Monday, March 11, 2013

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Oklahomans gathered to learn about the impor-tance of open government and freedom of informa-tion at an annual confer-ence Saturday to kick off Sunshine Week.

The public has a right to know what its govern-ment is doing, said Joey Senat, media law profes-sor at Oklahoma State University and the mas-ter of ceremony for the conference. However, people must understand their rights in order to use them.

“The biggest threat to our rights is our own igno-rance of those rights, and we have a right if not an obligation to know what our government is doing,” Senat said.

Brenda Kielty, Maine’s first public access om-b u d s m a n , a n d B i l l Monroe, chair man of t h e n e w I o w a P u b l i c Information Board, talked

about their roles in making government records and meetings accessible in their states.

“Sunshine laws don’t mean anything if they can’t be enforced,” Monroe said.

Open access to records and meetings isn’t just rel-evant for journalists – free-dom of information affects the entire public, Kielty said.

“The whole idea behind public access laws is that people should be able to understand how their gov-ernment is functioning, and ultimately the government should function always with the idea in mind that it’s the people’s business,” Kielty said.

Dan Krassner of Integrity Florida and Scott Sternberg, an attorney from Louisiana, talked about different ways people in their states are working to achieve better public access to their gov-ernors’ emails and other correspondence.

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Students discuss sequester

KAITLYN UNDERWOODCampus reporter

As federal budget cuts threaten areas of higher ed-ucation after the recent se-questration, members of OU’s student government traveled to Washington, D.C. to put faces to the issue.

M e m b e r s f r o m e a c h branch of OU’s Student

Government Association and student leaders from other Big 12 schools attend-ed the annual Big 12 On the Hill in D.C March 4 through 6.

OU student leaders met various representatives from across the country, includ-ing Oklahoma representa-tives Tom Cole (R-Moore) a n d J a m e s L a n k f o r d (R-Oklahoma City), to look into the implications of the sequestration among other

things in open conversations about education issues.

OU delegates focused on the recent sequestration to ensure Pell grants are main-tained, said Tonya Kiper, Undergraduate Student Congress vice-chairwoman.

SGA members were told Pell grants will be secure for another year, and they discovered many represen-tatives also have concerns about the sequestration, as it concerns education,

said John Montgomer y, Undergraduate Student Congress secretary.

However, while the Pell grants are safe for now, many universities in the Big 12 Conference are research campuses, and the cuts en-acted by the sequestration will hurt future research and development, Kiper said.

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Models for the columbian fashion show walked out on stage in catlett Music center on Saturday.

Colombian fashion showcased

MATT RAVISCampus reporter

O U ’ s C o l o m b i a n S t u d e n t Association organized its first ever fashion show to highlight the coun-try’s for ward-looking culture at Colombia Night on Saturday.

The show featured Colombian dress with many bright and eye-catch-ing reds, blues and yellows and

was directed by Carolina Gonzalez, Colombian Student Association sec-retary. The models showcased the collections of Yoana Walschap, the association’s advisor, Scott Van Eck, a well-known body painter, and Nicole Moan, who makes wearable art cor-sets made out of ceramics. Several of the models also donned either red, blue or purple paint that spanned much of their body.

“My favorite thing about Colombian culture is that it is forward-look-ing,” said Erika Ramelli, master of

ceremonies for the event. She sees this evident in the fashion of the country, as many popular brands of clothing are produced in Colombia.

Colombia Night began with a din-ner of traditional Latin American food, including arroz con pollo, a chicken and rice dish.

After the dinner, Colombian Night guests made their way to Catlett Hall for the night’s entertainment.

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Local building materials may not be best choice

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Dr. charles W. Graham, dean of the college of architecture, speaks at the Middle eastern Architectures symposium Friday, March 8.

MATT RAVISCampus reporter

Many people around the world build houses made from earthen ma-terials found near where they live, but while these materials are more sus-tainable they could cause problems for residents.

C ha r l e s G ra ha m, d e a n o f t h e College of Architecture, addressed this issue in a lecture Friday as part of a symposium put on by OU’s Center for Middle Eastern Architecture and Culture. The symposium was held to present and discuss different aspects of architecture in the Middle East.

Because of the Middle East’s hot and arid climate, it is necessary to build with materials that will stay rela-tively cool, Graham said.

Even though it is a “reasonably sus-tainable” way to construct a house, it is not usually the cheapest way, Graham said.

He also spoke of a case study he participated in that took place in Baja California Sur, in the village of Loreto,

where he worked with locals to build sustainable, earthen housing for tour-ists and workers.

With conventional building mate-rials, the inside of the houses became much too hot at night, resulting in higher spousal and child abuse as well as a higher divorce rate, Graham said.

In contrast to strategies for building

houses, another speaker at the sym-posium talked about a 131,000 square meter shopping mall his firm built in Kuwait.

Jeffrey Gunning of the Dallas-based RTKL design and architecture firm talked about a souk, or Middle Eastern

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Today around campusOU’s Teach-In on the Great Depression and World War II will take place from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. today in catlett music center’s sharpe Hall. The event will feature pulitzer prize-winning historians and authors david mccullough and david Kennedy as well as four additional leading historians who will share their perspectives on this era in american history.

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A panel discussion about the use of various art forms as activism will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hester Hall 170. The panel will include journalism professor ralph Beliveau, film and media studies professor andy Horton and suzette Grillot, dean of the college of International studies.

A University Singers concert will take place at 8 p.m. in the catlett music center Gothic Hall as part of the school of music’s sutton concert series. The program will include durufle’s “Quatre motets,” Tavener’s “song for athen,” and a special arrangement of u2’s “m.L.K.” It will also feature ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Five mystical songs” for baritone and choir, featuring Leslie Flanagan, baritone. Tickets are $9 for adults and $5 with student discounts.

A men’s tennis game against Florida state will take place at 5:30 p.m. at the Headington Family Tennis center.

A men’s baseball game against new mexico state will take place at 6:30 p.m. at the L. dale mitchell park.

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shopping center, that his firm designed and built in Kuwait City called the 360 mall.

In the Middle East, and Dubai specifically, the focus is on “bigger and better,” Gunning said. The Middle East has the “most inno-vative shopping centers of today.”

lectUre: Climate makes indoor spaces keyContinued from page 1 The goal of the design was

to create a modern interpre-tation of traditional Middle Eastern form, color and pat-tern, Gunning said.

Since zoning laws in the area didn’t allow for a con-ventional mall layout, a cir-cular concourse was creat-ed, thus the reason for the 360 mall name, Gunning said.

T h e 3 6 0 m a l l p ro j e c t combines retail and offices,

Gunning said. It also has an onsite mosque and an in-door theme park.

Souks are important to those in the Middle East be-cause of the hot and dry cli-mate, Gunning said. Typical Middle Eastern families sometimes spend all day in souks because of the heat, so it is important to provide visitors with many different activities.

The symposium featured

16 presentations that were d i v i d e d i n t o f o u r s e s -sions, each with a different theme ranging from “From Antiquity to the Present,” t o “ M o d e r n i z a t i o n , Technology, and Design.”

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Kiper said.The sequestration will af-

fect OU by reducing funding for research by $5.5 million to $10 million with the start of the 2014 fiscal year after June 30, according to Daily archives.

While the representatives could not promise immedi-ate solutions to sequestra-tion, the students’ presence put a face to the issue.

The OU delegation found a lot of common ground with the representatives, Montgomery said. After meeting with representa-tives, SGA members realized education is highly valued on Capitol Hill.

“ It wa s d e f i n i t e l y re -freshing to know that, even through the spread of ide-ologies, they really do put education near the top,” Montgomery said.

S G A m e m b e r s w e r e pleased to learn lawmakers understand the importance of educating future genera-tions, Kiper said.

“They know that’s what makes your butter later on,” Montgomery said.

B o t h K i p e r a n d Montgomery agreed that the importance of Big 12 On the Hill is to allow student lead-ers to have an open dialogue with the nation’s lawmakers.

As representatives of an entire generation of voters, SGA members were able to give the “personal touch” on issues important to students, Kiper said.

“The decisions you make now are impacting us now,

and they’re going to contin-ue to impact us,” Kiper said of her conversations with representatives.

A l l t h e s c h o o l s f r o m the Big 12 except Kansas State and Texas Tech were represented at the event, Montgomery said.

“Even though we’re from different places doing differ-ent things, and even though we have football rivalries, we want to come together on

this because it’s important to us,” Kiper said

OU student government members also balanced sightseeing with lobbying while they were in D.C.

They found time in their busy schedules to visit land-marks and were blown away by the vibrancy and the col-lection of culture of the na-tion’s capital, Kiper said.

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and Sen. David Holt were also a t t h e c o n -f e r e n c e t o g i v e updates on their ef-f o r t s t o promote transparency in legislation.

F i n a l l y D a v i d F r i t z e o f O k l a h o ma Watch, Christopher Krug of Monitor Oklahoma and Paul Monies of The Oklahoman talked about how portable scanners and other inexpensive technologies can help open up infor-mation and cut down cost.

The conference was held in from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday in Gaylord Hall’s Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation Auditorium.

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showcased the Modern Cumbia, a “seductive coastal dance” that heavily features drum music, Ramelli said. The dance featured four male and four female association members in traditional Colombian dress, ending with a long kiss shared between partners.

The Colombian Student Association and OU’s Colombian Alumni Association announced their scholarship winners. The alumni association has helped many student associa-tion members in the past, giving a total of $70,000 to stu-dents so far, with an average of $1,000 going to each student, said Juan Carlos Maldonado, at the event.

Juan Sebastian Galindo, president of the student as-sociation and petroleum engineering senior, also an-nounced the starting of an endowment fund for both the Colombian Student Association and the Colombian Alumni Association. Galindo said he will match any donation up to $10,000 for the next two years.

OU’s Colombian Student Association organized the night, for which about 600 tickets were sold, Walschap said.

Cole Campbell and Jose Polanco, sophomores from Oklahoma State University and Spanish and sports media majors respectively, made the trip from Stillwater to attend Colombian Night.

“I’m Argentinian, and Cole is working on speaking Spanish, so we thought it sounded like a good time,” Polanco said.

Both Campbell and Polanco are part of the Latin American Student Association at OSU.

Stephen Lindstrom, OU Spanish sophomore, had similar reasons for attending.

Lindstrom said he decided to go the event because his Spanish professor is Colombian, and he is interested in the country’s culture and food.

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What is Sunshine Week?a national initiative to promote the public’s right to know what its government is

doing and why people should care.

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Muslim men ride on bicycles on a street in Kano, Nigeria, Sunday,. the United Kingdom’s military says its warplanes recently spotted in Nigeria’s capital city were there to move soldiers to aid the French intervention in Mali, not to rescue kidnapped foreign hostages.

KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Radical Islamic fighters killed seven foreign hostages in Nigeria, European diplo-mats said Sunday, making it the worst such kidnapping violence in decades for a country beset by extremist guerril-la attacks.

Nigeria’s police, military, domestic spy service and presidency remained silent over the killings of the construc-tion company workers, kidnapped Feb. 16 from northern Bauchi state. The government’s silence only led to more questions about the nation’s continued inability to halt attacks that have seen hundreds killed in shootings, church bombings and an attack on the United Nations.

The latest victims were four Lebanese and one citizen apiece from Britain, Greece and Italy.

Britain and Italy said all seven of those taken from the Setraco construc-tion company compound had died at the hands of Ansaru, a previously lit-tle-known splinter group of the Islamic sect Boko Haram. Greece also con-firmed one of its citizens was killed, while Lebanese authorities didn’t im-mediately comment.

“It’s an atrocious act of terrorism, against which the Italian government expresses its firmest condemnation, and which has no explanation,” a state-ment from Italy’s foreign ministry read. Italy also denied a claim by Ansaru that the hostages were killed before or during a military operation by Nigerian and British forces, saying there was “no military intervention aimed at freeing the hostages.”

Italian Premier Mario Monti identi-fied the slain Italian hostage as Silvano Trevisan and promised Rome would use “every effort” to stop the killers.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague called the killings “an act of cold-blood-ed murder” and identified the U.K. vic-tim as Brendan Vaughan.

A statement from Greece’s foreign ministry said authorities had already informed the hostage’s family. “We note that the terrorists never communicated or formulated demands to release the hostages,” the statement read, which also denied any military raid took place.

Ansaru issued a short statement Saturday saying its fighters kidnapped the foreigners from the construction company’s camp at Jama’are, a town 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Bauchi, the capital of Bauchi state. In the attack, gunmen first assault-ed a local prison and burned police trucks, authorities said. Then the attackers blew up a back fence at the con-struction company’s compound and took over, killing a guard in the process, witnesses and police said.

Local officials in Nigeria initially identi-fied one of the hostag-es as a Filipino, some-thing the Philippines government later denied.

The gunmen appeared to be orga-nized and knew who they wanted to target, leaving the Nigerian household staff at the residence unharmed, while quickly abducting the foreigners, a wit-ness said.

In an online statement Saturday claiming the killings, Ansaru said it killed the hostages in part because of local Nigerian journalists reporting on the arrival of British military aircraft to Bauchi. However, Ansaru’s statement cited local news articles that instead said the airplanes were spotted at the international airport in Abuja, the na-tion’s central capital 180 miles (290

kilometers) southwest.The U.K. Defense Ministry said

Sunday the planes it flew to Abuja fer-ried Nigerian troops and equipment to Bamako, Mali. Nigerian soldiers have been sent to Mali to help French forc-es and Malian troops battle Islamic ex-tremists there. The British military said it also transported Ghanaian soldiers to Mali the same way.

The ministry declined to comment further. Ansaru had said it believed the planes were part of a Nigerian and British rescue mission for the abducted hostages.

The U.K. has offered military sup-port in the past in Nigeria to free hos-

tages. In March 2012, its special forces backed a failed Nigerian military raid to free Christopher Mc Ma nu s, w h o ha d been abducted months e a r l i e r w i t h It a l i a n F r a n c o L a m o l i n a r a from a home in Kebbi state. Both hostages were killed in that rescue attempt.

“I am grateful to the Nigerian government for their unstinting help

and cooperation,” Hague said in a state-ment, without addressing the claim that the U.K. had launched a rescue effort.

In its statement Saturday, Ansaru also blamed the killings on a pledge by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan to do “everything possible” to free the hostages. Presidential spokesman Reuben Abati didn’t respond to re-quests for comment Sunday.

While Nigerian authorities have yet to comment publicly about Ansaru’s claim, it comes as the nation’s security forces remain unable to stop the guer-rilla campaign of bombings, shootings and kidnappings across the country’s north.

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Models for the columbian fashion show walked out on stage in catlett Music center on Saturday.

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Studies tie stress from storms, war to unhealthy heart

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Stress does bad things to the heart. New studies have found higher rates of cardiac problems in veterans with PTSD, New Orleans residents six years after Hurricane Katrina and Greeks struggling through that country’s financial turmoil.

Disasters and prolonged stress can raise “fight or flight” hormones that affect blood pressure, blood sugar and other things in ways that make heart trouble more like-ly, doctors say. They also provoke anger and helplessness and spur heart-harming behaviors like eating or drinking too much.

“We’re starting to connect emotions with cardio-vascular risk markers” and the new research adds ev-idence of a link, said Dr. Nieca Goldberg, a cardiologist at NYU Langone Medical Center and an American Heart Association spokeswoman.

She had no role in the studies, which were discussed Sunday at an American College of Cardiology conference in San Francisco.

The largest, involving 207,954 veterans in California and Nevada ages 46 to 74, compared those with PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, to those without it. They were free of major heart disease and diabetes when re-searchers checked their Veterans Administration medical records from 2009 and 2010.

Checked again about two years later, 35 percent of those with PTSD but only 19 percent of those without it had de-veloped insulin resistance, which can lead to diabetes and hardening of the arteries.

Doctors also saw higher rates of metabolic syndrome — a collection of heart disease risk factors that include high body fat, cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar lev-els. About 53 percent of veterans with PTSD but only 37 percent of those without it had several of these symptoms.

The numbers are estimates and are not as important as the trend — more heart risk with more stress, said one study leader, Dr. Ramin Ebrahimi, a cardiologist at the Greater Los Angeles VA Medical Center and a professor at UCLA. It shows that PTSD can cause physical symptoms, not just the mental ones commonly associated with it.

New studies have found higher rates of cardiac problems in veterans with PTSD

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Our view: Sunshine week highlights the importance of open records and open meetings in Oklahoma.

This week, universities, nonprofits, li-braries and other groups across the coun-try will start discussions in their commu-nities about the importance of open gov-ernment and freedom of information.

The Daily is doing its part to celebrate Sunshine Week by helping bring attention to the role open records and administrative transparen-cy play in the OU community.

All week, you will see a sun shining next to each story that uses information from a publicly acces-sible record. The graphic will explain what records were requested and how these records were es-sential to our reporting.

These graphics will show how many important

stories would be impossible to report without laws protecting the public’s right to know.

For an additional layer of transparen-cy, we are moving our usual open records feature to the front page. This box will enable you to see some of the records we have requested most recently and how long we have been waiting for the re-quests to be filled.

If you’re interested in more information about The Daily’s record requests, you can see a record of requests made since January 2012 and when each request was filled. And you can read our story this week examining the university’s av-erage response time and what factors can delay a request.

We also will be examining the ease of accessing public information on campus, including a look at campus crime logs, a request for President David

Boren’s schedule and an explanation of your rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

And, of course, we’ll be using plenty of public information to bring you interesting stories — from the number of pests found on campus to how much local food OU buys and sells.

You can check back on this page all week to find our suggestions for what the university and state can do to better protect your right to know, as well as suggestions for ways you can get involved in the fight for transparency.

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What would it be like to have a first gentleman?

It is only a matter of time before the elec-tion of our nation’s

first female president, and while I look forward to a female president, I already know how the process will play out. Our first female president will prove the job is the same in the hands of a woman as it is in those of a man. What I am more in-terested in, however, is who the first female president will share the White House with.

Our nation’s first first gentleman will have the unique opportunity to express gender discrepancies in command of the strange position of “commander in chief’s spouse.” First ladies from Eleanor Roosevelt to Nancy Reagan have taken advantage of their polit-ical power and sponsored small social proj-ects of their own choosing.

Our first gentleman will have the oppor-tunity to promote similar projects. However,

his projects might take on a more masculine position. Maybe a campaign for leath-er jackets to protect motorcy-clists, or maybe he will raise cows on the White House lawn instead of vegetables.

While Michelle Obama promotes fitness and healthy lifestyles, I imagine a first gentleman funding barbecue for underprivileged schools.

Where Nancy Reagan spent her time telling school kids to “just say no,” I envision him gifting his own home brew to visitors.

The first lady is our Queen of England, the political figure with familial claim to her po-sition and limited actual power. But rather than regress in policy duties as the royal fam-ily in England has done, the first lady seems to exert more influence with each election cycle. By the time a woman wins the presi-dency, who knows what power her husband will have.

I am not a true supporter of first lady “projects.” They seem to be a way to keep the president’s spouse busy while he works, but nevertheless, I can look forward to what is sure to be our most significant change of office in decades. An African American pres-ident leads just as every head of state before him. In every level of U.S. government, polit-ical offices are so well defined — no matter the individual in office — that procedural standards remain the same. But the position of the first lady is a job undefined by stan-dards of the past — a job ripe for exciting new political definition.

I’m waiting for the first gentleman to deco-rate the White House with pictures of muscle cars and attend the Super Bowl. And if you find politics overly systematized, boring or bogged down in tradition, you should prob-ably look forward to him too.

Storm Dowd-Lukesh is a university college freshman.

Editor’s note: Douglas McKnight is a former Daily columnist.

Friday, I received some troubling news from a professor. He told me Fareed Zakaria is our graduation speaker. I as-sumed he was lying. I quickly checked OU’s official Academic Integrity webpage to see what the university’s stance on in-tegrity and plagiarism was, because Zakaria got caught pla-giarizing in an article for Time Magazine just last year.

“OU works to build a reputation that students, faculty and staff, the administration and alumni can be proud of. It is the value of the OU degree that provides OU students the best internships, jobs and graduate school opportunities. It takes only a minute to destroy a reputation of integrity. Students must understand the importance of integrity both person-ally and professionally,” according to OU’s website. Now, I have also been fortunate enough to sit in on about seven plagiarism seminars this year, and I know plagiarism is the quickest way to destroy an institutions academic credibility. But what, exactly, is plagiarism? Well, let me refer back to the University’s own webpage: “Plagiarism is a form of academic misconduct in which you represent someone else’s words or ideas as your own.”

Interesting, I thought. What if I, a simple 22 year old senior in the history department, got caught plagiarizing at this in-stitution known for its remarkable academic standards? I would fail my class, get suspended, and possibly not gradu-ate with a degree that I have spent thousands of dollars on.

But what happens if Zakaria does the same thing, just in a nationally renown current affairs magazine instead of a four page essay over women in the American revolution? Oh. He gets paid to come speak to graduates about integrity and pro-fessionalism. Its not what you do, but its who you are when you do it.

Douglas McKnight is a history and German senior.

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Our view: Don’t miss the commencement speech.

A high profile, highly influential and controver-sial figure is coming to OU to give the commence-ment speech this semester. Fareed Zakaria, CNN commentator and author was briefly suspended by TIME magazine and CNN in August 2012 after Zakaria admitted to mis-takenly plagiarizing parts of a column in The New Yorker on gun control. Zakaria’s recent controversy has many students ask-ing if he was the best choice.

Despite the controversy, Zakaria is a great speak-er who will add an interesting perspective to the commencement ceremony.

Last year, Zakaria gave the commencement ad-dress at Harvard, the year before he was at Duke.

His speech at OU will be a chance for students, faculty and parents to hear an internationally rec-ognized authority on politics and current events. OU has brought some exciting speakers in the past, including Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Ruth Simmons, president of Brown University.

These speakers certainly were interesting and distinguished, but Zakaria is particularly qualified to give the address. Zakaria not only hosts his own show on CNN, he also won a 2012 Peabody award for broadcasting and is the author of two best-sell-ing books on American and international relations.

Zakaria’s minor incident of plagiarism is nothing to deter you from going to the event. The plagiarism

occurred when Zakaria copied exact language in an article written by historian Jill Lepore on gun control. After CNN and TIME investigated, they found Zakaria’s mistake was unintentional and

only an isolated incident, according to the Washington Post.

Zakaria immediately apologized for his mistake in a statement published by the Atlantic Wire. He later said he had mixed up his hand-written notes, mistaking an-other person’s words for his own idea.

What Zakaria did certainly was wrong but we understand his explanation. It would be ridiculous for him to intentionally steal another author’s words for something so trivial. If this is the worst thing he has done in dozens of arti-cles and two books, it’s not something students should be concerned about.

We absolutely value academic integrity, but we should pay attention to those who actually pla-giarize, not someone who made a one-time mis-take he quickly apologized for.

Students should hope Zakaria doesn’t plagia-rize himself. His Duke and Harvard speeches were identical, according to the Boston Globe.

We hope Zakaria doesn’t repeat himself at OU and instead offers students an original and en-gaging speech.

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the first game. Casey did not allow a run as she gained her first career win. Freshman pitcher Leslie Miller also came on for a little more than an inning of work, strik-ing out three batters.

Gasso had worried that her team was “pressing” too much in the previous weekend, but it was not the case this time around. The Sooners were loose and came out with the energy their coach craves. The play-ers echoed these thoughts.

“It’s important to have these weekends at home with our fans,” Chamberlain said. “And like coach said, to have a good time in the dugout.”

The Sooners will make their last West Coast trip be-ginning Friday in Fullerton, Calif. at the Judi Garman C l a s s i c . O k l a h o ma ha s thrived in the golden state with a record of 10-0.

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and go opposite field.”S ophomore inf ielder

Lauren Chamberlain, who leads the Big 12 in home runs, blasted a homer in each of the four weekend contests.

Chamberlain attributed her success to her patience in working the count.

“Going after good pitch-es, getting deep in a lot of counts, and just making sure I’m swinging at good pitches,” Chamberlain said.

Though only in the begin-ning of her sophomore sea-son, Chamberlain has 43

career home runs. The all-time NCAA record sits at 90, putting the California native on a swift pace to reach the

mark.Another Sooner soph-

o m o r e i m p r e s s e d h e r coach over the weekend

— infielder Shelby Pendley Pendley notched a pair of multi home run games. In her last nine outings, the Arizona transfer is hitting .789.

The multiple pitchers Gasso used in the circle over the weekend perplexed op-posing lineups.

Ricketts improved to 10-0 on the season while fellow senior pitcher Michelle Gascoigne earned her ninth victory.

S o p h o m o r e G e o r g i a Casey, regularly used at sec-ond base, earned the start in

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OU maintains unbeaten record in last two home meets

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Freshman Keeley Kmieciak traverses between bars in her 9.9 routine that won first place in the Sooners’ home opener against Denver on Jan. 18. OU won 197.325-195.850.

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Senior pitcher Keilani Ricketts (left) and senior outfielder Brianna Turang (center) signal to the runner at third base to hold up immedi-ately following Turang crossing the plate on a Jessica Schultz RBI in the third inning against Nebraska on March 2. OU won, 10-3.

OU sweeps Drake, Northern Colorado in double-headers

JOE MUSSATTOSports Reporter

Deep balls flew out of Marita Hynes Field all week-end for the Sooners, as the No. 1 OU softball team breezed through its compe-tition, winning four games in two days.

A pair of double-headers on Friday and Saturday pit-ted Oklahoma (22-1) against Northern Colorado and Drake. Those four contests all ended in run-rule blow-out victories for the top-ranked Sooners.

O k l a h o m a b l a n k e d Northern Colorado — 14-0, 10-0 — and knocked off Drake – 10-2, 13-0. The weekend margin of victory totaled 47-2, and coach Patty Gasso was pleased with her team’s play.

“I really liked what we did,” she said. “It was the old Sooners that came back and came alive.”

Power hitting was the key to OU’s success over the weekend. Oklahoma’s line-up launched a combined 14 home runs on Friday and Saturday. All-American se-nior pitcher Keilani Ricketts was just as notable for her bat over the four-game stretch. Ricketts hit a pair of home runs and drove in six in Saturday’s first matchup.

“We had to adjust to their pitching,” Ricketts said. “I was just trying to stay late

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score against Northern Colorado and Drake.

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Shelby Pendley’s batting average in her last nine games.

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Chamberlain’s career home run total.

BY THE NUMBERS OU’s hitting success

PLAYER PROFILEKeilani RickettsYear: Senior

Position: Pitcher

Statistics:Ricketts hit two home runs and plated six RBIs against Northern Colorado on Saturday.

CECILY TAWNEYSports Reporter

T h e No. 2 O k l a h o m a women’s gymnastics team hosted its final two home meets of the season at Lloyd Noble Center this weekend, defeating No. 16 Arizona on Friday and North Carolina a n d No. 9 S t a n f o rd o n Sunday.

After recording the third highest score in team histo-ry Friday, the Sooners (19-0) honored three seniors – Brie Olson, Kayla Nowak, and Lauren Smith – for Senior Day on Sunday.

“It was so surreal,” Olson said. “We are a really close senior group. It makes it even harder since we are great friends. We just want the best for each other, so I think that was part of the emotions that were coming out, especially for me just knowing that it’s gone by so fast.”

Oklahoma swept all four team event titles in both meets and has now record-ed an impressive nine-straight meets of a 197 or better team score.

On Friday, junior Taylor Spears claimed the all-around title and tied for first on both beam and floor to contribute to a sweep of in-dividual event titles for the Sooners.

“Every meet has been so

Sooners dominate on Senior Day

different and presents new challenges all the time,” said OU head coach K.J. Kindler. “I think we pulled ourselves out of what we did last week, which was kind of subpar for us.”

With a quick turnaround t o S u n d a y ’s m e e t , t h e

Sooners dealt with a line-up change due to fresh-man Keeley Kmieciak being forced to sit out with an illness.

“We had a lot of things that we had to address be-cause we had an illness with one of our athletes,” Kindler said. “We placed some peo-ple in that have experience. They know that sometimes they’ll need to step in and as an alternate, that’s where you need to be mentally.”

Despite the change in lineup, OU was still able to again claim all four individ-ual event titles with scores of 9.925 or better. Olson earned a 9.975 bar score, which was the highest score of the day and a career-best for the senior.

The Sooners move on to their final meet of the reg-ular season against No. 5 Alabama in Tuscaloosa at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.

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RAPID RECAP

Key stat: 49.600. The Sooners’ 49.600 � oor score was their highest event score of the night, led by freshman Haley Scaman and junior Taylor Spears, both of whom scored a 9.95.

Key performer: Spears had another solid night with high-scoring performances on all four events. She tied for � rst on beam and � oor, and claimed the all-around title with a 39.600.

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Who is numberONE?Thunder, Spurs to battle for Western Conference supremacyZACH STORYThunder Blogger

The Oklahoma City Thunder picked up their sixth-straight win Sunday against the Boston Celtics despite scoring its low-est point total in its last 27 games.

Kevin Durant scored 23 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, while Russell Westbrook chipped in with 15 points in a game that was smooth sailing throughout.

During its current winning streak, Oklahoma City has beaten the Clippers, Lakers, Knicks and now Celtics, with its toughest test to come today.

The Thunder next head to San Antonio where it will face off against the San Antonio Spurs — who are the top team in

the Western Conference, leading the Thunder by one game. San Antonio will be shorthanded for its matchup today,

with All-Star point guard Tony Parker sidelined with sprained left ankle.

Parker, who was playing at the highest level of his NBA ca-reer before the injury, is expected to be sidelined for the next three weeks as Tim Duncan and company hope to weather the storm and keep their top spot in the Western Conference intact.

The Spurs, who won their first two games without Parker, are coming off of a 30-point blowout loss at home against the Portland Trail Blazers. Point guard Patty Mills and sec-ond-year guard Cory Joseph have played well in Parker’s ab-sence, but the Spurs are definitely an inferior team without Parker on the floor.

Unlike San Antonio, the Thunder have stayed healthy this season with Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and Serge Ibaka missing only two games between them, while Parker, Duncan and Manu Ginobili have missed 30 games combined.

Many assume the Spurs and Thunder will meet again in the Western Conference Finals for the second year. Last

season, Oklahoma City won in six games after dropping the first two games of the series. The Thunder became the third team in NBA history to win four straight games after

trailing 2-0 in the conference finals. Despite not having Parker for today night’s matchup, ex-

pect Spurs’ head coach Gregg Popovich to have his team mo-tivated and ready to play.

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Who is numberONE?Thunder, Spurs to battle for Western Conference supremacyZACH STORYThunder Blogger

The Oklahoma City Thunder picked up their sixth-straight win Sunday against the Boston Celtics despite scoring its low-est point total in its last 27 games.

Kevin Durant scored 23 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, while Russell Westbrook chipped in with 15 points in a game that was smooth sailing throughout.

During its current winning streak, Oklahoma City has beaten the Clippers, Lakers, Knicks and now Celtics, with its toughest test to come today.

The Thunder next head to San Antonio where it will face off against the San Antonio Spurs — who are the top team in

the Western Conference, leading the Thunder by one game. San Antonio will be shorthanded for its matchup today,

with All-Star point guard Tony Parker sidelined with sprained left ankle.

Parker, who was playing at the highest level of his NBA ca-reer before the injury, is expected to be sidelined for the next three weeks as Tim Duncan and company hope to weather the storm and keep their top spot in the Western Conference intact.

The Spurs, who won their first two games without Parker, are coming off of a 30-point blowout loss at home against the Portland Trail Blazers. Point guard Patty Mills and sec-ond-year guard Cory Joseph have played well in Parker’s ab-sence, but the Spurs are definitely an inferior team without Parker on the floor.

Unlike San Antonio, the Thunder have stayed healthy this season with Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and Serge Ibaka missing only two games between them, while Parker, Duncan and Manu Ginobili have missed 30 games combined.

Unlike San Antonio, the Thunder have stayed healthy this season with Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and Serge Ibaka missing only two games between them, while Parker, Duncan missing only two games between them, while Parker, Duncan

Many assume the Spurs and Thunder will meet again in the Western Conference Finals for the second year. Last

season, Oklahoma City won in six games after dropping the first two games of the series. The Thunder became the third team in NBA history to win four straight games after

Despite not having Parker for today night’s matchup, ex-pect Spurs’ head coach Gregg Popovich to have his team mo-

and Manu Ginobili have missed 30 games combined.

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season with Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and Serge Ibaka missing only two games between them, while Parker, Duncan and Manu Ginobili have missed 30 games combined.

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Three new films to rival ‘oz’

Brent [email protected]

life & Arts columnist

The 2013 Oscars marked the end of another great year

in film. Laughs and tears were had, and lots of pop-corn was consumed in 2012, but there is a host of movies to watch out for this spring.

Like most years, 2013’s movies worth seeing really don’t start to come out until March, which means we fi-nally have the opportunity to see some decent flicks in theaters. A few caught my eye, including “Olympus Has Fallen,” “The Company You Keep” and “Iron Man 3.”

No, I didn’t forget about “Oz The Great and Powerful,” I just want to focus on three other mov-ies coming out this spring, because advertisements for “Oz” have been out in the-aters and online for many months now; it’s time to let some other movies have the spotlight.

“Olympus Has Fallen” definitely is another Hollywood blockbuster ac-tion movie, and knowing this is important because if you go to see a movie with high expectations, of course, you usually are let down. But I am confident “Olympus Has Fallen” will not disappoint even the most die-hard ac-tion fans.

Just watching the trailer for “Olympus Has Fallen” excites me. The movie takes place in present time or in the not-too-distant future, and is set in D.C. The movie follows an ex-presidential guard on his journey of kill-ing “bad guys” and saving the president .

A slew of Hollywood reg-ulars star in “Olympus Has Fallen,” including Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman, giving “Olympus Has Fallen” the potential to be one of the big box office hits this spring.

Another good looking movie is “The Company You Keep,” starring Robert Redford (Jim Grant), Shia LaBeouf (Ben Shepard),

Anna Kendrick (Diana) and Terrence Howard (Cornelius).

“The Company You Keep” tells the thrilling story of Jim Grant and his journey to try to clear his name of a rob-bery he supposedly commit-ted 30 years ago with his ac-complice Mimi Lurie. All the while, a witty investigative journalist, Ben Shepard, is on a mission to find out what really happened all those years ago.

Because I didn’t even know this movie was being made, I think it will shock not only me, but moviego-ers everywhere. It definitely seems interesting enough to see when it hits select the-aters in April.

“Iron Man 3” comes out in theaters early May and looks to be the most dramat-ic of the trilogy. Tony Stark,

played by Robert Downey Jr., is back at it again, and this time, he faces his most dangerous foe yet: the Mandarin, played by Ben Kingsley.

I am excited to see how the third installment of “Iron Man” plays out, because from the looks of the trailer, it seems much darker and has a deeper meaning than the other two films.

There is a little some-thing out there for everyone this spring. My pick goes to “The Company You Keep” or “Olympus Has Fallen” because they seem to have more originality than a typ-ical Hollywood action hero movie like “Iron Man 3.”

Brent Stenstrom is a film and media studies junior.

An art show will feature work created by non-majors of all concentrations starting at 8:30 a.m. Monday in the School of Art & Art History’s Lightwell Gallery, located on the second floor.

This art show is an opportunity for non-ma-jor students to showcase their work, photography professor Todd Stewart said.

Viewers are able to see work students have created in the context of courses taken in the school, Stewart said.

“Showing support for them would be wonder-ful,” Stewart said.

There are a lot of people in the university outside of the art school who have talent and don’t have the opportu-nity to be seen, photog-raphy professor Ronald Jackson said.

“It gives a chance for both majors, non-ma-jors and outsiders to get an idea as far as talent in terms of linear and non-linear artists,” Jackson said. ”I’ve used art throughout my busi-ness career as well, and I think there are ways that most people don’t think about using art.”

The exhibit is free and open to the public and will be held through Friday.

Jessica Murphy Life & Arts Reporter

Art show to feature work by non-majors

cAmpus Arts

At A glAnce‘The company You Keep’

Starring: Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie and Sam Elliott

Rated: R

Run time: 125 minutes

Release date: April 5 At A glAnce‘Iron man 3’

Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce

Rated: Not yet rated

Run time: 109 minutes

Release date: May 3

OUDaily.com ››“Oz The Great and Powerful” opened Friday. Check out the top five and bottom five aspects of the movie.

ART PRoVIDED

“olympus Has Fallen,” starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and morgan Freeman, opens march 22 and is rated R for strong violence and language.

Deke Arndt, NOAA Climate

Monitoring Branch chief

Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

science writer

Baxter Vieux,Presidential Professor

Joseph A. Brandt Professor, College of Engineering,Civil Engineering and

Environmental Science.

Gaylord College is hosting a panel as part of its centennial celebration. These three guests will discuss water issues facing Oklahoma and the nation, how those issues impact citizens and how journalists can best

report those stories.

Tuesday, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.mEthics & Excellence in Journalism

Foundation Auditorium, Gaylord Hall, Room 1140.

You are welcome to attend. It will also be streamed online at

http://www.ou.edu/content/gaylord/centennial/water.html#WaterCrisis

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