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MIKE BRESTOVANSKYCampus Reporter
The game hasn’t even started, but there’s already fighting in the streets. The fans mill about and shout angrily at each other as they vie for position. But, despite the fury of the combatants, the fight is moot. After all, the parking lot is full.
At OU, the problem is inescapable. Finding a parking space during a major sporting event can seem like an impossible task. However, a team at the Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth is working on a way to achieve the impossible.
“Park Ave is an online platform and iPhone application to streamline the process of con-necting buyers and sellers of private parking at special events,” said Sarah Yung, an indus-trial systems engineering senior and team leader for the project.
The application is simple. Sellers can post their parking spots on Park Ave for free, and buyers are able to reserve and pay for their preferred parking spots entirely online, Yung said.
While the app is ideal for securing parking
at sporting events and concerts, it could also be used daily for commuters, Yung said.
“Parking seems to be an issue everyone runs into on a day-to-day basis,” said Meghan Saunders, a public affairs and administration junior and business intern for Park Ave.
“When we thought about OU game days, in particular, this seemed like the perfect appli-cation to solve these issues,” she said.
A team of 13 students from across six OU colleges was selected by CCEW to develop Park Ave.
The project, which began in January, re-ceived $10,000 in seed funding from the Sooner Launch Pad accelerator program, which provides funding and support stu-dents’ business ventures.
“The official project ends this semester, and then it will transition from being in the hands of CCEW to being an actual business,” Yung said.
The team hopes to begin early alpha test-ing of Park Ave this summer and transition to beta testing by early fall, iOS developer Nick Sparks said.
Ideally, Park Ave will be available on Android devices in the future, but for now, the team is targeting only iOS devices, Sparks said.
Over the next six years, the team hopes to
New app. could be the parking solution our university needs
STARTUP
Secure a parking spot with Park Ave
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Graduate student Matthew Stangl and University College freshman Jeffrey Terry look on as computer sci-ence sophomore Jeremy Littel and computer science junior Ali Hajimirza debate aesthetic changes to their soon-to-be debuted website and iOS app. Their project, entitled Park Ave, will help homeowners in the campus metro sell their parking spots on game days and other busy parking days in advance of the event.
ATHLETICS
Soccer more than just a sport for some
TONY BEAULIEULife & Arts Editor
When petroleum engineering senior Abdulrahman Alsousy first came to OU six years ago, he came carrying a soccer ball.
“The first day I got here, I bought a ball and looked for people,” Alsousy said.
Disappointed by the absence of an OU men’s school soc-cer team, Alsousy set out to organize his own independent group.
Growing up, Alsousy learned to play soccer at the same time he learned to walk, perhaps even before. Alsousy’s fa-ther tells him stories of witnessing him practice shooting the ball with both feet in the back yard when he was just four years old. He can’t remember this, but as far back as he can remember, Alsousy has loved the game of soccer.
Alsousy got a few phone numbers his first week at OU, and his ad-hoc soc-cer group started right away with five members. Membership doubled in the second week, and by the end of the semester, the number of regular players had steadily climbed to 20.
The group has evolved during Alsousy’s time at OU and currently includes more than 100 members. It now exists as a more ca-sual alternative to OU’s of-ficial intramural and club programs — where soccer lovers, OU students or not, can gather every week and play just for fun.
On the soccer field is where Alsousy is happiest.
“I forget about everything,” Alsousy said. “I get to be cre-ative, have fun, make friends.”
Yet the university’s lack of lit fields has been a major chal-lenge for Alsousy’s group, as well as other intramural sports at OU.
During the winter months, when the sun goes down at 5:30 p.m., the only lit field the soccer group could find was at Lion’s Park on Flood Ave.
“It’s very dangerous because it has holes and stuff,” Alsousy said. “Not the best place to play.”
Paul Kingery is another leader in the group along with Alsousy. Kingery grew up in Norman and attended OU briefly before moving on to UCO. In 2008, after receiving a master’s degree in theology from Midwestern Baptist
Lack of lit fields at OU cause issues for students and intramural teams alike
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It’s very dangerous because it has holes and stuff... Not the best place to play.”
ABDULRAHMAN ALSOUSY, ENGINEERING SENIOR
‘‘Experience: three years Subjects taught : Dynamics and Interactive
Engineering Design GraphicsBoth of the courses Bairaktarova teaches are simul-
taneously fundamental and abstract. Because of this, her students need a lot of examples to learn to solve problems, she said.
Bairaktarova starts class every day by demonstrat-ing the real-world value of whatever she is teaching her students, instead of just teaching them its theo-retical value.
“I once used a figure skater to present the moment of inertia to my students,” Bairaktarova said.
Following this example, Bairaktarova presents four to five problems for students to solve, but she lectures for no more than 10 to 15 minutes at a time. She en-courages the students to solve these problems them-selves in groups, but she will help if they get stuck, Bairaktarova said.
Bairatarova is a big believer in the different types of learning: visual, auditory and kinesthetic.
At the beginning of each semester, she conducts a learning style survey so she can meet her students’ learning needs.
“My most important job is to create a learning en-vironment that maintains my students’ motivation,” Bairaktarova said.
Bairaktarova uses Desire to Learn (D2L) to post lec-tures, power points, solutions to problems from class and notes for her students. By doing this, she can see how many times the students use those materials.
“When I was in college, we didn’t really use technol-ogy. Now it’s amazing what we can do,” Bairaktarova said.
Experience: 38 years (33 at OU)Subjects taught: Momentum, Heat and Mass
Transfer I, various upper-division, graduate and honors courses
“My teaching style has changed over the course of my career,” O’Rear said.
O’Rear started out as a traditional lecturer and now has become more of a hybrid-style teacher, meaning that he lectures some but also includes activities both on paper and computers.
“For example, I once had my students design a depth gauge for scuba divers,” O’Rear said.
During activities, O’Rear walks around his class-rooms to check how his students are doing.
“I like to have a classroom that allows me to be among my students,” O’Rear said.
O’Rear uses the chalk/white board in class but also uses a document camera and a laptop. His stu-dents are required to have a computer or iPad, so they can work on some problems that require the technology.
O’Rear uses D2L for all of his learning material. Some is covered in class and some is supplemen-tary, he said. He provides a “methods for success” area in D2L that lists where students can get help if they need it and also provides a bulletin board for students to introduce themselves to other class-mates and form study groups.
Since O’Rear was in school, he has noticed changes in the variety of eating options, the amount of students wearing backpacks and also noted that students now use two hands when working with a calculator instead of one. This is a result, he be-lieves, of texting.
O’Rear’s only concern with all the new technolo-gy is that students don’t have as much time for con-templative thinking.
After OU launched its Digital Initiative in summer 2012, there has been an influx of
open-source content and chang-es in the way professors and stu-dents see the classroom. The Daily spoke with two profes-sors from similar disciplines about how technology has af-fected their teaching. They teach similar subjects and groups of students, but one professor has been teaching for 38 years and the other for just three.
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Transfer I, various upper-division, graduate
Initiative in summer 2012, there has been an influx of
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NEWEMMA SULLIVANCAMPUS REPORTER
expand Park Ave from the Norman area to Oklahoma City, Stillwater, Dallas, Houston and Austin.
“There’s no reason to believe (Park Ave) couldn’t work anywhere in the U.S.,” Yung said.
The team will publicly unveil the first
prototype of Park Ave at its final presentation at Sam Noble Museum of Natural History on Tuesday.
Attendees must RSVP by emailing the CCEW at [email protected].
Mike Brestovansky, [email protected]
TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION
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Editorial
Fallin passes ill-fated minimum wage banOur View: We do not support Gov. Mary Fallin’s minimum wage ban and want students to make their disapproval for detrimental government decisions known.
Well folks, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin is making headlines for all the wrong reasons, yet again. On Monday, our wise leaders signed a bill into law ef-fectively banning Oklahoma cities from setting a mandatory minimum wage. The law also prohibits cities from enacting vacation and sick-day requirements. We can’t make sense of Fallin’s possible reasoning behind signing the bill, other than to prevent pro-gressive policies in Oklahoma. We want Sooners to make their voices heard, and let their representatives know we do not support Fallin’s archaic policies and want the mini-mum wage ban repealed.
At this point, it almost feels like Fallin is play-ing an elaborate joke on Oklahomans, pushing the envelope to see how many detrimental laws she can sign during her tenure. This law, like so many previous laws supported by Fallin, does not help Oklahomans. It does not advance the state of Oklahoma and it only increases the state govern-ment’s centralized authority. And, once again, it shows that Fallin and the Oklahoma legislature is more than willing to choose business interests over the interests of Oklahomans.
Take, for example, last year when Fallin allowed horse slaughter facilities to open in Oklahoma to ship horsemeat to other countries for human consumption, just to make a quick buck. Or her refusal to support a bill to build storm shelters in Oklahoma public schools, even after the devastat-ing May 2013 F5 tornado, because the bill proposes
using bonds, a no-no for our ultra-conservative leadership.
Monday’s minimum wage ban is just another in a long line of illogical and harmful bills that do nothing to raise Oklahomans up or better their lives. Opponents of the bill say it unfairly targets Oklahoma City, where there had previously been an ongoing initiative to raise the city’s minimum wage requirement. But don’t worry, Oklahoma
businesses won’t have to worry that they might have to pay more livable wages to their employees. Study after study has shown that, adjusted for inflation, the cur-rent federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour does not provide a livable salary. A full-time minimum wage worker makes only about $15,000 a year, which is nearly
$5,000 below the U.S. poverty line for a family of three.
Disallowing cities from setting minimum wage requirements really prevents higher wage require-ments. After all, states have to offer the federal min-imum wage, so all this bill really serves to do is keep Oklahomans in poverty for the sake of saving busi-nesses some green.
We are sick and tired of watching our state gov-ernment make decisions that blatantly do nothing to benefit Oklahomans, and we hope you are too. It might seem impossible to impact government, but we are the future of this state and this coun-try and it is our duty to make our voices heard. So, please, write to Fallin and your state representative, take part in our Student Government Association’s Higher Education Day at the state capitol and let’s do our part to make Oklahoma better.
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The Our View is the majority opinion of The Daily’s eight-member editorial board
Paighten Harkins, campus editor Alex Niblett, assistant editor
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CAMPUs
›››› Sooner Sampler:What do you think about Gov.
Mary Fallin’s new ban on minimum wage hikes?
“I think the people of Oklahoma should be allowed to raise
minimum wage if they feel they need to.”
Bryan Chiroodza,EConomiCs and FinanCE
junior
“I don’t know what it’s about, honestly. I haven’t heard of that
yet.”mEgan LiEtha,
univErsity CoLLEgE FrEshman
“I definitely see a benefit in raising minimum
wage but I’m not quite informed enough about the details of the ban to decide how I feel about
it yet.”
hannah austin,managEmEnt inFormation
systEms sophomorE
LandsCapE
Visiting professor gives lecture over influences on ancient architecture
The Center for Middle Eastern Architecture Culture (CMEAC) will hold a lecture about Persian influences on Greek and Roman architecture at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
Annette Giesecke, a professor of Ancient Greek and Roman studies at the University of Delaware, will present the lecture, “THE AFTERLIFE OF PARADISE: Influences of the Persian Paradise Garden on Architecture and Landscape in Ancient Greece and Rome.”
Giesecke will discuss the spread and influence of a Persian architectural feature called the “Paradise Garden.” These gardens are defined by a well-secured courtyard containing flourishing plant life and water features, CMEAC director Khosrow Bozorgi said.
“If you live in Pennsylvania or Europe, there is no need for these gardens, because everything is already green,” Bozorgi said. “But to make such a garden in the middle of nowhere, in a desert ... is like paradise.”
Bozorgi said the concept of this central courtyard extends from the biblical Garden of Eden to mod-ern-day urban planning. Famous landmarks, like the Garden of Versailles, were strongly influenced by Persian Paradise Gardens.
“Most people know of Persia because of the Hollywood version of history, where they are shown as monstrous, warlike people,” Bozorgi said. “We try to look into the positive, humane part of history. Just as not every German was Adolf Hitler ... not every Persian was Xerxes.”
The CMEAC will continue to educate students about Middle Eastern influences in a symposium to be held in the spring of 2015.
Giesecke will be a member of the editorial board for that event.
Mike Brestovansky, [email protected]
rEliGioN
Sunday to bring prayer, foodA variety of events will be held across campus for Easter Matt Woods Campus reporter
Norman residents will participate in variety of Easter traditions and ser-vices with local churches this weekend.
A l t h o u g h C h r i s t i a n s widely recognize Easter Sunday as a holiday cen-tered around the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, different tra-ditions will approach one of the year’s most attended church gatherings with vary-ing intentions.
Students with St. Thomas More University Parish at 100 Stinson St. will lead a Stations of the Cross, a 14-station meditative event, on OU’s campus starting at 6 p.m. Friday, said Erin Snow, parish director of campus ministry.
More than 200 students typically participate, travel-ing to different spots around campus to reflect and pray,
Snow said.“As Catholics, we focus …
on the Paschal Mystery — the suffering, death and res-urrection of Jesus Christ at this time,” Snow said.
The parish will hold an Easter Vigil at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, in addition to other services throughout the week.
In contrast to most tradi-tional Good Friday services, Journey Church is inviting churchgoers to pitch their blankets and lawn chairs in the park for a time of com-munity, worship and food trucks.
Attendees can participate in the outdoor event start-ing at 5:45 p.m. in Myriad Botanical Gardens at 301 W. Reno Ave. in Oklahoma City.
“We want people to have fun when they’re at church,” Journey Church child care director Amanda Hall said. “That’s a big goal of ours.”
Hall said the church ex-pects several thousand churchgoers this Easter Sunday between their morn-ing services at 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.
For Christians on Campus staff member Enosh Kim, this Sunday will be no dif-ferent than any other, since Kim said he doesn’t cele-brate Easter at all.
“We don’t see any indica-tion in the Bible to celebrate
Easter, although we believe in remembering the Lord’s resurrection,” Kim said.
For more information on this weekend’s events, visit The Daily’s online calendar.
Matt Woods, [email protected]
TOny Ragle/The Daily
st. thomas more university parish sits on the corner of stintson and jenkins. students involved with st. thomas more university parish and other organizations are planning various events to celebrate with the ou Community this Easter sunday.
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Thursday, April 17, 2014 • 3
SpenSer DaviSSoftball Beat Reporter
Oklahoma will look to take a commanding lead on the rest of the Big 12 as they battle Texas in Norman this weekend.
The Sooners (32-9, 9-1) will look to take stranglehold on the Big 12 conference after taking the series at Baylor this past weekend. Though Oklahoma’s 14-game win streak came to an end, coach Patty Gasso was happy with the re-sults of the series.
“I’m happy with two out of three. A sweep would have been phenomenal. It’s very tough to do, especially with a team that’s ranked ahead of us,” Gasso said.
It was an impressive showing against a Baylor team that still has conference championship aspirations of their own.
Softball
Sooners to battle texas this weekend
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Sophomore right-handed pitcher Kelsey Stevens winds up her pitch against Kansas on April 4 at Marita Hynes Field. The Sooners beat the Jayhawks 9-0.
Look no further than sophomore pitcher Kelsey Stevens as the reason why this team was able to go to Waco and steal the series.
Stevens threw a complete game in the series opener, al-lowing two runs on five hits. It was only the second time in the Sooners’ win streak that Stevens had allowed an earned run in an outing. She would have none of that in the second game of the series, as Stevens shutout the Bears en route to a one-hitter and a 2-0 victory.
Looking forward to Texas (26-16, 6-1), Oklahoma will need Stevens to continue the roll that she has been on since the middle of March.
“She’s really turned into a seasoned veteran. She’s not rat-tled on the mound,” Gasso said. “In the big games, she’s re-ally, really locked in.”
If Oklahoma continues to get that kind of production out of the circle, the Sooners should be able to handle a Texas team that has had some questionable losses this season.
The Longhorns have suffered defeats to Northern Iowa,
IPFW and UNLV but have turned it around in Big 12 play. Their lone conference loss was a home matchup against Texas Tech, but they have won four straight and eight of their last nine overall. Still, with the series being at home, the Sooners have a very good chance to sweep the match-up. Oklahoma is 16-1 at home this season, which puts them among the top programs in the country.
As far as Oklahoma’s mindset going into the pivotal weekend matchup, Gasso isn’t exactly in a rush to change anything.
“It’s not going to be a different approach. This team is playing very free, and they’re having fun,” Gasso said. “They’re just going about their business.”
This series will start 8 Thursday night, and that game can be seen live on ESPN2. It will continue at 6:30 p.m. Friday. before these teams close out the series in front of a sellout crowd at 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
Spenser Davis, [email protected]
Last game will be viewed by sellout crowd at 6:30 Saturday night
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Copyright 2014, Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2014
You can be of great help to benevolent or charitable groups this year. If you stand up for causes you believe in, your approach will attract others. The signifi cant strides you make will contribute to your personal and professional advancement.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Others will seek your help today. Take the time to listen to their problems, even if you can’t provide a solution. Your support alone will build strong alliances.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- You will be able to perform at an amazing level today. Your value will be noticed if you mix work with pleasure. Take advantage of any social invitations you receive.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Share your goals with your superiors. Be specifi c. If they don’t know what you want, you won’t get the opportunities to advance that you are looking for.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Children in your life will be quite observant today. Take time out to listen to what they’re saying. The approach you take will infl uence a project’s outcome. A creative outlet will do you good.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Enlist friends and family to help with home improvements. Renovations will turn out to be more expensive than anticipated, but you will be pleased with the results.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Someone from your past will make an unexpected return. Don’t let stressful situations eat away at your health. Relax, even
if a personal encounter is less than perfect. Take care when traveling.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- You can’t buy love. Your budget will suffer if you purchase expensive gifts. Concentrate on earning money rather than spending it unwisely, and offer support, not cash, to others.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Refrain from bringing work problems home with you. Let traffi c delays, work issues, or other minor irritations slide. Your health and family relationships are more important.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Don’t deceive yourself. Make commitments for the right reasons. Don’t sign on for something that you don’t believe in just to follow the crowd or gain acceptance.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- You’ll make an impression with your public speaking skills. An offer of a leadership position is likely to come your way. You will be successful if you make a move that sets an example.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- Be sure to keep your thoughts to yourself at work. Wait for a more favorable time to make any requests of your superiors -- right now, just stick to doing your work quietly and well.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Be open to new situations. Joining a social group will introduce you to new and interesting people. Have some fun, let loose and enjoy life. Work shouldn’t be your only outlet.
Instructions:Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. That means that no number is repeated in any row, column or box.
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14 Narcotic from poppies
15 Dreamy and unaware
16 Elegiac poem
17 Lush tropical area
19 Zero, in soccer
20 Airport info, informally
21 They’re often asked to look
22 Affirmative action
23 Fortified dessert wine
27 False identities
29 Jackie’s “O” 30 Gunky stuff 32 Dull as
dishwater 33 Japanese
currency 34 Lilies with
bell-shaped flowers
36 Ladies’ men 39 “The King
and I” heroine 41 Cone-hatted
one 43 “Silent Night,”
for one 44 Severely
inclined 46 Having
regrets 48 Eggs,
in bio labs 49 Acting part 51 Roman robe
52 Boy doll 53 Cool cat’s
quality 56 Group with
no members, in math
58 Nabokov heroine
59 Suit’s bottom or top
60 Myrna of old Hollywood
61 Knight’s honorific
62 What some lotto winners do
68 It may cook your goose
69 Kind of bath salts
70 Princess’ headgear
71 Home for a hog
72 Actions, for a Scout
73 Nail cousinDOWN 1 Olympus
figure 2 “The
Murders in the Rue Morgue” beast
3 Bygone auto ornament
4 Large- headed match
5 Ipecac and others
6 Australian flightless bird
7 Syndicate head
8 Received ideas
9 Away from the water
10 Blight on the landscape
11 Brawls 12 “Eat crow”
or “talk turkey”
13 Neuters, as a horse
18 Jolted 23 Noted
pyramid builders
24 “You ___ the only one!”
25 Hosted event
26 Predict, as from omens
28 Indian flat bread
31 Pastry with a hole, informally
35 Twig used in grafting
37 Flood embankment
38 What italicized letters do
40 Ages and ages and ages (var.)
42 Totally swamp
45 Begged 47 Big, awkward
klutzes 50 Parole
alternative 53 Some door
fasteners 54 Word said
with a head slap
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a song 63 Atlantic
catch 64 Bad ___
(German spa) 65 Honey
holder 66 Metal-in-
the-rough 67 Swerve,
as a ship
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Andrew clArkWomen’s Tennis Beat Reporter @A_Clark_OUDaily
The OU women’s tennis team is not fazed after dropping their last two matches to Texas and Baylor over the past weekend.
In fact, the team says it’s stronger than before. Last Friday, the Sooners traveled to Austin to face their Red River rivals and suffered a 2-5 loss. Two days later, the team was in Waco to face No. 17 Baylor. The result was an even worse loss, a 1-6 defeat to bring the Sooners to 5-3 in Big 12 conference play.
But the losses made the team even hungrier.Head coach David Mullins said it is a rarity for the
Sooners to play Texas or Baylor and get a victory, so the past weekend was not too unbearable for him.
“There is a disparity in the talent level,” he said. “Our record against Texas and Baylor is not exactly stellar … But I thought this was the group that could do it.”
The Sooners won just three matches out of the 14 played throughout the entire weekend. Even with that in mind, the team is still looking up and expect-ing great things come the
postseason.“[This weekend] shook them up in a really good way,”
Mullins said. “The leadership, especially from the older girls, is something we’ve never had. No one’s ever been willing to be vocal about things like them.”
One of those older girls Mullins spoke of, senior Mia Lancaster, shared her reasons why she believed the team did not perform well over the weekend.
“I don’t think a lot of us came in believing we could in those matches,” she said. “Losing to [Texas] kind of took the wind out of our sails, so to speak. And then, come Friday, it didn’t seem like we were confident enough to
beat Baylor all across the board.”However, Lancaster went on to say that it made
the team even hungrier to beat Oklahoma State this weekend.
“We met as a team on our day off yesterday and talk-ed about the weekend and improvements we can make,” she said. “It’s more of [the] mental changes we need to make, not physical.”
Freshman Morgan Chumney said this past weekend and the meeting the team held yesterday was a big les-son that the team learned from.
“It motivated us to finish strong and push the extra mile for these next few weeks,” she said. “We’re ready to beat Oklahoma State.”
OU takes on the Oklahoma State Cowgirls at noon Saturday in Norman as they look to finish conference play strong and head into the postseason with high hopes.
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Women’s tennis looking to bounce back against osUDespite losses to Baylor and Texas, OU is ready to take on the Cowgirls
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Senior Whitney Wofford returned the ball to the opponent during her match against West Virginia on April 4 at Oklahoma Headington Family Tennis Center. The Sooners defeated the Mountaineers 7-0 .
PLAYER PROFILEmia Lancasteryear: Senior
Position: Singles/Doubles
Statistics: She has 20 wins this season and was the only player to get a win against Baylor last week.
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In a pick-up game of skins against shirts, a skins’ offensive player looks for an open teammate to score a goal. Students engage in recreational soccer Tuesday afternoon on the intramural fields east of campus.
ATHLETICS: ‘What do students need?’Continued from page 1
Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Kingery moved back to Norman to become a pastor at Redeemer Church.
Kingery joined Alsousy’s soccer group after a current OU student invited him to a pick-up game.
Kingery hadn’t played since high school but quickly acclimated to the OU group.
“I just come from a soc-cer-loving family,” Kingery said. “My wife played in col-lege at Oklahoma Christian. I love watching Premier League on TV.”
Kicking the ball around isn’t all he enjoys in the group. Because of the large number of international stu-dents who play, it’s a great opportunity to be exposed to different cultures, Kingery said.
“Yes I love playing, but that’s half of it,” he said. “The other half is getting to see these guys.”
Many international stu-dents find a way to connect with OU and the Norman community through soccer.
“It’s just a way for me to get to know other cultures, other races, other ethnici-ties,” Kingery said. “I’m the pastor of a Christian church, but there’s a ton of Muslim guys. It’s just a great thing for (everyone) to come together and share.”
Kingery was able to set up an arrangement with the
city of Norman to pay for a lit field, and he even got Redeemer Church to spon-sor the group. Kingery so-licits donations from fellow players. It’s $30 to light a field for two hours, and the church financially backs the group when it can’t raise enough.
“Our outdoor facilities have to be ranked very low in the country for division one schools,” religious stud-ies senior Grant Rose said. “Look at Mizzou, for exam-ple. Their facilities are top notch. But for us, many play-ers on my (intramural) team can’t make the game we have this week because we play at four.”
During a trip to Texas, Alsousy was awed by the lit fields they had there.
“I went to Austin and saw their huge lit fields, and we didn’t have that here,”
Alsousy said. “So we started looking for fields.”
So why can’t OU have lit fields like everyone else?
Huston Huffman Fitness Center intramural sports c o o r d i n a t o r J o n a t h a n Dewhurst chalks it up to a lack of funding and student support.
Dewhurst estimates it would cost about a half a million dollars to light OU’s intramural fields.
“We’re always trying to get money to fund something like this, but it comes down to what the students want,” Dewhurst said. “What are they pushing for? What do they need?”
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ANNIVERSARY RECOGNITION – 30 AND MORE YEARS OF SERVICE TO OU: Kaan Akin, Department of Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences; John Albert, Department of Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences; Steven Curtis, School of Music, Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts; Joel Dietrich, Division of Architecture, College of Architecture; Richard Henry, Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences; Kimball Milton, Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences; Kenneth Nicholas, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences; R. Paul Philp, ConocoPhillips School of Geology and Geophysics, Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy; Kevin Thomas,
ANNIVERSARY RECOGNITION – 20 AND MORE YEARS OF SERVICE TO OU: Richard Andrews, Oklahoma Geological Survey, Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy; Eve Bannet, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences; Debra Bemben, Department of Health and Exercise Science, College of Arts and Sciences; Alfred Bradford, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences; Deborah Dalton, Department of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment, College of Arts and Sciences; Brian Grady, School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering; Floyd Grant, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering; Ben Keppel, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences; Lee Krumholz, Dean’s
Jeffrey Maiden, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education; Gerald Miller, School of Civil Engineering
Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences; Kanthasamy Muraleetharan, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, College of Engineering; Rex Page, School of Computer Science, College of Engineering; Katherine Pandora, Department of History of Science, College of Arts
Architecture; Subhash Shah, Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering, Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy; John Snow, School of Meteorology, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences; Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman, School of Computer Science, College of Engineering; May Yuan,
OUTSTANDING FACULTY AWARDEric Day, Department of Psychology,
College of Arts and Sciences
GOOD TEACHING AWARDKrishnan Shankar, Department of Mathematics,
College of Arts and Sciences
GENERAL EDUCATION TEACHING AWARD
Shmuel Shepkaru, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences
GATEWAY TO COLLEGE LEARNING OUTSTANDING
INSTRUCTOR AWARDSunny Wenger, Freshman Programs,
University College
PROVOST’S OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC ADVISING AWARD
*Katie Barwick-Snell, Department of Human Relations, College of Arts and Sciences
PRESIDENT’S DISTINGUISHED FACULTY MENTORING PROGRAM OUTSTANDING MENTOR AWARD
Brian Grady, School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering
MERRICK FOUNDATION TEACHING AWARD*Steven J. Cleveland, College of Law
HENRY DANIEL RINSLAND MEMORIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN
EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHLawrence Baines, Department of Instructional
Leadership and Academic Curriculum, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education
VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING
RESEARCH IMPACT*Stephen E. Henderson, College of Law
Jennifer Saltzstein, School of Music, Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts
VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH AWARDSFOR OUTSTANDING RESEARCH
ENGAGEMENT*Renee McPherson, Department of Geography and
Environmental Sustainability, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences
Carol Silva, Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences
PATENT AND INVENTOR AWARDS*Roger Harrison, School of Chemical, Biological
and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering*Patrick J. McCann, School of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, College of Engineering*Daniel E. Resasco, School of Chemical,
Biological and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering
*James J. Sluss, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
*Pramode K. Verma, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
National Academy of Inventors Award*Jeffrey H. Harwell, School of Chemical,
Biological and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering
REGENTS’ AWARDS FOR SUPERIOR TEACHING
*Barbara Fast, School of Music, Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts
Kevin A. Grasse, Department of Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences
Kieran Mullen, Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy,
College of Arts and Sciences
REGENTS’ AWARD FOR SUPERIOR RESEARCH
AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY*Yang Hong, School of Civil Engineering and
Environmental Science, College of Engineering
REGENTS’ AWARD FOR SUPERIOR PROFESSIONAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
AND PUBLIC OUTREACHJoshua M. Landis, Department of International and
Area Studies, College of International Studies
DAVID ROSS BOYD PROFESSORSHIPSNeil O. Houser, Department of Instructional
Leadership and Academic Curriculum, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education
Randall L. Kolar, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, College of Engineering
GEORGE LYNN CROSS RESEARCH PROFESSORSHIPS
Howard Baer, Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy,
College of Arts and SciencesPaul Goodey, Department of Mathematics,
College of Arts and SciencesJoe Zhou, Department of Microbiology and Plant
Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
PRESIDENTIAL PROFESSORSHIPS*Curt Adams, Department of
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education
Linda Clarke Anderson Presidential Professorship*Roland Barrett, School of Music,
Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine ArtsHenry Zarrow Presidential Professorship
Debra Bemben, Department of Health and Exercise Science, College of Arts and Sciences
President’s Associates Presidential ProfessorshipDonald Bogan, College of Law
Thomas P. Hester Presidential ProfessorshipQi Cheng, School of Computer Science,
College of EngineeringWilliams Company Foundation Presidential
ProfessorshipFriederike Jentoft, School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, College of Engineering
Anadarko Presidential ProfessorshipCatherine Kelly, Department of History,
College of Arts and SciencesL.R. Brammer Jr. Presidential Professorship
Robert Nairn, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, College of Engineering
Sam K. Vierson Family Presidential ProfessorshipNikola Petrov, Department of Mathematics,
College of Arts and Sciences
The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. www.ou.edu/eoo
CONGRATULATIONS, FACULTY HONOREES
A TRIBUTE TO THE FACULTY
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Baines DayBoganBaer ChengBemben Goodey Grady
Jentoft Kelly Kolar Landis Nairn Grasse Houser Mullen
Shepkaru Petrov Saltzstein Shankar Silva Wenger Zhou
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