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Campus leaders disperse $3.2M from fees 1

Allotting student funds

7 student-based organizations receive funding from student-activity fees JARED RADER and RENEÉ SELANDERS The Oklahomal Daily

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Requesting more funding

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Distributing UOSA’s money

Three students and one university administrator — the Student Activity Fee Committee — were responsible for allocating more than $3.2 million of student money this year. Each semester, students pay $5.95 per credit hour — $89.25 for a student enrolled in 15 hours — in student-activity fees.

The money generated from the fees was

distributed to seven student-focused departments March 4. Counseling and Testing Services, Number Nyne Crisis Center, Fitness and Recreation, the Dean of Students, Student Life and Student Media have operated under the same budget for the last two years, while UOSA’s budget has increased each year since 2009, according to the budget in the OU Board of Regents agenda.

UOSA’s budget increased $12,470.20 after Student Activity Fee Committee members — UOSA President

Student fee breakdown » UOSA: $605,829.20 » Student Life: $581,696 » Counseling and Testing Services: $390,000 » Fitness and Recreation: $353,345 » Dean of Students: $349,385 » Student Media: $169,561 » Number Nyne Crisis Center: $15,243 Projected student-activity fee budget: $3,231,240 — Source: OU Board of Regents agenda

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Graduate students awarded research grants

GREEN WEEK ROLLS THROUGH CAMPUS

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Shelby Schwartz and Ryan Harris, photography sophomores, place a sculpture of recycled plastic bottle materials Sunday afternoon on the South Oval. The sculpture was part of an exhibit in front of the Bizzell Memorial Library for OU’s Green Week, which starts today.

Green Week to bloom on campus Event attempts to raise awareness about environment, energy conservation SARAH MARTIN The Oklahoma Daily

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ndergraduate Student Congress will present Green Week this week on campus to raise awareness about environmental sustainability.

Artistically sculptured recycling bins were placed on the South Oval on Sunday, as the official kick-off of the week’s activities.

Green Week is intended to highlight sustainability efforts taking place at the university and mobilize students to make a difference, said Green Week chairwoman Andrea Karch.

“The fact of just getting ideas out there and having people think about them and then implement them ... is beneficial,” said Karch, sociology senior.

Congress will present electricity-free entertainment 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday on the Walker-Adams Mall during OU Unplugged.

Hannah Morris and Laura Bock, UOSA president and vice-president elect for the coming academic year, will speak about their sustainability goals at the event.

Other entertainment will include a stomp act, the OU Redliners and a local acoustic

musician.

“It is encouraging people to turn off their lights, come outside, hang out and save energy,” Karch said.

Karch said she hopes to make Green Week events accessible and relatable to students.

To this end, Green Week events have been moved to the South Oval and now incorporate different departments of study, Karch said.

Students from the School of Art made the art sculpture recycling bins displayed on the South Oval with recyclable materials for a class assignment, Karch said.

Another goal of Green Week is making students aware of what the university already does in terms of sustainability, said Ali Browning, Green Week spokeswoman.

Representatives from different campus departments will participate by sharing the green or socially conscious aspects of their day-to-day operations, said Browning, business economics and geography sophomore.

“There are a lot of things that are kind of behind the scenes that we just don’t think of, such as Facilities Management,” Browning said.

Initiatives to conser ve resources have grown over the last few years within Facilities

Green Week events Today » Noon to 1 p.m., South Oval — Decorating a free reusable bag » 7:30 p.m., Gaylord 2020 — Film screening: “King Corn” Tuesday » 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., South Oval — Tie-dye a free Green Week T-shirt » 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Walker-Adams Mall — OU Unplugged Wednesday » Noon to 1 p.m., South Oval — Picnic for the Planet with Chipotle » Noon to 1 p.m., South Oval — Plant a pot of cilantro Thursday » 11 to 1:30 p.m., Union patio — Housing and Food Social Responsibility Fair » 6 to 8:30 p.m., Fred Jones Auditorium — Film screening: “Fresh” with Chipotle

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General steps up to state regent position Governor appoints Stricklin; Senate approval pending KATHLEEN EVANS The Oklahoma Daily

Toney Stricklin

Gov. Mary Fallin appointed a new Oklahoma State Regent for Higher Education, who will take the place of a retiring regent after approval by the state Senate.

Fallin appointed Maj. Gen. Toney Stricklin on April 8 to replace Don Davis, whose term had expired. The state regents decide whether to approve changes and

A LOOK AT WHAT’S ON Visit the news section to read about a national survey that found 43 percent of graduate students are over stressed

funding for all universities and colleges.

“Toney Stricklin is an experienced leader who will work to ensure our colleges and universities continue to provide a quality education for our students and help to build the skilled workforce our businesses need to succeed,” Fallin said in a statement.

Stricklin served as an officer in the United States Army for 32 years before retiring in August 2001. He has held state leadership positions such as Information Technology Panel for the Oklahoma Economic

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Development Generating Excellence chairman.

“I share Gov. Fallin’s commitment to supporting and improving our colleges and universities,” Stricklin said in a statement.

Stricklin also has served in military leadership roles since leaving the Army. He is chairman of the Oklahoma State Chamber Military Liaison Committee and the Lawton Airport Authority.

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Ten graduate students were recently awarded more than $700 in grant money from the Graduate Student Senate for Spring 2011 research, with one student receiving the full amount possible.

The largest grant in 2010 was $224.82, according to Senate records. The maximum grant allotment was changed from $500 to $750 a few years ago, Senate chairman Derrell Cox said.

After the change, few students received it because of the increasing number of applicants and the limited funding, Cox said.

“The GSS Ways and Means Committee in conjunction with the GSS Executive Committee agreed that the grant awards should recognize the very best applicants with the maximum grant award,” anthropology graduate student Cox said in an email.

The current policy is to award the top 10 applicants with the maximum award, and allocate the remaining funds to the rest of the applicants that meet the criteria, Cox said.

Physics and astronomy graduate student Hemantha Maddumage was the only student to receive the maximum $750.

Maddumage’s research involves the study of dark matter.

“The main goal of our work is to constrain dark energy using observational data already available,” Maddumage said.

Dark energy is a concept introduced to explain the observed acceleration of the expansion of the universe, Maddumage said.

Maddumage used his funding to attend Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics international conference in Mexico in January and was able to discuss improvements to his research.

Industrial engineering graduate student Manasi Kharude received a $741.67 grant for his research into rest periods intended to relieve mental fatigue for airtraffic controllers.

Kharude said he is comparing breaks spent on social networking sites to breaks involving physical activity to test their effectiveness.

Kharude said his research is important to the Federal Aviation Administration due to the high rates of mental fatigue in the field of air-traffic control.

“I have had people from the FAA help me out with the experimental design and one of them will be a member of thesis committee,” Kharude said.

Part of the reason the project requires the grant is to provide incentive to the subjects because of the mental fatigue involved with the tests, Kharude said.

Apart from the 10 students who received between $736.71 and $750, no other student was awarded above $550.

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FEES: Projected budget based on enrollment Continued from page 1

UOSA budget since 2009-2010

Today around campus » The School of Art & Art History’s Foundations exhibition will be open to the public from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Fred Jones Jr. Memorial Art Center’s Lightwell Gallery. » As part of Green Week, Student Congress is letting students decorate reusable bags for free from noon to 1 p.m. on the South Oval. » Nancy Matthews, mathematics program specialist, will host a pre-calculus question and answer seminar from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245 as part of the Student Success Series. » As part of Green Week, Student Congress is hosting a free film screening of the movie “King Corn” at 7:30 p.m. in Gaylord Hall, Room 2020. » The Symphony and Concert Band will play a free show from 8 to 10 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall.

Tuesday, April 19 » The School of Art & Art History’s Foundations exhibition will be open to the public from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Fred Jones Jr. Memorial Art Center’s Lightwell Gallery. » As part of Green Week, Student Congress will be tie-dying Green Week T-shirts for free from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the South Oval. » Jack Willis, former OU journalism professor, will speak at a Men’s Breast Health Awareness Seminar from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Sooner Room. » School of Music faculty and students will perform a free concert at noon at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. » Two Oklahoma government officials will present a workshop on the 2010 Census from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Bizzell Memorial Library, Room 149. Reservations are required. Call 405-3254142 information is available.

Franz Zenteno, Student Congress Chairman Brett Stidham, Graduate Student Senate Chairman Derrell Cox and Student Affairs Vice President Clarke Stroud — unanimously agreed with Stroud’s recommendation to allot the money to UOSA. The additional $12,470.20 was made available after the university’s Chief Financial Officer Chris Kuwitzky projected an increase in student-activity fee revenue.

Projections are based on enrollment and fee-collection trends.

Counseling and Testing Services, the university’s primary mental-health agency, was the only other department to apply for a budget increase.

Because student organizations rely on funding through UOSA, and UOSA’s budget is funded entirely through student-activity fees, the Student Activity Fee Committee decided this would be the best use of student-activity fees, Stroud said.

Other departments only receive a portion of their funding through student-activity

Being

NUMBER ONE is nothing to celebrate.

» The Center for Social Justice is holding an event to explore nonviolent communication from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Union’s Sooner Room.

This year, more than

172,000 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer, and more than 163,000 will die— making it America’s

» A guest speaker will speak on nonviolent communication from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Room 100. » As part of Green Week, Student Congress is having a sack lunch picnic with chips and guacamole provided by Chiptole from noon to 1 p.m. on the South Oval.

$595,000 $590,000 $585,000 $580,000 $575,000 $570,000 2009-2010

2010-2011

2011-2012 — Source: OU Board of Regents agenda

fees. For example, 44 percent of Counseling and Testing’s budget comes from studentactivity fees, while state funding accounts for 44.5 percent and department sales and services make up 11.5 percent.

Every year, Student Affairs organizations must submit funding requests to

Management, Director Brian Ellis said.

Conservation initiatives include the campus installation of lower-wattage light bulbs, low-flow toilets and sinks with sensors that turn off automatically, Ellis said.

One of their more extensive programs is recycling on campus, which everyone can help with, Ellis said.

Ellis said he encouraged students to use recycling

» OU baseball will play Dallas Baptist at 6:30 p.m. in L. Dale Mitchell Park.

» Fresh waffles will be available from 9 to 10 a.m. in The Writing Center for students working on papers.

$600,000

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» A CIA recruiter will discuss working for the CIA from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hester Hall, Room 160.

Wednesday, April 20

$605,000

the Student Activity Fee Committee for review early in the spring semester. After reviewing the requests, the committee creates and approves a budget that must then be approved by the OU Board of Regents. The board approved the student-activity fee budget at its March 24 meeting.

Editor’s note: This is part one of a three-part series tracking the allocation of student-activity fees. Part one focuses on the distribution process. Part two will examine the departments that applied for an increase in funding for 2011-2012. Part three will focus on how UOSA distributes its money.

GREEN: Week to coincide with Earth Day

» Bette Scott, career services director, will give a free seminar on the transition from school to career from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Wagner Hall, Room 245.

» The OU Jazz Band will perform from 8 to 10 p.m. in Catlett Music Center’s Sharp Concert Hall as a part of the Sutton Concert Series. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students, faculty, staff and senior adults.

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receptacles on campus.

“It is much more efficient if [items] are placed in the recycle bins because then we don’t miss things as we go through the trash,” Ellis said.

Ellis said he hopes Green Week will encourage students to recycle and make other changes aimed at sustainable living.

“It all matters, everything we can do on an individual basis adds up. OU is the size of a small city and every little bit counts,” Ellis said.

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Students should learn Grievances how their fees are spent are uncalled This semester, the nine members of The Daily’s edito- funds are distributed. rial board have paid more than $624 combined in student In today’s page 1 story, “Campus leaders disperse $3.2M activity fees. in fees” we outline the committee’s most recent allocation For every credit hour we — and all OU students — are of student activity fees to the seven organizations for the enrolled in, we pay the university $5.95 to fund student 2011-2012 academic year. services and organizations.

In part two running on Tuesday, we’ll focus on the allocaPaying the student fees is a lot like paying taxes, and stu- tion of $12,470.20 to UOSA instead of other departments. dents should scrutinize how these fees On Wednesday, we will explain how are spent, much like we would examine UOSA — which is entirely funded by We believe it is important student activity fees — distributes their the federal budget. to take a detailed look at money. More than 161 student organizaWe don’t have a choice to pay student the funding process and activity fees, and they are used to fund tions received primary funding for 2011vital parts of the campus experience. examine where the funds 2012.

After we pay the fees, they’re given to In addition to providing money to stuare distributed.” the Student Activity Fee Committee — dent organizations, student fees help made up of the UOSA president, Undergraduate Student fund salaries for student workers, research grants for Congress chairman, Graduate Student Senate chairman graduate students and emotional support like the Number and Dean of Students — and they distribute them to seven Nyne Crisis Center. organizations.

Each group funded with student activity fees greatly enThese organizations — UOSA, Counseling and Testing hance a student’s college experience. The departments Services, Number Nyne Crisis Center, Fitness and have to submit detailed budgets to ensure money is propRecreation, the Dean of Students, Student Life and Student erly allocated.

Media — were recently allotted a combined $3,231,240 The Daily wants students to know where their money from the Student Activity Fee funds. goes and who allocates it.

Because of this, we believe it is important to take a detailed look at the funding process and examine where the Comment on this column at OUDaily.com

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

U.S. policy affects youths The youth of America have nearly accomplished an un- than our parents’ generation? precedented achievement. 18 to 25 year-olds succeeded in The fact is, we let ourselves get wrapped up in day-toallowing their own futures to be mortgaged away by their day trivialities and let other people worry about our big government without offering more than muted whimpers picture. In fact, most of the time we give up our political in their own defense. agency in order to keep our artificially-engineered short What politician is concerned about getting the youth attention spans engaged in pathetic amusements. vote? None. Why? The youth vote cannot organize itself We’d rather play a flash game than read a news article. with any consistency to push for any particular goal.

We’d rather go to a movie than attend a public lecture. We OK, so that’s a minor overstatement. We can come to- engage in voluntary ignorance so long as they keep us engether on social issues — sometimes. We can get behind re- tertained. We go to our gladiator events while they crucify cycling, a few other environmental our future a few blocks away. issues and a smaller majority supWhat if instead of politicians caterports gay marriage. Social issues we ing to pharmaceutical lobbyists, they Other policies affect our lives as understand because they affect us catered to a bloc of youth voters? Do well. For instance, the bailout of or people we know directly. care that our health benefits are 2008-2009 drastically affected our we Other policies affect our lives as going to continue to get more exfuture, but what steps have we taken pensive, reducing the availability well. For instance, the bailout of to ensure it doesn’t happen again?” of health care for Americans? Do 2008-09 drastically affected our future, but what steps have we taken we care that our standard of living to ensure it doesn’t happen again? We passed health care is going down because we have to keep an irresponsible reform a year ago that was at least a step in the right direc- financial sector from collapsing? Do we want to own our tion, but there is a strong possibility it will be repealed, if not homes, or do we want to get mortgages we can’t afford and

by Congress then by the Supreme Court. accrue debt we’ll never pay off?

These are our health costs being raised, especially if the Our future is slipping out of our grasp, and soon the batRyan budget is passed and Medicare becomes a voucher tle will be to save our children’s future because ours will program. We may disagree on policy, but surely we can be too far-gone. We need to have organized activity in our agree that we need to take steps to safeguard our future. government. We need to have an informed population Why would we allow these things to happen? Why do we that pays more attention to policy decisions than it does continue to be uninvolved in the decisions dictating how we to celebrity tweets. We need to take responsibility for our will live for the next few decades? future.

Obviously, the answer is that we don’t care. Why else would we allow this to happen? Are we too stupid to underJoseph Ptomey, stand policy? Do we want to have a lower standard of living letters senior

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Budget plan will destroy Medicare Yet again, Republicans are trying to pull funding for so- saves $771 million over the next decade by cutting this fedcial welfare programs in our country. Paul Ryan’s sweep- eral program and sending the money as grants to states, ing new budget idea, termed the “Pathway to Prosperity,” which would be given free range on how to spend it. is catching fire amongst conservatives in Congress and the I do not trust Governor Mary Fallin (R-Okla.) with promedia. viding this service in the correct way. Since Ryan wants to Ryan’s plan is an awkward solution for someone who has cut our major social programs, you would think he might dedicated “his entire adult life to economics” and is con- cut into our massive military budget. Nope, he only wants sidered a frontrunner on balancing to cut $78 billion from that. the budget.

Republicans say competition, the Ryan’s plan won’t raise any new tax Ryan (R-Wis.) wants to save $2 revenue either; in fact, he will lower free market and a non-guarantee the top tax bracket from 35 percent trillion over the next 10 years by reof coverage to seniors will lower to 25 percent and would extend the pealing the new Affordable Care Act costs. Sounds a lot like rationing Bush-era tax cuts indefinitely — losand by transforming Medicare and Medicaid. ing yet another $700 billion over the care — I thought Republicans Medicare services 45 million people next 10 years. didn’t like that?” and reimburses health care providers Ryan is fooling himself, along with for patients’ treatment, but cannot pay for it. Ryan’s plan the rest of the party, by claiming we can balance the budfor Medicare is to send that money directly to private insur- get without raising taxes on anyone. We must do both. ance plans the future elderly can choose.

How about letting the Bush era tax cuts finally end so we Republicans say competition, the free market and a non- can rake in $700 billion and allow the wealthy to contribute guarantee of coverage to seniors will lower costs. Sounds a like the working class? Instead of devastating programs like lot like rationing care — I thought Republicans didn’t like Medicare, how about we cut into the inflated military budthat? get first, and then debate whether or not to make Medicare What’s wrong with this? Ryan caps the Medicare pay- means tested? ments at a rate barely above inflation, but we all know There are several options available for discussion, but I health care costs skyrocket quicker than the inflation rate for one, hope the Democrats stand their ground — for once and many seniors are going to be left out in the cold with — and say no Ryan’s plan. treatable diseases.

Medicaid serves 50 million poor and disabled Americans.

Doug McKnight, Ryan hopes to transform this program too. Ryan’s plan German and history sophomore

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STAFF COLUMN UMN Better yet, who cares about campus wide elections? It Mariah in would appear that my col- Najmuddin league philosophy senior Matt Bruenig does, however his many anti-government articles that can be found online at OUDaily.com, it is obvious this may not be the case.

Today, chairwoman-elect Melissa Mock will face grievance charges brought against her by Bruenig contesting the CAC Chair runoff elections.

Ironically, her opponent, microbiology junior Greg Emde, also charged Mock with grievances, but did not find it necessary to bring the case to court.

Emde was quoted in an article after the elections about taking the case to the UOSA Supreme Court saying, “It leaves a bad taste in people’s mouths, and it makes them want to stay away from being involved in these organizations.”

If Emde can rise above this discrepancy, why can’t Bruenig?

Grievances were brought against Mock in early April after her supporters sent out emails to their classmates.

I definitely support holding politicians to the highest of standards. However, Bruenig’s case against Mock is baseless.

Not only will he be ineligible to vote in the next election if the runoff is invalidated, but he has no tangible connection to CAC. Bruenig has participated in numerous demonstrations as a part of Students for a Democratic Society, which include interrupting student congress and crashing prospective-student tours to push the SDS agenda.

It is very I admire Bruneig’s political impractical to passion, but at what point is he think any of the impeding progress rather than candidates could promoting it? We do need to speak up about our beliefs and educate all of rally against the injustices on all their supporters scales of government, but if we about the many want to gain support, radicalstipulations ism is not always the most effective solution. laid out in Additionally, Mock was not the campaign the only candidate to violate regulations.” the campaign policy.

First, Emde’s signs were in violation of the permissible size of yard signs laid out in campaign regulations. Emde maintains it was not intentional and after he ordered them it was too late to correct the error. This was a violation the election board passed over.

Since Mock’s validity as CAC chairwoman has been contested, she has continually stated she did not encourage supporters to send out mass emails and it was an honest mistake on their part.

It is very impractical to think any of the candidates could educate all of their supporters about the many stipulations laid out in the campaign regulations. It all seems a little slanted the election board forgave Emde for ordering oversized signs — an act he did himself — and not forgive Mock for something she was unaware of.

Mock has already paid a fine for violating campaign regulations; going to court is just dragging it out. If the elections are invalidated, a third campaign will be held in the fall. Voter turnout was — as usual — low during the runoff; I can only imagine how abysmal it would be in August.

UOSA Supreme Court will decide if Bruenig has warranted grievances against Mock and if a third election is necessary. Mock’s campaign may have violated campaign regulations, but so did Emde’s. If a CAC chair cannot be established before fall, many of the organization’s plans will be put on hold. It is blatantly obvious Bruenig’s vendetta is only to instigate problems to screw over organizations.

It is true that most students don’t vote in elections and don’t care enough about CAC or UOSA to participate or pay attention, but they should. CAC is the programming branch of UOSA. UOSA funds all official OU organizations. With that much power and funding, it makes sense to know who is leading such influential organizations.

By not getting involved, we are allowing students like Matthew Bruenig to take advantage of the system. What’s worse is many still don’t care. Whether we choose to accept it, CAC chair is a very important position on campus.

I’m not saying volunteer or go to their events, but at least be informed.

— Mariah Najmuddin, public relations sophomore

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- You won’t like being around people who are overly assertive and dictatorial, so avoid these types and don’t place yourself in a position where you feel obligated to bend to someone’s will.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Regardless of how angry you get over a thoughtless, abrasive comment made by another, criticizing this person in front of others will only make you look bad. Keep your head and your cool.

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After collectively putting together one of the best seasons in OU gymnastics history, the OU men’s and women’s teams came up short this weekend at the NCAA Championships.

The women took third place, and the men finished in second over the weekend in Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, respectively.

Both programs entered the championships with high expectations. The women were the No. 3 seed going into the Super Six, and the men were the top-ranked team in the nation.

The men tallied their thirdbest score of the season, but Stanford outperformed the Sooners, 363.450-361.600. “We didn’t finish on top of the podium, but we fought like champions,� senior Steven Legendre said. “I am so proud of the way this team came around at the end of the year, as a team and in gymnastics.�

Legendre won the NissenEmery Award — essentially the Heisman Trophy of gymnastics — Thursday and finished fourth in the all-around competition Friday.

Sophomore Alex Naddour cracked the top three in all-around, and Oklahoma qualified five gymnasts for the individual-event finals Saturday.

OU made the most of the individual round by adding three individual national titles, raising OU to fourth alltime (35).

Sophomore Jacob Dalton brought home titles on floor and vault, and Naddour won the pommel horse.

The men also brought h o m e 1 2 A l l -A m e r i c a n honors.

The women notched their second-best postseason score in school history (197.250), but perennial powerhouses Alabama (197.650) and UCLA (197.375) bested the Sooners.

Oklahoma was the team to beat going into the final rotation. OU and Nebraska were the first two teams to complete the competition with the Sooners sitting in first place. Alabama and

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Naddour won the title on the apparatus.

The Sooners finished second in the team competition Friday.

Left: Sophomore Kayla Nowak performs her beam routine in Saturday’s NCAA team championships in Cleveland. The Sooners finished third.

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Individual titles  Jacob Dalton — Floor, vault  Alex Naddour — Pommel horse UCLA needed near-perfect scores of more than 49.300 on their last events to jump Oklahoma, and the top two seeds delivered to shock the Sooners at the end.

Four Sooner gymnasts qualified for Sunday’s individual-event finals, the most earned in a postseason under coach K.J. Kindler.

Freshman Madison Mooring led the way for the Sooners in the individual finals with a second-place

finish on vault (9.8313).

Mooring made a huge impact for the team this year.

She was the first freshman in the NCAA to score a 9.95 or better on beam, and she also was named Big 12 Newcomer of the Week twice on her way to three event titles throughout the season.

Though both teams had tremendous success this year, they both came up just short of the ultimate goal — team championships.

The men lose five seniors, but the women only lose two.

Both teams still have the majority of their lineups returning next year for what promises to be another set of runs at national titles.

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The No. 15 OU softball team (33-13, 6-5 Big 12) conceded two extra-inning losses, 3-2 and 1-0, during pitching epics against Missouri this weekend in Columbia, Mo. OUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Keilani Ricketts and Missouriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chelsea Thomas engaged in pitching battles both days, each throwing a pair of complete games.

Ricketts, OUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sophomore ace, allowed 12 hits Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the most ever allowed by the San Jose, Hits allowed by Calif., native â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but missed sophomore Keilani opportunities and strikeRicketts on Sunday, the outs kept the Tigers scoremost allowed in her career less until the 11th.

Ricketts (20-9) threw Total pitches 327 pitches in 20 innings, thrown by notching 29 strikeouts Ricketts in two games while allowing four runs from 21 hits against a poExtra innings played by tent Missouri offense.

OU and Missouri in two Thomas (20-3) kept the games (two on Saturday, Sooners scoreless through four on Sunday) 11 innings Sunday, combining for 34 strikeouts while allowing just 13 hits in two games. Thomas, who suffered a stress fracture last season, threw 319 total pitches.

The teams combined for 20 innings of action over the weekend, playing into the ninth and 11th innings, respectively, in two matchups.

Missouriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Abby Vock scored game-winning runs in both contests. Vock hit a walk-off home run â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just her third homer this season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the bottom of the ninth inning Saturday and scored the only run Sunday.

OU freshman Brittany Williams missed a scoring opportunity in the fifth when her shot to the wall bounced back into the park for a double, taking away a homer and the potential game-winning run for the Sooners.

Missouri (37-5- 9-1) also could have ended the game with the bases loaded in the sixth inning. Vock hit a shot that bounced off base runner Megan Christopher to record the second out of the inning, erasing the run scored on the play.

Senior third baseman Dani Dobbs made a big play to help the Sooners push the game into the 11th inning, stopping a Missouri hit on the third-base line and making the throw to first from her knees to record the second out in the bottom of the 10th.

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SHOW REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW

OU delivers heavenly show with â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Andrew Lloyd Webberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; show

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Screamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; still going strong

Although some theatrical purists might scorn a work that is simply made up of a variety of songs, these songs by Webber are far more than the sum of their parts.

In the mid 1990s, director Wes Craven redefined STAFF COLUMN MN terror with the release of his influential â&#x20AC;&#x153;Screamâ&#x20AC;?

Laron franchise. Craven and Chapman n screenwriter Kevin Williamson found a way to converse with their bloodthirsty audience by peppering their films with self-conscious characters who had been schooled in the conventions of the horror genre.

Chock full of cheeky, self-reflexive dialogue, gruesome slayings and pop culture references, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Screamâ&#x20AC;? franchise injected the slasher film with relentless comic undertones.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been 11 years since a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Screamâ&#x20AC;? film hit theaters, and many viewers may be asking themselves, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a fourth installment just overkill?â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fair question to ask. However, the latest addition to the franchise, cleverly written â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scre4m,â&#x20AC;? delivers something fresh and gut-bustingly entertaining. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Screamâ&#x20AC;? would not be â&#x20AC;&#x153;Screamâ&#x20AC;? without the original trio (Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courtney Cox) who survived the murders of the fictional town of Woodsboro, Calif. Sidney Prescott (Campbell) returns to her hometown as part of a book tour for her self-help memoir about traumatic past experiences. Shortly after Prescottâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reunion with comrades Sheriff Dewey Riley and retired news anchor Gale Weathers (Arquette and Cox), the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inhabitants become terrorized by a ghost-faced psychopath aimed to test his victimsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; knowledge of movie trivia.

Conveniently, the town is infested with young film aficionados, including Sidneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s younger cousin Jill (Emma Roberts) and her comrades: Kirby (Hayden Panettiere), Charlie (Rory Culkin) and Olivia (Marielle Jaffe). Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up to the slasher-film buffs to put their wits together and unmask the killer before they are sliced and diced.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to imagine a director besides Craven handling this material with more ease and dark humor. The film is done with enough style and wit to breathe new life into a franchise thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been dead for more than a decade. However, the horror landscape has drastically evolved. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not enough for the film to hack off the unfortunate band youths. This time, the franchise aims to butcher our â&#x20AC;&#x153;torture porn,â&#x20AC;? social media crazed society. This approach gives the film an unusually cheery tone that drowns out any hint of tension.

While the film is light on thrills, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heavy on carnage and biting satire. The attractive and talented cast garners a handful of gleeful chuckles. For fans of the series, this will serve as nostalgic bliss while giving a new generation a flavorful taste of 90s horror. On either end of the spectrum, the film dishes out bloody-good fun.

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urely any musical theater fan would consider Catlett Mu s i c C e nt e r â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s p e r f o rmance of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webberâ&#x20AC;? akin to a meeting with God. I t â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s o n l y f i t t i n g t h a t the concert begins with songs from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jesus Christ Superstarâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.â&#x20AC;?

Backed by an impressive choir of OU students and children, the songs involved minimal staging, allowing the sheer talent of the soloists to shine through.

Songs from well-known shows such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cats,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Phantom of the Operaâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evitaâ&#x20AC;? are intermixed with lesser known shows such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whistle Down the Windâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aspects of Love.â&#x20AC;?

R e m a rk a b l e p e r f o rmances include the powerful â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Cry for Me, Argentina,â&#x20AC;? sung by Kayley McCoy, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sunset Boulevardâ&#x20AC;? performed by Skyler Adams. Musical theater junior Sophie Menas also gives a charming performance as Evita in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buenos Aires.â&#x20AC;?

Kate Dinsmoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s U.S.premiere performance of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Love Never Dies,â&#x20AC;? title song to the British sequel to â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Phantom of the Operaâ&#x20AC;?, was also impressive.

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Skyler Adams, Jensen Stenberg, Joseph Ruel, Damian Chambers, Ryan Wood, Storm Lineberger and Elvie Ellis sing â&#x20AC;&#x153;No Matter Whatâ&#x20AC;? from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whistle Down the Wind.â&#x20AC;?

Choreography by Steve Brule, Derrick Minter and Amy Reynolds-Reed brightened what might have been boring or less-recognizable songs, including â&#x20AC;&#x153;Starlight Express,â&#x20AC;? a number filled w i t h d a n c e r s o n ro l l e r skates managing to still look poised and graceful.

Lighting design coordinated by Wooldridge and Steven Draheim added professionalism and atmosphere to the production, especially the projection of the Phantomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mask onto the organ during the â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Phantom of the Operaâ&#x20AC;? portion of the show.

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