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Chinese students, immigrants and visiting scholars learn about the English language and culture by working with American stu-dents in the Wesley’s English conversation classes.

The classes usually contain anywhere

from 13 to 20 adults, said Amy Steele, social work junior, who helps teach the program.

The Wesley has been holding the classes since 2007, Rev. Fuxia Wang said.

“We meet the needs of the people, and the most important thing is to let people know the love of Jesus Christ,” Wang said.

The program began with mostly under-graduate students, but more recently, mar-ried couples and adults who have children have attended. To accommodate these chil-dren, the Wesley started a similar English

program in September tailored for children, said Haley Pitts, early childhood education junior, who attended the program.

“It started out as a Bible study, but be-cause many of the children don’t speak English, we’re doing more language and lit-eracy activities,” Pitts said.

There is not a strict format for the adult classes. It depends on the needs of the par-ticipants each semester, said accounting senior John Farley, who helps teach the program.

“We really try to change the program each semester to fit the students,” Farley said.

The environment is relaxed, comfortable and respectful, said Xinxin Zhao, whose husband is a visiting scholar at OU and has attended the programs.

“Everyone knows that my English isn’t very good, but I can ask questions, and my language since has improved,” Zhao said.

The program also lets foreign students participate in something and communicate

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Nancy Mergler, senior vice president and provost, an-nounced she will resign from her position, effective June 1, and return to teaching in the Honors College.

In an email to faculty and staff, OU President David Boren said pending OU Board of Regents approval, Kyle Harper, senior vice provost since Jan. 2013, will be the interim pro-vost and senior vice president.

The provost is responsible for institutional planning and budgeting, program development and review and academic policies and procedures, according to a press release. The

provost is also in charge of recruitment, retention and de-velopment of faculty and students, according to the press release.

Mergler has been provost since 1995, according to the press release.

Mergler said she decided to step down because she saw that the job, along with higher education, was changing.

“The institution deserves fresh eyes,” Mergler said.During Mergler’s tenure, she helped transform various ac-

ademic programs into colleges, such as the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy, the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, the College of International and Area Studies and the Honors College, according to the press release.

Mergler also implemented a 10-year plan to increase li-brary resources, helped expand the number of professional

academic advisers to help students graduate and oversaw the creation of the Academic Integrity Council, according to the press release.

With the changes in higher education, such as the focus on emerging technologies in the classroom with OU’s Digital Initiative, Mergler said Harper will be a good fit in the provost position because he understands new technologies and ways of communicating with students.

“I’m good at email. I don’t think I’ll ever be good at Twitter,” Mergler said.

Mergler said she is excited to get back into teaching, spending more time with her family and having less stress.

“I’ll teach myself to sleep through the night without wak-ing up stressing...,”Mergler said.

Harper said he was humbled to take over the position and

Some students who study abroad come back with souvenirs, class credits and a string of memorable quotes in foreign languages, but for one student, he

came back with inspiration to start a new clothing line.OU advertising sophomore Brandon Tomlin is the

co-founder of the clothing brand Cronik Gear, a brand he and a friend collaborated on after seeing the clothing styles in Costa Rica and taking cues from the bright colored, differ-ent textured clothing in the market stores.

“I started taking some concepts from their clothing and incorporating them into my own preference in style and stuff that I kind of carried here in the states,” Tomlin said.

Before coming to OU, Tomlin attended Tulsa Community College, where he signed up for a two-week study abroad trip to Costa Rica in summer 2012.

He chose to study abroad in Costa Rica because he liked studying wildlife biology, and during the program, he met his friend and co-partner for Cronik, Kayla Whitehouse.

A few months after the trip, they had a real business and had started making deals with their manufacturer, Whitehouse said.

Their first product was the volo, a lightweight hoodie with a low, round neckline, Tomlin said.

While it was easy for them to envision their product, Tomlin said it was a lengthy process finding a company that could produce what they had in mind.

The two started looking in Oklahoma and eventually started asking in other states, such as California, but the companies wouldn’t work for their needs, which included putting the Cronik Gear logo on their clothing.

The co-founders finally decided to go international and now have their products made in Pakistan, they said.

The company has a website, but Tomlin said the majority of his products are sold by word-of-mouth.

“The best way I sell the volos is when people wear them because they attract their own attention, and people will be like, ‘hey, where did you get that?’” Tomlin said. “I get a lot of satisfaction just by seeing people wear my product.”

Tomlin said he sees friends and people he doesn’t know wear his products across campus, and he is happy with his company’s success thus far.

The volo was Tomlin and Whitehouse’s gateway product, but more products are on the way.

“We plan on making a lot of other products such as spring wear and summer wear,” Whitehouse said.

Cronik Gear has sold approximately 300 hoodies since the brand became an official product.

“I own two: a light blue and a gray one,” University College

A trip to Costa Rica sparked a passion, business idea for two Sooners that now sell, market hoodies

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continue building on what Mergler has achieved during her years in office.

“I hope to carry on the legacy that she’s built,” Harper said.Mergler was Harper’s mentor, and he said he’s learned a

lot about leadership and developing a vision for the univer-sity from her.

“[Mergler]’s been the best mentor anyone could ever hope for,” Harper said.

Harper has been working with Mergler and the President’s Task Force on a comprehensive curriculum review, accord-ing to the press release.

Harper is a classics and letters department member and director of OU’s Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage, according to the press release.

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1987: Joined OU as director of the Honors program

1986: Became chairwoman for the OU Scholars selection committee

1994: Served as co-chair for the President’s Task Force for

Reinvigorating the Undergraduate Experience

February 1995: Named Outstanding Freshman Advocate by the National Resource Center for the Freshman

Year Experience

1995: Served as a psychologyprofessor

1995: Became OU’s senior vice president and provost of the

Norman campus

1999: Awarded OU Student Associa-tion Award to Outstanding

Administrator

June 1, 2014: Mergler will resign from her position as provost

KYLE HARPERSENIOR VICE PROVOST

2011: Awarded the Irene Rothbaum Outstanding Faculty Award

2011: Awarded the James Henry Breasted Prize for “Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275-425”

2011: Launched OU’s Teach-In on Constitutionalism

Jan. 1, 2013: Began as senior vice provost

2013: Awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Fellowship

2013: Introduced website freedom.ou.edu, which features a

series of short lectures

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Our View: We refuse to refer to the Red River Shootout by corporately sponsored titles, and encourage you to do the same.

Corporate sponsors may come and go, but our disdain for the University of Texas will never change. We refuse to refer to the rivalry as the AT&T Red River Showdown, the game’s new name that was unveiled last week. We do not care what companies de-clare the name of our rivalry to be, and neither should you. To us, it will always be the Red River Shootout. Oklahoma and Texas have had bad

blood forever, and the state battle has been personified through the Red River Shootout foot-ball game since 1900, before Oklahoma was even officially a

state. There is so much history and pent-up passion embodied in the OU vs. Texas rivalry, and it cheapens the competition to accept corporate changes to its name every few years.

Many younger generations of OU and UT students probably refer to the game as the Red River Rivalry, which is what the name was changed to in 2005 when SBC Communications became the annual event’s sponsor. But to us that name is still incorrect because it’s what a group from a cor-poration decided to call it.

Obviously a lot of the OU-Texas rivalry has to do with money. Fans from all over both states make the

annual trek to Dallas for the game, bringing untold revenue to the Fair Park venue. Each university also re-leases special merchandise themed for the game every year, a clear move to increase sales and profits for the schools. But increasing revenue for states and colleges is different than a corporate sponsor pocketing change by owning the naming rights to a football game.

Who honestly benefits from that? Certainly not Sooners or Longhorns, who the game is for. So we encourage OU students not to call the tourna-ment anything other than the Red River Shootout. Don’t glorify AT&T by using its name for our game. Don’t use the Red River Showdown hashtag on Twitter or reprint the logo to promote the game. We can’t change the fact that the name of our famous rivalry has been changed yet again, but we can choose to ignore the change.

As a SoonerSports video from the men’s basketball season explains, OU vs. Texas is “A rivalry so embed-ded in the fiber of every Sooner and Longhorn, so filled with passion and disdain, that God created a river so these two states wouldn’t have to touch.” Regardless of your religious beliefs, you can’t deny the sentiment rings true. It also doesn’t hurt that we swept the Longhorns in men’s bas-ketball this year.

The level of pure emotion asso-ciated with the Red River Shootout puts the rivalry in a class of its own. Neither university would be the same

without the rivalry, and as much as we loathe the Longhorns, we don’t know what we would do without our annual battle on the gridiron. The rivalry is nearer and dearer to our hearts than some corporately spon-sored event with naming rights going to the highest bidder.

This episode of renaming the OU-Texas game has us thinking about the trend to attach the names of com-pany sponsors to sporting events whenever possible. All postseason football bowl games have a corpo-rate sponsor in the titles. For exam-ple, OU dominated the University of

Alabama to win the Allstate Sugar Bowl this year, and Texas was embar-rassed in a loss to the University of Oregon in the Valero Alamo Bowl.

Outcomes aside, we think it’s silly that the naming rights for nearly every football game seem to be up for sale. Let’s just play the game and try whenever possible to maintain the sanctity of our favorite college pastime. The name of the Red River Shootout will never change in the minds of the OU faithful. Boomer Sooner and horns down forever.

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OU undergraduate students now have a place to submit their experimental work and field ob-servations with a new OU re-search journal.

The online journal is called the “Undergraduate Biological S c i e n c e s Jou r na l” a n d w e nt live Monday. The journal was

specifically designed for under-graduate research that is taking place in OU’s biology department and related fields.

The journal’s creator and editor in chief Alyssa Hill said the jour-nal is intentionally extensive so it can serve many undergraduate students who are doing research.

The current staff includes four OU faculty members, Hill and five other OU students. After stu-dents submit their research on-line, the five undergraduate edi-tors will review the work and help decide what will be published in

the journal’s inaugural online issue. The faculty advisory com-mittee will review each research paper submitted, send feedback and recommendations to the re-searcher and have the final say on whose will get published.

Hill, a microbiology graduate student, came up with the idea to create a biology research journal after she was published in the OU Honors Undergraduate Research Journal during her junior year as an undergraduate.

Hill had written a paper about the Kuhn’s Model of Scientific

Revolution and its relationship to microbiology over time. She said getting published felt rewarding for the time and work she put into her research paper, and she hopes others will get the same satisfac-tion from the journal.

Hill said one of the reasons she initiated this research journal was because of the plethora of re-search projects going on through-out OU that many people in the community — including herself — aren’t aware of.

Some of this research includes topics such as animal behavior,

ethanol production for fuel and bio-corrosion of oil pipelines, said Alexander Mann, microbiology senior on the journal’s editorial board.

“There are a lot of undergradu-ate students doing this, because there are only so many graduate students to go around,” Mann said.

Both Mann and Hill said this journal can benefit students who are seeking to continue doing re-search and also to get jobs.

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freshman Kaitlin Manis said. “The style is unique, and they are affordable while being great quali-ty, which is why I think so many people like them.”

U n i v e r s i t y C o l l e g e freshman Ian Camp also owns a volo hoodie and said he admires Tomlin’s entrepreneurship.

“I think [Tomlin] is pas-sionate about what he does and loves seeing oth-ers wearing his product,” Camp said. “The fact that he is still in school has lit-tle to do with the success of his company. He seems to operate it effectively while doing well in school.”

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“Innocence on a Pedestal,” a piece by studio art junior Chandler Wilson. This and other works are fea-tured in the School of Art and Art History’s Lightwell Gallery in the current student exhibition, “Circadian Rhythms: A New Media Collective Show.”

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“A majority of the art in ‘Circadian Rhythms’ has to do with time, or cycles,” said Amy Sanders, art, technol-ogy and culture senior and NMC president. “The way ‘Circadian Rhythms’ was set up plays directly into that theme.”

The NMC is a student or-ganization on campus that

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executive committee and motivated us to reach new heights,” Epting said. “The goal

throughout the year was 20 percent im-provement on all areas of the event,

and the fundraising total exceeded that goal by quite a lot.”

Uniting Sooners is one thing, but for Campbell events like

Soonerthon are all about the beneficiaries of the event.

“I can’t operate on those kids while in college, but this is the best I can do to make sure that they have the best chance of survival,” Campbell said.

Campbell said she was surprised but grateful for the reaction to Soonerthon

this year. Almost 2,000 stu-dents participated, some

even raising money them-s e l v e s f o r t h e f a m i l i e s o f

Children’s Hospital.“It’s not that OU did this, but

that we did something great for someone else,” she said.Personally, Campbell said she has

been greatly affected by medicine in her life through family and friends, which is why

she is studying to be a pediatrician’s assistant. She said she one day hopes to work in a hospital with kids. Nguyen said Campbell is a great stu-dent and can do anything she sets her mind to.

“It’ll kind of make it come full circle; from helping out on the financial side to helping out on the medical side,” she said.

By her own admission, Campbell probably won’t be the Soonerthon chair next year, but she does intend to be a major part of it regardless and wishes the next chair the best of luck.

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artists worked in eight-hour shifts on their proj-ects before the opening reception on April 4.

During this time, they could live stream what they were working on, whether it was their cre-a t i o n o f t h e p i e c e o r their installation in the exhibition.

“ This gives v iew ers an opportunity to watch portions of the creative process [that] are not fre-quently seen,” Bottorff said.

Most of the work in the exhibit was produced earlier that week, which is contrary to most ex-hibits that may feature collections of work from a variety of stages in an artist’s life. Most of these works reflect what these student artists are doing and learning now.

“It’s not a traditional exhibition,” said Jessica Upson, School of Art a n d A r t Hi s t o r y pu b -lic relations and event coordinator.

By live-streaming part of the process, the artists were able to give insight into the exhibition.

“Live streaming a show is exciting and allows the general public to be a part of the ‘behind-the-scenes’ aspect of an art exhibit,” Sanders said.

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Funds to be given to Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma City

Spring semester is already reaching its final chapter, and yet the intensity of this year’s Soonerthon is still

fresh in everyone’s mind. For Sarah Campbell, human relations junior and Soonerthon chair, that was a crowning achievement.

Since high school, philan-t h ro py ha s b e e n a maj o r part of Campbell’s life. So when she entered OU, she was immediately drawn t o S o o n e r t h o n , f o r -merly known as Dance Marathon. She joined the executive committee and fell in love after her first experience.

“I’ve loved watching stu-dents unite for one common cause and kind of set adrift all those other boundaries,” Campbell said.

She said it was exhilarating to walk into the Huff on her first day and watch all the students interact with the kids, which was the best part of the entire experience for her. From then on, she was hooked.

“It’s kind of addicting,” Campbell said. “Once you get your foot in the door it’s hard to walk away.”

Soonerthon started 18 years ago as part of a fundraising organization called Dance Marathon that was conducted across the coun-try, Campbell said. However, a couple of years ago, it started dwindling and was almost re-moved from OU. That was when Quy Nguyen, assistant director of Student Life and adviser for CAC, stepped in.

Soonerthon was made CAC’s official philan-thropy event during which they raised money for the Children’s Hospital Foundation in Oklahoma City. Nguyen said it was Campbell who really took Soonerthon to the next level. Campbell said Soonerthon has really come a long way as it is now the 13th biggest dance mar-athon in the country.

“Going from nothing to raising $318,000 is a pretty big deal,” she said.

This year, Campbell took over as chair for Soonerthon and worked tirelessly on making it

bigger and better. One of the major changes they made was renaming the event to Soonerthon.

“It kind of encompasses the overall Sooner spirit that we have,” she said.

Nguyen said Campbell was never afraid to expand Soonerthon, whether it was estab-lishing new events like the Soonerthon Golf Tournament, or trying to increase the number of miracle children. She pushed them to be better at everything, he said.

Public relations junior Matt Epting served as Soonerthon director with Campbell last year.

“She has been passionate about giving back even since high school when she chaired Norman North High School’s SPUD Week philanthropy,” Epting said.

Epting attributes a lot of the success of this year’s Soonerthon to Campbell.

“Her energy and leadership united the

Circle: Human Relations junior Sarah Campbell poses for a photo inside the dining room of Kappa Kappa Gamma. This year, Campbell was the chair of Soonerthon, Campus Activities Council’s official philanthropy event. Soonerthon 2014 raised $318,000 for Children’s Hospital Oklahoma City.

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The No. 1 seeded Oklahoma Men’s Gymnastics team

is heading to Ann Arbor, Mich., for the 2014 NCAA National Championships. Although 12 teams will compete at NCAAs, No. 2 Michigan is Oklahoma’s biggest obstacle between the Sooners and their first National Championship since 2008. OU needs to do three things to ensure they take care of Michigan and bring a National Championship back to Norman.

1. THE HIGH BAR

Oklahoma has struggled in their last two meets on high bar. In the MPSF Conference Championship, Oklahoma had to count two full misses in their team score, but they still were able to come out on top. The Sooners started their rotation on high bar, and with the mistakes they made, they had to keep their composure throughout the meet — which they won. Earlier this season, misses on high bar contributed to a narrow loss to Ohio State. Oklahoma has to fix its struggles on high bar if it wants to dethrone reigning national champion Michigan. Oklahoma scored a 446.100 at the confer-ence championships, despite their two falls. However, Michigan posted a season high 448.200 at its champion-ship. If Oklahoma can fix problems on high bar, they are well within reach to dethrone the Wolverines.

2. MICHIGAN’S SAM MIKULAK

The University of Michigan has a not-so-secret weap-on, Sam Mikulak. The senior is well decorated, both at Michigan and internationally. Mikulak was part of the 2012 USA Olympic team and competed on four events in the team competition. In 2013, he was a three-time National Champion (all-around, high bar and parallel bar). This year, Mikulak has already claimed the 2014 AT&T American Cup all-around title and named the Big 10 Gymnast of the Year — the third in his collegiate career. Oklahoma has at least one athlete ranked in the top 10 in each event, including Michael Squires who is the top ranked individual on still rings and defending event Nation Champion on rings. To win the National Championships, Oklahoma will need to step up on events that has multiple top 10 athletes, such as floor, pommel horse and parallel bars, to counterbalance the inevitably high numbers Mikulak will put up in his last competition at Michigan.

3. IGNORE THE RUNNER-UP HISTORY

The Sooners have come in second place for the last three years and have not won the National Title since 2008. For the Sooners to win this weekend at Michigan, Oklahoma has to forget the past and look forward. This team is not only No. 1 overall going into the NCAA Championships, but also ranked No. 1 on floor,

pommel horse and still rings; Michigan tops the Sooners in vault and parallel bars. In order for the Sooners to de-feat the Wolverines, they cannot dwell on the last three

years — plain and simple.

Jennifer Rogers is a communications senior.

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All-around freshman gymnast Colin Van Wicklen swings around the high bar during the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Conference Championship on March 29 at McCasland Field House. The Sooners won the championship with an overall score of 446.100. If the Sooners want to defeat Michigan at NCAAs, they will need to improve their high bar performance.

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The Sooners have come in second place for the last three years and have not won the National Title since 2008. For the Sooners to win this weekend at Michigan, Oklahoma has to forget the past and look forward. This

in vault and parallel bars. In order for the Sooners to de-feat the Wolverines, they cannot dwell on the last three

years — plain and simple.

Jennifer Rogers is a communications senior.

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