for the rest of my life,” said Susan Sasso, associate vice president for OU Student Affairs.

Sasso, then the director of Student Publications, was in a meeting when news of the bombing broke.

“My husband was a federal employee,” Sasso said. “And they said ‘There’s been a bombing at a federal building in Oklahoma City — where’s [my husband] Abe?’”

Fortunately, Sasso’s husband was out of town at the time of the bombing, but a woman with whom he worked lost children

in the explosion, Sasso said.“There was almost an as-

sumption that everybody knew somebody [who was affected by the bombing],” Sasso said.

Austin-American Statesman reporter Omar Gallaga, who was an OU sophomore the year of the bombing, was at a meeting of OU’s Board of Regents when the news broke, and witnessed OU president David Boren’s re-action firsthand.

“Somebody came over and whispered in his ear and they had a discussion,” Gallaga said. “And the meeting adjourned

after that. I don’t think [Boren] made an announcement then.”

At the time, nobody knew the nature of the explosion, Gallaga said. People speculated that it was a gas explosion, or per-haps an attack by international terrorists.

“People were so quick to pin this on international terrorists,” Sasso said. “And yet, this was somebody from within the U.S. [so] I think that was an import-ant lesson.”

Gallaga visited the site the day after the explosion, he said.

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Memorial honors fallen soldiersExhibit in Armory celebrates lives of Oklahoma soldiersMATTHEW NELSONStaff Reporter

OU’s Reserve Officer Training Corps will hold a special memo-rial service to honor fallen heroes early next week.

A memorial display in honor of

our fallen soldiers will be be on display for the public to visit and pay their respects, said Lieutenant Colonel Kyle Brede, professor of military service at OU.

The exhibit will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on April 20 to 23rd at the Army side of the OU Armory, Brede said. The Armory is locat-ed between the football stadium and Michael F. Price College of Business.

The on-campus memorial will

honor all Oklahoma residents who have fallen in combat since September 11, 2001, Brede said. A total of 122 heroes’ names will be on display, Brede said.

The display is approximately 50 feet long and is currently located at Fort Sill, Brede said. Soldiers from Fort Sill will come to prepare the display this weekend.

Many of the soldiers being honored came from the Moore, Norman, and Oklahoma City

areas, including First Lieutenant David T. Wright, who graduated from OU in 2006 and was killed in Afghanistan in 2009, Brede said.

A p e r ma n e nt m e m o r i a l i n honor of Wright is also on display in the OU ROTC Armory, Brede said.

It is important for everyone on campus to recognize the lives lost and understand the true cost of our freedom, Brede said. The OU community should also

respect the individual sacrifices of all the names on the wall from Oklahoma, Brede said.

The event is free and everyone is encouraged to attend, Brede said.

Matthew Nelson,matt.nelson@ou.edu

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Thousands of search and rescue crews work through the destruction of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. More than 600 people were injured in the April 19, 1995 attack and 168 people were killed. Timothy McVeigh, the bomber, was executed in 2001, and Terry Nichols, an accomplice, is serving multiple life sentences on federal and state convictions for their convictions in the bombing.

Sooners reflect on OKC bombingMurrah bombing anniversary invokes strong memories

OU to present showcase featuring social entrepreneurs

OU lends helping handsCloser to Earth helps at-risk teens grow, develop

DAISY CREAGERStaff Reporter@daisycreager

For many people, going green simply means using less paper and recycling more. But to teenag-ers involved in Closer to Earth, it’s much more than that.

Started in 2007 by Allen Parlier, Closer to Earth Youth Gardens is a youth group in Oklahoma City that works primarily with 13- to 18-year-olds serving school or court mandated community ser-vice, Parlier said.

“[This is a] small group of mar-ginalized teenagers who are hav-ing a big effect on their communi-ty and the city as a whole,” Parlier said.

Parlier said he got the idea for the nonprofit organization when he worked with students from Harding Fine Arts Academy who had been to court in the early 2000s.

“I saw that it had a significant difference in their lives once they got exposed to growing their own food and organic compost, but we didn’t have a very long term rela-tionship because once their sen-tence ended or their hours were done, they would stop,” Parlier said.

Parlier said he wanted to cre-ate something that would show that at-risk teenagers are capable of being productive and talented while also experiencing and learn-ing leadership skills.

Key speakers to discuss relevance of social work

ERIN DONNELLYStaff Reporter@erindonnelly_03

The Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth will hold its 2015 Social Entrepreneur Showcase on Wednesday, April 22.

T h e s h o w c a s e , t i t l e d “Oklahoma Goes Global,” is one of the state’s largest annual events focusing on Oklahoma’s global impact and the trends that shape the future of the field.

Leadership fellow Jeremiah Gentle said the event’s goal is “to promote social activism and so-cial development.”

The event will feature a se-ries of short talks from local so-cial entrepreneurs, as well as a panel discussion and Q&A with the speakers. The members of the panel are diverse with differ-ent backgrounds, but are all from Oklahoma, Gentle said.

“It’s really about bringing it back home and showing how Oklahoma has a global effect,” Gentle said.

Key speakers of the showcase include Dr. P. Lloyd Hildebrand, global eye care provider; Tara and Chad Jordan, co-found-ers of Arrow Global Capital; Ray Sanders, CEO of Water4; Tim Bickers, co-founder of Emerging Ideas; and Jonathon Button and Quinn Vandenberg, co-founders of Life Out of the Box.

“This is the first social entre-preneurship showcase of this caliber,” Gentle said. “I think it will be good for students to hear from Oklahomans who have im-plemented significant change around the world.”

The showcase is free and will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Zarrow Hall School of Social Work. The event is available to students and non-students alike.

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Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth student interns Tahira Taqi, Cole Jackson, John Warden and Bryce Hermsen present the industry applications of Galfenol, a material that could improve the wireless sensing capabilities of businesses in oil markets, on Tuesday, April 2, 2014. The team, along with five others, has been work-ing throughout the semester to develop their business model as part of an intern program supported by CCEW.

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Twenty years ago, 168 people died in Oklahoma City.

In the deadliest act of do-mestic terrorism in U.S. histo-ry, a homemade truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995.

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OU team creates new molecule

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Professor James Shaffer shows third year physics graduate student Jin Yang the new laser system Friday afternoon in Nielsen Hall.

Researchers are hopeful after first set of results arriveJESSE POUNDStaff Reporter @jesserpound

An OU physicist is lead-ing a research team that has created a new molecule, resulting in an article in Science magazine and a pos-sible pathway to quantum computers.

James Shaffer, a profes-sor of atomic, molecular and optical physics, led a team that included Hossein Sadeghpour of Har vard University, Seth Rittenhouse, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Western Washington University and OU graduate students Don Booth and Jin Yang.

The OU members focused on research, while the peo-ple from the outside helped develop the theories behind the results, Shaffer said.

“We can do our own theory here, but it’s nicer if we don’t have to do as much work,”

Shaffer said.The team has worked on

this project for a year and a half and in the field for about four years, Shaffer said.

The team synthesized mol-ecules in the lab from cesium atoms that were extremely susceptible to electric fields thanks to their large dipole moments.

A dipole moment is de-termined by the size of two charges and the distance between them, Shaffer said. Larger dipole moments are more susceptible to electric fields and the dipole mo-ments created in these exper-iments were extremely large, Shaffer said.

The molecules were cre-ated using lasers and atoms kept at a temperature barely above absolute zero, Shaffer said.

A lot of the proposals for quantum computers, which would allow scientists to solve unsolvable problems and break unbreakable codes, are based on the in-teractions between dipoles, Shaffer said.

Rittenhouse said Shaffer

and his team should be praised for refining their ex-periment so that there were not extra electric fields ma-nipulating the dipole.

Rittenhouse said that he heard Shaffer speak at a

conference about the project and offered to help out.

“This is kind of a natural extension of the collabora-tions we had already been working on,” Rittenhouse said.

Rittenhouse said that he knew the researchers were on to something as soon as Shaffer’s first set of results came in.

That said, people should not expect to use quantum

computers anytime soon, Shaffer said.

“I wouldn’t anticipate that being a near-term thing,” Shaffer said.

Group hosts fundraiser to help OU clubOU Botanical Society raises over $2,000 at plant saleSUPRIYA SRIDHARStaff Reporter @SupriyaSridhar4

The OU Botanical Society raised a total of $2,834 at its annual plant sale last Friday to support the society, said v i c e p re s i d e nt C l au d i a Hoffman.

The fundraiser, which took place in the OU green-house, raised money to help members of the OU Botany Club fund trips and speak-ers, said Carly Godwin, club president and senior botany major.

“ We s t a r t e d i n a b o u t November and we propa-gated a lot of plants — which is kind of a fancy term for when you take a cutting of a plant and put a rooting hor-mone on it and it turns into a new plant,” said Godwin.

Students from all over c a m p u s w e r e d i r e c t e d through the greenhouse’s aisles to pick out plants for purchase. Some of the plants available included catnip, zinnia, zebrina, pan-sies, columbine, Chinese

lanterns, hanging spider plants, oregano, marigolds, tomatoes, impatiens, basil, cone flowers, peppers, dai-sies and cleome.

Geology junior Alex Lay decided to buy catnip thanks to its close relationship with mint.

“I really love mint,” Lay said. “I actually collect dif-ferent types of mint which is really nerdy as far as plants go.”

This year had a large turn-out, said Godwin, whose fa-vorite plant at the sale was aloe.

“I took a botany class once and I think I’m a plant con-noisseur, so every time I see an opportunity to check out plants I plan on doing it,” said Joey D’Amato, broad-cast and electronic media junior.

Many of the seeds, pots and supplies were donat-ed by Home Depot, where Godwin works. The sale usually happens outdoors, but was moved indoors due to weather concerns.

“I think there’s a lot of love for plants,” said society member Ryan Grubis.

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Architecture senior Annie Kientz and political science sophomore Katie Kientz pick out a plant at the Oklahoma Botanical Society’s plant sale Friday afternoon. The profits from the sale will be used to fund a new greenhouse for OU students.

Building to be renamed in honor of university presidentHester Hall to be named for Boren after retirement

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Dean of the College of International Studies, Suzette Grillot, gives OU President David Boren a framed picture of David L. Boren Lounge in Hester Hall and announced that once he retires, the College of International Studies will be dedicated to him.

KATE BERGUMAssistant News Reporter @kateclaire_b

When OU President David Boren decides to retire he will leave with not only a lasting legacy but a campus building named in honor of him.

H e s t e r H a l l , h o m e o f t h e C o l l e g e o f I n t e r n a t i o n a l A r e a Studies, recently under-went $14 million in ren-ovations that were re-vealed last Friday.

At the reveal ceremony, leaders such as Suzette Grillot, the dean of the college, thanked a few fig-ures who helped the col-lege’s growth throughout the past 20 years.

One figure mentioned was Boren himself, who will be the namesake of the col-lege upon his retirement, Grillot said. Throughout his time at OU, Boren has been instrumental in promoting a global community and fostering international pro-grams, Grillot said.

D e s p i t e t h e p e n d i n g honor, Boren is not plan-ning on retiring any time soon, he said.

“As long as I can creak along, I want to keep doing that,” Boren said.

Boren also named other l e a d e r s i n t h e s u c c e s s of the college, including Edward Perkins, who fought

Apartheid in South Africa, and Millie Audas, who per-sistently encouraged Boren to fight for international programs, Boren said.

Rooms throughout the renovate d bui lding are named for people such as Perkins, Audas and Grillot, as well as other donors and leaders, Boren said.

“ T h i s b u i l d i n g i s t h e house of this college, and this college has been flour-ishing,” Boren said.

Senior Anna Searcey, who has studied abroad in Arezzo, Turkey and France, also spoke about her expe-riences with the College of International Area Studies.

“As a student, I’m excited to have a physical space that encourages the exchange of ideas,” Searcey said.

Spending time in the col-lege has helped Searcey, who will attend law school for international rights law, understand her passion for international issues, she said.

At the ceremony, Boren stressed the importance of global education in an in-creasingly global world.

“You simply cannot be an educated person today without understanding the world around us,” Boren said.

Boren hopes one day, at least 50 percent of OU stu-dents will study abroad, he said.

“This building is the house of this college, and this college has been flourishing,”

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Trophy given to reward SoonersOU organizations recognized for outstanding workERIN DONNELLYStaff Reporter @erindonnelly_03

Individual students, fra-ternities, sororities, and housing centers won high honors and the approval of OU President David Boren Thursday.

The President’s Trophy was presented Thursday to the outstanding fraternity, sorority, housing center and two commuter students, ac-cording to a university press release.

The awards were granted on the basis of overall excel-lence in academics, campus activities, volunteerism and multicultural participation, according to the release.

D av i d a n d M o l l y S h i Boren created the award in 1995 to encourage students to strive for higher academic and personal standards, ac-cording to the release.

“President Boren started the award to inspire orga-nizations on campus and to reward them for all the good work they’ve done throughout the year,” said Corbin Wallace, university spokesperson.

The competitive selection process consisted of each organization turning in an application, Wallace said. A

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Members of Sigma Phi Epsilon receive the President’s Trophy in the fraternity category at the award ceremony Thursday.

committee of faculty, staff, students and the Borens as well then chose a run-ner-up and winner for each category.

Winners of individual cat-egories of academics, cam-pus activities, volunteerism and multicultural partici-pation were given a prize of $250, according to the release.

The housing, fraterni-ty and sorority runners-up f o r P r e s i d e n t ’s t r o p h y were granted $500. The President’s Trophy out-standing commuter student winners, Jeremy Allen and Emmanuelle Chiocca, won $500 as well as a trophy, ac-cording to the press release.

The first-place fraternity winner, Sigma Phi Epsilon,

first-place sorority win-ner, Delta Delta Delta, and first-place housing win-ner, Walker Center, each received $5,000 and a tro-phy, according to the press release.

“It is a tremendous honor to receive the President’s Trophy as an organization or as an individual,” Wallace said.

“President Boren started the award to inspire organizations on campus and to reward them for all the good work they’ve done throughout the

year.”CORBIN WALLACE,

UNIVERSITY SPOKESPERSON

MONDAY, APRIL 20:UPB Mid-Day Music Festival:

OU musician Joan will perform during lunchtime for stu-dents and people that are around from noon to 1 p.m., in the Will Rogers Food Court in the Oklahoma Memorial Union.

GLORIA NOBLEL&A Reporter

When the semester begins to wind down, so do the amount of events that are occurring on and around cam-pus, but there’s still some stuff you can go out and do when you need a break from all your studying.

Spanish Conversation Hour:Practice your Spanish speaking skills with Armando

Garcia, Director of the University of Oklahoma in Puebla from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., in Kaufman Hall Room 230.

OU Symphony Band and Concert Band:This concert is part of the the Sutton Concert Series from

8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the Catlett Music Center. Tickets are $9 adults, $5 for students and $10 for senior adults.

TUESDAY, APRIL 21:Tuesday Noon Concerts:

During lunch, enjoy 30 minute concerts performed by OU students and faculty from noon to 12:30 p.m., in the Sandy Bell Gallery.

Tuesday Tea:This gives students the weekly opportunity to with

Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education students, facul-ty and staff members from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the lobby of Collings Hall.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22: Stress Management:

Nichole Kendrick in Freshman Programs holds a work-shop as part of the Student Success Series from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., in Wagner Hall Room 250.

“It didn’t look real, like something from a movie,” Gallaga said. “It was very hard to process.”

Sasso said she worried about how her children, 10 and 14 years old at the time of the bombing, processed the news.

“Did I help them process this the way I should have?” Sasso said. “I thought it was too much for them to cope with and understand in that point in their lives.”

Now, 20 years later, many undergraduates were not even alive during the bomb-ing, leaving those who expe-rienced it feeling an obliga-tion to keep the memory of the attack alive.

“It’s like Pearl Harbor,” said Jack Willis, a retired journal-ism professor. “People don’t think about that very much, but really you have to think

String Area Student Chamber Music Recital:The performance will be in Catlett Music Center and ad-

mission will be free. The show goes from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Pitman Recital Hall.

THURSDAY, APRIL 23:Opera Scenes II:

The School of Music presents Opera Scenes II from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., in Pitman Recital Hall and admission will be free.

Few OU events remain near end of semester

ANNIVERSARY: Attack illustrates fragility of lifeContinued from Page One

about it. It’s the world we live in now.”

In spite of its tragedy, the bombing taught people to not racially profile events, Gallaga said. A prominent rumor following the at-tack blamed it on Islamic

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Former President Bill Clinton speaks during a remembrance ceremony, Sunday, April 19 at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum in Oklahoma City.

militants and was eventually proven false, Gallaga said.

The attack ult imately helped people remember how precious life is and the privileges of living in the U.S., Sasso said.

“What we experienced,

what was a nightmare to us, happens around the world every single day,” Sasso said.

Mike Brestovansky mcbrestov@gmail.com

EARTH: Teens lead volunteers, show leadershipContinued from Page One

Many of the teenagers who volunteer usually have rough home lives and are often couchsurfing to find a place to sleep, Parlier said.

“Teenagers that are grow-ing up in that culture are ig-nored or avoided so schools end up being school-to-pris-on pipelines for students of color,” Parlier said. “Schools don’t know how to deal with them, so there’s not a whole lot of opportunity for stu-dents who are not making the best choices to move in a better direction.”

Students who are involved learn how to be more envi-ronmentally aware as well as create bonds with volun-teers and other teenagers who are good role models, according to the website.

“They get to learn real quickly how to have an in-fluence on making healthier choices for themselves, their friends and their communi-ty,” Parlier said. “We teach them to have respect for ourselves and for nature and each other.”

OU students and other community groups often volunteer with the organi-zation, providing teenagers a chance to give tours and teach them how to do jobs on site, Parlier said.

Members of OU’s chapter

of Alpha Phi Omega have been volunteering with Closer to Earth for sever-al years, said Leith Prise, a health and exercise science senior.

“Usually we teach, help with har vesting and do maintenance,” Prise said.

Prise said that every week-end before they start work, they form a circle and intro-duce themselves to make the teens more comfortable working with them.

“It’s good for them to have positive role models, espe-cially the ones who have been court ordered to do community service,” Prise said.

When volunteers like OU students come, it’s up to the

teenagers to direct them and decide what jobs they should do, Parlier said.

“That in itself is a pow-erful experience for teens to know that they have the capacity and wisdom to share things with folks who are older than themselves as well as mentor younger kids,” Parlier said.

As well as building lead-ership skills and educating teens, the youth group al-lows the public to see at-risk teens working and bettering themselves, which is im-portant for social change, Parlier said.

“I think it helps our neigh-borhood feel better about itself knowing it’s working with teenagers instead of

trying to get rid of them because they’re ‘trouble,’” Parlier said.

Prise said the nonprof-it provides the teenagers with a safe place where they will not be judged.

Prise said volunteering at the organization makes him asses how he pres-ents himself to others so that he will be a positive role model to his peers as well as to the teens, and it also teaches him responsibility.

“It teaches respect for people, our surround-ings and ourselves,” Prise said. “It rounds me out as a person.”

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Blachard Cemetery located in Blachard, Okla. is one of many establishments that benefited from Big Event. OU students volunteered at over 150 job sites in and around Norman.

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CAMPUS AWARDSPROGRAM

LETZEISER HONOR LIST AND MEDALISTS

� e Letzeiser Awards are presented annually in memory of the late Alexander Letzeiser as a stimulus of good citizenship and achievement.

� ese are the highest awards presented during the Spring Campus Awards Program. � e selections are made each year by a student/

faculty/sta� committee and are based on leadership, scholarship, and service to the university.

LETZEISER HONOR LIST

SOONER PARENTSOutstanding Student Mother Award

Dominique Hall

GEORGE HENDERSON JR. AWARD

Kristen Cash

Kylie FrisbyJe Bissinger

Lucy GauthierConnor BourlandVeronica Hassink

Robert ByrdKelsey Kolbe

Joseph ClantonKate Little� eldTy DarlingtonKristin PascoeMatt Epting

Robin Rainey

Nathan FerraroMelissa ReddoutAndrew LambethNicole Reehorst

Bryan LynchAnna Royce

Daniel MeschterEmily ScheeleLuis MolinaAnna SearceyJake Morgan

Taylor ShupertJake Pasdach

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGOutstanding Senior in Architectural Engineering

Nathan Ferraro

Outstanding Senior in Civil EngineeringAustin Messerli

Outstanding Senior in Environmental EngineeringJessica Johnston

Outstanding Senior in Computer ScienceSeyed Ali Hijamirza

Outstanding Senior in Industrial & Systems Engineering Matthew McCarter

Outstanding Senior in Computer EngineeringJack Moon

Outstanding Senior in Electrical Engineering� omas Fritz

Outstanding Senior in Aerospace EngineeringCorbin Graham

Outstanding Senior in Mechanical Engineering

Ethan MurphyAdam Dachowicz

Outstanding Senior in Chemical, Biological and Material EngineeringAaron Simmons

Outstanding Senior in Engineering PhysicsDaniel Grimmer

THE MOLLY SHI BOREN VOLUNTEER AWARDS

Charity KennedyEmily Clair Lonon

� ree medals — bronze, silver and gold — are presented to three men and three women who are selected as

the most outstanding.

BRONZE MEDALISTAnna Searcey

Daniel Meschter

SILVER MEDALISTLucy GauthierMatt Epting

GOLD MEDALISTTaylor ShupertJake Morgan

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PE-ETTop 10 Senior Honor Society

2014-2015

Sarah CampbellMatt Epting

Nathan FerraroKylie Frisby

Daniel MeschterJake MorganRobin RaineyParisa PilehvarAnna SearceyNeal Walia

2015-2016 Kendall BurchardJenny CarmichaelJessica Freeman

Charity KennedyCooper LundPhillip Ngo

Asheem PruthiAndy Steward

Cole TownsendCici Zhou

COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTUREOutstanding Academic

Achievement in ArchitectureGrant Bankston

Outstanding Academic Achievement in

Construction ScienceHolly Snow

Outstanding Academic Achievement in

Environmental DesignNgoc Bui

Outstanding Academic Achievement in Interior DesignKatie Keck

Melissa Reddout

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

The Professor Thomas Jay Hill Outstanding Senior in the

Natural SciencesJake Morgan

The Thatcher Hoffman Smith Outstanding Senior in the

Professional ProgramsMeadow Hazelho�

Outstanding Senior in the Social SciencesKelly Bergin

The Reverend Dr. Henry P. Roberson Outstanding Senior

in the Humanities AwardDaniel Meschter

The Carl Albert AwardEmily Scheele

COLLEGE OF ATMOSPHERIC AND GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES

The James C. Davis Geography Early Scholar AwardAmelia Schwartz

The Gress Family Undergraduate Geography ScholarshipMarisa Brum� eld

School of Meteorology Undergraduate Academic Achievement AwardBenjamin TomsBrett BorchardtRachel FrazierAndrew MooreRachel Norris

GAYLORD COLLEGE OF JOURNALISMAND MASS COMMUNICATION

Outstanding Senior in AdvertisingCaitlyn Kayser

Outstanding Senior in Broadcasting and Electronic MediaHunter Brothers

Outstanding Senior in JournalismMolly Evans

Outstanding Senior in Professional WritingEmily Irvin

Outstanding Senior in Public RelationsNathan Robertson

JEANNINE RAINBOLT COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Outstanding Senior in Early Childhood EducationCatherine Cunningham

Outstanding Senior in Elementary EducationJuan Renteria

Hannah Whiting

Outstanding Senior in Language Arts EducationKara David

Outstanding Senior in Mathematics EducationMegan Moore

Outstanding Senior in Science EducationMelissa Collins Bates

Outstanding Senior in Social Studies EducationNatalie English

Outstanding Senior in Special EducationRachel Kinney

MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDIESMultidisciplinary Studies Outstanding Senior

Katy Stephens

WALTER NEUSTADT AWARDKristen Partridge

J.R. MORRISCAMPUS LIFE AWARD

Laura AragonSarah Campbell

Matt EptingLayne FergusonChristopher Flix

Isaac HillEmily Clair Lonon

Jake PasdachCarrie Pavlowski

Anna RoyceNeal Walia

Sheyda Zakerion

BIG MAN AND BIG WOMAN ON CAMPUSBig Man on Campus

Jeremy AllenConnor Bourland

Matt EptingCooper LundReece MillerJake MorganPhillip NgoQ Nguyen

Andy StewartCole Townsend

Big Woman on Campus

Grace AguileraKendall BurchardJenny CarmichaelEmily DeSantisKate Little� eld

Avery MarczewskiHaley PoarchRobin RaineyTaylor Shupert

Johannah Walker

COLLEGE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Admiral William J. Crowe Outstanding IAS Student Award

Lisa McKnight

The Molly & David Boren Study Abroad ScholarshipsLuke Bartz

Monica HaddockKasandra Schemel

Aliza Turner

Ambassador Edward J. Perkins ScholarshipMichael FelderSarah Johnson

International Activism AwardLuke Bartz

Paul and Rose Sharp ScholarshipNisrine Slitine El Mghari

Sue Williams Service AwardSergio Alejandro Gomez Mejia

THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING TRANSFER STUDENTS

Recognizing excellence in the areas of scholarship, character, leadership and service to the university community. � is award is the highest honor

bestowed to transfer students by the university community.

Dominique HallRyan Melton

Mohammad NiaziReza Niazi

Olivia Walton

THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING FRESHMEN

Recognizing excellence in the areas of scholarship, character, leadership and service to the university community. � is award is the highest honor

bestowed to freshmen by the university community.J.D. Baker

Holly CrawfordJanella ClaryShaylin Daji

Michael FedellDaniel Holland

Benjamin KannenbergErik Nickels

Parker RandelsAuston Stiefer

Kendra SyCody Totten

THE PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SOPHOMORES

Recognizing excellence in the areas of scholarship, character, leadership and service to the university community. � is award is the highest honor

bestowed to sophomores by the university community.Christa Cherian

Celeste ClaryDavid Doshier

TJ FreemanJane Hsi

Darius AruhoDaniel Pae

Lindsey PattersonAbbey Taylor

Sean Templemore-FinlaysonRachel � atcherMaria � omas

REGENTS’ AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING JUNIORS

Recognizing excellence in the areas of scholarship, character, leadership and service to the university community. � is award is the highest honor

bestowed to juniors by the university community.Anel Star Boardingham

Kendall BurchardJenny Charmichael

Allison Clanton from OU Health Sciences CenterJessica Freeman

Charity KennedyAvery Marcezewski

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Travel and social events will fi ll your calendar, and you will develop greater interest in the creative arts. Be careful not to take on too much. Good health should be a top priority, as it will allow you to take full advantage of the opportunities that come your way.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- There is so much going on around you that you may have trouble keeping up. You will come out ahead if you keep your priorities straight and don’t take on un-necessary tasks.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- There is money to be made. Going the extra mile at work will be worth the effort. You will be recognized for your discipline and determination, and handsomely compensated.

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A student recycles a used water bottle after hearing the benefits of during Green Week last week. Other ways that students can recycle and include carpooling and switching to wind energy.

Our View is the majority opinion of The Daily’s nine-member editorial board

Our view: Last week was Green Week and Wednesday is Earth Day, so the editorial board has compiled ways Sooners can be sustainable year-round.

Last week, OU’s Student Government Association hosted daily events to promote Green Week and share ways students can re-duce their waste and be more environmentally friendly. Wednesday is also the 45th anniver-sary of Earth Day, a day dedicated to promoting environmentally-friend-ly living. We believe Sooners should be envi-ronmentally conscious year-round, so The Daily has created a list of ways students can be kinder to the earth, whether it’s Earth Day or not. Off-campus recycling options:

Everyone has seen the “Crimson and Green” recycling bins around campus, but what about students who don’t live on campus? Fortunately, off-cam-pus students are in luck, even if their apartment complexes don’t offer recycling options.

The city of Norman has three self-service recycling centers that are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The recycling materials accepted at the center include: aluminum, steel and tin cans, corru-gated cardboard, glass (clear, brown, green), newspaper and plas-tics #1 through #7, with some exceptions. Exceptions can be found on the City of Norman website. The three recycling center locations are:

• Hollywood Shopping Center - McGee and Lindsey

• Hobby Lobby - 24th Ave. NW and Main St. on the west side of Hobby Lobby and Browns Shoes

• Cleveland County Fairgrounds - 1499 N. Porter

Walk, ride your bike or carpool to campus:

Riding to class with friends is not only more enjoyable, it also

reduces your carbon footprint. Make a point of exchanging class schedules with a few friends and setting up carpool times. Both your wallet and the environ-ment will thank you for

not driving so often.

If you already carpool, be even more en-vironmentally friendly by taking a stroll

or bike ride to campus instead. Norman is currently experiencing the glory of mild spring weather, so take advan-tage of the sunshine and warm weather by walk-ing or biking to class. It’s also a practical way to gain extra exercise and cut down on carbon emissions from driving — a win-win situation. Novice bikers can pick up a cheap set of wheels at local thrift shops, and who knows, it might become a newfound

passion.

Switch to wind energy:

Off-campus students can’t pick among ener-gy providers, but that doesn’t mean there ar-en’t environmentally sustainable energy op-tions. In fact, we encour-age students to consider

switching to wind ener-gy through OG&E.

Off-campus students paying for electrici-ty can choose to have from 25 percent to 100 percent of their energy come from wind power for a few extra bucks a month. The addition-al charge will depend on your actual usage, but choosing 50 per-cent of your electricity to be provided through wind energy only costs less than a penny per kilowatt-hour.

It takes only a phone call and pennies on the dollar to make a change that will substantially re-duce your environmen-tal impact. Seriously, “purchasing as little as 1,000 kWh of wind power per month for one year is equivalent to removing nine tons of emissions from the air,” according to OG&E’s website. Students in-terested in switching to wind power should check out oge.com or call 1-800-272-9741 for more information.

Making sustainable decisions might seem tough, but there are re-sources all around us to make being environ-mentally friendly sim-ple. Taking your recy-cling to a Norman recy-cling center, walking to class instead of driving and switching to wind power for your energy needs are all easy, rela-tively inexpensive ways to reduce your environ-mental impact and help preserve our one world.

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Senior reaches 90th home runChamberlain shares most home runs hit stat with former UCLA player Nuveman

JOE BUETTNER Women’s Basketball Reporter @Joe_Buettner

Four strikeouts, two pop ups to second base and a ground out to third was the kind of weekend senior Lauren Chamberlain was experiencing against the Baylor Bears.

However, Chamberlain’s f i r s t t w o u n p ro d u c t i v e nights didn’t faze the coach who stole the California slugger away from Pac-12 country.

“I really don’t think she’s struggling,” coach Patty Gasso said Friday night. “I think she had some good at-bats today. This is what’s hard — everyone is waiting for Lauren to hit a home run, and if she doesn’t hit some-thing off the wall or over, she’s struggling.”

The timing was there for Chamberlain, but Gasso knew her leadoff hitter had seen better looks at the plate.

In Saturday’s series-de-ciding game, Chamberlain finally hit a single up the middle off Baylor pitcher Heather Stearns in the bot-tom of the second inning.

It turned out to be the confidence boost the three-time All-American needed and, in her next at-bat, she smacked a deep ball to cen-ter field that cemented her name with one of her child-hood heroes.

“I knew I had to stay be-hind the ball a little bit,” C h a m b e r l a i n s a i d . “ I thought to myself, ‘If you do

this the right way you can hit it well.’ I had not had the weekend I was looking for and after getting that single, I felt good about it and just wanted to get a good piece of bat on the ball.”

Chamberlain said a huge weight was lifted off her shoulders as she dialed up a two-run homer that gave her her 90th career home run to tie the NCAA record set over a decade ago by Stacey Nuveman.

N u v e m a n , a f e l l o w California native and former UCLA Bruins softball play-er, autographed a younger Chamberlain’s ball that she still has at her childhood

home. But now, for the time being, they share the most home runs hit by a collegiate softball player.

Chamberlain said she’s looked up to Nuveman for a long time, and she’s now getting the chance to enjoy what one of her role models went through in her playing career.

The Sooners’ starting first

baseman still has plenty of softball left to play, and she’ll have the opportunity to take sole possession of the record.

Chamberlain said she owes a lot of her success to her coaches as well as her teammates, who were there to see her make history.

“Honestly, the best feeling

was meeting my teammates at home plate and seeing how excited they were for me,” Chamberlain said. “I believe me beating this re-cord is just as much their re-cord as it is mine.”

Chamberlain and the Sooners will pick up ac-tion against the North Texas Mean Green Monday night in Norman.

While Chamberlain said she doesn’t remember the first time she hit a home run, this weekend should be one she’ll never forget.

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Senior infielder Lauren Chamberlain swings hitting her ball during the game against Baylor on Friday April 17 at Marita Hines Field. The Sooners beat the Bears 5-2. Chamberlain went on to tie the all-time homerun high by hitting her 90th career home run on Saturday afternoon.

“Honestly, the best feeling was meeting my teammates at home plate and seeing how excited they were for

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Senior Haley Sorensen performs on the beam during the NCAA gymnastics championship at the Fort Worth Convention Center on April 18. The Sooners placed third in the competition behind Florida and Utah.

Favored Sooners get third

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Junior outfielder Hunter Haley advances bases after a line drive at L. Dale Mitchell Park, Tuesday, March 31, 2015. The Sooners achieved their second shutout of the season, beating Central Arkansas 7-0.

Tennis secures spot in Big 12 competitionMen’s team pushes for continued hard work and success

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Freshman Spencer Papa makes an approach shot returning the ball to his opponent at the game against Texas on March 29 at the Headington Family Tennis Center. The Sooners beat the Longhorns 4-1.

SPENSER DAVISBaseball Reporter @Davis_Spenser

O k l a h o m a ( 2 6 - 1 6 , 1 0 - 5 ) d e f e a t e d We s t Virginia (22-15, 5-7) in Morgantown this week-end, giving the Sooners their second straight Big 12 series victory.

Junior infielder Kolbey Carpenter was the differ-ence in the first game for OU, with a two-run homer in the eighth inning on Friday night. The blast was the only scoring that sophomore right-hand-ed pitcher Jake Elliott needed as he tossed 7.1 shutout innings in a 2-0 victory.

Game two was much more frustrating for the Sooners as they dropped Saturday’s matchup de-spite carrying a two-run lead into the late innings. Right-handed pitcher Shawn Hunter yielded a two-run homer that handed the Mountaineers

a l e a d t h e y w o u l d n o t relinquish.

Sophomore shortstop Sheldon Neuse homered in the loss, his first long ball since March 8 against Purdue. It was also his first since moving down in the order to the five-hole earlier this month.

In game three, the Sooners fell behind early but broke out for five runs in the fifth inning and four more in the sixth. Neuse again had a big day, spear-heading the at-tack in the fifth frame with one of his two doubles on the day.

S e n i o r r i g h t- h a n d e d pitcher Robert Tasin had a stand-out day on the mound for the Sooners, throwing 7.2 innings while not allowing an earned run. When it was all said and done, OU had a 10-2 victory and another se-ries win.

OU will be in action again this week when it hosts Alcorn State for a mid-week series on Tuesday and Wednesday. First pitch of both games will be at 6 p.m.

Spenser Davis davis.spenser@ou.edu

HALEE POWERSWomen’s Gymnastics Reporter @haleestorm12

The Oklahoma Sooners W o m e n ’s G y m n a s t i c s team walked away from the NCAA Championships team finals with a third place finish.

The Sooners did not fin-ish how they would have hope after being ranked No. 1 throughout most of the season and being the only undefeated team during the regular season, the Sooners were favored to take home the title.

“Clearly it wasn’t our best performance, but I was re-ally proud of them,” said

senior Rebecca Clark.The team had an amaz-

ing performance on vault and especial ly the bal-ance beam, but with a few mistakes on floor and no stuck landings on bars, the Sooners fell short of their goal.

On their first event, floor, the Sooners started off with two great routines from sophomores Chayse Capps and Kara Lovan. There were some mistakes in the mid-dle of the line-up. Some of the gymnasts had problems on landing their passes and went out of bounds. Junior Haley Scaman rallied the team back together after scoring a huge 9.925.

F r e s h m a n B r e n n a Dowell, sophomore Charity Jones and Scaman led vault. D ow e l l a n d Jo n e s b o t h scored 9.9, and Scaman had

a beautiful, near-perfect Yurchenko [vault] full and scored a 9.95.

On beam, the Sooners looked like a completely different team. The night before during preliminary competition, the Sooners had some mistakes that they had not had through-out the entire season. Two of their gymnasts fell. But during finals, the Sooners looked like the No. 1 team they were ranked as. Every score that they counted for

their beam score was a 9.9 or higher, and seniors Haley Sorensen and Erica Brewer led them with scores of 9.925 and 9.95, respectively.

“I know we had some hic-cups, but we fought very hard until the end,” said Scaman.

The Sooners finished the meet with a 197.525. That put them behind the Florida Gators, who won, and the U t a h U t e s w h o p l a c e d second.

With the season official-ly over the Sooners will have to look for ward to next year in hopes of win-ning their second national championship.

Halee Powers halee.s.powers-1@ou.edu

“Clearly it wasn’t our best performance,

but I was really proud of them.”

REBECCA CLARK, SENIOR

Baseball beats out West VirginiaOU improves by game three, ends week with victory

RYAN KINGMen’s Tennis Reporter @Ryan_King_Now

Oklahoma beat the No. 29 Oklahoma State Cowboys (16-8) 4-1 Sunday, extend-ing their record to 22-2 on the season and capturing at least a share of the Big 12 Championship.

Coach John Roddick was very pleased with his team’s performance, both Sunday and this entire year.

“ This is four years in a r o w w e h a v e h a d a t least a share of the Big 12 Championship,” Roddick said. “For our seniors that’s something that’s very spe-cial, especially because we had to battle back after los-ing to Tech. So far we are two for two on goals, but we still have some more to go.”

Wi t h B e d l a m o f f t o a quick 1-0 Cowboy lead, the Sooners needed to quickly regroup if they wanted to take the dual.

About one set into the matches, lightning in the area pushed the teams in-side for approximately 35 minutes before resuming play.

The first singles match to finish was on court two where sophomore Andrew Harris breezed to an em-phatic 6-3, 6-1, straight-set victory. Harris tied the match at 1 a piece.

Next, on court three, the lone active senior, Dane Webb, came up big for his team on senior day, win-ning in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3. Webb was uncharacter-istically quiet after his win. Webb’s clutch play gave OU the lead at 2-1.

Sophomore Alex Ghilea extended the Sooner lead,

3-1, one point away from clinching, with his 6-3, 6-4 win on court five. At this point, the S ooners just needed one of the remain-ing three matches to take Bedlam.

The Sooners clinched on court 5, where fresh-man Spencer Papa won in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4, giving OU the lead and dual, 4-1. Papa may have been short on words but not on impor-tance to his team’s success.

“I didn’t even know I was about to clinch,” Papa said. “I was so focused on my court, but I am excited, and it’s not over yet.”

S p e a k i n g o n w h a t i t meant for a freshman like Papa to clinch the Big 12 championship for his team, Roddick said, “that’s why he is here, to help us win championships.”

“He has been learning to be a better tennis player, and I was proud of his effort and how he closed it out,” he said.

No. 1 junior Axel Alvarez did not get to finish his

match, but was in control in the third set, 3-2, after split-ting the first two sets, 2-6, 6-2. Alvarez remains unde-feated on the year at 19-0.

In addition, sophomore Florin Bragusi did not finish on court six. Bragusi won his first set in a tiebreak, 7-6, and was leading the second set 4-1 when OU clinched.

Roddick wants to see his team continue to work and keep improving.

“It all stays the same so we are going to keep work-ing hard,” Roddick said. “We know we have stuff to work on, but I think we can have a jump in our level if we have another good week.”

Next, the Sooners will compete Thursday, April 23 in Waco, Texas for the Big 12 Championships.

Ryan King ryanking@ou.edu

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“It all stays the same so we are going to keep working hard. We know we

have stuff to work on but I think we can have another good week.”

JOHN RODDICK, OU TENNIS COACH