Thursday, March 27, 2014

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women’s history month To raise awareness for women on OU’s campus during Women’s History Month, The Daily is running a series of weekly profiles on various OU women throughout March. We also will be running stories about women’s issues in male-dominated fields, such as engineering and politics.

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MONEY

Program to assist veterans with cost of college at OU Partnership between OU and Veteran’s Affairs will make more funds available KELLY ROGERS Campus Reporter

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espite the rain and 41-degree temperature, students lined up under a tent Wednesday waiting for a turn to ride a camel on the South Oval.

OU Summer Session committee brought camels to campus, and students took minute-long rides. The event was to encourage students to take summer courses.

The camel riding began at 9:30 a.m. and by 10:45 a.m., OU Summer Session coordinator Steven Lee estimated about 150 students had participated. “We brought camels to campus today because it is Wednesday, which everyone knows it is hump day, so we just wanted to bring some camels out,� Lee said.

Lee said the camels catch entice students to approach the tent, where other OU Summer Session members and students talked to students about enrolling in summer courses. “We just want to tell students to enroll in summer (classes) because it’s a great opportunity to use their bank hours so they don’t go to waste,� Lee said.

Students enrolled in less than 30 hours during the fall and spring can take summer classes for free with the hours they banked through flat-rate tuition, Lee said.

Student signed a one-page waiver before getting in line to ride one of the two camels in the ring area. The event ended at noon.

While the event was supposed to remind students of summer classes, for one student, it reminded her of home. “I’m from Kuwait, and camels are what we have, and I wanted to think of my country,� petroleum engineering sophomore Wafaa Alamer said. “So why not take a chance and ride a camel?�

Alamer said she plans on taking classes during the first summer session.

Lee said the OU Summer Session committee will hand out free snow cones next Wednesday, as well as other “random� events in April. For more information on OU’s 2014 Summer Session, visit their website.

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Additional benefits are coming to OU’s Norman campus this fall for out-of-state student veterans to receive educational funding.

Through a 50-50 partnership between OU and the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, non-resident students will receive more funding, said Matt Hamilton, vice president and registrar for enrollment and student financial services.

OU President David Boren has recently approved increasing OU’s partner commitment through the Yellow Ribbon program, which will cover non-resident tuition charges beginning with the fall 2014 semester specific to Norman campus academic programs, Hamilton said.

Although the re-certification MATT HAMILTON process between the Yellow VICE PRESIDENT AND REGRibbon program and OU must ISTRAR FOR ENROLLMENT AND STUDENT FINANCIAL be approved by the Department SERVICES of Veteran’s Affairs, Hamilton said the partnership is great news for veteran students — like Stephen Judah, aerospace engineering sophomore, who is struggling to pay tuition.

For Judah and many other student veterans with residency issues, it’s not only a matter of determining their residency; it’s a matter of determining the future of their education.

Judah moved from Colorado to California, where he and his wife were stationed, to Texas and finally to Oklahoma.

Judah said he isn’t currently a resident of any of these states according to the requirements that determine residency.

Judah and his wife are considered out-of-state students and pay tuition for it, which has created a gap in funding and they are not being fully covered by the benefits. “If I’m not a resident of any of the places I’ve ever lived, am I a resident of just nowhere?� Judah said.

After six years of active duty service in the Marines Corps.

Judah decided to further his education and attend OU with his wife, Sarah.

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CAMPUS

OUDaily.com ›› Hump Day Flip through a collection of students’ photos from Wednesday’s camel-riding extravaganza, as well as a Storify of student Tweets.

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Stephen and Sarah Judah meet outside the Veteran Student Services office in Buchanan Hall on Monday afternoon, where Sarah Judah works as an administrative assistant. Stephen Judah often comes to say hello and do aerospace engineering and Chinese homework on his computer.

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Stephen and Sarah are just two out of the 516 students at OU receiving financial aid benefits in the form of a GI Bill.

“If it wasn’t for the GI Bill, we wouldn’t be able to be here at all,” Judah said. “We wouldn’t even be able to consider this.”

Judah and his wife are among the 345 student veterans who are currently receiving the Chapter 33 section of the GI Bill.

Over the past five years, the number of OU students using this particular chapter of benefits has more than doubled since 2009, according to records from the Veteran’s Student Services office.

The Bill, also known as the Post-9/11 GI Bill, is one of the five GI Bill chapters available to students through Veteran Student Services and is currently the most widely used on campus.

The Bills help to cover expenses such as monthly housing allowance, books and school supplies, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website.

“We wanted to go to a place that is good for families and

has good programs, and that’s why we came here,” Judah said.

Programs like the OU Disability Resource Center, Student Veterans Association and the Yellow Ribbon Program provide student veterans with financial and advising support as they make their way through college courses.

Drew Hendricks, a Marine Corps veteran and advertising major, works in Veterans Student Services helping student veterans find the resources they need.

Although the GI Bill is a helpful resource for students, it doesn’t always cover all of their tuition — and that’s where the Yellow Ribbon program comes in, Hendricks said.

Hamilton said OU has been involved with the Yellow Ribbon program since it’s inception a few years ago.

“The Yellow Ribbon Program is like a blanket laid on top of the [veteran’s] benefits,” Hendricks said. “And sometimes that blanket is short.”

This program is designed to cover the gap between what the GI Bill pays and what is left over after out-of-state tuition is charged. It is a supplement for GI Bill Chapter 33 eligible students, which currently provides benefits for up to $10,000 in non-resident tuition charges, Hamilton said.

Judah and his wife are currently experiencing just how

The Yellow Ribbon Program is like a blanket laid on top of the [veteran’s] benefits.”

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short this blanket can be, as they deal with the rules of the benefits they are receiving.

Each university determines how much money students receive to cover that gap and sometimes that funding doesn’t cover all the costs of attending the university, Hendricks said.

Kelly Rogers, kelly.n.rogers-1@ou.edu

ELECTIONS

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Meet the candidate for Student Bar Assoc.

SGA accepts nominations from students for 2014 Outstanding Staff and Outstanding Faculty awards

Student to run for uncontested position PAIGHTEN HARKINS Campus Editor

This year’s Student Government Association spring elections will be held on April 1 and 2. In the election, students can vote on the Student Bar Association candidate.

This year, the position — like all the SGA positions — are uncontested.

Before the election, The Daily asked the candidate — Elise Puma, second year law student — questions so Sooners could get a taste of who the new Student Bar Association president would be.

Reason for running: I quality of student life to lay am running for [Student a foundation for the future of students’ success and Bar Association] president, because I have a pasthe College of Law. Every sion for serving the OU law law student is automaticommunity. I have been cally a member of [Student involved with the [Student Bar Association], and it Bar Association] for the last is our job to support stu2 years and I want to condents in every step of their ELISE PUMA tinue enhancing student SECOND law school career. In adYEAR LAW STUDENT life at the law school to dition to planning events and activities that make not only make law school a great experience, but to also set our law school fun and rewarding, I want to students up for success in the legal enhance our focus on academic course profession. planning and the job search to provide What do you want to change: Like that support for all aspects of students’ the [Student Bar Association] presidents law school careers. before me, I want to build upon our

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The University’s Student Government Association is now accepting nominations from students for the 2014 Outstanding Staff and Outstanding Faculty awards.

This year there are separate forms for staff and faculty. Forms for nominations can be found on SGA’s website, and they include three questions about why the nominee deserves the award, according to the website.

SGA president Madeline Grunewald said the awards are a way for SGA to recognize outstanding faculty on campus.

Nominations for faculty are due April 3 at 4 p.m. and nominations for staff are due April 15 at 4 p.m. Both nomination forms must be turned into the SGA offices located in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Conoco Student Leadership Center, Room 181, according to a press release.

Emma Sullivan, Campus Reporter

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ENVIRONMENT

Go green: picnic to include tree planting Arbor Day celebration was created to honor the first OU President, David Boyd Shaida Tabrizi Campus Reporter @ShaidaBee

OU’s Duck Pond will have 60 new trees after this year’s annual Arbor Day celebration today, which will be preceded by a public picnic.

The event will take place at 11:30 a.m. in the David A. Burr Park, located at 1501 Asp Ave. During the picnic, OU President David Boren, Madeline Grunewald, Student Government Association president, and Clarke Stroud, university vice president for Student Affairs and dean of students, will speak, said Deanna Foster, special events assistant for Public Affairs.

Immediately after the picnic, attendees will walk to the Duck Pond, 600 Jenkins Ave., for the tree planting, Foster said.

The university community started recognizing Arbor Week in 1997 with the dedication of David A. Burr Park, honoring the late vice president for university affairs, according to a press release.

The first Arbor Day events were held to honor OU’s first president, David Ross Boyd, who invested a lot of his own money to plant thousands of trees all over campus, according to Daily archives.

Participants will follow Boyd’s example by planting 60 new trees at the ceremony, said Allen King, director of Landscaping and Grounds.

“Arbor Day is my favorite day of the year,” King said in an email. “I personally enjoy watching the students plant trees that will someday be enjoyed by future generations of students.”

Participants will plant red buds, white buds, water oaks, shumard oaks, weeping willows, Chinese pistaches, autumn blaze maples and river birches, King said.

Provisions have been made in case of rain as well. If inclement weather should occur, the tree planting will remain at the Duck Pond, but the picnic will move to Couch Cafeteria.

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Left to right: Then University College freshman Devin Waddey, environmental sustainability senior Madeline Dillner and biochemistry sophomore Josh Ou plant a tree near the gazebo by Couch Center during Arbor Day last year.

Shaida Tabrizi, shaida.monroe@gmail.com

ACADEMICS

Nine papers selected for undergraduate research journal Topics range from gender to Disney Caitlin Schachter Campus Reporter

AT A GLANCE The Honors Undergraduate Research Journal 2014 winning submissions Morgan Brokob

Nine papers were choSpeaking Out Through Fiction: Taslima Nasrin, sen out of over 100 submisLiterature, and Activism in Bangladesh sions for this year’s Honors Undergraduate Research Arthur Dixon Two Faces of an Elite Reformation: Lay Reading and Journal, which showcases Thomas Cranmer’s Preface to the Great Bible of 1540 papers written by students.

This year around 130 stuAudrey Hopkins dents submitted papers for The Pedagogy of Alcoholism: Using Paulo Freire’s the journal. Typically beModel of Oppression to Examine Cyclical Alcoholism tween 100 and 150 papers are submitted, said Travis Daniel Meschter Totten, the journal’s ediThe Empty Well: Yemen’s Groundwater Crisis tor-in-chief and entrepreChase Miller neurship and venture manArchitecture and Social Problems: Citizen Architecture agement junior. and Lessons from Pruitt-Igoe Totten said his editorial board typically looks for paSarah Otts pers that are accurate and I’m Pink, Therefore I’m a Man: Gender Norms and the easy to read for someone My Little Pony Fandom not familiar with the subject Brandon Ranallo matter.

Navigating Multiple Oppressions in Modern America: This year papers span a The Unique Struggles of Black Gay Men in American range of topics, from the Postsecondary Education pedagogy of alcoholism, to the groundwater crisis, to Laura Wilcox “My Little Pony” and the The Grimm Face of Disney: From Sordid to Sales fans called Bronies, accordJohn Michael Zubialde ing to a mass email.

A Drug Fueled Insurgency International security senior John Zubialde, whose Source: OU mass email paper was chosen for the journal, wrote his entry over drugs and insurgency in journal, entered the com- people think about how Afghanistan during the U.S. petition because she loves subcultures, like Bronies, occupation of the country, writing. that perhaps break socihe said.

“I hope my paper makes ety’s rules for masculinity “ These issues are not easily fixed,” Zubialde said.

“Overall, the strengthening of the insurgency in UNIVERSITY THEATRE Afghanistan is more of a HELMERICH SCHOOL social issue than it is one of OF DRAMA military capability.”

Zu b i a l d e e nt e re d h i s paper into the applicant pool because he is graduating soon and wanted to explore his options at OU. “As a senior, you start to With characteristic compassion and humor, think about all of the opChekhov holds up a magnifying glass to the foibles of being human. portunities you haven’t yet taken advantage of,” Zubialde said.

Computer science sophomore Sarah Otts, whose paper was chosen for the

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and femininity, can help us question those standards,” Otts said.

Public relations senior Laura Wilcox, whose paper was chosen for the journal, has submitted a paper to the journal for the past three years. Wilcox wrote about The Walt Disney Company.

“Disney is something that I have always been passionate about, but it’s also something that doesn’t appear in academia too often,” Wilcox said. “It challenges the reader to take a closer look at something they may have written off as ‘childish’ or ‘unserious’ by showing how

modern trends influence the art of storytelling.”

The nine winners will receive a $100 prize, according to a mass email.

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Workplace harassment slowly wanes Our View: Oklahoma’s number of workplace harassment and discrimination charges decreased by 9 percent from 2012 to 2013, which is a trend we believe will continue through education.

Oklahoma seems to be moving toward having safer, more accepting work places. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s 2013 report on discrimination and harassment charges shows Oklahoma had 1,360 charges in 2013, a 9 percent reduction since 2012.

We are encouraged by the reThe Our View duction in charges and hope is the majority Oklahoma continues the trend opinion of toward less hostile work places.

The Daily’s In fact, the national amount of eight-member harassment and discrimination editorial board charges also decreased from 2012 to 2013, by 5.7 percent. While it is possible Oklahoma’s reduction in charges is due to victims not reporting harassment and discrimination offenses, it’s more likely the reduction is due to workplace education initiatives.

The report breaks down charges by various offenses, including discrimination based on race, sex, national origin, age and disability.

Oklahoma had the most charges filed for sexual harassment and racial discrimination in 2013,

471 for harassment and 460 for discrimination.

Oklahoma’s total charges still only constituted 1.5 percent of total charges in the U.S., a statistic we’re grateful is so small but that we hope continues to shrink.

Harassment and discrimination can take many different forms, and we’d like to take this opportunity to describe a few different forms of workplace harassment we should all be aware of:

• Immediately talk to your boss about the harassment • If someone in authority is the harasser, contact an administrator, Sexual Misconduct Office or Equal Opportunity Office • Contact the university’s Sexual Misconduct Office in Walker Center or by calling (405) 325-2215 • Contact the university’s Equal Opportunity Office in Evans Hall Rm. 102 or by calling (405) • Offensive jokes, slurs or name-calling 325-3546 • Physical assaults or threats • Visit www.ou.edu/eoo to fill out a request for • Intimidation, ridicule or mockery an investigation into a discrimination offense, • Offensive objects or pictures file an equal opportunity grievance form or view • Conduct so perverse it interferes with work frequently asked questions about harassment performance situations • Visit Goddard Health Center or the Women’s All of the above examples are listed on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s website, Outreach Center for counseling services and the list is by no means exhaustive of the many All OU students should to feel safe and acceptdifferent forms of harassment.

We also believe it’s important that OU students ed, and we encourage any student in a harassknow what to do if they believe they are in a hament or discrimination situation to speak up to gain the help and protection they deserve. rassment situation. There are various resources at OU, and all students should review our university’s harassment training at sexualmisconduct.

Comment on this at oudaily.com ou.edu. Here are a few suggestions for actions to take if you think you’re being harassed:

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resident Obama’s Further omissions inopinion columnist recent sanctions clude Putin’s Chief of Staff, against Moscow are Sergei Ivanov and those certainly inconsequential, Federation Council depubut so are his less militaties who voted for military ristic options. After Putin force in Ukraine. sent Russian troops into Sanctions also have Crimea and annexed the not been issued against region, the leader of the free Alexei Miller, the CEO of Corbin Brown world imposed middling Gazprom, Russia’s largest brown.corbin.h@ou.edu financial sanctions against natural gas company. Last 11 Russian and Ukrainian year, this firm, which is officials involved in the Crimean crisis. In largely owned by the Russian government, order to impose effective sanctions, citiimported 162 billion cubic meters of natuzens of each nation must be willing to acral gas to the European Union and Turkey. cept the economic consequences.

Germany alone imported over 40 billion One of these officials, Vladislav Surkov, cubic meters of natural gas from Russia in detailed the sanctions’ ineffectiveness 2013. with his statement, “It’s a big honor for Europe’s reliance on Russian oil and natme. I don’t have accounts abroad. The ural gas drastically reduces the possibility only things that interest me in the U.S. are of embargoes on that nation’s exports.

Tupac Shakur, Allen Ginsberg and Jackson Eighty-four percent of Russia’s oil exports, Pollock. I don’t need a visa to access their and 76 percent of its natural gas exports, work. I lose nothing.” go to Europe. Trade between the European Some of Russia’s most influential offiUnion and Russia in 2012 amounted to cials were missing from the list. One such nearly 268 billion euros. In comparison, individual, defense minister and national that same year, trade between Russia and security council member, Sergei Shoygu the U.S. was only 19 billion euros. was absent. In fact, no member of the naIn contrast, the United States’ trade tional security council faces sanctions. with Russia in 2012 was approximately 19

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billion euros. The previous year, Oklahoma German government barred Rheinmetall, a defense contractor, from sending combat traded a total of 120 million dollars with simulation gear to Russia. Whether this Russia. Neither amount is paltry, but the U.S. engages in much less trade with Russia acceptance will extend to embargoes on Russian oil and natural gas is questionable. than that country’s largest trade partners, the European Union, China, Ukraine and Belarus. While many in Oklahoma call for increased punishments for Putin’s recent actions, the results experienced by “In order to impose effective sanctions, this region would be citizens must be willing to accept the economic much less severe than those experienced by, consequences.” among other nations, Obama may choose to issue stricter Germany and Finland. sanctions against Russia in the near fuThe economic ties between much of Europe and Russia likely pose the greatest ture, but those currently implemented are barrier to effective international sanctions of little consequence. If the U.S. and the European Union are to cause lasting damagainst the latter country Sanctions levage against Putin, they must accept the eled against individual Russian officials economic consequences. A failure to do so do little harm to trade. As a consequence, will limit both the quality and the quantity Germany’s support for said strictures are of potential sanctions. easily gained.

On the other hand, in recent days, Germany has demonstrated some acCorbin Brown is a University College ceptance of the double-edged nature of freshman. economic sanctions. On March 19, the

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Officials from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s search was split into two areas totaling 78,000 square kilometers (30,000 square miles).

Planes and ships from the U.S., China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand are involved in the hunt, hoping to find even a single piece of the jet that could offer tangible evidence of a crash and provide clues to the location of the wreckage.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chemical weapons watchdog says more than 49 percent of the raw materials for Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poison gas and nerve agent program scheduled for destruction have been shipped overseas, with the rest expected to leave by the end of April.

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s it possible that a measly 1/4 cup of oatmeal can magically puff up to 1 1/2 cups of bliss?

Yes. See, I don’t know if you’ve realized this, but oatmeal soaks up water.

Bask in my intelligence.

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I mean, honestly, if it takes you 20 minutes in the pool to turn into a human prune, how do you expect the oatmeal to be soft and pillowy in 10 minutes?

The trick lies in giving your oatmeal time to soak up water. Much more time than 10 minutes.

We’re talking five full days.

Kidding! We’re talking overnight.

1 cup milk or water

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together.

2. Heat in microwave

for two minutes, or until it starts to bubble over the rim. Stir.

3.

Leave it somewhere overnight. In the morning, you can warm it up in the microwave or eat it cold from the fridge.

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Band has eclectic influences OKC-based band has asperations

GO AND DO Paseo Street Walkers concert

Sama Khawaja

Life & Arts Reporter

The path of a musician is not always as glamorous as of those lounging away in Beverly Hills. However, that isn’t why Paseo Street Walkers enjoy performing.

“The goal is to play music for a living,” bassist Jake Fischbach said. “It’s not necessarily to get famous.”

About three years ago, Fis chbach came to Oklahoma City from Missouri in hopes of securing a job and more importantly, finding people who enjoyed playing music as much as he did.

“When I first came down here, I was a little disapp o i nt e d i n O k l a h o ma’s music scene,” he said.

But Fischbach’s search wasn’t futile. He managed to form a band with Hugh Conine, one of the current guitarists for Paseo Street Walkers. The band didn’t last long, but Fischbach and Conine formed a friendship and decided to continue playing together.

With Fischbach on bass and Conine on guitar, Paseo Street Walkers finalized its line-up with Eric French on drums, Brian Anderson on keyboard and Jeremiah French as a second guitarist.

“They’re all very accomplished musicians,” founder of Tres Cantina & Grille Michael Sherrod said.

Tres Cantina and Grille has hosted Paseo Street Walkers many times when they play in Norman.

Tres Cantina bartender Sarah Davis, described them as a “jazz-infused instrumental band that has a little funk.”

When: 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. April 10 Where: Tres Cantina and Grille, 305 E. Main St., Norman Price: Free Info: OKC instrumental jazz group Paseo Street Walkers won the Emerging Artist Award at the 2013 Paseo Arts Festival

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Paseo Street Walkers perform at Norman Groovefest 2013. From left to right, Jeremiah French, Eric French, Jake Fischbach and Brian Anderson.

You can call it jazz, rock and roll, metal — all of us have different ideas of what we want, and that’s the cool part about the group.”

Brian Anderson, Keyboardist for Paseo Street Walkers

Sherrod said that when the band first started playing at Tres Cantina, the crowd wasn’t very favorable towards them. However, over time, word got around and soon they had a healthy mix of people of all ages coming to watch their performances.

Paseo Street Walkers’ next

performance at Tres Cantina will be at 10 p.m. on April 10.

The group loosely classifies themselves as jazz, however they have very eclectic influences.

For example, French said the band has recently been inspired to incorporate auxiliary instruments like the bongos from Afro-Cuban

and Brazilian music.

“You can call it jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, metal — all of us have different ideas of what we want, and that’s the cool part about the group,” said Brian Anderson, keyboard player.

Although the band does standard jazz covers, they do write and perform original pieces.

“We try to focus on the originals as much as we can,” said Fischbach.

Eric French said the band’s current demo album can be downloaded for free on its website. Over time they plan to release a full length LP. The band recently won the Paseo Arts Festival’s Emerging Artist Award in 2013. Fischbach said they had been surprised because

they had not been expecting it.

“It feels good that someone’s taking notice,” he said.

The band is always on the move, already having several gigs lined up for the next couple of months.

In terms of the band’s future, Fischbach said it was hard to describe.

“We’d like to take it as big as it can get,” he said.

Eric French said they normally played at art festivals around Oklahoma, like the Paseo Arts Festival, and would like to expand to venues outside Oklahoma, such as Southby-Southwest. Even if they don’t make much out of it, they would still continue because they enjoy playing together as a group, Anderson said.

“That’s what being an artist is all about to us,” he said.

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Symposium to cover Depressionera Western art The OU Arts District will host the eighth biennial symposium of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West 9 a.m. Friday at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. This year’s symposium will be over Depression-Era Regionalism in Western American Art, Photography, and Film.

“The topic adds to our theme of art in the American West,” assistant to the director at the Russell Center, Sharon Burchett said.

The event is free and open to the public, and attendees have the option of purchasing a luncheon between sessions. The cost of the luncheon is $10 for students and $20 for everyone else, according to a press release.

The Russell Center is the first collegiate program dedicated to the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge in the field of American art history as it relates to the Western U.S., according to the center’s website.

Reservations must be made to attend the event, as seating is limited and can be made by calling the Russell Center.

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GO AND DO Western Art symposium When: 9 a.m. Friday Where: Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

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SPORTS

Julia Nelson, sports editor Joe Mussatto, assistant editor dailysports@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com/sports • Twitter: @OUDailySports

Are athletes assigned different majors to keep NCAA eligibility?

Out of 109 players studied, 19. 2% scored below a 17 on the ACT, an 850 on the SAT

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n HBO report citing the research of an OU professor questions whether athletic determine eligibility in 2003. departments are handling student-athletes correctly.

The research found that the new system, which was designed to create greater access to Gerald Gurney, an professor of adult and higher education, appeared on HBO’s universities, is causing a rise in acceptance of students underprepared for college.

“Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” to discuss the balance between Gurney, along with athletics department academic counselor athletics and schooling.

Carla Winters, looked at 109 students over a three-year period, findThe segment suggested students incapable of completing college ing 10 percent more specially admitted players entered OU with sedegrees are still admitted and maneuvered through coursework to vere learning disabilities compared to those specially admitted just maintain on-field eligibility. before the switch.

Gurney used to serve as senior associate athletics director for acGurney also found that about 10 percent of OU’s revenue-sport ademics, working in the athletic department from 1993 to 2011. In athletes were reading below a fourth-grade level.

2012, he released research detailing the struggles of student-athOf the students in the study, 19.2 percent scored below a 17 on the letes admitted under new NCAA guidelines.

ACT or below an 850 on the SAT. The OU admissions website says In the segment, Gurney said part of his job at OU included guid- These majors are not designed the average student scored a 26 on the ACT and 1180 on the SAT. ing football and basketball players to easier majors because of their “College presidents have put in jeopardy the academic credibility to develop critical thinking.” inability in the classroom. of their universities just so we can have this entertainment indusGERALD GURNEY, “These majors are not designed to develop critical thinking,” try,” Gurney told CNN in January. “The NCAA continually wants to PROFESSOR OF ADULT AND HIGHER EDUCATION Gurney told HBO. “It is not designed to give them a skill that is ignore this fact, but they are admitting students who cannot read.” employable.”

“College textbooks are written at the ninth-grade level, so we are “The enterprise is fraudulent. When you sign a National Letter of Intent, the university is putting these elite athletes into classes where they can’t understand the textbooks. Imagine making a contract with the athlete. They are saying they will not pay you as a professional, yourself sitting in a class where nothing makes sense.” but they will educate you, and that’s where we across the nation fall far short.”

Gurney declined The Daily’s request for an interview.

This is not the first time Gurney publicly commented on the issue.

Earlier this year, the professor was cited by CNN for a similar investigation.

The CNN report said Gurney’s research is one of only two of its kind, detailing the Ryan Gerbosi, rgerbosi@ou.edu struggles some student athletes have faced since the NCAA introduced a sliding scale to

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Sooners gear up for Big 12 opener Team will be without superstar Lauren Chamberlain, must adjust Spenser Davis Softball Beat Reporter

After getting its mid-week game rained out, Oklahoma (21-8) will begin conference play against Iowa State (1711) this weekend with a three game set in Ames.

Iowa State has been able to find success this season against lesser teams. Even so, the Cyclones have scored more than seven runs just six times all season and have gathered most of their wins in low-scoring affairs.

Iowa State started off the season strong, winning 10 of its first 11 games. However, the Cyclones have since dropped games to Sacramento State and Lamar. That began a rough stretch for Iowa State, who has not won back-toback games since defeating Jackson State on Feb. 28 and Harvard on March 1.

“We need to play well (this week). We’re at a point in the season now where every game is very important to us, especially as we get into Big 12 play,” OU softball coach Patty Gasso said. “This is a PLAYER PROFILE team that needs to be in a Shelby Pendley place where we’re starting to peak.”

Year: Junior Oklahoma hopes to sweep the weekend and Position: move to 25-8 on the season Infielder/ as they head into Bedlam Pitcher on April 2. Still, the Sooners will be without their best Statistics: hitter, Lauren Chamberlain .446 Batting Average, 9 as she revoers from a back home runs this season injury. Oklahoma hasn’t had Chamberlain in the lineup since March 14 and has gone 4-2 in her absence.

Shelby Pendley has played like one of the best players in the country all season, and this past weekend was no different. Pendley racked up five hits in eight at bats, including three runs, three RBI and a pair of homeruns in just three games.

Brittany Williams is poised to take the reigns from Chamberlain at first base, as she hit .571 in three starts last week, grabbing a double and two RBIs of her own.

Gasso said Williams will most likely be Chamberlain’s long term replacement as her back recovers. Javen Henson, who started the first three games that the Sooners played without their slugger, will now move to third base in the event that Pendley moves to the circle.

Prior to this weekend, Pendley had never thrown a collegiate pitch. However, she threw five innings against Bradley and LSU last week, allowing just three hits and zero runs. “[Pendley] came in clutch with the bases loaded (against

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Sophomore right-handed pitcher Leslie Miller winds up her pitch to close out the game against Liberty University with just one hit, one walk, and two strike outs on March 7 at Marita Hynes Field. The Sooners beat the Eagles 18-3. The Sooners are now playing with the idea of adding Junior infielder Shelby Pendely into the pitching lineup.

LSU) this last weekend and got two big strikeouts so she competes on the mound, and that’s what we’re looking for,” Gasso said.

The move could likely be due to a lack of a second starting pitcher in Oklahoma’s rotation. Behind Kelsey Stevens, who is 14-5 with a 2.44 ERA on the year, the most effective pitcher has been Georgia Casey. Casey, who has thrown 28.2 innings compared to Stevens’ 114.2, is just 2-2 on the season with a 4.64 ERA. If Pendley’s experiment in the circle continues to be successful, she could be a major difference in how far this team goes in the post season. Last year’s national championship

squad had Keilani Ricketts and Michelle Gascoigne, so it’s hard to imagine this team defending its title with just Stevens to pitch in big games.

First pitch against Iowa State on Friday will be at 4 p.m. followed by a pair of noon starts on Saturday and Sunday to finish out the weekend.

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