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Sellout a question for Saturday OU ticket office still working to sell rest of Saturday’s tickets BRADY VARDEMAN

Assistant Sports Editor @BradyVardeman

O k l a h o m a’s f o o t b a l l g a m e a g a i n s t Tu l s a o n Saturday could mark the Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadiums‘s 100th straight sellout, a streak dating back to Bob Stoops’

first season as head coach in 1999.

The only problem? The game hasn’t sold out yet.

Tulsa, like most visiting teams, was allotted 5,000 tickets to be made available for its fans to purchase.

However, Tulsa was unable to sell its entire allotment and sent a number of tickets back to OU to be sold by the Oklahoma ticket office.

OU athletics did not respond with a specific number of remaining unsold

tickets by press time.

“Teams are not traveling nearly as well as they once did,” Oklahoma senior associate athletics director Kenny Mossman said.

OU could have a tough time selling those extra tickets, however. While the university is selling tickets from its official marketplace for SEE TICKETS PAGE 2 MATT WESLING/THE DAILY

The upcoming Oklahoma football game against Tulsa could mark the 100th consecutive home game sellout for the Sooners. Yet, tickets have yet to be sold out four days ahead of the game.

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Cassidy Abbot, a Norman resident, locks her bike onto one of the many Oklahoma-themed bikes racks that line Main Street. The rack shaped like a dream catcher is the result of an initiative headed by the Norman Public Arts Board Bike Rack Project.

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OU faculty member to appear on “Jeopardy!”

University professor chosen for show out of 100,000 people JACOB EYTH

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Kevin Butterfield, the senior associate director of the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage, will appear on an episode of

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“Jeopardy!” on Wednesday Sept. 16.

Butterfield thought trying out for the show would be a good way to test his trivia knowledge. He was chosen to be on the show out of over 100,000 people who competed in an online test.

After performing well in the online competition, he was one of 3,000 contestants invited to audition in various cities around the U.S. After

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succeeding at an audition in Kansas City, Missouri, he was selected to fly out to California to compete on the show.

He said it seemed like they were not necessarily looking for the smartest people rather people who were also going to be loose and comfortable on the set of the show. Butterfield said friends and family were nervous for him when he first

told them that he would be competing on the show. He was surprised to learn that some of them were a little intimidated as well.

“It was a difficult experience being on a studio set with the lights shining, and the questions just keep coming at you,” Butterfield said.

“Your mind is just a step behind the whole time. I think I did alright.”

Butterfield said he was not

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nervous until he got to the set. The “Jeopardy!” staff did its best to calm the contestants’ nerves backstage, but they couldn’t decrease the difficulty of the contest, as Butterfield said it was harder than he expected.

Bu t t e r f i e l d s a i d A l e x Trebek, the host of the show, was fun and interacted with the studio audience.

Butterfield is also a prof e s s o r at O U w h o d o e s

research on the history of the early American republic. Economics junior Geof Ferrer had high praise for Butterfield.

“Butterfield was one of the best professors I’ve had at OU,” Ferrer said.

The show will air at 4 p.m.

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iClicker could potentially be replaced soon OU IT considering online alternative to physical iClicker JESSE POUND News Editor @jesserpound

OU Information Technology will soon take a look at endorsing cloudbased systems to potentially replace iClicker, a move that could conceivably save students money.

Currently, the physical iClicker device is the classroom polling solution officially recommended by OU IT, said Kevin Buck, the digital spaces program lead for OU IT.

There is no specific timeframe for making a switch, Buck said. However, a committee should be brought together “within the next semester” to look at different cloud based solutions, he said.

According to iClicker’s website, an iClicker and six month access to the cloudbas e d app component, Reef, can be bought together at a price of $45. A four year subscription to Reef alone is $31.99, with lower prices available for shorter subscriptions.

OU IT officially recommended the iClicker in order to save students money and make the job of OU IT easier, Buck said. Before the

recommendation, faculty members were using many different systems, forcing students to purchase new equipment for different classes.

“A lot of times, by the time a student had reached their senior year, they’ve now had to buy four different clickers,” Buck said.

Outfitting the classrooms for iClicker is also easier than for some of the other programs, Buck said.

Some of the other systems required extra equipment to be installed in the classroom, which drove up the total cost of the program.

“There isn’t any additional equipment or cost to the students, as far as things

needing to be installed in the classroom,” Buck said.

The single clicker also allows IT to more easily integrate the clicker with D2L, so students can easily register their clickers, and professors can use it for grades, Buck said.

When OU IT made their recommendation, the Reef polling system was not yet available, Buck said. There were other cloud-based systems, but OU IT decided not to look at them because the professors and students were not technologically advanced enough.

Now, that opinion has changed.

“Where we are now today, we’re definitely ready to start looking at (a cloud-based system) as being an option that’s going to be available for campus,” Buck said.

One of the advantages of iClicker is that it helps ke ep students engag e d

“By the time a student had reached their senior year, they’ve now had to buy four different clickers.”

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throughout class, Buck said.

It also allows for instant feedback for instructors, allowing them to alter their lesson plan if students do poorly on a clicker question. “(Instructors) know right then that they can stop, maybe present that information in a different way and help students really understand that concept a little bit better,” Buck said.

Math sophomore Emily Cholette used iClicker for a communication class last year, she said. For that course, she used the clicker every day.

The clicker helped her pay attention more during the

class, and the program was generally helpful but not always, Cholette said.

“Sometimes it was very obviously just for attendance,” Cholette said.

There were a few times the instructor did not know how to use the system, but her clicker never malfunctioned, Cholette said.

Cholette bought a new iClicker for that class, expecting to use it again in future classes, but she has yet to use it since, she said.

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The Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium has a capacity of over 80,000 fans. Saturday’s OU-Tulsa game could mark the 100th straight sellout.

$80 each, fans can find seats for as cheap as $40 through third-party vendors such as StubHub. “We recognize that the secondary market is active,” Mossman said. “It probably makes our job a little more challenging, but it’s a positive for the fans.”

Mossman was confident that OU would sell the remaining tickets. Oklahoma has managed to sell off extra tickets on game week several

Both teams have hosted the other so far, with each game selling out.

Despite the fact that the two schools are located only about two hours apart, the Sooners are struggling to fill the stands for this year’s edition.

“In the case of this game, I’m not sure I have the answer,” Mossman said.

“Perhaps there are crossover fans who support both programs, but that’s just speculation.”

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times since he has been with the university, he said.

Even if Tulsa fails to sell the tickets it kept, the game could still be considered a sellout.

“O ne aspect we can’t forecast is the number of tickets the opposing team will fill from the allotment it retained,” Mossman said.

“There have been games at which the visitors did not use all of their tickets, and we’ve had a hole or two in the crowd, though those tickets are considered ‘sold’ because they’re part of the game contract.”

Saturday’s game will be the final in a three-game series that began in 2013 between Oklahoma and Tulsa.

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OU helps offer volunteer options Non-profit to give financial backing for OU volunteers DAISY CREAGER News Editor @daisycreager

OU Leadership and Vo l u n t e e r i s m a n d t h e United Way of Nor man are partnering this month to launch a program that will connect students with non-profit organizations in Norman, high school students and the community.

The United Way Sooner Ambassadors is designed to help students develop leadership skills, knowledge about community issues and knowledge of local agencies, said Vicky Bumgarner, volunteer coordinator for OU Leadership and Volunteerism.

“They’ll have an opportunity to make an impact on the local community and access to leaders of organizations,” Bumgamer said.

Bumgamer said the program will allow interested students to work on projects

with high school students who volunteer with the United Way, take bus tours of non-profits in Norman and better understand ways to volunteer.

Th e Un i t e d Way O U Campaign, which has not re a c h e d i t s g o a l i n t h e past three years, reached 41 percent of its $210,000 goal just 10 days after starting, Becky Barker, director of OU Leadership and Volunteerism, said. The campaign, which kickedoff Sept. 1, helps to fund the United Way of Norman’s larger goal of $2 million and is an important contributor to the organization, Barker said.

“We’re very excited about the momentum that we have in the campaign right now,” Barker said. “We’re hoping that we can set the new standard for future campaigns.”

Von Allen, president of United Way of Norman, said the ambassador program will combine the resources of the United Way of Norman and OU. “So many students want a career in non-profit, and OU

has such a great tradition of leadership and service and volunteering,” Allen said.

“We can bring 27 of the best non-profits in the area to the OU students, so we’re excited about this.”

“They’ll have an opportunity to make an impact on the local community.”

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Bumgamer said more information about joining the program will be released in the next two weeks, and interested students should join the OU Leadership and Volunteerism email list.

Allen said OU is United Way of Norman’s largest campaign. OU helps United Way by giving them access to faculty and staff members and providing donors with incentives.

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non-profit organizations the United Way helps fund. A new option this year allows donors to give money to a specific organization or just to the United Way. Community leaders will asses money given as general donations and make recommendations to a board of advisers, who will decide which non-profits receive

funds from them, Allen said.

Barker said the OU campaign raises money through T-shirt sales and events, such as an upcoming spelling bee and fundraisers planned by specific colleges throughout the semester.

“We’re very excited about the support we are getting,” Barker said. “We are going to be looking for more ways to

involve students as the campaign progresses and in the future.”

Visit the OU campaign website for more information about fundraising events.

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Decrease in IFC membership SGA to host author of Lower numbers in OU fraternities may be national norm MARY SMITH

News Reporter @marysmitty21

The number of male students rushing for the Interfraternity Council decreased significantly this fall, one semester after the dramatic removal of OU’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon last spring put fraternities in the spotlight.

Whether the drop was due to the backlash of the racist chants that suspended SAE or not, statistics show that this decrease in numbers may be normal.

“Nationally we notice a dip in numbers every three to four years, so that is typical,” said Jillian Tran, the associate director of Student Life. “I don’t know the reason to why the dip occurs nationally every three to four years, but that sometimes can be a common trend.”

Depending on campuses, the dip that is experienced can last four, five, six or even eight years, said Tran.

In 2010, 700 men went through recruitment. In a span of four years, the

number rose to a groundbreaking 1,050 men in 2014.

After that spike, recruitment numbers dropped to 811 this year, Tran said.

However, analysis of the American Freshman Survey on the Washington Post shows that, on a national level, the percentage of entering male students interested in joining a fraternity has increased every year since 2008.

This fall, 11.3 percent of men entering college were interested in joining a fraternity, up from 7.4 percent in 2003, according to the Washington Post.

This data correlates with data from North American Intrafraternity Conference, according to the Washington Post. The North American Intrafraternity Conference includes 16 of 18 OU IFC fraternities, according to the organization’s website.

Following OU’s IFC recruitment increase last year, this year saw an 81 percent retention rate, which is high for OU and on a national level, Tran said.

On a national level, sorority and fraternity participation has never been higher, according to data from the Washington Post.

Despite fraternities making

headlines for scandalous endeavors, the publicity has not necessarily hurt the participation in fraternities all over the country, according to the article.

“It just wasn’t for me,” said Jacob Farber, a freshman who dropped recruitment.

Regardless of the number who dropped recruitment or depledged, 652 out of 811 men still joined a chapter this year, Train said.

“I decided to join a fraternity because it is a good way to get to know guys on a more personal level … They force me to be involved, make good grades and push me to be the me 2.0.,” said John Stagg, a freshman and new member of Alpha Tau Omega.

The SAE incident didn’t affect Stagg’s decision to rush, he said.

Whether or not the drop in pledges was a result of personal issues, typical national trends or the backlash of last year’s SAE scandal, the popularity of fraternities isn’t on the decline relative to a decade ago.

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book on opportunity One Campus, One Book initiative endorsed by Boren

Association’s One Campus, One Book initiative will kick off on Monday, Sept. 21 with a campus-wide examination of Robert Putnam’s book “Our Kids: The American JORGE KRZYZANIAK Dream in Crisis.”

News Reporter The book, “Our Kids: The @JorgeKrzyz American Dream in Crisis,” T h e S t u d e n t assesses the equality of opG o v e r n m e n t portunity among children,

said Cooper Lund, the director of the initiative.

“Putnam outlines the ways in which a child’s socioeconomic status at birth impacts their status as adults, and offers a myriad of ways that this trend can be reversed to truly give all citizens a chance for the American Dream,” Lund said.

Putnam will visit OU for a presentation in January, and participants of initiative will be encouraged to meet him, Lund said.

One Campus, One Book is meant to fortify the OU community with reading and discussion, according the the initiative’s web page.

Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to read and to begin a dialogue about current issues.

The book was chosen by a panel of faculty members because of its relevance to the OU community, and it was endorsed by OU President David Boren, Lund said.

“We picked it really thinking about what we thought was going to be most beneficial to the student body, especially after all of the events of last semester,” Lund said.

“We really think it’s a good book.”

The book has been made PHOTO PROVIDED available for purchase at The SGA’s One Campus, One Book initiative will kick off With Robert Puntam’s book; Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis. The book ou.edu/onebook for $5 highlights how the outcome of a child’s future can be effected by and can be picked up at the Bizzell Memorial Library. the socioeconomic in which they are born into.

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Ranking Stoops’ best victories ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR the Sooners against their

Joe Buettner joebeut@ou.edu @Joe_Buettner

Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops might have been caught up in the moment.

However, he said Saturday’s win against Tennessee might be his favorite of his career.

Stoops has played in countless BCS bowl games, big rivalry clashes and numerous high-profile out-of-conference battles.

Here are some of the best: 10. Nov. 17, 2012: No. 13 Oklahoma 50, West Virginia 49 West Virginia’s first year in the Big 12 began with a bang. However, the Mountaineers fizzled near the middle of their 2012 season. OU’s trip to Morgantown, West Virginia, was nothing less than a shootout, though.

The Mountaineers and Sooners combined for 99 points in a thrilling backand-forth game that ended with Kenny Stills catching Landry Jones’ sixth touchdown pass of the game with 24 seconds left to help OU vanquish WVU. 9. Oct. 11, 2003: No. 1 Oklahoma 65, No. 11 Texas 13 OU’s dominant 2003 season was highlighted by a Red River stomping by

archrivals in Dallas. Texas couldn’t stop the eventual 2003 Heisman Trophy winner Jason White. The former Sooner quarterback lit up Texas’ secondary for 37 firsthalf points. OU never relented and left Dallas with the Sooners fourth straight win over Texas and momentum to carry it through the rest of its regular season schedule.

8. 2007 Big 12 Championship Game: No. 9 Oklahoma 38, No. 1 Missouri 17 First-year starter Sam Bradford faced his biggest test to date with the topranked team in the BCS vying for the same Big 12 title as his squad. Bradford and the Sooners left San Antonio, Texas, however, with OU’s second consecutive Big 12 crown and denied Missouri a BCS National Championship game bid. OU’s defense shut down Heisman hopeful Chase Daniel and receiver Jeremy Maclin. The win lifted OU to a BCS bowl bid in 2007 and foreshadowed a big 2008 title run.

7. Sept. 18, 2011: No. 1 Oklahoma 23, No. 5 Florida State 13 Before Stills played the hero in Morgantown, he had a few other big catches in big games. The topranked Sooners entered a hostile Florida State home environment and faced thoughts of revenge following OU’s win over Florida State in 2010. However, it was Landry Jones and Stills who silenced the Seminoles fans for a second time. The

two top-five teams were tied at 13 with seven minutes left in the fourth quarter. That’s when Jones found Stills for a 37-yard touchdown pass to propel OU past FSU. 6. 2010 Big 12 Championship Game: No. 10 Oklahoma 23, No. 13 Nebraska 20 In the final Big 12 Championship Game of the conference’s history, Oklahoma and Nebraska met one last time before the Huskers headed for the Big Ten. The Sooners went down 17-0 early in the second quarter. However, OU stormed back with a 49yard touchdown pass from Jones to Stills, a field goal by Jimmy Stevens and a rushing touchdown by Jones. OU added a pair of field goals in the second half and came away with the last laugh over their longtime rivals.

5. Nov. 23, 2008: No. 5 Oklahoma 65, No. 2 Texas Tech 21 It was one of the most highly anticipated home games in Norman in some time. Oklahoma met the No. 2 Texas Tech Red Raiders, who beat the Texas Longhorns in Lubbock, Texas, to set up a three-way tie for the 2008 Big 12 South division title. Oklahoma needed a win to stay relevant in the national title conversation. And behind a raucous Oklahoma Memorial Stadium crowd, OU blasted Tech and ran away with a 44-point win as fans “jumped around” in celebration.

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Coach Bob Stoops watches from the sidelines in the Sooners’ game against Akron on Sept. 5 at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Stoops and his team are playing a weekend game against Tulsa.

4. Oct. 28, 2000: No. 3 Oklahoma 31, No. 1 Nebraska 14 It’s hard to pinpoint where Bob Stoops’ career at Oklahoma truly took off.

OU’s late October game against Nebraska has a case for that title, however. The Sooners were coming off years of misery, but they made a special run in 2000 behind Josh Heupel’s arm.

The Sooners went down 14-0 early to Nebraska, but OU surged back and scored 31 unanswered points. Fans stormed the field as OU returned to the national prominence.

3. Sept. 12, 2015: No. 19 Oklahoma 31, No. 23 Tennessee 24 (2OT) When OU and Tennessee met last year, the Sooners pulled away late from the Volunteers. But this time around, OU needed a comeback. Sooner Magic overwhelmed Knoxville,

Tennessee, with first-year starter Baker Mayfield leading OU to a 14-point rally late in the fourth quarter and continuing to extend the game in double overtime. Mayfield’s heroics were topped off by a Zack Sanchez interception in the second overtime period to complete OU’s comeback performance with a big victory in SEC country.

with Bama and left New Orleans with a Sugar Bowl trophy and a heap of momentum heading in to the next year.

1. 2001 Orange Bowl: No. 1 Oklahoma 13, No. 2 Florida State 2 Nothing tops a National Championship win. In his second year, Stoops led OU past Bobby Bowden’s Florid State Seminoles in a slugfest. OU’s defense shut 2. 2014 Sugar Bowl: No. down the Seminoles offense 11 Oklahoma 45, No. 3 led by Heisman Trophy Alabama 31 Not many people gave OU winner Chris Weinke.

While OU has had its fair a chance in this ball game.

Alabama was coming off an share of big Bedlam and Red River Rivalry wins, as emotional loss to Auburn, but the team’s years of dom- well as out-of-conference victories on the road, nothinance seemed to be too ing beats what OU did in a much for OU’s 2013 squad. magical 2000 season that Oklahoma found its hero was capped off by Stoops in Trevor Knight, howevbeating Bowden following er, who played with more precision and play-making a golden era of Florida State football. ability than ever seen from the freshman at the time.

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Defense shuts up criticism

Tulsa welcomes challenge

Sooners defense has early success to start 2015 season

Golden Hurricane to visit OU after winning streak

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All it took was one play for junior Zack Sanchez to give Oklahoma a massive road win in Knoxville, Tennessee.

In Saturday’s second overtime period, Tennessee quarterback Josh Dobbs telegraphed a pass to Marquez North, and Sanchez picked it off to secure Oklahoma’s 31-24 victory.

According to Sanchez, the pick itself was, without question, his career favorite.

“Easy. To end the game like that is obviously a great feeling,” he said. “The Sugar Bowl was nice and sweet, but to be the one to end the game had a lot more meaning to it.”

The route North ran was one Sanchez and the defense saw all week. The cornerback credited the scout team for preparing OU’s secondary for the Vols’ passing game.

The Sooners held off Tennessee’s offense while Baker Mayfield and the offense found its groove, but junior linebacker Dominique Alexander knows the defense didn’t play as well it was supposed to a season ago.

“We got a lot of bad talk last year,” he said. “If we’re not putting it out there on the turf, anybody can say what they want. But we’ve been putting it out there on the turf and that’s why the stories have been changing.”

The players aren’t oblivious to the criticism but they’re working to change their perception.

“We knew what we’re capable of,” Sanchez said.

“Obviously we have to get better every week. That’s something we’ve been stressing; never get too high, never get too low. As high as you can get. You can get low real fast. You can get humbled real quick.”

Sanchez feels the defense is competing more as a whole, and it’s ready to

As the Tulsa Golden Hurricane prepare to visit Norman this weekend, head coach Philip Montgomery is making sure his team is in the right mindset, coming off a 40-21 road win against New Mexico Saturday night.

The Hurricane now turn their attention to O klahoma, a team Montgomery is familiar with.

“Obviously, they’re an unbelievable program,” Montgomery said. “I’ve had the opportunity to go against (coach Stoops) on a number of occasions.

(The staff ) always has their football team very well prepared.”

Montgomery is in his first season at Tulsa after

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Oklahoma cornerback Zack Sanchez celebrates after a defensive stop against the Tennesse Volunteers on Sept. 12.

showcase it.

He even says there’s a new swagger to Oklahoma football.

“I think it started in the offseason,” Sanchez said. “We knew we had a lot of work to do. We put in a lot of work.

When you get talked bad about for nine months, it’s always fun to come out and shut people up as much as you can.”

Senior Charles Tapper likes the position his team is in as an underdog.

He said OU was in the same spot when he was a sophomore, and he’s ready to do the same this season.

“It’s good that we’re slept on,” Tapper said. “We want to be under the radar. We don’t want to be the spotlight team.

As the season goes on, we want to get there. We’re going to start from the bottom and show that Sooner Magic that we have.”

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spending the 2012-14 seasons as Baylor’s offensive coordinator. He’s brought the same high-powered attack with him as his team has amassed the nation’s No. 9 passing attack, averaging 372.5 yards per game.

He knows that it won’t be as easy as it has been through the first two games, where his team has averaged 43 points.

“We’re looking forward to the contest this weekend,” he said. “We know we’ve got our hands full. They’re No. 16 in the country now and could even be higher than that. It’ll be a great test for us, and we’re looking forward to the opportunity.”

When asked on a conference call with the American Athletic Conference how to stop OU’s running backs, he welcomed any advice.

“If you’ve got the answers, send them to me,” he said.

“I’d love to take them.”

He went on to compliment their balance of speed and power as well as the ability for Oklahoma’s offensive

line to move people down.

“We’ll try to slow them down as best we can,” he said.

Tu l sa w i l l b e c o m i ng in after already playing a road game last weekend.

Montgomery understands that back-to-back road games can be difficult.

“Anytime you go on backto-back road games, it’s always tough on your players,” he said. “We’ll have to do a good job of managing what we do practice-wise in order to get them back fresh.”

Montgomer y said his team won’t be able to exploit Oklahoma’s emotional win over Tennessee to its benefit.

“Coach Stoops and his staff will have them back u p a n d re a d y t o p l a y ,” Montgomery said. “I don’t think we’re gonna get anything but their best, and that’s what we want when we come down there.”

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As I walk around campus, I listen to people say that they support Donald Trump because he’s funny, or I hear some say that Ben Carson speaks to them because he means what he says, and he’s not a politician. Yet when I ask what policies interest these potential voters, they have no idea what policies Trump or Carson are running on. So today, let’s clear up that fog and figure out what these two candidates truly have to offer this country.

Donald Trump is for his first time running as a presidential candidate. His campaign has been ridiculously successful. He’s currently leading the recent Iowa polls by 10 percent over Ben Carson, who’s in second. He has trumped (pun intended) many politicians that were predicted to dominate the Republican primaries.

Why has he been so successful? Well, it’s certainly not because of his policies.

Trump’s policy on immigration is extreme, and because of his childish responses when asked about his other policies, it’s becoming harder and harder to take him seriously. Regardless, it’s

important to look at exactly what he brings to the table.

Trump’s platform centers on immigration reform and deporting all illegal immigrants. Unfortunately, taking 11 million workers and shipping them out of the country is a terrible idea, not only morally, but also economically. It goes against the idea that has always been the foundation of this country, and it also gets rid of millions of jobs that we are working so hard to create.

Ronald Reagan is commonly known for being the ideal Republican president, and he gave amnesty to millions of illegal citizens during his presidency — a sharp contrast from Trump’s platform.

Standing in second behind Trump is Carson, a retired brain surgeon. Like Trump, Carson lacks a background in politics, but he is doing well in the polls.

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about how to actually run a government.

While it’s commendable that Carson is willing to show voters that he’s willing to learn, many other candidates would be more qualified to tackle issues like the Iranian nuclear deal or the fight with ISIS. One fact Carson has brought up, in support of himself, is that he is the only candidate who has performed brain surgery. This has brought quite a bit of support his way, as many of his supporters feel that because he is so qualified in the medical field, he must be just as qualified in the political field.

So I encourage you to watch the debate tonight, and watch how each candidate answers questions.

Don’t just watch it to laugh

when Trump inevitably cracks an offensive joke.

Watch to see if his policies — and the policies of the other candidates — are truly what you want for the United States.

After all, Reagan set himself up as the model for future Republicans by demanding that Mikhail Gorbachev tear down his wall. Yet 28 years later, we find our top candidate from the same party demanding that we put one up.

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(Right) An artistic bike rack sits on the side walk on Main Street in Norman. (Left) A bike rack is disguised and in the shape of a buffalo sits on the sidewalk of Main Street in Norman.

Campus Corner to get bike racks Artist-designed racks to give more parking options CHLOE MOORES A&E Reporter @chloemoores13

A bright blue and yellow bison dwells on the corner of Main Street and Webster Avenue in downtown Norman. This colorful structure isn’t just a bison, however. It’s also a bike rack.

Phase three of the Norman Public Arts Board Bike Rack Project will place artist-designed bike racks, just like the bison, on Campus Corner. Jonathan Fo w l e r, v i c e p re s i d e n t of Fowler Auto Holding Group, the sponsor of the bike rack project and member of the Public Arts Board, said the project gives the biking community more infrastructures. “ The project is an attempt to saturate the core of Norman with bike racks,” he said. “Phase three will create a synergy between the bike racks in downtown Norman and Campus Corner.”

Fo w l e r s a i d t h e A r t s Commission in Toledo, Ohio, originally introduced the idea of turning bike

racks into public art.

Larry Walker, the chair of the Norman Public Arts Board, said the bike project is another way the board is using public art to engage the community.

“It isn’t just something that looks cool, but it’s tangible and useful and needed in this town,” said Debby Kaspari, the winner of the first two phases of the bike rack project and artist behind the bison bike rack.

Kaspari, a freelance artist in Norman, graduated with a degree in graphic design and illustration from the California College of the Arts. She has worked on and off in the business for 35 years on projects ranging from fashion illustration to recently illustrating a children’s science book.

However, seeing her bike rack on Main Street “tickles” her, and she said she would like to see many more.

“In a way, it adds a little bit of interest to a project when you know you are going to use it, as opposed to putting it on a wall and looking at it,” she said. “It is actually there for other people. It serves a function.”

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“It isn’t just something that looks cool, but it’s tangible and useful and needed in this town.”

DEBBY KASPARI, WINNER OF THE FIRST TWO PHASES OF THE BIKE RACK PROJECT AND ARTIST BEHIND THE BISON BIKE RACK

partnership between the University of Copenhagen and the bank of Denmark funded a program that invited scholars to stay in Copenhagen from August to December of last year. The program gave the two the opportunity to strictly bike all around Copenhagen for four months. The trip gave Kaspari “a personal connection to this object I’m going to use,” she said.

After the Copenhagen trip, Kaspari made a purchase from Public, a custom bike shop in San Francisco. Kaspari said she loves her pale blue bicycle and often makes bike trips with her husband to the farmers market in Norman and Sprouts for groceries.

“I consider it a fashion statement. The health benefits are incomparable, and it cuts down on your carbon footprint,” she said.

She said she is considering making a submission

for a third phase of the project.

“I don’t want to get too specific because I haven’t sketched anything, but I’m thinking nature or western themes,” she said.

Kaspari encourages artists thinking about submitting an application to “be playful with it. Sit down and brainstorm a bunch of

ideas. On a cocktail napkin, if that works for you.”

Artists who are interested in the bike project must make a submission by Monday, Oct. 12 with the guidelines provided on the Norman Public Arts Board website. The winner of the project will receive a $200 honorarium. Artists do not have to manufacture their own design for the bike rack project; the Norman Public Arts Board takes care of the fabrication and installation of the bike rack project.

You must submit other works that reflect your artistic endeavors and represent

Norman’s cultural aesthetic, but it doesn’t have to be another display of public art, Walker said.

“We have had some students from the Norman public school system turn in some great designs for this project,” Fowler said.

“This is a great opportunity for hobby artists to see a piece of their work and to allow professional artists to build their résumé.”

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The convenience of big T-shirts T-shirt. The first thing is that there used to be somewhat of an unwritten rule to look presentable in class. Thank goodness this has been overruled in recent years, right? Secondly, it looks like you are not wearing pants.

However, there are more pros than cons with this new Alara Stuckey alarastuckey@ou.edu fad attire choice. They’re so @alara_stuckey comfortable. Plus, there are actually tons of people who It’s time to address why so work the big T-shirt, even if many girls at OU wear over- it does look like you aren’t wearing shorts. I am, unsized T-shirts. fortunately, not one of the Since when did peoblessed few who can always ple start to wake up in the rock it, mostly because I’m morning and decide that rolling out of bed, taking a wearing shirts that are two or three sizes too big would shower and running to class with wet hair. This is every be a good school uniform?

Friday morning for me.

Here’s the thing: a lot of However, with the slightgirls are guilty of this — inest amount of effort, like cluding myself, which I am waiting for my hair to dry OK with. and not running, I happily “Honestly, I can’t repull off the big T-shirt. member the last time I “My number one pet didn’t wear a big shirt to class, and I can’t tell if that’s peeve is when people ask if I’m wearing pants,” nursing sad or not,” said Adrienne sophomore Elise Wright Baldasti, a public relations said. “Do you think I would sophomore.

There are a couple things have the audacity to walk out of my house without wrong with the oversized

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SHIREEN BELL, POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY JUNIOR

pants on?”

“I kind of dig the no-pants look,” finance sophomore Ashley Truong said.

Whether you like the look or not, here’s the best thing about big T-shirts: they are always there for you. You can count on them every day of the week — especially during your roughest mornings, when you may have overslept and didn’t have time to shower, because in the end, the basic, oversized T-shirt will be something that will always have your back.

“If it weren’t for my big T-shirts, I would be spending half of my college career trying to decide what to wear,” said Shireen Bell, a political science and sociology junior.

Plus, T-shirts are a great

way to represent the organizations you participate in, the places you’ve visited or other things you want to show off. Doesn’t that count for a great conversation starter?

Let’s face it, you should try to live up your college years by wearing a big T-shirt because when you get to the real world, you will be shunned if you come to work in a T-shirt that goes down to your knees. So stop apologizing for your giant shirt and work the no-shorts look while you can.

Alara Stuckey is a sophomore advertising major.

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