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Local organizations gath-ered on the South Oval, giv-ing students the chance to volunteer as part of Campus Activities Council’s Winter Welcome Week.

CAC hosted the volun-teer fair in conjunction with its A New Year, A New YOU campaign, and Thursday’s theme was “Help Others More.” Volunteer organiza-tions distributed informa-tion fliers, stickers, pens and bracelets at the fair.

The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma , the Women’s Outreach Center , Alpha Phi Omega , the Community After School Program and CAC’s Soonerthon were among the organizations t h a t s e t u p tables.

Volunteers a r e a l w a y s w e l c o m e a t t h e f o o d bank, volun-t e e r r e t e n -tion coordi-nator Denice Hurlbut said. The Regional Food Bank needs students to prepare food kits, deliv-er food, as well as grow and harvest food from its garden, which it uses to send out

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An online journalism project founded by an OU profes-sor recently received nonprofit status, allowing it to keep providing overlooked information to the public in an orga-nized and accessible way.

OU journalism professor Christopher Krug and his wife Kirstin co-founded the project called Monitor Oklahoma in 2011. The project aims to collect, decode and organize data regarding the primary and secondary public school systems in the state, and then to present that data in an eas-ily accessible format.

“He’s really tackling something he doesn’t think peo-ple are writing about or talking about, and that’s K-12 ed-ucation,” said Chase Cook, former student of Krug’s and researcher for Oklahoma Watch, another journalistic nonprofit.

The hope is a more complete understanding of the way schools run will stimulate and facilitate informed conversation about ed-ucation among ordinary citizens — a phenomenon that is currently stunted by the difficulty of finding clear, relevant data via a Google search, Krug said.

After reading an edi-torial about Oklahoma state schools, Krug said he had been unable to find enough data to answer his questions.

“If I, as a journalism professor, couldn’t find information that satis-fies my information need, other people couldn’t ei-ther,” Krug said. As the

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Business junior Jose Escapa signs up Thursday to volunteer for the Community After School Program during the volunteer fair.

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Dennis Scott and the MLK Celebration Choir perform gospel music for the audience at the Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration Thursday in the Health Science Center’s David L. Boren Student Union.

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“It’s important to understand where our rights come from and how we maintain them by being engaged po-litically and socially with what’s going on,” said Margaret Phillips, OU occu-pational and environmental health professor.

Phillips said she remembers when she was a child and she saw a picture of

King speaking into a microphone with flowers in front of him. She asked her mother why he had flowers in front of him, and she said he had just been re-leased from jail.

“This made me think well gosh, I didn’t think people were honored just out of jail,” she said. “It made quite an impression on me – civil disobedi-ence.”Remembering King caused OU alumna Shontelle Dixon to consider

what her family went through for her to have the opportunities she has today, like getting an education.

“In the 60s, I would not have had this opportunity to complete my master’s degree,” Dixon said.

Members of the association hope the event will encourage people to use Martin Luther King Jr. Day not just to take a break from work and school, but

STILL MARCHING

Sooners step silently, stop traffic in OKC

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An OU policeman blocked traffic as Sooners silently marched across Stonewall Avenue Thursday on OU’s Oklahoma City campus.

Participants keep the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. alive each year with a si-lent march, a speech and performances organized by the OU Health Sciences Center’s African American Student Association.

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food to low-income families, she said.

Representatives from the OU Women’s Outreach Center were finding vol-unteers for their upcom-ing Pink and Black Ball and

distributing i n f o r m a -t i o n a b o u t a w a r e n e s s events, pro-g r a m m i n g c o o r d i n a -tor Melanie Adams said.

Alpha Phi Omega, the nation’s larg-

est co-ed service fraternity, attended the fair to attract students interested in lead-ership, friendship and ser-vice, volunteer Ricky Pody

said. The fraternity already has

150 active members.“We’re basically like a big

family,” Pody said. “We will get together, study, go to movies… and of course we will have fun helping our community.”

The coed service fraterni-ty will start its Spring Rush events Tuesday to recruit and inform members, Pody said.

“If you can think of a ser-vice project, we’re probably doing it, or as soon as we hear about it, we will start getting people to do that ser-vice,” Pody said.

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today around CampusWomen’s Gymnastics will compete against denver at 7 p.m. at the sam Viersen Gymnastics Center.

Art Exhibition: the 99th annual school of art & art History student exhibition opening reception begins at 7 p.m. in the Fred Jones Jr. museum of art, followed by an awards ceremony at 8 p.m. the exhibition features art by ou school of art and art History students. the exhibition will remain on display until Feb. 10.

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Final day to register or add a class: students may add the first week of classes for fall, spring and summer without approval of instructor.

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Women’s Basketball will play texas at 2 p.m. at the Lloyd noble Center.

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vide context for the issues surrounding Oklahoma’s education system, allowing Oklahomans to better un-derstand those issues and to better answer the question of how well the system educates kids, Krug said.

“A tenet of journalism is providing information to the people so they can self-gov-ern,” Cook said. “So that’s the whole point. I’ve always val-ued journalism, but I didn’t really understand that value until I met Professor Krug.”

With 1,744 schools in 523 school districts in Oklahoma, there’s no shortage of data to wade through, according to the project’s website. The da-tabase is filled with teacher/student ratios, expenditures per student, administrator contact information and the grades schools receive. All of this must be translated out of obscure, coded spread-sheets put out by the State Department of Education be-fore it can be organized into straightforward data tables anyone can use.

“Our information will only be as good as the original data. It depends on how rig-orous we are to make sure it’s accurate,” Krug said.

In December, Monitor Oklahoma received 501(c3) status from the IRS, but the organization still relies com-pletely on donations from

individuals, according to its website.

All Monitor Oklahoma financial expenditures are documented cent by cent on the website, both to provide transparency and to help other hopeful nonprofits un-derstand the cost of starting an online news organization, Krug said.

Total expenditures from July 2011 to April 2012 total about $7,000. Aside from a total of two donations from individual donors adding up to about $4,200 so far.

“We’ve just paid it our-selves,” Krug said. “We’re n o n -p ro f i t b e c a u s e w e wanted to find a business model that creates jobs for journalists.”

As the dissemination of information increasingly moves from the printed page to the Internet, journalism will be forced to change its business model.

“Good journalism isn’t a commodity, it’s an invest-ment,” Cook said. “What the nonprofit model does is say, ‘you invest in us and we will

provide this service,’ and you can create jobs that way by finding people who want to invest, who want to be a part of it.”

Krug is currently in the process of building the busi-ness model for Monitor Oklahoma, planning to up-load at least one new data set each week, though five or six have already gone up this week, he said.

If there is data related to a school or school district, the goal is to eventually have it all on the site, Krug said.

Eventually, the founders hope to include a “topics” section of the website, Krug said. These will be wiki-style pages defining and explain-ing institutions and terms.

Because the ultimate goal of the project is to edu-cate citizens and stimulate conversation, Krug expects social media will play a role once the project takes off, he said. He has recently started a Monitor Oklahoma Google community, and Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus al-ready have a presence on the site.

“ S o m e p e o p l e d o Instagram or blog - my blog is Monitor Oklahoma,” Krug said. “It’s my hobby. If that can help some people and help them learn, then that’s some good I’ve done.”

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to let King’s service inspire them to serve their own communities, Dixon said.

“I hope that people can re-member Martin Luther King and give back to the com-munity by doing service for every student,” Dixon said.

King’s service to future generations inspires stu-dents as they study pub-lic health at the OU Health Sciences center as well.

“It goes along with our professions as health care providers,” said Darci Bray, OU medical imaging and ra-diation sciences junior. “Just remembering what he stood for and trying to apply that.”

Bray said King ’s work affects her personally be-cause of what her mom went through. Bray’s mom remembers having to sit at the back of the bus with her grandmother when bus seating was segregated by race.

“I feel the importance of trying to understand what he stood for and how it’s affected everybody,” Bray said. After the silent march,

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The Star Spencer High School Blue Feline Danceline perform a dance routine to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.

MLK: Sooners remember King’s societal impactContinued from page 1

participants walked to the third floor lounge of the David L. Boren Union where the Star Spencer High School Blue Feline Danceline recit-ed King’s “I Have a Dream”

speech, each dancer saying one line at a time, finishing in unison with “free at last” and beginning their dance routine. The routine was fol-lowed by an energetic gospel

choir performance and a speech by Honorable Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange.

searching for student volu-neteers to participate in lit-eracy tutoring, nutrition and homework help programs, program manager Chloe Kliewer said.

“We look for volunteers who are committed and

who are good role models,” Kliewer said.

CAC’s Soonerthon chair and vice chair attended the event to promote their March philanthropic event. Previously known as Dance Marathon , the event bene-fits the Children’s Hospital Foundation, event chair John Fraser said.

“It’s not a traditional vol-unteer opportunity, but it’s just as philanthropic as every other volunteer op-portunity because every-thing we do is for the kids,” S o o n e r t h o n v i c e c h a i r Miranda Konowitz said.

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and Black Ball is an alcohol-free semi-formal event that will take place from 8 p.m. unitl midnight Feb. 9 in the oklahoma memorial union’s molly shi Boren Ballroom. the ou Women’s outreach Center is hosting the ball to raise awareness for its local affiliate, susan G. Komen for the Cure, an organization “dedicated to education and research about causes, treatment, and the search for a cure,” according to its site.

Last year, 394 attend-ees raised more than $10,000 at the ball, said K.C. moore, a graduate assistant at the Women’s outreach Center.it will be open to all ou students, faculty, staff and the norman community. there will be a jazz band perfor-mance during for the first hour of the evening, with a disc jockey playing for the remainder of the night.

“We serve heavy hors d’ouevres, mocktails and our ever popular chocolate fountain,” moore said. raffle prizes including a signed ou Bob stoops football, personal training sessions at Huston Huffman, restaurant gift certificates and a spa day will also be given. tickets are on sale for $15 in advance and $20 at the door.

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As a full-time stu-dent, I don’t have all the money

in the world to spend on things. I have to be fru-gal with the little money I’ve earned from my past jobs so that it’ll last me throughout the school year. It’s not like I have the salary of a football coach.

College students have a lot of important things to pay for, but every student deserves to splurge on something fun every once in a while.

College football games fall into the fun category. All college students should have the opportunity of experiencing at least one game, but some students who are tight with money may not be able to afford them.

Student football tickets vary in price; sometimes they are around $25, while others are worth up to $75. The universi-ty puts a lot of attention toward encour-aging Sooner pride but limits student ac-cess to sporting events that are a key part of the student experience.

If student ticket prices decreased, more students could afford to attend a game or two a season.

It is disappointing that prices are so high, espe-cially when a portion of that ticket purchase con-tributes to the exorbitant yearly salary of the foot-ball coach.

The average salary for college football head coaches in America is $1.64 million.

If head coaches get paid millions of dollars per year, students should not have to pay as much for a football ticket. If OU can afford to pay Bob Stoops a rather large salary, the school clearly has the funds available to allow a decrease in tick-et prices.

Some people are not football fans, and they probably couldn’t care less about the price of a ticket because they will never buy one.

But students who do not have season tickets, or those students who work one, two and sometimes even three jobs each semester just to make enough money to pay for tuition, food and other important necessities may be unable to afford a couple of football tickets. It’s not fair to them.

Since students keep the university running, they should be consid-ered and student ticket prices should be lowered.

More times than not, OU football games are completely worth attending, even if just once. In the stadium, the Sooner spirit is so powerful and captivating. It is awesome to see how so many people come to life and cheer throughout the game.

Even if you are not a football fanatic, you should definitely try to experience an OU football game during your time at OU.

Of course, football games are not the only games students should experience at OU. If students can save $5 on a football ticket,

they can use that money elsewhere, like at a men’s basketball game.

The decrease in football ticket costs could give stu-dents the additional oppor-tunity to support more than just one sports team at OU while staying within budget.

Lowering ticket prices for students is not asking too much. If OU paid Stoops a smaller salary and put the available funds toward tick-ets, students could secure a greater opportunity to attend more football games thanks to affordable football tickets.

Students are the key to change. If students demand lower ticket prices, the ath-

letic department will listen. We might not be donors or alumni, but we

cheer and yell the loudest. Use that voice to ask the athletic depart-

ment for lower ticket prices next season.

Alex Niblett is a journalism junior.

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OPINIONFriday, January 18, 2013 • 3

Our View: Norman should continue its tradition of civil rights activism.

Norman has been radically transformed since the 1950s. In that era, the color of your skin determined whether you could buy a house on Chautauqua Avenue or attend Norman High School.

George Henderson joined the OU faculty in 1967 and became the first black person to purchase a house in Norman along with his wife Barbara. While no formal laws prohibited the sale, informal practices previously had segregated black families. He has long been an advocate for diversity.

Despite Norman’s long history of civil rights ac-tivism, we still do not have a large event celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We at OU should pro-mote our own Martin Luther King Jr. Day events that celebrate him and Norman civil rights efforts.

When we remember King, we must remember the world he lived in and look around at the world we live in today. King was more than a civil rights activist, he was a revolutionary. His day ought to be remembered as the beginning, not the end, of greater racial inclusivity in American life.

The struggle for civil rights was nothing new when King became an executive member in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the 1950s. King did, however, bring the concept of peace to the struggle through his leadership in the first nonviolent

protest by African Americans in U.S. history.The bus boycott protests he helped lead in 1956

were the start of an intense struggle for African-American rights. King’s home was bombed and his

life was threatened.But the struggle continued.King worked tirelessly for civil rights causes from

voting to labor until he was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn., while supporting a sani-tation strike.

The story of the civil rights movement is not the story of one man. King’s life gives us a picture of the work and sacrifice of thousands of men and women from all backgrounds who are part of protecting the rights of Americans.

And the struggle continues.Spurred by King’s efforts, activists

since the 1960s have continued to advo-cate for racial equality, and these efforts have incredible impacts.

When giving his famous “I Have a Dream”speech, King did not even dream of having a black president. President Barack Obama would not have been able to vote in some places in the country 60 years ago, but now he is our nation’s most prominent leader, and discussion of President Obama’s election cen-tered on politics, not race.

Many smaller, but no less significant, results of civil rights activism exist. Children from all back-grounds share classrooms and fountains, and there is less stigma associated with interracial couples.

But more work needs to be done, and OU stu-dents are part of this effort. Thursday, OU’s African American Student Association held a silent march at the Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City to raise awareness. Some students from the Norman campus also attended the event.

We applaud students for organizing and

supporting this event, but we would like to see an event on the Norman campus next year.

When asked about the reason for not having any events on campus, the Black Student Association faculty adviser Brandon Oldham said students focus attention on Oklahoma City. He went on to point out that Martin Luther King Jr. Day some-times occurs before classes begin.

We hope in the future students will demonstrate the need for an on-cam-pus event — and for more campus focus on all kinds of activism — by showing their support for the African American Student Association and civil rights or-ganizations of all kinds.

While confined to a jail cell for staging a nonviolent protest in Birmingham, Ala., King wrote, “If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.”

It is not lost on us that King wrote these words in the margins of a newspaper, the only paper he had access to. As we write this semester, we hope to continue on the path of social justice and inclusion King walked on.

Our mountain is not as high as slavery or segre-gation, but we must keep climbing to justice and equality.

If you did not attend the rally on Thursday, it is not too late. Events are happening all weekend, including a parade on Monday in Oklahoma City. After attending an event, please contact the Black Student Association and show your support for an event on campus next year.

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Norman civil rights legacy needs recognition

Last Friday, #WeAreAndiola ignited Twitter,

amassing support for a DREAM Action Coalition (DRM) advocate and un-documented immigrant, Erika Andiola, whose moth-er and brother — both un-documented — were de-tained days before.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) did not ask any questions or present a warrant. The de-tainees didn’t have a crim-inal record, they were just in the country without legal documentation.

Detaining undocument-ed immigrants who do not have criminal records is a strain on U.S. resources and directly violates the Department of Homeland Security’s reforms, which aim to prioritize deporting only those with a criminal record. Social media should continue to serve as a watch dog, enabling communities to quickly share injustices the media and government officials don’t prioritize.

Last week, Phoenix set the stage for protests and outrage from the immigrant rights community, but the injustices spread through Twitter, allowing the entire nation to become involved. A Facebook group was created, complete with a script for those interested in calling ICE to become

involved. Tweets directed others to the address of the Department of Health and Human Services office to support Andiola in her rally. Andiola released a YouTube video, pleading for others to become involved.

This is exactly how social media should be used, but we cannot stop here. Real change only can be realized through legislation at the national level.

This happened after the Obama administration made headlines following the release of 2012 deporta-tion numbers. The ICE de-ported 409,849 immigrants last year, up from 396,906 in 2011. These are record numbers that have gone un-matched since the 1950s.

Though DHS has ad-opted reforms to prioritize deporting immigrants with a criminal record, many of those deported have clean backgrounds. Deporting harmless individuals is counterproductive to the country’s mission to safe-guard the U.S.

The Obama adminis-tration should not strain resources to detain undoc-umented immigrants who aren’t dangerous. This does make the country safer, and it demands an astronomical amount of resources.

If the current administra-tion wants to create a safe country, we should be look-ing at the threat U.S. citizens pose, too. Let’s attend to ed-ucation, social and econom-ic policy before we focus on ridding the country of un-documented immigrants.

Kayley Gillespie is a literature and cultural studies senior.

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PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- You are entitled to have some fun and enjoy yourself, as long as you don’t overindulge or spend too lavishly on your personal pleasures. Both would carry heavy penalties.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Emphasizing only your interests without any concern for those of others will not only turn off everyone, it will lessen your hopes of getting what you want as well.

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Friday, January 18, 2013 • 5

WEEKEND PREVIEW

Women’s basketballWhen: 2 p.m. Saturday at Lloyd Noble Center

Who: Texas

Men’s basketballWhen: 3 p.m. Saturday in Manhattan

Who: No. 16 Kansas State

Women’s gymnasticsWhen: 7 tonight at Lloyd Noble Center

Who: No. 11 Denver

Men’s gymnasticsWhen: 9 p.m. Saturday in Palo Alto, Calif.

What: Stanford Open

WrestlingWhen: 7 tonight in Cedar Falls, Iowa

Who: Northern Iowa

Track and fieldWhen: All day Saturday at Mosier Indoor

What: J.D. Martin Invitational

Women’s tennisWhen: Noon Saturday at Wadley Indoor Pavilion

Who: Wichita State

WrestlingWhen: 2 p.m. Sunday at McCasland Fieldhouse

Who: West Virginia ASTRUD REED/THE DAILY

Junior guard Aaryn Ellenberg drives the baseline against Texas Tech on Saturday. Ellenberg scored 26 in the Sooners’ 65-55 win.

Sooner football is on the rise.Don’t believe me? I don’t blame

you.It’s hard to put a positive spin on the 41-13

drubbing the Sooners suffered at the hands of Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl Classic , especially when you consider OU soundly beat essentially the same team — minus, of course, the Aggies’ Heisman-winning fresh-man quarterback Johnny Manziel — last season, 41-25 .

But as good as Manziel is, his presence alone shouldn’t create a 44-point swing.

So how do you handle such a sour end to an otherwise successful but disappointing season? Relax and look forward to next year.

The knee-jerk reaction is to clean house. Fire everyone. Start anew.

But let’s be real: You don’t fire a coach who’s won 147 games, eight conference titles and a national championship — you give him the benefit of the doubt.

OU isn’t going anywhere. The Sooners are still one of the best programs in the nation, and they’re only going to get better.

Hear me out: There’s no arguing the Sooners lost their fair share of talent, namely the early departures of juniors Kenny Stills and Tony Jefferson and the graduations of quarterback Landry Jones , offensive tack-le Lane Johnson , defensive lineman David King , cornerback Demontre Hurst and punt-er Tress Way .

But OU still returns 14 starters — eight on offense and six on defense — from a team that won 10 games and a conference title.

Perhaps the biggest concern for the 2013 squad will be replacing Jones. But the Sooners will have a stable of productive running backs, a bevy of talented receivers and four-fifths of an offensive line with a year of playing together under its belt to ease the transition of whomever succeeds Jones under center — most likely sophomore Blake Bell , but redshirt freshmen Kendal Thompson and Trevor Knight both have an outside chance of winning the job.

Defensively, there are plenty of question marks: The Sooners will have to retool an already thin defensive line, find some sem-blance of a linebacker corps and replace half of a secondary that was the strength of the defense.

But another year of familiarity with Mike Stoops’ “simplified” defense — which, obvi-ously, wasn’t quite as simple as it was billed, made evident by the excess of timeouts called to make sure everyone understood their “simple” assignments — will bode well for next year’s defense.

So in 2013, OU will boast a more experi-enced offensive line, return a deep backfield and receiving corps, field a defense that bet-ter understands its scheme and introduce a true dual-threat quarterback.

Sounds like a recipe for success.

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sooners on the riseIf Sooner Nation is good at anything,

it’s overreacting when something goes wrong with the football team.

So, here’s a possible overreaction.Things are not looking good for the pro-

gram that is coming off an embarrassing loss against Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl Classic.

Although that one game is not a reason to complain about the team’s possible di-rection, there was enough evidence during the last few games of the season that could hint at some growing pains during the next few seasons.

The most obvious prob-lem facing this Sooner squad is the defense.

In OU’s last five games — against Baylor , West Virginia , Oklahoma State , TCU and Texas A&M — the defense allowed 189 points and 2,675 yards, which defi-nitely are not numbers you want your de-fense allowing as the season progresses.

Although the team went 4-1 during that stretch, it hardly can be proud of what it put on the field those nights. If anyone says so, they’re lying to either themselves or to you.

By the end of the year, players were out of position more than they were in position, and if they were in the right spot, they could not complete the play and make an open-field tackle.

And the fact Tom Wort and Tony Jefferson have declared for the NFL Draft says things may not be great in Soonerland.

They could be jumping ship solely for starting their pro careers and earning a pay-check, or they could have seen what was in store for the defense in 2013 and wanted out.

Although the offense is in a better sit-uation than the defense, it will have to go through a transformation with a new start-ing quarterback under center.

Whether sophomore Blake Bell , redshirt freshman Trevor Knight or a dark horse emerges as the starting quarterback, this of-fense is going to have to go through changes with a focus on its QB’s running abilities.

Also, if college football has taught us anything in terms of of-fense, a program needs to have some form of running game — whether it’s from the running back corps or a running quarterback. Teams that are able to run tend to be playing for national championships.

Just look at former college players like Tim Tebow , Cam Newton and the group of running backs Alabama has produced the last four years: They all have proven a pro-

gram needs to be able to run the ball. OU, on the other hand, has struggled

on the ground since 2008. You can blame the backs, the offensive line or the team’s scheme, but the simple fact is OU has not been much of a running threat since for-mer OU running backs Chris Brown and DeMarco Murray roamed the backfield.

This trend does not seem to be changing anytime soon — the offensive line is built for pass protection, and the primary back has been a revolving door of flavors of the month.

OU fans, you can be concerned about the offense or the defense, but either way, things could get a little rough in 2013. Expect a 2009-esque season rather than a 2010-like year.

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Norman Philharmonic will celebrate its anniver-sary with a spring concert featuring a guest composer Sunday.

The Philharmonic will perform three pieces by guest composer Michael Daughtery at the con-cert, which will start 3 p.m. Sunday at the Nancy O’Brian Performing Arts Center.

Richard Zielinski, artistic and music director for the Philharmonic, said that he talked with several business members of the Norman community about starting a professional chamber orchestra with 25 to 30 players.

“We tried to establish

this orchestra in kind of a nontraditional way,” Zielinksi said. “There wasn’t one here, and we wanted to make it a nationally known chamber orchestra.”

The resulting celebrated orchestra focuses on more classical composers like Bach. Their vision includes establishing an orches-tra, promoting American composers, developing an educational element and getting young people involved in their diverse programming, Zielinski said.

The orchestra will per-form Daugherty’s “Raise the Roof” for timpani and orchestra with timpanist

Lance Drege, “Trail of Tears” for flute and cham-ber orchestra with flautist Valerie Watts and “On the Air.”

“[Daugherty] is one of the most performed American composers cur-rently.” Zielinski said. “He’s not only writing for orches-tra but for band also.”

Zielinski said he thinks the concert has something for everyone.

“It’s for the community of Norman. What we’re trying to establish is an orchestra that’s the people’s orches-tra,” Zielinski said.

Collier McKinnis Life & Arts Reporter

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Above: Dave Mies (left) and Aaron Mullan (right) of alternative rock band Tall Firs will open for Jeff Mangum at a concert this Saturday.

Left: Logo for Children of the Blue Sky, a grassroots foundation that helps abandoned Mongolian children rebuild their lives.

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Show will benefit Mongolian childrenBriana HallLife & Arts Reporter

An upcoming “fuzz” folk concert in Oklahoma City w i l l b enef i t Mong ol ian children.

Jeff Mangum, lead singer of Neutral Milk Hotel, will perform Saturday at The Academy of Contemporary Music at the University o f C e n t r a l O k l a h o m a Performance Lab, according to the OPOLIS website.

For each ticket sold, $1 will go to Children of the Blue Sky, a charity that helps remove poor Mongolian children from the coun-t r y ’s h a r s h s t re e t s a n d conditions.

While the singer has been known to take part in other activism (for example, his involvement in Occupy Wall Street), he has con-sistently been involved in this particular charity, said Martina Radwan, founder of Children of the Blue Sky.

Mangum isn’t the only one who will perform in order to benefit the charity Saturday night.

Tall Firs, a band based out of New York City, has been traveling with and opening for Mangum for a string of shows, which will include the upcoming performance in OKC, said Dave Mies, one of the two members of Tall Firs.

Though Mies described their evolving style of music as derived from “different things at different times,” he said it is always dependent

Norman Philharmonic will host American composer Sunday in celebration of first anniversary

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on “neat places and neat people,” and its depth is rep-resentative of the long-time bond between him and the

other half of Tall Firs, Aaron Mullan.

Mies had nothing but good things to say about his

current tour and Mangum. M a n g u m’s r e l a t i o n -

ship with the charity can be considered somewhat

Eclectic concert to be hosted in OKC

personal, as his wife, a film-maker, at one point worked with Radwan after shoot-ing a separate documenta-ry on children in the streets of Mongolia, Mies said. Mangum has contributed to the charity since its found-ing in 2008, Radwan said.

Go AnD DoJeff Mangum and Tall FirsWhen: 7 p.m. Saturday

Where: ACM@UCO Performance Lab 329 e. Sheridan Avenue, OKC

Info: This show is currently sold out but check social media for updates.

“Instead of throwing money at a charity, I prefer meeting the children...and providing basic necessities.”

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Mies said Mangum’s fans are the most sensitive, com-munity-centered and emo-tionally connected with their music that he has ever seen.

Radwan said the effects of the concert’s monetary contribution to Children of the Blue Sky will undoubt-edly be both immediate and long lasting in the lives of the children considering the resources she will subse-quently be able to provide.

“I use the money to take a series of trips to Mongolia and help the lives of six or seven children,” Radwan said.

She said she has come to know these children per-sonally, as she takes two to four trips every year.

“ In s t e a d o f t h ro w i n g money at a charity, I prefer meeting the children, giv-ing them livestock, an edu-cation, and providing basic necessities,” Radwan said.

Briana Hall [email protected]

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