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Alumna crowned Miss Okla.

Sooners to the big league: Four baseball players continue the trend of athletic excellence at OU by being drafted into the MLB.

Class of 2012 graduate hailed beauty queen Saturday night at Mabee Center in Tulsa

Executive Order: President Barack Obama issued an executive order capping student loan monthly payments at 10 percent of a student’s income.

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Dean to retire: Larry R. Grillot, a geophysicist who guided the Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy from its inception through its first eight years, has announced his plans to retire from OU, effective June 30, 2015.

Megawryte: OU Writing Center is holding a 1 million word writing drive for OU Graduate students. Events include “Weekly Shut Up & Write” meet ups, writing groups and marathon writing days with childcare with meals provided.

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It’s been a long journey for OU alumna, Alexandra Eppler, whose sixth and final appearance on the Miss Oklahoma stage proved the wait was worth it.

Standing in the top two, just as the year before, Eppler was prepared to hear her name called as first runner-up and see the end of her pageant career without ever winning a Miss Oklahoma title. But her worries didn’t last long.

Eppler, a 2012 OU graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree, was crowned Miss Oklahoma 2014 on Saturday night at the Mabee Center in Tulsa and will now compete in the Miss America Pageant.

“I feel like I’m dreaming,” Eppler said. “God’s timing has just been so perfect. I couldn’t be more thankful. I never really considered it a loss the past five times, I just thought God’s timing wasn’t right for me and this time it was.” science teacher at The Academy of Classical Christian Studies Eppler was right. It was nothing short of perfect timing, in Oklahoma City since August 2012. But she will give up as she would’ve aged out of pageant eligibility after this teaching for now to devote 100 percent of her time to fulfilling year at 23. her role as Miss Oklahoma and preparing for the upcoming Despite many who doubted she’d ever earn a state Miss America pageant. title and urged her to give up her pageant “Although I will miss teaching and my studreams, she took her last shot this year, dents, I know my role as Miss Oklahoma will representing the town of Enid, Oklahoma. allow me to continue to impact people’s lives, She has held titles such as Miss Oklahoma in even more ways than I can now,” she said.

State Fair 2010, Miss Tulsa 2011, Miss For now, Eppler is focused on preparing for Moore-Norman 2012 and Miss Edmond the national pageant, which will incorporate Liberty Fest 2013. the same areas of competition as a regional or “It’s been kind of crazy, but it’s state pageant, but are “just much more been absolutely wonderful,” Eppler Although I will miss teaching intense,” she said. said.

Eppler will start training for Miss and my students, I know Eppler will receive a $16,000 cash America immediately with the help my role as Miss Oklahoma of her new team, the Miss Oklahoma scholarship as part of her winnings, which she plans to use to attend will allow me to continue to Board. graduate school after completing “I have an amazing team of people her reign as Miss Oklahoma, she impact people’s lives, in even behind me,” she said. “They’ll be callsaid. more ways than I can now.” ing me saying are you eating right? Are Eppler came to OU and worked you reading? Are you working out? You ALEXANDRA EPPLER, four part-time jobs as an underknow, because I have to be at the top MISS OKLAHOMA graduate student. These, along with of my game. I have to be in shape and her winnings at regional pageants, I have to know what’s going on in the allowed her to graduate from college completely debt-free. world. I’m confident that I have the best team in the nation As Miss Oklahoma, Eppler is most looking forward to behind me.” the opportunities the crown gives her to impact the lives Eppler succeeds Kelsey Griswold and will compete in the of others.

Miss America pageant in Atlantic City on Sept. 14.

“Being able to put my crown on a little girl’s head, dance around the room with her, tell her she’s the princess now, Stefanie Tapke, stefanie.c.tapke-1@ou.edu and make her feel beautiful and special is what it’s really all about,” she said. “I know through this system and organiPHOTO PROVIDED zation I’ll have opportunities to impact lives all across the OU graduate Alexandra Eppler beams after being named the new state.”

2014 Miss Oklahoma. Eppler graduated OU in 2012.

Eppler has enjoyed working as an eigth and ninth grade

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Students launch social media campaign to benefit grieving family Cody Phillips News Editor @codyrayphillips

Making Herstory went on to organize a social media campaign to support the family. On the day of the campaign, Making Herstory students walked through the halls of their respective schools, asking peers if they had heard of Rodriguez. Many of their peers answered no and asked if they could hear more. Making Herstory students gladly obliged.

Khader’s students then took pictures of their peers holding a dry-erase board stating sentiments of support for Rodriguez. The social media campaign was held on Rodriguez’s birthday, so the board stated, “Today, Luis Rodriguez would have celebrated his birthday,” which stimulated more conversation among those who had not heard of Rodriguez.

Through Facebook and Twitter, Making Herstory students garnered around 300 high school students and community members to change their profile pictures to the pictures taken of them in the school hallways in support of the Rodriguez family.

Rodriguez family members also changed their profile pictures in support of Making Herstory.

“It was a really good learning experience for them to see how you could use social media as a tool to really engage communities to look at societal issues and really question what’s going on,” Khader said.

Khader is now pursuing a graduate degree in communiPhoto provided OU Graduate student Lena Khander (pictured) and ty counseling at OU.

Graduate student Lena Khader never anticipated just how influential the student-led organization she founded would be. Then, the death of Luis Rodriguez at Moore Warren Theatre put her in just the position to help a grieving family.

With the help of two OU undergraduate students, Angie Tran and Tory Kappel, Khader successfully organized a student-led organization in the fall of 2013 for high school students of south Oklahoma City and Moore. They decided to call the organization “Making Herstory.”

Compelled by the problems she saw in her community, Khader started Making Herstory to discuss sexism and racism in a feminist space. Weekly facilitations encouraged the students to independently ask questions of the world around them. Typical exercises for the students included identifying sexist stereotypes in Disney princesses or pinpointing the problems with the way Christopher Columbus was portrayed in grade-school history classes.

When Rodriguez died during police incarceration, Khader led Making Herstory students through a planned facilitation, searching the library for news on Pearl Pearson, Oscar Grant and Vincent Shin. All were victims of alleged police brutality.

The ensuing conversation two undergraduate students, Angie Tran and Tory that night quickly turned to Kappel launched an orginization with the help of Rodriguez, with students social media to help a grieving family in Khander’s community. asking what they could do to help the family. “ My s t u d e nt s a c t u a l l y asked what can we do for of 15 to 20 students from the family and how can we impoverished communiMaybe $250 isn’t a lot, but for a organize around it,” said ties, that’s a big deal for Khader, giving all credit to community organization of 15 to 20 them, and I think it was a her students. great organizing experience students from impoverished communities, T h a t ’s w h e n M a k i n g for them.”

Herstory decided to hold a that’s a big deal for them and I think it was W h e n R o d r i g u e z ’s fundraiser for the Rodriguez a great organizing experience for them.” widow, Nair, came through family, raising $250 for varithe door of the Hubbly Lena Khader, ous costs the loss of a father Bubbly Hookah & Cafe on Community Counciling graduate student brings. This number may the day of the event, Making not seem like a lot to proHerstory students immevide a family who has lost a diately rushed to embrace loved one, but Khader looks her. Nair Rodriguez then returned the hug of every Making past the dollar amount earned, seeing the lesson learned Herstory student. in producing such a gift.

“It was very emotional,” said Kappel, a junior microbi“Maybe $250 isn’t a lot, but for a community organization ology student.

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609 Chautauqua Avenue, This house offers a unique opportunity to see Oklahoma history. Created by Swedish-born Oscar and Jeanne Jacobson, the house is an open environment featuring Swedish motifs. Now a Native American art center, the Jacobson House is nationally recognized for its documentation of the evolution and success of Native American art in Oklahoma.

Located between Symmes Street to the North and Brooks Street to the South, Chautauqua Avenue on the East and Lahoma Avenue on the West.

Established in 1995, the Chautauqua district was Norman’s first-designated, local, historical district, encompassing all 153 residential structures and protecting them from alteration. Most are Colonial-style homes, which reflect the individuals who built and lived in these homes, specifically university deans, faculty and prominent individuals in Norman.

•Moore-Lindsay Built: 1899 508 N. Peters, This Queen Anne-style, Victorian home is not only a historical house. It is also a museum. Purchased by the city of Norman in 1973, a non-profit organization now operates the house as a museum. It now houses rare books, photographs and artifacts from historic Norman.

Miller District Built: 1910-1938 Located between Symmes Street on the north, Classen Avenue on the East and Miller Avenue on the northwest and southeast.

Designated as a historic district in 1997, the area contains approximately 148 residential structures. Faculty members and business leaders mainly lived in these homes, which are widely diverse in appearance. This combination has helped shape Norman into the diverse, unique city it is today.

Delve into Norman’s intriguing past by exploring these nearby districts AARON HOWELL

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The Oklahoma Historical Society held its 26th annual Statewide Preservation Conference at the College of Architecture last week. The focus of the conference was on finding, preserving and sharing Oklahoma’s history and culture.

Representatives from across the state gathered to hear from 54 preservation specialists and guest speakers for informational sessions and special events about further protecting Oklahoma’s historical structures.

Norman was among many of the cities that were recognized for its preservation efforts.

The historical districts in Norman operates together with OU for the benefit of one another.

As one grows, so does the other.

We would like to invite you to join us as we highlight a few of the oldest and most iconic structures and districts that define our great city.

Aaron Howell, Aaronhowell45@gmail.com

•Boyd Built: 1906 407 W. Boyd Street Designed by OU’s first president, David Ross Boyd, the Boyd House is often referenced as OU’s White House, because many of the university’s presidents have lived there during their time at OU. Located adjacent to campus corner, the house is widely known and recognized by both students and residents.

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FAULT IN STAR-STUDDED ADAPTATION

Film of young adult novel deftly translates story from book to movie screen TAMMY BOYD

Life and Arts Reporter

Finally, a movie adaptation of a book that got it right, in both form and substance.

As most avid readers will tell you, Hollywood has a rare and unparalleled gift for blaspheming a great book with a terrible movie. The dialogue in the movies doesn’t have to be a word-for-word copy from the book, but couldn’t the screenwriters at least get the emotion right? How about getting the sequence of events in the right order?

Don’t even get me started on the blatant profiteering behind splitting one book into two or more movies.

Mercifully, “The Fault in Our Stars” is a welcome departure from this trend. Partly because there is no dystopian world that must be rendered in computer graphics, partly because the book by John Green is tremendously movie friendly but mostly because the filmmakers had sense enough not to mess with a good thing.

This movie combines the best of slavishly-adhering-to-the-book adaptation (the first “Harry Potter” or “Hunger Games”

movie) with totally-nailed-the-spirit-ofthe-story adaptation (“The Godfather” or “A Clockwork Orange”).

The beauty of both the book and the movie is how well both captured the strength and the bravery of Hazel and Gus, who make the decision to live and, more importantly, to love, even in the face of death. No matter what your favorite part of the book is, it is all there in the movie.

So are all the gut-wrenching, sob-inducing moments.

In fact, there really were only two instances where the movie diverged from the book. Both were confrontations between the main characters and their parents, and both were relatively minor. The downplay and omission of these two scenes did nothing to minimize the relationships Gus and Hazel had with their respective parents (although Gus’s family is relatively absent in the movie), nor did they diminish the anguish of being a parent who’s watching your child die. Or the injustice of being the child who is dying.

Shailene Woodley is amazing at playing the part of Hazel Grace Lancaster,

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but Ansel Elgort was simply born to play Augustus Waters. Whether it was brilliant casting, brilliant directing, brilliant acting or some mystical combination thereof, I don’t know. Nor do I particularly care.

But Elgort’s ability to completely inhabit the role of Augustus is uncanny. And the chemistry between Woodley and Elgort is perfect. The great love story from the novel remains intact in the movie.

So book lovers, rejoice! There is finally a movie you can see and enjoy without leaving the theater fuming at Hollywood for mangling yet another treasured story.

For anyone who has not done so yet, go see “The Fault in Our Stars.” You won’t be disappointed.

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The Week Ahead Wednesday

Free Driving Range Balls Free bucket of balls at Jimmie Austin OU G olf Course every Wednesday this summer. Begins at 5 p.m. Must wear a collared shirt and no blue jeans.

Final playoffs for the OU Summer Session volleyball league.

Game play begins at 6p.m. on the sand courts by the Walker and Adams tower.

McNellie’s Abner Ale Authors in Focus host an House in Norman pours the exhibit of Simon Hurst’s porbeer and provides the atmo- traits for World Literature sphere for the 2014 World Today magazine.

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The event is being hosted The matches begin with at Simon Hurst Photography Brazil vs Croatia at 3 p.m. in Oklahoma City at 6 p.m.

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Saturday

Hippy Roadshow

Oklahoma State Fairgrounds host the Junk Hippy For the weekend of Father’s Day, the Istvan Gallery and Urban Art Complex in Oklahoma City hosts the Manly Show. Roadshow, which provides a stop for all things handmade, This event showcases male artists, merchants, musical vintage, repurposed and retro.

Doors open at 9 a.m. at the OKC Fairgrounds Cox Pavilion. performances, restaurateurs, etc. The event begins at 6 p.m., Admissions are $5 at the door and kids 13 and under are free. and admission for men is free while women pay $1.

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Sunday

Dads get in free to the National Mus eum and Western Heritage Museum with a paid admission.

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The Arts Council of Oklahoma City hosts the annual Sunday Twilight Concert Series. This Sunday’s performer is the Wise Guys.

The free concert will take place from 7:30 p.m. yo 9 p.m. on the Myriad Botanical Gardens Great Lawn.

Graduate Student Trivia Night

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The Gathering All graduate students, faculty and staff are invited to participate every Monday until June 30 at 5 p.m. in the Tournament at Wizard’s University Club in Oklahoma Memorial Union. Participants Asylum at 749 Jenkins Ave. 21 years old and up receive drink tickets for free beer and 6:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. food while supplies last. Prizes will be awarded for first, second and third place, as well as best team name.

Monday Free Eskimo Sno OU summer session offers free snow cones on the south Have a laugh with friends oval every Tuesday, courtesy at Othello’s weekly comedy of Eskimo Sno. night. The laughter begins at 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

10 p.m.

Comedy night at Othello’s

Tuesday

Opening Night Party begins at 5:30 p.m. for people 21 and older. Films begin at 7 p.m.

Noon Friday at Murray Case Sell Swim Complex. Student ID required. Free Tank Tops will be passed out to the first 100 people to arrive. Free hotdogs, chips, popsicles and drinks will be provided to first 300 people. Activities to win prizes like tank tops, sunglasses and mini coolers.

Numerous local businesses and organizations work with artisits to showcase their work. Activities vary from reopenings of exhibits to live music. For information on locations and times, visit 2ndfridayNorman.org or NormanArts.org Manly show for manly men

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, in the Noble Theater

Pool Party

Norman Arts Council presents the 2nd Friday Circut of Art.

Friday

DeadCENTER Film Festival Opening Night Party This annual independent film festival will showcase over 100 independent films at seven different downtown locations ending June 15.