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O U s t u d e n t s t r av e l e d t o t h e Oklahoma State Capitol on Tuesday afternoon for Higher Education Day to speak with state legislators about increasing higher education funding.

More than 50 students rode a char-ter bus to lobby at the Capitol with politicians about future budgets con-tributing to universities across the state.

Among these students was Student

Government Association president Madeline Grunewald. She and other student lobbyists met with state leg-islators throughout the day and met in the Senate Chamber to promote higher education in Oklahoma.

Grunewald spoke with Oklahoma Sen. Jim Halligan, R-Stillwater, who raised questions about in and out-of-state tuition, home schooling and what the state’s rights are while regu-lating education.

Halligan asked whether univer-sities should grant in-state tuition costs to immigrant students and if Oklahoma should move to perfor-mance-based funding within the university.

“Education is becoming an indus-try, and that’s not what we want,” Grunewald said. “It all comes back to money.”

Halligan spoke about the budget plans for university funding but said the plans are in preliminary stages.

“We’re not even at the bottom of the first in a nine-inning game,” Halligan said, referring to the budget planning process.

Higher Education Day came a week after Gov. Mary Fallin proposed a bill that would cut state funding to higher education by about $50 million.

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Campus includes gender-neutral restrooms

Micah Worm-ley was only comfortable

using two campus restrooms while she was transitioning. Wormley, who is transgender, relied upon the gender-neu-tral restrooms in Kaufman Hall and Gittinger Hall.

OU offers safe options for everybody on campus to use

Wormley said she stumbled upon these bathrooms by ac-cident and finding other non-gendered restrooms on campus is difficult.

“I have been looking, and it’s a tough search,” said Wormley, professional writing and anthropology senior.

There are 13 gender-neutral restrooms scattered through-out classroom buildings of the North and South ovals. These restrooms are made for single use and were found on vari-ous floors depending on the building. The Daily contacted Facilities Management for a complete list of non-gendered restrooms, but such documents don’t exist.

Wormley, who now uses women’s restrooms almost exclu-sively, said she saw a comic strip that perfectly illustrated the challenges of finding a restroom during her transition.

“Instead of a men’s restroom and a women’s restroom, it had a ‘get beat up restroom’ and a ‘get yelled at restroom,’ and that’s a fear that many trans people have, including myself at that point,” Wormley said.

Gender-neutral restrooms can help students who are not comfortable defining themselves strictly in terms of male or female, said Tyler Tennant, president of OU’s GLBTF.

“There’s a common misconception in regards to gender

and sex that people are simply one or the other, and that’s not the case and it should not be the end-all, be-all in regards to gender expression,” said Tennant, letters and mathematics junior, in an email.

Wormley said she has been verbally confronted twice while using women’s restrooms. The first time was in Bizzell Memorial Library when a woman asked Wormley if she be-longed in that restroom.

“I responded by saying, ‘Well, look at this: My wallet is Vera Bradley. My underwear is Victoria’s Secret. I spend more on foundation than on food. I think I belong here,’” Wormley said. She also said someone confronted her in Gaylord Hall.

Though people have only confronted her twice, Wormley said she sometimes gets stares and glares in restrooms.

Though he said he could not speak for the entire campus, Tennant said that he thinks members of the GLBTF and other students would appreciate an increase of gender-neutral re-strooms. Though some people on campus might not be re-ceptive to the idea, hopefully they would keep open minds, Tennant said.

“I’m also sure that there are some who might not be so open to the idea, but I think that OU is really special in that

our students genuinely care about their peers,” Tennant said.The best thing to do when looking at gender nonconformist

issues is to research and ask questions, he said.While some people might not think gender-neutral re-

strooms would help a large group, a gender-neutral restroom is created for everyone, GLBTF adviser Meredith Worthen said.

“It’s neutral. That’s the whole point,” said Worthen, sociolo-gy and women’s and gender studies professor. “Of course the population is big enough. Anyone can use them.”

Furthermore, it is difficult to define who might be most af-fected by non-gendered restrooms, Worthen said.

Students might be uncomfortable using gendered re-strooms for a variety of reasons aside from being transgender or gender variant, Worthen said. Additionally, many trans-gender students are probably completely comfortable in gen-dered restrooms.

“I think that it’s really much more complex than it sounds at the outset,” Worthen said.

Gender-neutral restrooms would show equality,

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whomever they may appeal to most, Worthen said.“It seems like something that is a simple fix, having a gen-

der neutral restroom, and if it could help people feel more comfortable or more safe or included or supported, why not?” Worthen said.

While OU has no plans to increase the number of gen-der-neutral restrooms on campus right now, the University of Houston-Downtown’s Student Government Association unanimously passed a decision Jan. 10 that will create gen-der-neutral restrooms on their campus.

Kristopher Sharp, vice president of the University of Houston-Downtown’s SGA, headed the movement.

“We want to come up with a solution to make bathrooms safe spaces,” Sharp said.

Sharp, the president of Safe Zone, his school’s GLBTQ stu-dent organization, said not all students feel comfortable using gendered restrooms.

Because these students are paying the same tuition as other students, Sharp said he felt that it was “abhorrent” that they were not getting to use the same amenities.

Additionally, gender-neutral restrooms can be of use to

students with assistants or parents with children of the oppo-site gender, Sharp said.

One pair of currently multi-stalled, gendered restrooms in every building will become gender neutral, Sharp said.

If people are not comfortable using the gender-neutral

restrooms, gendered restrooms remain throughout campus. Creating gender-neutral restrooms only adds resources for students who have gone without, Sharp said.

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Of the 27 restrooms The Daily surveyed on campus, the following have gender-neutral restrooms:

• Burton Hall, second floor

• Carnegie Building, second floor (this building also holds a designated nursing mothers room on the third floor)

• Carpenter Hall, basement floor

• Chemistry Building Annex, second floor

• Gaylord Hall, third floor

• George Lynn Cross Hall, first floor

• Monnet Hall, third floor (this bathroom is labeled for people with disabilities, but it does not have designated genders)

• Physical Sciences Center, seventh floor

• Richards Hall, fourth floor

• Sutton Hall, first floor

• Gittinger Hall, first floor

• Kaufman Hall, first floor

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While Alex Weintz, com-munications director in Fallin’s office, said higher education is a high priority of Fallin’s, Boren and various others across campus be-lieve Fallin’s proposed high-er education budget cut will be detrimental to the quality of OU’s education programs.

“ Th i s i s a d i s a s t e r i n the making,” said George Richter-Addo, chairman of the department of chemis-try and biochemistry, in an email. “It is very difficult to even begin to think of what else can be cut. We are al-ready stretched by the reduc-tions that have occurred over the last 5 to 6 years.”

Richter-Addo said the

science department has been able to maintain safety and provide instruction with-out significant loss in quality despite previous budget cuts, but any further reductions will pose laboratory safety and instructional issues for students.

Fallin’s camp believes otherwise.

“Mary Fallin thinks that we have great professors and great administrators, and they are talented people who can find ways to maintain a high level of quality at our universities with 5 percent less in state appropriations,” Weintz said.

Boren said the almost $50 million re-allocation comes despite OU having already been subject to over $100 million in state budget cuts and fixed cost increases since 2008.

If the budget is approved, the university will either have to cut programs, faculty and staff, or increase tuition costs to accommodate the budget cut, Boren told The Daily.

The higher education bud-get cut will also reduce the chances of faculty receiving pay increases, which last took place 3 years ago in 2011, said Nick Hathaway, OU vice president of executive affairs and administrative affairs.

If Oklahoma’s legislature adopts Fallin’s 2014 budget proposal, Hathaway said the reallocation of OU’s budget could occur July 1.

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OU boasts one in four of its students study

abroad. It has erected a College of International Studies and attests to be a truly global school. But what does that mean? With an increasingly intercon-nected world and hard economic times at home, students go abroad to give themselves the edge in a competitive job market. But for many students, the pursuit for personal growth may be sought in vain.

Many study abroad programs amount to little more than glorified vacations, promising self-efficacy, per-sonal growth, career skills and cross-cultural immer-sion, on top of a fun time. This is not to say that study-ing abroad is always useless. For many, it can be an invaluable experience that forms new connections and fosters a different perspective on the world.

Simply going abroad is no guarantee of “personal growth.” That depends on the quality of the program. Too many American students will find themselves in the streets of Europe seeking out the nearest Starbucks or bar to exploit the lower drinking age and not experi-encing any sort of increased cultural awareness.

Nearly 54 percent of students studying abroad go to Europe. If a stu-dent was serious about learning a European language, going to a European school and living with European stu-dents, then it would be an invaluable experience in his or her education. However, most of OU’s study abroad offerings are in Europe, and few are taught in a language other than English.

With a few exceptions, I believe these pro-grams offer no unique or particularly valuable curriculum.

Students are oversold on study abroad. There are few academic pro-grams that incite more interest than study abroad, and most who go agree that they’re “fun.” This probably isn’t the best use of time.

Unless students are studying a language at an ad-vanced level or attending a university with a special academic program, they could probably do much more for themselves at home, take more advanced courses or get a job or an internship.

Curtis S. Chin, former ambassador to the Asian Development Bank, wrote in The New York Times that studying abroad is “not essential to a good education or to helping one better understand the changing world we live in” and that it is often a “waste of time, or simply a good time, for an unfocused — and privileged — high school or university student.”

OU is doing its part to remove the “abroad” from study abroad. In 2012 it began a $20 million project to restore a monastery in Arezzo, Italy, to build a satellite campus. OU faculty live and teach there, in English, and students can take advantage of such valuable pro-grams as “Screenwriting in Italy,” “History of American Musical Theatre in Italy” and “Engineering in Italy.” All are introductory courses taught in English.

President David Boren said the satellite campus was built because “many students seem to be apprehensive about going off to one of those universities and being treated more or less the same as any other student,” adding that parents can rest assured knowing their children are safe and supervised abroad.

Those are the type of students who shouldn’t be studying abroad. Students in Arezzo go to an American school with other American students and spend their free time with American friends. A replica of the mon-astery on the Norman campus would be as beneficial to the students as this $20-million project.

University officials are right to encourage students to study abroad, but they should do so for the right reasons. Students should only go abroad on programs that provide real opportunity for cultural exposure and academic advancement, such as the university’s Arabic Flagship study abroad program and not bar-hopping in Western countries. And when the students get back, their curriculum should be thoughtfully tailored so they can reflect and internalize what they learned.

John Black is a University College freshman.

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oversold on study abroad. There are

few academic programs that incite more interest than study abroad, and most who go agree that they’re “fun.” This probably isn’t

the best use of time.”

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Our View: OU’s Facilities Management has done an excellent job keeping the campus safe and maintained for students, despite our recent bout with winter weather.

It’s safe to say we are all sick and tired of this weather. It’s time for winter to pack its bags, hit the road and not look back. Waking up to negative wind-chills, slippery roads and an administration that doesn’t cancel classes doesn’t exactly put us in the best mood.

However, we are immense-ly grateful for the well-kept campus we’ve been trudg-ing to through these recent bone-chilling temperatures. We have a hard time dragging ourselves out of bed just to stand at the bus stop for a few minutes in this cold, let alone wake up at ungodly hours to salt OU’s sidewalks, as Facilities Management has been doing for us.

We would like to thank OU’s Facilities Management for doing its job so well in all types of weather — not just now but all year long.

Over the past cou-ple weeks, everyone has had to deal with weather forecasts that have comical-ly yo-yoed between predications of a half-foot of snow to a light dusting from one hour to the next. Although this has mercilessly toyed with

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Four months after Russia and the U.S. reached an agree-

ment to compel Bashar al-Assad to relinquish his chemical weapons arse-nal, Syria has shipped out less than 5 percent of those arms, and the operation to dismantle them is running six to eight weeks behind schedule.

Needless to say, the Obama administration should never have trusted Bashar al-Assad, a ruthless dictator, and Vladimir Putin, a former KGB agent, to hold up their end of the agreement. Military force, not diplomacy, will ultimate-ly decide this conflict.

One may draw parallels between Neville Chamberlain’s pre-World War II appeasement policies and the Syrian chemical weapons deal. While the dictator of one nation continues his horrendous ac-tions and threatens regional stability, the politician of another comes home, touting a diplomatic agreement be-tween the two and the ostensible peace that is sure to follow.

Chamberlain died in November 1940, when World War II was in its early stages and the U.S. was still infected by a nearly fatal strain of isolationism, so he was unable to observe many of the more grievous consequences of his appeasement policies. Chamberlain did live to see his so-called “peace for our time” get shred-ded by Wehrmacht’s guns.

Of course, the war’s consequences are still being felt, just as the Syrian Civil War will be a source of misery for future generations. After nearly three years of fighting and over 130,000 deaths, we can make a reasonable prediction concerning the war’s outcome.

Like every dictator preceding him, al-Assad will eventu-ally lose his grip on power, whether through natural causes or a coup d’état. The opposition groups currently fight-ing Assad will follow the Libyan and Egyptian models for post-dictatorial revolutions and begin fighting each other. That group most willing to use brutality and intimidation will take control of the country. We only have to look to the Muslim Brotherhood’s takeover of Egypt, and Al-Qaeda’s

recent actions in Libya and Iraq, to ascertain the likelihood of this prediction.

Perhaps the Obama administration will see its folly in trusting Assad and Putin. Neither leader has demonstrated any intent to act ethically or within the scope of internation-al law. Assad uses chemical weapons on his own people. Putin, like the Soviet Premiers and Russian Tsars of old, im-prisons those who dare threaten him politically.

Rather than engaging in activities that could help Syrians topple Assad and establish a more democratic society, Obama has provided them nothing but empty words. The “red line” that he promised proved ephemeral. During his State of the Union, the president claimed, “American diplo-macy, backed by the threat of force, is why Syria’s chemical weapons are being eliminated.”

Russian Realpolitik, not American diplomacy, spurred the chemical weapons agreement. Putin needed to pre-serve an ally’s regime in the Middle East — for reasons both strategic and economic — and offered Obama a solution

that would allow the latter to avoid another unpopu-lar and costly war.

Now that they’ve made a deal, we discover Assad isn’t as ready to give up his chemi-

cal weapons as previously indicated. Is anyone surprised by this revelation? A tyrant like Assad will use all available tools to protect himself from the op-position. Security is security, regard-less of whether it comes in the form of anti-protest laws — in the case of

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych — armored infantry or sarin gas.Obama’s obvious reluctance to use mili-

tary force has prolonged the Syrian Civil War and provided Assad with the assurance that

no matter how many innocents he gasses, the U.S. government will remain largely inactive. This disastrous lethargy will elicit similar responses from other authoritar-ians in the Middle East, including Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani.

However politically unpopular it may be, military action in Syria is the lesser evil. A greater evil, namely, the loss of regional stability and the slaughtering of even more civil-ians, awaits us if we do not act. If Syria continues to stall in handing over its chemical weapons arsenal, only one viable solution will remain.

Corbin Brown is a University College freshman.

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Underage students used to enjoy hanging out at Chimy’s restaurant and bar on Campus Corner at night while their older friends sipped drinks, but this is no longer an option after 11:30 p.m.

At the beginning of this semester the restaurant im-plemented a curfew forcing underage customers to va-cate the restaurant at 11:30 p.m. each night when the restaurant starts serving only alcohol, said Michael Luera, the restaurant’s gen-eral manager.

Pre viously , underag e customers could stay in Chimy’s after it turned into a bar if they came in before 11 p.m., but now they have to leave the restaurant at 11:30 p.m. even if they came in before that time.

“We decided 11:30 was a good time to ask them to leave and a reasonable amount of time to finish their food or soda,” Luera said.

Luera said he hopes the curfew will help diminish

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Chimy’s new rule bars people under 21 from entering the restaurant after 11:30 p.m.. Chimy’s began enforcing these curfews at the begin-ning of the semester.

t h e r a m p a n t u n d e r a g e drinking typical of col-lege towns. It’s harder for Chimy’s employees to mon-itor underage customers when the bar gets busier at night, so implementing the curfew makes their jobs easier.

“We have realized that it is not over packed throughout the night and there is less of a mess at the end of the night,” Chimy’s employee

Cody Schlegel said.A l t h o u g h C h i m y ’s i s

working to keep a thriving business while battling un-derage drinking, some stu-dents feel it may be a bad business move because it will exclude a number of customers who use to come in to socialize with their older friends.

“I think it’s a waste of their time to try and control

[underage drinking],” said sophomore busi-ness major Darcy Krisa. “I feel like they’d lose business because a lot of people that go there are underage.”

Socialization outside of class and off campus is important in a college town, and Chimy’s used to be one of the few bars on Campus Corner where underage students could socialize with their older fr iends, said political philosophy sophomore Claire Jones.

“Enforcing this rule leaves students upset, loses Chimy’s money and [loses] their achieved positive reputation from OU students,” Jones said.

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‘Robocop:’ tasteless, yet worth watchingfilm review

My palms were sweaty. My heart was rac-

ing. I was smiling.It was not Valentine’s

Day. I was not on a hot date.I was by myself. I was in

an IMAX movie theater.I was watching

“RoboCop.”Going into the movie, I

expected nothing less than a tacky remake of the 1987 classic. What I left with was

a new appreciation for the modernization of films that can only be improved by newfangled filming techniques and the fact that not all of the technol-ogy they use is from the distant future. (Drones? In the Middle East? And a crime-ridden Detroit? I thought the movie was supposed to be set in 2028.) Regardless, the new “RoboCop” is good. The new “RoboCop” is intense. The new “RoboCop” is ri-diculous. And it doesn’t try to be anything it isn’t.

When a film starts out

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with Samuel L. Jackson hosting what is no less than a futuristic Fox News, you know you’re in for a ride. At first, I couldn’t tell if the di-rector intended for Jackson’s role to be a nice comic relief or if they were actually trying to make Jackson take on a serious role.

It didn’t take long to find out that his role is absolutely and wholly a giant piece of satire. What a glorious realiza-tion that was. I went from laughing out of absurdity

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to laughing because of comic genius. Every time Jackson was on screen, he used the same tone used to echo one of his most famous phrases, “I have had it with these motherf***** snakes on this motherf**** plane!” (At one point in “Robocop” he says a line using near-ly the same words sans snakes, add robots. Like I said — glorious.)

Jackson’s role was integral but not the most important. Our protagonist, Detective Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), does a pretty swell job of being a man inside a robot — or a robot inside a man, we never really learn which is real — and takes home the prize for most interesting. His cold, steely facial features provide the perfect aesthetic for when he loses his emotions and becomes a robot. Other than that, he didn’t have to do much acting.

The rest of the characters were not all that special to me. Murphy’s wife (Abbie Cornish) possessed all of the qualities you would expect of the wife in a ridiculous ac-tion flick — hot blond, nice body, etc. Gary Oldman, as the doctor who created Robocop, does a decent job of playing hero to save Murphy from death, first after the ac-cident and again when our antagonist, Raymond Sellars (Michael Keaton), tries to decommission him.

My qualms with the movie are few. Although it took an hour to finally get Robocop in the suit and kicking ass, it was well worth it. It did seem like a lot of unnecessary back story though — cut to the chase, please. I would have liked a little bit more of “Robocop” in action in Detroit as the ’87 version had, but I’ll take what I can get.

“Robocop” is two hours long. If you are not interested in tasteless action movies, then I highly suggest you see “Endless Love” or something like that on V-day. But, for those of you who enjoy heart-racing, ass-kicking, contin-uous action, I suggest you see “Robocop.” If you liked the ’87 version, you’ll like this one. I give “Robocop” four out of five stars. (Judge me for it.)

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Sooners must remain focused against Raiders

Player comes out, change imminent

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Sophomore forward Ryan Spangler smacks the ball during tip-off against Baylor on Saturday night at Lloyd Noble Center. The Sooners beat the Bears 88-72.

The Sooners are looking to build upon their recent

win against Baylor, as they prepare for their second meeting with the Texas Tech Red Raiders at 7 tonight at Lloyd Noble Center.

Oklahoma (18-6, 7-4) bounced back from a pair of road losses in explosive fashion. Unleashing an of-fensive arsenal and crush-ing the Baylor Bears 88-72, the Sooners re-established themselves as serious con-tenders in the Big 12.

The Red Raiders (12-11, 4-6) have struggled to re-main consistent this season. Coming off of an upset vic-tory over Oklahoma State, Texas Tech will look to spoil the Sooners’ hopes when they arrive in Norman.

The Sooners have only suffered one home loss since conference play began early January. They have already won against the Red Raiders in their Jan. 25 matchup in Lubbock, where the Sooners left with a 74-65 victory.

Sophomore guard Buddy Hield, who scored 18 points in that victory, has been a consistent offensive weap-on for the Sooners through-out conference play. Hield is averaging a team-high 17 points per game and is shooting better than 46 per-cent from the field.

Hield’s impact has espe-cially been felt from beyond the three-point line. He has a season average of close to 40 percent from beyond the arc. However in his last three games, Hield is shoot-ing 54 percent from three, giving the Sooners a boost offensively.

Senior forward Cameron Clark has struggled in con-ference play this season and accompanies Hield as

Last month, a boy named Michael Morones was

found hanging in his room after reportedly being called gay by his peers. Fortunately, he survived the suicide attempt, but he may have permanent brain damage from the incident. I don’t know if Michael Morones is gay or not, and he may not either — He is 11 years old.

Less than a month later, another Michael is making headlines for announcing he is gay.

Sunday, in separate interviews with ESPN and the New York Times, NFL draft prospect Michael Sam told the world that he is a “proud gay man.” Quickly, sports and news shows alike called former NFL players and coaches to discuss whether or not the NFL is ready for an openly gay player. Also discussed was the likelihood of Sam being drafted because of his playing ability and accomplish-ments on the field regardless of his sexuality.

The NFL hopeful is the current SEC co-defensive play-er of the year and notched 11.5 sacks last season. He was the defensive anchor of a Missouri Tiger football team that stunned the college football world by beating SEC powers Georgia, Florida and Texas A&M, finishing the regular season 11-1 and earning the school its first SEC Championship Game appearance.

Sam, a projected third or fourth round pick by most sports media outlets, is not the first professional athlete from the majors to announce he is gay. Last year former NBA player and roster hopeful Jason Collins came out. However, since Collins has yet to be signed by a team since his announcement, Sam is on track to be the first openly gay, active athlete in a major sport.

I don’t know if this announcement will affect Sam’s draft stock. I could see it going down because, owners, especially those with a large fan base in the South, may decide not to draft Sam in an effort to keep their fan base. However, it could also increase. I think teams who live in places that have a more accepting fan base may move up to draft the man. Taking a stand to draft a gay athlete may help sign players who are secretly gay or come out in the future.

I do know that the NFL is a business, and NFL owners are stubborn. For proof of this, look at NFL contracts com-pared to Major League Baseball and the NBA. The NFL front office will most certainly use Michael Sam as a badge of equality and tolerance. For a league that thrives on di-versity and opening doors to new markets — looking at you, London — a chance to be the first major sport to have a gay athlete on the field could equate to more viewers and sponsors.

What if that wasn’t the case though?What if nobody cared that Michael Sam is gay?What if, upon hearing this, the New York Times and

ESPN passed on the interview because as a society we no longer cared about somebody’s sexuality?

What if Michael Morones grew up in a world where Michael Sam was one of many gay athletes?

A world where children are taught to celebrate the dif-ferences of their peers rather than criticize them?

A world where people didn’t think twice about hearing whether someone is gay or straight.

Where gay role models that break stereotypical barriers, such as Sam, are plentiful?

Better yet, what if Morones’ bullies grew up in that world?

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another viable offensive weapon. He was able to bounce back from his strug-gles with a much needed 16-point performance against Baylor.

This season, Clark has proved he can consistently be an aggressive scorer for the Sooners. He scored 17 points in their first meet-ing against Texas Tech and hopes for a repeat perfor-mance in their upcoming meeting.

The Sooners will also look to sophomore forward Ryan Spangler, who has been an absolute monster in confer-ence play. The Blanchard,

Okla., native has proven to be one of the most import-ant players on this team, averaging 10.6 points and

grabbing 10 rebounds per game.

Spangler was relative-ly quiet in their last game against the Bears failing to score a single point for the first time this season while only recording six rebounds and dishing out five assists.

However, Spangler’s hustle and aggressive style of play has proven to be a difference maker for the Sooners down the stretch and will be needed if they wish to defeat a determined Red Raider squad.

Demetrius Kearney is a political science senior.

PLAYER PROFILEBuddy Hieldyear: Sophomore

Position: Guard

Statistics: Averaging 32.4 points, 46.3% shooting, 4.5 rebounds per game this season.

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