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New dance director on pointe Michael Bearden reflects on past, looks forward to OU KENDRA MANN @kendra_mann7

In Searcy, Arkansas — a small town of approximately 15,000 people at the time — an 11-year-old soccer player attempted ballet for the first time. After watching his sister’s ballet class, he muttered to himself, “That’s easy.” The ballet instructor overheard his remark and challenged him to prove how easy it was.

Michael Bearden, now the director of the OU School of Dance, stood up and quickly realized dancing was more difficult than he imagined.

“I’ve always been the type of person who, if there is this challenge in something that is really interesting, it makes me want to try to conquer it,” Bearden said. “Ballet was that challenge for me.”

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Bearden, who officially started July 15, will oversee the the OU School of Dance as director. He is only the third person to hold the position since the school was established in 1998 and understands the significance of this fact.

“I’ve always heard that OU’s School of Dance had a great reputation,” he said. “I heard about it as a student.

I’ve taught here as a guest in the past, and I’ve just been really impressed by the faculty and the students, and the staff, and the school here.

It’s a really high quality, high caliber school of dance.”

This isn’t Bearden’s first experience with OU. In his undergraduate years, Bearden auditioned for the

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Michael Bearden, director for OU’s School of Dance, poses for a photograph July 13. Bearden began working as the school’s director in July.

OU School of Dance, but ultimately chose the University of Utah instead.

Former dance director and current dean, Mary Margaret Holt, said Bearden’s wealth of knowledge and experience is in part why he was hired, but those weren’t the only reasons.

“We were also impressed by his thoughtful nature, sensitivity regarding difficult topics and sense of

commitment to his responsibilities,” Mary Margaret Holt said. “The arts are constantly evolving and, as a member of the next generation of dance artists, I am certain Michael will guide the School of Dance into the future with great skill and expertise. I am absolutely certain he will experience great success as director of the School of Dance and I look forward to celebrating that success moving

forward.”

The culture of dance at OU began in 1961 when two Russian principal dancers — Miguel Terekhov and Yvonne Chouteau — taught dance lessons to students, according to the dance school’s website.

The lessons were so successful that Terekhov and Chouteau were invited back, and developed the programs and curriculum for the very

school here today, according to the website.

Now, a program started by principal dancers will be led by yet another principal dancer in Bearden. The little boy who loved challenges is facing his biggest challenge yet.

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From his first pirouette to his first day as artistic director for Ballet Arkansas,

Bearden hasn’t stopped testing himself, which would explain how he’s made it to the professional level he’s at today.

Bearden was a professional dancer for 14 years, earning the highest rank — principal dancer — at Ballet West. His experience then led him to an unpaid position as an artistic advisor for Ballet Arkansas and a faculty professor position at his alma mater, the University of Utah.

As Ballet Arkansas grew, Bearden was offered a parttime paid position as artistic director, an unheard of proposition since most artistic directors are required to live in the same city as the company and dancers, Bearden said. He spent his time driving back and forth between Utah and Arkansas.

Bearden’s past experiences have proven he’s capable of juggling multiple roles and still succeeding, while also facing criticism.

As a young male dancer, Bearden was criticized, but said he never let it deter him.

“I didn’t try to hide it,” he said. “Anyone who poked fun at me, I didn’t let it get to me.

I used my work ethic to speak for itself instead of worrying about what they said about me dancing.”

Bearden will face a different kind of criticism at OU because of the rare position he’s in, but as always, he’s up for the challenge.

“I think what the faculty, staff and students have done here is amazing, and I’m really excited to serve their efforts to grow even more in the future,” Bearden said.

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Norman ranked fifth best city in nation for first-time homebuyers

OU parking permits officially on sale, prices continue to climb

Norman was listed as the fifth best city for first-time homebuyers on WalletHub’s 2017 Best and Worst list Monday morning.

The analysis considered 300 cities of various sizes and three major aspects: affordability, real-estate market and quality of life.

All three aspects were then broken down and evaluated by 23 metrics such as house affordability, cost of living, housing-market health, violent-crime rate and job market.

Each metric was given a numerical point value and weighted against the other metrics based on perceived importance to homebuyers. Rankings were assigned to the cities based on the number of points received.

Raleigh, North Carolina topped the list, but Oklahoma City, Broken Arrow and Tulsa were named at spots 43, 47 and 113, respectively.

WalletHub also broke down the list further by giving separate rankings for cities by size.

Large cities were considered to have 300,000 residents or more, midsize cities have 150,000 to 300,000 residents and small cities have fewer than 150,000 residents.

Compared to other large cities, Oklahoma City comes in at No. 9 and Tulsa was named No. 24.

Norman and Broken Arrow were listed as No. 3 and No. 21 on the small cities list.

OU parking permits for the 2017-2018 academic year became available for purchase on July 17, but students and faculty alike should expect to see a price increase.

Permits for housing, priority housing, Sooner housing, commuters and commuter law students increased from $249 in 2016 to $261 in 2017. Faculty passes also increased from $282 last year to $296 for the upcoming year.

The increases, an average of $18 per year, began in 2014 when permit prices jumped from $195 to $215.

There hadn’t been a permit increase in nine years, but they have consistently risen. Parking pass increases are part of a five-year plan designed to help pay for construction of the parking garages on campus.

Parking became a topic of discussion this summer after Parking Services told The Daily that students could not park for free at the Lloyd Noble Center and permits would cost $100.

Students took to social media to express their thoughts on the policy. Many were upset the policy would take away the only free lot on campus and specifically hurt low-income students.

President David Boren rejected the proposed policy the next day via an announcement on Twitter.

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Oklahoma ranked third worst state in nation based on multiple categories concerning quality of life

The Quality of Life category in the annual America’s Top States for Business study ranks all 50 states on overall livability based on metrics, including crime rate, attractions, air quality, health and health care and legal protections against discrimination, CNBC reports.

Quality of Life is worth a possible 300 out of 2,500 total points in the study, based on the Top States methodology and sources.

3. Oklahoma Heavy tobacco use — yes, Okies are smoky — contributes to one of the highest rates of premature death in the nation. The state has one of the worst infant mortality rates, and reported mental health issues are widespread. Despite that, Oklahoma ranks in the bottom five states for health insurance coverage. Attractions in this state are relatively few, leaving this state with a host of problems to address sooner rather than later.

2. Louisiana Heavenly beignets, deep-fried with a generous topping of powdered sugar. An oyster po’ boy dressed with lots of mayo. Crawfish étouffée with buttery sauce, and rich bananas Foster for dessert. Okay, those are some of the good things about Louisiana’s quality of life. But they also explain why this is America’s fattest state. It is also among the most dangerous, with the nation’s highest murder rate. New Orleans alone logged 175 murders last year, the most deadly since 2012.

1. Alabama Sweet home? Not if you are over 50, a minority, gay or transgender and you are concerned about discrimination. Alabama is one of only five states with no statewide legal protections for those groups, making it one of America’s least inclusive states. It is also one of America’s least healthy states, with the nation’s third-highest rate of premature deaths. On a positive note, the skies are blue and the governor’s true.

Staff Reports Read the full list at CNBC.

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The Asp parking garage near Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

First case of West Nile confirmed in Cleveland County, residents encouraged to take extra precaution

The first case of the West Nile virus was confirmed in Cleveland County on Tuesday.

The victim was not sent to the hospital, but medical professionals are encouraging people to take precautionary measures.

“People at the greatest risk of getting West Nile are people who travel and who live in areas that the virus has been known to occur which now, unfortunately, is Oklahoma,” said Cody McDonell, Oklahoma State Department of Health spokesperson, in a phone interview with The Daily.

Symptoms are not always noticeable. Some may contract West Nile Fever, which lasts between two and 10 days. Other symptoms include headaches, rashes, vomiting, dizziness and muscle weakness. In the more extreme cases, meningitis, paralysis, or encephalitis may occur.

The best way to prevent contracting the virus is for people to mosquito-proof themselves and their homes. This means replacing window screens to prevent mosquitos from entering homes, and wearing long sleeves when possible to reduce the area where a mosquito can bite, McDonell said.

Mowing lawns, unclogging drains, replacing pet water and emptying water-filled items help destroy mosquito habitats and keep mosquitos from breeding.

Mosquitos are most likely to bite during dusk and dawn, so wearing repellent with DEET on exposed skin and clothes when outside can prevent such viruses, McDonell said.

There were approximately 89 cases total in 2015 and 35 in 2016, McDonell said.

Outbreaks of West Nile typically occur around July, when the weather tends to be hot and dry.

McDonell said there are currently no treatments or vaccines for West Nile.

The Oklahoma State Department of Health recommends going straight to the doctor if someone is concerned about a bite. For more information on West Nile virus, visit the department’s website.

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LINCOLN RILEY’S FIRST APPEARANCE AS HEAD COACH New coach makes debut at Big 12 Media Days GEORGE STOIA • @GEORGESTOIA

FRISCO, Texas — For more than 18 years, the face and voice of Oklahoma’s football team has been one man, and one man only — Bob Stoops. But on July 17, at the 2017 Big 12 Media Days, a new face was sitting at the podium in front of the conference logo next to the crimson and cream helmets.

Wearing a black suit with a red and gray tie, Lincoln Riley sat before the national media — prepared to answer their questions for the first time as Oklahoma’s new head football coach.

“It’s been probably best described as a whirlwind since June the 7th,” Riley said in his opening statement. “(It’s) still a little bit of a dream for me.”

Riley had officially entered the spotlight — the spotlight of being the commander in chief at one of the most successful college football programs in the country.

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Now head coach Lincoln Riley speaks with quarterbacks during practice March 8, 2016.

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When Stoops announced his decision to step away from the game on June 7, he shocked the college football world. But what wasn’t a shock was who OU decided to replace

the legendary coach with.

They went with their savvy 3 3 - y e a r- o l d o f f e n s i v e coordinator.

“Coach Riley is the perfect man for the job,” quarterback Baker Mayfield said confidently after Riley was named head coach.

“He’s a great guy, great family man, and he knows what he’s doing when it comes to football.”

Riley’s quick rise through the coaching ranks is a rarity in college football.

Starting his career as a student assistant at Texas Tech, and 13 years later becoming the head coach at a top-tier program — it’s one of the fastest ascents in the history of college football.

But with that rise comes fame, and not everyone is ready for that type of fame so quickly in their careers.

Coaches Lane Kiffin and Steve Sarkisian are perfect examples of young coaches that fell victim to the quick rise.

Kiffin, like R ile y, b ecame a head coach at a major program at age 33 and attempted to replace coaching legends at both Tennessee and USC. He failed at both, and is most recently known for clashing w ith Alabama head

coach Nick Saban.

Sarkisian, hired as Washington’s head coach at age 34, also had a tough time adjusting to the fame. He left Washington after four mediocre seasons, leaving for USC where he was eventually fired for coaching while intoxicated.

This presents the question, can Riley handle the pressure?

He certainly thinks he can. In a recent Player’s T r i b u n e a r t i c l e na m e d “Ready,” Riley wrote “I was hired here because I’m ready. Coach Stoops knew I was ready.”

From the beginning of his career, Riley has been working under some of the most respected football minds in the country. Coaches such as Mike Leach, Ruffin McNeill and S t o o p s h av e m e n t o re d Riley, giving him knowledge and experience many young coaches don’t receive. “ I l e a r n e d a l o t f ro m (Stoops),” Riley said. “He always had a great sense for the pulse of the team.

He was very, very good to me in the last several years.

Helped me to feel as prepared as I think you could

in this position.”

Riley has been groomed for the spotlight, prepped for this moment and is surrounded by players and coaches who believe in him.

“This is a perfect move for us, and the guys, they w a n t t o p l ay f o r c o a c h Riley,” Mayfield said. “He comes from a small town, knows how to work hard, knows how to talk to people and make his talents and his characteristics into changing other people’s lives. He’s going to make all the right decisions and he’s going to continue to impact us in a positive way.”

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Now with Big 12 Media Days under his belt, Riley seems comfortable in his new role. With the season less than seven weeks away, his time in the spotlight will only continue to grow. But even as his popularity rises, his friends and family will always see him as just a “great guy.”

“We have good friends that know him for Lincoln.

He’s not Lincoln the coach, he’s just Lincoln. He’s just a great guy,” Riley’s wife C a i t l i n s a i d . “ We h av e some good friends from

way back or from Norman that love us for what we are and not for the job title.”

Riley embraces the pressure that comes with being the head coach at Oklahoma.

“If you don’t enjoy that sense of pressure and those e x p e c t a t i o n s, t h e n i t ’s probably not the place for you,” Riley said. “There’s pressure and expectations, but I also see opportunity — opportunity to continue to win championships, to chase national championships and to do it in the right way.”

So as Riley left the frames of the cameras and walked o f f t h e s t a g e i n F r i s c o, the new face and voice of Oklahoma football had officially been born — and he’s ready for the spotlight.

“Of course the expectations are there to win, l i k e t h e y a l w ay s a re a t O k l a h o m a . B u t t h a t ’s something I enjoy, that’s something our staff enjoys, our players. That’s why you come to play and coach at Oklahoma — to win and to win big.”

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“If you don’t enjoy that sense of pressure and those expectations, then it’s probably not the place for you.”

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Big 12 welcomes new head coaches Lincoln Riley, Tom Herman bring new youth to conference GEORGE STOIA @GeorgeStoia

FRISCO, Texas — At Big 12 Media Days, it was obvious to see there were two podiums that had more cameras around them than the others.

Above those podiums, the names “Lincoln Riley” and “Tom Herman” were written — the new head coaches at Oklahoma and Texas.

On Nov. 26, Texas announced the hiring of Herman. Seven months later, on June 7, Riley was named Bob Stoops’ replacement at Oklahoma. In 194 days, the entire landscape of the Big 12 had changed. Two new, young coaches were now in command of the two largest and successful programs in the conference.

“I think this is a heck of a conference,” Herman said. “I think this is a conference that has some really good teams in it. We’ve got some good young coaches. We’ve got a lot of energy right now.”

For years, OU and Texas

have run the Big 12. Barry all of us do, to recruit better Switzer, Darrell Royal, Mack players, play better on the Brown and Stoops were the field, and have responsibility kings of the conference for to our league and our people decades. This will be the first that we do well.” time in 70 years that both Snyder has been a part of Oklahoma the cona n d Te x a s ference will have new “Just be themselves, f o r o v e r head coaches and be who they are, 2 5 y e a r s , roaming the they’ve had ample and is a livsidelines. legend amount of success ing But is it in college R i l e y a n d and that’ll continue.” f o o t b a l l .

H e r m a n ’s He believes BILL SNYDER, duty to make Riley and KANSAS STATE COACH sure the Big 12 Herman has success? will help the Herman is conference only worried about Texas. and sustain the success their “Is it my job to take care of programs are used to. the Big 12? No. It’s none of “I think both of them are our jobs to take care of the Big good young people, and both 12,” Herman said. of them I think will do quite On the other side, Riley has well,” Snyder said. “They’ve big shoes to fill. Stoops was had successes doing what an ambassador for the league they’ve done, where they’ve along with TCU coach Gary done them and I don’t think Patterson and Kansas State that will be any different. Just coach Bill Snyder. Patterson be themselves, and be who thinks it has to be a com- they are, they’ve had ample bined effort by the coaches to amount of success and that’ll elevate the Big 12. continue.”

“I’m excited about being With two new coaches at part of the Big 12, and I think the helm of Oklahoma and the Big 12 is a great league,” Texas, the Big 12 will have a Patterson said. “As coach- much different look in the es, we have a responsibility, 2017-18 season, but Riley

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University of Texas head football coach Tom Herman speaks at the Big 12 Media Days in Frisco, Texas, July 18.

knows if Oklahoma continues to win, the Big 12 will benefit.

“We’ve just in the last two years been in the top five and been in the playoff once, and

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OU head football coach Lincoln Riley talks for an interview during the Big 12 Media Days at ‘The Star’ in Frisco, Texas, July 17.

honestly, we’re one game great for Oklahoma and great away nonconference-wise for the Big 12.” from almost being in it again last year,” Riley said. “So I George Stoia think, if we continue to do a george.s.stoia-1@ou.edu good job on our part, it will be

Big 12 coaches reflect on Bob Stoops’ influence

Former head coach’s absence noticed at anuual media days GEORGE STOIA @GeorgeStoia

For the first time in Big 12 Media Days history, former Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops was absent, and coaches from around the league could feel it.

Bob Stoops has been one of the conference’s premier coaches over the past 18 years. Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby recognized Stoops’ legendary career in his opening statements.

“He was a tremendous influence on his staff, on his players, on his university over a very long period of time, and he had tremendous football teams and tremendous football players,”

Bowlsby said.

During his career at Oklahoma, Stoops dominated the Big 12, winning 10 conference titles.

“It’s hard to lose a guy, number one, what he stood for, not just for Oklahoma, but for the Big 12 obviously,” TCU coach Gary Patterson said. “I considered him a friend the years now that I’ve played in the Big 12.

It’s hard when you lose

somebody that you stood across the field from that you had respect for.”

Coaches look up to him, and hope to one day accomplish half the things Stoops did.

“I think how he built his own football program and the success they had, it’s a staple, and it’s a beacon that I think we all live — especially us young coaches, hope to be able to have

a career like what Coach Stoops was able to do at O k l a h o ma,” Iow a St at e coach Matt Campbell said.

Stoops left OU in the hands of Lincoln Riley, who isn’t letting the high praise he’s received from other coaches go to his head.

“I don’t have an ego in this, and say, well, I’ve got to change things just because I’m the head coach, and I don’t want to seem like I’m

just trying to be Bob Stoops 2.0 or whatever you want to call it,” Riley said. “I want to use the things I think are right, and if there’s a few things I think fit my personality better or can help us as a team, then I’m certainly not going to hesitate to do those either.”

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