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Students can take a tour of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday night — without ever leaving the country.

The Saudi Student Association is hold-ing Saudi Night to highlight some of Saudi Arabia’s culture and dispel some stereotypes using food and performances, the organiza-tion’s president Farah Al Saif said.

Eyad Al Ali, Saudi Student Association public relations manager, said the event will be presented as a flight around Saudi Arabia.

“There are many Saudi students who are studying here,” Al Ali said. “Well, we want to take all the Sooners from here to Saudi Arabia.”

Abdulshaheed Al Bukheder, the associa-tion’s treasurer, said the event will give stu-dents a unique opportunity: an $8 flight to Saudi Arabia, food and entertainment in-cluded, with no need for a passport.

The event will begin with Saudi Arabian cuisine from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Jim Thorpe Multicultural Center.

Traditional Arabic appetizers, such as

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OU’s landscape gardener Angel Mejia waters the spring flower garden on the South Oval on Monday afternoon. Facilities Management workers planted thousands of Dianthus flowers on the South Oval that will fully bloom in about a month.

SOUTH OVAL

Sow the seed New tutor comes to OU campus

ACADEMICS

Remote tutoring now an option

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Ch a n g e s m a y b e coming to a rela-tively new tutoring

option for OU students, one that lets students get tutored without leaving their room.

T h ro u g h U. C . A c t i o n Tutoring, FaceTime tutor-ing was released as a fea-ture under the free OU app released in May 2013, said Mark Walvoord, Student Learning Center director.

A c c e s s i b l e o n a l l FaceTime-enabled Apple products, the feature has 25 subjects available at certain times and days each week. As long as a tutor offering the needed subject is online, a student can click and have

INITIATIVE

Environmental groups to petition universityStudent groups advocate for a campus sustainability coordinatorMATT WOODSCampus Reporter@mataphor

Student-led environmental groups plan to petition the university to hire a full-time faculty member to direct the wide spread of sustainability activities across campus.

NerdScholar, a prominent informational website evalu-ating colleges, recently recognized OU as the U.S. univer-sity with the “most widespread” student groups devoted to environmental sustainability.

Despite OU’s environmental initiatives and active vol-unteer base, the university lacks an administration-spon-sored sustainability office or coordinator position com-mon at other universities, including Oklahoma State University and the University of Texas at Austin.

“There’s no real cohesive coordination between differ-ent departments and student (environmental) groups,”

said Alex Lyakhov, OU’s first graduate student to pursue a degree in environmental sustainability. “(Student sustain-ability leaders) figured it would be a good idea if we had one individual who works in the administration that would be the go-to person for any and all sustainability efforts on campus.”

OU’s student-led sustainability groups have taken steps to unify their volunteer efforts under an unofficial coali-tion dubbed the “green umbrella” — including OUr Earth, the Environmental Concerns Committee, Earth Rebirth and others.

Students across campus recognized their common sus-tainability goals during a meeting of environmental lead-ers and decided to share information and volunteers, said Jessica Scott, Geography and Environmental Sustainability Club president. It’s become increasingly clear that OU’s fragmented and widely-spread environmental efforts could use a central, unifying voice to maximize effective-ness, Scott said.

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Students walk past a trashcan with a Crimson & Green sign on the South Oval Monday. OU has numerous environmental initiatives and an active volunteer base, but the university lacks an administra-tion-sponsored sustainability office or coordinator position common at other universities.SEE INITIATIVE PAGE B1

CULTURE

Get a taste of Saudi Arabia: Group to host cultural night

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Left to right: University College freshman Ali Almukharriq, energy management junior Farah Al Saif and Spanish senior Barrett Shelley sell tickets Monday to Saudi Night at a table inside Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Will Rogers Room. Saudi Night will be held Wednesday evening with food at the Jim Thorpe Multicultural Center and a show inside the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center.

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hummus and falafel, will be served, energy management junior Al Saif said.

Attendees will watch traditional dances and performances at the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center from 8 to 9:30 p.m.

The performances will have students in the Saudi Student Association and other friends of the organization, Al Saif said.

Each performance will highlight a differ-ent Saudi Arabian city to show students what Saudi Arabia is like, Al Saif said.

Because Saudi Arabia has distinct regions, by showing various Saudi Arabian cities, the event will point out the cultures from each of the regions, said Al Bukheder, industrial engi-neering sophomore.

“We’re trying to show everybody that we have different things,” Al Ali said. “It’s not about deserts and camels.”

This is the largest event the Saudi Student Association will hold this year, Al Saif said.

Tickets are $8 for the entire event or $5 for just the performance. Students can pur-chase tickets from 12:30 to 3 p.m. today near Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food court or 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday near Crossroads.

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Scott, geography junior, was initially drawn to OU’s sus-tainability initiatives two years ago through Green Week, a series of events sponsored by the Undergraduate Student Congress each spring designed to raise environmental awareness. In Scott’s experience working with campus sus-tainability groups, she noticed unnecessary organizational and communications challenges.

Earlier this year, Scott tried to raise interest for a na-tional competition sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that challenged teams to design a stormwater management system. But plans fell through when she couldn’t quickly assemble a team of engineers, geographic information science majors and other neces-sary positions, a problem that could have been remedied by a central sustainability office and staff member.

“We needed a helping hand,” Scott said. “It was so hard to connect with people. We didn’t know where to go.”

It would have been nice to have an engaged faculty ad-vocate with all activity information in one place asking who’s interested, Scott said.

Instead of a central office, faculty volunteers across cam-pus currently direct bits and pieces of green initiatives on campus during their free time. A vice president in OU’s fi-nance office took responsibility for updating the universi-ty’s sustainability page, Lyakhov said. But in the past two years, the page has become outdated, and some of the con-tacts graduated semesters ago.

Scott recently obtained permission to update the sus-tainability contact page for the university on her own time,

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AT A GLANCEEnvironmental sustainability groups at OUCitizen’s Climate Lobby

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instant one-on-one tutoring.Walvoord and his tutors hope to bring

more features to FaceTime tutoring as it gains popularity. One of their ideas is a dual-user platform, or shared screen, that allow both tutor and student to show each other their work.

Tom Ashley, Web communications technology project manager, said there may be developments in the app’s fu-ture when they launch “phase two” of the FaceTime tutoring feature.

“We are working with student groups to identify new opportunities for the app and then will identify apps or develop-ment needs to add new functionality,” Ashley said.

Beginning development in fall 2012, web communications and IT began de-veloping the greater OU app as an inter-active tool to connect students to cam-pus, Walvoord said.

Other features include a virtual tour, a parent information section and a forum for students to share ideas, Walvoord said.

Walvoord said Web communications officials wanted to extend the interac-tivity of the physical tutoring feature by incorporating established U.C. Action tutors to work virtually with students.

“They were hoping to use U.C. Action, which had already been in existence since fall 2007, to kind of provide tutors to give that live, interactive component,” Walvoord said. “So they saw this online tutoring as a piece of it that would be the more personal touch.”

The app offers mainly science, music and language subjects. A schedule of when the subjects and tutors are avail-able can be found at the U.C. Action Tutoring website under “Action iPad” as well as on the app itself.

FaceTime tutoring also has later time slots so students can get tutoring if they come across a problem while doing

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Public relations junior Christina Hughes and Hugo Ma, biochemistry and Chinese senior, demonstrate the University College’s Action Tutoring now available through OU’s app on the App Store. Tutors are available for many subjects including Spanish, biology and psychology.

TUTOR: ‘Dual-user’ platform may be in futureContinued from page 1

InITIaTIvE: Hiring new coordinator ‘essential to keeping OU conscious’ Continued from page 1 lighting and water utilities more energy-efficient, accord-

ing to OU’s sustainability website. But Lykhov said OU has significant progress ahead to keep pace with similar pro-grams at other universities.

“I sure believe that hiring a sustainability coordinator would put us further ahead than we are now. We are lag-ging behind,” Lyakhov said.

For Scott, hiring a faculty coordinator is essential to keeping OU environmentally conscious.

“Even though (students are) here for four years, and we put in a lot of time and energy and effort, we can only do so much,” Scott said.

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Corey Still, Native American studies senior, drums and sings at a cel-ebration of Native American heritage on the South Oval last spring. During the spring semester, the American Indian Student Association and other Native student organizations hold events at OU to celebrate Native American heritage.

EvEnTS

Drums will pound to honor heritage American Indian Heritage Day will be held today on the South Oval

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Colorful flags will flutter, and traditional drums will re-sound as Sooners celebrate their Native American heritage.

The American Indian Heritage Day will begin at 10:45 a.m. today as members of American Indian Student Life groups lead a procession up the South Oval.

Lillie Keener, American Indian Student Life Student coor-dinator, said the event will include tribal flags and some nota-ble speakers, such as Clarke Stroud, vice president of Student Affairs, and Rep. Seneca Scott, D-Tulsa, representatives from American Indian fraternity Sigma Nu Alpha Gamma and so-rority Gamma Delta Pi.

Corey Elder, Sigma Nu Alpha Gamma chairman, will speak for his fraternity. Industrial engineering junior Elder said he is looking forward to representing his fellow Native Americans at the event.

“We have the opportunity to unite as a student body, not just natives, to learn and understand how our history as a state and country affect the Native American people today,” Elder said.

Elder said he is most looking forward to a traditional bless-ing ceremony after the procession.

“When the cedar leaves are burned with hot coals, the smoke created is fanned over you with an eagle feather wing,” Elder said. “This smoke is to carry your prayers and thoughts to God or the Creator so He can provide blessing in times of

trouble.”Elder’s fraternity will open the celebration with a “flag

song,” he said.Maddie Habeck, vice president of Gamma Delta Pi, said

she encourages everyone to attend the event, not just Native Americans.

“I think it’s important for people who are non-Native to attend the event because you can see that we are still here,” communication senior Habeck said. “Native Americans tend to be underrepresented in the media and elsewhere.”

Keener said she shares similar sentiments, especially since OU is located in a state full of Native American heritage. “A lot of people who aren’t affiliated with a tribe, they learn about Native Americans in their history class,” Keener said. “I think a lot of them think that’s all it is — it’s history.”

Keener said Heritage Day will show students that Native American culture is still alive and progressing, that it isn’t just history.

The event would also help students better understand a culture that represents a sizeable portion of OU’s student population, Elder said.

More than 1,000 Native American students attend OU, ac-cording to the 2013 OU Factbook.

“Every student that calls Oklahoma home should know the importance of eagle feathers, headdresses and other tradi-tional regalia that is worn in native culture,” Elder said.

During the event, some Native American students will be dressed in traditional clothing, and Sigma Nu Alpha Gamma will assemble a teepee on the South Oval, Elder said.

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Sorority, fraternity awarded trophy

AWARDS

The winners of OU’s annual President’s Trophy, which recognizes outstanding fraternities, sororities, univer-sity housing centers and two commuter students, were announced Friday.

The President’s Trophy is awarded for overall excel-lence in academics, campus activities, volunteerism and multicultural participation, according to a press release.

This year’s sorority winner was Kappa Alpha Theta, which previously won the trophy in 2002, 2011 and 2013, said Savannah Johnson, chief executive officer of Kappa Alpha Theta and public relations junior.

“It’s a wonderful feeling to receive an award that rec-ognizes all of the hard work and accomplishments of our members and chapter as a whole,” Johnson said.

Beta Theta Pi was this year’s fraternity winner. The fra-ternity president Jackson Lisle said he wasn’t expecting to win the award this year.

“We felt that we weren’t going to win because we won last year, so we were very surprised when we won,” said Lisle, finance and accounting junior.

Beta Theta Pi won the award in 2013 and 2005, Lisle said.

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Students invited to watch practice

ATHLETICS

Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops took to Twitter on Monday evening to extend to students an invitation to participate in OU Football Student Day from 5 to 5:30 p.m. April 10 at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

Students can watch the team portion of practice at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, and the first 500 students will receive a free hot dog and drink.

At OU Football Student Day, eight students — two chosen each quarter — will be selected at random to join the coaching staff on the field as “student coaches” for the annual Spring Game April 12.

All students (with current ID) are invited to attend prac-tice and, following the conclusion of practice, participate in drills, meet and take pictures with the players and even have a chance to kick a field goal.

Kickoff for the Red-White Spring Game is set for 2 p.m. April 12.

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homework at night.“The convenience of it is proba-

bly the most fantastic part,” said U.C. Action tutor and U.C. student supervi-sor Elizabeth Monzingo.

Monzingo has worked with one stu-dent who has a job and family on top of his studies. The student can’t attend on-campus tutoring sessions in the middle of the day, but with FaceTime tutoring, he can get help from his home.

FaceTime sessions are also some-times available when campus isn’t open, such as snow days, Monzingo said. Though these cases are circum-stantial, when available, they allow a tutoring option that would usually be impossible.

Monzingo also uses her Facetime sessions as a way for her other tutoring students to reach her if they have more questions.

“It’s nice to say at the end of my walk-in session … ‘If you have other

questions while doing homework to-night, give me a phone call. These are my availabilities,’” Monzingo said.

While both Monzingo and Ashley believe that FaceTime tutoring is a good supplementary learning tool, it shouldn’t replace traditional face-to-face tutoring.

Starting April 28, the U.C. Action Tutoring application will be available at jobs.ou.edu. Though the numbers vary depending on semester, approximately 13 to 15 positions will be open for the fall semester, Walvoord said.

Walvoord wants to find people who are dedicated to being a resource for students.

“We look to continue to get good peo-ple and grow. Our purpose is to help students so we do whatever we can to help students do well in the classes,” Walvoord said.

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but “that seems like a full-time job, and someone else should be doing it,” she said.

Scott said she thinks it’s very important and easy to reach out campus-wide. A dedicated sustainability coordinator would also help bridge the relationship between student organizations and administration, she said.

A first draft of a proposal has been written, and students are currently talking to administration officials on campus to get their thoughts for the proposal’s final draft, Lyakhov said.

Once the proposal is finalized, sustainability leaders will present it to the Student Government Association to rally support. If successful, Lyakhov said the proposal would then be presented to OU President David Boren.

The university has made strides to reduce greenhouse gas emissions since 2007, emphasizing recycling, using renewable energy sources and updating facilities to make

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Show support of SGA, cast voteOur View: OU students should vote in the uncontested SGA elections to let the candidates and the university’s administration know we support our future SGA leaders.

If you think there’s no reason to vote in campus elections this week, think again. Casting a ballot for Matt Epting and Sarah Campbell in the uncontested election for Student Government Association presi-dent and vice president will show administrators the pair have student support for their ambitious plans for dead week and campus parking.

Contested or not, SGA elections let candidates know if their ambitions match those of OU’s stu-dent body. And we know we agree with Epting’s and Campbell’s platform goals. For example, we love Epting’s and Campbell’s goals of finally fixing dead week, continuing South Oval Office and creating an “advocacy team” to address individual student prob-lems with university administration.

Epting’s and Campbell’s detailed game plan for the fall semester impresses us — although their ideas are ambitious — we believe they are realistic. We plan to support the duo in achiev-ing their goals throughout their tenure.

One of the pair’s platform ideas we believe would greatly benefit all OU students is their proposal to encourage a car-pooling system to deal with the university’s growing parking problem.

We all know students complain every semester about parking, but there is scant space or funding to erect new parking garages. As Epting and Campbell explain on their campaign website, MattSarahSGA.com, if just 100 students carpooled to campus every day for a semester we could save about $2700 in fuel costs, 8.55 tons of carbon emission and 100 parking spots. Epting and Campbell’s proposal to develop a web-based rideshare program seems doable and highly effective. Their creative approach to big prob-lems is one of the many reasons we endorse them to lead SGA next semester.

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would create a taskforce dedicated to resolving such problems and making OU students feel bet-ter supported by their student government.

Epting and Campbell also want to give OU students a louder voice at both the local and state government levels. They understand that Oklahoma’s legislature must make higher educa-tion funding a bigger priority and are committed to bringing a larger student presence to our state capitol.

We believe Epting’s and Campbell’s priorities are in line and that their goals are truly achievable. They have mapped out specifics to make their ideas a reality, and we are fully committed to sup-porting them along the way. We encourage you to do the same by voting for Epting and Campbell today and tomorrow either online at elections.ou.edu or at physical polling locations on campus.

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Bedlam baseball is back in Oklahoma. Well, sort of.

When Coach Pete Hughes gets his first taste of the in-state rivalry to-night, a crucial element will be missing as OU and OSU square off for the first time in 2014. The game will count, just not in the Big 12 standings.

Conference play is already underway with the Sooners and Cowboys already several games into their league schedule. But before they meet in their Big 12 series at the end of the season, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State will each travel to each other’s parks for out-of-league matchups.

Two previews before the feature presen-tation. A couple of small-time fights before the main event.

The schools will meet for today’s game in Norman followed by a game in Stillwater in two weeks. Each will lead up to a three-game, mid-May Bedlam series to end the regular season.

Two games in Tulsa, one in Oklahoma City.

But if you asked the coaches, Hughes and OSU’s Josh Holliday, both would probably welcome the pair of rivalry tune-up games. Neither squad is playing to its potential, al-though OU is much closer, and a couple of practice rounds can’t hurt.

But the two non-conference games won’t look like practice-nor should they. The winning team will still benefit its overall

record, RPI ranking, and confidence in the midst of Big 12 play.

Oklahoma State was picked to finish tied for second in the conference preseason polls and the Cowboys even collected a pair of first-place votes. OU was preseason No. 5 in the Big 12 after winning the conference champi-

onship in 2013.Ever since the pointless preseason

polls were announced, the Sooners have worked themselves up to second in the conference standings, while the Cowboys are in a tie for fifth — a flip-flop of the pre-season rankings.

Oklahoma has had the upper hand over Oklahoma State in both team batting and pitching.

The Sooners are hitting .295 as a team while OSU’s team batting average sits at just .257.

OU holds a slight pitching advantage, as well with a 3.17 team earned run average compared to the Cowboys’ 3.24 ERA.

But as always in rivalry games, throw stats and records out of the window. Although OU and OSU will be playing a non-conference game, one team still sports crimson and the other, orange.

Those colors don’t mix in this state.The main event is still yet to come be-

tween Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, but watch the fights leading up. They surely won’t disappoint.

Oklahoma (24-8, 3-0) will contin-ue Big 12 play

at home Wednesday as it renews the Bedlam series against Oklahoma State (19-14, 0-3).

The Sooners lead the all-time series 76-60 and have won eight of the last nine games against the Cowgirls, including a sweep in the last two seasons.

Oklahoma is likely to see Simone Freeman, who leads the Cowgirls in wins, ERA, strikeouts and innings pitched. Freeman, a power pitcher from Australia, is 14-7 on the year with a 1.49 ERA and 187 strikeouts.

Oklahoma State has not been playing its best softball as of late, as they were just swept by Kansas this past weekend. Including the series with the Jayhawks, the Cowgirls have dropped seven of their last 11 games as they head into the heart of conference play.

On the other side of the coin is Oklahoma, who has won six in a row over-all as it looks to win its seventh in a row against the Cowgirls.

Kelsey Stevens will likely get the start

for the Sooners. Despite throwing in two games over the weekend, she wasn’t worked very hard. With a pair of wins against the Cyclones, Stevens moved to 16-5 on the season.

If Stevens needs to be relieved, it may be Shelby Pendley who gets the call to the circle. Pendley, who had not thrown a collegiate

pitch until earlier this month, has yet to allow a run in 9.2 innings this season.

How coach Patty Gasso chooses to set up her lineup will also be important. Without Lauren Chamberlain, the top of the line-up is still shaky. In the finale against Iowa State, Pendley hit leadoff for the first time in her career, with Kady Self sliding into the two-hole. The duo reached base four times, setting the table for Georgia Casey, Brittany Williams and Whitney Ellis.

This will be the first of three meetings the Sooners will have against the Cowgirls this year, but they will not see them again until the final two days of the regular season. The teams will square off in Stillwater on May 10 before ending the season in Norman on May 11.

First pitch is at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

BEDLAM SHOWDOWNSooners head into Bedlam game with higher batting average, pitching advantage

Sooners lead the Bedlam showdown by 16 games, hope lineup will bring win

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Junior first baseman Matt oberste flairs a pitch into the outfield for a leadoff single in the bottom of the first inning against texas tech in oU’s 6-2 win last season in norman. oberste’s bat continues to be hot heading into the end of the season going 2-4 with a walk and an rBi on saturday.

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sophomore catcher and infielder Whitney ellis makes contact with the ball against Liberty University on March 7 at Marita Hynes Field. the sooners beat the eagles 18-3.

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Medieval fair

Ashley GeAryLife & Arts Reporter

Cody Clark still remem-bers the Norman Medieval Fair, years ago, when he was a playing a kind-hearted pawn named Twp — one of the many characters in his arsenal. He was giving out little red tissue paper roses to attendees and generally spreading joy when a little girl comes up to him, crying.

She said she’s lost a rose Twp had given her earlier.

“That’s OK, sweetie! Look, I have more right here! You can have another one, it’s OK,” Twp explains, hand-ing the girl another red oil-dropped rose.

Later, in a battle with Sir Breus sans Pite, a notorious Arthurian bully, Twp’s rose was taken out of his hat and ripped up by the villain.

As Twp sat on the ground sulking over the loss of his rose, the same little girl from before walked up.

She handed him her rose and said, “Here you go. I found my other rose, so you can have this one back. This way, you will have a rose, and you don’t have to be sad anymore.”

This innocent act of kind-ness serves as a reminder for Clark of why he does it — to him and the little girl, the Medieval Fair isn’t just an annual collection of fair food and silly costumes, it’s real. And it can really make a difference in someone’s life if they just believe.

That’s what has kept Clark

coming back to the Medieval Fair every single year since 1977 — when he and a close friend attended the first Medieval Fair in Norman as Sir Geoffrey of Carterry and Ivar the Vulgar of the Gosae Hills.

C l a r k i s i n v o l v e d i n t h e S o c i e t y o f C reat i ve Anachronism where he meets with fellow members to make armor, battle and create unique memories full of laughter and bruises.

From the very beginning, Clark has been involved in this grand event that brings the Middle Ages to modern times.

Wi t h h i s l ov e f o r t h e Medieval Fair, Clark binds the members of the Society of Creative Anachronism to-gether like a family.

“Working with Cody is a dream come true. I have many great volunteers, but Cody is probably the most amazing one,” said Ann Eckart, Medieval Fair coor-dinator. “He directs the cast with the gentle guiding hand of big brother. He encourag-es and includes everyone.”

To newcomers and veter-ans alike, Clark is not only a mentor, but an essential fig-ure in the group, said Eckart.

“He is always calm regard-less of the situation,” Eckart said. “It is truly phenomenal to watch him work his men-toring magic with others.”

Clark’s love for the fair seeps deep into the charac-ters he portrays. To Clark,

the Medieval Fair is much more than a volunteer op-portunity or a chance to dress in medieval costume.

“Cody Clark is a consum-mate performer — one of the few actors that can ad lib in iambic pentameter,” said

Medieval Fair participant Dara Fogel. “He is reliable, disciplined and well pol-ished in his craft.”

Clark plays a different role almost every year, this year Clark will play King Edward III — hosting grand parades,

knighting chi ldren and giving local radio and TV interviews.

Along with his active in-volvement in the Medieval Fair in Norman, Clark is a regular at Medieval and Renaissance Fairs across Oklahoma and the United States, including Muskogee O k l a . , G u t h r i e O k l a . , Shawnee Okla., Oklahoma City, northwest Arkansas, Kansas City, Wichita and north Texas.

“I have per for me d as many different characters at many different fairs scat-tered across at least five dif-ferent states,” Clark said. “My signature character has been Twp (pronounced Toop), a Manx Scholarus Vagrant — an idiot in search of a village.”

Clark previously worked a s a s c h o o l t e a c h e r i n Schulter, Okla. before com-ing back to Norman to work at the Couch Restaurant on campus. His devotion to castles, wizards and knights has persistently brought him back to the Norman Medieval Fair every single year since 1977, where he at-tended his first fair.

It is Clark’s goal to create not just one memory of a lit-tle girl’s kindness, but also thousands of those same memories as patrons bring their weirdness and dreams together in one place, if only for a short time.

“I love making people smile,” Clark said.

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Cody Clark points to the sky in regal attire at a rehearsal for the Medieval Fair Saturday. Clark has attended every Medieval Fair in Norman since 1977 and has been a regular at medieval and renaissance fairs across Oklahoma and the U.S.

Local has attended event since 1977 GO AND DO

38th annual Medieval fairwhen: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday-Sunday

where: Reaves Park

Price: Free

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