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Memorial honors fallen soldiers Exhibit in Armory celebrates lives of Oklahoma soldiers

our fallen soldiers will be be on display for the public to visit and pay their respects, said Lieutenant Colonel Kyle Brede, professor of military service at OU. The exhibit will be open from 9 MATTHEW NELSON a.m. to 3 p.m. on April 20 to 23rd at Staff Reporter the Army side of the OU Armory, Brede said. The Armory is locatOU’s Reserve Officer Training ed between the football stadium Corps will hold a special memo- and Michael F. Price College of rial service to honor fallen heroes Business. early next week.

The on-campus memorial will A memorial display in honor of

honor all Oklahoma residents who have fallen in combat since September 11, 2001, Brede said. A total of 122 heroes’ names will be on display, Brede said.

The display is approximately 50 feet long and is currently located at Fort Sill, Brede said. Soldiers from Fort Sill will come to prepare the display this weekend.

Many of the soldiers being honored came from the Moore, Norman, and Oklahoma City

areas, including First Lieutenant David T. Wright, who graduated from OU in 2006 and was killed in Afghanistan in 2009, Brede said.

A p er manent memor ial in honor of Wright is also on display in the OU ROTC Armory, Brede said.

It is important for everyone on campus to recognize the lives lost and understand the true cost of our freedom, Brede said.

The OU community should also

respect the individual sacrifices of all the names on the wall from Oklahoma, Brede said.

The event is free and everyone is encouraged to attend, Brede said.

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OU lends helping hands Closer to Earth helps atrisk teens grow, develop DAISY CREAGER Staff Reporter @daisycreager

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Thousands of search and rescue crews work through the destruction of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. More than 600 people were injured in the April 19, 1995 attack and 168 people were killed. Timothy McVeigh, the bomber, was executed in 2001, and Terry Nichols, an accomplice, is serving multiple life sentences on federal and state convictions for their convictions in the bombing.

Sooners reflect on OKC bombing Murrah bombing anniversary invokes strong memories

for the rest of my life,” said Susan Sasso, associate vice president for OU Student Affairs.

Sasso, then the director of Student Publications, was in a meeting when news of the bombing broke.

“My husband was a federal employee,” Sasso said. “And they said ‘There’s been a bombing at a federal building in Oklahoma City — where’s [my husband] Abe?’” Fortunately, Sasso’s husband was out of town at the time of the bombing, but a woman with whom he worked lost children

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Twenty years ago, 168 people died in Oklahoma City.

In the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history, a homemade truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995.

“It will probably stay with me

in the explosion, Sasso said.

“There was almost an assumption that everybody knew somebody [who was affected by the bombing],” Sasso said.

Austin-American Statesman reporter Omar Gallaga, who was an OU sophomore the year of the bombing, was at a meeting of OU’s Board of Regents when the news broke, and witnessed OU president David Boren’s reaction firsthand.

“Somebody came over and whispered in his ear and they had a discussion,” Gallaga said.

“And the meeting adjourned

after that. I don’t think [Boren] made an announcement then.”

At the time, nobody knew the nature of the explosion, Gallaga said. People speculated that it was a gas explosion, or perhaps an attack by international terrorists.

“People were so quick to pin this on international terrorists,” Sasso said. “And yet, this was somebody from within the U.S. [so] I think that was an important lesson.”

Gallaga visited the site the day after the explosion, he said.

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For many people, going green simply means using less paper and recycling more. But to teenagers involved in Closer to Earth, it’s much more than that.

Started in 2007 by Allen Parlier, Closer to Earth Youth Gardens is a youth group in Oklahoma City that works primarily with 13- to 18-year-olds serving school or court mandated community service, Parlier said. “[This is a] small group of marginalized teenagers who are having a big effect on their community and the city as a whole,” Parlier said.

Parlier said he got the idea for the nonprofit organization when he worked with students from Harding Fine Arts Academy who had been to court in the early 2000s.

“I saw that it had a significant difference in their lives once they got exposed to growing their own food and organic compost, but we didn’t have a very long term relationship because once their sentence ended or their hours were done, they would stop,” Parlier said.

Parlier said he wanted to create something that would show that at-risk teenagers are capable of being productive and talented while also experiencing and learning leadership skills.

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OU to present showcase featuring social entrepreneurs Key speakers to discuss relevance of social work ERIN DONNELLY Staff Reporter @erindonnelly_03

The Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth will hold its 2015 Social Entrepreneur Showcase on Wednesday, April 22.

The showcase, titled “Oklahoma Goes Global,” is one of the state’s largest annual events focusing on Oklahoma’s global impact and the trends that shape the future of the field.

Leadership fellow Jeremiah Gentle said the event’s goal is “to promote social activism and social development.”

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The event will feature a series of short talks from local social entrepreneurs, as well as a panel discussion and Q&A with the speakers. The members of the panel are diverse with different backgrounds, but are all from Oklahoma, Gentle said.

“It’s really about bringing it back home and showing how Oklahoma has a global effect,” Gentle said.

Key speakers of the showcase include Dr. P. Lloyd Hildebrand, global eye care provider; Tara and Chad Jordan, co-founders of Arrow Global Capital; Ray Sanders, CEO of Water4; Tim Bickers, co-founder of Emerging Ideas; and Jonathon Button and Quinn Vandenberg, co-founders of Life Out of the Box.

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“This is the first social entrepreneurship showcase of this caliber,” Gentle said. “I think it will be good for students to hear from Oklahomans who have implemented significant change around the world.”

The showcase is free and will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Zarrow Hall School of Social Work. The event is available to students and non-students alike.

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OU team creates new molecule Researchers are hopeful after first set of results arrive JESSE POUND Staff Reporter @jesserpound

An OU physicist is leading a research team that has created a new molecule, resulting in an article in Science magazine and a possible pathway to quantum computers.

James Shaffer, a professor of atomic, molecular and optical physics, led a team that included Hossein Sadeghpour of Har vard University, Seth Rittenhouse, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Western Washington University and OU graduate students Don Booth and Jin Yang.

The OU members focused on research, while the people from the outside helped develop the theories behind the results, Shaffer said.

“We can do our own theory here, but it’s nicer if we don’t have to do as much work,”

Shaffer said.

The team has worked on this project for a year and a half and in the field for about four years, Shaffer said.

The team synthesized molecules in the lab from cesium atoms that were extremely susceptible to electric fields thanks to their large dipole moments.

A dipole moment is determined by the size of two charges and the distance between them, Shaffer said.

Larger dipole moments are more susceptible to electric fields and the dipole moments created in these experiments were extremely large, Shaffer said.

The molecules were created using lasers and atoms kept at a temperature barely above absolute zero, Shaffer said.

A lot of the proposals for quantum computers, which would allow scientists to solve unsolvable problems and break unbreakable codes, are based on the interactions between dipoles, Shaffer said.

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Group hosts fundraiser to help OU club OU Botanical Society raises over $2,000 at plant sale SUPRIYA SRIDHAR Staff Reporter @SupriyaSridhar4

The OU Botanical Society raised a total of $2,834 at its annual plant sale last Friday to support the society, said v i c e p re s i d e nt C l au d i a Hoffman.

The fundraiser, which took place in the OU greenhouse, raised money to help members of the OU Botany Club fund trips and speakers, said Carly Godwin, club president and senior botany major. “ We s t a r t e d i n ab ou t November and we propagated a lot of plants — which is kind of a fancy term for when you take a cutting of a plant and put a rooting hormone on it and it turns into a new plant,” said Godwin.

Students from all over campus were directed through the greenhouse’s aisles to pick out plants for purchase. Some of the plants available included catnip, zinnia, zebrina, pansies, columbine, Chinese

lanterns, hanging spider plants, oregano, marigolds, tomatoes, impatiens, basil, cone flowers, peppers, daisies and cleome.

Geology junior Alex Lay decided to buy catnip thanks to its close relationship with mint.

“I really love mint,” Lay said. “I actually collect different types of mint which is really nerdy as far as plants go.”

This year had a large turnout, said Godwin, whose favorite plant at the sale was aloe.

“I took a botany class once and I think I’m a plant connoisseur, so every time I see an opportunity to check out plants I plan on doing it,” said Joey D’Amato, broadcast and electronic media junior.

Many of the seeds, pots and supplies were donated by Home Depot, where Godwin works. The sale usually happens outdoors, but was moved indoors due to weather concerns.

“I think there’s a lot of love for plants,” said society member Ryan Grubis.

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Professor James Shaffer shows third year physics graduate student Jin Yang the new laser system Friday afternoon in Nielsen Hall.

and his team should be praised for refining their experiment so that there were not extra electric fields manipulating the dipole.

Rittenhouse said that he heard Shaffer speak at a

conference about the project and offered to help out.

“This is kind of a natural extension of the collaborations we had already been working on,” Rittenhouse said.

Rittenhouse said that he knew the researchers were on to something as soon as Shaffer’s first set of results came in.

That said, people should not expect to use quantum

computers anytime soon, Shaffer said.

“I wouldn’t anticipate that being a near-term thing,” Shaffer said.

Building to be renamed in honor of university president Hester Hall to be named for Boren after retirement

“This building is the house of this college, and this college has been flourishing,” DAVID BOREN, OU PRESIDENT

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When OU President David Boren decides to retire he will leave with not only a lasting legacy but a campus building named in honor of him.

Hester Hall, home of the College of International Area Studies, recently underwent $14 million in renovations that were revealed last Friday.

At the reveal ceremony, leaders such as Suzette Grillot, the dean of the college, thanked a few figures who helped the college’s growth throughout the past 20 years.

One figure mentioned was Boren himself, who will be the namesake of the college upon his retirement, Grillot said. Throughout his time at OU, Boren has been instrumental in promoting a global community and fostering international programs, Grillot said.

Despite the pending honor, Boren is not planning on retiring any time soon, he said.

“As long as I can creak along, I want to keep doing that,” Boren said.

Boren also named other leaders in the success of the college, including Edward Perkins, who fought

Apartheid in South Africa, and Millie Audas, who persistently encouraged Boren to fight for international programs, Boren said.

Rooms throughout the renovate d building are named for people such as Perkins, Audas and Grillot, as well as other donors and leaders, Boren said.

“This building is the house of this college, and this college has been flourishing,” Boren said.

Senior Anna Searcey, who has studied abroad in Arezzo, Turkey and France, also spoke about her experiences with the College of International Area Studies.

“As a student, I’m excited to have a physical space that encourages the exchange of ideas,” Searcey said.

Spending time in the college has helped Searcey, who will attend law school for international rights law, understand her passion for international issues, she said.

At the ceremony, Boren stressed the importance of global education in an increasingly global world.

“You simply cannot be an educated person today without understanding the world around us,” Boren said.

Boren hopes one day, at least 50 percent of OU students will study abroad, he said.

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Architecture senior Annie Kientz and political science sophomore Katie Kientz pick out a plant at the Oklahoma Botanical Society’s plant sale Friday afternoon. The profits from the sale will be used to fund a new greenhouse for OU students.

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Dean of the College of International Studies, Suzette Grillot, gives OU President David Boren a framed picture of David L. Boren Lounge in Hester Hall and announced that once he retires, the College of International Studies will be dedicated to him.

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Trophy given to reward Sooners OU organizations recognized for outstanding work ERIN DONNELLY Staff Reporter @erindonnelly_03

Individual students, fraternities, sororities, and housing centers won high honors and the approval of OU President David Boren Thursday.

The President’s Trophy was presented Thursday to the outstanding fraternity, sorority, housing center and two commuter students, according to a university press release.

The awards were granted on the basis of overall excellence in academics, campus activities, volunteerism and multicultural participation, according to the release.

D av i d a n d M o l l y S h i Boren created the award in 1995 to encourage students to strive for higher academic and personal standards, according to the release.

“President Boren started the award to inspire organizations on campus and to reward them for all the good work they’ve done throughout the year,” said Corbin Wallace, university spokesperson.

The competitive selection process consisted of each organization turning in an application, Wallace said. A

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Members of Sigma Phi Epsilon receive the President’s Trophy in the fraternity category at the award ceremony Thursday.

committee of faculty, staff, students and the Borens as well then chose a runner-up and winner for each category.

Winners of individual categories of academics, campus activities, volunteerism and multicultural participation were given a prize of $250, according to the release.

The housing, fraternity and sorority runners-up f o r P r e s i d e n t ’s t r o p h y were granted $500. The President’s Trophy outstanding commuter student winners, Jeremy Allen and Emmanuelle Chiocca, won $500 as well as a trophy, according to the press release.

The first-place fraternity winner, Sigma Phi Epsilon,

first-place sorority winner, Delta Delta Delta, and first-place housing winner, Walker Center, each received $5,000 and a trophy, according to the press release.

“It is a tremendous honor to receive the President’s Trophy as an organization or as an individual,” Wallace said.

EARTH: Teens lead volunteers, show leadership Continued from Page One Many of the teenagers who volunteer usually have rough home lives and are often couchsurfing to find a place to sleep, Parlier said.

“Teenagers that are growing up in that culture are ignored or avoided so schools end up being school-to-prison pipelines for students of color,” Parlier said. “Schools don’t know how to deal with them, so there’s not a whole lot of opportunity for students who are not making the best choices to move in a better direction.”

Students who are involved learn how to be more environmentally aware as well as create bonds with volunteers and other teenagers who are good role models, according to the website.

“They get to learn real quickly how to have an influence on making healthier choices for themselves, their friends and their community,” Parlier said. “We teach them to have respect for ourselves and for nature and each other.”

OU students and other community groups often volunteer with the organization, providing teenagers a chance to give tours and teach them how to do jobs on site, Parlier said.

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Blachard Cemetery located in Blachard, Okla. is one of many establishments that benefited from Big Event. OU students volunteered at over 150 job sites in and around Norman.

of Alpha Phi Omega have been volunteering with Closer to Earth for several years, said Leith Prise, a health and exercise science senior.

“Usually we teach, help with har vesting and do maintenance,” Prise said.

Prise said that every weekend before they start work, they form a circle and introduce themselves to make the teens more comfortable working with them.

“It’s good for them to have positive role models, especially the ones who have been court ordered to do community service,” Prise said.

When volunteers like OU students come, it’s up to the

teenagers to direct them and decide what jobs they should do, Parlier said.

“That in itself is a powerful experience for teens to know that they have the capacity and wisdom to share things with folks who are older than themselves as well as mentor younger kids,” Parlier said.

As well as building leadership skills and educating teens, the youth group allows the public to see at-risk teens working and bettering themselves, which is important for social change, Parlier said.

“I think it helps our neighborhood feel better about itself knowing it’s working with teenagers instead of

trying to get rid of them because they’re ‘trouble,’” Parlier said.

Prise said the nonprofit provides the teenagers with a safe place where they will not be judged.

Prise said volunteering at the organization makes him asses how he presents himself to others so that he will be a positive role model to his peers as well as to the teens, and it also teaches him responsibility.

“It teaches respect for people, our surroundings and ourselves,” Prise said. “It rounds me out as a person.”

MONDAY, APRIL 20: UPB Mid-Day Music Festival: OU musician Joan will perform during lunchtime for students and people that are around from noon to 1 p.m., in the Will Rogers Food Court in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Spanish Conversation Hour: Practice your Spanish speaking skills with Armando Garcia, Director of the University of Oklahoma in Puebla from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., in Kaufman Hall Room 230.

OU Symphony Band and Concert Band: This concert is part of the the Sutton Concert Series from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the Catlett Music Center. Tickets are $9 adults, $5 for students and $10 for senior adults.

TUESDAY, APRIL 21: Tuesday Noon Concerts: During lunch, enjoy 30 minute concerts performed by OU students and faculty from noon to 12:30 p.m., in the Sandy Bell Gallery.

ANNIVERSARY: Attack illustrates fragility of life Continued from Page One “It didn’t look real, like something from a movie,” Gallaga said. “It was very hard to process.”

Sasso said she worried about how her children, 10 and 14 years old at the time of the bombing, processed the news.

“Did I help them process this the way I should have?”

Sasso said. “I thought it was too much for them to cope with and understand in that point in their lives.”

Now, 20 years later, many undergraduates were not even alive during the bombing, leaving those who experienced it feeling an obligation to keep the memory of the attack alive.

“It’s like Pearl Harbor,” said Jack Willis, a retired journalism professor. “People don’t think about that very much, but really you have to think

“President Boren started the award to inspire organizations on campus and to reward them for all the good work they’ve done throughout the year.”

Tuesday Tea: This gives students the weekly opportunity to with Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education students, faculty and staff members from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the lobby of Collings Hall.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22: Stress Management: Nichole Kendrick in Freshman Programs holds a workshop as part of the Student Success Series from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., in Wagner Hall Room 250.

String Area Student Chamber Music Recital: The performance will be in Catlett Music Center and admission will be free. The show goes from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Pitman Recital Hall.

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Former President Bill Clinton speaks during a remembrance ceremony, Sunday, April 19 at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum in Oklahoma City.

about it. It’s the world we live in now.”

In spite of its tragedy, the bombing taught people to not racially profile events, Gallaga said. A prominent rumor following the attack blamed it on Islamic

militants and was eventually proven false, Gallaga said.

The attack ultimately helped people remember how precious life is and the privileges of living in the U.S., Sasso said.

“What we experienced,

what was a nightmare to us, happens around the world every single day,” Sasso said.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 23: Opera Scenes II: The School of Music presents Opera Scenes II from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., in Pitman Recital Hall and admission will be free.

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COLLEGE OF ATMOSPHERIC AND GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES

2014-2015 Sarah Campbell Matt Epting Nathan Ferraro Kylie Frisby Daniel Meschter Jake Morgan Robin Rainey Parisa Pilehvar Anna Searcey Neal Walia

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COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE Outstanding Academic Achievement in Architecture

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Outstanding Academic Achievement in Environmental Design

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The Gress Family Undergraduate Geography Scholarship

Marisa Brumfield

School of Meteorology Undergraduate Academic Achievement Award

GAYLORD COLLEGE OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION Outstanding Senior in Advertising

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Outstanding Senior in Broadcasting and Electronic Media

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Big Man on Campus

The Letzeiser Awards are presented annually in memory of the late Alexander Letzeiser as a stimulus of good citizenship and achievement.

These are the highest awards presented during the Spring Campus Awards Program. The selections are made each year by a student/ faculty/staff committee and are based on leadership, scholarship, and service to the university.

Jeremy Allen Connor Bourland Matt Epting Cooper Lund Reece Miller Jake Morgan Phillip Ngo Q Nguyen Andy Stewart Cole Townsend Big Woman on Campus

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COLLEGE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Katie Keck Melissa Reddout

Outstanding Senior in Mathematics Education

Megan Moore

Admiral William J. Crowe Outstanding IAS Student Award

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES The Professor Thomas Jay Hill Outstanding Senior in the Natural Sciences Jake Morgan The Thatcher Hoffman Smith Outstanding Senior in the Professional Programs Meadow Hazelhoff Outstanding Senior in the Social Sciences Kelly Bergin The Reverend Dr. Henry P. Roberson Outstanding Senior in the Humanities Award Daniel Meschter The Carl Albert Award Emily Scheele

GEORGE HENDERSON JR. AWARD Kristen Cash

Outstanding Senior in Social Studies Education

Natalie English

Outstanding Senior in Special Education

Rachel Kinney

MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDIES Multidisciplinary Studies Outstanding Senior

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WALTER NEUSTADT AWARD

Lisa McKnight

Laura Aragon Sarah Campbell Matt Epting Layne Ferguson Christopher Flix Isaac Hill Emily Clair Lonon Jake Pasdach Carrie Pavlowski Anna Royce Neal Walia Sheyda Zakerion

OUTSTANDING GREEK SENIORS Kylie Frisby - Alpha Gamma Delta Delina Nguyen - Alpha Kappa Delta Phi Payne Parker - Alpha Tau Omega Skyler Sikes - Beta Theta Pi Taylor Ashley - Delta Sigma Theta Jake Pasdach - Lambda Chi Alpha Courtlan Roland - Phi Beta Sigma Jessica Bustillos - Sigma Lambda Gamma Johannah Walker - Alpha Omicron Pi Matt Epting - Pi Kappa Phi Anna Royce - Chi Omega and also recognized for the Anona Adair Greek Award of Excellence

THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING TRANSFER STUDENTS Recognizing excellence in the areas of scholarship, character, leadership and service to the university community. This award is the highest honor bestowed to transfer students by the university community.

Dominique Hall Ryan Melton Mohammad Niazi Reza Niazi Olivia Walton

THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING FRESHMEN

Recognizing excellence in the areas of scholarship, character, leadership and service to the university community. This award is the highest honor bestowed to freshmen by the university community.

J.D. Baker Holly Crawford Janella Clary Shaylin Daji Michael Fedell Daniel Holland Benjamin Kannenberg Erik Nickels Parker Randels Auston Stiefer Kendra Sy Cody Totten

The Molly & David Boren Study Abroad Scholarships

Luke Bartz Monica Haddock Kasandra Schemel Aliza Turner

Ambassador Edward J. Perkins Scholarship

Michael Felder Sarah Johnson

International Activism Award

Luke Bartz

Paul and Rose Sharp Scholarship

Nisrine Slitine El Mghari Sue Williams Service Award

Sergio Alejandro Gomez Mejia

Kristen Partridge

J.R. MORRIS CAMPUS LIFE AWARD

Estwing Hammer Award

LETZEISER HONOR LIST AND MEDALISTS

Outstanding Senior in Language Arts Education

Melissa Collins Bates

Brian Gallagher

BIG MAN AND BIG WOMAN ON CAMPUS

Outstanding Academic Achievement in Interior Design

Outstanding Senior in Science Education

David W. Stearns Outstanding Senior Award

Ashlyn Murphy

Juan Renteria Hannah Whiting Kara David

Ifunanya Ekwunife Wade Martin

The Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center

Outstanding Senior in Public Relations

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Charles N. Gould Outstanding Senior Award Alan Witten Outstanding Senior Award

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SOONER PARENTS Outstanding Student Mother Award

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THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SOPHOMORES

Recognizing excellence in the areas of scholarship, character, leadership and service to the university community. This award is the highest honor bestowed to sophomores by the university community.

Christa Cherian Celeste Clary David Doshier TJ Freeman Jane Hsi Darius Aruho Daniel Pae Lindsey Patterson Abbey Taylor Sean Templemore-Finlayson Rachel Thatcher Maria Thomas

REGENTS’ AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING JUNIORS

Recognizing excellence in the areas of scholarship, character, leadership and service to the university community. This award is the highest honor bestowed to juniors by the university community.

Anel Star Boardingham Kendall Burchard Jenny Charmichael Allison Clanton from OU Health Sciences Center Jessica Freeman Charity Kennedy Avery Marcezewski Q Nguyen Emily Owens Ally Renfroe Andy Stewart Cole Townsend

OUTSTANDING SENIOR MAN & WOMAN Elaine Griffeth Neal Walia

LETZEISER HONOR LIST Kylie Frisby Jeff Bissinger Lucy Gauthier Connor Bourland Veronica Hassink Robert Byrd Kelsey Kolbe Joseph Clanton Kate Littlefield Ty Darlington Kristin Pascoe Matt Epting Robin Rainey

Nathan Ferraro Melissa Reddout Andrew Lambeth Nicole Reehorst Bryan Lynch Anna Royce Daniel Meschter Emily Scheele Luis Molina Anna Searcey Jake Morgan Taylor Shupert Jake Pasdach

Three medals — bronze, silver and gold — are presented to three men and three women who are selected as the most outstanding.

BRONZE MEDALIST Anna Searcey Daniel Meschter SILVER MEDALIST Lucy Gauthier Matt Epting GOLD MEDALIST Taylor Shupert Jake Morgan

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering Outstanding Senior Award

Kreg Flowers

Outstanding Junior Award

Zeeneb Alsaihati

Outstanding Housing Center

Walker Center

Outstanding Sorority

Delta Delta Delta

Outstanding Fraternity

Sigma Phi Epsilon

Outstanding Commuter Students

Jeremy Allen Emmanuelle Chiocca

MELVIN C. HALL Leadership-Scholarship Award

WEITZENHOFFER FAMILY COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

Isaac Hill

Weitzenhoffer Award for Excellence in Design and Production

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Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts Outstanding Senior

Top 1% of the freshman class recognized for participation, academic achievement, community service and excellence

Adam Honoré

Zacchaeus Wright

F. Donald Clark Award for Excellence

Matthew Borchers

Elmer Capshaw Award for Outstanding Senior in the School of Art & Art History

Hoang Truong

Dance Partners Outstanding Senior Awards

Omar Humphrey Melanie Jensen

Van Heflin Award from the Peggy Dow Helmerich School of Drama

Jake Lozano

Outstanding Senior from the School of Music Award

Skye Singleton

MICHAEL F. PRICE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS Outstanding Senior in Accounting

Mitchell Puzin

Outstanding Senior in Economics

Kevin Hadley

Outstanding Senior in Architectural Engineering

Outstanding Senior in Energy Management

Nathan Ferraro

Katherine Van Hoozer

Outstanding Senior in Civil Engineering

Outstanding Senior in Entrepreneurship

Austin Messerli

Jeffrey Bissinger

Outstanding Senior in Environmental Engineering

Outstanding Senior in Finance

Jessica Johnston

Julius Shen

Outstanding Senior in Computer Science

Outstanding Senior in Human Resource Management

Seyed Ali Hijamirza

Samuel Lollar

Outstanding Senior in Industrial & Systems Engineering

Outstanding Senior in International Business

Matthew McCarter

Jacob Krysiak

Outstanding Senior in Computer Engineering

Outstanding Senior in Management Information Systems

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‘Go green’ year-round CLASSIFIEDS was Green Week and Wednesday is Earth Day, so the editorial board has compiled ways Sooners can be sustainable year-round.

Last week, OU’s Student Government Association hosted daily events to promote Green Week and share ways students can reduce their waste and be more environmentally friendly. Wednesday is also the 45th anniversary of Earth Day, a day dedicated to promoting environmentally-friendly living. We believe Sooners should be environmentally conscious year-round, so The Daily has created a list of ways students can be kinder to the earth, whether it’s Earth Day or not.

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A student recycles a used water bottle after hearing the benefits of The city of Norman during Green Week last week. Other ways that students can recycle has three self-service and include carpooling and switching to wind energy. recycling centers that are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The recycling materials reduces your carbon passion. accepted at the center footprint. Make a point include: aluminum, of exchanging class Switch to wind energy: steel and tin cans, corru- schedules with a few gated cardboard, glass friends and setting up Off-campus students (clear, brown, green), carpool times. Both your can’t pick among enernewspaper and plaswallet and the environ- gy providers, but that Comment on this at tics #1 through #7, with ment will thank you for doesn’t mean there arsome exceptions. not driving so en’t environmentally OUDaily.com Exceptions can often. sustainable energy opOur View is the majority be found on the If you already tions. In fact, we encouropinion of City of Norman carpool, be age students to consider The Daily’s website. The even more ennine-member three recycling editorial board vironmentally center locations friendly by are: taking a stroll • Hollywood Shopping or bike ride to campus

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Senior reaches 90th home run Chamberlain shares most home runs hit stat with former UCLA player Nuveman JOE BUETTNER

Women’s Basketball Reporter @Joe_Buettner

Four strikeouts, two pop ups to second base and a ground out to third was the kind of weekend senior Lauren Chamberlain was experiencing against the Baylor Bears.

However, Chamberlain’s f i r s t t w o u n p ro d u c t i v e nights didn’t faze the coach who stole the California slugger away from Pac-12 country.

“I really don’t think she’s struggling,” coach Patty Gasso said Friday night. “I think she had some good at-bats today. This is what’s hard — everyone is waiting for Lauren to hit a home run, and if she doesn’t hit something off the wall or over, she’s struggling.”

The timing was there for Chamberlain, but Gasso knew her leadoff hitter had seen better looks at the plate.

In Saturday’s series-deciding game, Chamberlain finally hit a single up the middle off Baylor pitcher Heather Stearns in the bottom of the second inning.

It turned out to be the confidence boost the threetime All-American needed and, in her next at-bat, she smacked a deep ball to center field that cemented her name with one of her childhood heroes.

JACQUELINE EBY/THE DAILY

Senior infielder Lauren Chamberlain swings hitting her ball during the game against Baylor on Friday April 17 at Marita Hines Field. The Sooners beat the Bears 5-2. Chamberlain went on to tie the all-time homerun high by hitting her 90th career home run on Saturday afternoon.

FACTS ABOUT CHAMBERLAIN: —Chamberlain is a three time All American.

—Chamberlain tied the NCAA home run record set by Stacey Nuveman.

“I knew I had to stay behind the ball a little bit,” Chamberlain said. “I thought to myself, ‘If you do

this the right way you can hit it well.’ I had not had the weekend I was looking for and after getting that single, I felt good about it and just wanted to get a good piece of bat on the ball.”

Chamberlain said a huge weight was lifted off her shoulders as she dialed up a two-run homer that gave her her 90th career home run to tie the NCAA record set over a decade ago by Stacey Nuveman.

Nuveman, a fellow California native and former UCLA Bruins softball player, autographed a younger Chamberlain’s ball that she still has at her childhood

“Honestly, the best feeling was meeting my teammates at home plate and seeing how excited they were for me.”

LAUREN CHAMBERLAIN, INFIELDER

home. But now, for the time being, they share the most home runs hit by a collegiate softball player.

Chamberlain said she’s looked up to Nuveman for a long time, and she’s now getting the chance to enjoy what one of her role models went through in her playing career.

The Sooners’ starting first

baseman still has plenty of softball left to play, and she’ll have the opportunity to take sole possession of the record.

Chamberlain said she owes a lot of her success to her coaches as well as her teammates, who were there to see her make history.

“Honestly, the best feeling

was meeting my teammates at home plate and seeing how excited they were for me,” Chamberlain said. “I believe me beating this record is just as much their record as it is mine.”

Chamberlain and the Sooners will pick up action against the North Texas Mean Green Monday night in Norman.

While Chamberlain said she doesn’t remember the first time she hit a home run, this weekend should be one she’ll never forget.

Joe Buettner joebuet@ou.edu

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I am a sports journalist at the Houston Chronicle, where I am currently covering the Houston Rockets.

WHERE ARE YOU NOW?

I graduated from OU in 2005 and immediately went to work for the Houston Chronicle covering the WNBA and prep sports. In my (almost) 10 years here, I have covered an array of beat, including the MLB and the NFL. I also was an assistant sports editor for two years. Now, in addition to covering the team for print and the web, I do a lot of tv and radio spots about the NBA (I am currently one of the NBA correspondents for BBC World Sports, for example.) I also work on special projects during the offseason. I’m a speaker/instructor/judge for the Columbia Scholastic Press Association at Columbia University and a vice president for the Association for Women in Sports Media.

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I was an advertising major who spent all my time in the OU Daily newsroom, where I was a sports writer for 3 years and a sports editor for one. I also did several internships while I was there - for the San Antonio Express-News, Sports Illustrated and the United States Olympic Committee.

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Baseball beats out West Virginia OU improves by game three, ends week with victory SPENSER DAVIS Baseball Reporter @Davis_Spenser

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Senior Haley Sorensen performs on the beam during the NCAA gymnastics championship at the Fort Worth Convention Center on April 18. The Sooners placed third in the competition behind Florida and Utah.

Favored Sooners get third Mistakes cause No. 1 ranked team to lose chance at first HALEE POWERS

Women’s Gymnastics Reporter @haleestorm12

The Oklahoma Sooners W o m e n ’s G y m n a s t i c s team walked away from the NCAA Championships team finals with a third place finish.

The Sooners did not finish how they would have hope after being ranked No. 1 throughout most of the season and being the only undefeated team during the regular season, the Sooners were favored to take home the title.

“Clearly it wasn’t our best performance, but I was really proud of them,” said

senior Rebecca Clark.

The team had an amazing performance on vault and especially the balance beam, but with a few mistakes on floor and no stuck landings on bars, the Sooners fell short of their goal.

On their first event, floor, the Sooners started off with two great routines from sophomores Chayse Capps and Kara Lovan. There were some mistakes in the middle of the line-up. Some of the gymnasts had problems on landing their passes and went out of bounds. Junior Haley Scaman rallied the team back together after scoring a huge 9.925.

Freshman Brenna Dowell, sophomore Charity Jones and Scaman led vault.

D ow ell and Jones b oth scored 9.9, and Scaman had

“Clearly it wasn’t our best performance, but I was really proud of them.”

REBECCA CLARK, SENIOR

a beautiful, near-perfect Yurchenko [vault] full and scored a 9.95.

On beam, the Sooners looked like a completely different team. The night before during preliminary competition, the Sooners had some mistakes that they had not had throughout the entire season. Two of their gymnasts fell. But during finals, the Sooners looked like the No. 1 team they were ranked as. Every score that they counted for

their beam score was a 9.9 or higher, and seniors Haley Sorensen and Erica Brewer led them with scores of 9.925 and 9.95, respectively.

“I know we had some hiccups, but we fought very hard until the end,” said Scaman.

The Sooners finished the meet with a 197.525. That put them behind the Florida Gators, who won, and the Utah Utes who placed second.

With the season officially over the Sooners will have to look for ward to next year in hopes of winning their second national championship.

Halee Powers halee.s.powers-1@ou.edu

Oklahoma (26-16, 1 0 - 5 ) d e f e a t e d We s t Virginia (22-15, 5-7) in Morgantown this weekend, giving the Sooners their second straight Big 12 series victory.

Junior infielder Kolbey Carpenter was the difference in the first game for OU, with a two-run homer in the eighth inning on Friday night. The blast was the only scoring that sophomore right-handed pitcher Jake Elliott needed as he tossed 7.1 shutout innings in a 2-0 victory.

Game two was much more frustrating for the Sooners as they dropped Saturday’s matchup despite carrying a two-run lead into the late innings.

Right-handed pitcher Shawn Hunter yielded a two-run homer that handed the Mountaineers

a lead they would not relinquish.

Sophomore shortstop Sheldon Neuse homered in the loss, his first long ball since March 8 against Purdue. It was also his first since moving down in the order to the five-hole earlier this month.

In game three, the Sooners fell behind early but broke out for five runs in the fifth inning and four more in the sixth. Neuse again had a big day, spear-heading the attack in the fifth frame with one of his two doubles on the day.

S e n i o r r i g h t- h a n d e d pitcher Robert Tasin had a stand-out day on the mound for the Sooners, throwing 7.2 innings while not allowing an earned run. When it was all said and done, OU had a 10-2 victory and another series win.

OU will be in action again this week when it hosts Alcorn State for a midweek series on Tuesday and Wednesday. First pitch of both games will be at 6 p.m.

Spenser Davis davis.spenser@ou.edu

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Junior outfielder Hunter Haley advances bases after a line drive at L. Dale Mitchell Park, Tuesday, March 31, 2015. The Sooners achieved their second shutout of the season, beating Central Arkansas 7-0.

Tennis secures spot in Big 12 competition Men’s team pushes for continued hard work and success RYAN KING

Men’s Tennis Reporter @Ryan_King_Now

“It all stays the same so we are going to keep working hard. We know we have stuff to work on but I think we can have another good week.”

JOHN RODDICK, OU TENNIS COACH

Oklahoma beat the No. 29 Oklahoma State Cowboys (16-8) 4-1 Sunday, extend3-1, one point away from match, but was in control in ing their record to 22-2 on clinching, with his 6-3, 6-4 the third set, 3-2, after splitthe season and capturing win on court five. At this ting the first two sets, 2-6, at least a share of the Big 12 point, the S ooners just 6-2. Alvarez remains undeChampionship. needed one of the remain- feated on the year at 19-0.

Coach John Roddick was In addition, sophomore ing three matches to take very pleased with his team’s Florin Bragusi did not finish Bedlam. performance, both Sunday The Sooners clinched on court six. Bragusi won and this entire year. on court 5, where fresh- his first set in a tiebreak, 7-6, “ This is four years in man Spencer Papa won in and was leading the second a row we have had at straight sets, 6-3, 6-4, giving set 4-1 when OU clinched. least a share of the Big 12 Roddick wants to see his OU the lead and dual, 4-1.

Championship,” Roddick Papa may have been short team continue to work and said. “For our seniors that’s on words but not on impor- keep improving. something that’s very spe“It all stays the same so tance to his team’s success.

DANIEL HOANG/THE DAILY cial, especially because we “I didn’t even know I was we are going to keep work- Freshman Spencer Papa makes an approach shot returning the ball to his opponent at the game against had to battle back after losabout to clinch,” Papa said. ing hard,” Roddick said. “We Texas on March 29 at the Headington Family Tennis Center. The Sooners beat the Longhorns 4-1. ing to Tech. So far we are “I was so focused on my know we have stuff to work two for two on goals, but we court, but I am excited, and on, but I think we can have a still have some more to go.” jump in our level if we have it’s not over yet.”

Wi t h B e d l a m o f f t o a S p e a k i n g o n w h a t i t another good week.” quick 1-0 Cowboy lead, the Next, the Sooners will meant for a freshman like Sooners needed to quickly Papa to clinch the Big 12 compete Thursday, April 23 UNIVERSITY THEATRE regroup if they wanted to championship for his team, in Waco, Texas for the Big 12 AND take the dual.

Roddick said, “that’s why Championships.

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Next, on court three, the lone active senior, Dane Webb, came up big for his team on senior day, winning in straight sets, 6-4, 8 p.m. April 24, 25, 30, May 1 6-3. Webb was uncharacter3 p.m. April 26, May 2 istically quiet after his win.

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