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Maintenance to disrupt D2L OU IT to move website’s server April 18 and 19 SUPRIYA SRIDHAR Staff Reporter @SupriyaSridhar4

Desire2Learn will be unavailable April 18 and 19, so OU Information Technology can move the service to a

new hosting facility.

The change will improve performance and increase stability, said Andre Sanchez, D2L support spokesperson, in an email.

Some students are concerned about the website going down for two days.

“I’m in an online class, so that’s how I get all my notes and everything, so it’s probably not good for

that,” studio art sophomore Virginia Sitzes said.

S t u d e n t s l i k e m i c ro biology senior Austin McCullough asked why OU IT scheduled maintenance so close to the end of the semester.

“That’s probably not the best idea. They could have waited a couple of weeks u nt i l f i na l s w e re ove r,” McCullough said.

The timing for the switch w a s u n av o i d a b l e , s a i d Becky Grant, OU IT spokesperson, in an email.

D2L’s current server runs the risk of being impacted by upcoming severe storm weather and summer heat, Grant said. To prevent any system outages during dead week and finals, OU IT will move to the new hosting facility quickly.

Social work freshman Kristina Hardin said she usually does D2L homework on the weekends. “... It kind of makes me rework my entire schedule,” Hardin said.

OU IT will offer professors support in modifying to courses and assignment due dates, Grant said.

NEWS BRIEFS Sooners to sing Creek hymns at Saturday event The OU School of Music will perform traditional Creek hymns Saturday at the Catlett Music Center.

The event comes as part of the School of Music’s Ruggles Native American Music Series and will feature hymn singers from the Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole tribes.

Muscogee and Seminole singers hold a common belief that the hymns are handed down from God, especially during times of great struggle, said Melissa Harjo-Moffer, archivist for the Muscogee Creek Nation Library.

“A lot of our older songs were sung when our tribe came over on the Trail of Tears,” Moffer said. “A lot of the words and the tunes are very sad but also ask the Lord for perseverance, courage and strength.”

Hymns are traditionally sung in a communion or a big crowd, Moffer said.

Student, faculty and senior citizen tickets are $5.

General admission tickets are $9 in advance and $10 at the door.

Brittney Bennett, Staff Reporter

Event to discuss how to prevent human trafficking DANIEL HOANG/THE DAILY

Leah Kennedy (right), a member of Sooners Against Sweatshops, and Dan Upp, president of Sooners Against Sweatshops, pick out clothing items sold in the OU Bookstore distributed by VF Corporation, which employs workers in sweatshops in Bangladesh. The group recently met with OU President David Boren to discuss ending OU’s participation in the exploitation of workers in countries without regulations for safe working conditions.

OU clothes contract in jeopardy Student group prompts review of company practices ANDREW CLARK Staff Reporter @Clarky_Tweets

OU may end its contract with clothing corporation VF Corporation after OU President David Boren met with a student group to discuss the company’s working conditions and its relationship to OU. Leah Kennedy, a member of Sooners Against Sweatshops, said Boren told the group in a private meeting Monday that it plans not to renew its contract with VF Corp. — which sells merchandise in the OU Bookstore — unless it signs the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety.

Following the meeting, Boren sent an email to Eric Wiseman, VF Corp.’s chair, president and

CEO, saying the university was looking into their contract with corporation and that its renewal in 2016 was contingent on whether the company signed the accord.

“I feel very strongly about the rights of workers, and believe that signing the Bangladesh Accord is a powerful commitment to workers rights,” Boren said in an email. “I wanted to let you know about our review of the current contract, and that our continued relationship with VF Corporation will depend upon the signing of the Bangladesh Accord.”

Sooners Against Sweatshops has protested against the university’s partnership with the VF Corp. because it has not signed the accord.

“VF is not a good company,” Kennedy said.

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“I’m hoping we’ll be able to send a message sooner than 2016, but I know [Boren]’s doing all that he can at this moment.”

LEAH KENNEDY, SOONERS AGAINST SWEATSHOPS MEMBER

A division of the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs will hold a free, public seminar about human trafficking at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History.

The seminar will define human trafficking, how victims are lured in and what the community can do to prevent it, said Michael Snowden, Agent-in-Charge of the bureau’s human trafficking division.

“A large part of the program is simply public awareness,” Snowden said.

Snowden said Oklahoma residents are highly susceptible to the dangers of human trafficking.

Oklahoma’s highway system and close proximity to the Mexican border allows many drug and human trafficking groups tied to Mexican cartels to use the state as a base, according to the bureau’s website.

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Students can help support OU’s medical brigade this weekend at two events that will help fund the organization’s upcoming medical service trip to Honduras.

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OU students to travel to Honduras from May 11 to May 17 to offer medical and dental attention to patients in rural areas where access to health care is limited, said brigade publicity chair Ashley Mihalick.

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Brigades website. ical-themed 5K run this Most of the students The OU Medical Brigade’s Sunday on Asp Avenue. traveling to Honduras are f i rst f u n d ra i s e r w i l l b e The group’s service trip SEE BRIGADE PAGE 3 at Classic 50’s Drive-In will allow approximately 40

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Students will get a glimpse into the Wild West at a free lecture featuring an administrator from the Smithsonian Institution.

Michelle Delaney, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Consortium

for Understanding the American Experience, will present “Advance Work: Art and Advertising in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West” at 7 p.m.

Thursday in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Delaney will focus on Gertrude Käsebier’s collection housed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, she said.

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ART: Wild West photos influence current arts Continued from Page One

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Dan Upp (left), president of Sooners Against Sweatshops, and Leah Kennedy, Sooners Against Sweatshops member, hold clothing distributed

by VF Corporation on Wednesday at the OU Bookstore. VF Corp. employs workers in sweatshops in Bangladesh.

RIGHTS: VF Corp.’s contract with OU ends in 2016 Continued from Page One “Honestly, there are very few companies who meet our standards, but VF is the worst of the worst because they’re refusing to sign this accord.”

P re s i d e nt o f S o o n e r s Against Sweatshops Dan Upp said the signing of the accord would help prevent employees of factories in countries such as Bangladesh from being subject to danger.

“All these things are preventable, and I’m sure the workers know how dangerous the conditions are and that if one thing goes wrong, then they could die every day that they go in,” Upp said.

Ke n n e d y s a i d t h e V F Corp. is already a member of

the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, but it does not provide hard enough restrictions to protect the factory workers. She said the alliance does not legally bind its members to enact safety precautions in its factories.

“They’re not required to pay a penny towards ensuring that these factories are safe [under the alliance],” Kennedy said.

She said Sooners Against Sweatshops is in favor of the accord more than the alliance because it requires an independent party to monitor its members’ factories and will induce fines on them if their factories are deemed unsafe.

“It requires companies to actually pay money to ensure worker safety, as opposed to just saying it on paper,” Kennedy said.

“We can and we will pressure these corporations to do the right thing.”

LEAH KENNEDY, SOONERS AGAINST SWEATSHOPS MEMBER

Companies are only required to monitor their factories themselves under the alliance, according to Kennedy.

Furthermore, Kennedy said the accord was created after the Rana Plaza collapse in 2013, when a nine-story building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, fell and killed more than 1,000 people.

The campaigning of United Students Against Sweatshops, the national organization which Sooners Against Sweatshops is mirroring, Kennedy said, has

gotten companies such companies as Fruit of the Loom and Adidas to sign the accord. Kennedy said she believes Sooners Against Sweatshops can do the same thing with VF Corp.

“We can and we will pressure these corporations to do the right thing,” Kennedy said. “And it might take time, but we I think we can do it.”

Kennedy said she appreciates Boren’s effort to meet the group’s desires in the midst of other drama surrounding the university.

“I’m hoping we’ll be able to send a message sooner than 2016, but I know he’s doing all that he can at this moment,” she said.

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photographs, numerous portraits of Sioux Indians who performed in the Buffalo Bill Wild West show and 15 pictograph drawings made by those men for the photographer, Delaney said.

At the lecture, Delaney will discuss how these lasting images from the show continue to influence the arts of photography and printing even today, she said.

Delaney’s lecture will also detail some of her expanded research on the interpretation of the show’s visual culture by examining publicity items, including photographs, posters, trading cards, games and pins, Delaney said. “ The visual ar t and posters created for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West have had lasting impacts on modern advertising, and provide a lens through which to reflect on this period of great change in the U.S. and the world,” Delaney said.

D e l a n e y ’s i n t e r e s t i n Bu f f a l o Bi l l b e ga n through her work in the Photographic Histor y Collection at the National Museum of Natural History and led to her writing the 2007 book “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Warriors: A Photographic Histor y by Gertrude Käsebier,” she said.

Byron Price, Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the A m e r i ca n We s t c ha i r

and director, is thrilled that Delaney will be bringing her expertise to campus, he said.

“Our speakers are really accessible in terms of what they talk about, and this particular lecture is not going to be an exception,” Price said. “We are very fortunate to have a speaker with the credentials and exper ience of Michelle Delaney.”

“Our speakers are really accessible in terms of what they talk about ...”

BYRON PRICE, CHARLES M. RUSSELL CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ART OF THE AMERICAN WEST CHAIR AND DIRECTOR

In addition to the lectu re, D e l a n e y w i l l a l s o have lunch Friday with the School of Art and Art History Ph.D. students to share her experiences.

“Most of the students who are going to be involved have taken sufficient course work to ask her good questions and really absorb the answers she would give,” Price said.

The lecture is presented as part of the Merkel Family Foundation Distinguished L e c t u re S e r i e s a n d t h e OU School of Art and Art History’s Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West.

A reception in the Sandy Bell Galler y of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art will follow the lecture.

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Chemical engineering freshman Rylie Turrentine and sports management freshman Nik Scott met up with LaDorsha Johnson-Caldwell, Big Event coordinator at Rogers Middle School in Spencer, Oklahoma, to evaluate the volunteer needs of the middle school for Big Event on March 9, 2014. This year’s Big Event will be Saturday, April 11, 2015.

Students work Big Event Volunteers labor during community event this weekend GLORIA NOBLE Staff Reporter @glorianoble_

Big Event is right around the corner, and for some students, this weekend is one of the most valuable parts of being a member of the Sooner community.

For those that are new to the community, Big Event is a campus wide opportunity for students to get involved in the local area by volunteering for a day, whether it be at residential homes or places of business.

Sheyda Zakerion, Big Event chair, said that the planning process for the weekend is pretty extensive, but it is made possible by those who are passionate about it.

“First of all, it takes putting together a passionate team of people who are committed to the organization. Then, it takes a year of raising money, reaching out to community leaders and organizations, encouraging student to participate and nailing down the logistics of the event,” Zakerion said.

Zakerion said that there are 5,850 volunteers and 155 organizations that will be served during the event.

“This is the largest amount of registered volunteers we have ever had.

These numbers increase by a couple hundred each year,” Zakerion said.

Big Event has had more student volunteers each year, but Zakerion said that the amount of volunteers isn’t the goal, it’s the work that goes into the event.

“We make [volunteer] goals each year, but our main goal is to have committed

and passionate students thank our community by serving them,” Zakerion said.

As for the places getting extra help from Sooners this Saturday, Zakerion said that the involved organizations could vary year to year.

“Students will serve at various organizations including nonprofit organization, neighborhood associations, religious organizations, school and many other unique sites,” Zakerion said.

For those who are not sure what to expect on Saturday morning, Zakerion said that students are going to start their day by checking in on the North Oval, which will include free coffee, breakfast, music, a Twitter feed screen, a Snapchat geotag and a photo area.

Zakerion said the students that check in for the event with an OU student ID will have free chicken

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medical or dental students. These students will shadow doctors, check the vital signs of incoming patients and host seminars on public health after patients receive their treatment, Mihalick said.

However, this experience does not come cheap. Not only must students pay for their airfare and lodging but also for the medication and supplies they will use and administer to patients in Honduras, Mihalick said.

The group has received several donations of these items from local pharmacies but has held fundraisers — the last of which will take place this weekend — to cover the rest of the cost, Mihalick said.

The trip is worth the work and money, Mihalick said.

“It shows how willing OU students are to make sacrifices, and it shows how they’re willing to see new things and make a lasting impact at a place where they aren’t just going to college, but [in] a completely other country,” Mihalick said.

The 5K will take place on Sunday, April 12, at 2:30 p.m. and begin at Asp Avenue and Kuhlman Court. Those who are interested can register online or on site before the race for $30. The Classic 50’s fundraiser will be Saturday, April 11, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 1521 W. Lindsey St. Amber Friend ambermfriend@gmail.com

minis loaded onto their card to use in the Union’s new Chick-fil-A. Zakerion said that following the ceremony, students will be dismissed from the North Oval to their respective job sites. She said that the jobs could vary from attending to nursing home residents or painting various businesses or homes.

Zakerion said students that have questions should contact Big Event.

“We really look forward to the event and encourage anyone to email us with any questions. We want to ensure that students are excited and have all the information they need,” Zakerion said.

Gloria Noble glorianoble@ou.edu

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During the first Global Medical Brigade trip in May 2010, OU Students not only served over 500 patients in remote villages but also helped support the nonprofit orphanage of Sociedad Amigos de los Niños.

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Where are they now?

Each week The Daily will feature an OU alumna or alumnus. This week, meet

Rebecca Parks Fernandez, Class of 2004 GLORIA NOBLE Staff Reppo @glorianoble_

OU alumna Rebecca Parks Fernandez has made waves in the field of journalism through her efforts to empower women in professional fields.

Parks Fernandez, who studied journalism at OU, developed a passion for journalism at a young age

by reading magazines.

“I am really, really passionate about magazines,” Parks Fernandez said. “I grew up in a small town in Oklahoma, and the only connection I had to fashion trends, books, music, movies and cool articles were magazines.”

After graduating in 2004, Parks Fernandez plunged headfirst into the world of journalism, getting her first

job at an entertainment magazine.

“It was one of those moments where you realize you’re doing exactly w hat you wa nt to b e doing for the rest of your life,” Parks Fernandez said.

“Unfortunately, print publications are a dying art, and so my gravitation to the Internet was a very practical evolution.”

Since then, Parks

“I would describe myself as a work in progress. There are so many things to learn about my job, and every day the tools are changing.”

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Fernandez has been the editor-in-chief of several different online publications.

Parks Fernandez said that she has enjoyed each second of her fast-paced job and wouldn’t want it any other way.

“There’s nothing as thrilling or as terrifying as knowing that hundreds of thousands of people are going to read what you’ve written or edited,” Parks Fernandez said. “And make no mistake, each one of them is ecstatic if they can point out an error. It’s fast-paced and involves a lot of concentration, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world.”

But as her career has evolved, Parks Fernandez’s job title has changed as well as her responsibilities.

“My job now is to help brands and talent find their PHOTO PROVIDED perfect target audience, OU journalism alumna Rebecca Parks Fernandez helps brands and talent find their perfect target audi- and then help them create ences.

genuine messages to engage each and every user who connects with them,” Parks Fernandez said. “This means ever ything from long-term strategies for product launches to smaller social media executions.”

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“I would describe myself as a work in progress. There are so many things to learn about my job, and every day the tools are changing. It’s important to me that I am constantly learning about myself, my brain and the way I approach things, so that I can bring the best version of myself to work each day,” Parks Fernandez said.

In addition, Parks Fernandez uses her position to promote and empower women throughout the industry.

“My advice to anyone who wants to break their own glass ceiling would be to speak up when you have something to contribute, to find a mentor who can help guide you to your destination and to work harder than you ever thought possible,” Parks Fernandez said.

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Oklahoma baseball treks south to the Lone Star State for a three-game clash with rival Texas

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Sophomore running back Keith Ford dodges the defense during the spring football game at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on April 12, 2014. A record 43,500 packed the stands during the Red-White game.

Sooners look toward spring game Spring game is a time to shine for bench players BRADY VARDEMAN

Assistant Sports Editor @BradyVardeman

As it stands, the quarterback battle will be the most discussed storyline of the 2015 Oklahoma spring game, slated to kickoff at 2 p.m. Saturday.

Quarterback Baker Mayfield said Wednesday he would like his coaches to name a starter by the end of spring practices. However,

given OU head coach Bob Stoops’ history, Mayfield will likely be disappointed.

The game will allow fans their first look at offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley’s scheme at Oklahoma, which is geared to be pass-heavy.

The offense also brings a higher tempo back to the Sooners.

“It’s real fast,” wide receiver Sterling Shepard said. “He gets things going real fast. I mean, we haven’t even gotten in half of the plays, but it’s still moving fast.”

Riley said his quarterbacks are taking the brunt of the beating this spring,

however.

“We’re getting a ton of reps,” Riley said. “Their arms are hurting right now, which they’re supposed to be.”

While it is not likely any position battles will be decided Saturday, the game has historically been an opportunity for players to shine who usually do not receive many reps in practice.

Running back Daniel Brooks took full advantage of his carries last year, racking up a team-high 67 yards on eight carries.

A year later, Brooks said he has not let off the gas.

“When I touch the ball,

“It’s not really about trying to impress other people. I have to impress myself first.”

DANIEL BROOKS, OKLAHOMA RUNNING BACK

I’m getting the ball in my hand, and I’m in the zone,” he said. “I’m focused on my play, my responsibility, what I have to do every snap — the entire game, the entire practice.”

Brooks could receive even more carries than he did last year. With Joe Mixon, Rodney Anderson and Keith Ford out for the game, the carries will be split between Brooks, Alex Ross and

Samaje Perine.

However, Stoops said Perine will be limited Saturday.

“I’ll be honest, I’m not real keen on seeing Samaje run it a whole bunch,” he said. “Same with Sterling [Shepard]. I don’t think he’s going to be out there much.”

It is vital for Brooks to impress during spring practice because the Sooners’ stable of running backs is so deep

during the fall. However, he said competing with several high-caliber players has pushed him to get better.

“It’s not really about trying to impress other people,” Brooks said. “I have to impress myself first. I have to make sure that I’m doing well internally. Of course, I always want to impress other people — to show them I’m out here working hard, I’m making plays, I’m doing what I have to do.”

Brady Vardeman brady.vardeman@ou.edu

Boren visits football practice University President thanks players for speaking out on SAE JOE BUETTNER Football Reporter @Joe_Buettner

A few members of Oklahoma’s secondary and linebacker corps were made available Wednesday afternoon.

The team is just two days from its annual Red-White scrimmage, and the players are ready to show their progress through spring football.

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OU President David Boren spoke to the football team following its Wednesday practice.

In the aftermath of the SAE incident, Boren praised OU football head coach Bob Stoops’ players for the way they handled the situation and spreading

awareness for the issue.

“He was just basically saying he was proud of us for standing up and being more than football players — being men off the field and standing up for something we believe in,” junior safety Ahmad Thomas said.

S o p h o m o r e Jo r d a n Thomas appreciated the gesture from Boren as well. The cornerback from Klein, Texas, said he didn’t really experience racism where he grew up and was shocked by the video.

“I didn’t realize stuff like that was so prominent,” Jordan Thomas said. “I was hurt by it, but we all have to put our feelings aside and come together as one to bring light to the situation.

We didn’t want it brushed under the rug anymore.”

finished second-to-last in pass defense in the Big 12 Conference a year ago.

The young defensive backs group surrendered 272.7 passing yards per game and 20 passing touchdowns last season, and communication problems appeared to hinder the position group.

However, junior safety Hatari Byrd said the group is improving with Cooks in meetings everyday and focused on both the cornerbacks and safeties.

“That helped us a whole lot with the communication issues,” Byrd said. “We’ve come together as a defensive back group, so I feel like it helped us out a whole lot having him there with us in meetings everyday.”

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actually wants a $1,700 Our view: We do not support Undergraduate chain around the South Oval seal. Technically, Student Congress’ Undergraduate Student multiple attempts to chain off the South Oval Congress did ask students, if you consider seal. adding a last-minute, little-publicized poll to OU’s Undergraduate Student Congress seems a runoff election an acceptable form of questo have made chaining tioning. Undergraduate off the South Oval seal its ultimate goal this se- Student Congress has mester, and we’re asking devoted an inordinate amount of time and efcongress once again to fort trying to chain off drop the issue. Bottom the South Oval seal. line, chaining off the seal will present a safety Congress’ “We’ll buy it ourselves act of 2015� hazard to students, and failed in the Graduate implementing a camStudent Senate pus change with this semester, the potential to Our View is the second time hurt students the majority the senate has is a bad idea. opinion of turned down The Daily’s Undergraduate nine-member legislation to Student editorial board rope off the seal.

Congress is now So considering cordoning off the South Undergraduate Student Congress turned to Oval seal for the third time in a year, and we’re questionable methods to “prove� students supimploring our student port chaining off the seal. representatives to stop Congress members dedevoting so much time to an effort that is unsafe cided to add a poll to the CAC chair runoff ballot and unwise. asking students if they In previous editowant a chain around the rials we’ve urged stuseal. However, congress dent congress to ask members did not share the student body if it

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that information with The Daily or publicize the fact a poll would be included. If student congress actually wanted to know if chaining the seal has support, they should have made sure students knew about the poll. Students would have responded — student voters turned out in record numbers to vote in the initial CAC chair election last week, and over 3,000 students cast ballots for CAC chair again in Tuesday’s runoff election.

Compare that to the paltry 831 students who voted on the South Oval seal chain poll. Clearly, students voted on matters they knew about and had time to consider.

Instead, congress added the poll without properly informing students, and less than 4 percent of the student body voted on it. A whopping 62 percent of those 831 students voted in favor of the chain, a statistic Undergraduate Student Congress used to pass legislation attempting to chain off the seal again at its Tuesday night meeting.

Congress may tout the 62 percent statistic, but it is misleading and in no way represents the majority of the OU student body. That 62 percent represents the opinion of 512 students at a university of over 22,000 students. We also take issue with the name of congress’ South Oval seal chain bill. The “We’ll buy it ourselves act of 2015� is unprofessional

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HOROSCOPE The literary and artistic journal of the University of Oklahoma Coll College of Medicine is currently seeking health-care re related short stories, poems, an artwork for publication it and its 2015 edition.

For submission guidelines, please visit www.ouhsc.edu/bloodandthunder

By Eugenia Last

Copyright 2015, Newspaper Enterprise Assn.

THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015

Your willpower, courage and determination will help you achieve anything you want this year. Sitting on the sidelines is not for you. Get involved by participating in new activities. Bold moves will help you further your goals. Follow your intuition, and don’t look back.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Express your outgoing attitude, and strive to be in a good mood.

Get involved in social events that will lead to new friendships. An important connection will be made.

All entries must be received by May 31st,2015

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Your quest for change will drain your bank account. Rather than spend money on unnecessary items, put your cash in a safe place. An unexpected bill will set you back.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Reflect on your current relationships.

If you feel you may be moving in a different direction than the people around you, you should determine what could be done to revive the connection or move on.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -Career and travel are highlighted.

Advancement will head your way if you are willing to make the necessary changes. Keep an open mind and a positive outlook.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Don’t waste time. Use your energy wisely.

Focus on your creative talents and stretch your boundaries. Classes that provide you with the stimulation you crave will lead to new friendships.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -Before you reconnect with someone from your past, remember how the

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friendship ended. If you want to avoid a repeat performance, focus on meeting someone more like you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Your empathetic nature makes you a good friend. However, you run the risk of burning out if you try to do too much for too many. Offer advice without compromising your own needs.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Step into the limelight. Your charm and talent will impress the people you meet along the way. An interesting partnership is imminent.

Embrace a new venture.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Your emotions will escalate. Avoid getting involved in sensitive issues that could end in a dispute. Find a quiet corner where you can enjoy peace and quiet and mull over your thoughts.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- You stand to profit if you take advantage of a moneymaking opportunity. Long-term savings or careful investments will prove to be lucrative and stress-free.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Idle time will work against you.

Find some form of mental stimulation. Discussions with people who share your interests will turn out well, as will taking advantage of an opportunity to travel.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Don’t settle for less when you could have so much more. Look into your options and prepare to make a move. Do whatever it takes to raise your standard of living.

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SPORTS

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Health and exercise science senior Sergey Resnick performs his parallel bars routine during the match against Illinois at McCasland Field House on Friday, February 27, 2015. OU Sooners beat Illinois 457.300 to 434.300.

Sooners strive to stick ninth championship Undefeated men’s gymnastics prep to host NCAA meet BRADY VARDEMAN

Assistant Sports Editor @BradyVardeman

Gymnastics coach Mark Williams already has five national championship rings at Oklahoma. This weekend, he will try for a sixth — the team’s ninth — as the Sooners host the NCAA championship.

The last three seasons,

Oklahoma has made it to the final weekend of competition only to come up short.

Now, undefeated and sporting a senior-laden team, Williams’ squad has started to draw comparisons to Kentucky men’s basketball — a team that was expected to go 40-0 until it fell in its second-to-last game. “ I m e a n , w e ’v e b e e n talking about being compared to Kentucky all season, and I think it’s a good thing that we’ve been following them,” senior Danny Berardini said. “Look at what

happened to them. They’re two games away from the national championship, and they come up short, 38-1. So we look at that, and we realize that we haven’t done anything yet.”

Fellow senior Michael Squires, however, said he does not compare the two teams.

“I don’t necessarily see the comparison, just because Kentucky had a team of freshmen, and everybody was focused individually, kind of on what they wanted to do in their NBA careers,”

Squires said.

The eight seniors on Oklahoma’s roster have come close to a championship each year of their college career but were never able to close the deal. Now, the title is coming to them in the Lloyd Noble Center.

“The crowd is what’s going to help us win a national title,” senior Alec Robin said.

“I mean, when you stick a dismount and you hear the entire Lloyd Noble erupt, it’s just the best feeling in the world, and it gets us on that roll and brings it to the next

event after that.”

Oklahoma has posted some of the most dominant performances in the NCAA this season. After shattering the previous record for highest team score against Michigan, the Sooners broke their own record the next weekend against Illinois.

If the Sooners are to take the national title, Williams said his team will have to win the mental game first.

“I think we’re physically ready, and maybe better prepared than any of the other teams, but yeah,

when you’re on that stage, it’s sometimes a little hard to quell the anxiety and the nervousness and all that stuff,” Williams said.

If Williams finds himself atop the podium Friday night, his 2015 squad would have a case to be among the best he has ever coached.

As for Williams’ opinion?

“I’ll tell you Friday night,” he said.

Brady Vardeman brady.vardeman@gmail.com

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WHERE ARE YOU NOW?

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Terror, Trauma, Memory A Symposium Dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing

April 13-14, 2015 at the University of Oklahoma For the full schedule visit:

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MONDAY APRIL 13 8:30 - 9 am

Coffee, Heritage Room, Oklahoma Memorial Union

9 - 11 am

Panel: “Emotion, Mood, Affect: Charting the Public’s Response to Terror” Heritage Room, Oklahoma Memorial Union

11 - 11:45 am

Lunch reception Frontier Room Oklahoma Memorial Union

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“Commemorating Disaster and Disobediance: National Park Service Initiatives in the 21st Century.”

Meacham Auditorium Oklahoma Memorial Union Erika Doss, Professor of American Studies University of Notre Dame & Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow Stanford Humanities Center

2 - 5 pm Visit to Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum

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1:15 - 1:30 pm

Coffee, Meacham Auditorium Foyer Oklahoma Memorial Union

1:30 pm - 3:30pm

Film Screening, Meacham Auditorium Oklahoma Memorial Union: Resilience (2015) A documentary on the Oklahoma City bomb Q&A led by Mickie Smith, Production Manager OETA and Paige Dillard, Video Producer The Oklahoman/ NewsOK.com

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Panel: “Current Terrorism Threats and Emerging Challenges” Frontier Room Oklahoma Memorial Union

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Lunch reception sponsored by the OU Center for Intelligence and National Security Heritage Room Oklahoma Memorial Union

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“Terrorism meets Medicine” Meacham Auditorium Oklahoma Memorial Union Kobi Peleg Head, Isreali National Center for Trauma & Emergency Medicine Research, and Chair, Disaster Medicine Department Tel Aviv University

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Panel: “Witness and Memory after Terror: The Oklahoma City Bombing” Frontier Room Oklahoma Memorial Union

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Dinner Reception Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

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“On the Edge of Memory: Uneasy Legacies of Dissent, Terror, and Violence in the American Landscape” Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Kenneth Foote Chair, Department of Geography University of Conneticut

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