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MIKE BRESTOVANSKY Campus Reporter@BrestovanskyM

An OU research team was awarded a four-year $1.9 million grant by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct research one of the most debilitat-ing workplace afflictions in the nation: contact dermatitis.

The Health Sciences Center team is looking at contact dermatitis, specifically irritant contact dermatitis, accord-ing to the press release.

BLAYKLEE BUCHANANManaging Editor@blayklee

It’s like the book “Who Moved My Cheese.” That’s what Justin Stolarik said about change.

You can take a few differ-ent routes when your cheese gets moved:

1.) My cheese moved, so I need to go find it and get it back

2.) My cheese moved; I’m going to wait around until it

comes back3.) The cheese moved;

I’m going to go seek better cheese.

And that’s what the direc-tor of Athletic Bands is doing — seeking better cheese.

S t o l a r i k c a m e t o O U with the vision to create a marching band that puts on a show. He made some changes in his first year, like the band’s marching style, which is now a tra-ditional high step. He said the changes were necessary for what he wants to em-phasize to the Pride and to

fans: showmanship, his bet-ter cheese for OU Athletic Bands.

“ It i s m a rc h i n g b a n d — it’s not walking band. I like there to be showman-ship from a physical stand-point, from musical selec-tion standpoint, something the crowd sees. When they look at the field, they can see the lines on the field and say, ‘Whoa … that looks like something,’” Stolarik said.

He came from University of Wisconsin–Madison,

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Irvin Wagner, trombone professor, poses for a photo in his office next to a few of his trombones. Wagner will be giving a talk Jan. 24 at TEDxOU.

KATE BERGUMCampus Reporter@kateclaire_b

This is the second in a se-ries of Q&A’s leading up to OU’s third annual TEDxOU event, which will take place on Jan. 24 in Oklahoma Memorial Union. This Q&A features OU trombone pro-fessor Irvin Wagner, who will speak with the TEDx audi-ence about the function of music in life while showing off his skills on the trombone and a few everyday items that he turns into instruments.

Q: What is your TEDxOU talk about?

A: I’m going to talk about music and how it plays a role in everyone’s life, whether they know it or not. I’ll also talk about the trombone and how it’s the oldest instrument we have in bands and orchestras. In other words, an instrument made of metal and hav-ing a slide on it, and it goes back almost a thousand years. None of the other

instruments have that. They’ve all had some sort of evolutionary process, but not exactly the same as the trombone … I’m going to probably, in an informal way, talk about how to play the trombone a little bit. I usually take a garden hose with me and blow into it like I play my trombone and play a tune.

And the whole thing start-ed, why they asked me, is because I also play another instrument, which are the spoons, like you eat with, and I crack them together like a rhythm …

Q: How did you get in-volved with the TEDxOU event?

A: I was asked by the peo-ple who organized the TED program if I would do my spoons and all that because I think there was somebody in that office who knows my spoon playing and my act, so that’s how it came about. And then the head of it came and interviewed me, so I told him some of the things I do with the trombone, and more of the history and all that, so I think he decided

trombone with me. I al-ways think music is a great communicator around the world and with every kind of person, across nationali-ties and cultures and every-thing. Music is an interna-tional and intercultural lan-guage, so I try to communi-cate that warmth to all the people who will be listening to me, both with my words and by demonstrating the playing too.

Q: Have you ever attended a TEDxOU event?

A: No, this will be my first experience with the TED ex-perience. I’m looking for-ward to it a lot.

Q: What is the main thing you hope audience members take away from your talk?

A: That they’d be inspired by the value of music in their lives. For example, I may mention this: Even in the education field, there’s all sorts of studies out about how listening to music and musical training increas-es the power of the brain by manifold. I always think it’s interesting at OU be-cause President Boren is so

involved in National Merits, and a very large percentage of the National Merits all have musical backgrounds and even continue in musi-cal things. So it’s a very im-portant part of the educa-tional process …

In a practical sense, now-adays a lot of public schools are getting rid of musical programs and stuff, be-cause they’re trying to cut back and stress math and science. And I think that’s really a big mistake because every young person should be doing more with music, because it helps with the development of their minds and makes their math and science skills a lot better.

Q: The theme for this year’s TEDxOU talk is “Hello World.” How will your pre-sentation relate to this topic?

A: Well, I guess that would be easy to tie mine into. “Hello world!” It’s music. It’s been here forever. It’s here to stay, and it’s a part of your life. “Hello World” is great!

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Professor uses spoons, garden hose to play music

that would be a good way to go to put that together. But I think it’s really the spoons that they want!

Q: Do you have any expe-rience giving presentations similar to the TEDxOU talks?

A: Well, I’ve never done

the TED program before, but I’ve done lots and lots of speeches and talks to people. I always try, just like I do with my music, to engross them in the whole process with my speaking about it, doing and demon-strating. So I’ll have my

Wagner will speak at TEDxOU event

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Contact dermatitis is a condition where the skin be-comes inflamed upon contact with an irritant, usually a caustic chemical. The inflammation is often painful and can require medical attention, according to the press release.

Contact dermatitis is responsible for millions of dollars in health care costs and lost productivity every year, lead research Randy Gallucci said.

According to CDC statistics, contact dermatitis makes up approximately 90 to 95 percent of all occupational skin diseases. Contact dermatitis causes the second-greatest losses in annual productivity, Gallucci said.

“Every occupation is exposed to [contact dermatitis],” Gallucci said. “Workers are exposed to chemicals all the

time, so it is really a lot more prevalent than people think.”Gallucci, an associate professor of pharmacology and

toxicology, is working with four other professors from the Department of Pharmaceutical Studies and a clinician from the Department of Dermatology.

This team will work with the CDC’s National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and will submit their re-sults after four years for further research.

The team hopes the grant will allow them to learn more about the genetic triggers of the condition, which will, ide-ally, lead to improved treatment procedures, Gallucci said.

Current treatments for contact dermatitis are ineffective

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Justin Stolarik directs the Pride of Oklahoma during a rehearsal last September. The fall semester of 2013 was Stolarik’s first semester as director of the Pride.

where he worked as as-sistant director of bands with Mike Leckrone, di-rector of the Marching Ba nd and dire ctor of Bands, and Scott Teeple, conductor of the Wind Ensemble and Concert Band. Stolarik said he received a lot of training from both men, and when the OU job came open, they encouraged him to apply.

The call came a few weeks after Stolarik’s interview in February, when he was in a meeting with the UW band staff at a restaurant working on their big spring show.

“ I g o t a c a l l f r o m Norman, and Mike knew that I was going to be ex-pecting a yes or no call soon, and so I looked at my phone, and I looked up at him, and I smiled, a n d h e s m i l e d , a n d I said, ‘I have to take this,’” Stolarik said.

It was a yes call, and with that, Stolarik fin-ished his work at UW and moved to Norman.

B u t S t o l a r i k b e g a n his music career much earlier than that. At age six, his parents enrolled him in piano lessons. He started band in fourth grade at his school in a small beach community, East Quogue, on the east side of Long Island, N.Y., where he grew up.

There, Stolarik focused on percussion under a g o o d bu t d e ma n d i ng director.

“It was pretty intense for elementary school band,” he said.

The more serious el-ementary school band greatly contrasted with his next band experience in middle school. Stolarik was bussed five towns away for school with a band that only had two half-hour rehearsals per week.

Luckily, he moved with his parents to Orlando during the summer after seventh grade.

“Had I not done that and stayed in New York, I probably wouldn’t have majored in music in col-lege. The high school I would have gone to (in New York) didn’t even have a marching band,” Stolarik said.

He became involved in band again because he liked it and because it was something to get him integrated in his new school.

During high school, S t o l a r i k w a s a d r u m major of the 420-mem-ber band, which is when he started thinking about making something more of his interest in music.

After high school, he went to University of Florida to get his bach-elor’s in music educa-tion. He played percus-sion in the studio and played mellophone in the marching band, as well as in the basketball band. Stolarik also played clari-net in a concert band at U. Florida.

He took up the different

instruments because he t h o u g h t , a s a t e a c h e r, it’d be best for him to be comfortable on different instruments.

During three of his sum-mers in college, Stolarik played with the Madison Scouts drum corps as a tim-panist in the pit, something he attributes to developing his musical talent.

“My ears got really good in those summers. I think it was really beneficial for me,” he said.

W h e n i t wa s t i m e f o r Stolarik to student-teach in fall 2002, his semester was split between middle school and high school bands, but h e r e a l l y took a liking t o m i d d l e school.

T h o u g h he had origi-nally intend-ed to teach, Stolarik de-c i d e d t o g o b a c k t o s c h o o l . H e lived at home that sp r i ng and worked as a substi-tute teacher, but focused a lot of his time on preparing for graduate school music auditions.

H e d e c i d e d t o g o t o University of Texas–Austin because it was a good school and cheaper than his other option — UW.

At UT, Stolarik got an as-sistantship with the march-ing band. He worked with the band for five years and got his master’s and doctor-ate degrees in percussion performance.

When Stolarik graduat-ed, he got a job as an as-sistant band director at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Ark. Then he applied to be the assis-tant director of bands at UW.

In all of those experienc-es, Stolarik developed an intense appreciation for showmanship and original-ity, which is what he plans to model the Pride after.

“It’s hard because no one trusts you yet when you’re new, but it’s one of those things where sometimes you have to have a great-er vision that has to move

a s k i n g t o “ R e s t o re t h e Pride,” the namesake of a website dedicated to the cause.

D e s p i t e t h e c ha ng e s, Harris said she has enjoyed performing under Stolarik this semester.

“It’s been a year of tran-sition, but I’ve been very happy,” Harris said.

She also said Stolarik’s openness to change makes h i m a p p r o a c h a b l e f o r students.

Harris thinks the more theatrical shows have gotten the crowd’s attention, and Weitzenhoffer agrees.

Despite some negative feedback from Pride alum-

ni, Weitzenhoffer said he’s seen positive reactions to the band from OU fans.

“What I have heard and what I see from people that I deal with … the gener-al touchdown club people … everyone feels the band is much more energetic,” Weitzenhoffer said.

Above all, Stolarik said his main focuses are the stu-dents and education.

“I like to take the oppor-tunity, whenever possible, to expose the audience and my students to a wide vari-ety of repertoire — some of which they may have never previously heard or been aware of,” he said.

That is the cheese Stolarik is seeking.

Blayklee Buchananblayklee@ou.edu

It’s hard because no one trusts you yet when you’re new, but it’s one of those things where sometimes

you have to have a greater vision that has to move in small steps, but people don’t always see.”

JUSTIN STOLARIK, DIRECTOR OF THE PRIDE

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in small steps, but people don’t always see,” he said.

This vision is what OU Regent Max Weitzenhoffer, a member of the band direc-tor search committee, said set Stolarik apart from other candidates.

“I felt that we could have a signature band ... a signa-ture that’s our own signature and that’s going to take time to develop, and that’s what I got from him: that he want-ed to develop a band that was distinctly our band,” Weitzenhoffer said.

The signature takes time to develop, but Stolarik said the changes this year are geared toward getting that

showmanship and original-ity he hopes for.

Some of Stolarik’s chang-es were met with disdain from some Pr ide mem-bers and alumni, one Pride member said. However, she explained how the change has made the Pride’s perfor-mances livelier.

“He is more into theater and all of our shows have been very theatrical,” said Sarah Harris, advertising ju-nior and twirler for Pride.

Some OU fans were taken aback by Stolarik’s changes to the band’s performance this year, voicing frustration with his changing traditions that had been in place for decades.

These changes prompted Pride alumni and current members to voice com-plaints on social media and send letters to OU President David Boren’s action line

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HUFFING, PUFFING AT E-CIG BANOur View: Gov. Fallin should reverse e-cigarette ban and encourage the use of tobacco alternatives.

Thank goodness deadly, hei-nous water vapor is now banned on Oklahoma state property, including OU’s campus. At least, that must be what the people who inexplicably sup-port Gov. Mary Fallin’s Dec. 23 decision to forbid electronic cigarettes on state property must think.

Wait, but what danger do e-cigarettes possibly pose? They are tubes that va-porize flavored liquid, typically containing nicotine, which is then inhaled by the user. There are count-less flavors to choose from and the e-cigarettes are often reusable with replaceable cartridges. Unlike traditional cigarettes, e-cigarettes do not contain over 4,000 chemicals, many of which are known carcinogens, according to Medical News Today.

The recent explosion in the popularity of e-ciga-rettes is probably because they are much safer than normal cigarettes. We believe it is unjustifiable to ban a healthier alternative to old-fashioned cancer sticks on state property. It is yet another overstep by Oklahoma’s governor into citizens’ private lives.

Some doctors, such as CBS news chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook, warn that because e-cigarettes are not regulated by the Federal Drug Administration there is no way to know exactly what chemicals are in the water vapor.

However, many e-cigarette consumers use the de-vice as a way to cut down on smoking, which would reduce any possible side effects that much more, according to a Medical News Today report about the health effects of e-cigarettes.

In fact, “the medical profession and scientists generally agree that e-cigarettes, if they do pose any dangers to health, are much less harmful than

tobacco smoking,” according to the Medical News Today report.

The logic behind banning traditional cigarettes on state property is that passerby should not have to in-hale harmful secondhand smoke.

In fact, “approximately 700 deaths in Oklahoma each year are attributable to secondhand smoke ex-posure,” according to smokefreeok.org.

Other than perhaps smelling the flavored vapor, there is no solid medical basis for Fallin signing an executive order banning e-cigarettes. There is no real threat of secondhand smoke exposure because the e-cigarettes do not produce smoke, just vapor.

Perhaps Oklahomans are not so open-minded about smoking of any kind outside our college town. However, it seems like we could all bear smelling some fruity vapor if it means more Oklahomans cut back on smoking.

Oklahoma has the 48th high-est rate of smoking among the 50 states, according to a 2010 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.

Fallin should apologize to Oklahomans and reverse her exec-utive order. Banning e-cigarettes on state property disallows anyone who

lives or works on state property, including the over 30,000 students enrolled at OU, from using a popu-lar alternative to cigarettes.

Yes, there are nicotine patches and gums, but shouldn’t adult Americans be able to choose which tobacco alternatives they want to use? Fallin should not condemn e-cigarette usage but rather applaud those Oklahomans choosing to use a healthi-er alternative and cutting back on their tobacco consumption.

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This 2012 photo released by A&E shows, from left, Phil Robertson, Jase Robertson, Si Robertson and Willie Robertson from the A&E series, “Duck Dynasty.” Phil Robertson recently caused many people to review their own definitions of freedom of speech after his interview of with GQ caused him to momentarily get kicked off his show.

In the past few years, the U.S. has seen more than its fair share of

idiotic issues given a spot-light because of the reac-tions they received online. Over the holiday break, Phil Robertson, of “Duck Dynasty,” lived up to his brand and said some racist, homophobic and just plain ignorant pearls in an inter-view with GQ magazine. As a result, A&E made the decision, since reversed, to suspend Robertson for his comments.

A&E’s move to suspend Robertson was completely understandable. In the in-terview, the “Duck Dynasty” star made assertions rang-ing from racist to absurd. He went on about how the Nazis, the Shintoists, the Communists and the Muslims are murderous be-cause they don’t have Jesus. He explained how pre-civil rights African Americans were happier. And he mostly demonstrated the kind of re-sponse one would expect to get from a 63-year-old white man living in the woods in Louisiana and making a liv-ing selling duck calls.

Throughout the interview,

however, Robertson also pushed his faith. As a result, Robertson’s supporters be-lieved his suspension was only a result of him stating his religious beliefs. They took up arms both online and in the media, claiming that A&E’s move to suspend the star was stomping on his First Amendment rights, namely freedom of speech.

This has become a

common cry for the fans of low-brow politicians and celebs who have been some-how disgraced by something they said in a public forum, and it has to stop. Not only are they quoting the wrong text to defend religious ex-pression, but they are using the concept of freedom of speech incorrectly.

Since A&E is not Congress, Robertson’s First

Amendment rights were not infringed.

The First Amendment literally guarantees that, in particular, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free ex-ercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to as-semble, and to petition the

government for a redress of grievances.” It does not, however, guarantee that a person is free from the con-sequences of what they say.

This is an amendment that allows people with ideas to start movements that change nations. It should never be used as a lame attempt to seek pity for a mistake a person has made when a well-publicized “I’m

sorry” would suffice.In the end, whether his

statements were correct or not is not the issue. The man stated his opinion. Though the supposed facts he cited were incorrect, he has a constitutional right to say whatever he would like, and the public, including his em-ployer, has the right to react negatively to it.

Robertson’s hiatus was cut short. A&E brought him back for the next season, is-suing a statement that men-tioned an apology from his family and overstated how much A&E is dedicated to equality.

The frenzied, loud few who misuse the First Amendment have been rewarded, both by the at-tention they received and by the incidental outcome, and will remain complacent in their ignorance of the Constitution they love to refer to so much. For now, they lie in wait, anticipating the day they can rise once again from their silence to claim oppression when the next wealthy pseudo-celeb uses religion as justification for promoting his or her own ideologies and incorrect assertions.

We can do better than to give this kind of argument so much attention.

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Instructions:Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. That means that no number is repeated in any row, column or box.

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ACROSS 1 Celebrity

haunt of the Rockies

6 Mountain peaks

10 Drained of color

14 Sparkly stone 15 Ready for

publication 16 Home-

coming visitor, for short

17 Nintendo 3DS, for one

20 Passionate states

21 Arrogance 22 Dictionary

subject 25 Smart-

mouthed 26 “No” voter 30 Head-and-

shoulders sculpture

32 Friendly disposition

35 “Into the Wild” setting

41 Have no need for negotiations

43 Go around and around

44 Went about aimlessly

45 “Do not open til ___”

47 Gullets 48 Santa’s

reindeer, sans Rudolph

53 Like some indie films

56 Revered threesome

58 Not as knotty

63 Etsy offering, sometimes

66 Pointless Olympic event?

67 Kent’s beloved

68 Coin of Pakistan

69 NL Central team

70 Derma-tological diagnosis, perhaps

71 Baseball card data

DOWN 1 Turkish

honorific 2 Brown meat 3 Diminutive

lake 4 Taro root 5 Jacket

named for an Indian leader

6 ___ Aviv 7 Not even 8 Forty-niner’s

quest 9 Greek

portico 10 Pre-mara-

thon staple 11 “A Lesson

from ___” (Fugard drama)

12 Whoppers 13 Manicuring

material 18 Driving-

exam curve 19 Xi preceders 23 Not

incompetent

24 1990-91 hostilities

26 Culture medium gelatin

27 Cape Canaveral cancellation

28 Civil wrong 29 Mental germ 31 Mountain

lake 33 Soaking 34 Goat seen

on treks 36 Escorted 37 “May I

have your attention?”

38 Gilbert of TV 39 Had down

cold 40 Annexes 42 Kiln 46 Seaman’s

“Help!” 48 “None of

the above” 49 ___ myrtle 50 With prongs

51 “Alive” setting

52 Lacking in brightness

54 Meet, in poker

55 Bawls loudly

57 Rash treatment

59 Serve as an usher

60 Mozart’s Trojan princess

61 Once, in the past

62 Some shaggy rugs

64 Coast Guard officer below lt.

65 Boeing 747, e.g.

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Current treatments for contact dermatitis are inef-fective because many of the topical products wear off or people don’t apply the products at all and the con-ditions worsens, Gallucci said.

Gallucci wil l conduct his research in three steps. They will try to isolate a specific set of genes in the 800-member human sub-ject pool in the first step.

This will help the team lo-cate individuals with a set of inflammatory genes, which indicate the subjects would have more severe dermati-tis, Gallucci said.

“We’ve found that mice w i t h t h e i n f l a m m a t o r y genes counter intuitive-ly get more severe derma-titis than those without,” Gallucci explained.

Fo r t h e s e c o n d s t e p, Gallucci will try to discover why those subjects have a more severe reaction.

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Randy Gallucci looks through a microscope during research on contact dermatitis. Gallucci was recently awarded a $1.9 million grant to research contact dermatitis over the course of the next four years.

narrowed down to 30 or so genetic mutations, so we feel confident that we can find something,” Gallucci said.

The third step involves t e s t i n g t h e e f f e c t s o f Interleukin 6 on mice. IL-6, an immune protein that has an anti-inflammato-ry effect on the skin, may

be able to be synthesized into a topical treatment, Gallucci said.

“We also want to be able to work with prediction and surveillance,” Gallucci said. “We want to be able to say ‘look, you have this muta-tion, you’re more suscepti-ble to this condition, here’s how we can fix it.’”

While Gallucci was op-timistic about his team’s ability to generate results, he acknowledged that con-sumer applications of the project’s findings are still years away.

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new music tuesday

sharon Jones keeps it funky in 2014 with fiery new album

Student groups offer chances to get involved

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Students pass outside the Oklahoma Memorial Union Monday afternoon. Many campus organizations call the Union home, including the Union Programming Board.

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Spring semester brings news ways to get involved

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The change of classes and routines that come with the new semester at OU will open up new involvement opportunities for students this spring.

Different campus clubs and organizations are wel-coming new members to help work on future campus projects.

C a m p u s A c t i v i t i e s Council applications are c u r re n t l y av a i l a b l e f o r Vice Chair, CAC Crew and Executive Committee posi-tions for events and activities next fall. This is an oppor-tunity to get involved with CAC Oklahoma Creativity Festival, CAC Homecoming

and CAC University Sing ac-cording to the CAC website.

There are also plenty of activities to participate in this semester, such as Winter Welcome Week, CAC College Bowl, Soonerthon, CAC Mom’s Day and CAC Sooner Scandals. The coun-cil is also planning on hav-ing an open house similar to the one in the fall to help new students get involved, said public relations chair KatieBeth Gardner.

“This is the easiest way to get involved in CAC and en-courages students to utilize their talents and skills in a setting outside of the class-room while having a great time making new friends and memories,” Gardner said.

The Union Programming Board is also welcoming to new members this semester. Meetings are at 9 p.m. every

other week to talk about upcoming events and vol-unteer opportunities. The best way to get involved is to come to a meeting or look at the UPB website, said UPB President Amber Elkins.

Students can be as in-volved as little or as much as they want, Elkins said.

T h e S t u d e n t F i l m Production Club is also planning a busy semester that will include hosting a 24-Hour Film Blitz, making a club commercial, produc-ing a script chosen from a screenwriting competition and hosting the annual Red Bud Film Festival.

“Just because it’s spring semester doesn’t mean that there isn’t still time to get

“Just because it’s spring semester

doesn’t mean that there isn’t still time to get integrated into a club that

could potentially love.”

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Sharon Jones and the dap Kings’ “Give the People What they Want,” is a funky, soulful throwback that doesn’t feel derivative.

When contemporary artists’ whole craft

is to recreate the work and or feel of a past era, the re-sults can be a bit mixed. Performers such as Michael Buble and Harry Connick Jr. have built their careers off their attempts to be 21st century versions of croon-ers like Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin. But listen-ing to their music, it never seems like more than just an act to recreate a bygone era.

All the more reason to be thankful for performers such as Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings. Ever since their debut disc, “Dap Dippin’ with Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings,” was released in 2002, Jones and her crew have sounded like some-thing straight out of the 70’s funk scene. This is partly attributable to the fact that they shun modern digital recording methods in favor of using traditional analog recording equipment.

On their newest release, “Give The People What They Want,” Jones and her crew are in their fin-est form. Opening tracks “Retreat!” and “Stranger To My Happiness” are crack-ling pieces of Motown that really power through on the strength of Jones’ signature scratchy vocals.

Borrowing from a num-ber of popular 1960s and 1970s soul/funk music tropes, the albums covers

everything from doo-wop girl-groups—“Get Up and Get Out”—to funky dance numbers—“Now I See.”

Jones and her crew are a prime example of the reviv-alist movement of music, in this case trying to capture the true essence of funk/soul music without trying to simply imitate it. And looking at “Give The People What They Want,” they definitely achieve that, for better or worse.

The only problem being, five albums in, their whole reinvigoration of the funk genre is not as fresh as it seemed in the beginning of their career. With their first few albums, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings made what was old seem suddenly new and fresh again.

On this newest release, they manage to pull off their feat of recreating the past without appearing stale or imitative. The only

question is, from here, how far can you go when your musical goal is to recreate the sounds of the past?

But if that sounds cyni-cal, it is hard to complain too much about recreating the past when Jones and her crew make it sound so funky and addicting, espe-cially on the album’s latter half. Jones truly shines on tracks such as “Long Time, Wrong Time” and “Get Up And Get Out,” which don’t

just shed a light onto the musical past but into Jones’ present, with lyrics about taking ownership over her romantic choices.

And even music fans not particularly keen on soul music can appreci-ate the album’s scorching “People Don’t Get What They Want.” A protest song against social inequality, its vicious guitar line and blaring horns compliment Jones’ fiery vocals. This one

track alone sums up what Sharon Jones And The Dap Kings’ whole act is about: recreating the past while breathing passionate new life into it.

Keaton Bell is a University College freshman.

MORe infOwhere to go to get involvedCampus Activities Council: cac.ou.edu

Union Programming Board: ou.edu/upb

Student Film Production Club: cas.ou.edu/film-club

integrated into a club that you could potentially love,” SFP C President Br i tni Harris said. Harris encour-ages interested students to attend meetings for more information.

Opportunities are open-ing up around campus, and now is the time to explore and get involved. These are only a few of the options students have to get in-volved with organizations

this year. A more compre-hensive l ist of students groups can be found on the Student Life website.

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SPORTS

Newly-ranked Sooners to take on Kansas State

Men’s BasketBall

OU will travel to play defense-minded WildcatsRyan GeRbosiMen’s Basketball Reporter

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After an upset against high-scoring and previ-ously unbeaten Iowa State on Saturday, OU will face a different challenge against Kansas State.

The No. 25 Sooners are ranked for the first time since 2009 after the big win against No. 8 Iowa State, hitting the road to face the Wildcats and the top-ranked defense in the Big 12.

Kansas State (12-4, 2-1) has allowed just 59.8 points per game this season thanks to a slow, deliberate tempo. But Oklahoma (13-3, 2-1) is the epitome of high-energy offense, scoring a league-high 87 points per game.

“They’ve hung their hat on doing a terrific job de-fensively,” OU coach Lon Kruger said of Kansas State, his alma mater. “Their offen-sive possessions can be a lit-tle longer and patient so it’s a different style than we’ve seen.”

K r u g e r s a i d h i s t e a m

hasn’t seen much slow-paced play and Kansas State will look to keep the pace down with OU, but that shouldn’t stop what his play-ers are trying to do on the of-fensive side.

“They know we want to go, so they’ll encourage them to frustrate us a little bit more,” Kruger said. “We’ve got to be disciplined and stay with longer possessions defen-sively but when we do get it we still want to do the same thing offensively.”

Kansas State has struggled on offense, scoring a con-ference-low 67.2 per game, but Buddy Hield, a sopho-more guard for OU, said the Sooners need to “lock up” defense to beat the Wildcats.

“ Teams who have not been producing very often have produced on offense [against OU] because we’ve allowed them to,” Hield said. “They’re more physical than us so we need to go in there and compete.”

The Sooners’ defense has started to light up in recent games, producing some key stops late in games against Texas and Iowa State.

“ We h a d s o m e g o o d stretches in the second half,” Hield said. “I think we’re

getting better as a group. We have guys that can guard, we just need the effort to guard.”

By being active on de-fense, Hield said the team is getting back to its roots and what it does best.

“We’re so athletic and we don’t even use it,” Hield said. “We’re getting back to our old selves and doing what we want to do and stop try-ing to try things.”

Getting back to their old selves might be the key for Oklahoma, who finally cracked the AP Poll after up-setting Iowa State. After the trip to Manhattan, Kan., the Sooners have their biggest test yet on the road against Baylor on Saturday.

Ryan Gerbosi rgerbosi@ou.edu

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Freshman guard Isaiah Cousins guards Kansas State’s top player, Rodney McGruder, in OU’s 52-50 loss in Norman last season. Cousins finished the game with 6 points, 2 assists and 1 steal. The Sooners’ defense held McGruder to 7 points and forced Kansas State to commit 10 turnovers.

AT A GLANCEMen’s Basketball

•The No. 25 Sooners will play Kansas State at 6 p.m. tonight in Manhattan, Kan.

•The game is televised on ESPN 2

Source: Soonersports.com

sports BriefsMEN’S BASKETBALL

sooners reach AP ranking for the first time since 2009

The OU men’s basketball team is ranked in the AP Top 25 after an upset of the then-No. 8 Iowa State Cyclones on Saturday. This is the first time the program has been ranked since 2009.

OU is currently tied at No. 25 with UCLA, with each team receiving 103 points.

Currently, OU is still unranked in the USA Today Coaches Poll, but only three teams separate OU and a ranking in both polls.

The Sooners will travel to Manhattan, Kan. to take on Kansas State Tuesday night, and will travel to Waco, Texas to take on the 12th-ranked Baylor Bears this weekend. The games will be televised on ESPN 2 and ESPN, respectively.

Under previous head coach Jeff Capel, the program was a mess of violations and underperformance. Under the watch of coach Lon Kruger, the program is a contender in the Big 12 and runs one of the most exciting offenses in the country.

Ryan Gerbosi

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WOMEN’S GyMNASTICS

Oklahoma gets No. 1 ranking following its first meet

The OU women’s gymnastics team rose from No. 3 to No. 1 in the national rankings this weekend after their first meet of the season.

The Sooners were helped by a 197.700 score in their meet against the Georgia Gym Dogs on Friday night, the nation’s highest overall score throughout the weekend.

LSU earned the No. 2 spot with a 197.200, followed by Alabama and Florida. The Sooners will face all three schools this season.

OU took the nation’s top score on three of the four events, and came in at No. 3 on uneven bars. The team benefited from outstanding individual performances and had 16 individual rankings, more than any other school.

Madison Mooring, Taylor Spears and Rebecca Clark are tied for the nation’s No. 1 spot on balance beam after posting identical 9.925 scores on Friday night. Sophomore Haley Scaman also tied the No. 2 ranking for floor and vault with 9.95 routines on both.

The Sooners look to uphold their ranking at 6:45 p.m. on Friday against conference foe Iowa State here in Norman.

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