Monday, March 31, 2014

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Architecture students can play a game of bingo, compete in a bout of laser tag and grab a slice of pizza this week to celebrate their college’s programs.

The College of Architecture is cel-ebrating C-3 Week with events from Monday through Friday, including a cookout, volleyball tournament, laser tag and bingo.

Students and faculty can also attend demonstrations, presentations and panel discussions about projects and opportunities related to their field.

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L&A: Former OU student’s film to screen April 11 (Page 8)

Sports: The men’s gymnastics team takes conference (Page 7)

Opinion: OU students should vote in Norman elections (Page 3)

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Grace Anne Marcum and David Borum performs in Kappa Kappa Gamma and Delta Uspilon’s show, “1789,” at this years Sooner Scandals event. Sooner Scandals is a talent show put on by CAC that pairs a fraternity and a sorority and challenges them to come up with a show that shows off the talents of each group.

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Members of Kappa Kappa Gamma and Delta Upsilon perform at this year’s Sooner Scandals event.

SOONER SCANDALS

Performance lets students display talentGroups show quotations’ meanings with song, dance routines this year

SGA candidates discuss platform

ELECTIONS

Candidates Epting and Campbell focus on student needs, campus experience

College of Architecture to hold week full of festivities

WEEK OF EVENTSMonday: C-3 Week Kickoff Cookout hosted by the College of Architecture When: 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.Where: Gould Hall Archway

Tuesday: Bingo Night hosted by Interior Design Student AssociationWhen: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.Where: Gould Hall, Buskuhl Gallery

Wednesday: Blue Beam Demonstration Session by Timberlake Construction hosted by Construction Student AssociationWhen: 10:00 to 11:00 a.m.Where: Gould Hall, B7

BIM Kiosk Demonstration and Panel Discussion by Flintco hosted by Construction Student AssociationFree lunch providedWhen: Noon to 1:30 p.m. Where: Gould Hall, Buskuhl Gallery

MATT WOODSCampus Reporter@Matopher

On Wednesday, Matt Epting and Sarah Campbell will run uncontested for the respective positions of Student Government Association president and vice president.

The Daily interviewed Epting and Campbell about their campaign and ambitious platform for the coming term, which is focused on supporting OU students through sev-eral new programs.

Can you tell us about the theme of your campaign?Epting: The theme of our campaign is “Be Bold.” And

the concept … is the idea that when students come togeth-er we can accomplish really big things.

Our platform is full of ideas that we think will make a really big impact on OU, make the student experience bet-ter, and we really want to get students excited about that.

You’ve said that this election being uncontested has al-lowed your campaign to focus more on the issues — getting your ideas out there. Can you tell me more about that?

Epting: This election is uncontested, but what’s inter-esting about running an uncontested election is that we can focus on the issues in our campaign. We really get to focus on the ideas we have, because that’s what’s most ex-citing to us.

We really want to get students involved with that and to still turn out and vote. We want to be able to show ad-ministrators that we have student support for these ideas.

Can you give us an overview of your platform?Epting: Both of us have had really incredible OU experi-

ences … and we’ve learned a lot about people’s OU expe-riences and what students really want out of their time at OU. And so our platform is based on making the student experience better.

So these include creating a higher education coalition to fight against increases in tuition, creating a ride share program to alleviate the parking congestion problem that a lot of students are really not happy about, creating dead week reforms that we can have a better study en-vironment during that week before final exams, a cam-pus-wide reading group to foster community and intel-lectual discussion.

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C-3 Week is named for the college’s tagline: collaborate, create and con-struct, said Laura Stone, the college’s communication manager.

“There’s a lot of depth in those three words,” Stone said.

The week showcases the work of members of the college and fosters col-laboration between the college’s de-partments: architecture, construction science, interior design, landscape ar-chitecture and regional and city plan-ning, Stone said.

“We hold these events to give every-one in the College of Architecture — students and faculty — the opportunity to see what amazing things others are doing both within and outside their own discipline,” Stone said.

The week’s events are planned and chaperoned by different student groups

within the college, Stone said. The College of Architecture Student Council is largely responsible for the planning.

Michelle Oliphant, president of the American Institute of Architecture Students, said her organization is hold-ing a masquerade ball Saturday.

Oliphant, architecture senior, said her organization and others within the college have been planning their events since the beginning of the spring semester.

The ball is the biggest event OU’s chapter of the institute does throughout the year, Oliphant said.

Research and Creativity Day, an an-nual event, will be held Friday as a cul-mination of the week’s activities, Stone said. From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., selected stu-dents and faculty will give presentations on their projects and research.

School celebrates architecture’s principlesC-3 WEEK

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AMBER FRIENDCampus Reporter@amberthefriend

At age 10 Jean Preston first began thinking about what she’d like to be when she grew up. Rummaging through a garage sale in her home state of New Jersey, Preston, now OU’s diplomat in residence, found the book that would set her on the path to work in the U.S. Foreign Service.

The book, “The Ugly American,” made her consider for the first time what it would be like to work in other coun-tries and pursue her other interests, such as traveling, meeting people, reading, writing and discussing.

“Literally from age 10, I was thinking that Foreign Services might be the career for me,” Preston said.

In 1986, Preston’s adolescent dreams were realized when she started working with the Foreign Service. Since then, she’s worked in several countries such as Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Italy, Mexico and Venezuela. Right now, although her job is contained in the U.S., Preston is busy, to say the least. From touring the different colleges in her district, to being a guide for students at OU, Preston works and travels for hours every week to aid students pursuing careers in the Foreign Service.

Preston is the diplomat in residence for the central

Foreign Service officer prepares studentsDiplomat in residence helps students discover careers in State Department’s Foreign Service

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And that’s just a small sample of these ideas that we really think are going to make the OU experience better for stu-dents. That’s what SGA is all about.

For students who haven’t been involved in SGA elections before, what is your role through SGA on campus, and why should students care?

Epting: SGA really does matter because we are the student body … Actually, every single undergraduate and graduate stu-dent is a member of SGA. So when we have advocacy efforts when we start new programs through SGA, we’re doing these to benefit all students.

The mission of SGA is to make the OU experience for students the best that it can possibly be. And that really has no limits; we can do anything that students want to get done … That’s what SGA is all about; listening to students … and making a bet-ter experience for everyone.

What makes you passionate about this position, and what will you bring to SGA?

Campbell: Why I’m passionate about SGA is the opportunity. Because I think that, as the role of president and vice pres-ident and through the use of the congress and the cabinet and everything, that we

have the opportunity to make some really amazing things happen.

So using those personal relationships and forming those relationships with students, I think, gives us the grounds to move forward on.

What kind of legacy do you want to leave behind at the end of your term in SGA?

Campbell: The first item I’m very pas-sionate about is the dead week policy. I know, for myself, that dead week is usually the opposite — it’s not very dead at all. And I think that students have the same idea about that as well. And so I think that any grounds we can make in increasing the amount of productivity for students on their own level during dead week would be a huge impact.

Second thing I’d like to be a part of is the advocacy team … I think the opportunity to work with students, giving them the per-sonal insight into how to contact admin-istration, how to go about the things that sometimes you don’t see in the forefront of a problem.

So I think those two things, the dead week policy and the advocacy team, are the things I’m most excited about this semester.

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region, which covers North Dakota, South Dakota, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma.

Diplomat in residence coordinator Terry Davidson said the diplomat in residence po-sition is important because shows students a career path they may not know exists.

A diplomat in residence must not only be informed about the U.S. Department of State, but also must connect with students, which is something Davidson said Preston does well.

“Jean is a very communicative, very in-teractive, highly energetic diplomat in res-idence,” Davidson said. “ That ’s why we’re real-ly happy to have her in Oklahoma.”

While Preston mainly serves as a resource for those interested in pursuing a ca-reer in the U.S. Department of State, she also advises students on programs and internships, travels through-out her district to share in-formation at special events and teaches a weekly class about the indigenous people of Latin America.

As a diplomat in residence, Preston spends a lot of time traveling. In one week alone, she traveled from Oklahoma City, to Tulsa, to Little Rock and was back at OU on Monday to teach her class.

When she travels, Preston visits universi-ties and career fairs, sometimes holding one-on-one meetings or meet-and-greets with students, Preston said.

“Definitely the part of the job that is most fun is talking to young people and helping them see how their dreams could lead them to a career in the Foreign Service,” Preston said.

International law professor Evelyn Aswad has worked with Preston several times throughout the year, connecting her with students interested in a career in the U.S. Department of State.

“Jean is always extremely helpful, upbeat and just has a wealth of experience to share,”

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The most rewarding thing is that you’re doing something that’s worthwhile. You’re making a

difference.”Jean Preston

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Aswad said.Preston believes the U.S. Foreign Service

and the U.S. Department of State benefit from different backgrounds and perspec-tives and she thinks the Foreign Service has improved greatly for women in the last few decades.

Sexist policies, such as female officers having to resign if they got married or the practice of reviewing married male officers’ wives to make sure they were supporting their husbands’ careers, were abandoned in 1973, and now 40 percent of Foreign Service officers are women.

“The institution has come a long way and I think our foreign policy has benefited from it,” Preston said.

Davidson has a similar outlook, saying it’s important for women to hold positions of political power and lead-ership, especially in the state department and Foreign Service, which focuses so many resources on improv-ing women’s rights globally.

“ To have women rep-r e s e n t e d w e l l i n t h e Department of State and in the foreign service is really important,” Davidson said. “We can’t talk about empow-erment in other countries … unless there are American role models and American examples.”

P r e s t o n i s p a s s i o n -ate about her work in the Foreign Service and encour-ages students from different

majors to pursue a career in the Department of State.

“The most rewarding thing is that you’re doing something that’s worthwhile. You’re making a difference. You’re serving your country, and you’re probably making the world a better place as well,” Preston said.

Preston will be leaving OU for good in July for her next assignment under the Department of State as the deputy direc-tor of Conservation and Water Affairs in Washington D.C. Her successor will be Rob Andrews.

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Public relations junior matt epting chalks on the south oval sunday afternoon for the upcoming student Government association election with his supporters. epting and sarah campbell are running uncontested for president and vice president respectively.

If her actions against anti-abor-tion protestors

are any indication, University of California at Santa Barbara pro-fessor Mireille Miller-Young views pluralism and civilized discourse with some degree of scorn. Rather than addressing those demonstrators’ points, Miller-Young chose to steal one of their signs and later destroy it with the help of sever-al students.

While no liberal-minded person can truly excuse Miler-Young’s ac-tions, one can denounce the group she accosted “Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust.” When protest-ing, members of this organization

often display exceed-ingly grotesque imag-es of aborted fetuses. These shock tactics stand in stark contrast to the more moderate and positive messages of many other pro-lifers.

However, in this in-stance, Miller-Young

should remain the key recipient of our condemnation. For her partly successful attempt to suppress the speech of demonstrators, Miller-Young deserves all the criticism and the criminal charges that have since been leveled against her.

Miller-Young was charged with theft, vandalism and battery, each a misdemeanor. She later claimed in a police interview that she was

“triggered” by the images on the signs and that she had a “moral right” to re-move them. A society in which indi-viduals were allowed to dismiss their own criminal actions on such shaky grounds would quickly fall apart.

University of California Santa Barbara’s Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Michael D. Young, sent a let-ter to the university’s students stating both his distaste for some of the an-ti-abortion protestors and his sup-port for the “sanctity of free speech.”

In the letter, Young writes: “We all have the right to say odious things, to display offensive slogans and placards, and to hurt and disrespect groups and individuals that disagree with us. The question is: should we? Should we engage in these behaviors just because we can or because they

serve our political, religious or per-sonal agendas?”

Young should be commended for this statement. He rightly demon-strated that, while one may vehe-mently oppose the tactics and views of a group, one can also respect their freedom to espouse such opinions. His position is straightforward but one that deserves repetition, lest we drift into the habit of censoring op-posing perspectives.

As its students are likely aware, OU itself is no stranger to vitriol.

Our View: OU students should take advantage of the opportunity to have their voices heard by voting in this week’s Norman City Council elections.

Norman City Council elections for Wards 2, 4, 6 and 8 are Tuesday, and we encourage all OU stu-dents to vote. It is well known that we Sooners don’t participate as much as we should in the affairs of our university’s city. We have no place to complain about Norman if we don’t take the initiative to vote in City Council elections.

OU students could effect real change in our town if we took advantage of our right to vote in Norman elections. For example, there is a city-wide measure on Tuesday’s ballot about making the city’s public safe-ty sales tax permanent. The public safety sales tax is a temporary, seven-year, one-half percent increase in Norman’s sales tax that was adopted to bring extra revenue to the city to hire more police officers. Tuesday’s ballot offers the option to make the in-crease a permanent part of the city’s sales tax.

Whether you think the sales tax is a great

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While non-registered Sooners might not be able to vote in this week’s election — voter registration closes 24 days prior to the election — they should go ahead and print, fill out and mail the form in order to be eligible to vote in Norman’s next City Council election. The thousands of students on OU’s campus could easily change the outcome of Norman elections to fit their desires and needs. If we all took a few minutes to register and fill out a ballot on election days, we could potentially make Norman one of the most pro-gressive cities in Oklahoma.

Looking beyond Norman city limits, registered

student voters could also change policy at the state level. We have made it known several times that we don’t approve of all the decisions Oklahoma’s governor and congress make, so let’s help change that. Let’s pay attention to governmental changes and decisions made in our state and vote for the policies and candidates we agree with, both in Norman and in Oklahoma in gener-al. We know not every OU student is from Oklahoma and that many stu-dents don’t plan to stay in Oklahoma following graduation. However, for the four or more years you call Oklahoma home, you have the chance to make your vote matter and change your adopted state.

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CAMPUS AWARDSPROGRAM

LETZEISER HONOR LIST AND MEDALISTS

� e Letzeiser Awards are presented annually in memory of the late Alexander Letzeiser as a stimulus of good citizenship and achievement.

� ese are the highest awards presented during the Spring Campus Awards Program. � e selections are made each year by a student/

faculty/sta� committee and are based on leadership, scholarship, and service to the university.

LETZEISER HONOR LIST

SOONER PARENTSOutstanding Student Mother Award

Amanda Whorton

GEORGE HENDERSON JR. AWARDChloe Tadlock

Julie BockNick AguileraBrittany BurgeAddison Alford

KatieBeth GardnerTyler Campbell

Pattaranan KiatsakdawongCale Curtin

Merrilea PlaceJ.C. Fisher

Edith QuinonezAustin Kipp

Helga Skaftason

Rafael LemusGabrielle SkillingsPatrick McSweeney

Alexis TaitelAkash Patel

Brette � rockmortonBradley Pirtle

Nicole UpshawDavid Vreeland

Pooja VijayvargiyaVinh Vu

Rosemarie ZanabriaCorbin Wallace

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGOutstanding Senior in Architectural Engineering

Elizabeth Attewell

Outstanding Senior in Civil EngineeringDylan Smith

Outstanding Senior in Environmental EngineeringCameron Spriggs

Outstanding Senior in Environmental ScienceKaci Gevaldo

Outstanding Senior in Computer ScienceJoel Maupin

Outstanding Senior in Industrial & Systems Engineering Cole Jackson

Outstanding Senior in Computer EngineeringTanner Blair

Outstanding Senior in Electrical EngineeringPatrick Kenworthy

Outstanding Senior in Aerospace EngineeringAndrew Rangitsch

Outstanding Senior in Mechanical Engineering

Michael Petri

Outstanding Senior in Chemical, Biological and Material Engineering

Lauren Gilbert

Outstanding Senior in Engineering PhysicsChase Hennion

THE MOLLY SHI BOREN VOLUNTEER AWARDS

Brooke HamiltonEmily Scheele

� ree medals — bronze, silver and gold — are presented to three men and three women who are selected as

the most outstanding.

BRONZE MEDALISTBrittany Burge

Akash Patel

SILVER MEDALISTAlexis Taitel

Tyler Campbell

GOLD MEDALISTHelga SkaftasonNick Aguilera

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PE-ETTop 10 Senior Honor Society

2013-2014

Nick AguileraJulie Bock

Tyler CampbellKassidy CookCale Curtin

Evan FryPatrick McSweeney

Alexis TaitelBrette � rockmorton

Corbin Wallace

2014-2015Sara CampbellMatt Epting

Nathan FerraroKylie Frisby

Daniel MeschterJake MorganRobin RaineyParisa PilehvarAnna SearceyNeal Walia

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTUREOutstanding Academic

Achievement in ArchitectureAmy Shell

Outstanding Academic Achievement in

Construction ScienceDavid Lasiter

Outstanding Academic Achievement in

Environmental DesignRoland Sevigny

Outstanding Academic Achievement in Interior Design

Jourdan Neustadt

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

The Professor Thomas Jay Hill Outstanding Senior in the

Natural SciencesHelga Skaftason

The Thatcher Hoffman Smith Outstanding Senior in the

Professional ProgramsKathryn Rawdon

Outstanding Senior in the Social Sciences

Evan Fry

The Reverend Dr. Henry P. Roberson Outstanding Senior

in the Humanities AwardLiana Willis

The Carl Albert AwardAkash Patel

COLLEGE OF ATMOSPHERIC AND GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES

The James C. Davis Geography Early Scholar AwardKeana Dixon

The Gress Family Undergraduate Geography ScholarshipReagan Metz

School of Meteorology Undergraduate Academic Achievement AwardBrandon Katona

Dana MuellerAndrew Wade

School of Meteorology Faculty Recognition for Outstanding Performance as an Undergraduate

Conor McNicholas

GAYLORD COLLEGE OF JOURNALISMAND MASS COMMUNICATIONHighest Academic Achievement in Advertising

Nicholas Howard

Highest Academic Achievement in Broadcasting and Electronic MediaSydney Allen

Highest Academic Achievement in JournalismHaley O’Hara

Highest Academic Achievement in Professional WritingLauren Casonhua

Highest Academic Achievement in Public RelationsAndrew Matt

JEANNINE RAINBOLT COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Outstanding Senior in Early Childhood EducationSammie Robertson

Outstanding Senior in Elementary EducationJessica Little

Outstanding Senior in Language Arts EducationTaylor Wyatt

Outstanding Senior in Mathematics EducationAlexandra Macalik

Outstanding Senior in Social Studies EducationDelaney Maguire

Outstanding Senior in Special EducationBrittney Logan

Outstanding Senior in World Language EducationAngela McMahan

MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDIESMultidisciplinary Studies Outstanding Senior

Kayla Storrs

WALTER NEUSTADT AWARDDanny Hilliard

J.R. MORRISCAMPUS LIFE AWARD

Jawanza BassueReid Beauchamp

Elvie EllisKatieBeth Gardner

Madeline GrunewaldSam Kiehl

John MontgomeryJerry Overton

BIG MAN AND BIG WOMAN ON CAMPUSBig Man on Campus

Cale CurtinCole Jackson

Sam KiehlBen Laptad

Rafael LemusJackson Lisle

Patrick McSweeneyDaniel MeschterTaylor PetersenBradley PirtleNick Stephens

Neal WaliaCorbin Wallace

Big Woman on Campus

Brittoni BobekMelanie Duran

Kylie FrisbyElaine Gri� eth

Veronica HassinkSarah Klein

Lauren LundeenRebekah MartinDelaney Nash

Allison NguyenKate Raley

Melissa ReddoutAnna Searcey

Nicole UpshawRosemarie Zanabria

COLLEGE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Admiral William J. Crowe Outstanding IAS Student Award

Taylor McKenzie

The Molly & David Boren Study Abroad ScholarshipsSydney Abdallah (Turkey)

Caroline Bennett (Tanzania)Chelsey Branham (Tanzania)Paige Long-Wheeler (Japan)

Eyram Tsagli (Jordan)

Ambassador Edward J. Perkins ScholarshipDeOnna Prince

Abdal ShittuEmily Farris

International Activism AwardNicole DeYear

Paul and Rose Sharp Outstanding International Student ScholarshipWei Wang

Sue Williams Service AwardSergio Mendez Aceros

THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING TRANSFER STUDENTS

Recognizing excellence in the areas of scholarship, character, leadership and service to the university community. � is award is the highest honor

bestowed to transfer students by the university community.

Grace AguileraNathan FerraroRylan Russell

THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING FRESHMEN

Recognizing excellence in the areas of scholarship, character, leadership and service to the university community. � is award is the highest honor

bestowed to freshmen by the university community.Darius AruhoCeleste Clary

David DoshierEric Franz

Taylor FreemanBrandon Gosselin

Jane HsiKelsey McKeeAllison MeeArianne RickAbbey Taylor

Cici Zhou

THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SOPHOMORES

Recognizing excellence in the areas of scholarship, character, leadership and service to the university community. � is award is the highest honor

bestowed to sophomores by the university community.Angel Star Boardingham

Kendall BurchardJenny Carmichael

Emily CoatneyJessica Freeman

Lucy C. Maha� eyQuang Duy-Vu Nguyen

Emily OwensAlly RenfroeAndy Stewart

Cole TownsendMaggie White

REGENTS’ AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING JUNIORS

Recognizing excellence in the areas of scholarship, character, leadership and service to the university community. � is award is the highest honor

bestowed to juniors by the university community.Sarah CampbellArthur DixonElaine Gri� eth

Daniel MeschterJake MorganDelaney Nash

Allison NguyenJake PasdachRobin RaineyTaylor Shupert

Neal WaliaMelissa White (OU-HSC)

OUTSTANDING SENIOR MAN & WOMAN

Evan FryLinh Nguyen

MEWBOURNE COLLEGE OF EARTH AND ENERGY

Charles N. Gould Outstanding Senior Award � ao Phong Le

Alan Witten Outstanding Senior Award Jackson Ha� ener

David W. Stearns Outstanding Senior Award Chris Wierman

Estwing Hammer Award

Linh Vo

Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering Outstanding Senior Award

Mary Elise Miller

Outstanding Junior Award Kreg Flowers

Outstanding Sophomore Award Jordan Stone

WEITZENHOFFER FAMILYCOLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts Outstanding SeniorKelly Koupash

F. Donald Clark Award for ExcellenceRani Cozad

Elmer Capshaw Award for Outstanding Senior in the School of Art & Art History

Kimberly Fuller

Dance Partners Outstanding Senior AwardsSydney GettelMegan Storey

Van Hefl in Award from the Peggy Dow Helmerich School of Drama

Andrew Rathgeber

Outstanding Senior from the School of Music AwardSamuel Briggs

MICHAEL F. PRICE COLLEGE OF BUSINESSOutstanding Senior in Accounting

Rachel Simpson

Outstanding Senior in EconomicsSteven Kirk

Outstanding Senior in Energy ManagementCourtney Graviett

Outstanding Senior in EntrepreneurshipZane Simmons

Outstanding Senior in FinanceDevin Hughes

Outstanding Senior in Human Resource ManagementJamie � orpe

Outstanding Senior in International BusinessSeth Carter

Outstanding Senior in Management Information SystemsAustin Kipp

Outstanding Senior in Marketing and Supply Chain Management

Lara Albright

JOE C. AND CAROLE KERR MCCLENDON HONORS COLLEGE

The Dean’s Award for Honors College LeadershipAnoopdeep Bal

The Dean’s Leadership Award for Reading Group Moderators

Alexander Aria

PRESIDENT’S TROPHY

RECOGNITIONOutstanding Housing Center

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Thunder

OKC beats Jazz 116-96Durant leads OKC to another victory

The associaTed press

Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook drives past Utah Jazz guard Trey Burke on Sunday in Oklahoma City. The Thunder beat the Jazz 116-96.

CLIFF BRUNTAP Sports Writer

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The drama was sapped early from Oklahoma City's blowout win over Utah, ex-cept for one detail.

Thunder forward Kevin Durant is nearing Michael Jordan's mark for consec-utive games with at least 25 points.

With the crowd buzz-ing late in the third quarter, Durant reached the mark for the 38th consecutive time, leaving him two games short of Jordan's accomplishment, which is the most in the past 50 years.

H e f i n i s h e d w i t h 3 1 points and nine assists to help Oklahoma City defeat the Jazz 116-96 on Sunday afternoon.

Jordan did it for 40 straight games for the Chicago Bulls during the 1986-87 season. Durant is aware of the mark, but the NBA's leading scorer left worrying about it to the crowd at Chesapeake Energy Arena.

"I'm just going out there, playing my game," he said. "If it happens, cool. If it doesn't, cool. That's how I approach it — just playing within the offense. If a shot's there, shoot it. If a pass is there, pass it. I try to play as simple as I can. If that (25 points or more) comes with it, then so be it, but if not, I'm not going to lose any sleep."

Durant was fouled on a 3-pointer with 4:02 left in the third quarter and was awarded three free throws. He scored his 24th point on the first one, and the crowd got into it before the second one.

After he made it, the fans let out a loud cheer. He also made the third to give the Thunder an 84-56 lead. Durant extended the streak without playing in the fourth quarter for the second con-secutive game.

Russell Westbrook scored 19 points, Serge Ibaka had 17 points and Caron Butler added 15 for the Thunder, who have won six of seven. Oklahoma City shot 55 per-cent from the field and made 11 of 18 3-pointers and 23 of 26 free throws.

Enes Kanter had 18 points and 12 rebounds, Richard Jefferson scored 17 points and Gordon Hayward added 16 points and nine rebounds for the Jazz, who have lost four in a row.

Utah trailed 11-0 before Jefferson finally scored with 7:34 left in the first quarter. Oklahoma City led 26-9 at the end of the quarter.

It matched the fewest points the Thunder have allowed in any quarter this season and was the lowest for the Jazz in a first quarter this season. Utah missed the NBA low for an opening quarter this season by mak-ing a basket with 19.5 sec-onds left.

"They were aggressive on the defensive end and we settled for a lot of jump shots," Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin said. "We missed jump shots and they were able to run the ball out on us. In that first quarter, I thought we were hungry for it, but that's what good teams do. They come out and try to bury you right from the be-ginning. They had a lot of success doing it in the first quarter."

H a y w a r d ' s f i r s t b a s -ket came with 3:21 left in the first half. Even with his 3-point play, the Jazz still trailed 49-30.

Oklahoma City led 59-40 at halftime, and it might have been a larger lead if Jefferson hadn't dropped in 15 points in the first half, well above his season average of 10.2 points per game. Durant scored 18 points in the first half on 6-for-8 shooting and helped the Thunder shoot 57 percent before the break.

Utah cut Oklahoma City's lead to 89-77 late in the

quarter before Durant hit a 3-pointer over Hayward with two seconds remaining to push the lead back up to 15 points.

"That was tough," Utah forward Marvin Williams said. "That was a big three. It almost took the wind out of your sails, to fight so hard to get back to that position, to cut it to 12, thinking you're going to start the fourth at 12 (down), and he makes an amazing shot like that over a defender. It was a big shot. It kind of took the wind out of our sails, almost, a little bit, because we had fought so hard."

Hayward scored 13 points in the period, and the Jazz scored 37 points on 60 per-cent shooting. Utah scored 21 points in the final 3:44 of the third.

The Thunder held on, and now, Oklahoma City can look ahead to Thursday's

showdown with West lead-er San Antonio. The Spurs have won 17 in a row and are three games ahead of the Thunder for the best record in the West with nine games to go.

"Just continue to play our brand of basketball," Butler said. "Play with a lot of ener-gy and effort and do a good job defensively and stay on the same accord, and we will be fine."

N O T E S : T h u n d e r G Reggie Jackson missed his second straight game with a mid-back sprain. ... Jazz G Alec Burks returned to ac-tion after missing the pre-vious four games with a left ankle sprain. ... Utah missed i ts f i rst s even shots. . . . Oklahoma City won three of four against the Jazz this sea-son. ... Utah, which has the worst record in the Western Conference, won the previ-ous meeting 112-101.

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Oklahoma gets the ‘three-peat’Team earns third consecutive MSPF championshipJennifer rogersGymnastics Beat Reporter

T h e No. 1 O k l a h o m a men’s gymnastics team won its third straight con-ference title Saturday after-noon at McCasland Field House. Oklahoma defeated Stanford, California and Air Force to claim the title.

The Sooners started off on high bar. Danny Berardini and Jacoby Rubin started the lineup with two solid perfor-mances, but Oklahoma had two full misses on the event and the “five-up, five-count” format was unforgiving. The Sooners were able to leave the event behind and push through the remainder of the meet.

“We threw ourselves in a hole in the beginning,” coach Mark Williams said. “But, we are so good on floor that we started to bounce back. Then moved on to pommel horse, which was great. Once you can move past pommel without a lot of mistakes, it is a sigh of relief.”

Oklahoma started to roll, and the chemistry was evi-dent, especially on still rings. Kanji Oyama and Berardini both scored career-highs on the event, a 15.2 and 15.1 respectively, but defending national champion Michael Squires stole the show. Squires posted a career-high and OU program record 16.300 on the event.

Squires has struggled some on rings this season. He talked about what ex-actly his mindset was going into his performance on Saturday, and what he knew he had to do.

“I knew that I was going to have to beat a 16.150 (Dennis Z a re m ski o f St a n f o rd’s score) to win,” he said. “A

lot started running through my head. While I was going I just went through the rou-tine skill by skill. Right be-fore the dismount, it was the

weirdest sensation. I felt like I was going to get the stick the landing before I hit the ground. Next thing I knew I was bowing to the judges.”

The Sooners momentum rolled on to the vault where Oyama put up a 15.3 claim-ing the MPSF Conference title. Oklahoma cruised through its final event, par-allel bars, and finished with a final team score of 446.100. Stanford finished in second with a final score of 436.700. Third place went to Cal and fourth to Air Force. Berardini said the win was even more special because it was at home.

“It was at home for us,”

Berardini said. “Of course we do not want to lose here, we wanted to protect our field house. That was a part of our mindset. We knew we had to take care of Stanford, and we were able to do that.”

Raymond White was also named conference cham-pion on floor, while Oyama captured the title on vault and Squires won on rings.

The Sooners will now pre-pare for the NCAA Qualifiers on April 10 in Ann Arbor, Mich. Coach Williams said

the Sooners still have work to do before NCAAs, though.

“We have to keep doing what we have been doing and stay healthy,” Williams said. “I am going to take a look at high bar and fix what is going wrong. But we are definitely in the mix for a National Championship.”

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We have to keep do what we have been doing and stay healthy. I am going to take

a look at high bar and fix what is going wrong, but we are definitely in the mix for a

National Championship.”MaRk williaMs,

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Junior sergey Resnick preforms his pommel horse routine during the Mountain Pacific sports Federation conference championship on saturday at Mccastland Filed house. the sooners won the championship with an overall score of 446.100.