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UOSA candidates to hold open forum Question and answer meeting to provide students chance to voice concerns, coordinator says CHRIS MILLER The Oklahoma Daily

Students can meet with student government representatives and spring election candidates today during “An Evening with UOSA.” At the event, students will be able to meet with the representatives and candidates for UOSA presidential and vice presidential positions, Campus Activities Council chair and Housing Center Student Association president, event coordinator Alyssa Loveless said.

“It’s an opportunity for students to get to know their representatives in student government and voice any concerns they may have,” said Loveless, human relations junior.

“An Evening with UOSA” was conceived as a meeting “This is one of the best events we do,” Landis said. between students and UOSA presidential and vice presi- “We hope to field all kinds of questions during and help dential representatives and candidates, but Loveless said students get a better idea of what the candidates are all it was expanded to include candidates and about.” representatives from CAC and the Housing UOSA President Franz Zenteno said the Center Student Association. event is a chance for students to stress priAt 7 p.m. the candidates will participate in orities the future UOSA president and vice a question-and-answer forum with students, president should focus on next year.

WHEN: 6 to 8 tonight Loveless said.

“Campaigning as a whole requires atTo participate, students must submit their tending many different events in order to WHERE: The first floor question in writing on cards that will be proget your word out,” Zenteno said. “This is a of Walker Center vided, Loveless said. great opportunity for all candidates to share Joshua Landis, Walker Center Faculty-intheir projects with the student body.”

Residence, will moderate the forum.

“An Evening With UOSA” is open to all Forums like “An Evening With UOSA” present opportu- students and food will be provided, according to a press nities for students to learn more about the people and or- release. ganizations that represent them on campus, said Landis, Center for Middle Eastern Studies director.

Sara Groover contributed to this story.

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Capel loses job, keeps paycheck Recently fired men’s basketball coach will receive salary through 2016, benefits through June NICHOLAS HARRISON The Oklahoma Daily

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ormer OU men’s basketball coach Jeff Capel will receive more than $2.2 million during the remainder of his employment agreement with the university.

OU Athletic Director Joe Castiglione announced the decision to fire Capel in a press release March 14.

“After careful consideration, it has been determined that our men’s basketball program would be best served by a change of direction,” Castiglione said. “Therefore, we are making a change in the head coaching position.”

OU President David Boren supported the decision.

“The decision that has been reached is in the best interest of both coach Capel and the basketball program,” Boren said. “I appreciate Jeff’s hard work and commitment as head coach, and wish him well in the future.”

Capel is entitled to his $250,000 base salary plus benefits through June 30, 2016 — $1,322,916.67 payable over the next 63 1/2 months, according to his contract.

While employed by OU, Capel also received $350,000 per year for promotional and fundraising activities and $950,000 per year for personal services — with scheduled raises in

OU men’s basketball coach Jeff Capel instructs his team during the first half against Baylor in the first round of the Big 12 tournament March 9 in Kansas City, Mo. Oklahoma fired Capel on March 14 after the Sooners ended with the program’s first back-to-back losing seasons since 1967.

Constitutional law seminar to feature attorney, federal judge The first-ever constitutional studies symposium will take place at 9:30 a.m. Friday in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Associates Room.

The event will feature David Cole, Georgetown law professor and civil liberties attorney, and Arthur Raymond Randolph, U.S. Court of Appeals judge, and will be hosted by the OU Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage, according to a press release.

The theme of the symposium is “Habeas Corpus: Law and Legitimacy in Times of Crisis.”

A dinner and lecture commemorating the symposium will be held at 7 p.m. It will offer students an opportunity to hear more ideas and have a questionand-answer session with Cole and Randolph.

“The discussion between Judge Randolph and professor David Cole will provide insights into the difficult question of how our nation should strike the right balance between national security and personal freedom,” OU President David Boren said.

— Russell Taylor/The Daily

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Former Sooner still in city election battle Jeff Riles to run unopposed UOSA ELECTIONS

After winning spot in runoff, Stephen Tyler Holman will face Linda Lockett for City Council seat in May 10th election

Incoming president hopes to improve, strengthen law school from within

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A slip of paper and a 50 percent chance is all it took to keep an OU student’s campaign to join Norman’s City Council alive.

Stephen Tyler Holman, former OU student, was selected as the runoff-election candidate for Ward 7 after the original election produced no winner.

Linda Lockett received 164 votes, or 47.95 percent, which was not the majority needed to be elected as the next council member for the ward.

Holman and Brande Kauffman had been tied for second place in the March 1 municipal election with 89 votes each.

The Cleveland County Election Board had to draw names on papers out of a container to decide Lockett’s opponent, Election Board Secretary Paula Roberts said.

Holman, who attended the name drawing with his girlfriend and her daughter, said he got up at 7:50 a.m. the morning of the drawing after not getting any sleep due to thinking about the decision and how long they have had to wait for it since the election. “[I was] just kind of excited and nervous at the same time even though having no control over this overall ... just nerves, I’d say,” Holman said.

“I’m hoping we can get more people out to vote [in the runoff] and that’s going to be the toughest part.”

Kauffman, a local lawyer, said she would be throwing her support behind Lockett because of her business experience. Norman is going to need a council member who can effectively deal with the city’s projected $3 million deficit, she said.

“I feel like she has the good business acumen and the ability to make the tough calls when it comes to those cuts, and hopefully she won’t do it at the expense of city employees,” Kauffman said.

Ward 7 includes most of the OU Norman campus, excluding the Max Westheimer Airport. The runoff election will occur May 10.

Jeff Riles said he could accomplish his aspirations as Student Bar Association president if he focuses on a few specific goals.

In accomplishing these goals, Riles said he hopes to get more students participating in the Student Bar Association to make it a leading organization on campus.

Riles is a second-year law student and is running unopposed for association president.

Riles received his bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma City University, where he served a s s t u d e n t- b o d y p re s i d e n t and worked on the Jari Askins campaign.

He said he feels qualified to be the organization’s president because he has served as community service chairman and has ideas how to improve the organization.

Riles’ has innovative plans for the association, said Christa Evans, current president.

“He has a bright and promising

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future ahead of him,” Evans said.

Riles said he wants to recruit talented people to be involved in Student Bar Association. He said he will do this by inviting people to take on leadership roles in the organization.

Riles said he wants to coordinate activities with other organizations at the law school. He said this collaboration would make the association the premier leadership organization at the law school.

Currently, Riles is looking at creating a fee that possibly would add $2 to $3 per credit hour for

law students, which would allow the association to fund to other law organizations.

Also on Riles’ agenda is a program he said he would call Sooner Summit. At the beginning of the school year, Sooner Summit would bring law students, faculty and organizations together to create an events calendar to promote collaboration on events.

Riles said he also hopes to improve new-student orientation into the law school. Riles also said he wants to make the Student Bar Association’s meetings more efficient and improve career development in the college.

Riles said his most important aspiration is to raise the profile of Student Bar Association.

“We have a really great law school but there are always ways we can do better,” Riles said.

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nless you’ve been tweet for him in 75 charunder a very, very acters is harder than it STAFF COLUMN MN sheltered rock sounds. And it sounds for the past few weeks, you pretty difficult.

Sydney Allen n know of the train wreck that It took me days to dehas become troubled actor cide I would actually Charlie Sheen’s existence. apply. I wondered if my Professing he has cured his drug prob- small contribution would somehow enlems with his mind, he has taken two courage his insanity. porn-star “goddesses” into his home and I debated mentioning how much I like plastered his face on Ustream and ABC fedoras. I considered telling him I watch talking about, well, everything. his interviews whenever I bomb an asHis erratic actions, probably caused by signment. Babysitting his small children all of that Adonis DNA, have led to the loss also was an option I was willing to toss out of his cushy, $2-million-an-episode gig as there. Those goddesses can’t have much Charlie Harper on the CBS show “Two and experience with watching Disney Channel a Half Men.” all day like I do.

While his mock-serious Suggestions from friends rants concerning warlocks involved pretending to be Once I read his and tiger blood might a potential “goddess” and seem to be caused by a cooffering to slay a tiger for tweet about hiring a caine bender, he has conhim. social-media expert sistently tested negative My final submission to work for him and for drugs since his retreat took days to compose. I his Guinness recordinto “Sober Valley Lodge” ended up with a truly winbreaking Twitter (read: his own home). So ning statement. account, I took what is Sheen up to now? “#Tigerblood snocones Hiring interns. are my fav. #Winning like notice. I’m a champ Once I read his tweet Dj kahled! Tweet me, at Facebook stalking about hiring a social-meSheen.” and I know what dia expert to work for him Exactly 75 characters! I trending topics are. I and his Guinness recordwas glowingly proud of my felt fairly qualified.” breaking Twitter account, creation. I managed to inI took notice. I’m a champ clude his favorite hashtags, at Facebook stalking and I my favorite summer snack know what trending topics are. I felt fairly and the most popular song about winning qualified. ever.

The splashy website adorned with Apparently, this wasn’t good enough for Sheen’s signature fedora asked me if I the Sheenster. I did not move on to the secwas “all about #Winning” and if I could ond round of intern selection. Hopefully “#PlanBetter than anyone else.” The ap- this doesn’t bode ill for my actual future plication involved the simple task of tell- job prospects. I’m much better at #winED ANDRIESKI/AP ing Sheen why I was winning in 75 char- ning at journalism.

Charlie Sheen waves as he leaves the Pitkin County Courthouse with his attorney Richard acters or less.

Cummins on June 7 in Aspen, Colo. Sheen recently took to Twitter to call for people interested Developing a concise argument of why — Sydney Allen, to become his social media intern, and The Daily’s Sydney Allen took notice and applied. a manic Hollywood star should hire me to University College freshman

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Award-winning filmmaker to make OKC bombing movie Nearly 16 years ago, the clerk on McVeigh’s defense nation was taken by shock, team, which was driven to STAFF COLUMN MN heartbreak and unyielding prove a conspiracy led to disillusionment in regard McVeigh’s demise.

Laron to the historical bombing The film, which goes Chapman n of Oklahoma City’s Alfred P. into production this year, Murrah Federal Building. will chronicle the extraorThe tragedy — perpetuated by Timothy dinary circumstances leading up to the McVeigh and co-conspirator Terry Nichols, Oklahoma City bombing and the factual who claimed the lives of 168 American citi- account of Wold’s brother, who fought to zens — was a disturbing event that contin- unlock the secrets behind the traumatic ues to affect the lives of the families involved incident. as well as the state at large.

While the film is not yet cast, it will be In fact, before the attacks on the World produced and financed by Peter Safran Trade Center on Sept. 11, the Oklahoma of Safran Co., whose recent release of the City bombing was hailed as the most dev- Ryan Reynolds thriller “Buried” (2010) astating act of terrorism ever committed on was a surprising critical success.

U.S. soil.

Of the many theoNow, post-9/11, the ries about McVeigh’s horrific event has been background, includThe film, which goes into curiously muted, at ing his involvement production this year, will least from a cinematic with a right-wing white chronicle the extraordinary perspective.Even the supremacist group 9/11 attacks have incircumstances leading up to o r h a v i n g M i d d l e spired two Hollywood the Oklahoma City bombing Eastern connections, films: Paul Greengrass’ it is unknown at this and the factual account of “United 93” and Oliver point what aspects of Wold’s brother who fought Stone’s “World Trade McVeigh’s life the filmto unlock the secrets behind makers aim to explore.

Center,” both released the traumatic incident.” in 2006.

Whether their inHowever, with the tent is to humanize release of many disasMcVeigh, suggesting ter films over the last several years — in- his decisions were motivated by societal, cluding Roland Emmerich’s “The Day After governmental and foreign pressures, has Tomorrow” (2004) and “2012” (2009) — not yet been revealed.

Hollywood appears to be more interested However, the prospect of a feature film in capitalizing on the world’s fears of the providing a release and revealing uneffects of global warming or some kind of answered questions is nothing short of viral or religious apocalypse. intriguing.

Well, all that is about to change. Just a It’s safe to argue potential viewers of the few weeks ago, Deadline.com publicized film will collectively trust the filmmakers the decision of Academy Award-winning will not exploit or undermine the pain and f i l m m a k e r B a r r y L e v i n s o n ( “G o o d suffering of the historic event.

Morning, Vietnam,” “Rain Man”) to direct As it stands today, Oklahoma natives can the indie-drama tentatively titled “O.K.C.” feel honored a famous Hollywood director Levinson, well known for his Emmy- has agreed to film an event in our local hisand Golden Globe-winning HBO film “You tory that, figuratively speaking, hits home.

Don’t Know Jack,” will be collaborating with first-time screenwriter Clay Wold.

— Laron Chapman, Wold’s brother Chad was a young legal film and video studies senior

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THUMBS UP ›› Students can ask questions to UOSA candidates from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight in Walker Center (page 1)

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Puppies were a good start Rep. Stiles Before spring break, the student government succeeded The March 9 event proved students are willing to come to in getting students to an event and failed to capitalize on the UOSA events, but that students must be provided with a cudmass of people and puppies populating the South Oval. dly puppy to play with.

A lack of student involvement has plagued UOSA events Tonight, UOSA can connect with students and inform them this year and UOSA members said they about the March 29 and 30 election durhave looked for ways to reach out and ining “An Evening with UOSA” at 6 p.m. in crease student involvement.

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The puppy parade drew in On March 9, UOSA seemed to find a Students can meet the candidates runa whole new demographic solution — puppies. It is likely more stuning for office and submit questions by of students who usually dents attended “Puppies with UOSA” 7 p.m. to be used during a question and ignore student government than most other UOSA events this seanswer session. and aren’t informed about mester. While some UOSA events — like We hope students attend the discuscampus issues or elections.” sion and learn about the candidate’s football tailgates — do have notable attendance, they tend to draw the same platform issues. Students should submit crowd of students who are obligated to attend. thoughtful questions about issues such as — How much will The puppy parade drew in a whole new demographic of tuition increase? How will candidates incorporate foreign exstudents who usually ignore student government and aren’t change and transfer students? informed about campus issues or elections.

We shouldn’t sit around and wait for UOSA to approach us.

Despite the event’s impressive turnout, UOSA members Let’s take the initiative and take our questions straight to the didn’t take advantage of the crowd and inform pet lovers source. about UOSA. This was a great opportunity to play with puppies and inform students about issues around campus.

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The news is not necessary for life Most of the news is worthless. They say we what’s going on. have to keep up with all the transient pheAs students, we shouldn’t be spending our STAFF COLUMN nomena, but why? For most private citizens, time gazing on shallow particulars; it is ours the actions of those far away don’t matter; to learn the universals, the principals behind they do little to affect us, and we do little to all these shifting appearances. This vanishGerard Keiser affect them. ing time is given to us so we may gorge ourEven if you are among those praise-worthy selves on wisdom, devouring the centuries of few who aim to change things, you have probably realized you thought that alone can give order to the news. It is our duty as must specialize. Only fools spread their efforts over every fash- students to escape the dim cave, where dull, meaningless imionable cause, leaping from oppression to education to mal- ages wander past our eyes, and into the light of ideas, so our nutrition, never pausing to offer deep and prolonged effort in eyes may understand these fleeting things by first seeing the any direction. So, the charities waste your money, awareness patterns they spring from. campaigns are forgotten and the stone rolls back down the If you can look upon the factions in the Middle East and hill. As a result, much of the news is irrelevant to even the most cannot say what Kant and Mill and Aristotle would think about involved and active of us. it – worse, if you don’t know what you think of it – maybe you Still less necessary than letting the news steal our time and should stop looking and read some books on political philosattention is letting the news steal our whole day; what does ophy — which you will never learn despite how many newsnot affect us immediately need not be papers and news channels you support. known immediately. As an example, for Not to say news is totally worthless. those who have no special connection Republics demand informed citizens, We would know far more there, it is vain curiosity to keep checkand it’s important to be able to have an about what’s really going ing the news on Libya. Or if you lived in intelligent conversation about current on if we would get a couple a monastery for a couple months and events, while for a very few, knowledge of good weeklies or monthlies, all the swirling happenings is truly necesdidn’t learn the outcome of a presidential election until six weeks afterwards, and then in the time that we sary and most of us just enjoy the news as would it really matter? a form of entertainment – I certainly do. saved we could read books Come to think of it, what did you learn Yet, remembering we really are amuson economics and history.” from yesterday’s news? ing rather than educating ourselves, we After all the unreliable factoids, unimshould resolve to gain true knowledge of portant fillers, schmaltzy human interest stories, repetition of lasting things, instead of vague opinions on the pretty flowers old events and those wretched, wretched commentators who that will wither tomorrow. divide their time between flattering their partisans and snarlJournalists keep asking themselves why citizens are so mising at their enemies, how long did you spend for each snippet informed. Maybe they should tell their customers to purchase of real knowledge that you will remember and keep with you less journalism. and act on?

We would know far more about what’s really going on if we — Gerard Keiser, would get a couple good weekly or monthly papers, and then linguistics and classical languages junior in the time that we saved we could read books on economics and history in order to take hold of the background behind Comment on this column at OUDaily.com

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Bullying should not be taken lightly I believe bullying on campus is a serious issue. On March 3, I attended a public lecture titled “Why Women’s History Matters” at the Oklahoma Memorial Union to celebrate women’s history month. I learned a great deal about women in history and the importance of teaching our youth about diverse historical perspectives.

After the lecture, I was chatting with fellow lecture attendees when a man approached our group and stated that he was security for the state capitol and that we had two minutes to leave before the police arrived to arrest us. I was stunned. I had no idea why this man was threatening us with arrest. He physically pushed his way through our group taking photos. It was intimidating, especially considering my complete lack of any provoking behavior.

After he left, Susan Sharp, acting director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, decided we should call the police and report this bullying and harassing behavior. I still had no idea why this guy was telling us we were going to be arrested. A fellow lecture attendee explained to me that the event in the next room was for the Eden Clinic, a crisis pregnancy center.

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center was and I still had no idea why a man who was security from the state capitol would threaten us with arrest for chatting in the union.

The police arrived and informed us that the man in question was not security from the state capitol but rather he was misrepresenting himself and was actually a state representative for east Norman, Aaron Stiles. He erroneously assumed we were there to protest the Eden Clinic so he threatened us to leave. Why would he assume that we were there to protest the Eden Clinic? I have no idea.

I don’t like being bullied or feeling threatened. I was glad to see Sharp’s letter about this in The Oklahoma Daily (March 10) and The Norman Transcript (March 14).

Unfortunately, on March 11, a raving story comprised of unverified material was posted in The Norman Transcript. This letter is in very poor taste for many reasons. First, there are many falsities in this story. Stiles claims students were yelling an absurd pro-abortion slogan “We love killing babies,” something that most certainly didn’t take place — I can assure you, this was not the case since none of these people are “proabortion.”

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posters and we certainly weren’t yelling. How could we possibly be protesting? Stiles also speculates that the “Why Women’s History Matters” event was “but a sham meeting to legitimize the protest.” But our event was scheduled well before the Eden Clinic event was scheduled, so how could this possibly be the case? Stiles also claims the event wasn’t posted on the Facebook page, but it certainly was. The poster advertising the event I received in an email Jan. 31 can be found on the Center for Social Justice Facebook page and it also is posted as an event on Facebook that 43 people RSVP’d to.

While Stiles and the editor of this outburst should have verified these facts, these blatant lies are not the most egregious part of this letter. Stiles continues to libel but also engages in vicious slander of Sharp. He states that she is an “irrational person” who “bashes people who protect the constitution.” After such hateful comments, he claims he is not a bully, but how can this be the case since he is the one who is directly attacking the personal values and convictions of another human being?

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should realize he is in the wrong Heated exchanges hav e b e e n f l y i n g b e STAFF COLUMN MN tween Oklahoma State Representative Aaron Matt Bruenig nig Stiles and sociology professor Susan Sharp after an incident occurred on March 3 in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

On this date, the Center for Social Justice held an event titled “Why Women’s History Matters” which was led by nationally-renowned feminist Shelby Knox. At the same time, a banquet took place for the local anti-abortion group Eden Clinic which was attended by Stiles.

Near the end of these events, an altercation occurred between Representative Stiles and several attendees of the women’s history event. The exact nature of the altercation is disputed. Sharp maintains that Stiles aggressively interrupted a group of people talking after the event and took pictures of them, all the while claiming he had called the police. Representative Stiles maintains the group of students was participating in an organized protest against the event and they had assaulted him.

I was not at the event, and so it is impossible to say for sure what actually happened. Nonetheless, Stiles’ press release on the matter contains assertions about Susan Sharp and the women’s history event that I decided to look into the incident. It turns out these assertions are not only false, but in some cases border on the absurd.

In his account, Stiles suggests the women’s history event was a sham, and what was really going on in the union was a protest led by Susan Sharp. As evidence for this assertion, he claims there was no Facebook page for the event. This Sharp maintains that is false: there was a Stiles aggressively Facebook page for the interrupted a group of event that I was easily people talking after able to locate. the event and took Beyond this bizarre Facebook page claim, pictures of them, all confirmation emails the while claiming from the union indihe had called the cate the women’s hispolice. Representative tory event had their Stiles maintains the room reserved by Jan. 27. So, if we were to group of students believe Stiles’ conwas participating in spiracy theory, we an organized protest would be forced to against the event and believe the Center for they had assaulted him.” Social Justice rented a room a month and a half ahead of time and brought in a nationally-renowned activist who works in New York, all in order to create an alibi for a protest which consisted of (if you accept Stiles’ story) a couple of students saying they love abortion.

This is either one of the worst executed conspiracies or protests in history!

In addition to this alternative reality, Stiles suggested — with obviously no evidence whatsoever — Sharp runs a Tumblr blog called “Oklahoma Hates Women.” This too is flat out false. Oklahoma Hates Women is run exclusively by Jonathan Contreras, an OU undergraduate student.

So, in Stiles’ story, we have two provable lies and one conspiracy theory that is laughable at best.

There is one last thing to consider though. Why would Stiles act in the way Sharp claims he did without provocation? I mean, generally speaking, people do not just aggressively initiate altercations for no reason right? A look into Stiles’ past might be able to explain this.

According to Norman Police Department reports, Stiles has had the police called on him at least three times since 2007. One time, the police were called after Stiles allegedly banged on the window of a local Sonic and accused the manager of “running around with their head cut off like a fucking chicken.”

On another occasion, neighbors of Stiles called the police after a road-rage incident in which Stiles allegedly flipped them off and then threatened to shoot his neighbor and their 12-year-old daughter. The police were called once again in a related event after Stiles allegedly stopped this neighbor in the middle of the street, and tried to pick a fight with him, saying among other things that the victim was a “poor broke motherfucker.”

The-12-year old daughter was also reported as present in the report.

Since Stiles now has a fourth accusation of aggressive behavior against him involving the police, it could be that unprovoked attacks are just how Stiles operates.

With all the provable lies in his story and a checkered past, Stiles would be wise to back off and avoid further embarrassment.

— Matt Bruenig, philosphy senior

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Unbeaten OU falls Sooners drop first meet this season to Nebraska in Big 12 Championship GREG FEWELL The Oklahoma Daily

T h e No. 4 a n d p re v i ously unbeaten Sooner women’s gymnastics team came in second just behind No. 11 Nebraska on Saturday afternoon at the Big 12 Championships in Columbia, Mo. The Cornhuskers won 196.775-197.500, with Iowa State and Missouri finishing third and fourth, respectively.

The Sooners posted a 49.100 on floor and only trailed Nebraska by onetenth after the first rotation of the night. However, the team dug itself a hole it could not overcome with the next two rotations.

The Sooners posted their third-lowest score of the season on vault and secondlowest of the year on bars.

Even though the team performed so poorly on the vault, it still did enough to cut Nebraska’s lead to .075 heading to the third rotation. Junior Sara Stone led the Sooners on the event from the anchor position with a 9.875, and freshman Madison Mooring and sophomore Natasha Kelley scored 9.825 and 9.8 respectively to help the team cut into the Cornhuskers’ lead.

The major problems showed up on the bars. The Sooners had two falls and entered the final rotation fourtenths behind Nebraska.

The Sooners were ranked No. 2 in the nation in the event going into the championships; however, they

What you might have missed in Sooner sports over break MARCH 11

WEDNESDAY

» WBB — Texas A&M 81, Oklahoma 68 » BB — Oklahoma 11, Arkansas-Little Rock 4 » MTENN — Oklahoma 4, Arizona 2 » WGYM — Oklahoma 196.875, Michigan State 194.800 » T&F — Mookie Salaam leads Sooner competitors with 200-meter national title

» SB — Notre Dame 2, Oklahoma 1 » BB — Arizona State 6, Oklahoma 4

THURSDAY » SB — Oklahoma 4, DePaul 3 (8 innings) » SB — Oklahoma 5, Arizona 3

FRIDAY

MARCH 12 » BB — Oklahoma 2, Arkansas-Little Rock 1 » MGYM — Oklahoma 357.750, Michigan 355.400 » SB — Oklahoma 9, Indiana 0 (5 innings) » SB — Oklahoma 15, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 0 (5 innings) » T&F — Women close indoor season in programbest sixth at NCAA championships

MARCH 13 » WTENN — Oklahoma 7, Colorado 0 » SB — Oklahoma 1, Missouri State 0 » MTENN — Oklahoma 6, San Diego State 1 » BB — Arkansas-Little Rock 7, Oklahoma 0 » SB — Oklahoma 9, Missouri State 1 (6 innings)

MARCH 14

» SB — Penn State 5, Oklahoma 2 » SB — Oklahoma 13, Pacific 2 (5 innings) » WTENN — Oklahoma 6, Nebraska 1 » MTENN — Virginia 5, Oklahoma 2 » BB — Oklahoma 1, Texas A&M 0 » Wrestling — Tyler Caldwell tops OU performers with second-place finish at 165 pounds

SATURDAY » SB — Oklahoma 7, Washington 6 (8 innings) » WGYM — OU finishes second at Big 12 Championship » WTENN — Oklahoma 6, Iowa State 1 » BB — Texas A&M 11, Oklahoma 1 » MGYM — Oklahoma beats Penn State and Illinois to finish regular season undefeated » MGOLF — Sooners win 15-team Desert Shootout

» MBB — OU coach Jeff Capel fired JAMES CORLEY/THE DAILY

Sophomore Natasha Kelley performs her beam routine earlier this season. OU finished second in the Big 12 Championship.

Up next WHAT: NCAA Regional WHEN: 4 p.m. April 2 WHERE: Lloyd Noble Center needed to post a programrecord score of 49.725 to catch up to Nebraska.

Kelley and junior Megan Ferguson helped the team by scoring 9.925s on the beam, and senior Natalie

Ratcliff added a 9.9. All six gymnasts posted at least a 9.8 on the event to help propel the team to a seasonhigh beam score of 49.450, but it was not enough to earn the program its fourthstraight Big 12 title.

A few Sooners did bring home individual conference titles. Ferguson and Kelley split the beam title with their 9.925s, and sophomore Kayla Nowak split the floor title with Nebraska’s Erin Davis with her 9.9 on the event.

Individual Big 12 Conference title winners MEGAN FERGUSON

NATASHA KELLEY

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» Year: Junior » Hometown: Olathe, Kan. » Event: Beam (9.925)

» Year: Sophomore » Hometown: Katy, Texas » Event: Beam (9.925)

» Year: Sophomore » Hometown: Algonquin, Ill. » Event: Floor (9.9)

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Sooners end undefeated for 4th time in 7 seasons Oklahoma closes regular season unbeaten with win over Illinois, Penn State GREG FEWELL The Oklahoma Daily

The No. 2 Oklahoma men’s gymnastics team finished the regular season undefeated Saturday night by taking down No. 4 Illinois and No. 5 Penn State at McCasland Field House.

Finishing the regular season undefeated is nothing new for the Sooners. OU accomplished the feat four times in the past seven years and is on a 19-game home win streak.

But the Sooners outdid themselves Saturday. The team posted a 366.400, the highest score in the NCAA all season.

The Fighting Illini finished in a distant second with a 359.100, and Penn State was last with a 356.750.

Oklahoma won four of the six team event titles Saturday with high scores on floor, vault, parallel bars and high bar.

In fact, the team’s 64.900 on the vault was a new program record, spearheaded by sophomore Jacob Dalton, who tied senior Steven Legendre’s program record with a 16.700 on the apparatus. Dalton also took home

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Senior Steven Legendre performs his floor routine earlier this season. The Sooners finished the regular season undefeated. the title on the floor.

Legendre took home an event title with his 15.350 on the floor. The senior also won the all-around title with a total score of 91.250 in a very solid night for the senior in his last home meet.

Along with Legendre, Saturday marked the final home meet for seniors C.J. Grimes, Ian Jackson, A nt h o n y Na d d o u r a n d Bobby Shortle.

However, the most important meets of the season are

still ahead for the Sooners.

After a weeklong break, the Sooners kick off the postseason at the 2011 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championship on April 2 from Colorado Springs, Colo.

If the Sooners win the conference title, it will be the program’s 11th in the last 13 years.

After that, the team gets another break before the NCAA Qualifier on April 14 in Columbus, Ohio.

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Hand leads Oklahoma to second round Sophomore guard ties career high to help OU advance in tournament

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Points scored by sophomore Whitney Hand in the first-round win, matching her career high

ANNELISE RUSSELL The Oklahoma Daily

There are no easy games in the NCAA tournament, a lesson sixth-seeded OU nearly learned the hard way after escaping a second-half run by 11-seed James Madison, 86-72.

James Madison cut the lead to six in the final minutes of the second half, but OU’s guards sealed the Sooner win, helping OU advance to a second-round matchup against three-seed Miami (Fla.).

Sophomore guard Whitney Hand led all scorers with 24 points, and senior guard Danielle Robinson finished with 19 points amid foul trouble.

The Dukes made a game of it late, but it initially looked like OU would run away with the win.

Hand found success from the tip-off, scoring nine points through the first nine minutes of the first half.

The OU offense rolled to an early, 18-8 lead off a jumper by Hand. The defense also took control by limiting the touches of James Madison’s senior guard Dawn Evans, the second-leading scorer in the nation.

Despite the early advantage, it wasn’t a cakewalk — OU took its licks in the first half.

Senior forward Carlee Roethlisberger, who finished with eight points, twisted an ankle and wound up on the bench. She was joined by freshman center Nicole

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Points senior Danielle Robinson needs to pass LaNeisha Caufield for fourth on OU’s career scoring list

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OU guard Aaryn Ellenberg (3) drives past James Madison guard Courtney Hamner (10) during in the first round of the NCAA women’s college basketball tournament Sunday in Charlottesville, Va. The Sooners won 86-72.

Griffin, who took a shot to the nose.

Despite getting banged up, OU headed into the half with a 41-28 lead.

The Sooners extended the lead to 19, 62-43, through six minutes off a mid-range jumper by sophomore center Joanna McFarland.

James Madison put together a 6-0 run midway through the half, pulling to 69-56, but OU responded

and pushed its lead back to 15.

The Sooners again gave James Madison an opportunity when Robinson and Griffin headed to the bench with four fouls and nine minutes to play.

OU had a 15-point lead when Robinson left the game, but James Madison cut the lead to 11, 71-60, in Robinson’s four-minute absence.

Robinson was back in control with five minutes remaining, but even with the All-American on the floor, the Dukes cut the lead to single-digits, 74-65, with 3:32 to play.

Evans cut the lead to six for James Madison, but Robinson put a stop to the Dukes’ rally with five straight points before she fouled out with a minute to play.

Evans finished with 20

CAPEL: Basketball coach fired after team records second consecutive losing season

— DAVID BOREN, OU PRESIDENT back-to-back losing seasons. with cause if he knowingly particiAfter recruiting the first trio of high pated in, authorized, condoned or school McDonald’s All-Americans to failed to report material NCAA rules play together at OU, Willie violations. If terminated for Warren, Tiny Gallon and cause, Capel would lose all Tommy Mason-Griffin all pay and benefits. left the program early to Last year, the OU Board turn pro. of Regents commissioned Last May, OU revealed an audit of the athletic it released the phone redepartment’s systems for cords of former assistant monitoring compliance coach Oronde Taliaferro as but found no major issues. part of an ongoing NCAA “As we look to the future, investigation. we do so with a great uniOU had just emerged versity, a proud tradition in Jeff Capel from a probationary period basketball, continued comimposed by the NCAA for violations mitment to excellence in all areas and

by Capel’s predecessor, Sampson. some of the country’s finest facilities,” It was OU’s second probation in the Castiglione said. “We expect those past five years. qualities will play an important role Under the terms of his contract, in our search for a new coach. We’re Capel could have been terminated ready to embark on that process.”

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Sooners earn All-American honors

The decision that has been reached is in the best interest of both coach Capel and the basketball program. I appreciate Jeff’s hard work and commitment as head coach and wish him well in the future.”

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Double-digit scoring games for Robinson, second only to Courtney Paris in Oklahoma program history

WRESTLING

Continued from page 1 2012 and 2014. He will continue receiving those sums through June 30 — $379,166.67 during the next 3 1/2 months.

Capel would have received longevity deferred compensation of $1.1 million if he stayed through June 30, 2014, and another $400,000 if he stayed through June 30, 2016. Under the terms of his contract, he will receive $504,166.67 — a pro rata share of this sum.

Capel was the fourth-highest-paid men’s basketball coach in the Big 12 and the 15th-highest-paid in the NCAA, according to USA Today. He was hired in 2006 at an initial salary of $650,000 by Castiglione after previous coach Kelvin Sampson left for Indiana University. With outside income, his salary was $1,683,333 this year.

Capel compiled a 96-69 record during his tenure at OU. He also guided the Sooners to NCAA tournament appearances in 2008 and 2009. However, during the past two years, the OU basketball program has finished with

points for James Madison but was 0-of-11 from 3-point range. As a team, the Dukes were 2-of-26 with the 3-point arc.

OU finished the game shooting 46 percent from the field and 25 percent from the 3-point line. The Sooners also won the battle of the boards, 39-36.

The Sooners will tangle with Miami (Fla.) at 6 p.m.

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Three OU wrestlers finished the 2010-11 season honored as All-Americans on Saturday at the NCAA tournament in Philadelphia at Wells Fargo Arena.

Penn State won the team national championship, and Oklahoma finished 15th overall in the team standings.

Sophomore Jarrod Patterson (125 pounds) and senior Zack Bailey (141) finished seventh each at the tournament.

Patterson earned the first All-American distinction of his career in a victory over No. 4 James Nicholson of Old Dominion University. Bailey earned his second All-American honors with a win over No. 12 Zack Kemmerer of Penn.

Sophomore two-time All-American and third-ranked Tyler Caldwell (165) earned the highest individual placement of any Sooner with a second-place finish.

Caldwell won a semifinal match in overtime over secondranked Andrew Howe of Wisconsin to earn another chance to avenge losses against No. 1 Jordan Burroughs of Nebraska. But Burroughs’ power and technique once again proved too much for Caldwell and beat the Sooner, 11-3.

Burroughs, a fifth-year senior, also beat Caldwell in the finals of the Big 12 championship.

OU coach Jack Spates retires from Oklahoma having coached 56 All-Americans and six individual national champions. His 243 wins rank second all-time in OU history.

“I am so grateful for all the many experiences, all the great people and these kids that are so wonderful,” Spates said in a press release. “Sooner wrestling is going to be upward and onward, and I’ll be following it with pride.”

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