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Students should enforce policyOpinion: While administrators fail to make a decision on OU’s alcohol policy, students should take charge. (Page 3)

Have a drink at Joe’s Place!Opinion: In light of recent debate on alcohol in the union, a new bar will open to aid students and faculty who want a drink while on campus. (Page 3)

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Senior shortstop Jack Mayfield makes the throw to first on a slow infield grounder. the Sooners won the 10th-inning walk-off win 2-1 on Friday in norman. (Online)

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L&A: Ralph Doty, classics and letters professor, said dressing for-mally encourages his students to take his class seriously. (Page 6)

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Oklahoma’s first-team offensive and defensive line get into their stances during the Red-White spring game Saturday. the White team defeated the Red team 28-24 at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

OU international student groups celebrate diversity

eve OF nAtiOnS SeRviCe DAY

Sooners come together for this year’s Big Event

Students exhibit results of research

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nathan Robertson twirls Lilli Kiehl as they model Western wear for the north American portion of the fashion show kicking off the 2012 eve of nations.

CEDAR FLOYDcampus Reporter

Cultural representatives from at least 80 countries brought the world to OU Friday night, all on a sin-gle platform in Lloyd Noble Center.

T h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l A d v i s o r y C o m m i t t e e ’s 43rd annual Eve of Nations showcased and celebrat-ed the cultural diversity of OU’s international popula-tion through the media of fashion, food, dance and music. The main event was a dance competition be-tween 15 of OU’s cultural student associations.

T h e I n d i a S t u d e n t Association took first place for the fourth year in a row, with the Society of Chinese Students winning the crowd favorite award and coming in s e c o n d , a n d the Society of V i e t n a m e s e Students com-ing in third.

T h e I n d i a S t u d e n t Association’s d a n c e w a s called Sangamam, which means a confluence or an act of merging, said Dhanya

Dharma Rajan, president of the association and com-puter engineering masters student. In India there are

many diverse cultures ; this d a n c e w a s meant to merge t w o o f t h o s e cultures in the f ou r m i nu t e s they had.

“It was amaz-ing, a show full of life, energy

and excitement,” Dharma Rajan said. “It was a tough competition. I was a little bit

scared — I didn’t know if we would win or not.”

T h e A f r i c a n S t u d e n t Association won the award for most active organiza-tion, an award decided by votes from all the cul-tural association presi-dents involved with the Int e r nat i o na l Ad v i s o r y Committee.

“I’m very surprised we won but I’m very excited,” said Jessica Wiah, the as-sociation’s president and e l e m e n t a r y e d u c a t i o n

Dance competition takes center stage

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BENNETT HALLcampus Reporter

Nearly 5,400 volunteers from across the campus com-munity set aside their day to work with the Norman and the surrounding community as part of this year’s annual Big Event.

This year over 5,347 volunteers participated, visiting 159 different schools, churches, non-profit organiza-tions and parks, said Jeff Moseley, Big Event associate chairman.

Over 200 volunteers from organizations such as President’s Community Scholars, GLBTF, Delta Phi Omega sorority and others gathered around 9:45 a.m. at Roosevelt Elementary School in north Norman to take one of Big Event’s largest jobs this year — rejuvenating the garden and outdoor learning area behind the school.

“A couple of years ago, the parents of the school’s stu-dents decided to revitalize the garden and open it for the kid’s exploration and education,” said Kim Gaddie, school parent and job site manager, who also is the man-aging editor of OU’s Social Sciences Quarterly.

After arriving on site, Gaddie explained the history of the outdoor area and what types of projects needed tending. The goal was to prepare and plant areas with different kinds of flowers and trees, construct a func-tioning greenhouse from a kit and prepare a space for next fall’s pumpkin patch, Gaddie said.

The volunteers immediately grabbed rakes, shovels and wheelbarrows and delegated jobs in order to clear the garden paths and plant flowers and trees for the ele-mentary students to study and enjoy.

Engineering sophomore Mustafa Alsaleh worked with his fellow Hasawi Falcons, a group of students from Saudi Arabia, to clear the mounds of fallen leaves from winter and expose the new soil for planting.

Student organizations venture to over 159 sites to give back to the community

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SHELBY GUSKINcampus Reporter

S t u d e n t s g a t h e r e d Saturday to present the results of the research they’d done throughout the semester to an audi-ence of peers and profes-sionals — this year with a new spin.

Eighty-four students made their way in and out of Lissa and Cy Wagner Hall all morning for the event, Undergraduate Research Day, where un-dergraduate students from all academic dis-ciplines come together and show the public what they’ve been working on.

T h e t o p i c s f o r t h e morning ranged from ar-chitecture, to fine arts, exercise science, political science and biology.

In addition to the typ-ical presentations and discussions that compose the event every year, this year’s organizers brought in something new: a post-er presentation portion,

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Disciplines come together

“It was amazing, a show full of

life, energy and excitement.”

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TOdAy ArOUNd CAmpUsA lecture on “Greek Liberty and the spartans” will be given by a candidate to fill the position of rufus Fears from 2 to 3 p.m. in Wagner Hall room 140.

A workshop to help students learn how to use the over 9 million items in the over 137 collections that the Library of Congress has in its American memory website will be held 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Bizzell memorial Library’s Library Instruction room 149d.

TUesdAy, AprIL 16A baseball game against Arkansas-Little rock will take place at 3 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center.

A baseball game against Arkansas-Little rock will take place at 6:30 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center.

A test drive session of library discovery platforms will be held 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Oklahoma memorial Union. Users who complete the “test drive” session will be entered to win an ipad mini, to be given away in may.

A lecture by pamela Olson, author of “Fast Times in palestine,” about if the Two state solution is still viable will be held with lunch from noon to 1 p.m. in dale Hall room 205.

A debate, organized by Andrew porwancher and david Anderson, professors of the presidential dream Course shakespeare’s moot Court, about Constitutional controversies where shakespeare’s plays are the basis of law and reasoning will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. in the College of Law’s dick Bell Courtroom.

A lecture by m.A. Karim, vice president for research at Old dominion University, about the progression of abstract thinking and science over time will be held from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in George Lynn Cross Hall room 123. The lecture is organized by OU’s student Association of Bangladesh.

WedNesdAy, AprIL 17A block party will bring together students and community members to celebrate and learn more about Israel 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the south Oval. Organized by OU Hillel, the Jewish Campus Life Foundation on Campus, the event will include interactive booths, exhibits, displays and activities celebrating Israeli culture and accomplishments.

A meeting of the pre-dental Club will take place at 6 p.m. in dale Hall room 125.

A lecture by Patrick O’Brien, sematic Web research director at montana state University Library, about search engine optimization will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. in Bizzell memorial Library room 339.

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Big event: Students find joy in helping othersContinued from page 1

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Kasey Catlett (left), adult and higher education graduate student, leads other members of gLBtF in building a green house in Roosevelt elementary School as part of the Big event on Saturday.

“ We w a n t e d t o c o m e today to help the commu-nity by being active in it while we’re here for school,” Alsaleh said.

Several students were d raw n to the ha nd s-on proposition of building a greenhouse.

While constructing the frame of the building with her fellow GLBTF mem-bers, public relations senior Candice Janowiak said it’s nice being a student and also being able to help the community for the day, es-pecially when so many dif-ferent organizations can come and work together on projects.

“Kids at the school will think, ‘Wow, this green-house that these college students built is really cool. I want to do things l ike that,’” Janowiak said.

Several members of Delta Phi Omega sorority worked at making pine cone bird feeders and fil l ing cups with seeds and soil so oth-ers could plant them in the newly tilled plots of land.

“Our sorority’s philan-thropy area is children’s education and literacy, so helping out this school hits close to home,” multidisci-plinary studies senior Amita Zaveri said.

By noon, fresh mulch had been laid, the groups had already begun planting fruit trees and beds of flowers and the initial frame of the greenhouse was completed.

“ W e n e v e r h a d a

greenhouse at my school and I’m excited that these l i t t l e k i d s w i l l b e a b l e t o u s e a n d e n j oy o n e,”

mathematics graduate stu-dent Emily Lennox said.

Vo l u n t e e r s t o o k p i c -nic-like breaks for lunch and mingled with one an-other in the sunny spring weather before finishing the day’s work.

“It’s cool that we will have a tangible piece of equip-ment to look at when we are done,” Janowiak said, as her group pieced together the base of the greenhouse, with the window panels fully installed.

Gaddie said the com-bined efforts of the volun-teers that day accomplished all of the preparations for t h e u p c o m i n g g ro w i n g seasons.

“Now we just have to wait

for the fall semester to plant the seeds of the pumpkin patch for the kids,” Gaddie said.

Before the volunteers dis-persed around Norman, OU President David Boren said this annual philanthropy day is all about creating op-portunities for other people and he is thrilled that cam-pus community goes out each year to help places like Roosevelt Elementary.

“There’s something very special about being and learning outside,” Boren said.

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BY THE NUMBERSBig event

5,347

student volunteers

159 job sites

21,388 approximate combined volunteer hours

Source: Jeff Moseley, Big Event associate chairman

junior. “This year [the association] had a lot of diversity. Most years we’ve had a lot of Nigerians, but this year we had Algerians, South Africans, people from Swaziland, Camaroon, Kenya, Ghana and I’m a Liberian, so it was a diverse representation of Africa this year.”

The Eve of Nations is a chance for international stu-dents to share the traditions of their home nations with each other and a more diverse audience than typically attends individual association’s culture nights, said Linh Hoang, president of the Society of Vietnamese Students and interior design junior.

“We want to help IAC with their overall goal of sharing cultures,” she said.

Many international students live thousands of miles away from their homes, families and friends, said Lale Stefkova, one of the event’s MCs and a Spanish literature graduate student, during the event.

“They have the very difficult jobs of being the cultural ambassadors of their countries,” she said.

That’s why the International Advisory Committee is more like a family than a student association, said Nishan Thapa, the committee’s internal vice president and biology junior.

“You come back to it, you never forget about it. It brings people from all cultures and all traditions togeth-er,” he said.

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reCOrd reqUesTsThe Oklahoma Daily regularly asks for access to public information from OU officials. Here is a list of the most-recent requests our reporters have submitted to the university.

Visit OUDaily.com/openrecords for a full list of requestsRequested document and purpose Date requested

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All records related to the amount of money funding the Max Westheimer tower and where the funding is coming from. — To see how much money is going toward the tower

All 990 tax form documents for the last 10 years as it relates to OU Foundation — To see how much OU Foundation pays in taxes

the total cost for the last three years to run the Parking and transportation department — To see how much money goes to the parking and Transportation department

Arecord of all records requested by The Daily since January 1, 2012. — To see which records have been filled.

ReSeARCh: Speakers present on varied topicsContinued from page 1

which attracted over 30 students, including public admin-istration sophomore Wesley Wehde.

Wehde’s board was about the perceptions of university presidents and differences in comprehensive versus re-search universities. At the end of the day, Wehde enjoyed the experience, he said.

“It’s really fun to be creative in an academic way,” Wehde said.

While the poster presentations happened on the sec-ond floor, the traditional speakers presented their research

downstairs. The speakers varied in topic, even within each session.

Shawn Deines, management information systems senior, pre-sented about teamwork. His pre-sentation was focused on how teams work when they’re com-pletely virtual.

His research will be applicable to all OU students, no matter aca-demic discipline, Deines said.

“I think a lot of the courses students take use group work … Regardless of what you do after graduation, you will use group work,” he said.

Madison Easterday, chemical engineering senior, used a PowerPoint to show off the research she’s done this year with engineering arteries.

“I think it went well. Traditionally, I have really bad stage fright, so I hope that didn’t show,” Easterday said.

Shelby Guskin [email protected]

“It’s really fun to be creative

in an academic way.”

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CULtURe: Eve of Nations brings world traditions together

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OU faculty and staff must retake online sexual harassment course by tonight

Today is the last day for faculty and staff to retake the mandatory online sexual harassment training module.

The module is available by going to the sexual miscon-duct website and entering your OU 4x4 and password.

The online training module was updated in early march to accommodate new federal regulations and university policies, according to daily archives. The new module includes the definition of sex discrimination and sexual harassment, among other things.

Paighten Harkins Assistant Campus Editor

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Azka Khawaja represents the Pakistani Student Association during their Pak Masala Fusion dance at the 2012 eve of nations in Lloyd noble Center.

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Our view: Drinking in campus offices is a perfect example for students to show leadership and responsibility.

The inability of OU administrators and the Student Government Association to take any ac-tion to remove the person living and drinking in the Oklahoma Memorial Union sends the wrong message to the student body. Students in resi-dence halls and greek houses are subject to strict scrutiny over the alcohol policy, but Students for a Democratic Society have escaped consequences for their drinking on campus.

Last week we reported Students for a Democratic Society have been housing a homeless person in their organization’s office. The Daily investigated the story be-cause we got a tip there were piles of beer cans and liquor bottles in the office. We went to the office and found the tip was true.

We are sympathetic to the vulnerable situation of the student, but using the office for drinking is disrespectful to the office and the students who pay fees to run the office. SGA should remove the person from the office. Sweeping the prob-lem under the rug does not demonstrate leader-ship. This is a chance for students to demonstrate leadership.

When we asked SGA president Joe Sangirardi about the situation, he said he was upset Students for a Democratic Society put him in a position to kick a student out. He is leaning toward letting the student stay until the end of the semester, when the organization will be out of the office.

We understand his feelings but we still think SGA needs to take action. The decision should not rest solely on Sangirardi, the undergraduate student congress could vote on a resolution to remove the person from the office. The student government’s superior court also could hear ar-guments and rule on the issue. The purpose of having a court and congress is to get students in-volved in the decision. Even if the office conduct is not under congress’ jurisdiction, congress grants the offices to organizations, so congress should have the power to remove the organization.

Other students, especially those living in greek houses and residence halls, have a significant stake in OU’s alcohol policy. Administrators spend significant amounts of time going after alcohol violations in fraternities, sororities and residence halls, but have shown little concern for an individual drinking and living on campus property.

While we agree the offices should be under SGA control, and not under administrative au-thority, it is surprising many administrators we have contacted have been slow to return our calls and emails, often pointing us to the uni-versity’s ambiguous alcohol policy. It seems ad-ministrators are more concerned about busting Greek organizations than addressing alcohol use in their own back yard.

To our knowledge, not one administrator has attempted to investigate the allegations, or con-tacted SGA for more information. We wonder

if they would have been as idle about a report of drinking at a fraternity, or in a residence hall room.

Sangirardi also suggested Students for a Democratic Society should have taken responsibility for the person, “For an or-ganization that’s known to advocate so much, they’re not even advocating for

their own member.”We could not agree more. Despite its words of

concern for homeless in America, the actions of Students for a Democratic Society suggest its concern is not followed with action. Why, if this person was in such a dire situation, didn’t any member allow him to stay on their apartment couch? He easily could have stayed with differ-ent members for weeks at a time. It seems some members of the organization cared only enough to pawn him off on the union.

Also, the condition of the office shows mem-bers of Students for a Democratic Society had little respect for the place where the organization was housing someone for free.

We would be much more sympathetic if the or-ganization had not been so careless with its alco-hol use. It’s like asking to stay at a friend’s place for the weekend and then trashing the place.

If the person had been respectably living in the office all semester, we would have never found out about it. It was the drinking that tipped off The Daily to the student’s presence.

Students have a unique opportunity to demon-strate leadership and respect for the space we occupy in the union. One way or the other, the problem will be resolved at the end of the semes-ter, but what SGA does between now and then will be a testament to leadership or apathy. Let’s use the time we have left show students can suc-ceed where administrators and OU policy have failed.

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While many soldiers are able to adjust back to their original life-styles after war, others aren’t as

fortunate. Many veterans develop mental health issues after returning from war, pre-venting them from holding a regular job and functioning on a normal level in society.

The mental trauma can result in home-lessness or suicidal intentions because many cannot afford counseling. The num-bers are staggering; these veterans need our help.

The Department of Veterans Affairs released a news re-port in February containing a study of veteran suicides from 1999 to 2010. It concludes an estimated 22 veterans in the U.S. committed suicide everyday in 2010. That’s 22 too many.

Aside from suicides, 62,619 veterans were homeless on a single night in 2012, according to Volume I of the 2012 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress.

“Homelessness among veterans has declined by 7.2 per-cent since 2011 and by 17.2 percent since 2009,” according to the report. The decline is wonderful, but with more sup-port and donations to organizations that help homeless vet-erans, we can secure a decline of homeless veterans by 2014.

Various organizations across the U.S. help homeless vet-erans on a daily basis. One of these organizations, Veterans Inc. has successfully transitioned 85% of its veterans out of

homelessness, one of the highest rates in the nation, said Amanda Riik, public relations and outreach manager.

This private nonprofit organization pro-vides veterans with housing assistance, peer support groups, career counseling, sub-stance abuse treatment, food, clothes and more, thanks to volunteers and donations, Riik said.

“All donations are accepted and can add up to help our veterans,” Riik said. “We have helped more than 50,000 veterans and their

families in the last 23 years.”I’ve heard stories in the past about soldiers never being

the same after they returned home from war, but I never considered learning more about them until last year, when an experience gave me a new perspective.

Last year, I worked at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. Before my work shifts ended, I would stand outside with the guests every night and watch “Wishes,” Disney’s firework display at Magic Kingdom.

There was one night I was working I will never forget. It wasn’t magical, but it was eye opening.

Among that night’s crowd of anxious guests awaiting the fireworks spectacle, was a couple and their daughter. They had never been to Disney World, and this was their first time experiencing “Wishes,” they said.

The castle lit up in a display of kaleidoscopic patterns; the

music played, and the show began. The first firework burst into flashes of fluorescent colors and a loud boom echoed throughout the sky. All of a sudden, the man dramatically ducked as if bombs were going off. It startled those around him, and he eventually got up and apologized.

He explained that the sounds of the fireworks took him on a mental trip back in time to Afghanistan, a few years ago. While in Afghanistan, he was surrounded with bombs, and he has since been unsuccessful in shaking off the associa-tion with war and loud noises.

It made me incredibly sad to see this young dad who will-ingly went to war to fight for his country, unable to ignore the psychological trauma even in the happiest place on Earth.

Like him, many veterans end up becoming prisoners of their own memories of war and cannot always move on right away. Homeless or not, it is evident that war causes un-desired psychological trauma for many veterans, and they deserve our attention. Freedom comes at a cost, and thanks to the brave women and men who willingly defend our country to protect our rights, we can continue to feel secure.

Please keep our homeless veterans in mind, and donate if you can. They risked their lives to save ours, so I think it’s fair to return the favor and help save theirs.

To all the veterans out there, thank you.

Alex Niblett is a journalism junior.

There’s a party in Oklahoma Memorial Union

and everyone is invited. In light of the administra-tion’s inability to articulate the alcohol policy as it relates to student’s offic-es in the union, Student Government Association President Joe Sangirardi has announced plans to open Joe’s Place, a full service bar and flop house for weary students.

As we reported Friday, school administrators have been unable to demonstrate how OU policy prohibits alcohol use in student organization offices in the union. The lack of a clear alcohol policy opened the door for Sangirardi’s idea to use the offices as a bar.

“It just seemed like the next logical step,” Sangirardi said. “Why not have a place for students to come and drink on campus?”

When asked about the potential for drinking and driv-ing, Sangirardi said students could sleep at the offices, at least until the end of the semester or when they sober up, whichever comes first.

The OU administrators were initially concerned about the proposal, but they came around when Sangirardi explained that school employees could drink for free during happy hour.

As soon a President David Boren heard the news, he broke out his OU-themed beer hat and headed to the union. He hasn’t been seen since.

Student organizations can’t technically sponsor events where there is drinking, so student groups can’t invite you to Joe’s Place for a few beers after class, but as long as you are invited by an individual and not an organization, you are good to go.

At the new establishment, security will be a big con-cern. Of course, only students and staff who are over 21 will be allowed to enter. Luckily, Sangirardi has recruited OU offensive lineman Derek Farniok to be a bouncer and run the door.

Joe’s Place will have music, karaoke and daily specials. There are even plans to put in a kitchen and offer bar snacks. Until then, Sangirardi will be installing an eleva-tor system to bring in food from Crossroads Restaurant.

Sangirardi wasted no time in putting the project to-gether. “Once I heard drinking in students offices wasn’t against the rules, I worked night and day on Joe’s Place,” Sangirardi said.

The entire campus has gotten behind the effort. Students have donated dozens of half-drunk bottle of liquor and tons of cases of Natural Ice and Pabst beer along with couches, tables and chairs.

Joe’s Place might bear Sangirardi’s name, but it really belongs to the student body.

The bar will officially open Tuesday, but you can get a sneak preview if you stop by the student organization offices in the union after 4 p.m. today. So come join us for a drink or 10 at Joe’s Place. It’s not against the rules if no one stops you.

Mark Brockway is a political science senior.

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THUMBS UP: Professor Ralph Doty is the fashion leader in the classics and letters department. Doty’s bow ties set the standard for cool, and show students he’s serious. (Page 6)

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ANALYSIS

Metoyer, Finch poised for breakout seasons — again

JULIA NELSONSports Reporter

Sophomore receiver Trey Metoyer and senior running back Roy Finch have set themselves up to have mon-ster seasons come August.

Again.This is a story we’ve all

seen before. Metoyer lit up the field in last year’s spring game as a true freshman, and fans hoped he would be just as electrifying during the season. But he struggled early and eventually lost the starting job after four games.

Finch looked to step into a bigger role after DeMarco Murray’s departure left the running back position up for grabs. Finch showed flashes of greatness, but his off-the-field habits led the coaches to sit him on the bench.

So here comes the déjà vu. Metoyer struggled early in the Red-White spring game Saturday, but after a few drops, he found his foot-ing. Averaging 20.3 yards a catch, he led the receiving corps with six catches for 122 yards.

Finch gained 20 yards on eight carries, but more im-portantly, he caught four passes for 73 yards and a touchdown.

For both, it looked like they finally put together all the pieces.

“I said this a year ago: If he is going to read the headlines and see what

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Senior running back Roy Finch strolls into the end zone after catching a pass from junior quarterback Blake Bell and racing 49-yards for a touchdown in the Red-White spring game Saturday. Finch caught four passes for 73 yards and rushed for 20 yards on eight carries.

the people are saying right now he won’t be prepared when the fall comes,” said co-offensive coordinator Josh Heupel of Metoyer. “Ultimately, you have to prepare and work ever y day to g ive yours el f a n opportunity.

“I’m not saying he didn’t do that a year ago; a year ago he was a true freshman. There is a lot of football you have to learn.”

And it looks like Metoyer has learned. After redshirt f r e s h m a n q u a r t e r b a c k Trevor Knight fumbled on the goal line, he came out on his next possession and con-nected with Metoyer. After that series, both Metoyer and Knight looked signifi-cantly more comfortable.

“I needed that drive obvi-ously for confidence and ev-erything,” Knight said. “I felt more comfortable through-out the day and that’s ob-vious. The more reps, the more comfortable you feel.”

“Those guys outside are going to make big plays for you. They’re all making plays for us, they’re doing a good job.”

Fi n c h h a s t a k e n t h i s off-season to take a step back and mature.

“Roy is more reliable be-cause of what he has been able to do on a consis-tent basis in January and February during the off-season,” Heupel said. “He’s doing what we ask him to do in the meeting room, on the practice field, in the weight room and in the classroom. He’s maturing as a person.

For you to play at a high level, you have to be mature as an individual. He’s doing a lot of things in a right way that give you hope that he’ll be able to give you more than he did a year ago.”

So now we wait. There’s one more spring practice left, but after that the team is done until summer work-outs. If Metoyer and Finch want to l ive up to their

potential, it will be up to them.

Their performances on S a t u rd a y s h o w e d w h a t they’re capable of, but we already knew that. Come August, they will decide if they want to show the same old story, of if they want to add a new chapter.

Julia [email protected]

WHO’S NEXT?WHO’S NEXT?OUDaily.com ›› Spring FootballFor a position-by-position breakdown of the Sooners’ question-mark positions, go online and check out Julia Nelson’s Red-White game analysis.

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WHO’S NEXT?WHO’S NEXT?Jono Greco

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ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Sooner fans should take the annual Red-White spring

game with a grain of salt, but they should be encouraged by what they saw from all three quarterbacks Saturday at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

Junior Blake Bell, soph-omore Kendal Thompson and redshirt freshman Trevor Knight each had their moments to make a case for the open starting quarter-back position.

But it was Bell — who has attempted 20 passes in his

two years of service — who was the clear choice as the front-runner for starting quarterback in 2013.

The mobile quarterback — whose “Belldozer” nick-name may lose some of its value because he proved during the spring game he can throw the ball — made short throws, long throws and throws to both the out-side and slot receivers. He did all this while still being able to pick up a few yards on the ground on both de-signed and impromptu runs.

“All I’ve done is run around here, and I just kind of want to show everyone I can sling it, too,” Bell said. “It’s good knowing you have different options.”

Bell completed 14-of-23 passes for 213 yards and tossed two touchdowns — including a 49-yard touch-down to speedy senior running back Roy Finch

— without really coming too close to throwing an interception.

Thompson and Knight held their own and showed they could run this offense once they matured, and they could see some playing time this season.

But that possibility is far from being set in stone.

“As in the past when we’ve been in these situations, we give it time to play out,” coach Bob Stoops said. “Sometimes younger play-ers who haven’t been on the field as much need the sum-mer and snaps in the sum-mer to have an opportunity to catch up.

“Generally you’d like to have more than one (quar-terback) that you feel you can win with, so it’ll help the other guys develop.”

The two what-looks-to-be backup quarterbacks combined to complete 59

percent of their passes with two touchdowns — one each — and no interceptions Saturday, although Knight came close to throwing one on a fourth-and-short situation.

The only truly bad mo-ment for any OU quarter-back came when Knight fumbled a snap out of the shotgun on his own two-yard line. The fumble result-ed in a touchdown return for sophomore linebacker Frank Shannon.

Otherwise, Sooner fans should be happy with what they saw in the latest edition of OU’s quarterback com-petition and can make a few assumptions about the quarterback situation.

First, Bell should be the starter. He looked the most poised in the pocket and in sync with the offense.

Second, Thompson should be the backup. He

made most of the passes he should have but not enough to be given the starting role.

Third, Knight should be third string. He was the only one who made a mistake that could actually cost the Sooners a game — see for-mer OU quarterback Landry Jones’ fumble against Kansas State last season.

Finally, all three of these quarterbacks add dimen-sions to an offense that in the past made people hold their breath when the quar-terback left the pocket.

But the starting quar-terback situation was not solved during the Red-White spring game. There are still 137 days until opening kickoff against Louisiana-Monroe on Aug. 31, and co-offensive coordi-nator Josh Heupel may have summed up the unfolding competition as succinctly and politically as any coach

could.“When somebody’s

earned it, then that’s when we’ll name the guy,” Heupel said.

He said that quote twice to prove a point; and Bell, Thompson and Knight un-derstand that point while being more than happy to be duking it out for the next few months.

“We’re around each other — shoot — seems like 24 hours a day, but we have fun with it,” Bell said. “We know we’re competing — you’re going to compete anywhere you go against anybody at any school in the country — so we’ve got three good guys just competing and having fun with it.”

Jono Greco is a journalism graduate student and assistant sports editor at The Daily.

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It ’s spr ing, and the world is coming back to life. The grass is green-

er, the flowers are blooming and the creatures are begin-ning to reappear. Being a man of whimsy, I take par-ticular interest in the but-terflies’ return, for nothing says spring like their color-ful wings.

For those of us who fre-quent Carnegie Hall, this taste of spring can be found year-round on the neck of one of its most distinctive residents, a man who often can be found wearing the noeud papillon, the farfall-ino, the pajarita — the bow tie.

Ralph Doty, classics and letters professor, is a charm-ing man. Known for his well-cut suits, his classic hats and of course his showy bow ties, you would be hard-pressed to find his dress anything short of impeccable. This, paired with his dry wit and polite manner, quickly gives the impression of a classic southern gentleman.

A self-proclaimed “Okie,” Doty was born in Sapulpa and raised in Oklahoma City. He attended OU for his undergraduate work and then attained his doctoral

in philosophy at Columbia University. After graduat-ing, he taught high school for about 10 years during the recession of the 1970s until he gained a professorship in OU’s classics department.

Doty’s first class as an OU professor was classical my-thology, which was previ-ously taught by a notorious-ly easy professor. As such, he said his class was full of students expecting sim-ple assignments and little substance.

For a man who cared a b o u t t h e s u b j e c t s h e taught, this just wouldn’t do. Doty made sure stu-dents knew on the first day of classes that he meant to teach a real class with real content. On the second day, he found the entire back row had “mysteriously van-ished.” However, not every-thing he did to convince his students to take classics was overt.

“I discovered that dress-ing formally intimidated my

students and encouraged them to take my class more seriously,” Doty said.

As it turns out, he was right. Today, a number of his past students are now his colleagues in the clas-sics department. One of these is department chair-man Samuel Huskey, who believes Doty influenced his students to dress well, in addition to fostering their interest in the subjects he taught.

“O n e o f t h e re a s o n s

people dress well in the clas-sics department is that Dr. Doty set the standard years ago,” Huskey said.

In fact, Huskey’s first im-pression of Doty has stuck with him to this day. During his freshman year, he was disappointed in his classes until Doty walked in, wear-ing a blue and white seer-sucker suit and his Phi Beta Kappa Society key.

“This is what a professor should look like,” Huskey said, describing the first

time he saw Doty.Ironically, from Doty’s

whimsical style of dress, sprang his pragmatic view of clothing. Few people on campus dress with more flair; it’s as if he has leapt from the pages of a book. Felted fedoras, seersuck-er suits, waistcoats, boater hats and plenty of pastels and jewel tones have their places in his wardrobe.

However, his signature bow ties are easily the best examples of his practical use of fanciful dress. Doty’s ex-planation for why he wears them is simple.

“ I l ive in O klahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain, and I really don’t like getting slapped in the face,” Doty said.

Yet, the variety of his ties belays his implication of simple practicality. Every day brings the appearance of a new bow tie, each more playful than the next; and students have taken note.

“They make everything he’s wearing seem more interesting,” Latin junior Anthony Vogt said.

And no wonder, consid-ering the colors he choos-es. Patterns of pinks, blues, reds and yellows cycle from day to day, as if beneath his wry smile he wears a flower, enticing the splendid but-terflies of spring to stay and spend all year with this gen-tleman professor.

Buck Roberson is a classical languages junior.

RYAN BOYCE/THE DAILY

Ralph Doty, classics and letters professor, sports a patterend bow tie — one of his wardrobe staples.

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