Jake Trotter Credit: Mark Hancock Now, you can just hit “Refresh” on your browser. News these days includes far more than the paper, TV, radio and magazines. There are dedicated Internet sites, chat rooms and blogs making University of Oklahoma Sooners coverage a near-saturated market. And with the popularity of Oklahoma football, the industry of […]
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Passing grade
Walker Center Credit: Mark Hancock “We have heard nothing but positive things,” said Diane Brittingham, associate director of OU housing and food services and director of residence life. More than 400 freshman applied to live on the coed floor after the opportunity was made available in mid-June; about 60 were selected. The students live in […]
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Hug it out
Credit: Brad Gregg Make love, not war? Sure. Hugs, not drugs? We can get on board with that. But hugging complete strangers? It’s OU, people, not UC-Berkeley. Of course the Paul Mitchell folks will also be rocking the latest hair and makeup fashions, as well as answering questions about personal styling. The Hugs campaign and […]
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Have a ball
Erin Richards at Erin Royce Clothing Credit: Shannon Cornman No, fall is my favorite because the breezes are cooler and the leaves change into beautiful hues of red, brown and yellow. The days are shorter (hooray, nighttime!) and warm drinks of the cider variety are highly encouraged. Also, the scarves. Oh, the scarves! For many […]
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Earthy digs
Brad Gregg They’re pigs, after all, and just don’t know any better. Architecture students at the University of Oklahoma know that the sturdiest houses are made of earth. Five OU students and two professors recently won a $90,000 grant for merging architectural genius with environmental consciousness when they introduced compressed-earth block building technology. The grant […]
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Tit for tat
But then you’d be wrong. For the fourth time in six years, a debate team from the University of Oklahoma has won the national university debate championship. The latest to do so, OU senior R.J. Giglio and freshman Chris Leonardi, came out on top last week from a field of 167 two-person teams competing in […]
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Safe room
A closed-door meeting about gender-neutral housing with University of Oklahoma President David Boren went well, said Luxner, president of OU’s LGBT and Friends group. The March 26 discussion also included group leaders and OU’s Students for a Democratic Society, along with other university personnel. “[Boren] has indicated his willingness to continue to discuss the matter […]
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Romney and religion
“I think it’s very possible Romney’s faith will be an issue,” said Charles Kimball, director of the University of Oklahoma’s religious studies program. “When you consider that the Southern Baptist Convention has a program for ‘interfaith witness’ directed at Mormons, it points out that they don’t consider them part of the same Christian faith. “In […]
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Evolving debate
If enacted, it would require the state Board of Education to assist teachers and administrators in promoting “critical thinking, logical analysis, open and objective discussion of scientific theories including, but not limited to, evolution, the origin of life, global warming, and human cloning.” It also allows the use of supplemental textbooks and instruction materials “to […]
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The color of law
“We were not allowed to sit with our classmates,” Fisher said in an interview recorded before her death in 1995 at the age of 71. “They moved all the white students to the first three rows. They left three or four blank rows. Then behind that last row, a large wooden chair with a big […]