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Fraternities get new start at Ou Sigma Nu comes back to campus; Alpha Tao Omega finds a home BROOKE HANKINSON Campus Reporter
An OU fraternity returns to campus this semester after three years of absence. S i g m a Nu i s b a c k o n campus this semester after a voluntary leave of absence to build up financial and alumni support, said Spencer Montgomery, the expansion and recruitment
consultant for Sigma Nu. The chapter was small, so alumni decided to pull the charter — which temporarily suspended activity — so they could network with other alumni and bring the group back to campus with more funding and support, he said. Montgomery, a Sigma Nu alumnus from the
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University of South Florida, travels around the country helping fraternities looking to start up again, recruit and rebuild their leadership. Last year, he helped 27 other chapters around the nation with recruitment, he said. The OU chapter is active again this year and under new leadership. The fraternity has recruited 44 members so far and is continuing to recruit over the next two weeks, he said. Its goal is to
have 60 new members by next semester. Members and leadership aren’t the only new features for this fraternity. The construction of a new fraternity house will be underway this spring. The previous house was very old, Montgomery said, so the chapter is building a brand new house located on 1300 College Ave. The construction for the new house is expected to be completed in early summer 2014, Montgomery said.
Members of Sigma Nu plan on moving into the house in August of 2014. This project will cost approximately $5 million to $6 million. Part of the funds for the project came from alumni donations; the rest came from selling of half of the property lot to Alpha Tau Omega, he said. The house will be three stories and have enough room for 46 members. Alpha Tau Omega also is See FRATERNITIES PaGe 3
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Library hosts annual event OU celebrates 119th year of Collection JARRETT LANGFORD Campus Reporter
Students and faculty celebrated the 119th anniversary of OU’s historical collection of government documents Monday. In honor of Constitution Day, the Bizzell Memorial L i b ra r y c e l e b rat e d t h e 119th anniversary of the founding of its Government Documents Collection with an open house and series of tours. The library began celebrating the anniversary of the collection three years ago when librarian Jeffery Wilhite happened to discover the founding date. “I didn’t even find the exact date of the founding of the collection until I saw it in a book not 30 feet from my desk three years ago,” Wilhite said. The collection was founded in August of 1893 by Dennis T. Flynn, O k l a h o m a Te r r i t o r i a l Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, according to the press release. Since then, the library has hosted an annual event commemorating the anniversary of the founding of the collection, Wilhite said. Student participation has increased slowly since the first celebration two years ago, he said. No students attended the first event, largely because the event was held in August before students See DOCUMENTS PaGe XX
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Web journalist rob Curley holds a smartphone while discussing the changing face of media during his keynote speech in Oklahoma memorial union’s meacham Auditorium on monday. Curley, an editor with the Orange County register, encouraged attendees to rethink their conceptions of media and to tailor news content to the interests of readers.
Web guru speaks about media evolution Nearly 100 attend Rob Curley’s speech, kicking off OU Student Media’s semester-long self-study LINDSEY RUTA
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For newspapers to connect with their readers they must learn to be playful and passionate, to be personal and practical and they must have porn — but not the naughty kind, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist told students Monday night. Rob Curley, metro editor of the Orange County Register, discussed media in a digital age as part of the kick-off event for Student Media’s semester-long study of campus media. Curley told the audience they needed to be concerned less with
the platform their news was delivered on — print versus digital — and more with the basic principle of how to be essential. Nearly 100 people filled the Meacham Auditorium to hear the Kansas-native speak. Curley has worked for papers such as the Lawrence Journal Record, the Las Vegas Sun and the Washington Post. He told the audience one of the main problems with the newspaper industry is that it is not good at giving its readers the serendipitous guide information. Curley likened the problem with
the newspaper industry to the movie “Moneyball.” “Maybe we need to do that,” he said. “Maybe we’re looking at all the wrong statistics, maybe we’re judging ourselves the wrong way... If you look at things differently you can solve problems.” Journalists need to think about how they can best serve their audience, how to give them what they want, Curley said. “There’s a big difference between knowing what matters [to your audience] and thinking you know what matters,” he said. Italian exchange student Cosimo Vestito said he was very impressed with Curley’s speech. Vestito, a mass
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Drama school’s website hacked Show times, dates replaced with blocks of text LINDSEY RUTA
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O n e s c h o o l ’s w e b site has been restored after being hacked this weekend. A hacker identifying as “Blackeyes” gained unauthorized control of the Peggy Dow Helmerich School of Drama’s website and blocked information related to the upcoming show “Julius Caesar,” as well as a later show, “In the Next Room” (or ‘The Vibrator Play’). Information about show times and dates, as well as lists of production staff, were replaced by large blocks of text that repeatedly stated, “You have be en hacke d by Blackeyes.” This is not the first time the school’s website has been hacked, said Tom Orr, director of the school. The school has had issues with the same hacker twice before during the last several years, he said. O U ’s I n f o r m a t i o n Technology does not actually host or manage the school’s website, said Becky Grant, the OU IT communications manager. The IT department worked with the school’s webmaster, professor Chris Sadler, and the site host to fix the issue, she said. The school hosts its website through a third party based in New York because the OU network does not have the bandwidth to support the site — which holds numerous See HACKED PaGe 2
Kanye West, G.O.O.D. Music not so good album drops L&A: Review of West’s collaboration directly addresses him about poor content. (Page 6)
OU Votes may be most important UOSA campaign Opinion: it is vital that students encourage each other to participate in this year’s election — perhaps more vital than ever before. (Page 4)
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Alpha Phi Omega, Red Cross host blood drive Heisman-themed drive was held in Cate Center lounge
a blood drive on campus Monday. Alpha Phi Omega — a co-ed honors fraternity — partnered with the Norman chapter of the American Red LINDSEY RUTA Cross to host a HeismanCampus Reporter themed blood drive in the A student organization Cate Center lounge. partnered with a local nonA dozen students waited profit organization to host in the lounge at 1:30 p.m.
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— the wait time was 45 minutes. Rebecca Hooper, international and area studies sophomore and event volunteer, said that wait was about average throughout the day, aside from a slow stint in the morning. Hooper helped check in students who came to donate blood.
Students who participated were given a Heismanthemed shirt as part of the Red Cross’ ongoing theme this semester, said Amanda Tran, chemical biology sciences sophomore. Red Cross coordinators reached out to Alpha Phi Omega about the partnership, Tran, the organization’s
volunteer coordinator for the event, said. The group has partnered with the Red Cross in the past, she said. Tran said she thought their location helped encourage student participation. Last semester, the two organizations hosted a drive in the See DONATION PaGe 2
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