Wednesday, April 23, 2014 by OU Daily

L&A: Comedians return to Norman Music Festival (Page 3)

Sports: The Thunder can’t afford another game like Monday’s (Page 4)

Opinion: We must all do our part to protect the environment (Page 3)

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SOCIAL JUSTICE

Teach-In to take on racial issues Open-forum setting allows OU community to share experiences CAITLIN SCHACHTER Campus Reporter

Sooners and community members will spend part of Wednesday discussing race during OU’s first Teach-In on Race. The event is the culmination of many events the Women’s and Gender Studies Center for Social Justice have put on throughout the academic year, starting with the After Trayvon event in August, said Mallory Gladstein, program coordinator for the center. Gladstein said the events the center has done, such as Playing the Race Card and Know Peace: Activism in the Wake of Tragedy, have been popular with students and faculty. Through these and other events, such as Being Black at OU, Sooners are able to have conversations about race,

Gladstein said. “Discussing race requires talking about identity and personal experience,” Gladstein said. “Our experiences differ based on our skin color.” Gladstein said through an open forum like the Teach-In on Race, Sooners will be able to engage with one another, share experiences and discuss ways to change or improve problem areas they’ve noticed. The Teach-In is open to the public, and attendees are encouraged to Tweet during the event using #OUTeachin, Gladstein said. Registration for the event begins at 9:15 a.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom, according to the press release. The event is being held by the Women’s and Gender Studies Center for Social Justice, OU Writing Center, Housing and Food Services and Student Affairs, according to the press release. JESSICA WOODS/THE DAILY

Allen Guelzo delivers a lecture entitled “Lincoln’s Four Roads to Emancipation” to a Teach-In audience in March.

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DOUBLE LIFE

IT’S A LOVE TRIANGLE Earning a college degree and playing two collegiate sports is a reality for OU student JOE MUSSATTO • ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

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he freshman student/quarterback/outfielder is living the life of a two-sport student-athlete. Besides the extra hyphen other OU athletes don’t have, the label translates to a busy schedule for Thomas. As spring football practice began in mid-March for Thomas the quarterback, Thomas the outfielder was already in the midst of baseball season. Spring football wrapped up shortly after Thomas went 5-of-9 with a touchdown in the Red-White Spring Game. Now the quarterback’s whirlwind schedule is spinning him back to baseball. “It’s been a really busy spring, but I can’t picture it going any other way,” Thomas said. “I think I’ve taken strides in both sports.” Thomas has appeared in seven games for coach Pete Hughes’ baseball squad, and at the same time, he is in a battle to earn the backup quarterback spot for coach Bob Stoops’ side. The rigorous days have been a challenge for the Colleyville, Texas, native, but Hughes has been impressed by the work ethic Thomas has displayed during the process. “I think he’s handling it as good as you can,” Hughes said. “His energy level is always there, he’s super positive and he never looks like the weight of the world is on his shoulders.” It has been a collaborative effort among the coaches to help Thomas succeed. Stoops said co-offensive coordinator Josh Heupel has worked with Hughes to pencil in a mutually beneficial schedule. The main concern was to help Thomas thrive in both sports. “It was two professionals, not wanting the best thing for Oklahoma, but for Cody Thomas No. 1,” Hughes said. “We both always erred on the side of the welfare of Cody. I think it worked out pretty good.”

His energy level is always there, he’s super positive and he never looks like the weight of the world is on his shoulders.” PETE HUGHES, OU BASEBALL COACH

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Students present facilitating work Intern teams ease everyday business problems with new technologies MIKE BRESTOVANSKY Campus Reporter @BrestovanskyM

After working on projects for an entire semester, four teams of interns from the Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth gathered at Sam Noble Museum of Natural History to present the results of their work. The teams, which were composed of OU students in a wide range of majors, worked with real clients to help create and market new technologies. CCEW employed a record number of 65 interns across three different campuses to help businesses combat large and important programs this semester, CCEW executive director Jeff Moore said. The first team presented a marketing plan for alloy manufacturer ETREMA Products for the distribution of their newest product, Galfenol. Galfenol, a vibrational energy harvesting material, can be used to efficiently power monitoring devices on oil wells. This utility can help minimize revenue lost due to well downtime, which can total up to $5.4 billion, team member Cole Jackson said. The second team, Team Ripple, presented an investment plan for African infrastructural agency Water and Sanitation for Africa. Team Ripple developed a plan for the appropriate distribution of $50 million to be invested in water and sanitation companies across Africa. The third team worked on a marketing and implementation plan for Pinying, an interlanguage created to help Mandarin Chinese speakers improve the pronunciation of English syllables. The team worked closely with Jonathan Stalling, an associate professor of English at OU who specializes in translation studies, who developed the language. More online at OUDaily.com

EARTH DAY

‘Water Walk’ represents tribulation of retrieving water Students recreate the journies made for clean drinking water

For Earth Day on Tuesday, students spent several hours trudging across the South Oval, carrying 10 gallon buckets of water to demonstrate the struggles of those without regular access to drinking water. The students took turns walking in pairs, carrying a rig of four buckets attached to a wooden pole from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event was sponsored by Sooners Without Borders, Global Brigades, 1040i, OU Wells Project and WaTER Center. The groups planned the event to show students the reality of living

in places without instant access to clean water, said Jim Chamberlain, OU WaTER Center researcher. In countries around the world, women and children fetch water for cooking and drinking. The trip to get water is typically around four miles, according to the press release. “We wanted students to get the experience of carrying water because this is something that women and children around the world have to do,” Chamberlain said. At the events, there were sign-up sheets available for students to get more information about trips to help out in other countries or participate in poverty-related projects within the country, Chamberlain said. Sooners Without Borders president Yaqub Betz participated in the event, carrying water buckets

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Sunny and windy. High 84F. Winds SSE at 20 to 30 mph. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.

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around the South Oval. “We want students here at OU to understand what it would be like to live without water,” Betz said. Betz said it’s important for students to understand how much time it takes for the women and children to travel to retrieve the water. When children have to get water, they don’t have enough time to go to school, Betz said. Betz said he also hopes the event showed students what different organizations on campus are interested in, and how students can get involved, he said. This was the first water walk on OU’s campus, but Chamberlain said he hopes it will happen again.

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Secondary education junior Conner McElveen and chemical engineering junior Yaqub Betz walk across the South Oval with buckets of water. Students are invited to participate in the Water Walk as a way to raise awareness for people who have to walk extremely long distances everyday for clean water.