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NADIA ENCHASSIAssistant campus reporter
A history of science, technology and medicine senior has been awarded the major’s first endowed scholarship, in honor of two longtime proponents of higher education.
Elizabeth Wilcox won the Corliss E. and Esther C. Livesey Scholarship, making her the first recipient to win the award.
The history of science, technology and medicine first became an undergraduate major at OU two years ago, after being a minor for 30 years and a graduate program for over 60 years, said Stella Stuart, history of science undergraduate academic advis-er. Two students have graduated with the major since, and two more students, in-cluding Wilcox, are to graduate this upcom-ing fall.
The Corliss E. and Esther C. Livesey Scholarship is named after the late-parents of Steven Livesey, chairman of the department of the his-tory of science.
“Although neither was fortunate enough to attend col-lege, both appreciated the value of higher education,” Livesey said in an email. “While the income from this small gift in no way compares to the support I received from them, I hope that future students will be assisted in their own academic pursuits.”
Despite their modest means, Livesey’s parents worked and saved to fully support their two sons in pursuing un-dergraduate degrees, and one of their proudest moments was seeing both receive doctorates, Livesey said.
Livesey said he and his wife have tried to do the same for their son and daughter and, when the opportunity arose to extend that to other students, they thought it would be a meaningful way to honor the memory of his parents.
“Elizabeth was one of the pioneers in the major. She’s be-come the most visible ambassador of the program,” Livesey said.
Wilcox is working on an anthropology minor, and has as-sociate degrees in chemistry and biology.
“I knew my chances were good, because there aren’t very many of us and I met all the requirements,” Wilcox said. “But, I also knew competition was pretty high, be-cause my fellow majors are some of the smartest people
I’ve ever met. So, I was hon-ored and happy to know I was chosen.”
Wilcox said she plans to pursue a career in health law and work for the government.
“I’ve always been really concerned about protecting human rights, particularly in public health care,” Wilcox said. “Looking at science
from a historical prospective has helped me see a broader view of everything in general — the whole picture.”
The scholarship provides an annual award of $1,000, Stuart said. Applications were due in early March, and this year’s Scholarship Award Committee selected Wilcox as the recipient earlier this month.
“Elizabeth has been an active student in our program ever since she declared the major, and we are very pleased to award her,” Stuart said. “We are so proud of her.”
Applicants’ criteria included being a full-time, regularly enrolled undergraduate student majoring in history of sci-ence, technology and medicine, having a minimum 3.25 GPA and having earned 15 hours of major coursework, Stuart said.
In addition, financial need and past awards, honors, leadership and community activities were also considered in selecting the recipient, Stuart said.
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CEDAR FLOYDcampus reporter
Eighteen academic and student af-fairs programs will receive almost dou-ble the amount of financial support from an organization of parents next year.
Applications for the Mini-Grant Program, established and funded by Sooner Parents, will be due to the orga-nization for consideration by May 31, said Becky Barker, university liaison to
Sooner Parents and director of leader-ship development and volunteerism.
The Mini-Grant program awards grants of $500 to university projects that support educational growth, both
in the academic colleges and in the de-partment of student affairs, Barker said.
This year, the organization’s selection community will be able to select 18 ap-plicants to receive the grants, compared to the 10 projects that were funded last year, she said.
This is because of the $4,000 increase in available funding, from $5,000 last year to $9,000 this year, Barker said.
“We had a conversation about whether we should do larger grants or go for a wider impact, and decided to impact as many programs as we could,”
More grants will be given to raise program’s impact
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was seeing both receive doctorates, Livesey said.
very many of us and I met all the requirements,” Wilcox
THeFT ON CAMPUS
Fiddle filched from fine arts freshman
AJINUR SETIWALDIcampus reporter
An OU freshman panicked when he returned to the spot where he had left his violin in Catlett Music Center and found it missing.
After playing on the $7,000 Polish-made instrument for more than five years, the instrument had both fi-nancial and sentimental value for the student, who has requested to remain anonymous because the investigation of the theft still is in progress.
“I have traveled a lot of places with [the violin], and I’ve never forgotten
it anywhere — nothing has ever gone wrong,” the student said. “It was pretty shocking when I realized it wasn’t in its usual spot.”
Musical instruments are not often stolen from Catlett Music Center, and when they are, the thief is usu-ally apprehended and the instru-ment is returned to its owner, said Larry Mallett, director of OU School of Music.
The student said he noticed his instrument missing at 9 p.m. April 9 and immediately contacted his mother.
The next morning, he went to Mallett’s office to report the inci-dent, and Mallett called the OU Police Department, the student said.
“ W e w a l k e d u p a n d d o w n
throughout the entire music school for about an hour and half looking for it,” he said.
The student didn’t have many de-tails about his instrument to provide to OUPD for the police report be-cause his certificate of purchase was in Polish.
The student said his violin was purchased more than five years ago from Tomasz Zieba, a cello instruc-tor at Oklahoma City University. The student’s mother called Zieba and left him a message explaining the in-cident the day after the theft.
Later that day, the suspected thief tried to sell the instrument at Oklahoma Strings, a musical instru-ment sale, service and rental shop in
A violin was stolen from Catlett Music Center
CAC seeks projects for Creativity Festival
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students and faculty can submit past or cur-rent research projects to be displayed at ou’s fi rst oklahoma creativity Festival in september.
members of ou’s campus Activities council are looking for research projects to display at the council’s creativity Fair 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. sept. 19 on the south oval, said psychology sophomore meghan Fitzpatrick, assistant to the vice-chair of programming for the oklahoma creativity Festival. the fair is one of the fi rst events of cAc’s oklahoma creativity Festival, which will take place from sept. 19 through sept. 21.
organizers of the event are looking for research projects that creatively tackle current global issues of sustainability, economic development and eco-conser-vation, Fitzpatrick said.
“We are looking for anything possible … the more creative, the better,” she said.
students and faculty interested in showcasing their research can contact Fitzpatrick at meghan.s.fi [email protected] by the beginning of the fall 2013 semes-ter, she said.
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Boren’s budget forum needs student opinionsOpinion: tuition increases and state allocations shortfalls directly impact all ou students’ fi nances. (Page 4)
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Oklahoma City, the student said. Joe Guevara, who had serviced the instrument be-fore at the store, recognized the violin and called Zieba as the suspect left without a sale.
The student said the next day his mother called many of the music s h o p s i n t h e Oklahoma City metropolitan a re a s e a rc h -i n g f o r t h e instrument.
“ T w e n t y minutes after Mo m g o t o f f t h e p h o n e with the store m a n a g e r a t Larsen Music in Oklahoma City, the guy walks in with my violin and says his grand-father gave it to him and he wants to get an appraisal on it,” the student said. “The store manager calls the police and the thief was apprehended by OKC police.”
On April 13, four days after he noticed his violin was missing, the student and his instrument were re-united, he said.
But not all musicians are united with their stolen instruments.
In May 2012, OUPD re-ceived a stolen cello report,
according to OUPD reports.The $2,000 instrument
was not recovered and the case closed, OUPD spokes-man Lt. Bruce Chan said.
OUPD has a better chance of finding instruments if there is a serial number, Chan said. When there is a ser ial number, OUPD also searches the National Crime Information Center,
an FBI data-base, to track stolen items.
Ian Vincent, the assistant manger of Big Red Pawn, a l o c a l p aw n -shop, said the shop posts the serial number of items they purchase on Leadsonline, an online in-v e s t i g a t i o n system.
T h e s t o r e currently has more than 30 m u s i c a l i n -struments in
stock, Vincent said.OUPD wasn’t ver y in-
volved in the recovery of his instrument, the student said.
Although his violin didn’t come with a serial number because it was handmade in Poland, the calls the student’s mother made to music shops and Oklahoma City police helped appre-hend the thief and recover the violin, he said.
“Even though my violin
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Barker said.The organization seeks
a variety of ways to impact campus. Some may be very specific to certain popula-tions, while some might be more far-reaching, Barker said. For that reason, Sooner Parents decided it would be able to make a greater im-pact if it could offer even a little bit of support to a larger number of projects.
Sooner Parents has been awarding Mini-Grants since 2005 to programs like the Women’s Outreach Center’s D8 ME: Tips for Strong Relationships program, the College of Arts and Sciences Professional Networking Reception for Students, and the Student Volunteer Counsel, among others, Barker said.
“It’s only $500,” Barker said. “But we’ve been really pleased about what has been
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Molly Shi Boren greets Rebecca Light, health and exercise sophomore and her mother, Cindy Light, and grandmother, Nancy McCall, at Mom’s Day tea party April 6. Mom’s Day is among the many events Sooner Parents funds.
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able to occur: equipment that’s been purchased, or a speaker that was brought in that covered by this [grant].”
M e m b e r s o f S o o n e r Parents fund the grants with the dues they pay, Baker said.
S o o n e r P a r e n t s a l s o
provides funding for Mom’s Day, Dad’s Day and Big Event as well as sponsoring the Outstanding Senior awards within the academic colleges and the Outstanding Senior Man and Woman awards, she said.
“Sooner Parents serves
as extra support, providing funding that might not nor-mally be there, and it allows parents to be involved and make an impact,” Barker said.
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ViOLiN: Freshman is reunited with filched fiddleContinued from page 1 was in the polices’ hands,
posters went up because of the lack of communica-tion between the police de-partment and the School of Music,” the student said.
The School of Music cur-rently takes some measures to prevent theft, and stu-dents and faculty have done a good job monitoring the building, but it’s difficult to monitor all eight exits, Mallett said.
“Studying music is real-ly an intimate thing so you get a lot of one-on-one time with the faculty,” the stu-dent said. “Professors are really aware of what kids go
through and are concerned when they see instruments out of place.”
School of Music officials are considering taking ad-ditional measures to pre-vent theft, such as installing cameras near exits or hir-ing students to monitor the halls, Mallett said.
From now on, the student said he will keep his instru-ment closer to him to pre-vent another theft.
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“Even though my violin was in the polices’ hands, posters
went up because of the lack of
communication between the police
department and the School of
Music.”AnonymoUS FreShmAn
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Locals protesting illegal construction, looting
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egyptian villagers hold a banner in front of the 4,500-year-old “bent” pyramid, of Pharaoh Sneferu known for its oddly shaped profile, outside the village of Dahshour, 50 miles (80 Kilometers) south of Cairo, egypt on Monday. Protesters held a rally Monday against the continued construction of a modern cemetery at the foot of egypt’s first pyramids and its oldest temples.
DAHSHOUR, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian youths protested Monday at a key historic site, demanding that authorities put a stop to looting and construction that threatens one of the nation’s oldest pyramids and burial grounds.
Illegal construction of a new cemetery has been going on for months in part of a 4,500-year-old pharaonic necropolis. The expansion has encroached on the largely unexplored complex of Dahshour, where Pharaoh Sneferu experiment-ed with the first smooth-sided pyramids that his son Khufu, also known as Cheops, employed at the more famous Giza Plateau nearby, when he built the Great Pyramid.
Authorities issued an order in January to remove the con-struction equipment, instructing the Interior Ministry’s po-lice to implement it, but no action has been taken.
Also, a security vacuum that followed Egypt’s 2011 popular uprising has encouraged looters to step up their illegal digs, clashing with guards at the site.
On Monday, dozens of young protesters at the site about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Cairo held up a sign that read: “God does not bless a nation that gives up its heritage.”
Ramadan Mohammed, a 20-year old student from the nearby village of Mansheyet Dahshour, said he witnessed looting himself. He said he wanted to show that Dahshour residents were not responsible and should not to be blamed.
“I’m here to see the government’s response,” Mohammed said, with the shadow of Pharaoh Sneferu’s Bent Pyramid looming in the background. “The military was in control of the country all this past period, they should have protect-ed the site and caught the looters. Instead, they stood there doing nothing,” he complained.
Antiquities experts warn that construction of the new cemetery also endangers the ancient complex.
Villagers say their cemeteries are full, but authorities do not give permits or land for new ones, so they grabbed what
they insist is empty desert land to erect family tombs.The area, designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage site,
also includes the adjacent Valley Temple and the 3,800-year-old Black Pyramid of Amenemhat III.
Nearby is Sneferu’s Bent Pyramid, some 700 years older, with its distinctive bent sides believed to have been caused when the builders had to correct the angle halfway through construction. Farther away is the Red Pyramid, where Sneferu’s builders got the angles right, producing the first smooth-sided pyramid, evolving from the stepped structures built by earlier dynasties.
Antiquity restoration specialist Marwa el-Zeini, who was at the protest, blamed authorities for failing to stop the cem-etery construction.
Mohamed Youssef, head of antiquities for Dahshour, dis-missed the protest as a media stunt.
Monica Hanna, an independent archaeologist who has worked at Dahshour, praised the local initiative.
“It’s the first time the local community is taking a step for-ward, rather than the academics,” Hanna said. “Previously, it would always appear that the academics were against the residents.”
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Protesters oppose cemetery being built near one of Egypt’s oldest pyramids
UNiTeD NATiONS
UN seeks investigation of chemical weapons claims in Syria
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed to Syria again Monday to allow experts into the country without delay or conditions to investigate alle-gations of chemical weapons use, saying this is a “crucial moment” to get the team on the ground.
The U.N. chief told report-ers he takes seriously a recent U.S. intelligence report which indicated Syria has twice used chemical weapons and said “a credible and compre-hensive inquiry” requires ac-cess to all sites where allega-tions have been made.
Syria wants any investi-gation limited to an inci-dent near Aleppo in March, but Ban wants a broader investigation, including a December incident in Homs.
Ba n ma d e h i s ap p e a l for access standing beside Swedish chemical weapons expert Ake Sellstrom, a for-mer U.N. chemical weapons insp e ctor in Iraq who heads t h e t e a m , b e f o r e t h e y met private-ly. He praised Sellstrom and his team for their “integrity and indepen-dence and pro-fessionalism.”
U.N. spokes-m a n M a r t i n Nesirky said l a t e r t h a t t h e s e c r e -tar y-general and Sellstrom discussed the steps that have been taken so far in gathering information from a range of sources. He said they agreed that there is
tHe AssociAted pRess
U.N. Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon speaks at the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, Netherlands, April 8.
Experts say on-site study is necessary
“It’s the first time the local community is taking a step forward, rather than the academics. Previously, it would always
appear that the academics were against the residents.”
monicA hAnnA, inDepenDent ArchAeologiSt who workeD At DAhShoUr
no substitute for an on-site investigation to determine if chemical weapons have been
used.Ban stressed
earlier to re-porters that “o n -s i t e a c-t i v i t i e s a r e e s s e n t i a l i f t h e U n i t e d Nations is to be able to estab-lish the facts and clear up all the doubts surrounding this issue.”
H e n o t e d that April 29 is the Day of Remembrance
for All Victims of Chemical Warfare.
“As we address these al-legat ions,” Ban said, “I
encourage all involved to up-hold their responsibilities in enabling us to properly po-lice these heinous weapons of massive destruction.”
In a message marking the day, the secretary-gen-eral said the allegations “of the use of these indiscrimi-nate and morally repugnant
weapons in Syr ia ser ve as a reminder of the con-tinuing vital importance of the Chemical Weapons Convention.”
The convention prohibits the development, produc-tion, acquisition, stockpiling, retention, transfer or use of chemical weapons by the 188 states that have ratified it. Ban said in the past year, the total of declared chemical warfare agents that have been verifi-ably destroyed has risen from nearly 75 percent to close to 80 percent.
But the secretary-general said “the threat of chemical weapons persist,” noting that eight countries have not rati-fied the convention — Syria, North Korea, Angola, Egypt, Somalia, South Sudan, Israel and Myanmar.
“Until the convention is universal and the last stock-piles have been destroyed,” he said, “our debt to the vic-tims of chemical warfare will remain unpaid.”
The Associated Press
“I encourage all involved to uphold their
responsibilities in enabling
us to properly police these
heinous weapons of massive
destruction.”BAn ki-moon,
SecretAry generAl oF the UniteD nAtionS
Our view: Go to President Boren’s budget forum.
President David Boren’s open forum is a perfect opportunity for students to voice their concerns about rising tuition costs. OU’s budget is complex. The university receives a combination of state allo-cations, tuition, grants and donor contributions.
Every student should understand how these factors influence tuition increases. At the forum, Boren likely will place most of the blame of rising tuition on decreasing state allocations. State alloca-tions are important but that’s not the whole story. Understanding each piece of the funding puzzle is critical to analyzing OU’s monetary needs. Here is a breakdown of each piece:
State allocationsThe state of Oklahoma will allocate nearly
$980 million dollars to higher education in 2013. This is a 3.7 percent increase over 2012 allocations or almost $25 million in new funding, according the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education website. While the number is less than the $27.8 million requested by the regents to cover fixed costs, it is a significant increase.
Boren likely will show that state allocations make up a small portion — around 18 percent — of OU’s total budgetary needs. But this number includes the every campus. For the Norman central campus, state allocations make up 30.7 percent of the total operat-ing budget, according to OU Budget Office reports.
TuitionThe state regents approved a 3 percent increase in
OU tuition in June 2012. This was less than the state average increase of 5.2 percent. Tuition and fees make up 52.2 percent of the Norman campus’ total operating budget, according to budget office reports. Although state allocations are significantly higher for the Norman campus, they still pale in comparison to tuition contributions. This is Boren’s best argument. In a letter to newsok.com, Boren suggests this dis-parity demonstrates privatization of OU. If the state
contributes a small percentage of the total budget, is OU still a state university?
We would take this idea a step further. Because tu-ition accounts for the majority of Norman’s budget, it is a student university. This fact highlights the im-portance of student involvement in budgetary con-siderations. If you pay tuition, this is your university.
Donations and grantsDespite the prevalence of donor names on build-
ings and placards on campus, gifts and endow-ments made up just 3.2 percent of its 2012 to 2013
budget for the Norman campus, according to the Budget Office website. This number does not include OU Law and the Health Sciences Center. While donations are in-credibly important, they cannot make up for a lack of state allocations or significantly reduce tuition.
OU is doing a great job of attracting grant money from the federal government. The
Budget Office projects over $140 million dollars in grants in the 2013 fiscal year. Unfortunately, very lit-tle of this grant money trickles down to the Norman campus. The Norman cam-pus expects receive $11.8 million dollars, or 2.7 percent of its budget from grants and other contracts during 2013.
During Boren’s presen-tation today, be sure to pay close attention to what cam-pus his numbers apply. He might be quick to say the OU Medical School re-ceives 7 percent of its funding from state allocations but might not mention 30 percent of the Norman campus budget comes from the state.
We will pay close attention to Boren’s presentation and analyze his report in this space Wednesday.
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recently
announced they are in the market to purchase drones. The model of drone they are eyeing is the Cinestar Octocopter, according to a press release.
The octocopter amounts to a flying, radio-controlled camera mount.
The drone is capable of 20-minute flight times when carrying a camera weighing 900g, or roughly the weight of fully loaded Nikon camera, according to Cinestar’s website.
I expected more from PETA. For an organization that protests a 14-year-old boy selling his cow in a raf-fle by sending the kid veg-an-flavored porn, or con-ducts a “Meat is Murder” campaign by having mod-els lie nude and covered in blood in supermarket butcher-style packaging, I expected something more shocking.
If you want to deter hunters, poachers and factory farmers, a flying webcam isn’t going to cut it. This kind of deterrence requires a real drone. For that, PETA should take a look at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., the developer of the Predator B.
The MQ-9 (the Predator B) is capable of carrying a payload of 1,000 lbs. and flying a 42-hour mission. It also can fire a live Hellfire missile, which the Department of Defense claims has made “100 percent record of hits,” ac-cording to Air-Attack website.
Imagine all the animal lives you could save with a drone like that. Picture a couple of ignorant animal-killers in the bush.
They’re probably drunk and armed with shotguns and high-powered rifles, throwing empty beer cans out of their SUV, poisoning the poor fish in the nearby stream. One of them spots a defenseless, cuddly grizzly bear.
He snatches up his disgusting weapon, when suddenly from the sky, a predator drone appears and fires a volley of Hellfire missiles, destroying the hunters and their mur-
der machines.It would be magnificent.
Even after rescuing the animals, the drone would still have the flight time left to fly over slaughter-houses and take out office and housing facilities. No animal killer would be exempt from the drone’s wrath.
The drones cost $4.5 million apiece; but are well worth the invest-ment. What’s a few dollars if it means saving animal lives? PETA must stop being the prey and start being the predator.
Micah Wormley is a professional writing junior.
I was so heartened to read your editorial of April 25 about the general education curriculum and the Undergraduate Student Congress resolution that prompt-ed it. The support for our goals — ensuring that we have inspiring freshman experiences, enhancing the quality of our general education offerings and focusing on critical skills — means a great deal.
Moreover, I wholeheartedly agree that we must be highly sensitive to the finan-cial impact any changes may have on stu-dents and their families. I can say that any significant expansion of general education requirements is unlikely. As the editors also suggest, course evaluations can and should play a part in our thinking, and indeed a careful review of the quantitative and qual-itative measures of excellence already has revealed opportunities for improvement. Student voices have been and will continue to be a fundamental ingredi-ent in our thinking throughout this process, and I appreci-ate the thoughtful remarks of The Daily and the Congress.
Student input is always welcome, and my email address is [email protected].
Kyle Harper is senior vice provost and an associate classics and letters professor.
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University should offer free parking to hourly employees
I am in full agreement with the letter from Carl Kolata regard-
ing parking for employees. Making hourly employ-ees pay for parking puts undue burden on individ-uals who, as Kolata states, already have significant travel expenses.
The university certainly incurs significant costs related to parking, not including the real estate that could be used for classroom buildings or other facilities, but hourly employees should not have to bear any of that cost. OU should make on campus parking free for all full-time hourly employees.
I, like Kolata, have never worked at a job requiring em-ployees to pay for parking. Professors, administrators, sal-ary and hourly employees are charged $222 for a yearlong parking pass, according to the parking services website. Salary employees might not be impacted by this amount but hourly employees are. Kolata must work over 20 hours to afford the parking pass he uses to work on campus.
Kolata’s other option would be to, as the parking ser-vices website suggests, take public transportation and add significant time to his morning commute. He is stuck. Either pay the money or waste time on public transpor-tation. Students can understand financial restraints. We have to pay for parking spots even farther away. But most of us do not come to campus for eight hours every day like Kolata. The last thing he should have to do is work 20 hours to pay for what any other employer offers for free.
Mark Brockway is a political science senior.
I would like to know why I have to pay for parking. I work as a custodian and make $10 an hour. I start work at 4 a.m. and stop at 12:30 p.m.
The parking lot restrictions are enforced from 7:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. So I really only use the parking space for five hours a day but pay full price. It’s about $200 a year for a parking permit. That doesn’t sound like much, but it would help pay for my gas to get to work, food, Christmas presents, etc. Are special people getting free parking?
I have never worked for a company that makes employ-ees pay to park.
Carl Kolata is a facilities attendant.
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Prior to the New Orleans series two weekends ago,
coach Sunny Golloway said he had a win number in mind that could lead to the program’s first regular sea-son Big 12 title.
At the time, the No. 12 Sooners (33-11, 10-5 Big 12) had 15 games remaining on their schedule once they had played the Privateers, whom OU easily swept. And of those 15 games, the eight-year Oklahoma skipper put that win number at around 10, which puts his team at winning every series without sweeping any series from here on out.
“We’re a very realis-tic bunch; it’s baseball,” Golloway said. “You set yourself up for failure when you go, ‘We’re going to sweep this weekend.’ You’re goal’s got to be two out of three.”
Since hitting that 15-games-remaining mark, the Sooners have gone 2-1 and have had one game — against No. 14 Arkansas — rained out. That canceled game will be replaced with a home game against a less-er-quality opponent than the Razorbacks, but the team has not been announced yet.
Of the 12 games remain-ing, 10 of them will be played
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away from L. Dale Mitchell Park, starting against Dallas Baptist at 6:30.
Although this game does not count toward the Sooners’ Big 12 record, it is a big one in terms of possi-bly improving their RPI and maintaining any momen-tum gained during the last six games where they’ve gone 5-1.
By winning the Big 12, the Sooners should be guar-anteed one of the 16 host positions for the NCAA Tournament, although their record, ranking throughout the year, RPI and how other teams around the country are playing should not give
them a national seed.The difference between a
national seed and a host bid is the top eight teams have the ability to host both the regional and super regional rounds, granted they win their round, while the bot-tom eight rankings will host only a regional round.
As college baseball has been playing out this season,
those eight national seeds should be distributed among the SEC, ACC and Pac 12 probably with one or two teams from other confer-ences sneaking in there. The other high-quality programs and conference champions should get the final eight host bids.
But don’t expect OU to get a national seed if it wins the
conference.The Big 12 is down this
year, which is why winning the conference may not be as persuasive to the selection committee as it may have been a season ago. Winning this conference definitely is not as flashy as it was five years ago when the Texas Longhorns were making routine runs at Omaha.
Part of the reason why the Big 12 is down is because Texas has been struggling, and the two teams who are making their debuts in the conference — TCU and West Virginia — are not making the best first impressions.
TCU, who went to the
College World Series in 2010, was expected to challenge the Sooners for the Big 12 crown. But the Horned Frogs are struggling to get back to .500 and are only ahead of Texas Tech and Texas for last place in the conference.
West Virginia, whom OU plays this weekend in Charleston, W. Va., struggled early on but has won back-to-back series in Big 12 play to climb up to tied for third and within striking distance for the regular season con-ference title with a 9-6 Big 12 record.
The Big 12 will not get many representatives in the NCAA Tournament. There may be three teams at most, and that’s only if a sur-prise team wins the Big 12 Tournament — like Missouri did last year to sneak into the postseason.
So these last 12 games are huge for the Sooners.
If Golloway’s club does not hit the magic number he presented a couple weeks ago or surpass it by the way Baylor has been playing on weekends, then the Big 12 trophy once again will go home with another program.
“11-4, 10-5 and we’ll be in really good shape going into the Big 12 tournament and be happy with the re-sults of the regular season,” Golloway said. “But you never know what other peo-ple in the league are going to do.”
Jono Greco is a journalism graduate student and assistant sports editor.
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MTV finally has produced some-thing the over-21
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“Girl Code” premiered April 23, revealing some of the funniest, darkest, best and not-so-flattering secrets about women in their 20s.
The show is broken up into segments where a cast of 14 women and five men discuss how women act and the rules women sometimes unknowingly follow — also known as the girl code. The cast includes comedians and actors.
In the roommate segment of the show, cast members pointed out that some room-mates are great, some are just tolerable and some are the worst kinds of crazy to live with.
When a girl wants a room-mate, she has to interview other girls, cast member Jeff Dye said. When a guy wants a roommate all he says is, “You’ve got $400, right?”
“If your roommate leaves notes everywhere, you start leaving notes about her notes because she is being stupid,” cast member Nicole Byer said.
In the “#Isthatweird?” seg-ment of the show, the cast makes fun of those embar-rassing things most women are guilty of saying but
probably won’t admit to.“I have already named
all three of my children … and I don’t even have a boy-friend yet,” said cast mem-ber Shalyah Evans. “Is that weird?”
When it comes to having a crush and doing weird things around him or her, the cast gave some advice as they shared their most em-barrassing moments.
“I think that crushes are great and that they make the world go round … Otherwise, Taylor Swift would not have a career,” cast member Alice Wetterlund said.
If there is one universal thing about “Girl Code,” it’s that no girl wants to be “that girl,” even if they are that girl and just don’t know it.
According to cast mem-ber Esther Ku, the best way to stay out of trouble when you are drinking is to just not leave the house … it’s just safer.
“If your drink has some ridiculous name like Sex on the Beach, I’m going to
the other side of the bar and drinking with the guy who’s bald with gray hair on the sides,” cast member Jessimae Peluso said.
I never knew a bunch of random people talking about girls could be such pure gold. The best thing about this show is that re-gardless of the topic, we have all been there or at least witnessed the things strictly girls go through.
Just because the show is literally all about girls doesn’t mean guys won’t love it. Boys: If you tune in, you may learn a few things. In fact, this show just might educate you on all the things about women you have ever wondered about.
Erica Laub is a film and media studies junior.
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Finals are upon us, and with the added stress they bring, we
have to have something to look forward to for the ap-proaching summer. I have a few films in mind for this summer I recommend see-ing if you have the chance.
“The Internship”Shawn Levy’s bromedy, “The Internship,” which comes
out June 7, has the potential to be the best movie of the summer. Levy has had a long-standing career making comedies along with other movies, but his most notable movies include “The Night at the Museum” series, and recently “Real Steel.”
If you have been living under a rock since Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn’s “Wedding Crashers” hit theaters al-most a decade ago, then “The Internship” will give you a second chance at seeing these two actors as they prove why they are one of funniest comedic duos in Hollywood.
The film follows Nick (Wilson) and Billy (Vaughn) as they try to catch up to the Internet age and get jobs at Google after they’re laid off because of their previous company’s failure to stay up-to-date with technology. Along the way, Nick and Billy deliver what look to be some cheesy, yet hysterical one-liners as they try to fit in with their 20-something fellow interns and fight for the chance to work for Google.
“The Hangover Part III”Your favorite band of idiots is back as they embark on
another adventure of destruction and debauchery only director Todd Phillips (“Old School”) and the crew from “The Hangover” can produce. Back for its final install-ment of the trilogy, “The Hangover Part III” has all the usual suspects ready to cause more mayhem.
“The Hangover Part III” follows Phil (Bradley Cooper), Alan (Zach Galifianakis), Doug (Justin Bartha) and Stu (Ed Helms) as they hit the road, but this time there is nei-ther a wedding nor a bachelor party involved. Instead, the film appears to be a mix of scenes wherein the “wolf-pack” finds itself in precarious situations, allowing the audience to laugh at the pack’s foolish, yet entertaining actions.
You won’t have to wait too long for this one, because it hits theaters in mere weeks with a May 24 release date.
Brent Stenstrom is a film and media studies junior.
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