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UWC students build global insight OU recruits Davis United World College Scholars KATE BERGUM

Assistant News Editor @kateclaire_b

OU has more Davis United World College Scholars than any other participating college or university this year.

Fifty-five OU freshmen are Davis United World College Scholars, according to the program’s website.

The Davis Scholarship provides graduates of the U n i t e d Wo r l d C o l l e g e Program, a pre-university program, with financial help for education at American universities, according to the

scholarship’s website.

The United World College seeks to bring students from across the globe together to promote diversity and cultural understanding, according to its website.

In total, more than 137 Davis Scholars from 60 countries attend OU, said Craig Hayes, the director of OU’s United World College Scholars Program and international recruitment.

UWC graduates are valuable to OU because they can use the global understanding they achieved at the program to help create a more accepting environment, Hayes said.

made Emina Alibegovic realize that borders are usually just geographical.

Raised in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country still healing from bloody civil conflict, Alibegovic was accustomed to students from different ethnic backgrounds learning different curricula despite attending the same school, she said.

The environment was completely different in UWC Mostar, Alibegovic said. Though the program was still in B osnia and Herzegovina, nearly 200 students came together from about 80 countries to learn in a collaborative environment, she said.

Emina “People just become peoThe United World College ple,” Alibegovic said.

In addition to learning typical secondary school material from International Baccalaureate curricula, Alibegovic learned about conflict resolution and accepting other cultures in Mostar, she said. “ Th e w o r l d s e e m s s o huge, but it’s not,” Alibegovic said.

After graduating from the program, Alibegovic decided to attend OU because of its welcoming attitude and because of its partnership with the Davis Scholarship Program, which helped her finance her education, she said.

Alibegovic, an international area studies sophomore, hopes to give back to the UWC and Davis Scholars

community after she gradu- Nordic Red Cross program gave Velasco the opportuates, she said. nity to learn how to enact Michelle social change, she said.

When broadcast jour- At the program, Velasco nalism freshman Michelle learned that conflicts like Velasco’s mother found out Venezuela’s often stem from she had been accepted into ignorance, and educated a UWC program where she people can use reason to could learn about achieving solve problems, she said. international peace, she told Velasco now hopes to her daughter that she was educate people as a broadher hero. cast journalist, she said.

Ra i s e d i n Ve n ez u e l a, After graduating from OU, Velasco witnessed civil wars Michelle wants to travel and student demonstrations around the world and cast almost constantly, she said. light on situations where When she was 12 years people are affected by war old, Velasco realized she and corruption, she said. wanted to help countries Velasco has big dreams, such as Venezuela, where p e o p l e w e re b e i n g o p SEE SCHOLARS PAGE 2 pressed — often violently.

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Voting to open for new Norman councilpersons Incumbents of Wards 1,3 and 7 will run unopposed KATE BERGUM

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Success Vodka is a premium vodka made with wheat from Twister Distillery in Moore.

Crafted for

SUCCESS Vodka distillery aims to create a signature product

vodka had few options to choose from, but now, two OU alumni and a craftsman from Texas are taking Oklahoma by storm.

MIKE BRESTOVANSKY Success Vodka, located Assistant News Editor in Moore, has been making @BrestovanskyM waves in the liquor industry with its signature prodU n t i l r e c e n t l y , uct, an Italian wheat-disOklahomans looking for tilled artisanal vodka that domestically distilled tastes like a craft vodka but

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The CEO Alvin Philipose and master distiller Jeff Thurmon of Twister Distillery introduce the Success Vodka story Saturday afternoon in Moore.

sells for only $19 a bottle.

Alvin Philipose, CEO of Success Vodka, said that his product has already won a gold medal at last year’s The Fifty Best comp etition, and entere d the San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

“There are like two or three new vodkas that c o m e o u t e v e r y d a y ,”

Philipose said. “This will help distinguish [Success] from everyone else ... we’re a premium vodka.”

Norman residents who live east of 36th Avenue will be able to select a new councilperson in the city’s upcoming election April 7.

Norman Wards 1, 3, 5 and 7 all have councilpersons up for re-election this spring, but only Ward 5 has more than one candidate running, according to the Cleveland County Election Board website.

Because the incumbents of Wards 1, 3 and 7 will run unopposed, no election will take place to fill the positions, said Anette Pretty, the assistant executive secretary for the election board.

Candidates for the position are incumbent candidate Lynne Miller and challenger Bobby Stevens,

according to the board’s website.

Voters registered before March 13 can visit the polls from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on April 7 and must present suitable identification to vote, Pretty said.

If voters are unable to cast their ballots election day, they can request an absentee ballot either at the election board’s office or online by 5 p.m. Wednesday, Pretty said.

Mailed absentee ballots must reach the election board before 7 p.m. election day, Pretty said.

Alternately, voters can vote in person from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. this Thursday and Friday at the election board office, located at 641 E. Robinson, Suite 200, according to the website.

No excuse is needed to cast an absentee ballot, Pretty said.

Kate Bergum kate.c.bergum-1@ou.edu

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Recent severe weather indicates tornado season has begun for Oklahoma As demonstrated last week by a storm that struck Norman and a tornado that hit Moore, the season for severe weather in central Oklahoma has begun.

In event of severe storms, all campus buildings have designated severe weather refuge areas centrally located in the lowest level of the building, OU press secretary Corbin Wallace said in an email.

Though students might plan to seek safety in specific buildings on campus, it is safer to remain in the building they are inside instead of running outside in potentially treacherous weather, Wallace said.

To prevent danger when they are off campus, students should create personal preparedness plans for their homes, Wallace said. Students should find the most central part of the house on the lowest level, and only students who live in mobile homes or upper-level apartments should leave their homes, Wallace said.

If Norman is under a tornado warning issued by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, OU will send a text message alert to students warning them of the storm and notifying them when danger has passed, Wallace said.

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SCHOLARS: Students retain international ties Continued from Page One

VODKA: Distillery aims to make purest alcohol Continued from Page One

including working for a major TV network such as CNN, Telemundo or BBC, she said.

However, she does not think that she will move back to her home country, where the media is controlled, many people remain blind to governmental corruption and bloody conflicts rage on, Velasco said. Since graduating from secondary school, two of Velasco’s classmates have been killed in student demonstrations, she said.

But despite its bleak outlook and the fact that she is a continent away, Venezuela will always remain Velasco’s home, she said.

“I will always have my h e a r t w i t h Ve n ez u e l a,” Velasco said.

Flavio

Aerospace engineering senior Flavio Moreno always knew that there was more to the world than the small town in Guatemala where he grew up, he said.

Although Costa Rica, where he attended his UWC program, was not very much different from Guatemala, the program itself seemed worlds away, Moreno said. “ Yo u h av e t h e w h o l e world in such a small space,” Moreno said.

At the program, students lost pieces of their personal identities in order to find a more global identity, he said.

Moreno became “Flavio Guatemala” while at the UWC school, he said.

The UWC program seemed like its own country, and the unified feeling

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Sixty-six flags sit perched atop a shelf in the OU College of International Studies Education Abroad office representing each country represented at OU. OU strives to have its students participating in the global community by pushing students to study abroad and recruiting more Davis World College Scholars.

carries over to university life at OU, Moreno said.

When former UWC students meet on campus, their shared experience gives them a sense of a bond, even if they went to different schools or attended in different years, Moreno said.

“You have this sense of nationality,” Moreno said.

In addition to close ties with UWC students at OU, Moreno has friends sprinkled across the globe. He has determined he could travel from Canada to Argentina and have a couch to crash on in each country along the way, he said.

Benjamin

Attending a UWC program gave geography junior Benjamin Ignac an appreciation for global differences as well as the opportunity to pursue his passion for geography.

Instead of attending high school in Croatia, Benjamin attended the UWC Nordic Red Cross program, which he shared with about 200 students from 80 countries,

he said.

Ignac’s international experience began even before the program. As Roma, the largest minority group in Europe, Ignac’s parents left their home country of Croatia before he was born to find more stable economic opportunities in Germany, he said.

From Germany, Ignac and his family then moved to Hungary and then back to Croatia, he said.

An international experience is common among students accepted into the UWC program, Ignac said.

These “third culture” students, students who might not identify with a specific country, may be more receptive to a global experience, Ignac said.

As a UWC student, Ignac was also able to further his studies in geography in a more holistic way than he would have in Croatia, he said.

“It’s so interdisciplinary,” Ignac said. “You can connect anything to geography: art, psychology, economics

and physical sciences.”

Ignac has carried his passion for geography to OU and appreciates the many opportunities the geographic information studies program offers, he said.

OU is also home to a tightly knit community of former UWC students who bond because of their shared transformative experiences as UWC students, Ignac said.

However, Ignac encourages former UWC students, as well as all OU students, to foster their sense of curiosity by creating more inclusive social circles, he said.

Ignac is working to integrate into OU culture as much as he can by taking advantage of the many opportunities available on campus. Though the process is sometimes difficult, he knows that it will offer him an experience just as transformative as the UWC program, he said.

Kate Bergum kate.c.bergum-1@ou.edu

Many genres to perform at festival The lineup for NMF evolves as new bands are added ANDIE BEENE

Life and Arts Reporter @andie_beene

The Norman Music Festival has finalized its two main stages, announced two headliners for a third stage and added two new acts into the lineup of another stage.

The festival, which runs from April 23 to 25, will have its two main stages Saturday.

Ra Ra Riot will headline the Fowler Toyota Main Stage, and Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires will headline the Fowler Honda Second Stage.

Cosmostanza, an up-andcoming hardcore rock band from Oklahoma City, has been added to the lineup to open the Main Stage with a high-energy performance, according to a press release.

The two main stages will offer a good combination of what the festival has to offer,

said Michelle Bui, public relations chairperson for the festival.

“I think these are going to be great stages because they are some of the […] main ones that bring in national acts and also highlight some of the best vocal acts we have,” Bui said.

This year the Opolis and Blackwatch Studios, which had separate stages in previous years, are combining to present their own showcase at the Opolis, Bui said. This stage will feature headliners Colourmusic on April 24 and the Octopus Project on April 25.

Colourmusic, an indie rock group from Stillwater, Oklahoma, has a constantly changing sound that offers a feel of danger and mystery in one song and a sense of high-energy excitement in the next.

The Octopus Project is an indie electronic band out of Austin, Texas. Their music is mostly instrumental and will make crowds want to dance.

The Bacardi Stage, which is for electronic dance music and hip-hop, has added two new rappers to its lineup, Josh Sallee and Roosh Williams, Bui said.

Salle is from Oklahoma City, and Williams is from Houston, Texas. Both display impressive lyrical skills and speed to their music.

The festival is still getting confirmations from performers, and they expect to have a finalized lineup for the whole event soon, Bui said.

Additionally, the festival is developing a phone app that shows the entire lineup by day or stage that can be personalized to show only the bands someone wants to see. When it becomes available, it will be announced on the festival’s website and social media sites, she said.

Overall, the festival is a great opportunity because it is free and has music from all kinds of musical genres, Bui said.

“It is a really great

showcase and representation of the music available in our state and in the country,” she said.

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Philipose, who graduated from OU in 1998 with a degree in biochemistry, bought Success Vodka’s distillery — the Twister Distillery — last year and partnered with master distiller Jeff Thurmon.

The pair also hired Austin Fe n n e ma, a 2 0 1 2 O U alumnus, to work with sales and marketing.

“That’s us, the three stooges,” Thurmon said.

“Everyone works hard, everyone has their niche … we all have connections, we all have different skills we bring to the table.”

Although the distillery officially opened for business in May last year, production was delayed after a flash fire in June hospitalized Thurmon with second-degree burns. “ The ethanol in the blew a gasket ... and was ignited by the lights,” Philipose said.

After the explosion, Philipose replaced the old equipment that caused the blast with a modern distillery, he said.

Thur mon, who had previously worked for Tito’s Handmade Vodka in Austin, said that it was a lucky day when Philipose first contacted him online. “ To h a v e s o m e o n e come along and tell you they have a distillery, they have a license, they need a distiller and you can basically make whatever product you want — that’s unbelievable,” Thurmon said.

“My goal has always been to make the world’s best vodka,” Thurmon said.

Thurmon explained that Success Vodka differs from other vodka not only in what goes into it but in what is left out.

Not only does Thurmon take care in removing the “heads” and “tails” of the

vodka, but the water used to brew the vodka is heavily filtered beforehand to ensure the end result is as pure as possible.

The final product is 100 percent organic, kosher and gluten free, Philipose said.

Currently, the distillery produces around 3,000 cases a month, distributed throughout Oklahoma, Philipose said. He also said that he is working on setting up distribution in Texas as well, along with purchasing a larger property for the distillery to make room for an automated bottling line.

Many retailers and venues around Oklahoma carry Success Vodka, including Campus Corner venues like Pepe Delgado’s and 747, Philipose said.

“We’ve got Oklahoma p r e t t y m u c h c o v e r e d ,” Philipose said.

Philipose said that for now, Success will concentrate on only its signature product, but he has plans to create more as awareness spreads.

“We’re not into flavored vodkas because, as a premium vodka, we just don’t do that,” Philipose said. “But we have some things up our sleeve.”

For now, Philipose said that they will make appearances at tailgate parties and festivals during the summer to build awareness for Success Vodka. He added that students make up a large part of Success’ clientele.

Thurmon said that, with all the events Success has planned, this summer should be very successful.

“We thought of a catchphrase,” Thurmon said. “’Here’s to yours, here’s to mine, here’s to ours.’

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Sooners learning Riley’s offense in spring practice Up-tempo style beginning to take toll on players

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After an intrasquad scrimmage over the weekend, Oklahoma football returned to practice yesterday.

Working toward mastering new offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley’s pass-heavy scheme, several players said they are exhausted after every practice.

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Members of the Oklahoma football team have their first football practice after spring break on Monday, March 23, at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

When Riley was hired by Oklahoma, it was well known the 31-year-old liked to run an up-tempo offense. Now, through a week of practices, players are finding out just how quickly Riley likes to go.

“It’s real fast,” wide receiver Sterling Shepard said. “He gets things going real fast. I mean, we haven’t even gotten in half of the plays, but it’s still moving fast.”

Riley, however, said the team is moving nowhere near the speed he would like it to be.

“We’re slow right now, but we’ll get better,” Riley said.

“The emphasis right now is on the installation and the execution, and when that comes, we’ll continue to speed it up. But compared to where I think we can get, we’re pretty slow right now, which is pretty fast for most

Baseball looks to bounce back today

people.”

Riley said his quarterbacks are taking the brunt of the beating this spring through more reps in his pass-heavy scheme.

“We’re getting a ton of reps,” Riley said. “Their arms are hurting right now, which they’re supposed to be.”

Despite the pain, the offensive coordinator was impressed with the work ethic and progression from the relatively young quarterback group.

“They’ve really, obviously, put in the time,” Riley said.

“Everybody puts in the allotted hours, everybody in the country does that, but these guys have put in time behind the scenes, not with me, because the progress that they’re making right now, you just can’t do based on 20 hours a week.”

SOONERS LOSE SMALLWOOD, FORD IN THE SAME DAY

Oklahoma confir med on Twitter Monday sophomore wide receiver Jordan Smallwood has injured his ACL and will miss the first few games of the 2015 season.

“It’s real tough,” Shepard said. “I mean, Smallwood is coming along. He was playing with great speed early on.”

Riley said it is tough to lose a player to injury, but he expected the unit to get banged up while installing the new offense.

“Oh yeah, they should be beat up right now,” Riley said. “If they’re not, they’re not playing hard enough.

We’re repping them like those guys have never

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repped before.”

The program also announced running back Keith Ford has been suspended indefinitely for violations of team and academic rules.

Riley said he expects the other running backs to fill the void left by the junior.

“One man gone is another man’s opportunity,” Riley said. “Those other guys are stepping up.

That’s why we have a lot of depth at that position.”

Brady Vardeman brady.vardeman@ou.edu

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The Sooners (18-12, 3-3) will host Central Arkansas (14-8, 8-4) on Tuesday as they look to bounce back after dropping two games of a three-game series at Baylor last weekend.

O k l a h o m a’s o f f e n s e s t r u g g l e d i n Wa c o l a s t weekend, mustering only a pair of runs in the first two games of the series. That lack of production could cost the Sooners again on Tuesday if they aren’t careful against the Sugar Bears.

Central Arkansas is tied for the Southland Conference lead in home runs (14), and the Bears average almost six runs per game. It’s that sort of offense that has been able to steal games from OU in mid-week contests in recent years.

OU dropped five such games to mid-majors in both 2014 and 2013. With one mid-week loss in 2015 already, that’s a trend head coach Pete Hughes would like to stop as soon as possible.

Junior left-handed pitcher Adam Choplick will get

the start for the Sooners.

Choplick i s l o o king to rebound after struggling mightily against No. 10 Texas Tech in his last start, letting the first five batters reach base before being pulled in the first inning.

For UCA , freshman Corey Herndon is expected to start, although he likely won’t go deep into the game. UCA will throw multiple arms at the Sooners, a strategy that Oral Roberts used to beat OU back on March 10.

O U ’s g a m e a g a i n s t Central Arkansas isn’t the only mid-week event slated for the baseball team, however.

For the second consecutive year, each player will participate in “Shave for the Brave,” an event that supports childhood cancer. The event is open to the public and will begin at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1.

First pitch of Oklahoma’s game with Central Arkansas w i l l b e at 6 : 0 0 p. m. o n Tuesday at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

Spenser Davis davis.spenser@ou.edu

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