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WEEK OF EVENTS Wednesday

Thursday

Youth Football Youth OU football camp starts June 3-5th. OU practice field at Printmaking Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium—Enter the Matrix: Indigenous Printmakers.

Heather Ahtone will talk about printmaking for artistic expression and studios that have been established.

Driving Range OU Summer session offers Free Driving Range Balls - Jimmie Austin Golf Course - One small bucket per person Cheer NCA Cheer/Mascot Campjunior high & middle school session (June 4-6th) Film Series OU Summer Session Summer Film Series - Tomorrwland - $5 tickets - 7 pm

Saturday

Friday

Sunday

ACT Nielson Hall-ACT Prep Course Final Classes (9am-4pm)— Final Day of classes for the first summer school block

Brazil Brazilian Conservation HourHester Hall (rm 142)- Meet Brazilian exchange students and practice Portuguese, listen to Brazilian music and learn about Brazilian culture (12-1pm)

Shredding Party Free Community Shredding Party—(E. Main Street)—a Softball Camp safe way to shred old documents hosted by D.M. Wealth Sooner Softball Prospect Camp Management and Ball and begins (June 7-11th)—athletes Morse L.L.C.—Hosted by Riteway 9-12th (overnight camp or comShredding Company and while muter) they are doing the work you can enjoy breakfast (9am-12pm)

Monday

Tuesday Final Day Final day to register for second block of summer school classes

Summer School Second block of summer school classes begin

Trivia Night Graduate Trivia Night—Every Monday in June—the Union— free drinks and pizza (5pm)

High School Camp OU Football High school camp begins (June 6-7th)—Everest training center is check-in and practices are at OU intramural fields—10th-12th graders

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Kickball Summer league kickball game—recreational fields— teams register with Fit&Rec

Sno Cones

OU Summer Session has free sno cones every Tuesday—South Oval—(11am)

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STUDENT LIFE

New director joins Student Life DEON OSBORNE Staff Reporter @deonrnb

Instead of easing the challenges of advising one s t u d e n t g ro u p, L a u re n Whiteman did the opposite.

Whiteman added more student organizations to oversee when she became the assistant director of Student Life and the coordinator of African American Student Life on June 1.

Whiteman has been an advisor for black student alliance Unheard since the spring 2015 semester following its formation in December 2014. The alliance was created in response to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and was a prominent voice at OU during the troubles of former campus fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

“I’m one of those people that just kind of goes for things,” Whiteman said.

“Let’s go for it. Let’s see who can help us achieve our goals.”

African American Student Life is made up of the Black Student Association, its umbrella groups and the nine historically African American fraternities and sororities that make up the National Pan-Hellenic Council. Whiteman said w o r k i n g w i t h U n h e a rd helped prepare her for her new roles.

“Balancing the needs of the students with the needs of the university [was a valuable experience],” Whiteman said. She emTORI CASS/THE DAILY phasized the need for “balLauren Whiteman assistant director of student life and an advisor to African American Student ancing emotions with being able to give some reason Life on campus poses on the South Oval for the OU Daily.

that’s well thought out and well-planned.”

Student Life’s mission is “to guide students in realizing academic, professional and personal goals as they progress toward graduation and beyond,” according to its website. The department oversees campus activities, multicultural programs, the Women’s Outreach Center, s c h o l a r s h i p p ro g ra m s, greek life, summer session events like Camp Crimson and dozens of other student organizations.

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“Balancing the needs of the students with the needs of the university [was a valuable experience].”

LAUREN WHITEMAN, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF STUDENT LIFE

Whiteman was a former OU student — she obtained a bachelor’s degree in public relations and a master’s degree in adult and higher education. However, she almost decided to not be a Sooner.

“Had I not come to visit the campus, I would not have come,” Whiteman said. She originally had her eyes set other schools before touring OU, but after seeing the campus, meeting helpful faculty and staff and

learning of scholarship opportunities, she decided to make OU her home.

When Whiteman needed help finding a direction in her graduate studies, Student Life was there to help her, she said. She quickly began to admire the department.

Whiteman said the tasks involved in her occupation change from day to day, but that they include meeting w ith students, staff members and student organizations.

Whiteman and othermembers of Student Life work to be a resource for students who need them, whether it is providing premed students with doctors to shadow or providing other students with internships or scholarships.

Whiteman said she brings a fresh perspective to Student Life because she has participated both as an aide to her fellow students and now as a university resource.

“We can’t necessarily use a lot of our old tactics to address some of these new situations,” Whiteman said.

“Discrimination is not new, but it sometimes looks different in 2015 than it did in 1960.”

Whiteman said Student Life works to build relationships and community.

“I want people to know that Student Life is a great place,” Whiteman said.

“It’s a great department a n d d o e s a l o t o f g re at work for students of all backgrounds.”

Deon Osborne deonwrites@gmail.com

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PLAN FOR CHANGE SHUMATE LAYS BLUEPRINT FOR DIVERSITY

ANDREW CLARK NEWS AND L&A EDITOR @CLARKY_TWEETS Ja b a r S h u m a t e d i d not wait until his official start date to begin his duties as OU’s newest administrator.

While he had previously been working off the clock, Shumate officially began Monday as the OU Vice President for University Community.

He said his preparation has paid off.

“For the past month, I’ve been just visiting and connecting with various groups and individuals on campus,” Shumate said. “But it actually feels good to have [an office] of my own.”

Shumate and others have laid out a blueprint for mandatory diversity training, which was called for with the rise of black student alliance Unheard and after the Sigma Alpha Epsilon scandal. He said all incoming freshmen will be required to take five hours of the training

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and will filter the students freshman year,” Shumate visited with OU President out with Camp Crimson, said, “you will have to David Boren in the aftergateway classes or a dif- have had this five hours noon, he said. Boren said ferent, stand-alone class. of diversity and inclusiv- in a statement how much “We really want stu- ity experience within one he has enjoyed working with Shumate. dents from the start at of those options.”

On Monday, his official “Jabar and I have develOU to understand that diversity and inclusivity starting date, Shumate oped a very close working is at the core of who we said he participated in relationship,” Boren said.

“Even though are as Sooners,” he [did] not Shumate said. officially start Freshmen until June that do not go to 1st, we have Camp Crimson a l re a d y d e and receive the veloped the t r a i n i n g t h e re practice of will receive it talking severif they take a “Students have been a major part al times each gateway course, according to of why I’m here today, and they are w e e k . H i s Shumate. If they really leading the way in what we are performance has been do not take a gateway course, going to do in terms of diversity and outstanding.

His insights c e r t a i n c ou r sinclusivity on this campus.” have been exes that are apJABAR SHUMATE, tremely helpproved by a comOU VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY ful and I bemittee will be lieve that he able to infuse the will be a very diversity curriculum into the course’s cur- meetings with other vice positive force for more riculum. If a student does presidents of OU, includ- inclusiveness in the OU not participate in any ing Catherine Bishop, family.”

Shumate has choof those, they must take vice president of public a stand-alone diversity affairs, and Tripp Hall, sen D’Andre Fisher as vice president for devel- a n a s s i s t a n t t o h e l p training, Shumate said. “ By the end of your opment. Shumate also in his duties as a new

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administrator. Shumate s a i d Fi s h e r h a s b e e n helpful because of the contacts he has across the university.

“He’s been very helpful in helping me connect with ongoing programs and students,” Shumate said. “He’s gotten me up to speed on activities like Camp Crimson and has even partaken in helping me develop the mandatory diversity training.”

Shumate said the future of campus looks bright and that there is much more work to be done.

“Students have been a major part of why I’m here today, and they are really leading the way in what we’re going to do in terms of diversity and inclusivity on this campus,” Shumate said. “So I’m really excited.”

Andrew Clark andrewclarkou@gmail.com

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THE YEAR HE GRADUATED FROM OU

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COURSE

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Water technologies class tests students’ field research skills

Philosophy class analyzes nuances of race in society

Students travel to India for class Discussing race with philosophy SUPRIYA SRIDHAR News Reporter @supriyasridhar

NOOR JAFFREY News Reporter @nooremanj

Three OU students pursuing a new minor called wat e r t e c h n o l o g i e s f o r emerging regions will travel to India to conduct research on water contamination and how to improve its quality in July, just one year after the minor’s creation.

The students, environmental engineering junior Jennifer Salvo, environmental sustainability senior Kyle Mattingly and geography junior Amelia Schwartz, will act as research assistants at the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute in Nagpur, India, from June 18 to July 21 to fulfill a requirement for the minor that focuses on increasing sanitation and access to potable water in developing countries.

Mattingly and Schwartz are enrolled in technical water field methods, a class taught by Jim Chamberlain, co-director for education and outreach of the water technologies for emerging regions center. The class serves as preparation for the work they will do in India.

This is Chamberlain’s fourth year teaching the course, which is offered exclusively during the May intersession. His experience with non-governmental organizations like Engineers Without Borders and Habitat for Humanity give him a valuable perspective in teaching a class on fieldwork.

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Geography junior Amelia Schwartz is one of three students heading to India later this July as a part of the WaTER minor cultural emersion experience.

the students gain that knowledge and those skills. These are the skills that will help bring water and sanitation to people in developing regions and I took that into consideration [when developing the course],” Chamberlain said.

The course takes students out of the classroom and into the field to put their abilities to the test, doing things such as building wells and latrines, surveying land and creating water filters with natural materials.

“A lot of classes you just learn what people do, but we actually get to do it,” Schwartz said. “It’s exactly what you would be doing if you were working with a non-governmental organization out in the field.”

For six and a half hours every day for five days a week in May, the class dug 20-footdeep wells, made brick stoves and erected concrete walls around a composting latrine.

“Every day I’m covered in concrete or I’ve got like sawdust up my nose, but

I love it,” Schwartz said.

No OU faculty will accompany the students on their trip to India, but David Sabatini, the director of the center, has visited the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute and toured the facility and called it an “impressive operation.”

The center is not only sending students abroad this summer. Sabatini and Chamberlain will be conducting research on fluoride concentrations in groundwater in Ethiopia.

“We’re addressing issues in Ethiopia, Pakistan [and] Bangladesh,” Sabatini said.

“Some of the issues we’re responding to are issues here in Oklahoma as well. We try to identify topics that build on our history, build on our strengths, so that we can respond to global challenges while serving people locally as well.”

Noor Jaffrey noor.e.jaffery@ou.edu

Conversations about race have spread to the OU philosophy department, as the class entitled Philosophy and Race will continue to examine race through a critical lens.

Philosophy and Race was introduced by professor Sherri Irvin in the spring of 2010. Irvin decided to create the course in order to make a more inclusive curriculum, wanting students of color to see that the philosophy department has faculty who are interested in thinking about race.

“The reason I developed it is that philosophy and race is a really interesting and vibrant area of philosophy,” Irvin said.

The course covers a number of topics, including what race is, the way race shapes identity, racial injustice and different experiences of race, Irvin said. The course has approximately 40 students and more diversity than

any other philosophy course, Irvin said.

“It’s been pretty well established that people we assign to different races aren’t really distinct populations of people, genetically speaking,” Irvin said. “So the thinking has really shifted toward the idea that race is a socially constructed idea, but the forces of social construction of race are really powerful and so they affect people’s realities in really important ways.”

Black student alliance Unheard’s involvement on campus and the troubles of former campus fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon may shape the student discussion in class, Irvin said. Students will be more aware after last semester’s pervasive racial injustice, which would bring shared knowledge to the class, Irvin said.

“I think that consciousness they bring is infusing a lot of the discussions,” Irvin said of Unheard.

Although philosophers have been discussing justice in society for many centuries, the infusion of race in the discussion has been fairly new, Irvin said.

Philosophy offers a multi-dimensional view of the effects of race in terms

of how it affects different people, said Daniel Tavera, a junior philosophy major.

Racial issues were discussed in his upper-level philosophy class called Justice in Society, which Irvin also taught.

“It affects a lot of things without people realizing it,” Tavera said of race.

The ability of philosophy to analyze the social and historical nuances of race is what makes it a good tool to discuss race, said Isaac Hill, the president of OU Black Student Association. The importance of discussing race rests in the prevention of fostering preconceived notions, Hill said.

“I think philosophy will be a good perspective on it because it will look in detail about how things came to be, how they are now and combine socially and historically the philosophical reasons why,” Hill said.

According to Wayne Riggs, the OU philosophy department chair, the issues that the OU community deal with now include the privilege of people on campus who are not of color and how easy it is for them to ignore what is happening to the marginalized population. Philosophy offers a critical perspective, questioning assumptions and bringing to light views that color the way we see the world, he said.

“Reality is much more complicated than one can read off from just going about one’s daily life in a fairly uncritical way,” Riggs said. “And as soon as you start thinking about anything, you start asking those annoying ‘why’ questions …”

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Professor Sherri Irvin relaxes in an armchair in the Women’s and Gender Studies Library Tuesday morning on June 2. She will teach Philosophy of Race course come fall 2015. This will be her seventh time teaching the course here at OU.

Supriya Sridhar supriyasridhar@ou.edu

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SPORTS POSTSEASON

Big 12 announces future championship sites, OKC to host women’s basketball through 2019, baseball through 2020 Two of the Big 12’s biggest postseason events are returning to Oklahoma City.

The Big 12 Conference announced its 2015-16 conference championship sites Thursday afternoon, and Oklahoma City secured the women’s basketball and baseball conference tournaments for the next few years.

The Big 12 women’s hoops tournament will return to the Chesapeake Energy Arena next season and stay through 2019.

The Big 12 baseball tournament was held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this season, which was the first time that Oklahoma City hadn’t hosted the event since 2004. Oklahoma City’s Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, however, will once again be the home of the Big 12 baseball tournament through 2020.

As for the league’s other postseason events, the Big 12 men’s basketball tournament will stay in Kansas City’s Sprint Center through 2020. Furthermore, Kansas City will host the Big 12’s soccer and wrestling championships next season.

Stillwater, Oklahoma, will host the Big 12’s 2015-16 cross country, tennis and equestrian championships.

The state of Texas will boast five conference championships with swimming and diving (Austin, Texas), gymnastics (Frisco, Texas), women’s golf (San Antonio), men’s golf (Trinity, Texas) and track and field (Fort Worth, Texas) on tab next season.

Lastly, the Big 12 Conference 2015-16 rowing championships will be held in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Joe Buettner, Sports Editor

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Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby speaks at the 2014 Big 12 Media Days on Dallas, Texas .