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Norman students voice support for rape victims Protesters condemn school’s handling of cases discontentment with how Norman High School has handled the rape allegations and the distribution of video footage of one of the alleged incidents, organizers said. “The survivors were bullied out of the school,” said Over 30 percent of Norman High School’s students were Danielle Brown, a student organizer for the rally. “It wasn’t absent during their first hour class while a student-staged handled correctly. They didn’t feel safe, and they want to come back.” protest against how the school handled stuThe district received one bullying report dents’ rape allegations occurred across the related to the alleged assaults and immedistreet. ately responded to the report, according to Of the 1,992 enrolled at the school, 639 the press release. students were absent from their first hour The alleged assailant was suspended class. Of those, 273 students’ parents had for the remainder of the school year after given parental permission to the school, according to a press release by Norman Public We want to make sure school administrators became aware of a Schools after the protest. if this happens again, video he had taken during the alleged asaccording to the press release. As part of the walk-out protest, students it doesn’t get swept sault, Norman police are investigating the alsilently left their classrooms at 9:20 am under the rug.” leged sexual assaults, two of which reportand stood along Main Street across from edly happened off campus and the third the school in a crowd of hundreds, waving NICHOLAS NATHANIEL, signs and yelling chants like “No justice, no NORMAN HIGH STUDENT, FOUNDING at Norman High School, according to the peace” and “No means no.” MEMBER OF “YES, ALL DAUGHTERS” press release. Cleveland County District Attorney Greg The protest was organized after three girls Mashburn said he was aware of a possible at the school, who ranged in ages from 14 to 16, alleged that the same male classmate raped each during fourth victim who was allegedly assaulted by the same person about two years ago, The Associated Press reported. three separate incidents during the calendar year. No arrests have been made so far. Neither the alleged victims nor the alleged assailant are currently attending Norman High School. The protest’s purpose was to show the protesters’ SEE PROTEST PAGE 2
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Members of the Norman community join students of Norman High School at a protest at Norman High Monday morning. Students walked out of the school after the school failed to sufficiently handle a sexual abuse case between students.
OU Police Department responded to a reported sexual assault at 4:19 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 7. The report by officer Doug Hersey listed the location of the incident as the 7th-floor west of Couch Tower, 1524 Asp Ave. The incident is listed as first degree rape with a criminal classification of forcible rape given on the report. No arrest has been made, and the case is still under investigation, OUPD spokesperson Maj. Bruce Chan said. Chan provided no further comments to The Daily about the case. According to the Clery Act, colleges and universities are required to issue timely warnings about crimes that pose a serious or ongoing threat to students and employees. The university’s policy says a timely warning is sent out if there is a threat to the campus at large, OU press secretary Corbin Wallace said. If university officials don’t see the incident as a threat to the community, no warning is issued. “Each case is assessed on a case by case basis under the Clery Act, and a timely warning is when a case fits that criteria,” Wallace said. No warning was issued about the Nov. 7 incident. Amy Buchanan, assistant director for marketing and communications for OU Housing and Food Services, said that Housing and Food Services staff and administrators report any assault to the appropriate campus departments, such as the Title IX office, Student Conduct and OUPD. From there, the student is informed of available programs and support services, as well as actions they can take, Buchanan said.
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Sooners overcome lost day to win Bedlam Blood Drive Over 700 donate blood over the course of the event, as OU makes up initial deficit
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Though the Sooners and Cowboys have not yet faced off at the Bedlam game, OU has already triumphed over its rival in one respect. For the first time ever, OU has won the Fall Bedlam Blood Drive, according to an email from Linsday Hix, senior account manager for the Oklahoma Blood Institute. While 873 people from OSU signed up to donate blood, 914 people from OU signed up, putting OU in the lead by a margin of 41 people, Hix said. Of the students, faculty and community members that signed up, 702 people successfully donated blood at OU and 692 successfully donated at OSU, Hix said. Despite OU’s win, OSU led the competition throughout WEATHER Sunny today with a high of 55, low of 34. Follow @AndrewGortonWX on Twitter for weather updates.
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the week. OSU had nearly double the donors as OU on Tuesday night, with 307 donors to OU’s 155, partially due to the cancellation of OU’s blood drive Monday, according to Daily archives. By Thursday night, 653 people had donated for OSU and 630 donated for OU, according to the archives. The fact that OU was able to pull ahead in the drive after missing a day’s worth of potential donors is remarkable, Hix YA JIN/THE DAILY said. An Oklahoma Blood Institute staff member prepares to draw blood SEE BLOOD PAGE 2 from a donating student.
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BLOOD: Donations extra important for holidays Continued from page 1 “We like to call it Sooner magic,” Hix said. OU will receive the Bedlam Blood Battle travelling trophy during halftime of the Dec. 6 Bedlam game, Hix said. Regardless of the friendly competition, the blood donated will help patients in need, Hix said. Combined, the blood successfully donated from the OU and OSU communities will be able to save as many as 4,182 people, according to the email. Each donation has the potential to save three different people, Hix said. Blood from the drive will go to patients in 158 medical facilities and air ambulances throughout Oklahoma, according to a press release from the institute. Filling blood banks’ stores is especially important before Thanksgiving, as people spend time with their families or travel during the holiday and don’t come in to donate blood, Hix said. Though fewer people turned out to give blood this year than last — 1,141 people from OU and 1,164 people
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from OSU donated at the Fall 2013 drive — enough was given to help sustain facilities over the holiday, said Leslie Gamble, the institute’s director of community relations. “ Th e re a re p e o p l e i n the hospital right now that are going to be enjoying Thanksgiving because of their blood donations,” Gamble said.
Because they received blood, patients may be able to enjoy one more holiday with their families, Gamble said. Though the blood given at this particular drive will help many patients, the need for donors has not ended, Gamble said. The O klahoma Blood Institute will come to OU’s
campus for another blood drive next semester, Gamble said, and she encourages Sooners to try to beat the Cowboys once again. “Let’s do it again in the spring,” Gamble said. Kate Bergum kate.c.bergum-1@ou.edu
PROTEST: Turnout exceeded initial expectations Continued from page 1 Another goal of the walk out was to raise the profile of the situation at Norman High School and grab outsiders’ attention, organizers said. “We want to make sure if this happens again, it doesn’t get swept under the rug,” Nicholas Nathaniel said. “We want it to get noticed.”
Nathaniel is a founding member of the group of students behind the protest called “Yes, All Daughters.” The group has a Facebook p ag e a n d a Tw i t t e r a ccount where visitors can receive updates and read the group members’ full list of demands. “We would like to see implementation of anti-bullying, anti-harassment [and]
sexual harassment education,” said Stacey Wright, an adult organizer. “We’d like to see these victims return to school safely.” Several hundred people showed up in total — a mix of past and present Norman High School students and Norman residents. Norman Police Department closed the 900 block of Main Street once students began to walk
out and reopened it at 10 a.m. The turnout exceeded initial expectations, Brown said. When group members first planned the event, they hoped for about 100 people, but 1,000 individuals RSVP’d for the event. Steven Zoeller steven.v.zoeller@ou.edu
Beyond Our Borders: A Conversation with Liam Cumberpatch — 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in Bizzell Memorial Library’s Community Room (LL118) Hear the final lecture in OU Libraries Beyond Our Borders series, in which Liam Cumberpatch will discuss life and culture in New Zealand. Tuesday Noon Concert — 12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Sandy Bell Gallery Stop by during your lunch break for a 30 minute concert put on by OU School of Music. Tuesday Tea — 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Collings Hall lobby College of Education students, faculty and staff are invited to chat over tea and cookies. Do you want to see your organization’s campus event here? Visit OUDaily.com/events/submit to add your entry.
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amaje Perine did Bob Stoops a big favor this weekend. The true freshman made national waves on Saturday when he trucked and ducked his way to 427 yards, the most in a single game in college football history. He carried the ball 34 times, averaging 12.6 yards a carry, and found the end zone five times — all on dashes of 25
Saturday afternoon was all about Perine. Well, Perine and his offensive line. The unit came to the post-game press conference and interviewed as a group, heaping praise upon the soft-spoken running back. The atmosphere was as jovial as it has been all season. Perine’s big day eclipsed the record that was set just last week by Wisconsin’s Melvin Gordon, and turned what was one of the least anticipated home games since the mid-1990s into a day that will be remembered for a long time to come. Limping towards the finish line of a disappointing season, there did not seem to be much the Sooners could do to erase the bad taste associated with this year. As he galloped for his final 42 yards and into the record books, Perine gave them what they were looking for. Stoops in particular gave a happier interview than he had in weeks after the Sooners dismantled Kansas. He was a coach that was clearly proud of his heralded young back, but it had to help that he was not facing questions about what went wrong, or if things had gotten stale in his 16th season at the helm. As the Sooners enjoy Thanksgiving and prepare for their annual matchup with Oklahoma State, much of the focus will land on Perine and his remarkable freshman campaign, and rightly so. That may benefit Stoops more than anyone.
yards or more. What cannot be quantified in a statistic however, is how much the Pflugerville, Texas native’s big day shifted the conversation away from the last two weeks’ major storylines. Ever since the Baylor Bears came to Norman and administered a 48-14 beating, questions have swirled about the Sooner head coach. Some wondered if his tenure at OU had run its course, others claimed the man once known as “Big Game Bob,� had lost his edge. Needing a comeback to beat lowly Texas Tech did not help things, and once the Florida head coaching job officially came open, Stoops’ name was thrown onto the coaching carousel. These questions certainly won’t disappear, but they were Dillon Hollingsworth is a journalism junior. nowhere to be found after the game on Saturday.
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OUR VIEW
Let’s talk about sexual assault Even closer to home, an OU student reported a rape in Couch Tower to OUPD Nov. 7, according to crime reports. Anyone who dismisses efforts to address sexual assault on college campuses by claiming it doesn’t happen on our campus is sadly misSexual assault is not an abstract issue, and it aftaken. No arrests have been made in the case, and fects members of our own community as well as OUPD is currently investigating the alleged assault. students at college campuses across the country. Sexual assault exists on our campus, and our fellow We believe sexual assault does not receive the attention it deserves and that the common mistreat- Sooners deserve our support, not bullying and bement of sexual assault victims is deplorable. Sexual littlement like the three Norman High School students allegedly received. assault on college campuses is nearing a national It’s disheartening that in 2014 victims of sexual crisis, and we urge students to have conversations assault are still told they “deserved it” or “wanted about sexual assault, report any possible assaults it” based on their past sexual activities, style of and stand up for the rights of every dress or behavior. Hear us loud and clear, Sooner individual. Our View is nation: no one ever deserves to be a victim of sexOn Nov. 19, Rolling Stone pubthe majority ual assault. Rape culture is real and it is pervasive. lished a graphic exposé of an alopinion of When it takes a description of a brutal on-campus leged gang rape at a fraternity The Daily’s gang rape or three underage girls suffering sexual house at the University of Virginia, nine-member editorial board assault before action is taken, you know there is an which prompted the school to susinstitutional problem when it comes to handling pend all fraternity activities and has sexual assault. forced sexual assault back into the There have recently been national efforts to adnational conversation. dress sexual assault on college campuses, such as In our own community, three female Norman President Obama’s creation of a White House task High School students accused a male student of rape in September, and the girls have since alleged- force in January to tackle the problem, but it’s going to take local efforts by students across the country ly been bullied out of the school by the assailant’s to truly combat sexual assault. friends. To protest the school’s handling of the alWe could not be any more impressed by the leged assaults, hundreds of Norman High School Norman High School students who condemned students participated in a walkout Monday, an efthe school’s handling of the alleged assaults by fort we commend. Our View: Sexual assault is a problem on campuses nationwide that deserves attention, and recent events have brought the issue close to home.
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Students of Norman High School protest their school along Main Street Monday morning. The protest is one of several recent events bringing attention to the problem of sexual assault.
protesting Monday — an action many college students lack the gall to undertake. We believe peacefully protesting institutional mishandling of sexual assaults is a powerful and brave action students should use as a tool to express their discontent. Most importantly, don’t be a silent witness. If you see or suspect sexual assault has occurred, speak up. Even though it may take uncomfortable conversations and long-term commitment to preserving victims’ rights, we as students can help combat sexual assault.
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t’s time to give thanks. Time to celebrate the people around you and the fact that you’ve (almost) survived the fall semester. Thanksgiving is mostly a time to return to family, but when busy schedules and distances get in the way of tradition, it could be time to start your own. No matter if you’re celebrating with family or friends who have become your family, it’s important to consider the entertainment. Here are some activities you and your Thanksgiving crowd can enjoy, whether you’re the host or just a party guest with great ideas:
AFTER THE FEAST: Host a movie marathon. Whether you’re making your way through every Wes Anderson film to date or have just revisited the first episode of “Grey’s Anatomy,” provide your guests with some flicks to snuggle up with. After your bellies are full of great
food and delicious drinks, you’ll need something to wind down to. We recommend: “A Christmas Story”, “Fantastic Mr. Fox”, “Friends” Revisit your childhood with classic board games. Too stuffed to leave the table? Keep a stack of board games close by for some after dinner fun. It’s a great activity with dessert and a chance to have some competitive fun. We recommend: Mad Gab, Cards Against Humanity, Scrabble and Life. Kelly Rogers is a professional writing junior.
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