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Sports: Hughes’ coaching staff decision is a good one.

L&A: Casey Donahew talks about his band, OU concert. 4p.

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New chairman has big plans for OU, position in spring semester

student body, but also the local community and also is the director for the Center for the History of Liberty.

When Fears held the po-sition, he led reading groups for senior cit-i z e n s , g a v e public lectures on the histo-ry of Western l i b e r t y i n Oklahoma and in other states a n d t a u g h t f o r t h e O U branch of the Osher Lifelong L e a r n i n g Institute for older adults, said Samuel Huskey, chair-man of the classics and let-ters department.

McClay’s plans to es-tablish a connection with the Oklahoma Humanities

Council to promote pub-lic humanities education. He also would like to set up programs that foster good citizenship in an age when most continuing education

is centered on technology, he said.

“One of the things some-one in this po-sition should d o i s b e a n e m i s s a r y t o t h e l a r g e r community,” McClay said.

The popu-lar classes that Fears taught, F re e d o m i n G r e e c e a n d

Freedom in Rome, will not be continued but McClay has course plans of his own, he said.

“A big part of the job will

be to compliment Dr. Fears, not emulate him,” he said.

A history Ph.D. and a spe-cialist in American intel-lectual and cultural history, McClay’s tentative course plans include a class titled The Idea of Liberty, he said.

“What I envision doing is starting in the classical world — with how freedom emerged — and then going from there,” he said.

While the classics and let-ters department has not de-cided whether McClay will take over the letters major capstone course that Fears previously taught, McClay would welcome the oppor-tunity, he said.

McClay will begin teach-ing courses in Spring 2014.

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BENNETT HALLCampus Reporter

Coming into his posi-tion as the G.T. and Libby Blakenship chair of History of Liberty, Wilfred McClay has big plans for the job that once belonged to the late Rufus Fears.

McClay, who currently is at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, was chosen for the position after an eight-month long search. In addi-tion to his chairman position, he also will be a professor in the classics and letters de-partment, Vice Provost Kyle Harper said.

Fears, one of the most re-spected figures in the uni-versity’s recent history, was a one-of-a-kind educator and civic leader, so the search committee was mindful of this as it made its decision to find his replacement, Harper said.

“The university wanted someone who would be a special occupant of a special chair... someone who will bring their own energy and vision into the role,” he said.

McClay seemed to be in-credibly smart and pub-lic-spirited, he said.

“His application stood out to us immediately. From there, we were able to bring him to campus, and he shined during his interview,” Harper said.

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As a Dallas native, John F. Kennedy’s assassination really resonated with OU alumnus, Stephen Fagin, enough so that he’s devot-ed his life to learning more about the event and its implications.

Fagin recently has written a book about the assassina-tion, published through OU Press, titled “Assassination and Commemoration: JFK, Dallas, and the Sixth Floor

M u s e u m a t D e a l e y P l a z a ,” a c -cording to a press release.

F r o m a y o u n g a g e , the assassi-nation was a hot topic of d i s c u s s i o n in his family

and with other Dallas den-izens who still talk about it as if it was breaking news, Fagin said.

“Living here in Dallas, the death of President Kennedy has always felt like a current event,” he said. “Rarely does

Fagin publishes book about day’s events

a week or two pass without some media story related to one of the assassination-re-lated sites in the city, or someone who was involved in some aspect of that week-end or its aftermath.”

The fascination for the event consumed and sur-rounded his entire l i fe, and he even wrote his the-sis at OU on the history of the Sixth Floor Museum in Dealey Plaza, where most believe Lee Harvey Oswald shot the gun that kil led Kennedy, he said.

It also was during Fagin’s time at OU studying mu-seum studies that he got the idea to write his book. In fact, it was the thesis he wrote about five years ago that laid the foundation for it, he said.

As Fagin wrote his the-sis, he worked closely with Byron Price, director of the University of Oklahoma Press, who was the chair-man for Fagin’s thesis.

“It was the depth of re-search in his thesis that made it stand out and pro-vided the blueprint for his book,” Price said.

When Fagin came to OU, he was actually already an employee of the Sixth Floor Museum but needed

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RYAN BLACKBURNCampus Reporter

More American military personnel can pursue a de-gree from OU while deployed overseas thanks to a $31 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense.

The department award-ed OU a $31 million grant to be distributed over 10 years to continue and expand its Advanced Program depart-ment, which serves military members overseas.

Through OU’s Advanced Programs department, sol-diers deployed internation-ally, as well as their families and other base personnel, will be able to take classes for a number of graduate de-grees on site, according to a press release.

“We’re very excited about this new contract and our ex-tended opportunity to offer OU degrees international-ly for those who are unable to attend OU directly,” OU Outreach spokesman Jerry Jerman said.

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another degree to move forward in his career, Price said.

“[Fagin] needed the ad-ditional higher education to further his career, but he also knew what he was doing,” Price said.

Fagin’s book details the history of the museum, the story of the community’s efforts to save the building

and how Dallas has pulled itself out from the shadow cast by the assassination, Fagin said.

“Like Ford’s Theatre, where Abraham Lincoln was shot or Pearl Harbor or the site of the Murrah b u i l d i n g i n O k l a h o m a City, Dealey Plaza is sacred space,” he said. “Where the larger meaning and lasting

impact of a violent act is remembered as a signif-icant turning point and part of a process of na-tional renewal in the face of tragedy.”

W h i l e Fag i n ha s n o plans to write another book, he does think there a re m o re sto r i e s su r-rounding Kennedy and the assassination that could be explored, he said.

Which is exactly what Fagin is doing in his po-sition as the associate cu-rator for the Sixth Floor Museum, his dream job.

In the position, he man-ages the museum’s ongo-ing Oral History Project, which is an audio-visual collection of interviews on the life, death and leg-acy of Kennedy and the history and culture of the ‘60s, he said.

“We believe everyone has a story worth sharing,” Fagin said.

Right now, the museum has close to 1,100 oral his-tories in its collection, and Fagin adds about 100 new interviews each year, he said.

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16th annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival celebrates singer

Celebrate legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie at the 16th annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. The festival runs from July 10 through

July 14. See the accompanying story on this page for more details.

Have a sophisticated day at the opera with Gilbert & Sullivan’s Ruddigore, presented by the Nancy O’Brian Center for the

Performing Arts. Tickets may be purchased at www. cimarronopera.org or by calling 364-8962.

Browse through Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s new-est gallery, the “Hopituy” exhibition. Assistant curator

Heather Ahtone will lead a walking tour to discuss the collection in a Gallery Talk titled “Traditional Protocal vs. Artistic License. The tour starts at 12:30 p.m.

Support your local econ-omy by visiting the Norman Farmers Market to discover fresh fruits, vegetables,

� owers and more. The market is open 8 a.m. to noon at the Cleveland County Fairgrounds.

Enjoy your summer day with a picnic lunch in Lions Park. Don’t forget to stop next door at the Norman Firehouse Art Center.

The gallery’s Faculty Art Show currently is showcasing a variety of artistic styles. The art center will be open 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

If you haven’t seen “Stirring the Fire: A Global Movement to Empower Women & Girls” at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art,

then you’re missing out. Visit the striking photography exhibition during normal museum hours.

Enjoy a free event on campus with The Casey Donahew Band’s concert. OU’s Campus Activities Council, Union Programming Board, Interfraternity

Council and the OU IT Store will host the show at 8 p.m. on Oklahoma Memorial Union’s East Lawn.

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The Casey Donahew Band, a Texas country group, will play a free concert at 8 p.m. on Oklahoma Memorial Union’s East Lawn as part of OU’s “Must Stay Weekend” this Friday.

KELLY ROGERSLife & Arts Reporter

Folk music lovers young and old will gather to cel-e b r a t e t h e 1 6 t h a n n u -a l Wo o d y G u t h r i e Fo l k F e s t i v a l . F r o m Ju l y 1 0 through July 14, festivalgo-ers can celebrate Guthrie’s folk spirit of Oklahoma in his hometown of Okemah, Okla.

To k i c k o f f t h i s year’s festival, Jimmy LaFave will be per-forming Wednesday a t t h e C r y s t a l Theater.

LaFave’s show will include his “Walking W o o d y ’ s R o a d ” musical and sp o-ken-word tribute to Guthrie. This show is the only ticketed performance of the free four-day festi-val. Tickets can be purchased at Brown Paper Tickets, and a l l p r o c e e d s w i l l benefit the Woody Guthrie Coalition, according to a press release.

D e a n a M c C l o u d , President of the Woody G u t h r i e C o a l i t i o n a n d Executive Director of the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, has helped organize this show since the very first WoodyFest in 1998.

McCloud handles book-ing and producing the con-certs, as well as rounding up the artists to play.

“It’s like a huge family re-union,” McCloud said.

Artists who have played for Woody Fest. before never seem to hesitate to return, and she’s always finding new artists to join the folk festival family, she said.

Some returning Woody Fest. performers include John Fullbright, The Red Dirt Rangers, Jimmy LaFave and Annie Guthrie.

But music isn’t the only Woody Fest staple, with

activities for Guthrie’s die-hard fans, and their chil-dren, too. This four-day fes-tival also includes poetry, film screenings and story-telling, according to a press release.

GO AND DOWoody Guthrie Folk FestivalWhen: July 10-14

Where: Crystal Theater Okemah, Okla.

Price: Free except for Jimmy LaFave show

Info: See woodyguthrie.com for full festival details

As the summer heats up and hot new artists take the stage at WoodyFest, indoor activities also will be in full swing for younger Guthrie fans. Kids can enjoy story-telling on Friday, and get creative with arts and crafts on Saturday.

Supported by a grant from the Oklahoma Arts Council, sponsors work alongside McCloud to plan and pre-pare for a festival full of great music and Oklahoma spirit, McCloud said.

“Woody Fest. is a great festival that really gives off a unique vibe,” McCloud said. “You can’t explain it. You have to experience it.”

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LUKE REYNOLDSLIFE & ARTS REPORTER

OU’s Campus Activities Council, Union Programming Board, Interfraternity Council and the OU IT Store will host Casey Donahew band for OU’s “Must Stay Weekend” this Friday.

The Daily had the oppor-tunity to sit down and talk to Casey Donahew to get to know a little more about the band, its aspirations and how it deals with drunk people.

The free concert will be 8 p.m. Friday on Oklahoma Memorial Union’s East Lawn.

Q: Are you a Texas fan?

A: I’m a Texas guy so I’ve got to be a Texas fan and I went to A&M for a part of my college career so I’m kind of all over the place but I’m a huge Dallas Cowboys fan and Texas Rangers fan, but Oklahoma is definitely second.

Q: What is the hardest part of being on the road?

A: The hardest part for me is the time we spend away from our families. A lot of us have wives and kids and homes and that’s apart of the sacrifice. We have a pretty good group of guys that we travel with on the road, and we try and do a lot of activities that get us away from the venue and out to ex-perience to town we’re in. I mean, you get 10 or 11 guys in a 400-foot space for a couple of weeks straight and things get a little tense.

Q: What is the most awkward/weird moment you’ve had while you’re on the road?

A: Hmmm. Let me think of one I can talk about. It’s sur-prising the things you’ll see from the stage; there’s some crazy activity that goes on in the crowd every once and awhile. We’re pretty calm guys we don’t get in much trou-ble so we try and take it pretty easy up there.

Q: Have you ever had to stop a show because of a crowd

becoming too rowdy?

A: Man, I stop shows all the time because of fights. Some people play through, and we’ll definitely stop until secu-rity stops it. I mean, you can’t just sit there and play music while someone is getting the crap beaten out of them.

Q: So your single is called “Whiskey Baby,” and I know that the song is not about whiskey, but is that your favorite drink?

A: Man, I’m really a beer guy than a liquor guy these days. You know I’m really more of a vodka guy, I think. I like the vodka lime.

Q: Were you in a fraternity?

A: Yeah, I was a Phi Delt at A&M.

Q: The crowd on Friday will presumably be a little rowdy. Are you all used to that?

A: Yeah man. That’s what we do. We do rowdy college crowds. We’re all about people having a good time; just got

to keep your hands to yourself — unless she came with you.

Q: When did you start playing shows?

A: I didn’t really start playing shows until I got back to Fort Worth right after college. Then I just started playing in bars and stuff.

Q: You graduated with a finance degree. What was your plan after college?

A: Man, just wanted to get a business degree and I just wanted to do stuff in real estate which I still do now. I stay pretty busy all the time.

Q: Do you all prefer Texas to Tennessee or Tennessee to Texas and why?

A: My wife is our manager so she spends a lot more time in Tennessee than I do, but I go there about once a month. When I get a free day I like to do what I like, not spend it traveling. So, I definitely prefer Texas to Tennessee.

Q: What are your hopes/plans/goals for the future?

A: You know I’ve got the same plan I started out with ten years ago: just keep writing better songs and keep taking music to new places. Haven’t wavered.

Q: Would you say that most of your songs are about heart-break or ... ?

A: I’m not sure there’s a main theme or directive. I like to find lines that really mean something to mean and build off of that. I think like every song has one or two home run lines and I try to find that line and build that line around that. I try to write the funny songs and the party songs and it seems like a lot of the songs I’ve written over the years have been about heartbreak with a little bit of vengeance thrown in.

Q: Did you all legitimately shoot “Double-Wide Dream” in a double wide or a studio?

A: No, that’s the real deal. It’s actually my father-in-law’s double-wide.

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Led by Oklahoma women’s basket-ball coach Sherri Coale, Team USA crushed Mali, 120-32, Monday and the Czech Republic, 101-61, Tuesday in the opening round of pool play in the World University Games in Kazan, Russia.

The pool play wins were Coale’s � rst and second victories as Team USA’s head coach.

In the two wins, OU senior Aaryn Ellenberg scored 23 points on 7-of-16 shooting and recorded seven rebounds and three steal in her 38 minutes of play.

“It was a relief,” Coale said in a news release, “and I think they were relieved to have success with one another. They really seemed to enjoy making one another look good, which was fun to see, and it’s going to have to be our M.O. throughout this tournament.”

With the wins, Team USA improves to 2-0 in pool play before facing Brazil at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. Team USA is the only team in its group without a loss.

Staff Reports

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COLUMN

Home losses kill Sooners’ season

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SPORTS REPORTER

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The Sooners lost three games during the 2012 season, two of which coming at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, a place OU has not lost two games at since 1998. Both of those losses came on national televi-sion against marquee opponents.

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Three Sooners set to play in World Cup of Softball starting Thursday

After winning the program’s � rst national title since 2000, three members of the 2013 Oklahoma softball team start competition with Team USA on Thursday in the World Cup of Softball at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.

Former OU pitcher Keilani Ricketts, junior Lauren Chamberlain and senior Destinee Martinez made the team June 14 and have been training for the World Cup as well as other Team USA events in the future.

The World Cup of Softball starts at noon Thursday with Border Battle V between Team USA and Team Canada. Team USA then will go on to face Team Canada again at 7 p.m. Thursday.

Team USA continues the tournament at 7 p.m. Friday against Australia before facing Japan at 8 p.m. Saturday and Puerto Rico at noon Saturday.

After the round-robin play, Team USA will play Sunday as whichever seed it earns based off its round-robin record.

Staff Reports

Coale-lead Team USA opens the World University Games on right foot

SHERRI COALE

KEILANI RICKETTS

SOFTBALL

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

vs. Kansas State

Date: Sept. 22, 2012Score: 24-19, KSUKey Play: Landry Jones’ fumble returned for a touchdownImpact: OU fell to 2-1

vs. Notre Dame

Date: Oct. 27, 2012Score: 30-13, NDKey Play: Manti Te’o’s late interceptionImpact: OU fell to 5-2

Source: soonersports.com

AT A GLANCE Home Losses vs. KSU & ND

All the pieces were in place for the Oklahoma football

team to make another na-tional title run last season.

Defensive coordinator Mike Stoops had come to save the defense, quarter-back Landry Jones was re-turning for his senior year and the Sooners had the marquee games lined up to make for an impressive season.

Not so fast. Those marquee games

against Kansas State and Notre Dame didn’t quite pan out. The losses stung plenty on their own, but los-ing them both at home put the icing on the cake.

In what ended up being a theme for the Sooners throughout the season, their own mistakes did them in.

Against Kansas State, Jones’ fumble near Oklahoma’s goal line was returned in for a touch-down, and then-sophomore quarterback Blake Bell fum-bled a snap he could have taken into the end zone to tie the game.

The Sooners ended up losing that game, 24-19. A team that once looked in-destructible on their home field was beginning to look very vulnerable.

But not all was lost. Oklahoma no longer con-trolled its own destiny, but

with a win against Notre Dame, its season could get back on track.

If only things were that simple.

Notre Dame rolled into Oklahoma in one of the most hyped college football games of the season, and Oklahoma seemingly crum-bled under the pressure.

Despite throwing for 356 yards, Jones was without a touchdown the entire game. The Sooners’ lone touch-down came in the fourth quarter from the Belldozer.

The Sooners rallied in the fourth, but Notre Dame standout linebacker Manti Te’o had different plans. He picked off a pass that was tipped by junior receiver Jalen Saunders to effectively end the game.

The Irish ended up de-feating the Sooners, 30-13.

Losing hurts. Losing at home hurts even more, especially for a team like Oklahoma.

In 2011, Texas Tech snapped OU’s home

winning streak that start-ed in 2005, but nobody in Sooner Nation saw this coming.

Last season was supposed to be it. It was supposed to be the end of the national championship drought. It was time. It was supposed to be Oklahoma’s year.

Losing to Kansas State was a reality check. Nobody really liked it, but people could deal with it.

Losing to Notre Dame was a slap in the face. It added insult to injury; it rubbed dirt in the wound. There was no coming back from that loss.

Stoops didn’t end up saving

the defense, at least not yet. Jones underperformed his in his senior year. The Sooners ended up losing both of their marquee games.

The pieces were there for Oklahoma to make the national title run; the team just couldn’t quite fit them all together.

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who are leaving the pro-gram because of the MLB Draft and graduation, respectively.

But Anderson has a young team full of poten-tial quality hitters. Leading the lineup will be outfielder Craig Aikin, second base-man Hector Lorenzana and catcher Anthony Hermelyn, all of whom hit better than .275 in 2012.

Although one of the new-est members to the OU family has his work cut out for him, he has talent with which to work.

But the best move Hughes could have made in his search to fill out his coach-ing staff was keeping Giese. Originally, Giese — as well as Gaines — was thought to be part of Golloway’s coach-ing staff at Auburn.

Giese has been on staff since November 2011, and he has been a major impact on what’s been successful at L. Dale Mitchell Park since.

Yes, Giese has had a lot of talent to work with consider-ing he had two early-round draft pick pitchers at his dis-posal in former OU pitchers

Jonathan Gray and Dillon Overton — who will be undergoing Tommy John surgery — but Giese helped de-velop those two pitchers, es-pecially Gray, in his two full years on staff.

Although the Sooners’ two main pitchers are gone, Hughes and Giese have a lot of options looking for-ward to 2014. Pitchers like Jacob Evans, Ralph Garza Jr., Adam Choplick, Kyle Hayes, Cory Copping as well as others can only grow and help maintain a solid num-bers on the mound that OU pitchers have been known for each of the last two seasons.

Although Hughes’ coach-ing staff decision won’t be fully appreciated or hated until after next February, he has made immediate steps in the right direction.

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Hughes makes great call with coaching staff

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Oklahoma baseball coach Pete Hughes was named to the position June 27. At the time, he said he was in search for a coaching staff, and OU’s current staff was one that had a resume that spoke for itself. Hughes decided to keep on two major components from last year’s Sooner coaching staff.

On Monday, Oklahoma baseball coach

Pete Hughes named Mike Anderson, Jack Giese and Ryan Gaines to his coaching staff.

This is Hughes’ first major decision since being named the team’s head coach June 27, and the decision was a good one. In fact, it was one of the better first decisions he could have made as OU’s new coach.

Sooner fans may remem-ber Anderson from his days with Nebraska. Or, more pre-cisely, Sooner fans probably remember Anderson’s suc-cess against OU while he was Nebraska’s head coach.

Anderson, who was a coach at Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora, Colo., this past year, was the Corn

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Huskers’ skipper from 2003-2011, compiling a 337-196-2 record. During those nine seasons, Anderson led Nebraska to five NCAA tour-nament appearances and one College World Series appearance in 2005 when Nebraska went 57-15.

Anderson had a winning record against the Sooners, too, totaling a 14-12-1 re-cording against both former

OU coaches Larry Cochell and Sunny Golloway’s clubs.

“Mike is one of the most accomplished head coaches in the profession,” Hughes said in a news release. “He has recruited players to teams that have gone on to Omaha.”

Anderson should be the Sooners’ hitting coach, ac-cording to sources. He will be trying to help improve

upon OU’s .282 batting aver-age from this past season.

Although that is a respect-able team average, the bats went cold at the end of the season and was bailed out by a solid pitching staff mul-tiple times throughout the year.

The Sooners will enter the 2014 season without their top two hitters in Matt Oberste and Max White,

SPORTS BRIEFS

Jonathan Gray to make professional debut WednesdayFormer Oklahoma baseball pitcher Jonathan Gray is slated to make

his professional debut Wednesday with the Grand Junction Rockies, the Colorado Rockies’ Rookie League af� liate in the Pioneer League, against the Billing Mustangs at Suplizio Field in Grand Junction, Colo.

Gray, who was the third overall pick in June’s MLB Draft, signed a $4.8 million contract. He went 10-3 with a 1.64 ERA with 147 strikeouts in 2013.

Gray’s debut, which is scheduled for 8:05 p.m., will be his � rst since pitching for the Sooners on June 7.

Staff Reports

Sooners name new Track & Field, Cross Country coachThe Oklahoma Track and Field and Cross Country programs have a new

head coach, Jim VanHootegem, as announced Monday.As a coach, VanHootegem has won 12 NCAA Division I team champion-

ships and 27 conference championships. Before joining OU, he coached at multiple universities, including Texas A&M, Miami (Fla.), San Diego State, Mississippi State and Arkansas as an assistant coach.

“Jim has worked for and been mentored by some of the � nest coaches in the history of intercollegiate track and � eld and has built his own distin-guished pedigree as a coach,” OU Athletic Director Joe Castiglione said in a news release.

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