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One class drop option remains Students must now petition dean of college DAISY CREAGER Staff Reporter @daisycreager

With the semester coming to a close, the deadline to drop a class with an automatic W has passed, but for students whose grades are struggling, there is one last option.

Students must petition the dean of their college to drop classes after the 10th week of classes, according Enrollment Services web page. OU is currently in its

14th week of classes.

If the dean approves the petition to drop, the instructor of the course will then decide whether to give the student a W or an F for the class, according to the website.

“If it’s just a matter of buckling down and working a little harder, then you ought to stay in,” said Breck Turkington, OU Enrollment Services director. “If the circumstances are just so beyond reach, then it’s better to drop the class.”

Students need to contact their college for the necessary withdrawal form. Some circumstances may require additional documents, Turkington said.

“If the circumstances are just so beyond reach, then it’s better to drop the class.”

BRECK TURKINGTON, OU ENROLLMENT SERVICES DIRECTOR

When considering who to approve for dropped courses, colleges generally give preference to students with medical problems or other extenuating circumstances, Turkington said.

However, some students see dropping a class as their last option. Rachel Miller, a French and

energy management sophomore, was relieved when she was able to drop an international area studies class last semester, she said.

“I knew that no matter what my grades were after a certain point, I was going to fail the class,” Miller said. “[It would have a bad] effect on my GPA, and I hadn’t dropped a class yet.”

While dropping the class was a last resort, the process was easy, and she felt better about it afterward, Miller said.

Students considering dropping a class at this point in the semester should weigh the option of having the dropped class being one of the

five withdrawals the university allows and possible implications on financial aid, Turkington said.

In the future, instead of waiting until the end of the semester, students should do their best to stay on top of things from the beginning, Turkington said.

By checking midterm grades and D2L updates, students should determine if they need additional help, such as tutoring, early in the semester to avoid dropping classes, Turkington said.

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Furry friends in the dorms

Special tickets for OU students New categories are based on enrollment ANDREW CLARK News Reporter @Clarky_Tweets

Students find comfort with service animals

Certain OU students can now purchase student season football tickets on the Sooner Sports website or in person at the OU Athletics Ticket Office.

Students who are enrolled in 12 hours this current semester can go on the Sooner Sports website and click “Student Tickets” under the tickets tab at the top of the page. They must then click “Order Student Tickets Online” and log in using the needed credentials. After clicking “Find Tickets” and inserting “1” into the quantity amount, students can click “Add to Cart” and complete the purchase.

Alternately, students can complete their purchase by going to the ticket office underneath the football stadium, according to the Student Football Season Policy. Student season tickets cost $180, according to the website.

The students eligible to purchase tickets Monday are considered “Category I” students, according to the distribution policy. These are the students who are full-time this semester and students who are full-time

DANA BRANHAM Online Editor @danabranham

Linguistics freshman Kai Barclay sets a few alarms to get out of bed in the morning, but her most reliable alarm is her dog, Oliver.

With the morning light streaming in through the windows of Barclay’s dorm, Oliver, an excitable boxer mix, will crawl into her bed when he hears her first alarm go off. He’ll rest his head on her shoulder, and she’ll rest her eyes for a few more minutes. When he hears the second alarm, he’ll start to nudge her out from under the covers, so the two of them can get up, eat breakfast and head to class.

Where Barclay goes, so does Oliver. He’s registered as an emotional support animal, so he attends classes with Barclay and sleeps in the dorms with her.

Oliver is a source of comfort and support for Barclay, who deals with anxiety and depression.

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Chemistry and biochemistry freshman Beth Taylor plays with her dog Boomer on Friday afternoon outside of Cate Center.

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Students to discuss inclusivity in language Discussion is open to entire OU community JON HOOVER Staff Reporter @HoovSports

OU Housing and Food will sponsor an open discussion about the power of inclusive language Tuesday in the Jim Thorpe Multicultural Center and Wednesday in Davenports, located above Couch Restaurants.

The event will feature discussions about diversity and inclusion as well as an interactive presentation about how to avoid using problematic words.

Event facilitator Lena Tenney said the presentation seeks to address a

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broad spectrum of social identities such as race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ability, mental health, religion and nationality.

“During a time in which many members of the OU community are seeking to make campus more inclusive for individuals and groups of all identities, these events are an excellent opportunity to educate ourselves about topics related to diversity and inclusion,” Tenney said.

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Participants will generate a significant portion of the content for the interactive presentation using an anonymous online poll where they use text messages to submit examples of problematic language they want to discuss, she said.

The program is open to all students, faculty, staff and community members at OU, should have around 40 to 70 participants in attendance and will have free food

and drinks for all of them, Tenney said.

Tenney believes that after participating in the program, attendees will be able to recognize the benefits of inclusive language, identify non-inclusive language and take action when such language is used in their presence, she said.

“To me, inclusive language is a salient issue for not only the OU campus but all aspects of society,”

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Tenney said. “The way we interact with people has a significant impact on whether they feel comfortable, safe and included in the community. Words have a lot of power, so it is vital to think critically about how we communicate.”

The event begins at 7 p.m.

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Political science junior, Skyler Elliot, will speak about issues faced by the LGBTQ community on OU’s campus during the OU Women’s Outreach Center’s “Progressive Dinner” event Tuesday, April 21.

Dinner to feature four courses Women’s Outreach Center to hold first Progressive Dinner PARIS BURRIS News Editor @ParisBurris

Students will fill up their stomachs and their brains as they gather to discuss the experiences of LGBTQ students on the University of Oklahoma campus this week.

T h e O U Wo m e n ’s Outreach Center will hold their first-ever “Progressive Dinner” at 6 p.m. Tuesday on OU’s campus.

The event will feature a four-course dinner. Each course will be served at a different location, where a speaker will examine different aspects of LGBTQ campus life, said Kasey Catlett, Women’s Outreach Center program coordinator.

The event aims to involve both faculty and students in the conversation during the first course.

“Faculty will have a conversation with the students about the importance of faculty as (Sooner) Allies and what they can do to be better allies,” Catlett said.

A Sooner Ally is someone with “the awareness, knowledge and skills to confront injustice and advocate for equality, while supporting all persons, regardless of perceived or actual sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, who are experiencing discrimination,” according to the Sooner Ally website.

The second course’s topic will be queer representation and mentorship, led by Catlett and Megan Sibbett, women’s and gender studies professor.

The third cours e w ill include the topic of how Student Affairs works with LGBTQ students, led by C larke Stroud, Student Affairs vice president.

The fourth course will feature students within the OU LGBTQ community.

“In Egypt, to begin with,

“Hopefully, people who come to see us talk, when they leave there, they think for at least one minute or two minutes about what LGBT means and what activism means for the LGBT community.”

AMR GHONDAKLI, BIOCHEMISTRY SENIOR

[the treatment of homosexuals] is inhumane. It’s horrible,” said Amr Ghondakli, a biochemistry senior who moved to Oklahoma from Egypt. “It’s not illegal to be gay, but it’s illegal to act on it. I see people my age and younger who just get thrown in prison for life for just going to a gay party or posting something on Facebook,” Ghondakli said.

The event provides an open forum.

“It brings different aspects together, and I like that there’s movement incorporated with it because I think that’s very symbolic of the current social movement that’s happening right now,”

said Skyler Elliott, political science junior, who will also speak at the event.

“I think it’s really important for people to know that [they] are not the only ones who go through stuff like this,” Ghondakli said. “We all have negative experiences, and we all can deal with it. Hopefully, people who come to see us talk, when they leave there, they think for at least one minute or two minutes about what LGBT means and what activism means for the LGBT community.”

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Professor comes to OU to examine racial statistics in police relations Students will gather to discuss racial issues and police brutality during a talk with Frank Baumgartner, political science professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

The talk, titled “Driving While Black: The War on Drugs and Minority-Police Relations in a Post-Ferguson World” will be held at 10:15 a.m. Thursday, April 30, in the Scholars Room of the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

Baumgartner will present 10 year’s worth of collected data on police arrests and the way race factors into these stops, said Cindy Rosenthal, director of the Carl Albert Center. This information will not only be presented statistically but also as a public policy issue.

“I have no doubt that it will be not just numbers but really get to the underlying policy and social questions that this data reveals,” Rosenthal said.

“This research touches on lots and lots of academic disciplines, so we’re obviously hoping that there will be both faculty and students from a variety of disciplines that will attend,” Rosenthal said.

The free event is open to the public.

now but transferring to another OU campus next semester, according to the policy. Category I students are eligible for purchasing tickets until May 17 and will also be eligible to purchase OU/ Texas tickets when they go on sale Sept. 7, according to the policy.

Category II students are freshmen or transfer students who must be enrolled in 12 or more hours in the fall 2015 semester, according to the policy. They are eligible to purchase tickets starting Aug. 17.

Category III students are eligible for ticket purchase starting May 18. They are full-time students eligible to buy tickets after the Category I sale has ended, according to the policy.

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Biochemical senior, Amr Ghondakli, will speak about issues faced by the LGBTQ community on OU’s campus during the OU Women’s Outreach Center’s “Progressive Dinner” event Tuesday, April 21.

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DOGS: Students register and train pets as emotional support animals Continued from Page One “If I’m in class and he can tell I’m a little stressed, he can tell, and he’ll crawl up onto my lap — just his front paws — so I can hug him,” Barclay said. “He’s good at picking up on my emotions a lot of the time.”

She adopted Oliver from an animal shelter last November, after being particularly homesick and lonely for the first few months of her freshman year. She’d noticed that a friend, chemical biosciences freshman Beth Taylor, had a dog — aptly named Boomer — who lived with her in the dorms as an emotional support animal. Taylor guided Barclay through the process of registering Oliver as an emotional support animal to help her cope with anxiety.

Barclay and Taylor both went through the OU Disability Resource Center to ensure that their dogs could live with them in the dorms.

A c c o rd i n g t o t h e O U Disability Resource Center’s website, federal law allows students to keep an assistance animal in university housing if the student has a disability, the animal is necessary to give the student an equal opportunity to live in and enjoy university housing and there is a definitive correlation between the student’s disability and the assistance the animal provides.

With a health care prov i d e r ’s d o c u m e nt at i o n of the student’s disability and the assistance the animal provides, the student can keep an animal in the dorms with them, so long as it’s not disruptive.

Unlike Barclay, Taylor’s only roommate is her dog.

After registering with the OU Disability Resource

to have a seizure. Similarly, Barclay is training her dog, Oliver, as a psychiatric service animal.

Still, not all campuses are so welcoming to dogs like Oliver or Boomer.

Last Thursday, the University of Rhode Island’s student newspaper, The Good 5 Cent Cigar, published a lighthearted feature on one of the university’s janitors and his therapy dog, a husky named Ivy. This week, Ivy was ordered off campus by the university’s department of housing and residential life.

I v y ’s o w n e r, M i k e LaPolice, said that he was happy about the article at first — he was excited for more students to know about the positive effect therapy dogs like Ivy can have on college students. But when he was approached by university housing staff, and they demanded to take Ivy home and forgo the day’s pay on Thursday, LaPolice was shocked. “ I ne ver thought this would happen,” LaPolice said in an interview with The Good 5 Cent Cigar.

University of Rhode Is l a n d s t u d e nt s at t e s ted to Ivy’s calming effect.

One student noted that Ivy seemed to sense when he was upset and comforted him.

Barclay said that while Oliver isn’t a therapy dog, her friends and peers often ask to pet Oliver and spend time with him when they’re stressed. Recognizing the therapeutic effect Oliver’s YA JIN/THE DAILY presence has on them, she always says yes.

Chemistry and biochemistry freshman Beth Taylor sits with her dog Boomer on Friday afternoon outside of Cate Center.

For her, it’s simple.

“Dogs just make peoCenter, she received per- high school. She doesn’t some people see him as an “And I don’t know how to ple happy,” Barclay said. mission for the two to live l i k e t o b e a l o n e , a n d invitation to ask overly per- answer that.” in a single dorm in Walker Boomer can always be with sonal questions.

Boomer is on his way to “That’s pretty much their t o w e r. Ta y l o r a d o p t e d her.

“There are people who being trained as a service goal in life.”

Boomer from a shelter in T h o u g h m o s t p e o p l e walk up and pet my dog dog. Taylor, who has epiDana Branham Oklahoma City near the re s p o n d w e l l t o s e e i ng and say, ‘So, what’s your lepsy, wants to train him to branham.dana@gmail.com end of her senior year of Boomer, Taylor said that problem?’” Taylor said. warn her when she is about

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the issue, suing Norman Our view: We support Music Festival for the a Cleveland County ban, which a judge ultijudge’s decision to mately ruled couldn’t be rule against Norman enforced.

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refraining from consuming alcohol if you choose to lawfully carry a handgun.

Past Norman Music Festivals have been safe, positive events and that trend should continue this year so long as any attendees who are licensed to carry a gun do so responsibly. We are aware alcohol consumption abounds at Norman Music Festival, as at any outdoor music festival. With that in mind, we implore anyone thinking of bringing a licensed handgun to the festival to remain sober. While attendees’ gun rights cannot legally be limited, we encourage gun carriers to

exercise those gun rights responsibly and with public safety in mind.

Norman Music Festival cannot force festivalgoers legally carrying a gun to leave the event, but we expect Norman Music Festival will still ask attendees to refrain from bringing firearms, and we encourage festivalgoers to respect that request. We support constitutional rights, including the right to bear arms, but just because the right exists doesn’t mean you have to use it.

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For the first time in ten years, OK Go will be at the Diamond Ballroom in Oklahoma City on April 21st at 8 p.m.

OK Go returns to OKC The band will play on April 21 at the Diamond Ballroom ASHLEY GEARY Reporter

For the first time in nearly one decade, the unique, quirky and upbeat band OK Go will be playing at 8 p.m. on April 21 in Oklahoma City at the Diamond Ballroom.

At the concert, the band will begin by performing “Upside Down & Inside Out” said OK Go’s bass player, Tim Nordwind.

Nordwind said the song makes audience members feel excited, elated and crazy.

“It’s a very immediate song that is just about the confusion you feel when you feel excited,” Nordwind

said. “It makes for a very fun opening song in that regard, and I think visually when you see it live, you get the same sense of, ‘Oh my gosh, something’s happening. I don’t know what, but it’s exciting. I’m going to think as little as possible and just feel it, feel it, feel it.’”

Adding a change of pace during the middle of the concert, the band will play a more emotionally driven song called “The One Moment,” where the meaning of the song is to indulge in the present instead of dwelling on the past, he said.

“We really are living moment to moment at the end of the day, and that’s what we’ve got, always,” Nordwind said.

Nordwind described this song as one of the most stripped down moments of

the set, and the band tries to make the song as relatable to the audience as possible and feel the moment together.

John Uehling, meteorology junior, enjoys listening to OK Go because of the band’s unique style and catchy rhythm.

“It would be fun to see them performing in Oklahoma City,” Uehling said. “Their music is unlike anything else I have heard in that fact that, though it does have an aspect of modern pop to it, it almost seems to not quite fit into that category.”

Although the band origi n a t e d a s a t ra d i t i o n a l rock band in the late ‘90s, Nordwind said the band has grown into a more diverse project.

“We follow whatever we think is our best and most

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Passion Pit drops third album Many artists will be releasing new albums Tuesday

“Manners” are good repre- Zeros and the Cold War Kids sentations of how alterna- if you like Alabama Shakes’ tive music has evolved over music. the past few years.

Yelawolf’s earlier released Passion Pit mixes the albums have similarities music of guitar, drums, key- with artists like Eminem GLORIA NOBLE L&A Reporter board and vocals with tech- and Wiz Khalifa, but he also @glorianoble_ no elements. resembles artists like Ed Alabama Shakes is releas- Sheeran.

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Passion Pit will release listed as a blues-rock band, songs of the week.

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fun ideas that are music based and cool,” he said.

“Whatever gets us excited is what we choose to follow these days.”

Nordwind said he loves music because of the immediacy it entails. Within a matter of seconds, you can be overjoyed with emotion: happiness, sadness or curiosity.

“When I hear the drum introduction to ‘Rock With You’ by Michael Jackson, I automatically just want to dance without even hearing the rest of the music,” Nordwind said. “I love attempting to make things like that as well for other people to listen to.”

Ashley Geary ashleymgeary@ou.edu

Don’t experience any more awkward conversations about sex with your parents and teachers.

Students at the University of Tennessee are working to promote sexual education for teens in a new app.

In the state of Oklahoma, sex education is not required by state law. Sex education is determined per school district and is abstinence-based, leaving teens uneducated when it comes to STDs and unplanned pregnancy, but a new app plans to change that.

Hookup is the first app to anonymously answer teens’ questions about sex from sex experts. The app gives real-time, personalized and accurate answers to questions that can be difficult to ask.

The app, projected to launch in November, was created by students at the University of Tennessee, where state laws on sex education are as restrictive as in

Oklahoma.

“Communication is hugely important to have a healthy sexuality,” Brianna R a d e r, c o - f o u n d e r o f Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee, said. “That’s the main problem fueling sexual assaults around the nation. [This] could help normalize having an open conversation about sex.”

Hookup currently has two main features. “Ask a Sexpert” has volunteer experts and Planned Parenthood educators have one-on-one chats about everything from virginity to orgasms. The second feature, “Share Your Story,” allows users to post anonymous stories about their sexual encounters.

The team working on the app hopes to add sex quizzes, games, a health directory and an information library.

The overall goal of the app is to give accurate sex education to teens and young adults who need it and to create open communication about sex.

Jessica Barber jessicabarber_16@ou.edu

PHOTO PROVIDED

A screengrab from Hookup, a new sex education app where teens can ask questions about sex. Students at the University of Tennessee designed the app to help educate teens.

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• Tuesday, April 21, 2015

SPORTS

Dillon Hollingsworth, sports editor dailysports@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com/sports • Twitter: @OUDailySports

Team shines despite lack of national title GYMNASTICS REPORTER

Halee Powers halee.s.powers-1@ou.edu @haleestorm12

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Junior catcher Chris Shaw slides into third base during the April 3 game against Kansas at L. Dale Mitchell Park. The Sooners defeated the Jayhawks 6-3.

Baseball to host two-game set Alcorn State comes to OU for short mid-week series SPENSER DAVIS Baseball Reporter @Davis_Spenser

Oklahoma baseball (26-16, 20-5) will host Alcorn State (10-32, 3-17) in a rare twogame mid-week series on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Sooners are riding high after another Big 12 series victory at West Virginia last weekend, their third straight and fourth of the season. A common theme has surfaced several times so far this season — winning the final game of the series.

O U ha s d ro p p e d ju s t one Sunday game all year

(posting an overall record of 8-1) with its only loss coming in the front half of a double header against Notre Dame on opening weekend.

“I’m impressed with our team’s toughness. They really bounce back well after losses, they win rubber-matches and do it on the road,” head coach Pete Hughes told a team spokesman after OU’s series clinching 10-2 victory over the Mountaineers last weekend.

“That’s 10 in a row to finish a weekend and that’s never getting too down or too complacent,” Hughes said.

The Braves, who have struggled mightily to this point, are dead last in team ERA in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (10.22).

However, Alcorn State’s

offense is slightly more redeeming with a .289 average (sixth in the SWAC).

Still, it could be a long couple of games for Braves pitchers if OU junior Kolbey Carpenter has his way at the plate.

Carpenter, an infielder from Waco, Texas, has been a revelation as a junior.

Carpenter did hit .300 with three home runs a year ago, but he only started 26 games.

So far this season, he’s hitting .350 with a team-high seven home runs.

Infielder Anthony Hermelyn is another player who has come on strong in his junior campaign, hitting .313 with nine doubles after posting just seven doubles with a .289 average through all of last season.

“[Anthony] is a guy who’s getting close to his 600th career at-bat. That’s a pretty good database to learn from and get better from.

Some guys don’t use it, but he does,” Hughes said. “The more that kid plays, the better it gets.”

OU features three more regular starters — sophomore shortstop Sheldon Neuse, junior outfielder Craig Aikin and senior outfielder Taylor Alspaugh — who have batting averages above the .300 mark.

These two teams will hook up Tuesday and Wednesday with both games beginning at 6 p.m. at L. Dale Mitchell Park.

Spenser Davis davis.spenser@ou.edu

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espite not winning the national title, the Sooners women’s gymnastics team still had an unforgettable season.

In 2014, the team did something that they had never done before in program history; they won a national championship.

Although they did tie with the Florida Gators, it was still a first for the team.

They had one goal in 2015, and that was to win again at the championships and to be the sole winner.

That goal did not play out at the championships this past weekend.

The team started on a bye, meaning that they had to wait a whole rotation before they could go out and compete. This is difficult because the gymnasts have to find a way to stay warm and motivated during that wait.

Once the first rotation was over, the Sooners h e a d e d t o t h e f l o o r.

Sophomores Chayse Capps and Kara Lovan

started off the team by hitting their routines and getting those big scores. The next two gymnasts to go, however, did not completely hit their routines. Both went out of bounds, causing the team to lose about two-to threetenths off their team floor score. Because of that the Sooners were already behind from the get-go.

Another factor that led to the Sooners’ loss was their performance on bars. The routines were great, but it seemed like all of the gymnasts were just a little bit bouncy when landing their dismounts. Only one gymnast, Keeley Kmieciak, stuck her dismount. The team still scored a 49.300, which is great, but adding in those four more sticks could have really helped the overall score.

Even though the year did not end how the team would have liked it to end, the Sooners should not have any regrets. They were the only team in the nation to go undefeated during the regular season and were unbeaten until the NCAA Championships. The only meet they lost was nationals, which is disappointing, but the fact that they could hold off every team before that is amazing. Going weekto-week with a meet every Friday or Saturday is hard and tiring. But they kept up their hard work and are sure to come back next year with a fire in their eyes.

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