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Panel addresses police brutality Activists, educators met to discuss police handling, discrimination AMBER FRIEND Campus Reporter @amberthefriend

Several speakers gathered Monday in Gaylord Hall to discuss racial discrimination and police brutality after the death of Luis Rodriguez, who was killed in February after being taken down by police officers.

The event, titled “Luis Rodriguez: No En Vano (Not in Vain),” was comprised of a discussion panel, a segment from the Rodriguez family and a lecture from author, screenwriter and essayist Esmeralda Santiago. It is the first of April’s Justice Week events, presented by the Center for Social Justice, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication and the OU Writing Center.

The event began with a panel moderated by Jeanette Davidson, director of African American studies. Panel members included: journalism professor Robert Kerr;

sociology assistant professor Maria Elena Diaz; attorney Marcus Bivines; MaryAnn Martin, account executive for public relations and business corporation Schnake Turnbo Frank; and educator and activist Lena Khader.

Each spoke for five minutes and answered questions from the audience.

The panel focused on the legal ramifications and societal issues surrounding Rodriguez’s death. In mid-February, police officers arrived at the Warren Theater in Moore on a domestic violence call after Rodriguez’s wife, Nair, struck her daughter in an argument. After Rodriguez refused to give his identification to the officers, he was taken down and died after the incident.

Kerr spoke about the marketplace of ideas and how over time, society forms and builds itself on publicly accepted standards.

“You put ideas out there. They may gain ground. They may not,” Kerr said.

Kerr said because of one’s natural desire to seek out safety and support protectors, society has given police and military approval for using excessive force through the

marketplace of ideas.

Diaz spoke next and focused on the racial disparities in today’s criminal justice system. She explained how minorities are statistically more likely to be assaulted or suspected by police officers than whites.

“I’m not trying to say, ‘be anti-police.’ … but I do think we have to be sensitive to all issues involved,” Diaz said.

Bivines argued today’s society was in a state of political apathy and by not voting or being involved in local politics, citizens could not and are not making differences in their communities. He illustrated his point when he asked why there weren’t more people at the panel discussion.

“Each of you felt a personal call to come [today] … and that’s amazing. But the truth of the matter is, why is this auditorium not more full? Why are we not having this at the football stadium?” Bivines said.

After the panel discussion, Rodriguez’s daughter took the stage and spoke for her family, saying her father was a peaceful man.

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TECHNOLOGY

Sooners: Change your passwords Bug is a threat to secure information KATE BERGUM

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That’s what computer specialists are telling web users after an Internet vulnerability has exposed the supposedly secure information of millions, such as credit card numbers, bank accounts and other sensitive data.

The bug, called Heartbleed, is caused by an implementation error in security protocol, said Jonathan Mullen, systems administrator for the School of Computer Science.

Heartbleed would cause a server to respond to the right request with sensitive information. Because of the vulnerability, a hacker could send a request to a web server. In response, the web server could send back information it shouldn’t — information that was supposedly secure, Mullen said.

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GO AND DO Justice Week events 7 p.m. Tuesday in Gould Hall 155: “Art and Activism,” featuring CSJ Activistin-Residence Claudia Bernardi 6 p.m. Thursday in Gould Hall 155: “Decolonizing MY History,” Cherokee Linguistics and Cherokee Medicine, featuring Waleila Carey 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 23 at the Molly Shi Boren Ballroom: Teach in on Race

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OU’s History of Science department recently received a $350,000 grant to help digitize ancient texts.

The database that will hold the digital copies will be available to anyone for free.

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OU’s History of Science department received a large grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that will support new technological measures for the Isis Bibliography of the History of Science.

The $350,000 grant is funding a project to further digitize information from the 100-year-old bibliography, letting students and researchers search their data and manage their research online, according to a press release.

Stephen Weldon, assistant professor in OU’s History of Science, currently serves as editor of the Isis Bibliography and will direct and manage the new digital project.

“I’ve somewhat changed the way that the traditional bibliography has been produced,” Weldon said. “What I’d like to do now is add to it a social component, which allows other members of the community a chance to contribute to it as well.”

Weldon said this new online venue will be an account-based system, requiring you to log in before doing research.

Though it has a login component, the entire database will be available to the user for free, according to the press release.

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The Isis Bibliography was founded in 1913, but only the last 40 years of the bibliography is currently in digital form, something Weldom said is being worked on right now through OU Libraries digitalization lab.

Weldon said all of the research that has not been digitized requires scanning, optical character recognition software and “a lot of human eye-contact to make sure the data is incorporated in the database correctly.”

The grant supports the first two years of development for the new bibliography platform, according to the press release.

A good portion of the grant money will go toward digitizing the material, Weldon said.

“The most interesting part of the project is trying to understand how it will allow us to rethink what a bibliography is,” Weldon said. “Right now, a lot of people think of a bibliography simply as a list of books, but by putting it into this particular format that I’m creating, we will be able to look at the bibliographic data and draw other things.”

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“Thank you in behalf of our family, and we’re not against the police. We’re against the police who use their badges to abuse the citizens of this country,” she said. “Those five police officers — there’s no words that can describe what they were thinking that day. There are no words to describe how we feel as a family.”

The program ended with author Esmeralda Santiago, who gave a lecture titled, “The Transformative Power of Art.” Following her

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Interpretive dancers perform “Up the Mountain” to open the “Luis Rodriguez: No En Vano (Not in Vain)” discussion for OU’s Justice Week on Monday evening.

speech, the audience and Rodriguez family, entitled family walked to Lissa and “Notes from the heART.” Cy Wagner Hall in a candlelight procession called the Justice Walk. Once at Amber Friend ambermfriend@ou.edu Wagner Hall, they ended the night with notes to the

TECH: IT working to secure servers Continued from page 1 issue, Mullen said, imagine being able to put a username into Facebook, and, with the use of a special password, being able to access any account. The Heartbleed bug allows hackers to act in a similar way with other sites.

Though hackers can only access small amounts of data through the exploit, they could get these small increments of data many times.

Heartbleed is concerning because the implementation error has been around for a long time, Mullen said. The information provided by anyone who has used the Internet in the past few years may not be as secure as they thought it was, Mullen said.

As more commerce occurs online, its vulnerabilities, such as Heartbleed, may become more common, Mullen said.

“You’re going to see things like this as we progress so rapidly,” Mullen said. “Unfortunately, this is probably the new norm.”

Even a secure password would not necessarily prevent Heartbleed from getting an account’s information, Mullen said. In the wake of the bug, Internet users should change passwords — but only on sites that have been updated since the bug’s outbreak. Most of the big sites have received updates, Mullens said.

OU’s website is among the sites that have patched all internal OpenSSL servers, which are used to secure websites.

This means all Sooners can change their passwords to be protected from the bug, said Courtney Kneifl, marketing coordinator with OU Information Technology.

OU IT is working with other campus departments to make sure their servers are secure, Kneifl said.

OU IT sent an email to students Friday warning them of Heartbleed. The email stated that there was no evidence that data from OU sites had been stolen.

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AT A GLANCE How to protect yourself from Heartbleed • Change your passwords used on secure websites, including banking, email, and social media • Use a different password for every site • Do not share your passwords with others • Change your passwords every 60 days • Avoid using dictionary words as passwords • Consider using “passphrases” instead of passwords

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The new paint on the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium that fans chose during an online voting for the Oklahoma NCAA college spring football game Saturday in Norman.

Sooners’ new logo is a fan hit, should be adopted for all future football games Our View: Oklahoma football should permanently example of that. We believe it’s just as important adopt the fan-chosen midfield logo that debuted at for OU football to not only increase fan involveSaturday’s spring game. ment, but also to be receptive to what fans want.

And clearly, fans want to experiment with differAside from the national championship trophies ent paint logos. Obviously, the traditional midand winning records, OU football is famous for field logo of the crimson and cream OU is classic, its tendency to never change anything. We like but putting OU into the state outThe Our View our tradition around OU. From the uniforms to line better captures the spirit of our is the majority university. the pregame routines, Oklahoma football favors opinion of tried and true over wild and new. This is why we Sorry to the Pokes up in Stillwater, The Daily’s were pleasantly surprised that, one, OU football but OU is the pride of the Sooner eight-member allowed fans to vote on what logo would appear State.

Oklahomans are a special editorial board on the field during last weekend’s spring game people — proud yet humble, kind and, two, that OU fans actually picked a new yet stubborn. We love that the new midfield logo. Oklahoma fans chose the state out- logo better represents not only our school, but line of Oklahoma filled with crimson and the inalso our state and the people who make it great. terlocking OU, and it looked fantastic. We encourAnd it isn’t just OU students and fans that appreage OU football to permanently adopt the new ciated a new look on the field Saturday. National logo and hope to see it on the field in the fall. sportswriters chimed in on the logo, including The OU football department has made strides Georgo Schroder of USA Today Sports, who tweetthis offseason to get fans more involved in the ed “Have to say, midfield logo looks good. Would sport they so love. The midfield paint vote is an OU consider a permanent change?” OU-devoted

Twitter accounts, since then, have started polls to see if Sooners want the logo changed permanently, and tweets abound voicing general fan approval for the logo.

We appreciate that OU football opened part of game-day to fan input, and we hope it responds to fans’ calls to adopt the new logo. After all, OU football fans are such an integral part of the program, as the record-breaking 43,500 fans that attended Saturday’s spring game showed.

Even if Oklahoma football chooses not to make the change permanent, we encourage the program to continue fan voting for the spring game, a day that is basically devoted to re-acquainting OU fans with their team anyway. Or, if we can’t have the state logo year-round, OU football should at least use the logo during the Bedlam game. After all, we wouldn’t want to miss an opportunity to show the Cowboys who really runs this state, both on the scoreboard and through the logo.

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CIA uses Red Hot Chili Peppers as torture A ccording Opinion columnist to a Senate Intelligence Committee report, the CIA used music by the Red Hot Chili Peppers (looped endlessly at high volumes) to torture terrorism detainees.

In a world plagued by Justin Corbin Brown Bieber, Miley Cyrus and brown.corbin.h@ou.edu Katy Perry, this agency has a tremendous number of far more grating artists to choose from. The fact that they would settle on the Peppers is odd.

From the caterwauling of Lana Del Rey, to the whiny, angst-filled mass that is Death Cab for Cutie, a veritable garbage dump is just a click away.

Two of the more agonizing choices are Nickelback and Creed. That the CIA chose not to play these bands demonstrates either some degree of mercy, or an aversion to the obvious.

The agency could also torture detainees with Mumford & Sons’ album “Babel.” And if they don’t want to pay 12 dollars for the full album on iTunes, agents could just loop “I Will Wait” — same effect.

And don’t think the CIA has to rely on songs written in this millennium. Just look at Ethel Mermen. I would add a few folk singers from the 1960s, but this column has a word limit.

Another highly effective choice is Guns n’ Roses. I would confess to anything (including terrorism) if it meant no longer having to listen to Axl Rose. Rather than simply music, the CIA could also use unpleasant noises.

In 2012, researchers at Newcastle University in England conducted a study on those sounds that most disturb humans. The top three most irritating (from first to third) were a knife on a bottle, a fork on a glass and chalk on a blackboard. Surprisingly, nails on a blackboard only made it to number five.

Scientists have come up with several theories behind the displeasure humans experience when hearing these sounds. Some believe that the noises resemble calls used by our primate ancestors to signal danger.

A 2011 study by musicologists in Austria and Germany found that sounds with frequencies between 2,000 and

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Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. speaks after a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 3 as the panel votes to approve declassifying part of a secret report on Bush-era interrogations of terrorism suspects puts the onus on the CIA and a reluctant White House to speed the release of one of the most definitive accounts about the government’s actions after the 9/11 attacks.

4,000 Hz were often the most irritating. One of the researchers, Michael Oehler, says that the human ear may have evolved to amplify pitches at which we are likely to communicate.

Americans should be concerned that their tax dollars are going toward the CIA’s musical torture methods. How many songs did the agency buy before finally settling on the Red Hot Chili Peppers? Is this program simply a

fabrication by agents to purchase thousands of songs for their own personal use?

Regardless of whether one is for, against or neutral toward “enhanced interrogation techniques,” one can agree that the CIA has far more effective musical options.

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Norman-based band Foxburrows will mark the release of its five-track EP, “Woodland Creatures,� with a concert at 10 p.m. May 10 at Opolis.

Foxburrows recently changed their name from Fox, which they’ve been going by for the past year, because it was too generic.

The group consists of bassist Collin Spriggs, drummer Blair Smith, lead vocalist Boone Brady and guitarists Cody Anderson and Derek Waas. “We started last February, and we started playing shows together last May. And we’ve been busy ever since,� said Anderson, a geography and history education junior.

I t ’s a l w a y s h a r d t o e x p l a i n Foxburrows’ style, said OU alumnus Waas.

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It has the indie rock feel, but there’s weird, eclectic noises, strange things going on and weird time signatures.�

Although their songs are often complex, Foxburrows’ writing process starts with a single idea from that is built on through repetition, Anderson said. “It’s a jam session type of thing,� said Spriggs, a pre-nursing and music junior.

According to the band, most of the songs from the EP will be pretty upbeat and happy.

Michael Ross, an education senior who frequents Foxburrows shows, believes that its cheerful, upbeat music will catch the attention of an audience that’s never heard them before. “It’s really chill,� Ross said. “It makes you want to tap your feet.�

Before the EP release show at Opolis, Foxburrows will play the outdoor Opolis stage at Norman Music Festival at 2 p.m. on April 26.

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In the dark of the early morning is when professional writing alumnus Kyle West feels most creative. That’s why his last aily /The D ner seven books have mostly been written before the sun comes Wag w e up. dr An With the steadily rising sales of the novels in his sci-fi series, “The Wasteland Chronicles,” West has decided to take the plunge from corporate America to the unpredictable world of self-employment.

“I mean, it’s highly possible that it doesn’t work out for me a year from now,” West said, completely unaffected by the harsh truth he had laid out for himself, outside of a Starbucks in Bricktown. It was his fourth day of being a full-time author.

West graduated from OU in 2010 into a less than forgiving economy. He took work as he could find it through temp agencies, doing mostly data entry, West said.

“I hated data entry,” West said. “It’s the complete opposite of something creative, but it was something I had to do to pay the bills and live on my own.”

West published his first novel “Night of the Necromancer,” which he co-authored with a fellow OU professional writing alumnus Jelani Sims in January 2011, while working for Chesapeake Energy.

West knew he would have to discipline himself to write everyday in addition to working full time. In order to do his best work, West cut video games and television from his daily routine and replaced it with reading, writing and exercising.

West also started waking up at 5 a.m. to get a few hours of writing in before work, which he credits as the biggest secret to his success, because the early morning is when he is most creative.

“I believe anyone can make life changes in order to achieve their dreams,” West said.

West now has six books published and a seventh coming this month.

West has slowly grown a readership through self-publishing his first six novels and believes his success will continue as long as he continues producing quality fiction.

He adopted this mindset from writers who he admires and from the OU professional writing program.

Professional writing senior, Lauren Casonhua, has found that OU’s professional writing program has pushed her to not only be a strong well rounded writer, as well as getting her writing published.

“You don’t know what ‘writing’ is until you have to turn in 4,000 words of a story each week,” Casonhua said.

Both Casonhua and West have been strongly encouraged by professional writing professor, Mel Odom, who has published more 100 books, to work hard and put their writing in front of the public.

“It’s encouraging to have a professor who really wants to see his students succeed, and the students who are now published authors are proof of that,” Casonhua said.

Because it’s a job that’s done alone, making the time to detach from the outside world and focus solely on writing challenges many creative writers, Odom said.

West’s drive, ambition and vision have greatly helped him become the writer he is today, Odom said.

“When his first couple of books didn’t sell so well, he kept writing, kept pushing and kept believing to write the next book and the next. That’s hard to do all by yourself. Kyle did it and he’s become a success,” Odom said.

It was during her Introduction to professional writing class last spring in which Laura Wilcox, public relations senior, was struck by the idea of a story based on time travel. Skeptical at first, Wilcox said she approached the class professor, Mel Odom, and asked whether she should write the book or not.

Odom, who has published more than 100 books, supported the idea right away. But Wilcox wanted to wait before she started. “[Odom] said, ‘No, we can have it done,’” Wilcox said.

With help and guidance from Odom, Wilcox set up a writing schedule to transform her idea into a story. Wilcox said it was difficult to juggle work, classes and writing all at once.

“You basically need to carve out an hour and [write], whether you’re feeling it or not,” said Wilcox.

Kasey Phipps, online journalism senior and a close friend of Wilcox, edited her book titled “Renegade.” Phipps said it was no surprise when Wilcox published the book, given her passion for writing.

“It did surprise me that she did it in such little time,” Phipps said.

The book revolves around a time-traveller named Andrew Simmons who gets trappped in pre-revolutionary Boston by breaking two of the three rules of time travel.

Along the way, he uncovers some disturbing secrets about time-travellers.

“He starts to realize that the stakes are a lot higher than just getting back to the future,” said Wilcox.

Wilcox said the concept of a time-space continuum has always intrigued her since there are no set rules in writing about it. Wilcox said the concept gave her a lot of creative license but was also very challenging.

“I admire her for tackling time travel,” Phipps said.

Wilcox said she based the plot for “Renegade” broadly on the popular Disney movie, “The Little Mermaid,” because she has always been a fan of that film.

Instead of going through a publishing company, Wilcox opted to self-publish because it allows for more authorial control over the work.

“Every single step is you, and that’s kind of nice,” Wilcox said.

Odom said self-publishing is important for authors who want to get published in the “current paradigm,” since most renowned publishers search for writers on the self-published list.

“Renegade” was made available on Kindle two weeks ago and will soon be on Nook.

Phipps said the book is a quick and easy read with relatable characters.

Odom believes the book will have little trouble finding an audience considering the popularity of time travel in modern science fiction.

Wilcox said she’s already working on the sequel while simultaneously promoting “Renegade.”

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Sama Khawaja, sama.khawaja-1@ou.edu Top: Professional writing alumnus Kyle West relaxes outside of a Starbucks in Bricktown. West recently quit his day job to focus on writing a series of science fiction novels called “The Wasteland Chronicles.”

Bottom: Public relations senior Laura Wilcox sits outside Oklahoma Memorial Union on Wednesday morning. She’s a self-published author, whose first book, “Renegade,” is now available on Amazon.

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Not only did Durant keep the Thunder competitive, he maintained their status as one of the NBA’s elite.

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Westbrook’s return didn’t go as planned, but people were too quick to jump on the bandwagon that he wasn’t a good fit for Durant. Apparently, they just forgot the five years the duo played together before Westbrook’s injury.

The Thunder medical staff held Westbrook to a minutes restriction, which made it hard for him to get it going throughout the games early. He needed time to eventually recover and get his flow back.

He got his flow back, all right.

In a game against Philadelphia last month, Westbrook recorded a triple double in only 21 minutes of playing time, making him the fastest to do so in more than 60 years.

Since the beginning of March, the Thunder has gone 14-7, and things are looking up. Westbrook seems to be getting his timing back, and the pick and pop game between him and Durant looks better than ever. He even got revenge against Patrick Beverley when the Thunder took on the Rockets. Beverley, who was responsible for Westbrook’s injury in last year’s playoffs, was embarrassed on national television when Westbrook basically had his way with him the entire game, leading the Thunder to a win. Westbrook has also eclipsed the 30-point scoring mark twice since the start of April.

So the world seems to be back on axis for Thunder fans. The “Thunder Buddies� look like they’re back in rhythm.

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