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At age 10 Jean Preston first began thinking about what she’d like to be when she grew up. Rummaging through a garage sale in her home state of New Jersey, Preston, now OU’s diplomat in residence, found the book that would set her on the path to work in the U.S. Foreign Service.

The book, “The Ugly American,” made her consider for the first time what it would be like to work in other countries and pursue her other interests, such as traveling, meeting people, reading, writing and discussing.

“Literally from age 10, I was thinking that Foreign Services might be the career for me,” Preston said.

In 1986, Preston’s adolescent dreams were realized when she started working with the Foreign Service.

Since then, she’s worked in several countries such as Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Italy, Mexico and Venezuela. Right now, although her job is contained in the U.S., Preston is busy, to say the least. From touring the different colleges in her district, to being a guide for students at OU, Preston works and travels for hours every week to aid students pursuing careers in the Foreign Service.

Preston is the diplomat in residence for the central

Foreign Service officer prepares students Diplomat in residence helps students discover careers in State Department’s Foreign Service

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On Wednesday, Matt Epting and Sarah Campbell will run uncontested for the respective positions of Student Government Association president and vice president.

The Daily interviewed Epting and Campbell about their campaign and ambitious platform for the coming term, which is focused on supporting OU students through several new programs.

Can you tell us about the theme of your campaign?

Epting: The theme of our campaign is “Be Bold.” And the concept … is the idea that when students come together we can accomplish really big things.

Our platform is full of ideas that we think will make a really big impact on OU, make the student experience better, and we really want to get students excited about that.

You’ve said that this election being uncontested has allowed your campaign to focus more on the issues — getting your ideas out there. Can you tell me more about that?

Epting: This election is uncontested, but what’s interesting about running an uncontested election is that we can focus on the issues in our campaign. We really get to focus on the ideas we have, because that’s what’s most exciting to us.

We really want to get students involved with that and to still turn out and vote. We want to be able to show administrators that we have student support for these ideas.

Can you give us an overview of your platform?

Epting: Both of us have had really incredible OU experiences … and we’ve learned a lot about people’s OU experiences and what students really want out of their time at OU. And so our platform is based on making the student experience better.

So these include creating a higher education coalition to fight against increases in tuition, creating a ride share program to alleviate the parking congestion problem that a lot of students are really not happy about, creating dead week reforms that we can have a better study environment during that week before final exams, a campus-wide reading group to foster community and intellectual discussion.

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Architecture students can play a game of bingo, compete in a bout of laser tag and grab a slice of pizza this week to celebrate their college’s programs.

The College of Architecture is celebrating C-3 Week with events from Monday through Friday, including a cookout, volleyball tournament, laser tag and bingo.

Students and faculty can also attend demonstrations, presentations and panel discussions about projects and opportunities related to their field.

WEATHER Cloudy today with a 30 percent chance of rain tonight. High of 81, low of 49.

C-3 Week is named for the college’s tagline: collaborate, create and construct, said Laura Stone, the college’s communication manager.

“There’s a lot of depth in those three words,” Stone said.

The week showcases the work of members of the college and fosters collaboration between the college’s departments: architecture, construction science, interior design, landscape architecture and regional and city planning, Stone said.

“We hold these events to give everyone in the College of Architecture — students and faculty — the opportunity to see what amazing things others are doing both within and outside their own discipline,” Stone said.

The week’s events are planned and chaperoned by different student groups

within the college, Stone said. The College of Architecture Student Council is largely responsible for the planning.

Michelle Oliphant, president of the American Institute of Architecture Students, said her organization is holding a masquerade ball Saturday.

Oliphant, architecture senior, said her organization and others within the college have been planning their events since the beginning of the spring semester.

The ball is the biggest event OU’s chapter of the institute does throughout the year, Oliphant said.

Research and Creativity Day, an annual event, will be held Friday as a culmination of the week’s activities, Stone said. From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., selected students and faculty will give presentations on their projects and research.

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diplomat: A ‘resource’ to students Continued from page 1

Aswad said.

Preston believes the U.S. Foreign Service and the U.S. Department of State benefit region, which covers North Dakota, South from different backgrounds and perspecDakota, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, tives and she thinks the Foreign Service has Nebraska and Oklahoma. improved greatly for women in the last few Diplomat in residence coordinator Terry decades.

Davidson said the diplomat in residence poSexist policies, such as female officers sition is important because shows students a having to resign if they got married or the career path they may not know exists. practice of reviewing married male officers’ A diplomat in residence must not only be wives to make sure they were supporting informed about the U.S. Department of State, their husbands’ careers, were abandoned in but also must connect with students, which 1973, and now 40 percent of Foreign Service is something Davidson said Preston does officers are women. well.

“The institution has come a long way and “Jean is a very communicative, very in- I think our foreign policy has benefited from teractive, highly energetic diplomat in res- it,” Preston said. idence,” Davidson said.

Davidson has a similar “ That’s why we’re realoutlook, saying it’s important ly happy to have her in for women to hold positions Oklahoma.” of political power and leadWhile Preston mainly ership, especially in the state serves as a resource for those department and Foreign interested in pursuing a caService, which focuses so reer in the U.S. Department many resources on improvof State, she also advises ing women’s rights globally. students on programs and “ To have women repinternships, travels through- The most rewarding r e s e n t e d w e l l i n t h e out her district to share inthing is that you’re Department of State and in formation at special events foreign service is really doing something the and teaches a weekly class important,” Davidson said. that’s worthwhile. “We can’t talk about empowabout the indigenous people of Latin America. erment in other countries …

You’re making a As a diplomat in residence, unless there are American difference.”

Preston spends a lot of time role models and American traveling. In one week alone, examples.”

Jean Preston she traveled from Oklahoma Preston is passiondiplomat-in-residence City, to Tulsa, to Little Rock ate about her work in the and was back at OU on Foreign Service and encourMonday to teach her class. ages students from different When she travels, Preston visits universi- majors to pursue a career in the Department ties and career fairs, sometimes holding one- of State. on-one meetings or meet-and-greets with “The most rewarding thing is that you’re students, Preston said. doing something that’s worthwhile. You’re “Definitely the part of the job that is most making a difference. You’re serving your fun is talking to young people and helping country, and you’re probably making the them see how their dreams could lead them world a better place as well,” Preston said. to a career in the Foreign Service,” Preston Preston will be leaving OU for good in said.

July for her next assignment under the International law professor Evelyn Aswad Department of State as the deputy direchas worked with Preston several times tor of Conservation and Water Affairs in throughout the year, connecting her with Washington D.C. Her successor will be Rob students interested in a career in the U.S. Andrews.

Department of State.

“Jean is always extremely helpful, upbeat and just has a wealth of experience to share,” Amber Friend, ambermfriend@ou.edu

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Public relations junior Matt Epting chalks on the South Oval Sunday afternoon for the upcoming Student Government Association election with his supporters. Epting and Sarah Campbell are running uncontested for president and vice president respectively.

sga: First focus is dead week policy Continued from page 1 And that’s just a small sample of these ideas that we really think are going to make the OU experience better for students. That’s what SGA is all about.

For students who haven’t been involved in SGA elections before, what is your role through SGA on campus, and why should students care?

Epting: SGA really does matter because we are the student body … Actually, every single undergraduate and graduate student is a member of SGA. So when we have advocacy efforts when we start new programs through SGA, we’re doing these to benefit all students.

The mission of SGA is to make the OU experience for students the best that it can possibly be. And that really has no limits; we can do anything that students want to get done … That’s what SGA is all about; listening to students … and making a better experience for everyone.

What makes you passionate about this position, and what will you bring to SGA? Campbell: Why I’m passionate about SGA is the opportunity. Because I think that, as the role of president and vice president and through the use of the congress and the cabinet and everything, that we

have the opportunity to make some really amazing things happen.

So using those personal relationships and forming those relationships with students, I think, gives us the grounds to move forward on.

What kind of legacy do you want to leave behind at the end of your term in SGA? Campbell: The first item I’m very passionate about is the dead week policy. I know, for myself, that dead week is usually the opposite — it’s not very dead at all. And I think that students have the same idea about that as well. And so I think that any grounds we can make in increasing the amount of productivity for students on their own level during dead week would be a huge impact.

Second thing I’d like to be a part of is the advocacy team … I think the opportunity to work with students, giving them the personal insight into how to contact administration, how to go about the things that sometimes you don’t see in the forefront of a problem.

So I think those two things, the dead week policy and the advocacy team, are the things I’m most excited about this semester.

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Do your duty: vote in elections Our View: OU students should take advantage of

the opportunity to have their voices heard by voting in this week’s Norman City Council elections.

Norman City Council elections for Wards 2, 4, 6 and 8 are Tuesday, and we encourage all OU students to vote. It is well known that we Sooners don’t participate as much as we should in the affairs of our university’s city. We have no place to complain about Norman if we don’t take the initiative to vote in City Council The Editorial elections. is the majority OU students could effect real opinion of The Daily’s change in our town if we took eight-member advantage of our right to vote in editorial board Norman elections. For example, there is a city-wide measure on Tuesday’s ballot about making the city’s public safety sales tax permanent. The public safety sales tax is a temporary, seven-year, one-half percent increase in Norman’s sales tax that was adopted to bring extra revenue to the city to hire more police officers.

Tuesday’s ballot offers the option to make the increase a permanent part of the city’s sales tax.

Whether you think the sales tax is a great

investment or a superfluous exstudent voters could also change policy at the state level. We have pense, you can make your voice AT A GLANCE made it known several times that we heard on Tuesday by simply casting City Council don’t approve of all the decisions a ballot. All registered Oklahoma election Oklahoma’s governor and congress voters may participate in Cleveland candidates: make, so let’s help change that.

County elections, and out-of-state Ward 2: Let’s pay attention to governmental students can fill out an Oklahoma Gary Caissie, Aleisha changes and decisions made in our voter registration application here to Karjala, Matthew Leal and state and vote for the policies and change their addresses for voter regClint Williams candidates we agree with, both in istration within Oklahoma.

Ward 4: Norman and in Oklahoma in generWhile non-registered Sooners Greg Jungman, Bill might not be able to vote in this al.

We know not every OU student is Hickman and Rhett Michael Jones week’s election — voter registration from Oklahoma and that many stucloses 24 days prior to the election dents don’t plan to stay in Oklahoma Ward 6: — they should go ahead and print, following graduation. However, Jim Griffith and Jerry Lang fill out and mail the form in order to for the four or more years you call Ward 8: be eligible to vote in Norman’s next Oklahoma home, you have the Chad Williams City Council election. The thousands chance to make your vote matter and of students on OU’s campus could change your adopted state. easily change the outcome of Norman elections to fit Begin fulfilling your civic duty by looking up your their desires and needs. If we all took a few minutes ballot location online and cast your vote on Tuesday to register and fill out a ballot on election days, we for who should represent Wards 2, 4, 6 and 8 of could potentially make Norman one of the most pro- Norman. gressive cities in Oklahoma.

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Opinion Columnist often display exceedf her actions against anti-aboringly grotesque imagtion protestors es of aborted fetuses. are any indication, These shock tactics University of California stand in stark contrast at Santa Barbara proto the more moderate and positive messages fessor Mireille Millerof many other pro-lifers.

Young views pluralism Corbin Brown brown.corbin.h@ou.edu However, in this inand civilized discourse with some degree of stance, Miller-Young scorn. Rather than addressing those should remain the key recipient of demonstrators’ points, Miller-Young our condemnation. For her partly chose to steal one of their signs and successful attempt to suppress the later destroy it with the help of sever- speech of demonstrators, MillerYoung deserves all the criticism and al students. the criminal charges that have since While no liberal-minded person been leveled against her. can truly excuse Miler-Young’s acMiller-Young was charged with tions, one can denounce the group theft, vandalism and battery, each she accosted “Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust.” When protest- a misdemeanor. She later claimed in a police interview that she was ing, members of this organization

“triggered” by the images on the signs and that she had a “moral right” to remove them. A society in which individuals were allowed to dismiss their own criminal actions on such shaky grounds would quickly fall apart.

University of California Santa Barbara’s Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Michael D. Young, sent a letter to the university’s students stating both his distaste for some of the anti-abortion protestors and his support for the “sanctity of free speech.”

In the letter, Young writes: “We all have the right to say odious things, to display offensive slogans and placards, and to hurt and disrespect groups and individuals that disagree with us. The question is: should we?

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Young should be commended for this statement. He rightly demonstrated that, while one may vehemently oppose the tactics and views of a group, one can also respect their freedom to espouse such opinions.

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The drama was sapped early from Oklahoma City's blowout win over Utah, except for one detail.

Thunder forward Kevin Durant is nearing Michael Jordan's mark for consecutive games with at least 25 points.

With the crowd buzzing late in the third quarter, Durant reached the mark for the 38th consecutive time, leaving him two games short of Jordan's accomplishment, which is the most in the past 50 years.

He finished with 31 points and nine assists to help Oklahoma City defeat the Jazz 116-96 on Sunday afternoon.

Jordan did it for 40 straight games for the Chicago Bulls during the 1986-87 season.

Durant is aware of the mark, but the NBA's leading scorer left worrying about it to the crowd at Chesapeake Energy Arena.

"I'm just going out there, playing my game," he said.

"If it happens, cool. If it doesn't, cool. That's how I approach it — just playing within the offense. If a shot's there, shoot it. If a pass is there, pass it. I try to play as simple as I can. If that (25 points or more) comes with it, then so be it, but if not, I'm not going to lose any sleep."

Durant was fouled on a 3-pointer with 4:02 left in the third quarter and was awarded three free throws.

He scored his 24th point on the first one, and the crowd got into it before the second one.

After he made it, the fans let out a loud cheer. He also made the third to give the Thunder an 84-56 lead.

Durant extended the streak without playing in the fourth quarter for the second consecutive game.

Russell Westbrook scored 19 points, Serge Ibaka had 17 points and Caron Butler added 15 for the Thunder, who have won six of seven.

Oklahoma City shot 55 percent from the field and made 11 of 18 3-pointers and 23 of 26 free throws.

Enes Kanter had 18 points and 12 rebounds, Richard Jefferson scored 17 points and Gordon Hayward added 16 points and nine rebounds for the Jazz, who have lost four in a row.

Utah trailed 11-0 before Jefferson finally scored with 7:34 left in the first quarter.

Oklahoma City led 26-9 at the end of the quarter.

It matched the fewest points the Thunder have allowed in any quarter this season and was the lowest for the Jazz in a first quarter this season. Utah missed the NBA low for an opening quarter this season by making a basket with 19.5 seconds left.

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"They were aggressive on the defensive end and we settled for a lot of jump shots," Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin said. "We missed jump shots and they were able to run the ball out on us.

In that first quarter, I thought we were hungry for it, but that's what good teams do.

They come out and try to bury you right from the beginning. They had a lot of success doing it in the first quarter."

Hayward's first basket came with 3:21 left in the first half. Even with his 3-point play, the Jazz still trailed 49-30.

Oklahoma City led 59-40 at halftime, and it might have been a larger lead if Jefferson hadn't dropped in 15 points in the first half, well above his season average of 10.2 points per game. Durant scored 18 points in the first half on 6-for-8 shooting and helped the Thunder shoot 57 percent before the break.

Utah cut Oklahoma City's lead to 89-77 late in the

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quarter before Durant hit a 3-pointer over Hayward with two seconds remaining to push the lead back up to 15 points.

"That was tough," Utah forward Marvin Williams said. "That was a big three. It almost took the wind out of your sails, to fight so hard to get back to that position, to cut it to 12, thinking you're going to start the fourth at 12 (down), and he makes an amazing shot like that over a defender. It was a big shot. It kind of took the wind out of our sails, almost, a little bit, because we had fought so hard."

Hayward scored 13 points in the period, and the Jazz scored 37 points on 60 percent shooting. Utah scored 21 points in the final 3:44 of the third.

The Thunder held on, and now, Oklahoma City can look ahead to Thursday's

showdown with West leader San Antonio. The Spurs have won 17 in a row and are three games ahead of the Thunder for the best record in the West with nine games to go.

"Just continue to play our brand of basketball," Butler said. "Play with a lot of energy and effort and do a good job defensively and stay on the same accord, and we will be fine."

NOTES: Thunder G Reggie Jackson missed his second straight game with a mid-back sprain. ... Jazz G Alec Burks returned to action after missing the previous four games with a left ankle sprain. ... Utah missed its first seven shots. ...

Oklahoma City won three of four against the Jazz this season. ... Utah, which has the worst record in the Western Conference, won the previous meeting 112-101.

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Gymnastics Beat Reporter

T h e No. 1 O k l a h o m a men’s gymnastics team won its third straight conference title Saturday afternoon at McCasland Field House. Oklahoma defeated Stanford, California and Air Force to claim the title.

The Sooners started off on high bar. Danny Berardini and Jacoby Rubin started the lineup with two solid performances, but Oklahoma had two full misses on the event and the “five-up, five-count” format was unforgiving. The Sooners were able to leave the event behind and push through the remainder of the meet.

“We threw ourselves in a hole in the beginning,” coach Mark Williams said.

“But, we are so good on floor that we started to bounce back. Then moved on to pommel horse, which was great. Once you can move past pommel without a lot of mistakes, it is a sigh of relief.”

Oklahoma started to roll, and the chemistry was evident, especially on still rings.

Kanji Oyama and Berardini both scored career-highs on the event, a 15.2 and 15.1 respectively, but defending national champion Michael Squires stole the show.

Squires posted a career-high and OU program record 16.300 on the event.

Squires has struggled some on rings this season.

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Junior Sergey Resnick preforms his pommel horse routine during the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Conference Championship on Saturday at McCastland Filed House.

The Sooners won the Championship with an overall score of 446.100.

We have to keep do what we have been doing and stay healthy. I am going to take a look at high bar and fix what is going wrong, but we are definitely in the mix for a National Championship.”

Mark williams, men’s gymnastics coach

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The Sooners momentum rolled on to the vault where Oyama put up a 15.3 claiming the MPSF Conference title. Oklahoma cruised through its final event, parallel bars, and finished with a final team score of 446.100.

Stanford finished in second with a final score of 436.700.

Third place went to Cal and fourth to Air Force. Berardini said the win was even more special because it was at home.

“It was at home for us,”

Berardini said. “Of course we do not want to lose here, we wanted to protect our field house. That was a part of our mindset. We knew we had to take care of Stanford, and we were able to do that.”

Raymond White was also named conference champion on floor, while Oyama captured the title on vault and Squires won on rings.

The Sooners will now prepare for the NCAA Qualifiers on April 10 in Ann Arbor, Mich. Coach Williams said

the Sooners still have work to do before NCAAs, though.

“We have to keep doing what we have been doing and stay healthy,” Williams said. “I am going to take a look at high bar and fix what is going wrong. But we are definitely in the mix for a National Championship.”

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