Tuesday, February 12, 2013

MORGAN GEORGECampus reporter

OU students, faculty and community members will gather this weekend to discuss various issues related to reproductive rights in conservative states at the third annual Take Root conference.

The Take Root : Red State Perspectives on Reproductive Justice Conference, held by OU’s Women’s and Gender Studies and Center for Social Justice, will take place Feb. 15-16 at the

T h u r m a n J . W h i t e Forum Building , ac-cording to the Take Root website.

The conference will feature speakers from various organizations such as the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico and Oklahomans for Reproductive Justice, as well as members of the State Legislature.

There will be several breakout sessions to

discuss topics such as religion and repro-ductive health, using different media, re-productive policy, the Personhood bills in Oklahoma and else-where and many more, said Jill Irvine , direc-tor of OU’s Women’s

and Gender Studies Program and the Center for Social Justice.

“[The conference will cover] a variety of topics

MAXINE JANERKACampus reporter

An OU graduate student is conducting a study to assess the benefits and limitations of accommodations for stu-dents who are disabled in college writing classrooms.

Tara Wood, English gradu-ate student and Ph.D. candi-date, will be conducting the study, according to an email she sent out through OU mass mail.

H e r w o r k b u i l d s o n t h e r e s e a r c h o f o t h e r s like Margaret Price from Sp e l m a n C o l l e g e, A m y Vidali from the University of Colorado Denver and Brenda Brueggemann from Ohio State University, all of whom

have worked in the same field, Wood said.

“I always felt like writing teachers could do a lot more to make writing classrooms more accessible, hospitable and inclusive to student writ-ers with disabilities,” Wood said.

Most of the research done during her graduate career has been dedicated to those types of issues, she said.

The results would offer writing teachers, admin-istrators and researchers better ideas about how to make classes more accessi-ble to students with disabil-ities, said Wood, who spec-ified the importance of the study was to focus on actual student perspectives rath-er than those of researchers talking about students with disabilities.

Any student who iden-tifies as disabled, whether the disability is physical or otherwise, is welcome to participate in the study, regardless of whether that disability is registered with the Disability Resource Center , Wood said.

Students with disabil-ities are a rising demo-graphic at OU and nation-wide, but, despite good aims, Wood stressed sim-ply having such students at a university isn’t enough.

“As educators, we need to start thinking about being proactive in ensur-ing their success,” Wood said.

The study concludes in July 2013, Wood said.

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a K-9 unit officer with the Norman police Department guards the City of Norman recreation Center on monday when prisoners fled from the police.

ARIANNA PICKARDCampus editor

Escaped convicts were caught in Norman yesterday after a five-hour manhunt in-volving more than 50 police officers and six different law enforcement agencies.

S o oners w ere aler te d after two potentially armed McClain County inmates es-caped and drove to Norman, causing Norman Public Schools to be put on lock-down and the university bus service to close certain stops.

The two inmates were i d e n t i f i e d a s T a y l o r Brotherton, 28, and Chase Clemons, 21, said McClain County Undersheriff Bill Shobe. They were both being held on charges of drug pos-session — Clemons since Feb. 6 and Brotherton since Jan. 31.

They escaped while work-ing at the McClain County E x p o C e nt e r i n Pu rc e l l around 9:45 a.m., Shobe said. They stole a county vehicle and drove to Norman, crash-ing the truck into a fence be-hind O’Reilly Auto Parts on Lindsey Street in Norman.

Clemons was caught with-in minutes of the crash, but Brotherton escaped and was not caught until 3:25 p.m.

A t 1 0 : 3 0 a . m . T h e Oklahoma Daily was notified there were escaped convicts in Norman.

University spokesman Michael Nash said he had not yet heard about the escap-ees when The Daily contact-ed him at 10:36 a.m. He was notified minutes later by the Norman Police Department.

Police capture bothinmates in manhunt

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Hundreds of students called The Daily’s newsroom Monday hoping to get a free iPad, only to fi nd out they’d been pranked.

Students were tricked into calling the number after reading fl iers posted throughout the residence halls, which stated the College of Education had ordered an excess number of iPads and would be giving the remaining tablets to the fi rst 300 people to call the number on the fl ier.

They were even posted in halls that require swipe card access, something only students living in those halls have.

Members of Housing and Food Services didn’t know about the prank and were taking the fl iers down as they saw them, said Amy Buchanan, Housing and Food assis-tant director of community experience.

The prank is credited to PE-ET, an honor society of OU’s top 10 seniors, because the society’s name was scrawled on the back of the fl iers.

This wasn’t the fi rst time the pranksters have targeted The Daily. In 2006 the group posted fake press releases announcing President David Boren’s retirement, according to Daily archives.

The group struck again in 2009 when they planted Easter eggs around campus with chocolate, a penny and The Daily’s phone number, announcing to whoever found the egg they’d won a prize and needed to call the listed number to claim it, according to Daily archives.

Paighten Harkins, Assistant Campus EditorShelby Guskin contributed to this report.

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Attend Union Programming Board’s Dance Dance with Sasquatch 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s first floor lobby.

Attend a lunch and discussion with Dana Mohammed-Zadeh on Working Afghanistan: Perspectives of a Recent OU Graduate 12 to 1 p.m. in Hester Hall 170.

Learn how to play Bocce Ball at a Baccano sponsored Bocce Tournament 12 to 2 p.m. on the South Oval.

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Attend Union Programming Board’s Bingo event 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s first floor lobby.

Attend an information session on OU in Arezzo, the OU Italian program, Baccano and the Italian club, 5 to 7 p.m. in Hester Hall. Snacks and beverages provided.

Attend the Pre-Dental Club meeting 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Dale Hall 125.

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Professors to stir discussion on immigration reform

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Fraternity hosting multicultural Mardi Gras

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The Student Government Association is accepting applications for this semester’s Election Board until Friday.

Three applicants will be chosen to serve on the board that will organize the SGA Elections taking place April 2-3.

This year’s Election Chair nominee, Cole Jackson, was chosen by SGA president Joe Sangirardi and will meet with the Undergraduate Student Congress on Wednesday to be approved for the position, said SGA advisor George Ahmadi.

The Election Chair is in charge of studying the submit-ted member applications and choosing three applicants at his or her own discretion to serve on the board and organize April’s elections, Ahmadi said.

The deadline for Election Board applications is Friday Feb. 15.

Bennett Hall

Campus Reporter

Applications are now available for an exchange program sending U.S. undergraduate students to the U.K.

The U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission invites students with at least two years of undergrad-uate study left to apply. Students can apply to nine different programs located in different parts of the U.K., including London, Wales and Scotland, according to the program’s website . The programs run for three to six weeks over the summer.

The program will cover most of the students’ expenses, including: airfare, tuition, housing, food and even a personal allowance in some cases, according to the website.

Participants in this program can expect to “experience an exciting academic [program],” said program coordinator Valerie

Schreiner in an email.Students will have the

opportunity to explore the U.K., visiting galleries, parks, castles and islands, Schreiner said. They will develop skills, meet people and become an “ambassa-dor for studying” in the U.K.

The commission is look-ing for qualified applicants, specifically those with leadership and academic abilities, ambassadorial qualities and an interest in U.K. culture, according to the website.

Preference will be given to those who have little or no previous travel experi-ence in the U.K. Applicants are also required to have a 3.5 GPA, according to the website.

The program’s applica-tion deadline is noon March 11.

Matt Ravis Campus Reporter

Two professors will speak about immigration reform in an issue forum held by the Department of Political Science at 5 p.m. today in Gaylord Hall’s Hall of Fame Room.

The forum, sponsored by The Carl Albert Center and The Political Science Club, is part of the department’s Politics and Pizza event.

Political science pro-fessors Allyson Shortle and Alisa Hicklin Fryar will speak at the forum, accord-ing to the Department of Political Science website.

“Questions about who gets to live and work in America are essential,” said Glen Krutz, political science professor and associate director of

the Carl Albert Center. “Students who have immi-grated will be grappling with issues of employment when trying to find a career, but immigration makes sense when we have shortages of employees for certain jobs.”

A large portion of the forum will be a group dis-cussion with students who attend, Krutz said.

“We hope the students will learn not only from the speakers, but from one another to the point that they can have continued dialogue on immigration as a hot button issue,” Krutz said.

Haley Davis Campus Reporter

OU Cousin members can attend a Mardi Gras event from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon members have invited international students involved with OU Cousins to a Multicultural Fat Tuesday at their fraternity’s house.

There will be gumbo, shrimp and other Mardi Gras style food available followed by a one-man band, said fraternity president Ben Donnelli.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon is more involved with multicultural events than it was in the past, Donnelli said.

“We’ve been trying to do one multicultural event a semester, and this is the one we came up with,” Donnelli said.

Last semester, the fraternity organized an American barbecue and invited all of the OU Cousins, Donnelli said.

This focus on more multicultural events was inspired by a single statistic.

“I heard a statistic one time that said ‘80 percent of international students come to America and never enter an American home,’” Donnelli said. “I thought it would be really cool to invite them over and welcome them into our home.”

Evan Baldaccini

Campus Reporter

ranging from the religious aspects of reproductive justice to the political as-pects and to health care and health care access,” Irvine said.

There are currently peo-ple from about 10 different states registered for the con-ference, Irvine said.

The idea for the confer-ence began in 2010 when a group of students from OU and Oklahoma State University went to the Civil Liberties and Public Policy conference at Hampshire College and were inspired to start a similar confer-ence with a red state focus, according to the website. The following year, OSU’s G e n d e r a n d W o m e n ’s Studies Department held a regional conference focus-ing on reproductive health, religious freedom, criminal-izing reproductive and sex-ual health and many other issues. The conference then took on its current name and found a new home at OU.

Take Root has since grown to a two-day ordeal, with 200 people in attendance at last year’s gathering and various speakers covering a wide range of topics dealing with the challenges associated with reproductive justice and struggles in a more con-servative state, according to the website.

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Norman police officers gather outside of Charleston apartments on west Lindsey street. The officers were in pursuit of Taylor Daniel brotherton and Chase Clemons on monday.

CoNviCTs: Escape rattles Norman community

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in depthfat Tuesday event scheduleDinner: 6 to 7:30 p.m.

One-man band: 7 to 9 p.m.

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Mississippi twister carves large path of destruction

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amy mcQueen, 28, rushes to her brother’s house monday to help him remove his belongings after his home was destroyed by sunday’s tornado in Hattiesburg, miss.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Jeff Revette ran from his car and lay face-down in the grass next to the red-brick wall of a church as a tornado roared toward him, with debris scattering and electrical transformers ex-ploding. Twenty seconds later, bricks were strewn across a flattened pickup truck a mere 10 feet away amid toppled trees and power lines.

Revette, a 43-year-old National Guard soldier who returned from a de-ployment to Afghanistan about a year ago, stood up unharmed. A woman who had been driving the

smashed pickup and had taken cover near him was pinned by some insulation and other debris, but she was OK after Revette lifted the wreckage off her.

“It’s just amazing,” he said. “God is real. I am one bless-ed man.”

The powerful twister tore a path across at least three counties, injuring more than 80 people — but resi-dents marveled that no one died. Officials said several circumstances converged to ensure no lives were lost in what should have been a deadly storm: Sirens and TV broadcasts gave people

as much as 30 minutes of warning; the University of Southern Mississippi was emptier than usual because of Mardi Gras; and most businesses were either closed or quiet be-cause it was a Sunday.

Forecasters were able to closely track where the storm was headed and had confirmed reports from both people on the ground and from radar, making it easier to give warning, said weather ser-vice meteorologist Chad Entremont.

T h e s h e e r s c o p e o f the damage made it dif-ficult to do a full assess-m e nt. S om e 50 roa d s were closed at one point because of felled trees, downed power lines and debris.

Tornado tore across at least three counties

““It’s just amazing. God is real. I am one

blessed man.”JeFF revette, tornAdo

survivor

OU Police Department was contacted at 10:43 a.m., but refused to comment at the time regarding wheth-er campus police had been notified about the escaped convicts.

Norman Police contact-ed Norman Public Schools around 10:30 a.m. request-ing that they lock down two schools, said Shelly Hickman, communications director for Norman Public Schools.

Alcott Middle School, Whittier Middle School, Jackson Elementary School and Norman High School were put on lockdown first, but as the suspect was ex-pected to be moving, the rest of Norman Public Schools were locked down, Hickman said.

OUPD sent out an alert around 11:10 a.m. informing

students that Norman Police were pursuing a potentially armed suspect in the south central part of Norman and that no action needed to be taken at OU at the time.

Nash said OUPD had been working with Norman Police to quickly activate the alert, which was released over text, the university website, Facebook and Twitter.

OUPD was contacted at 11:30 a.m. for more infor-mation, but again refused to comment and told The Daily to contact Norman Police.

Around 11:30 a.m. OUPD sent out a second alert with the suspect’s physical de-scription and announced he had last been seen north of Lindsey Street and east of 24th Avenue Northwest.

When contacted at 12:43 p.m., Norman Police had broken the search param-eter, which stretched from Ma i n St re e t t o L i n d s e y Street and about a half mile east and west, said Norman

Police Captain Tom Easley.Though the search had

been discontinued, Norman police officers were main-tained at Whittier Middle School, Alcott Middle School and Jackson Elementary School, Easley said.

A r o u n d 1 p . m . t h e C l e v e l a n d A r e a R a p i d Transit restricted bus service in the area of West Lindsey and 24th Avenue Northwest, according to the OU website.

The lockdown was lifted on Norman Public Schools around 1:15 p.m., af ter Norman Police said the in-mate was no longer believed to be in the area of south cen-tral Norman, Hickman said.

C A R T s t o p s w e r e r e -opened soon after the lock-down was lifted, said Vicki Holland, OU Parking and Transit spokeswoman.

Brotherton was spotted near 24th Avenue Northwest a n d B r o o k s S t r e e t a n d was taken into custody by Norman Police Department

at 3:25 p.m.Brotherton was put back

in the custody of McClain County by 5:48 p.m. and was at that time being in-terviewed by detectives, sa i d Mc C l a i n C ou nt y S h e r i f f D o n H e w e t t . Charges have been filed against Brotherton and Clemons for escaping from a county jail and stealing a motor vehicle.

Brotherton’s bond will be raised from its original amount of $5,000, Hewett said. However, he was not sure how much it would be raised.

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Our View: Safety information should be readily available to students.

Escaped fugitives and police chases rattled OU on Monday. Students were glued to their cell phones as the emergency system provided timely updates to a potentially dangerous situation so close to campus. OU did a great job informing students about the suspect in a series of text messages sent through the emergency response system.

Unfortunately, OUPD did not mimic the university’s quick response and did not pro-vide any additional information to us about the escapee or efforts to protect OU students until the search was already over. When a person or situation threatens the campus, OUPD ought to be direct and forthcoming with in-formation that will help students make safe deci-sions. As soon as we heard about the escapee, we contacted OUPD to disseminate safety information to students about the incident.

We first contacted OUPD at 10:43 a.m., before the first text alert was sent to students, and it was still un-clear how close to campus the suspect was. The per-son who answered the phone laughed at us and told us to call Norman municipal police.

Student safety is no laughing matter. If a situation is serious enough to send students updates through the emergency system, OUPD should have informa-tion regarding student safety.

After getting no answer from OUPD, we contacted

university spokesman Michael Nash who con-firmed OUPD worked with Norman police.

A subsequent call to OUPD also yielded no new information, even though Nash had confirmed OUPD was working with Norman municipal police. We were not able to reach Norman municipal po-lice until 12:45 p.m., two hours after our initial call

to OUPD. Information about the safety of OU stu-

dents is the responsibility of OUPD, not Norman municipal police. OUPD had ac-cess to this information but refused to dis-close it without giving a reason.

We received the full story from Lt. Bruce Chan at 2:45 p.m., four hours after our ini-tial contact. OUPD assisted the Norman

municipal police in establishing a perimeter to aid in catching the suspect, Chan said. OUPD also worked with the administration to send out the emergency text messages.

Because they were working with Norman munic-ipal police, OUPD had access to essential informa-tion that could impact the safety of students — even if only to confirm campus was unaffected. OUPD’s unwillingness to share information with OU stu-dents and us makes no sense. OUPD’s first respon-sibility should be to students, not the Norman mu-nicipal police.

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Commuter students are displaced by lack of campus parking I usually address national

issues or recent events in the GLBTQ community, but on-campus parking is an im-portant, but rarely discussed issue. Although commuter students pay almost $200 for a parking permit each year, the permits are useless be-cause parking spots aren’t available.

I am a commuter student. I live 20 minutes from campus, and I drive here and park in the garage. Each academic year I spend a little under $200 on a parking permit to ensure I can park and get to class on time without being ticketed. But even though I leave an hour before my first class starts to begin my search for a spot, I can never find one.

As I circled the top of the Asp Avenue Parking Facility last Tuesday, I realized that out of the 17 mornings I have been back at school I have found a spot three times, in either garage.

Because of this, I have resorted to either parking at the first and second floor meters of the parking garages or out-side Goddard Health Center.

My permit is useless. I spent a pretty penny on a shiny red permit, and I am paying meters daily. On top of that, I have received four parking tickets for expired meters. One can only get out of class so quickly.

The Asp Avenue Parking Facility has five levels. The first is reserved, second is metered parking, third is faculty and fourth and fifth are designated for commuter students. The Elm Avenue Parking Facility has six levels – three levels for commuters, one level with metered parking and the rest reserved for faculty and staff.

Surely, I am not the only one who has noticed that the faculty levels are never full. Why is this? They have their own parking lots.

Why do faculty need places in the garages, too? Their parking lots are far closer, directly behind Gittinger Hall, Kaufman Hall, Dale Hall and Copeland Hall. There is also faculty parking near Goddard and on the North and South Ovals.

Since numerous parking spaces are pro-vided for faculty, the faculty levels in the parking garages should be converted for commuters.

If students live on or within a few blocks of campus, they should not be allowed to purchase a commuter parking permit.

Thousands of members of the Greek community live in their sorority or fraternity houses and hundreds more live in Traditions Square East and Traditions Square West — both areas that are walking or biking distance.

Prohibiting students who live so close to campus from buying commuter parking passes would free up space in parking garages.

When talking with other commuter stu-dents, I realized the lack of commuter park-ing was prohibiting some students from buying permits and parking on campus. Some choose to park at Lloyd Noble Center and take the bus, like Holly Holland, a medi-cal science senior.

“I bought a parking pass junior year and it was not worth the money or time at all,” Holland said.

Other students don’t want to worry about parking.

“I think as college students we are already stressed out, we don’t need to stress over parking,”said Josh Hurt, communications and pre-law sophomore.

We get up early to drive to campus after paying a hefty amount for a parking pass. We should not have to deal with unavailable parking spaces.

I have been dealing with this problem for six semesters. This issue must be resolved.

As a student issue, it calls for student action.

Sarah Sullivan is an English junior.

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›››› Sooner Sampler: Have you ever received a ticket for parking in the wrong place?

“I got a ticket last semester

because I forgot to put up my permit, but I disputed it.”

ALEX CAMUA,PHILOSOPHY JUNIOR

“I haven’t been caught so far, but I am sure it will catch

up with me at some point.”

DELTA GRIER,PSYCHOLOGY SOPHOMORE

“Yes, three times.”

LAUREN GILLINGHAM,COMMUNICATIONS

SOPHOMORE

“I can distinctly remember

four, but I know there probably

has been around seven.”

HOLLY HOLLAND,MEDICAL SCIENCES

SENIOR

“Yes, once. I was running late one day and couldn’t

find any spots so I parked

in one of the garages.”

JOSH HURT,COMMUNICATIONS AND PRE-LAW SOPHOMORE

Parking strategiesThe Prowler: Circles the garage until they catch someone pulling out of a spot.

The Blocker: Waits near the elevator with emergency lights on and follows someone to their car.

The Stalker: Spots someone walking into the garage and follows them all the way to their car.

The Daily got pranked. We received about a million calls Monday morning asking for a guy named Pete who was giving away free iPads to the first 300 callers.

Many students were very disappointed to hear the plain black and white flier pretending to be from the College of Education was a dirty lie.

Many of the fliers were posted in the residence halls to prey on unsuspecting freshmen eager for an iPad.

The perpetrators of the precocious prank are at the bottom of the academic barrel. PE-ET, the “honors” society for top 10 seniors, has been The Daily’s nemesis for years.

In 2006, PE-ET posted fliers claiming OU President David Boren was retiring. In 2009, PE-ET scattered Easter eggs with our number of-fering prizes to the first callers.

It is certainly telling this prank came in the mid-dle of a heated manhunt for an escaped convict. We suspect PE-ET was working in coordination with the escaped prisoner to impede The Daily’s investigation.

With our phone ringing off the hook, we could not receive valuable tips about the suspect’s whereabouts.

These actions will not go unanswered. PE-ET must be stopped.PE-ET, watch out.

We aren’t giving out iPads for Pete’s sake

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Junior pitchers Dillon Overton (above) and Jonathan Gray (below) throw during games at L. Dale Mitchell Park last season. Overton and Gray anchor the Sooners’ starting rotation, which is the strength of this season’s squad. Last season, Overton went 6-2 with 126 strikeouts and Gray went 8-4 with 104 strikeouts.

JONO GRECOBaseball Beat Writer

The Oklahoma baseball team was two wins away from making its second trip to Omaha in three years, but the South Carolina Gamecocks ended the Sooners’ season in last year’s Super Regional round.

OU, ranked No. 19 by Baseball America and No. 15 in the USA Today/coach-es’ poll, learned from its early postseason departure in preparation for the 2013 season.

“I think it showed that as close as we were to Omaha, you can’t give up,” junior pitcher said Dillon Overton , who was named a Preseason All-American. “You’ve got to keep going because we were two games away, but we just didn’t keep going and make it there.”

Coming into the 2013 season, the Sooners’ clear strength is on the mound.

Overton — a lefty who had a 6-3 record and 3.15 ERA last season and is slated as the Friday-night ace — and ju-nior pitcher Jonathan Gray — a righty who posted an 8-4 record with a 3.16 ERA in his first season at OU — provide arguably the deadliest one-two punch of any weekend rotation in the nation.

“It’s as good as any [two starters in college baseball], there’s no question about it,” coach Sunny Golloway said. “I’ve never had two potential first-rounders [in the week-end rotation].”

Joining the two junior pitchers, who are team cap-tains, in the weekend rota-tion will be junior transfer Billy Waltrip, a lefty from Seminole State who struck out 95 batters while boasting a 7-2 record and 1.60 ERA last season.

Waltrip, a hard-throw-ing lefty, was selected by the Baltimore Orioles in the 12th round last June, but decided to come to Norman because of the high praises he heard about the program, he said.

“I didn’t want to just go out there [into the pros] and just be iffy on it,” he said. “I came here because I heard coach [Jack] Giese was the best pitching coach in the country. So I wanted to come in and get completely ready, win a national championship and then go.”

Opponents’ runs may come at a premium price with these three on the mound during the week-end, but that may be the only way the Sooners win games once they play legitimate opponents.

G o l l o w a y a d m i t t e d Saturday during the team’s Media Day that the offense, a squad that has been in question since scoring just one run in last year’s Super Regionals, is far from being up to par.

“[The team’s hitting is] a major concern,” he said of his squad that hit just .262 last season. “We are continu-ing to try to get our athletes to buy into manufacturing runs. It’s all about teaching young men what they have to do and perform and coach-ing them up.”

The team’s batting average was the second worst in the Big 12 least season and was not good enough to crack in the top-50 team averages last year. That’s something

the team knows it needs to improve upon if it has any chance of reaching Omaha.

Luckily for the Sooners, though, their top three hit-ters are returning for the 2013 campaign.

Senior left fielder Max White, senior shortstop Jack Mayfield — both of whom are team captains — and ju-nior designated hitter and in-fielder Matt Oberste hit .337, .280 and .312, respectively, last season.

“Coach (Golloway) al-ways says hitting’s a jour-ney, you’re never going to get there,” said White, who drove in a team-high 55 runs in 2012 . “You’ve got to keep working on it, keep fighting for that swing.”

Although the Big 12 has not released its coaches’ predic-tions poll, Golloway believes

his team should be listed as the second-best team in the conference behind new-ad-dition TCU.

“(TCU) might enter our league in the first year as fa-vorite,” Golloway said. “That would be pretty amazing...they’re a great addition.”

O U o p e n s i t s s e a s o n against Hofstra at 3 p.m. Friday at L. Dale Mitchell Park in a series that kicks off a six-game homestand and will continue through the weekend.

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OU coach Bob Stoops confirmed in a press release Monday the departure of assistant coach James Patton, who left after seven seasons with the Sooners.

Patton, who was the offensive line coach at Oklahoma, accepted a job as the recruiting coordi-nator, assistant defensive line coach and special teams coordinator on former OU offensive coor-dinator Kevin Wilson’s staff at Indiana.

“We appreciate the contributions that James made to our program over the past seven seasons,” Stoops said in the release. “He was a valued member of a staff that helped us win five Big 12 championships. We wish James and his family the best in this opportu-nity with Kevin Wilson at Indiana.”

Patton previously coached under Wilson at Miami of Ohio for six sea-sons and at Northwestern for three before joining Wilson on the Sooners’ staff in 2006.

“Our family has enjoyed a tremendous experi-ence at the University of Oklahoma,” Patton said in the same release. “It has truly been a pleasure to work with Joe Castiglione, Coach Stoops and the entire football staff, as well as the many talented student-athletes that I was privileged to coach at OU. I’m excited about this new challenge at Indiana, and am extremely grateful for being afforded a chance to work with Oklahoma Football the past seven years.”

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Freshman guard Buddy Hield limps off the floor during OU’s 75-48 win against TCU on Monday night at Lloyd Noble Center. Hield fractured the fifth metatarsal in his right foot.

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The OU men’s basketball team clamped down on de-fense and routed TCU, 75-48, Monday night.

The Horned Frogs (10-14, 1-10 Big 12) could not get anything going in the first half and started the game with an especially atrocious stretch of offense, shooting 16.7 percent in the first.

They failed to score for the first 8:08 of the contest and didn’t convert a field goal for the first 11:50.

“Good start to the ball-game defensively,” coach Lon Kruger said. “I thought our guys really came out pretty sharp, pretty focused. A lot of different guys mak-ing good plays for each other.”

The Sooners (16-7, 7-4 Big 12) had a good game just two days after their emo-tional 72-66 victory over then-No. 5 Kansas.

“Coming off of the emo-tional win on Saturday, it was interesting to see how we would bounce back,” Kruger said. “They handled that very well as they’ve done mostly all season.”

OU was led by senior for-ward Romero Osby, who continued to be the driving force of the team’s success.

Osby scored 11 points and added seven rebounds, and he also was very active on the defensive end.

“We were trying to step our defensive intensity up,” Osby said. “They beat Kansas. They are a really good team. We just tried to take them out of their stuff, and they missed shots.”

H o w e v e r, w h i l e t h e Sooners coasted to victory, the game wasn’t all good.

Freshman guard Buddy Hield, a Sooner starter, left the game in the second half

with what turned out to be a fractured fifth metatarsal in his right foot.

Hield is expected to miss between four to six weeks.

“Buddy is a terrific guy,” j u n i o r f o r w a r d A m a t h M’Baye said. “We all love him to death. He does such a great job of giving us energy, and we are definitely going to miss him.

RaPID RECaPOU 75, TCU 48the Oklahoma men’s basketball team rode its defense to a 75-48 rout of tCU on Monday night at LLoyd Noble Center.

Key stat: tCU shot a dismal 16.7 percent from the field in the first half. Less than a week after holding Kansas to 13 first half points, the Horned Frogs only managed 11 themselves. they didn’t score a point for the first 8:08 of the game and failed to convert a field goal for the first 11:50.

Key performer: Senior forward romero Osby continued his strong play this season, finishing with 11 points and seven rebounds. He grabbed all seven boards in the first half and only played sparingly in the second.

Key opponent: Sophomore forward devonta abron was the lone bright spot for tCU. He scored 12 points and pulled down nine rebounds.

What it means: the Sooners push their Big 12 record to 7-4, keeping them in the NCaa tournament conversation.

Next up for the Sooners: OU travels to Stillwater to take on No. 17 Oklahoma State at 12:30 Saturday afternoon at gallagher-Iba arena.

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“But know ing Buddy, from the court or the bench, he’s still going to be giving us the same production, energy-wise.”

Hield’s injury left a dark cloud over the game, as the players appeared noticeably despondent after the severi-ty of the injury came to light.

However, the game was st i l l a good w in for the

Sooners as they continue to look toward an NCAA tour-nament berth.

“You can cut it any way you want,” TCU coach Trent Johnson said. “They just gave us a good old-fash-ioned ass-whooping, excuse my language.”

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Tunes chill but meaningful Tunes chill but meaningful

While Matt Costa’s name may not bring instant rec-

ognition, most have heard his work; the piano riff from his song “Mr. Pitiful” was featured prominently on an Apple commercial from 2009. At the time, Costa’s music was ideal for this sort of use. His melodies, wheth-er on the piano or guitar, were undeniably catchy but also usually pretty simple.

For his last album, 2010’s “Mobile Chateau,” the Huntington Beach, Calif. , singer-songwriter seemed intent on going a slightly dif-ferent direction, and he con-tinues the trend with today’s release of “Matt Costa.”

In just a few years, Costa has gone from a Jack Johnson-esque stress-free surfer sound to an almost psychedelic, slightly dis-concerting vibe where, this time around, I found myself mentally comparing him to Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.

He kicks off his new LP with an old standby of a title, “Loving You,” with a decep-tively calm opening followed by a persistent piano beat. It would remind me of his old stuff if not for the affected vocals and orchestration, but it starts off the album as a good indication of what’s to come. Costa certainly hasn’t forgotten his roots; the

second track’s title, “Early November,” sounds a lot like his earlier “Cold December” and showcases his undying penchant for storytelling.

Not everything on “Matt Costa” entirely works. His “Eyes for You” seems like an attempt at romance, but the guy’s voice has been too af-fected to make it sound any-thing but weird. And with his tracks “Laura Lee” and “Ophelia,” Costa appears to be singing to multiple women on the same album

with, in my opinion, only marginal success.

It’s when the tempo picks up and the themes move away from the com-monplace I tend to like this album best. “Shotgun,” com-plete with handclaps and tight harmonies, probably is my favorite track . His song “Silver Sea” has a distinctly nautical feel. It makes me want to go listen to “Yellow Submarine,” but the song draws influences from many sources. It’s Costa’s attempt

at sounding folksy and au-thentic, and he pulls it off surprisingly well.

It’s during “Good Times” when Costa sounds most like the aforementioned Edward Sharpe both lyrically and musically — although vocally, Costa lacks the same range. The song is a study in contrast, as an upbeat Costa sings, “Those good times are coming/ good times are coming to an end.”

To me, “Matt Costa” represents an inversion of Costa’s earlier work; while his first albums were a loose collection of songs, a few of them quite catchy, “Matt Costa” is best experienced as a whole. Costa here appears to be setting a mood and paying homage to the ‘60s and ‘70s. He has taken his in-herently chill California mu-sicality and given it meaning and context.

While this may make for fewer Apple commercials, it also makes for more inter-esting music.

Graham Dudley is a University College freshman.

SHANNON BORDENLife & Arts Reporter

After graduating from OU in 1996 with a degree in film and video studies, Patrick Kearney did not see work-ing on blockbuster films and Oscar nominations in his future.

The Oklahoma native said he accompanied his broth-er, OU alumnus and attorney David Kearney, for a depo-sition in Los Angeles. Patrick Kearney said he was bitten by the Hollywood bug instantly. Two weeks later, he was packed up and moved out to Los Angeles and has lived and worked there ever since.

“That trip got me so fired up because I saw so many opportunities,” Kearney said.

After the move, Kearney said he began working as a Walt Disney Imagineer, creating visual effects for 3-D rides at the well-known theme park.

He then landed a job at Rhythm & Hues Studios , a visual effects studio in Los Angeles that, according to a press release, did work for several Oscar-nominated films such as “Django Unchained,” “Life of Pi” and “Snow White and the Huntsman.”

Kearney said he has worked on many notable films and television shows, such as “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” “Spider-man 3,” “Speed Racer,” “Deadwood” and Oscar-nominated “Life of Pi.”

“Each experience has been unique,” Kearney said. “I’ve never worked on anything I regret.”

Kearney was one of two digital producers of “Life of Pi.” His role as a digital producer, he said, is to oversee a large amount of artists and animators — “Life of Pi” had over 1,000 artists according to the press release — keep on track with a schedule and come up with creative solu-tions to various problems that arise.

“I’m very much a manager, but there is a lot of creativi-ty in the management of projects like this,” Kearney said.

Kearney and visual effects supervisor Bill Westenhofer had to work together to set priorities. Westenhofer’s role was to f igure out how to create aspects of the film — like the tiger, zebra, water extensions — Westenhofer said in an email.

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