cause I feel strongly that our students are here for a limfor interesting ited about of time in this indigressions..” credible community.”

Mergler recollects an HUNTER ASH, experience one of her stuMATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS dents had while attending a SENIOR campus event.

“A journalism major went to an art history lecture, which she said she wouldn’t have usually picked, and there was a piece of art that was called ‘Strange Fruit,’” Mergler said. “[The student] didn’t know the literary reference to that and that the [art] was about the protests about the hangings of Hispanics in Texas.”

Mergler said the class discussed the hangings, and she encouraged anybody who had a linking or reference to chime in.

Mergler is also trying to urge students to reach out and discuss any idea, specifically in person and face-to-face, she said.

“I’ll get a seat in the back and watch students come in.

It’s a class of about four (students), and the other day, I was watching all of them,” she said. “All of them were on their iPhone or computer; none of them were talking to the person next to them.”

As part of the class, Mergler is pressing students to talk with other students as they await class to start to make them more comfortable with talking to someone face-to-face.

Mergler said she is enjoying the class, and she hopes her students are, too.

“My hope is they’ll develop a habit in their adult lives in seeking out interesting events — scholarly and cultural — then talk and write about it,” Mergler said.

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OU senior Vice President and Provost Nancy Mergler teaches her class “The Academic Habit” in her office Wednesday afternoon.

NATIVE AMERICAN

OU film and video studies professor joins Native Artists lecture series Comanche and Navajo artist and filmmaker Sunrise Tippeconnie will speak at 3 p.m. Monday as part of the OU College of Arts and Sciences’ Oklahoma Contemporary Native Artists lecture series.

Tippeconnie, an OU Film and Video Studies professor, is a cinematographer who has worked on Nativeinspired independent films “The Killer Inside Me,””Four Sheets to the Wind,” “Barking Water,” “Three Little Boys,” “Shimasani,” “Indian Graffiti” and “Magic Valley.”

Students only think about the past when they think about Native American culture, said Amanda CobbGreetham, OU Native American Studies director.

The goal of the lecture series is to raise people’s awareness of other cultures through artwork, CobbGreentham said.

Tippeconnie’s lecture will be “not what people think,” she said.

Jon Hoover, News Reporter

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Harper Lee to publish sequel 55 years later Lawyer finds sequel to Lee’s “Mockingbird” ASSOCIATIVE PRESS

MONROEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Retrace the suddenly tangled legal saga of Harper Lee and her legacy, “To Kill A Mockingbird,” and a pivotal moment emerges.

As her longtime protector, older sister and attorney Alice Finch Lee turned 100 and stopped practicing law a couple years ago, another lawyer in Alice’s small firm became the point person for the “Mockingbird” brand.

Tonja Carter had worked in Alice Lee’s office before graduating from the University of Alabama law school in 2006 and becoming Alice Lee’s partner. Her ascendance brought more aggressive legal tactics: A lawsuit over the rights to “Mockingbird.” Another to stop the town museum from selling “Mockingbird” souvenirs. A note telling a longtime friend of Harper Lee to keep his distance.

Carter, 49, soon became known in the community where she too grew up for jealously protecting the writer from visitors and perceived threats to her business interests.

And it was Carter who was

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This May 19, 2010 photo Nelle Harper Lee, author of “To Kill A Mockingbird,” in her assisted living room in Montoeville, Ala.

the linchpin in the stunning Feb. 3 announcement that a sequel to “Mockingbird,” titled “Go Set a Watchman” would be published, according to the arm of HarperCollins Publishers that announced it.

Carter found the unpublished novel, written in the mid-1950s but locked away since, and negotiated the deal, the publisher said.

The news baffled many.

Harper Lee has been intensely private in the decades since she picked up honors for her 1961 Pulitzer Prize winner. She had told friends and relatives for

years that she didn’t plan to publish another book.

Speculation quickly swirled over whether the elderly writer’s wishes are being honored, particularly after friends and townspeople told The Associated Press they were troubled by her condition when she appeared at her sister’s funeral in November.

But others close to Carter and the Lee sisters cautioned against misreading Carter’s legal maneuvering.

Connie Baggett, a former newspaper reporter and a longtime friend of Carter, said Friday that the attorney

was trusted implicitly by Alice Lee and in turn by Harper, whom locals call by her first name, Nelle.

“She’s not some interloper,” said Baggett, who came to know Carter and the Lees during two decades of covering southwest Alabama for the Mobile Press-Register.

“She’s been part of the inner circle for years.”

Harper Lee used to split time between New York and Alabama but has lived fulltime in Monroeville, halfway between Montgomery and Mobile, since suffering a stroke in 2007. She was last seen publicly at her sister’s

Bruce Jenner wrecks vehicle Police are still investigating the incident’s causes

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Investigators will likely seek Bruce Jenner’s cellphone records to determine if the Olympic gold medalist was texting when he was behind the wheel of an SUV involved in a highway crash in Malibu that killed a woman, authorities said Sunday.

The agency will likely collect phone records for all the drivers involved in Saturday’s multi-vehicle accident, so investigators can check call and text data, Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Department Sgt. Philip Brooks said.

Investigators could also request search warrants, if necessary. The information gleaned from those records could help inform prosecutors, if they were to consider charges against the drivers involved.

However, Brooks said it is difficult to determine if a driver was texting at the exact time of a collision.

Investigators will look at signs of driver behavior such as multiple texts that span a period of time leading up to, or including, the crash, Brooks said. “ The problem is pinpointing the time of the accident,” Brooks said. “If the accident occurred at 12:05

and 30 seconds, or 12:05 and 40 seconds, if you hung up before that, that’s useless information.”

The sheriff’s department has custody of all the vehicles and will be inspecting them to ensure they’re mechanically sound or whether a defect prevented somebody from stopping in time.

Investigators are trying to determine who or what triggered the crash on the Pacific Coast Highway. Five people were taken to the hospital as a precaution.

None had visible injuries, Brooks said.

The celebrity gossip website TMZ first reported that the department could issue a search warrant to determine if Jenner was texting at the time of the accident.

Jenner was traveling north when his black Cadillac Escalade rear-ended a Lexus sedan that had just struck the back of a black Toyota Prius, Brooks said. The Lexus veered into oncoming traffic and collided head-on with a black Hummer.

The driver of the Lexus — Kim Howe 69, of Calabasas, California — was pronounced dead at the scene.

The moment of impact was captured by celebrity photographers, who quickly posted the images on the Internet. The photos show the white Lexus mangled in the front and back, facing the Hummer, which had a heavily damaged engine and its

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hood popped open. Jenner’s Escalade, which was pulling an off-road vehicle, had a damaged front end.

There was no indication Jenner was being chased by paparazzi at the time of the crash, authorities said.

“Being a celebrity, he is often followed by paparazzi.

He was aware of that, and it doesn’t appear he took any evasive action to avoid the paparazzi,” Brooks said.

Authorities said Jenner cooperated with investigators, passed a field sobriety test and voluntarily submitted a blood sample to determine whether he was intoxicated, Brooks said.

Jenner’s publicist, Alan Nierob, said Jenner wasn’t hurt, but he offered no additional details. He did not return an email seeking comment Sunday.

The crash comes at a time of widespread talk that

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Jenner, 65, is becoming a woman. Though Jenner h i m s e l f ha s d e c l i n e d public comment, his appearance has gradually become more traditionally feminine. Those in his inner circles have not challenged speculation that he is preparing to live as a woman and perhaps will appear in a new reality series about his transition.

Jenner won a gold medal in the men’s decathlon at the 1976 Summer Games, but he is known to a younger generation as Kim Kardashian’s stepfather. He and Kris Jenner appeared on the reality series “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” along with their children, and the pair’s relationship and its troubles have been featured prominently on the show. The two finalized their divorce late

her actions in a series of text messages and emails to The New York Times, the newspaper reported Sunday.

Carter wrote Saturday that Harper Lee is “extremely hurt and humiliated” at the idea that she’s been taken advantage of, the newspaper reported. “She is a very strong, independent and wise woman who should be enjoying the discovery of her long lost novel ... Instead, she is having to defend her own credibility and decision making.”

Lee wrote “Watchman” first, the publisher said, describing how a grown-up Scout returns from New York to confront attitudes of the 1950s in her Alabama hometown. Her editor told her to write a different book, set 20 years earlier, describing Scout’s understanding of her father Atticus Finch’s legal defense of a black man wrongly accused of raping a white woman.

That second book became “Mockingbird,” selling millions of copies and becoming required reading in schools nationwide.

“Watchman” seems destined to build on that phenomenal success when it’s released in July; it’s already No. 1 on Amazon, based on pre-orders.

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funeral, where she talked loudly to herself about seemingly unrelated things in a manner that alarmed those present, according to several who were there but insisted on anonymity for fear of upsetting those close to the family.

But historian Wayne Flynt, another longtime friend of the sisters, said he visited Harper Lee the day before the deal was announced, and found her completely lucid, cracking jokes and discussing the works of C.S. Lewis, though she didn’t mention her own new book. “ This narrative of senility, exploitation of this helpless little old lady, is just hogwash. It’s just complete bunk,” Flynt said, adding that he has “no reason to question Tonja Carter’s integrity.”

It’s important to note, F l y n t s a i d , t h a t “A l i c e brought her in, kept her as a partner. She let her work increasingly with Nelle.”

The 88-year-old Lee is nearly blind and deaf and lives in an assisted living center in town. Relatives and others close her typically don’t comment about publicly about her in deference to the publicity-shy author’s wishes.

Carter hasn’t responded to the AP’s interview requests, but she defended

T ULSA , Okla. (AP) — Bond issues valued at more than $500 million will be decided by voters in several northeastern Oklahoma school districts on Tuesday.

The bond elections include a $370 million package for Broken Arrow Public Schools, a $120 million bond issue for Jenks Public Schools and a $27 million package for Union Public Schools, the Tulsa World reported Sunday.

Broken Ar row S u p e r i n t e n d e n t Ja r o d Mendenhall said his district is averaging a 3 percent growth rate in student population each year. More than 50 percent of the district’s bond money, $195.5 million, would go toward classroom space to keep up with the growth.

“Much of this growth is currently at the elementary level, which is why we’ve included three new elementary schools on this bond proposal,” Mendenhall said.

Also included are a new middle school and an addition at the high school that would be dedicated to science, technology, engineering and math classes.

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In Jenks, the $120 million bond issue would finance several projects.

“The support of the Jenks community allows continued focus on integrating technology into instruction, safety of students, staff and visitors; and much-needed classroom space at the elementary level,” Jenks Superintendent Stacey Butterfield said.

If the bond issue is approved, the district would get a fourth elementary school.

Officials said it has been nearly 20 years since the district built an elementary school.

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The third elementary school has about 840 students.

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Oklahoma men’s basketball has its sights set on second place in the Big 12 as it prepares to face Iowa State Monday in the Lloyd Noble Center.

The No. 21 Sooners (16-7, 7-4) have reeled off a four-game winning streak — which ties their longest of the season — and currently sit in the third-place spot in the nation’s best conference. After having beaten TCU Saturday, OU finds itself only two-and-a-half games behind the No. 11 Cyclones (17-5, 7-3). Earning a victory in this big matchup, though, will mean the Sooners keeping the best offense in the Big 12 at bay.

ISU beats their opponents in a variety of ways, as evidenced by the league-leading 79.9 points per game that they have averaged.

“They do a really good job offensively,” coach Lon Kruger said. “They really move the ball and they spread you out and they have a lot of weapons. The challenge there is to slow them down a little bit and get points on our end.”

The Cyclones are a balanced bunch that causes havoc with their highly efficient offensive philosophy. They pride themselves on spreading out the defense to create space for the multitude of scoring weapons they possess.

The fact that all five of the ISU starters average double figures in scoring — which leads the Big 12 — is just one of the example of their potency on this end of the floor.

These Sooners, however, are defending in a way that hasn’t been seen in Norman for a long time. This season, OU has held 20 of its 23 opponents below their season average in points.

In other words, something has to give Monday.

“You never know how this game’s going to go,” junior guard Buddy Hield said. “It’s a fast-paced game and everyone is putting up a bunch of points. I feel like we’ll be more concerned with defense in this game instead of offense and try to stop what they do.”

The anchor of the Cyclone’s attack is senior forward Georges Niang, who averages a team-high 15.2 points per game to go along with 5.3 rebounds and 3.5 assists. The 6-foot-8, 230-pound Niang is also dangerous from beyond the arch, shooting 41 percent for the season.

He’s the Big 12’s most versatile player and should present the biggest challenge of the season for the OU forwards.

“This is going to be the first time I’ve guarded somebody this versatile,” senior forward TaShawn Thomas said.

Hield said the Sooners wouldn’t be backing down from Niang and plan is to go right at him.

“Niang has to guard us to,” Hield said. “I feel like we need JACQUELINE EBY/THE DAILY to get after him and get in his head a little bit.”

Sophomore forward Ryan Spangler makes the dunk during the game Tip-off is set for 8 p.m. and ESPN will carry the broadcast against Iowa State on Jan. 11, 2014 at Lloyd Noble Center. The as part of their “Big Monday” series.

Sooners beat the Cyclones 87-82.

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he OU softball team more than met preseason expectations after going undefeated this weekend in the Oceanic Time Warner Cable Paradise Classic in Honolulu.

The Sooners rallied to win their season opener

9-2 against 25th ranked DePaul on Thursday. Senior a n d 2 0 1 4 N C A A F i r s tTeam All-American Lauren Chamberlain is off to an incredible start already this season, as she homered in her first at bat and helped the team come back to defeat the Blue Demons.

From there they continued to win all weekend, handsomely defeating St. Mary’s and Hawaii 17-0 and 7-0 respectively on Saturday. Chamberlain picked up two more home runs paired with a career high seven RBIs in the win over St. Mary’s. She now has 75 homers in her career

and is tied with Ball State’s Jennifer Gilbert (2011-14) for eighth all time. She is only 15 away from tying the all-time Division I record of 90 set by UCLA’s Stacey Nuveman (1997-02).

Chamberlain is not the only player to have a standout start to the season. The pitching staff did exceptionally well all weekend, shutting out everyone except DePaul, who scored five runs in their two games against the Sooners. In the Sooner’s first matchup against Hawaii, senior and 2014 First-Team AllAmerican Shelby Pendley had a career high ten strike

outs to help advance the team into the first seed for bracket play on Saturday.

OU went on to defeat DePaul again Saturday 11-3, advancing to the championship game against Hawaii on Saturday night. The game consisted of more steady offense from top to bottom of the lineup as seven different Sooners had RBIs. With Pendley and Chamberlain performing at top potential already, freshman Paige Parker is looking like a promising young player for the Sooners. Parker produced all weekend

offensively, but she finished the weekend with an outstanding performance by throwing a perfect game in the championship victory against Hawaii 8-0.

Parker had a career-high nine strikeouts, including the first four batters of the game, to compliment what was only the ninth perfect game in OU history.

Every run scored in the championship game was produced by newcomers to OU in 2015. Seven by freshman, and one from junior transfer Tori Nirschl.

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for the Sooners in their season debut, and the production already seen by the freshman class can mean nothing but good things for OU as they develop and improve. Not forgetting Chamberlain’s chase for the all-time home run record, there are plenty of exciting story lines to watch as the season moves forward.

The ladies will hit the road once again to compete in the Littlewood Classic next weekend in Tempe, Arizona.

They start the tournament with an 11 a.m. matchup against Boston on Friday.

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Oklahoma hopes to continue its win streak as the Sooners face off against the high-powered Iowa State Cyclones tonight at 8 p.m.

Iowa State boasts the highest scoring offense in the Big 12 as the Cyclones feature two of the top 10 scorers in the conference. Oklahoma comes into this game shooting nearly 50 percent in the last four games, led by the conference’s top scorer, junior guard Buddy Hield.

Backcourt Iowa State has the league’s top assist man in sophomore guard Monte Morris. The 6-foot-2 guard’s playmaking ability is a big reason why the Cyclones are first in the nation in assists. The Cyclones backcourt is filled with players who can distribute the ball, shoot from deep or just plain put the ball in the basket.

Still it’s hard to argue against the Sooners’ premium backcourt trio of sophomore guard Jordan Woodard and junior guards Hield and Isaiah Cousins. Especially Hield, who currently averages 17.6 points per game, a Big 12 best. Cousins holds the front as a two-way perimeter

Oklahoma junior forward Ryan Spangler has been on fire as of late. Known for making an impact away from the stat sheet, Spangler’s recent scoring performances are showing up in the box scores. Just one week after the 6-foot8 forward dropped a season-high 20 points in the Sooners’ record-setting win against Texas Tech, Spangler matched his career-high of 21 points against one of the best defenses in the Big 12 in a road win versus TCU. The Cyclones hold a surging big man of their own in junior forward Jameel McKay. McKay made his first appearance as a starter against Texas Tech and did not disappoint, logging in a perfect 7-7 from the field for 17 points as well as eight rebounds and three blocks en route to a 75-38 dismantling of the Red Raiders.

The trump card here is one of the Big 12’s perennial favorites for the conference’s player of the year award and leading Cyclone scorer Georges Niang. The junior forward is a walking mismatch with his prolific, versatile scoring. Niang is shooting a career-best 41 percent from beyond the arc, forcing opposing bigs

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to guard him out on the perimeter. The 6-foot-8 forward also hoists over five rebounds per game and dishes a strong three-and-a-half assists per game.

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On the opposing side is the promising Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg. In his short four-year coaching tenure, he has elevated the Cyclones from a mediocre basketball program to a yearly threat in the Big 12. And for the former Big 12 Coach of the Year, this Cyclones unit is on pace to be his best team yet. Iowa State runs a high-octane offense with plenty of spacing and ball movement. Hoiberg has frequently worked his rotations throughout the year with minimal bumps and maximizes the strengths of his players. Not many have had better coaching performances this season than the man in charge of the Cyclones.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pharrell’s two-year-old song is still bringing him happiness: The performer, who won four Grammys last year, won three awards Sunday and is still a contender for album of the year.

The singer-rapper-producer won best pop solo performance for a live version of “Happy,” released in 2013. He also won best music video for the song as well as best urban contemporary album for “G I R L,” beating Beyonce.

“I am going to moonwalk my way off the stage right now,” said Pharrell, wearing a blazer and shorts.

Beyonce and Rosanne Cash also won three awards, while Sam Smith was a double winner.

Pharrell’s performance of “Happy” was dramatic with background dancers in black, musicians in yellow and a choir in white.

When the chorus was supposed to come in, Lang Lang played the piano skillfully. Hans Zimmer also played the guitar. “ T h a n k y o u , G o d ,” Pharrell, in a bell-boy hat, said at the end of the performance. “I am at your service lord.”

Katy Perry, in all white, sang the ballad “By the Grace of God” after a woman who had been abused talked about getting help and moving on with her life. A video of President Barack Obama appeared before she spoke, and he encouraged artists to help out.

“It’s on us, all of us, to create a culture where violence isn’t tolerated,” he said.

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“Let’s give it up for our bitch Madonna,” Cyrus said as she introduced Madonna.

“She made me call her that.”

Kanye West performed on a nearly pitch-black stage, with a light glowing from under his feet (he also sported the new sneakers he designed). He sang the new song about his late mother, “Only One,” which features Paul McCartney.

Smith, who won best new artist and pop vocal album for “In the Lonely Hour,” is set to perform with Mary J. Blige. He said he only found success in music once he found his own voice.

“I just wannasay that before I made this record, I was doing everything to try to get my music heard ... I tried to lose weight and I was making awful music. It was when I started to be myself that the music flowed,” he told the crowd.

Tayl o r Sw i f t p re s e nted best new artist to her friend, who is nominated for album, song and record of the year.

“As a former loser of best new artist ... it’s gonna be fine. Just shake it off,” Swift said before announcing the winner.

Beyonce won best R&B song and R&B performance for “Drunk In Love” and surround sound album for “Beyonce.”

“This has been such an incredible year,” she said, thanking her “beloved husband” and “my daughter who is watching.”

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Ariana Grande gave a stripped, piano-led performance of “Just a Little Bit of Your Heart,” a song co-writt e n by O n e D i re c t i o n ’s Harry Styles, while Miranda Lambert brought a rockheavy vibe when she sang “Little Red Wagon.” She won best country album for “Platinum.”

“I put my heart and soul in this record,” she said.

“Thank you so much for this amazing night. I love yall!”

As the Grammys preshow ended, Cash led with three Grammys, while Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Chick Corea and the “Frozen” soundtrack earned two awards apiece.

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Lamar, who lost in seven categories last year, marked a redemption by winning best rap performance and rap song for “i.” Eminem won best rap album, beating Common and Iggy Azalea.

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Many Polar Plungers arrive in costume to make the plunge an even more fun event. The statewide goal for the 2015 Annual Polar Plunge is to raise $300,000 or more for Special Olympics Oklahoma. The goal for Norman Polar Plunge is $30,000.

“If you don’t get around to registering to plunge before Saturday, that’s OK, because we will sign you up on the day of the plunge,” said Jennifer Lightle, Special Olympics Oklahoma Development Director. “Last year, we had many people register on the morning of the plunge, which makes my job so exciting. It’s only $75 to register and all of the money raised stays right here in Oklahoma to support programs for more than 10,500 Special Olympics Oklahoma athletes.”

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Victoria Bautista will kick off the event!

A REASON TO

A conversation with Kevin Hines, who attempted suicide at 19, and Kevin Briggs, the “Guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge.”

SURVIVAL, COMPASSION, AND THE MIRACLE OF LIFE.

McCASLAND FIELD HOUSE TUESDAY, FEB. 10 7-8:30 PM

LIVE

SAM’S Best Buys Big selection, latest styles

REAL BARGAINS!

Family Ski Wear Children Chil Ch ildr dren en tto o King Kin Ki n Size

Skiing for Spring Break?

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