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CAC election ends with runoff Tadlock and Pham will vie for majority vote on April 7 Campus Activities Council chair candidates John Pham and Chloe Tadlock will face off in a runoff election on Tuesday, April 7.

Neither candidate

received a majority of the votes, with Tadlock coming in at 42 percent and Pham at 35 percent of the 3,972 students who voted in the election.

Th e tu r n ou t rate wa s 17.83 percent, which is significantly higher than last year’s CAC chair election, which had a 2.6 percent turnout.

E l e c t i o n B o a rd c ha i r Taylor Petersen said he

CHLOE TADLOCK was very happy with the turnout. He contributes the success to the competitive election and the efforts made by the Election Board.

“ The Election Board worked so hard over these three months to get ready and it’s really nice for that to pay off,” Petersen said.

Voting will be held from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and students can vote at elections. ou.edu with their 4x4 and password.

Matt Ro g e r s f i n i s h e d third in the race and is not eligible for the runoff election. Rogers declined

me, they’re going to be the chair of the student body,” Rogers said.

Rogers said that he hoped that some of his ideas would end up being used by the CAC. JOHN PHAM “I’m still passionate to endorse either Pham about CAC. None of that or Tadlock, saying that he is ever going to leave me,” would let the students de- Rogers said. cide for themselves.

“Chloe and John aren’t going to be the chair of

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OU admits the most National Merit scholars Over 300 scholars have chosen OU’s close community SUPRIYA SRIDHAR Staff Reporter @SupriyaSridhar4

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Native American Studies professor Jay Mule and members of Sigma Alpha Nu Gamma perform in a drum circle on the South Oval Wednesday morning. The group accompanied the dances and speakers at ASA’s event honoring OU’s Native American community.

AISA honors heritage Heritage Day allows Native students to celebrate culture BRITTNEY BENNETT

Association to promote the presence of Native students on campus.

Activities began with a singing of the Kiowa Flag Song, which can be compared to the American Students marched down the South Oval today National Anthem. Another intertribal song was sung to with flags in hand representing various Native honor all Natives on campus, including students, faculAmerican tribes to celebrate their culture. ty and staff.

The students were heading to Heritage Day, a cerSEE HERITAGE PAGE 2 emony hosted by the OU American Indian Student

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OU admitted the highest number of National Merit freshmen enrolled in a public or private university in the U.S. with 313 scholars in the fall 2014 semester.

No other public institution in the U.S. has enrolled more than 300 National Merit scholars in a freshman class, according to a press release.

The rankings for the fall 2014 class were recently released as p a r t o f t h e Na t i o n a l Merit Scholarship Corporation’s annual report.

Apart from substantial scholarship benefits, the scholars also have access to early enrollment, special housing and the ability to use scholarship money to study abroad, according to the National Merit Scholar website.

One reason students decided to attend OU is the university’s unbashful emails and letters, as well as the genuine tone of the OU National Merit office, struck with them while recruiting, said Chynna Terrell, English sophomore and National Merit scholar.

“They showed me early on that I would have a lot of resources available to me if I came to this school,” said Stephanie Allred, chemical bioscience sophomore and National Merit scholar.

The university has been true to their word, even introducing Allred to the firstyear research experience program at OU, she said.

The sense of a Sooner community and a National Merit community is what lured Linda Stack-Nelson to come to OU. “The dedication they had to not only recruiting me but then to the overall educational experience,” said Stack-Nelson, English literature and international studies freshman.

OU offers dorms specific for National Merit scholars in order to foster community.

“I love it,” said Christiane P h i l l i p s, b i o c h e m i s t r y sophomore and National Merit scholar. “It’s 100 percent really impacted my time here. My freshman year would not have been the same at all if I hadn’t lived on Walker 10.”

Making the decision to come to OU was worth it, Terrell said.

“It’s been really nice and I’m just really glad that I got the opportunity to come here,” she said.

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Native professor talks movies Students to study Tippeconnie expresses culture through filmmaking MIKE BRESTOVANSKY Assistant News Editor @BrestovanskyM

As a Navajo and Comanche filmmaker and OU Film and Media Studies professor, Sunrise Tippeconnie hates being asked, “How did you begin making movies?”

“Everybody asks that,” Tippeconnie said with a sigh.

“I always say it was when we got a VCR and there was a pause button so I could work with still frames and try to recreate them. But I think it

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was in high school or middle school and I would make shorts with friends.”

A high school teacher told Tippeconnie that he could make a movie for class instead of an essay, he said.

“He validated that [movies] could be a form of expression,” Tippeconnie said. “That it could mean something.”

Now, Tippeconnie is an accomplished filmmaker whose short films have been featured at the Austin Film Festival, the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival and other festivals across the nation.

He has also worked on films such as Sterlin Harjo’s award-winning 2007 film

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Sunrise Tippeconnie is an accomplished Navajo and Comanche filmmaker and OU Film and Media Studies professor whose short films have been featured at the Austin Film Festival, the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival and other festivals across the nation.

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OU’s College of Arts and Sciences will offer a select group of students to study abroad in Bhutan this summer, making OU the fourth American university to offer such a program.

Political science professor Michael Givel has planned the program for more than three years

after gaining interest in the country following a sixmonth trip there in 2009, he said.

Givel is working on the program with adjunct professor Todd Sandel, who is currently teaching at the University of Macau in Hong Kong, Givel said.

Sandel, who has also visited Bhutan, described the country as one of the most closed off in the world, noting that tourists may only visit the country for two weeks and pay $200 daily for visas, he said.

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BHUTAN: Students visit remote Asian country

HERITAGE: Event gives a greater sense of unity Continued from Page One The AISA president Lillie Keener stressed the importance of the event.

“We hope that everyone walking by, whether it’s students or faculty, notice us and remember that there is a Native American presence here on campus,” Keener said. “It’s a way to make sure that Native Americans are visible.”

Amanda CobbGreetham, OU director of Native American Studies and Chickasaw tribal member, was the keynote speaker for the event. “‘Oklahoma’ is itself a Choctaw and Chickasaw word meaning ‘red people,’ so directly translated, the University of Oklahoma is the University of American Indian people, and I think that’s something we should always remember,” CobbGreetham said.

O U Vi c e P re si d e nt o f Student Affairs Clarke Stroud reflected on events leading up to the ceremony, including crowning the new Miss Indian OU Kimberly DeJesus, the AISA Stomp Dance and the 101st Spring Powwow Contest. “ I’ m a l w ay s h o n o re d that I’m asked to speak,” Stroud said. “I don’t take it for granted. It’s important to get a chance to talk to everyone in our community. It’s on the South Oval for a reason and gives us a chance to celebrate our Native students.”

For students like freshman and Caddo Nation tribal member Alaina Poole Ta h l a t e, t h e c e re m o n y also gave a greater sense of unity.

“I think it’s really neat

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OU students and faculty line up outside TP set up on the South Oval Wednesday morning. Former OU faculty member Warren Queton holds traditional springtime renewal ceremony in the TP. Participants are encouraged to utter prayers to be taken away with the cedar smoke rising out of the tee pee’s top opening.

that OU has a way for Native Amer ican kids who are away from their communities to come together and find a home and community on campus,” said Tahlate, who is a Native American and linguistics student that also served as Caddo Nation Princess from 2012-2013.

Maddie Habeck, a communications graduate student and Clan Mother for Native American sorority Gamma Delta Pi was also present at the event and indicated that visibility is especially important given recent campus events.

“We are unseen,” Habeck said. “A lot of people don’t know that we still exist, so I think it’s a good time to show our pride and heritage, as well as educate other students.”

The event concluded with an open Round Dance followed by cedar blessings, a smudging ritual where prayers rise with cedar smoke and are carried to the Creator in Native American culture. “ I a l way s g e t a c e d a r

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Amanda Cobb-Greetham speaks about OU’s new Native American Studies major at American Indian Association’s event on the South Oval Wednesday morning.

b l e s s i n g ,” s a i d K r i s t e n Partridge, OU Student Life director. “I feel like I share that sense of renewal that happens and it ’s just a beautiful event.”

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This lack of tourists and outside culture, Sandel said, makes the trip to the South Asian country a one-of-akind experience “off the beaten path.”

“It’s one of those places that is very unique,” Sandel said. “There are very few places that are as remote as Bhutan, but it’s welcoming.

It’s a friendly place. I think this would be a very different experience from going to places in Europe.”

The kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked country in the eastern Himalayas, with a largely Buddhist population of about 750,000, according to the country’s website.

That is around the size of San Francisco, Calif.

The program will begin with a week-long class in Nor man, follow ed by a month-long study abroad in Bhutan, where students will study the country’s history, culture and relatively recent democratization, among other topics like Buddhism, Givel said.

While both Givel and Sandel will teach portions of the curriculum, the class will also host various Bhutanese speakers, including

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Freshman Allison Brown, freshman Wesley Mills and junior Clare Costello are the only students so far selected to the program. Mills, who spent his childhood in Nepal and Mongolia, is excited to experience another Asian culture.

“I’m really looking forward to just being in Asian culture and being around other Asian students, hopefully that I can talk to about their life in Bhutan and kind of relate that to my own experiences in Asia,” Mills said.

The Bhutan application is still open to any OU undergraduate, though interested students should contact Karen Elmore at the College of Arts and Sciences before proceeding with the selection process.

Givel urges students to apply for the program.

“This is going to be one experience-of-a-lifetime for whoever comes on board,” Givel said.

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RUNOFF: CAC chair candidates express excitement over election results Continued from Page One Kendall Burchard, Rogers’ campaign manager, wished good luck to both Pham and Tadlock.

“This just makes CAC better. Having a contested election adds so much to campus, and it really pushes the candidates to be the best that they possibly can be,” Burchard said.

Pham finished second in the election with 35 percent of the vote, putting him in the runoff. He said he will treat the runoff almost as a separate election.

“I’m kind of happy that the journey gets to keep going on, but I’m a little anxious about everything, too,” he said.

Pham said his plan to win the runoff election will be to flip Rogers’ votes to him.

“I think that’s definitely

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Left: Chloe Tadlock awaits the results of CAC Chair’s election Wednesday night at Blackbird’s Wednesday.

Right: John Pham celebrates after receiving the call that he had qualified for a run-off against Chloe Tadlock Wednesday night at Blu. The runoff will take place April 8.

something that both teams are going to look into,” he said. “Whichever way the third party swings could determine who ends up winning.”

He said he thinks he has a good shot at taking down Tadlock in the runoff, and is

excited about the opportunity to win Tuesday.

“I’m beyond stoked,” he said. “I’m really happy we made the runoff and now we have an opportunity to win it all, so I’m excited to see who wins it all on Tuesday.”

Chloe Tadlock received 42

percent of the vote, making her the frontrunner among the three candidates.

Tadlock said she was shocked but humbled by the results and was very grateful to her staff. She applauded Rogers and Pham’s work as candidates and was

glad to “hit the ground running” during next week’s campaign.

“I’ve had a pretty unexpected college career, and it’s because of the people around me,” Tadlock said.

“I’m just really looking forward to work with them and

continuing to work with them and continuing to serve them.”

One of Tadlock’s campaign managers, Darci Lambeth, said that she also was proud of the work the staff did.

Going forward, she said, she hoped they would continue to gain more supporters.

“We’re not in it to win a campaign or win a competition. We’re in it to make a difference.” Lambeth said.

Tadlock’s graphic designer Kendal Coker was pleased with the brand the group had created and was glad to support Tadlock as a candidate.

“One thing I’ve noticed about Chloe is that through the entire campaign she does not take any negativity towards any other candidates.

She’s always encouraging us to be thankful of everyone and run a clean and positive campaign. I really look up to her for that.” Coker said.

FILMS: Tippeconnie runs own company, has released three short films Continued from Page One “For most filmmakers, if they write and direct their material ... usually the stuff that they write about is stuff they have a personal interest in,” Tippeconnie said. “For me, that’s just dealing with social and cultural issues that stem from my background.”

Tippeconnie has written and directed three short films since 2006, releasing his latest film, “Leave Durov to the Dogs: A Comanche Parable,” in 2011.

Tippeconnie has spent the last two and a half years working on a new project, “Diary of a Comanche Carhop,” a short version of

which he hopes to shoot this summer.

“It’s about a Native exorcism story,” Tippeconnie said. “There’s a female teenager working at a drive-in, and she gets possessed by something on the Internet ... So my hope is to depict a Native American exorcism, which is something we haven’t seen.”

Tippeconnie has about six other projects in various stages of completion, as well as a dream project, he said.

“I have always wanted to do a remake of ‘Back to the Future Part II,’” Tippeconnie said. “It has a really interesting story ... about this son who eliminated his relationship with his father ...

“It’s very difficult because, for one, it’s a very different mindset.”

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because he cheated time. So it’s about this son trying to make amends with this missing father figure. And then there’s his surrogate father figure, Doc Brown ... who basically brought him into manhood.”

The project is going to be hard to attain due to the need for special effects, Tippeconnie said.

With all his film work

— Tippeconnie says he simultaneously works on usually two feature films, one to two dozen short films, one music video and doctors three scripts per year — yet still has time to teach three classes this semester.

“It’s very difficult because, for one, it’s a very different mindset,” Tippeconnie said.

“Teaching is very selfless because you have to do all these things for somebody else ... while filmmaking is the opposite: it’s completely selfish, because you take other people’s resources and energy and wield them for your needs.”

In addition to all of this, Tippeconnie also runs a film company called Out of Print

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that helps provide resources for budding filmmakers.

“We’ve had someone [at Out of Print] who’s done a lot of plays, and now we’re trying to guide him through the language of the camera,” Tippeconnie said. “We have a safe environment, not intended for the public to see, where the writer and directors come in, create something ... and then professionals come in and give them feedback.”

Such feedback can help get budding filmmakers interested in parts of filmmaking other than the creative aspects like scriptwriting and directing, Tippeconnie said.

Although Tippeconnie works with student film

production groups and takes students with him when he works on professional films, generally only one student in his classes is interested in non-creative filmmaking roles, he said.

“Ultimately, [the best part of filmmaking] is collaboration,” Tippeconnie said. “It’s like [Steven Soderbergh’s 2001 film] ‘Ocean’s Eleven,’ where you have all these people with all these backgrounds and all these specialized areas — there’s a lot of really creative things that come out of these collaborations that you couldn’t make by yourself.”

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Oklahoma to host Kansas for three games Sooners hope to improve their .500 conference record SPENSER DAVIS Baseball Reporter @Davis_Spenser

Oklahoma baseball (1912, 3-3) will host Kansas (1017, 1-2) in a three-game set this weekend.

OU will look to improve on its .500 conference record while the Jayhawks are in search of momentum after dropping two straight contests to Baylor.

Sophomore shortstop Sheldon Neuse was adamant about his goals for this weekend coming off of a series loss against Baylor last weekend.

“We have to bounce back and respond. We have to make up for those losses; we definitely have to take care of business this weekend,” Neuse said.

Head coach Pete Hughes agreed with him, adding that he sees this series as an opportunity to “get back on track.”

KU’s best chance to prevent that will be to swing the bat well — the Jayhawks own the conference’s second best batting average at .288. However, the Jayhawks have struggled to consistently plate those base runners.

Kansas has scored just 136 runs through Tuesday’s games, seventh in the conference and 50 fewer than the Sooners.

Perhaps more worrisome for Kansas is its pitching staff — the Jayhawks team ERA is north of 6.00 after enduring a tough nonconference schedule.

“Our guys respect everyone at this level, no matter what the numbers say,” Hughes said. “They’re at Kansas because they’re really good baseball players.”

Hu g h e s d i d a d d t h a t he hoped his offense had “learned their lesson” after being shut down twice last weekend against a Baylor staff that had similarly bad numbers.

“I kind of just want to emphasize how we’ve done the last two games. 21 hits on Sunday against Baylor,

14 hits last night against Central Arkansas, we want to keep that momentum and keep building,” Hughes said.

“That’s going to be our approach for this weekend.”

Oklahoma’s offense is led by five .300 hitters after junior infielder Anthony Hermelyn joined the club against Central Arkansas on Tuesday. For comparison, OU had only three .300 hitters a year ago and just a pair in 2013.

One of those hitters, junior infielder Kolbey Carpenter, talked about his approach heading into the weekend. “ We u s e d t h a t w o r d ‘sweep’ a lot last week, and it didn’t go too well for us,” Carpenter said. “We’re going to go into it trying to win one game at a time, and hopefully it works out for us.”

First pitch against the TYLER WOODWARD/THE DAILY Jayhawks will be Thursday at 6 p.m. The series will contin- Sheldon Neuse, infielder, fields a ground ball at L. Dale Mitchell Park Tuesday, March 31, 2015. The ue at 6 p.m. Friday and will Sooners achieved their second shutout of the season, beating Central Arkansas 7-0. wrap up at 2 p.m. Saturday.

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AURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Financial gains are looking good. You should put any emotional issues on the back burner while you focus on getting ahead and securing your position.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Things may appear to be running smoothly, but you should take a closer look.

Personal matters are heading in a negative direction due to a lack of nurturing and attentiveness on your part.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Confrontations are best avoided. Work on a creative pastime that will keep you away from disgruntled colleagues or family members. DonĘźt waste time worrying about things that havenĘźt happened.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- If you put your best foot forward, you will reach your highest potential. You are no stranger to hard work, so keep the momentum going and financial rewards will come to you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- DonĘźt allow disagreements to fester. You are best off letting your true feelings be known when settling troublesome

matters. Acknowledge that you may be partially to blame for any discord.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- A pleasant surprise lies ahead. Take a few hours to enjoy good times with friends or loved ones. All work and no play leads to stress and unhappiness.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Things are looking up. Now is the time to try something that you have always wanted to do. Take a trip, join a theater group or sign up for a creative course that intrigues you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Stop dwelling on things you cannot change. If you put personal and emotional issues aside, you will have the energy to get a lot done. Keeping busy will be necessary.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- A hasty decision could have negative repercussions. This is not a day for wheeling and dealing. Spend some quiet time with loved ones and recharge your batteries.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- With patience and determination, you will be able to make things go your way.

DonĘźt be deterred by someone who doesnĘźt know you well and who fails to understand your motives.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- You will need to think on your feet. Your day isnĘźt likely to go according to plan. Use your wit and gumption to overcome any obstacle in your path.

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41 Singer Lenya 43 Get in the way of 44 10 of calendars, briefly 45 Some fraternity letters 46 War horses 47 Offshore sight 49 Cause of inflation?

50 A chorus line 51 Reduced in size 57 Cheek makeup 59 Eyeglasses feature 60 Fast finisher?

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2 Gridiron great Graham 3 Beach bird 4 Send out 5 Trees with purplish flowers 6 Going up in smoke

7 Princess of India 8 Buenos Aires resident 9 Sick 10 Poet’s “below�

11 Sanctify 12 Like hardwood floors 13 Merlin, e.g.

18 Boat mover 21 “Any day now ...�

25 Concern for one in the fast lane?

26 7:1, e.g.

27 Feature of some jackets 28 Make up 29 Santa ___, Calif.

30 Cheetah characteristics 32 Declares to be true 34 Like stop signs 39 Wrangler rival 42 Auditory 46 Ambulance attachments 48 Suffers defeats 49 Baffled 50 Still snoring 52 Iditarod’s finish line 53 Single out for praise 54 Athletic unit 55 Brownish shade 56 Bad marks 58 Parts of a day (Abbr.)

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LIFE&ARTS Poet spreads passion Student discovers spoken word during her freshman year

Emily Sharp, life & arts editor dailyent@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com/life&arts • Twitter: @OUDailyArts

Campus Corner gets new hot spot Journalism senior opens Xhale Hookah lounge

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Victoria Bautista is an OU student and, like many students, is active in a student club. Unlike most students, Bautista is also an award-winning spoken-word poet and environmentalist studying political science.

Bautista is the president of OU Write Club, an open forum where OU community members share pieces of writing. She said she has written poetry since she was 13 years old.

Despite her love of poetry, Bautista said she didn’t discover spoken-word poetry until she came to college, where a friend took her to a reading.

“It has helped me and, I think, so many other people to come out of their shell and learn to speak in front of other people and how to speak with passion about things that they care about,” Bautista said.

Bau t i s t a, a s e n i o r o n track to graduate in May, has competed in multiple local, regional and national poetry tournaments and most recently performed at TEDxOU 2015 in January.

“TEDxOU was one of the most surreal performances I’ve ever done,” Bautista said. “I’ve competed locally on the Oklahoma City Poetry Scene and I’ve competed nationally with the Individual World Poetry

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Slam and Southwest Shootout, the Denver 40 ounce drawl, regional tournaments around the U.S., but TEDxOU was kinda my first exhibition for my poetry and so it was really great,” Bautista said.

Waiting to hear back from law schools, Bautista plans to study environmental and energy law. She hopes to use law as a platform for change, much like poetry, by being involved in policy making.

“Alternative forms of energy are the future,” Bautista said.

Bautista believes everyone should try spoken word at least once.

“It’s one of those things that should be on your

bucket list because anyo n e c a n w r i t e a p o e m, anyone can write a spoken word poem, anyone can write something about something that they like,” Bautista said.

OU Write Club executive Abby Beliveau sees Bautista as a supportive leader.

Beliveau highlighted not only Bautista’s talent but her way of spreading her passion for poetry. “ Victoria is just, she’s such a good influence,” Beliveau said. “Her poems are of course spectacular, everyone knows that, b u t s h e ’s r e a l l y r e a l l y encouraging.”

Political science and international studies freshman Courtland Vogeding,

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a part of the OU Write Club community, describes the impact of Bautista’s poetry has had on the community as a whole.

“I really love Victoria’s poetr y. I think it’s ver y inspirational to anyone who’s a little bit different,” Vogeding said.

Bautista hopes to continue poetry due to the identity it has formed in her.

“Poetry is always going to be part of my life,” Bautista said. “It’s always going to be my part time thing and I don’t think I’m ever going to get rid of it. I couldn’t part with it if I tried.”

Campus Corner is a go-to place for food, drinks and shopping, but now the Norman hot spot has a new feature: hookah.

Journalism senior Bijan Hosseini opened Xhale Hookah Lounge in February with his brother Chris Hosseini after realizing they wanted something new.

“I worked at Wells Fargo in Beverly Hills and it was a real corporate environment,” Chris said. “I knew I didn’t want to stay in that.”

Inspiration for a hookah lounge stemmed from their Persian heritage, a culture in which hookah is a custom, Chris said.

“I’ve had some of my best conversations with some of my closest friends around hookah,” Bijan said. “People can come before or after the bars, or if they’re not 21 and they’re

looking for something to do, they still get that Campus Corner atmosphere.”

Hookah is a means of smoking shisha, a form of syrupy tobacco made in different flavors, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website.

One in three college students has smoked hookah, according to a study by Brian Primack, professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

“It’s just kind of like a breath of fresh air for Campus Co r n e r,” sa i d Jo nat ha n Grantham, finance senior.

“Being an OU student, I kind of go to the same bars and restaurants all the time, so it is really nice to get something like this.”

Xhale, located at 770 Debarr Ave, is open from 8 p.m. to midnight Sunday through Wednesday and 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Thursday through Saturday, according to the lounge’s website.

There is a $10 cover charge per person.

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Supriya Sridhar supriyasridhar@ou.edu

A group of people enjoy Campus Corner’s newest Hookah Bar, Xhale, Saturday night. Xhale is a new hookah lounge on Campus Corner owned by OU Student Bijan Hosseini and his brother Chris.

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