Monday, October 8, 2012

ELYSSA SZKIRPANcampus reporter

T h e re c e nt p a s s i n g of student government l e g i s l a t i o n a l l o w i n g summer pay for students serving in certain student government positions is bringing into question the pay of students in other s t u d e n t g o v e r n m e n t positions.

A n e w p re s i d e n t i a l s a l a r y b i l l t h a t w a s i n t r o d u c e d S e p t . 2 5 a l l o w i n g U O S A presidential summer pay is the first of congressional pay bills, which soon will include a bill to establish pay for the UOSA Ways and Means chair, UOSA President Joe Sangirardi said. The Ways and Means chair is paid at other Big 12 universities.

“I think it’s an important issue,” Sangirardi said. “O u r b u d g e t c h a i r i s currently not paid. There’s a lot of debate about why it should or should not be a paid position, but many times it comes down to one thing: student fees. We ask ourselves how supportive we think the student body would be of paying another student in student government. We discuss it regularly, too.”

The Ways and Means chair administers the allocation of money to t h e 4 0 0 -p l u s s t u d e nt organizations on campus and decides which should receive funding for certain projects, Sangirardi said. These suggestions are passed on to Student C o n g r e s s , w h i c h ultimately approves the allocations.

The Ways and Means chair is normally paid b e c a u s e o f t h e t i m e c o m m i t m e n t a n d responsibility, Sangirardi said.

“ [ I t s h o u l d b e p a i d ] b e c a u s e o f t h e responsibility,” Sangirardi

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Three-time student-selected OU Professor of the Year J. Rufus Fears died Saturday, according to a press release. He was 67. Fears was well known for his classes Freedom in Rome and the Freedom in

Greece, which were two of the most popular courses on campus, according to the press release. The cause of Fears’ death was not given.

“Rufus Fears was one of the greatest teachers in the history of our state,” OU President David Boren said in a statement. “His death is not only a great loss to the university but to the future generations of students who will be deprived of learning from him in the classroom ... Our hearts go out to his wife, Charlene, and their children.”

Fears contributed to other organizations outside of OU’s classroom. He wrote blog posts for Bigthink.com and posted videos and podcasts on his blog Drfears.com.

Letters senior Sam Clancy took Fears’

Freedom in Rome and Freedom in Greece classes. Fears was Clancy’s favorite teacher, and he said Fears loved teaching and OU.

Fears stood out as a professor because he not only taught history but also life lessons like ethics and leadership, Clancy said.

“This place won’t really be the same without [Fears],” Clancy said. “It does remain enriched by his spirit and his passion and his zest for life and his love for teaching. I will miss him very much.”

Billy Adams, 2007 advertising graduate,

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BROOKE HANKINSONcampus reporter

The last beam has been set in place, workers are putting together the interior and the final brickwork is being completed.

Headington Hall is on track to be completed on time in fall 2013, said Pete Moris, assistant athletics communications director. The new athletic dorms are located on the southeast corner of Lindsey Street and Jenkins Avenue.

“Headington Hall will hopefully be a piece of architecture that will stand the test of time,” Moris said.

The construction workers are making steady progress in working on getting the hall complete for students, M o r i s s a i d . T h e m a j o r components of the hall have been completed.

“This project has been a team effort that has been ongoing for some time,” Moris said.

OU held a “Topping Off ” ceremony, a construction tradition, on April 12 that celebrated the last beam being put into place where lunch was served to the construction crew, according to soonersports.com. The athletic coaches came to

thank the crew for their hard work and encourage them to keep working hard, Moris said.

A tree and flag were placed on top of the hall to represent good luck and growth, which is part of the construction tradition.

FlintCo is the company overseeing construction for the Headington Hall project, Moris said. Headington Hall will house around 400 students and will be 51 percent general public and 49 percent student-athletes, Moris said.

The future of the current athletic dorms has not been decided yet, and the matter will be evaluated, Moris said.

Headington Hall will provide a new option to students, starting in fall 2013

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said his position should be paid because of the work commitment.

“There is just so much work that goes into this job along with the tremendous amount of responsibility and pressure that is associated with allocating money to

all student organizations, that giving the budget chair a salary has merit,” Petersen said.

S a v a n n a h A u t r e y , university college freshman, believes the position should remain unpaid.

“I don’t believe any of the student government positions should be paid,” Autrey said. “When you volunteer to be in student government, you should be volunteering for the experience and because you are passionate, not because there’s a cash incentive.”

Matthew Brow nle e, a psychology and political science sophomore, believes the position should be paid as a part of student fees.

“We might as well have to pay for i t ,” Brownlee said. “We have to pay for

everything else. If we tack it on to the fees, people will make a fuss about it, but they’ll still pay it.”

Sangirardi believes i f the posit ion were to be paid, there would be little conflict.

“I doubt students would be upset,” Sangirardi said. “Most would understand it.”

S t u d e n t s i n t e r e s t e d in researching this issue further are invited to attend t h e S t u d e n t C o n g r e s s meetings at 7 p.m. Tuesdays in Adams Hall, 151.

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Sophomore entreprenuership major and Ways and Means chair Taylor Petersen works in his office Sept. 24. Petersen works on a volunteer basis even though many universites pay the student who holds the position.

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“When you volunteer to be in student

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The hall was helped financed by private gifts from former OU athletes such as Tim Headington, Sam Bradford, and Adrian Peterson, Moris said.

He a d i ng t o n gave $ 1 0 million to the University of Oklahoma that helped f u n d t h e c o n s t r u c t i o n f o r H e a d i n g t o n H a l l ,

according to soonersports.com. The hall was named after Headington for his contribution to the school.

Peterson gave $1 million dollars to help fund the hall. Peterson’s financial gift is the largest ever to OU Athletics f ro m a f o r m e r S o o n e r s football player, according to soonersports.com.

In appreciation of his financial contribution, the football team meeting room,

currently referred to as “The Red Room,” will be renamed “The Adrian Peterson Team Meeting Room,” according to soonersports.com. There also are plans for Peterson’s name to be associated with Headington Hall’s academic area and study lounge.

Bradford gave a $500,000 gift toward the construction o f H e a d i n g t o n H a l l , according to soonersports.com. In recognition of his

gift, the interior of the new Wagner Dining Hall, that will be located on the first level of Headington Hall, will be named the “Sam Bradford Training Table.”

“I think it is great that former athletes are giving back to the campus,” Moris said.

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said. “It is a very important position because it deals so directly with students. Several universities do pay this position.”

A student government chairman being unpaid is not necessarily uncommon a t O U, t h o u g h, s i n c e a limited number of position-holders are paid, Sangirardi said. Students who hold s t u d e n t g o v e r n m e n t positions are normally paid based on the responsibilities of the position.

Sean Bender, congress chairman, is helping draft the bill that will include a salary proposal for the UOSA Ways and Means chair.

“There are ideas floating around [about paying the position],” Bender said. “A conversation is in the works a b o u t h ow t o g o a b o u t paying the position.”

The bill is scheduled to be completed next week, and any elected changes will take place next year, Bender said.

“Anything that we work to pass this year will take effect next year because [salary] funds have already been dispersed for this year,” Bender said. “The bill will hopefully be ready next week.”

Salary-wise, the pay will be comparable to the other paid positions in congress, Bender said. The Student Congress chair is paid $365 a month, the vice-chair is paid $265 a month and the secretary is paid $215 a month, according to the UOSA Code Annotated.

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s a i d F e a r s ’ teaching style and his passion stood out the

most. It was so evident that he cared about history, and he got students involved by acting out different scenes, Adams said.

“He would carry around a broomstick, and it would become a spear, pointer or javelin, whatever he needed,” Adams said. “He would use the broomstick and act out different parts of the battles. He would roam the lecture hall of 200 plus students ... you were rife with attention.”

Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage director Kyle Harper took several of Fears’ classes, including the capstone course. He had a teacher’s h e a r t a n d i m p a c t e d thousands and thousands of students, Harper said.

“He had a special charisma and was a unique performer,” Harper said. “He had a profound understanding of history ... the combination of these traits made him absolutely unique.”

As a colleague, Department of Classics and Letters chairman Samuel Huskey said Fears was “tremendous” and always looked out for the success of the department. Huskey not only worked with Fears but also took his classes in the ‘90s.

He would bound around the stage; it was remarkable what he could do, Huskey said.

“He was a fantastic storyteller and a terrific performer,” he said. “The ability to capture the interest of a whole room full of people ... just a terrific storyteller.”

The announcement of Fears’ death on Twitter and Facebook prompted quick

responses from some of the students who knew him. Students posted how they were saddened by Fears’ passing and wrote of how much they enjoyed his classes.

Students said he was a “favorite professor” and a “great storyteller.”

Fears joined OU’s faculty in 1990 as a professor of classics. He served as College of

Arts and Sciences dean for two years and was named G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty. He received several teaching awards, including the Medal for Excellence in College and University Teaching from the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence, the Great Plains Region Award for E xcel lence in Teaching and the National Award for Teaching Excellence from the University Continuing Education Association,

according to a short biography on the Department of Classics and Letters website.

Memorial services for Fears are pending.

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As closing ceremonies ended Saturday evening, the weeks of intense, early-morning training culminated in celebration and some disappointment for cadets from OU’s ROTC program.

With a second place finish in the Ranger Challenge, which cadet Walter Allison, international security studies senior, describes as a test of physical fitness, mental acuity and willpower, the team did not do as well as expected overall, but it managed to bring home three banners in specific events.

Accompanying its second-place trophy, won against 13 teams from nine different schools, the OU Ranger Challenge team brought home banners for the First Aid/Casualty Transport, Road March and the Combat Obstacle Course, according to Ca d e t Nat ha n Mo ss, political science senior.

Hosted by OU, participating u n i v e r s i t i e s i n c l u d e d Oklahoma State University, C a m e r o n , U n i v e r s i t y o f C e n t r a l O k l a h o m a , University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Northeastern State University, University

of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Arkansas State University and the University of Central Arkansas.

T h e ca d e t s b at t l e d i t out to see who excelled in various battle conditions, including applying first aid and transporting casualties, running more than six miles with a full rucksack and shooting accurately among other events.

The rangers began training Sept. 17, the day after the t r y o u t s e s s i o n e n d e d . In charge of the training schedule was accounting senior Brian Harris, who is the current commanding officer.

“With the competition in the first week of October, we had a lot less time this year,” Harris said. “We were out really early in the morning since we didn’t have as much time.”

To prepare themselves f o r t h e c o m p e t i t i o n , participating cadets met five days a week at the Armory, practicing, on average, an hour and a half per day. They typically met at 5:30 a.m., but Allison said it was not uncommon for rangers to arrive at 4:45 a.m.

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OU Army ROTC finishes second at Rangers challenge Training for event started Sept. 17, which did not leave much room for training

times, our cadets [practiced] in their spare time throughout the day whenever possible,” Allison said. “We have a real strong team put together with a lot of dedication and heart.”

Allison participated on last year’s team and said he expected OU to win the competition a second time. He said during training the

team already had beaten last year’s one rope bridge time. The event challenges cadets to tie a rope between two trees and cross a ravine, p o t e n t i a l l y r e c e i v i n g penalties for touching the water, dropping equipment or failing to properly tie knots.

“Sometimes there is real water, but at this event, we

just had lines we couldn’t cross,” Harris said.

Though OU cadets did not cross the simulated water lines, the team placed second in the One Rope Bridge event, suffering from penalties during the event, Harris said. The team lacked a safety hitch on a knot.

“We went into it this year expecting to do really well and

we fumbled a few things,” he said. “We got it though, most teams get a couple penalties, and we didn’t get any of the serious ones. Cameron [University] still had the time to beat though.”

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The University of Oklahoma’s Army ROTC after winning 2nd overall at the Rangers Challenge where they placed first in three different categories: First Aid/Transporting a casuality, Ruck March 10km/6.2 miles, and the Combat Obstacle Course.

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Our View: UOSA on the right track with planned bill to create a salary for the Ways and Means chair.

The UOSA position in charge of allocating student fees soon could join the list of paid positions, if one planned bill about congressional pay passes Student Congress.

UOSA President Joe Sangirardi told The Daily that UOSA representatives are working on a bill to pay the UOSA Ways and Means chair.

This position, which leads a committee in charge of vetting student organizations’ funding requests and preparing a suggested budget for Student Congress, has historically not been paid. Given the importance of this position, this has been an unfortunate oversight.

There is a reason other colleges in the Big 12 pay the students serving in similar positions in their student governments. The Ways and Means chair’s duties affect students more directly than many other UOSA positions, and the job involves

as much responsibility and time commitment as any other in student government.

The chair administers what is arguably the most important function of UOSA: the distribution of more than $700,000 in student funds each year to student

organizations and projects. The committee vets each organization seeking funding and deals with legislation related to the budget process.

It is a time consuming and important responsibility, which works directly with students’ money and enables the majority of the events

students participate in on campus. For taking the lead in this responsibility, the chair position is certainly as important as the president, vice president and Student Congress chair, who are all paid for their services.

Paying the Ways and Means chair will ensure the students serving the most important and difficult positions in OU’s student government are adequately compensated. More importantly, a salary would help attract the most qualified students to this position.

Of course, adding an additional salary would require redirecting funds from elsewhere in the budget. But given the relatively small amount of money required, it’s worth it to compensate a student with such important responsibilities.

Students should want a dedicated and focused student at the helm when it comes to decisions about how best to use their money. A salary will help ensure that is always the case.

If you agree the Ways and Means chair should be paid, contact Student Congress and encourage representatives to draft and pass this bill quickly.

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Columbus Day celebrates racism, genocide

Imagine extraterrestrials staked a flag on the

Earth’s surface, claiming to have “discovered” it. They judged humans as inferior and enslaved us, justifying themselves with a foreign religion. They eventually became the dominant species on Earth, having nearly wiped out humanity with the exotic germs they brought from their home planet.

Finally, they declared a holiday hundreds of years later, named after the alien who led that glorious first landing party.

If anything about this fictional scenario makes the reader uneasy, I can’t understand how he or she could possibly be at ease with Columbus Day, which is basically a retelling of that story on a smaller scale.

Although the “New World’s” beginning are often cast in a pleasant light by textbooks and tour guides, many historians recognize it asbrutal and tragic. Yet every second Monday of October we celebrate Christopher Columbus and his legacy of colonialism.

In reality, there’s no reason to think Columbus was the hero he’s portrayed as in popular culture. Indeed, there are better grounds for thinking him a villain.

Columbus’ contributions to history, while not totally irrelevant, were not nearly as pivotal as many people think. It’s often said he proved the world was round, but this is false — humans had known we lived on a sphere since the time of the ancient Greeks. Another common myth is that Columbus was the first European to land at North America. Actually, that distinction belongs to Leif Ericson, who had reached the continent with his Vikings 500 years prior.

In sociologist James Loewen’s book, “Lies My Teacher Told Me,” the true reason for Columbus’ fame is explained. It was not merely that Columbus found North America, but that he happened to launch his expedition at a time when Europe was particularly well-equipped for exploration and thirsty for colonialism. This is the reason Columbus is considered special among explorers of the period.

The unique accomplishments that can be credited to Columbus are not exactly flattering. Upon his arrival in North America, Columbus began claiming everything he laid his eyes on. This included the possessions of the native people and even many of the native people themselves.

Columbus’ treatment of the natives makes him an important figure in the history of the transatlantic slave trade. He assigned to many of them heavy labor in gold mines. Others he packed like cattle into ships bound for

Europe. Resistance was seen as an excuse to kill or mutilate — the Spanish historian Bartolomé de las Casas reports the Spaniards “thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades.”

When one adds these violent deaths to those attributed to foreign disease introduced by the Spaniards, it’s clear Columbus’ arrival in North America cost millions of lives.

This brings me to the question I hope readers are asking now: Why is today a federal holiday?

To some extent, nationalism is to blame. Between the romanticized version of Columbus and the historical version, the former is clearly easier to reconcile with the fondness many Americans have for their country’s heritage.

Dr. Catherine Kelly, an associate professor of history at OU, believes another factor is that Columbus’ Italian heritage has historically been a source of inspiration.

“Italian Americans have historically used [Columbus Day] as a vehicle not only for celebrating their heritage, but also for laying claim to being authentically American, especially at times when they faced considerable discrimination and weren’t considered by many to be genuinely white,” Kelly said.

It’s clear the cultural motivations for cherishing Columbus are strong and have been important for some. But they do not justify the false image of Columbus propagated by popular culture. They also don’t mean Columbus is any more or less deserving of his own holiday.

The most ideal course of action would be to abolish Columbus Day, but this seems unfeasible given that many people still wrongly view him as a hero. Perhaps the best we can do for now is inform others and reflect on the twin dangers of ethnocentrism and racism, both of which fueled the Columbus debacle.

Stephen Martin, a graduate assistant in the history department, is well aware of what American Indians have suffered in the process of colonialism. For this reason, he believes Columbus Day shouldn’t be celebrated, but should be contemplated.

“It could and should be a day for contemplation and reflection,” Martin said. “Of course, we cannot turn back the clock, and we cannot reverse centuries of colonialism. But we don’t have to celebrate it, as if it were some kind of great triumph, either.”

In the end, what we know is what’s important. Knowing the truth about Columbus will keep us inoculated from the propaganda of this holiday, and hopefully it will one day bring about its end.

Steven Zoeller is a journalism junior.

Wednesday’s presidential debate

moderator Jim Lehrer looked like a deer in the headlights, often staring wide-eyed at the candidates and timidly attempting to interrupt when they went over time. Still, his performance was not the worst that night.

Many articles have been written about President Barack Obama’s poor performance. One called his performance, “timid and disengaged.” Al Gore even blamed it on Denver’s high altitude.

Obama’s debate performance was a failure in two ways. First, his performance lacked confidence and connection with the American people. More importantly, Obama squandered a prime opportunity to communicate his views directly with the American people.

According to Reuters, 67 million people tuned in to watch the debate. That type of direct audience access is rare, even in the modern age of extreme media saturation during elections.

The opportunity for Obama to successfully lay out his plans for economic, social and international reform was vast. Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s platform on these issues is spotty and disconnected at best, and non-existent on issues outside the U.S. Moreover, Romney has been lagging behind in the polls, projecting a losing posture even before the debate started.

By many accounts, this posture has changed. According to post-debate polling, Romney has gained about 2 points against Obama. This does not seem like a lot, but Romney has pulled to within five points of Obama with a veritable eternity to go until the election in November.

This is worse news for the Obama camp than the numbers suggest. Not only was Romney behind in the polls, recent footage of Romney talking about a freeloading 47 percent of the population was undercutting any image he had as a “typical” American. In Wednesday’s debate, however, it was Obama with egg on his face.

It was clear to all who saw the debate Obama was significantly off his game. He kept falling back on a lackluster description of his plan to distribute the tax burden, and he spoke too much about education.

Possibly the most dangerous tactic Obama used was to equate his plans with Romney’s. Especially during the first section of the debate, Obama stated his similarities with Romney on a variety of issue including small business, energy and taxes. This is never a good strategy in any debate.

Obama’s behavior is not due to the altitude. It is not even attributable to a lack of preparation. Obama’s performance suffered because he has not found a way to recreate the message of his initial election.

In 2008, Obama was an outsider, a change-monger and a reformer. As the incumbent, he is put in a position of defending his policies against an outside challenger. Remember, a presidential campaign for the incumbent is not about winning; it’s about keeping your job. It is this mindset the Obama campaign must take on if it is to be successful.

Because I’m sure the Obama campaign reads The Daily every week, I have a couple suggestions.

First, the campaign needs to paint Romney as a rich old white guy. This should not be difficult because he already is. Ads by outside interest groups have already begun this process, but the Obama campaign can continue it.

Next, the president needs to put Osama Bin Laden’s head on a proverbial stake and parade it around during the debates. The president achieved the most significant victory in the war on terror and possibly the greatest American military episode since World War II. Just get up there and ask Romney, “How many mass-murdering terrorists have you brought to justice in the last four years?”

These two efforts will go a long way in communicating Obama’s dominance over Romney, fighting back against a challenger on the upswing.

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Tobi NeidySports Reporter

The OU softball team went deep into its pitching rotation and used several multi-run innings to stay perfect against opponents in the Oklahoma Fall Festival this weekend in Norman.

OU opened with a 13-1 win over North Central Texas courtesy of a nine-run fifth inning sparked by a grand slam from junior outfielder Brittany Williams on Friday night.

Senior left-handed pitcher Michelle Gascoigne earned the win for the Sooners during the festival opener,

finishing with 11 strikeouts and allowing just one hit in the game.

OU returned Saturday to defeat both opponents during the team’s first doubleheader of the weekend.

Freshman pitcher Taylor Dewberry earned her first ever start as a Sooner, giv-ing up no runs and no walks during the 10-0 win over Connors State, while the OU offense scored runs in all five innings played.

Williams was perfect in the game, going 2-for-2 with three RBIs, while senior designated player Keilani Ricketts and sophomore pitcher Georgia Casey had two hits each.

Casey turned around and went the distance on the mound for the Sooners for

the 9-1 win over Oklahoma Christian in the final match of the day.

OU earned the win with a four-run, fifth inning.

The Sooners closed out the Oklahoma Fall Festival with a pair of shutout wins over Odessa College, 7-0, and Seminole State, 8-0, on Sunday.

Ricketts struck out 17 bat-ters during the one-hitter in the first game against Odessa, while Gascoigne returned in the finale and struck out 10 batters against Seminole State.

Next up, the Sooners face Butler Community College on Oct. 17 in Norman.

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Junior wide receiver Kenny Stills (4) and senior quarterback landry Jones (12) celebrate following one of Jones’ two touchdowns in a game against Texas Tech on Saturday in lubbock. The Sooners won the game, 41-20, to improve to 3-1 on the season. With the win, Jones tied former ou quarterback Steve Davis as the winningest quarterback in program history.

The No. 13 Oklahoma football team got the vin-

dicating win it needed with the 41-20 win over Texas Tech on Saturday.

Not only did OU need the win in order to stay in con-tention for the Big 12 title, it also got its first road win in Lubbock since 2003.

After spending two weeks answering questions about the lackluster performance during a home loss to Kansas State, the Sooner of-fense came out firing on all cylinders. Senior quarter-back Landry Jones was able to establish a passing game, connecting with six differ-ent receivers for 175 passing yards in the first half and giving the Sooners a 24-13 lead.

To complement the of-fense, when OU needed its defense to step up and harass Tech senior quar-terback Seth Doege, the Sooner defenders didn’t allow the starter to throw a touchdown pass during the game, coming away with a season-high three interceptions.

It was the complete game that Sooner fans asked for and coaches said they were working to put together in practices during the bye week. But more important-ly, it showed just how good this team can be when all

facets of the game are in top form.

The con-vincing 21-point win relied on proven of-fensive play-makers right

out of the gate: junior run-ning back Damien Williams and sophomore backup quarterback Blake Bell. Williams produced two

carries of eight and six yards to start the game before the ‘Belldozer’ package was called in to secure another first down on a third-and-two situation. Jones later connected with senior wide receiver Justin Brown for the first touchdown of the game.

Williams emerged as a dual-threat in the Sooners’ offensive arsenal, lead-ing both rushers (48) and receivers (82) in yardage,

while Bell finished with OU’s only two rushing touchdowns of the game.

And while the offense excelled, the defense simul-taneously earned its right to be given game balls.

After spending the first quarter tracking down Tech receivers, junior defensive back Aaron Colvin earned his first career interception, which eventually led to an OU field goal that made it a two-possession game

before halftime. Senior safety Javon Harris

snagged an interception of his own and turned it into a pick-six that set up a 25-point lead in the third quarter.

Although senior de-fensive tackle Jamarkus McFarland fumbled an in-terception he had in the first half, it was the first time an OU defensive lineman had picked off a pass since for-mer defensive end Ronnell

Lewis’s interception against Texas A&M on Nov. 5.

But maybe the most im-portant part of this com-plete win is the fact that OU has the right momentum going into the rivalry game against Texas next weekend in Dallas.

It’s not hard for OU to get mentally ready for the game against the program’s archrivals, but knowing the Sooners are starting to play their best football of the season with a pivotal con-ference game up next gives the team a renewed confi-dence going into the Cotton Bowl.

And in that aspect, the Sooners undoubtedly have made the needed correc-tions to right this season’s ship.

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John Calvin plays the piano in Oklahoma Memorial Union on Sept. 26. Calvin, a local musician and former OU student, also is known for his songwriting, singing and guitar playing.

NICK WILLIAMSLife & Arts Reporter

Local singer-songwriter John Calvin released his latest album, “Without Wax,” Thursday evening with a show at The Deli on Campus Corner.

Calvin, who graduated from OU in December 2011 with a degree in anthropol-ogy, since has taken up the man-tel of a full-time musician. After writing and performing heav-ily over the past couple of years, Calvin considers his new songs featured on “Without Wax” to be his richest and most compre-hensive work.

“All of my past work was a bit chaotic and lacked in vocal mel-ody,” Calvin said. “This album, however, is heavy in melody, harmony and simple forms. Definitely a breath of fresh air for me.”

Considered by some to be one of Norman’s finest musi-cal treasures, Calvin played in a myriad of bands growing up that “ran the gamut of genres.”

Nevertheless, Calvin considers OU to have played a particularly special role in where he finds himself today.

“My freshman year, I taught myself piano in the lobby of Walker [Center] and would hold little musical performances there because I didn’t have any idea of where to begin,” Calvin said. “I played so much, I was skipping class to write and perform.”

With influences of Elliott Smith, Gillian Welch, Wilco and Townes van Zandt, Calvin began to delve more and more into the music while as an undergraduate philosophy student, a field he admits was “heavy” and “draining” as an artist. However, after switching majors

from philosophy to anthropology, Calvin felt much more at home and enabled at OU in his development as a musician.

“The field of anthropology was good for me as a performer,” Calvin said. “Considering the nature of the trade, my degree helped prepare me for travel and interaction with other cultures. It taught me to open up and be more open to other ideas, musically and otherwise.”

Calvin also is an instrumentalist for a handful of artists and bands around the Norman/Oklahoma City area, including fellow singer-

songwriter Camille Harp.“John has an energy and

life to him like no one I’ve ever met,” Harp said. “It’s contagious. When he plays, it is pure joy and heartfelt.”

Calvin proves to be a constant performer in the Norman area and beyond, frequenting the Deli and other venues across the state. Additionally, Calvin per-formed for a crowded house at the TEDxOU conference in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium ear-lier this year.

“Performing is one of the few times I feel like the world

is in its right place, regardless of what’s happen-ing elsewhere,” Calvin said. “Not quite an ‘ig-norance is bliss’ mentality, nor an escape, but a time of reflection and reprieve.”

Thursday evening kicked off Calvin’s 2012 fall tour, which includes a series of dates in Tulsa, San Antonio, Tucson, Ariz., and Norman. Touring with local folk band Young Readers, Calvin finds himself appreciating the busy nomadic life of a musician.

“It’s what I’m best at, and I can’t imagine doing anything else right now,” Calvin said. “Music is my concern, my passion, and now, my job.”

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Life in Color, “The World’s Largest Paint Party,” raged

through Oklahoma City this weekend leaving only a trail of paint and confetti covering the Cox Convention Center’s floor.

The doors opened at 7 p.m. , and electronic dance music lovers flocked inside the arena to get the best spots by the stage. Nearly everyone in attendance was wearing white, but that was all about to change.

At 9 p.m., the host came out and put one hour on the clock. When the timer hit all zeros, OKC would never be the same. The sea of white turned neon green, pink and blue as the crowd was sprayed with more than 400 gallons of paint during the entire rave, which lasted until the early morning hours — about 1 a.m.

Three disc jockeys played for the event, open-ing with Mayhem, then DJ Squirt D and when the paint blast came at 10 p.m., Thomas Gold sent vibrations of electronic

bliss throughout the Cox Convention Center for three hours, leaving no one dry from the paint party madness.

There were some moments that stuck out more than oth-ers, so here are the top five moments of the night:

No. 1: “Set Fire to the Rain”

By far the best part of the night was when the lights came on at 12:45 a.m., and the host told us we had one last song. After pumping the crowd up for one last beat, Gold played his remix to the popular Adele single “Set Fire to the Rain.” When the song hit its crescendo, confetti and paint reigned down on the audience.

No. 2: “Wonderwall”During his set, Gold played

many of his remixes, but “Wonderwall” almost out did them all. The song was originally made famous by Oasis. But the only thing that “Wonderwall” achieved Friday night was a massive sing-a-long with a house twist.

No. 3: “Pumped Up Kicks”

Another time when the audience got super crazy was when Gold played his remix to Foster the People’s “Pumped up Kicks.” As soon as the familiar lyrics began, the entire crowd started to sing along, and when the song reached its chorus,

Gold’s house remix kicked in and made the crowd go nuts.

No. 4: “Marsch vs. Kiwi Stick vs. We Are Your Friends”

In the midst of his three-hour set, Gold gave birth to another awesome moment was when he played his track “Marsch vs. Kiwi Stick vs. We Are Your Friends.” When Gold busted this tune, the crowd already was covered head-to-toe in paint, but for some reason, this song made the crowd grow louder and want more paint.

No. 5: And then the clock struck zero

One of the best moments from the night’s show was when the countdown clock zeroed out, and for the first time, OKC was blasted with paint. It was a magical mo-ment when paint hit the au-dience’s bodies for the first time.

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