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TINKER TOUR, SOONER STOP Mary Beth Tinker will be on campus to talk speech rights CAITLIN SCHACHTER Campus Reporter

Editor’s note: Joey Stipek is a former Daily online editor and special projects reporter. The Tinker Tour will make a stop at OU beginning at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Gaylord Hall, with events promoting first amendment rights throughout the day. The Tinker Tour tours the country every year to remind students of their first amendment rights, according to the Tinker Tour website. In 1965, 13-year-old Mary Beth Tinker was part of a small group of students in Des Moines, Iowa who wore black armbands to school to mourn the dead in the Vietnam War and call for a Christmas truce. After being suspended for their actions, the students eventually won a U.S. Supreme Court case in 1969, which said that neither students nor teachers should be stripped of their first amendment rights at school, according to the website.

Journalism professor Robert Kerr organized the Tinker Tour to visit campus and has been talking about Tinker in his Mass Communication Law class for the past 12 years, he said. “The fact that someone so young — Tinker was just 13 when the case began — could have played such a role in changing the course of history is truly a remarkable thing,” Kerr said. Joey Stipek, president of OU’s Society of Professional Journalists, said he thought the Tinker Tour was important for students to attend to see the value of the First Amendment for students and for journalists. “She has definitely inspired me in some of my efforts at OU,” Stipek said. During the Society of Professional Journalists session on Thursday, Tinker and attendees will also discuss freedom of information laws, which give citizens access to public information, Stipek said. At the event, Mike Hiestand, Student Press Law Center attorney, will work with those in attendance to give information about what PHOTO PROVIDED the government does and how they can en- Mary Beth Tinker and her brother John proudly display their armbands after the Supreme Court agreed rich their reporting through open records, to hear their case. Tinker and many of her classmates were suspended from school for wearing the armbands. They appealed to the Supreme Court and won a major free speech victory in Tinker v. Des Moines SEE SPEECH PAGE 2 Independent Community School District case.

Preacher: ‘You deserve hell’ Students gather to counter protest KELLY ROGERS Campus Reporter @KellyRogersOU

n Tu e s d ay , t h e campus preacher Brother Jed Smock visited campus, and this time students were ready. A group of students in the Constitutional Studies Student Association placed a leather couch on the South Oval to sit and listen to Brother Jed preach — this time with popcorn and bingo cards in hand — and get a live demonstration of the extent of their First Amendment rights. A poly-coated sign with the TONY RAGLE/THE DAILY

Brother Jed sits on the South Oval with his signs, ready to shout his message at students passing by. He travels to different schools with his wife and has been doing it for 40 years.

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RELAY FOR LIFE

12 hours of events to raise awareness for cancer research Relay for Life provides energetic environment for students to give back

GO AND DO Relay for Life Events Where: North Oval

EMMA SULLIVAN Campus Reporter

Teams of people will spend Saturday night on their feet during OU’s annual Relay for Life, which will begin at 7 p.m. on the North Oval. The goal of Relay for Life is to spread awareness and support for cancer research programs, said Hannah Kellogg, OU’s American Cancer Society Relay for Life president and Relay for Life co-chairwoman. During the event, participants will camp out and walk in shifts around a set course from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. During the 12 hours, there will be various events, such as basketball and volleyball tournaments, according to the Relay for Life website. Before the relay, OU’s American Cancer Society Colleges Against Cancer is having an event, called Paint the Campus Purple, throughout the week. Students are encouraged to wear purple throughout the week to show support and spread awareness, according to the website. On Thursday and Friday, the event organizers are asking people to send pictures of why they participate in Relay for Like to @OURelays on Twitter, according to the event flier. As of 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, the event had 76 teams registered, WEATHER

Opening Ceremony: 7 p.m. Survivors Lap: 7:30 p.m.

Volleyball Tournament: 9:30 p.m. Luminaria Ceremony: 10:45 p.m.

Caregivers Lap: 7:30 p.m.

Movie Showing: 4:30 a.m.

Basketball Tournament: 7:45 p.m.

Closing Ceremony: 6:15 a.m.

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Relay for Life participants march down the South Oval last year holding a banner signed by OU students. This year’s relay will begin at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

Events in between the opening and closing ceremonies will include laps for the survivors and caregivers, basketball and volleyball tournaments, a luminary ceremony and a with 1,314 participants and has raised $64,777.69, according movie, according to the website. There will also be a Miss Relay Pageant where men will to the website. The event raised $137,000 last year, and this year the goal wear female clothing and ask for donations on Campus is to raise $150,000 and to have 1,500 people participate, Corner, Kellogg said. Kellogg said. Kellogg said she is involved with Relay for Life because her dad died from cancer when she was 16, she said. Emma Sullivan, emmanic23@gmail.com

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