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NECTAR OF THE GODS

Norman City Council takes steps to increase craft brewers in town

The Norman City Council approved a special li-cense Tuesday for Oklahoma beer brewers, considerably lowering the price to craft beer in

Norman.A regular brewer’s license costs brewers $1,200 a year,

but this new license will only cost Oklahoma brewers $50. The license is specifically for companies who man-ufacture and make wholesale distributions. Anyone in-terested in obtaining this license has to be an Oklahoma resident.

Brenda Hall, Norman City Council city clerk, said the council demanded Norman’s local ordinance add an Oklahoma brewer category to lower the fee cost, an ef-fort that could potentially attract more brewers to the Norman community.

“We don’t have any brewer’s permits in Norman, and we’ve had that license on our books for 30 years, and we’ve never had anyone get one of those permits,” Hall said.

Now there is a company interested in brewing beer in Norman, which prompted city officials to reconsider their regulations to bring more commercial businesses to Norman, Hall said.

This license is not for people selling beer individually from their home — there’s a different license for individ-uals interested in selling their home-brewed beer. Those individuals usually obtain a low point beer license for beer with an alcohol point below 3.2.

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TONY BEAULIEULife&Arts Editor@tonybe787

Walking into McNellie’s any day of the week, and you’ll be handed a paper menu of Oklahoma beers.

That’s because, despite some of the strictest alcohol laws in the U.S., Oklahoma has been fostering a small but growing specialty and small brew community. Craft breweries lightly pepper the entire state and drive a di-verse small brew culture, not only in Oklahoma but also around the world.

“There are three to four times as many breweries in this state now as there were when we started six years ago,” said Eric Marshall, founder of Marshall Brewing in Tulsa.

Marshall grew up in Tulsa, where he attended the University of Tulsa for international business and German.

“My junior year, I studied over in Germany and really feel in love with beer and brewing from the cultural perspective,” Marshall said.

The trip to Germany only heightened Marshall’s interest, which started with home brewing.

“I started thinking about the need for fresh, local beer in Tulsa, which was not an option, and decided I wanted to do something about that,” Marshall said.

After graduating, Marshall returned to Germany to study brewing, apprenticing at six different breweries across the country. He moved back to the United States as a brewer for Victory Brewing Company in Pennsylvania. But the dream of starting a company in Tulsa remained.

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Two branches remain profitable on OU campusKELLY ROGERS Campus Reporter

OU students will not have to say goodbye to toasted subs and pizza by the slice just yet.

Both Sbarro and Quiznos in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food court will remain open despite filing for bankruptcy protection last month.

The restaurants opened in the early 2000s at OU, but with customer traffic declining as the years progress, sales have declined.

Sbarro’s change in sales from fiscal year 2012 to 2013 decreased 11 percent, according to requested records.

The Sbarro store is privately owned and operated, but the university owns Quiznos. making each situation different because of the difference in lease agreements, said Amy Buchanan, assistant director of marketing communications for OU Housing and Food Services, in an email.

With ‘Cancer Corner’ under state law, smokers find issuesAMBER FRIENDCampus Reporter

On the corner of Elm Avenue and Elmwood Street, OU student smokers gather to light up. They sit on the cigarette butt-littered ground, talking, laughing and making sure they stay in the decided rectangle of public property they are allowed.

Across the street, they can see the tops of the trees shading the area where smok-ers once went to get their fix, an area in Stubbeman Villiage across from the res-idence halls, formerly known as Cancer Corner.

On Nov. 25, OU officially became the own-ers of the property. All that remains are a few forgotten cigarette butts several feet away from some recently placed Breathe Easy signs, signifying smokers to go elsewhere be-cause smoking is banned on all state-owned property.

In the future, the property may house OU tenants, but currently it’s running as a self-supporting retail center, university spokesman Michael Nash said.

Though the property was purchased be-cause of its proximity to campus, Nash said its transition to university ownership has af-fected certain OU students — the smokers and those who live on the property where the smokers have migrated.

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Students walk by numerous “no smoking” signs on their way to school and home. Many students don’t notice the signs but for those who smoke, it’s a constant reminder to curb the urge or find another area to smoke.

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Other locations have dealt with the influx of smokers before the University purchased Stubbeman Village because of the smoking ban that pushed smokers away from campus.

Fo r s tu d e nt s at t h e St . A n s e l m o f Canterbury Episcopal University Center on Elm Avenue, smokers gathering at the north end of their property have become a common sight all year. Though they haven’t asked the smokers to leave, members of St. Anselm are frustrated by what the smokers leave behind.

“We try to take care of our yard, so if there’s

a lot of cigarette butts in it, then it’s a little frustrating,” said Kirsten Rysted, elemen-tary junior and St. Anselm member. “This is a private space, and even though they’re on the public part, it kind of brushes into our part.”

Even with the frustrations, the two groups get along. One woman who smokes near the property baked the St. Anselm students a cake to thank them for allow-ing smokers to use the space, University College freshman Kevin Rysted said.

CONFLICT

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While the St. Anselm students say the sit-uation could be worse, they don’t necessar-ily enjoy the smokers being there.

“It’s not nice dealing with that smell. It’s bearable, just not nice,” Rysted said.

The Delta Gamma sorority house, ad-jacent to St. Anselm, has recently put up no-smoking signs around their property. Delta Gamma president Morgan Peccarelli wasn’t available for comment by press time.

Down the street near Stubbeman Village, smokers have moved across the street near the Alpha Chi Omega sorority house.

Though the situation has calmed over the past several weeks after OU Police Department clarified the property line at Alpha Chi Omega’s request to show where smokers were legally allowed to smoke, the two groups remain wary of each other.

Kris Crumpton, criminology junior and Alpha Chi Omega member, said several students smoking on the corner have ver-bally harassed girls walking to the house, making hostile comments about the so-rority. Several Alpha Chi Omega members have also called OUPD from the police pole on the opposite corner of the smokers, Crumpton said.

Three students who regularly smoke on the corner — University College freshmen Sarah Mangan, Bradford Burr and Daniel Hembree — said they hadn’t seen any smokers harass the sorority members, and that they only talk to passersby if they initi-ate the interaction. The three did say they’ve dealt with the police several times on the corner, though.

Crumpton said she was concerned with how the smokers and leftover cigarette butts on the corner may affect the sorority’s brand.

“Our rule is that we’re not supposed to give off that image,” Crumpton said. “Whenever people are smoking on our property, it looks like we condone it.”

Alpha Chi Omega president Brooke Buckmaster wouldn’t comment on the

allegations that smokers had harassed Alpha Chi Omega members. She did say she and the other sorority members know it’s difficult for students to find places to smoke under the smoking ban.

“We understand the situation is difficult for those who smoke,” Buckmaster said.

For Mangan, since coming to OU, smok-ing has been difficult. When she found out she’d have to leave the shaded area for smokers in Stubbeman Village, she was disappointed because Cancer Corner was close to the residence halls. Now Mangan said she doesn’t have any other good options.

Smokers now stand in the sun to smoke with no trashcans nearby and have dealt with adversity from passersby.

Burr said that he was tired of people ha-rassing them when they smoke and telling them to move.

“We don’t know where we’re safe, and we don’t know if we’re going to get a ticket or not. It causes a lot of stress that isn’t need-ed,” Burr said.

Mangan, who has been smoking since her senior year in high school, said she did not face such severe anti-smoking harass-ment until she came to college.

“You feel bad when people drive by in their cars and scream at you. It’s crazy. It’s like you’re not a person,” Mangan said. “People will throw money at us, people will curse at us all the time and insult [us]. It’s just weird.”

Burr said he feels like others judge him solely on his decision to smoke.

“I’m not just a smoker,” Burr said. “I’m a human being.”

The students — smokers and non-smok-ers alike — speculated that a designated smoking area near campus would solve some of their problems.

Burr had a different opinion though.“Just let us be,” Burr said, “Let public

property be public property.”

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ACADEMICS

Honorary scholarship named after Oklahoma professor

MICHELLE JOHNSTONCampus Reporter

An OU chemistry professor known for her role in the hit show “Breaking Bad” is receiving recognition from a place few Sooners expect — the University of Texas.

Donna Nelson was visiting the rival univer-sity to discuss science advising for the tele-vision show to an audience of about 500 stu-dents when she found out the university had

established an honorary scholarship in her name, she said.

The scholarship, called the Donna J. Nelson Honorary Scholarship in Chemistry, is for for-mer students who have excelled in science and who are good role models, Nelson said.

The scholarship is meant to promote scien-tific discovery and excellence in higher educa-tion, Nelson said.

Nelson, an OU and Texas alumna, said she’s been dealing with the rivalry for most of her life and said both universities are good schools, so the rivalry doesn’t faze her much.

“Both schools may claim me,” Nelson said.

Ultimately, Nelson was just honored to have a scholarship in her name, she said.

“I was extremely flattered, thrilled and a little surprised. You always want your Alma Mater to be proud of you, and so it meant a lot to me,” Nelson said.

Nelson was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame in December 2013, along with Nancy Mergler, senior vice president and provost.

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Chemistry lecturer inducted into Ed. Hall of Fame in 2013

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CHEMISTRY

This new license will permit brew-ers to brew stronger beer, with higher alcohol content. The company look-ing to locate in Norman is interested in brewing 6-point beer and higher, Hall said.

Beer brewers may soon be calling Norman home, but students at OU are learning all the tricks of the trade in a JANUX course called Chemistry of Beer.

JANUX is an online interactive learning community where students and nonstu-dents can take courses. Students currently enrolled in the course can take it during a semester and receive one credit hour, and those who take the course on their own can receive a badge after completion.

Mark Morvant, OU chemistry and bio-chemistry professor, teaches the course, which examines different types of beer and uses chemistry to answer questions regarding the chemical processes of brew-ing beer. The course integrates the organ-ic chemistry and biochemistry involved in the brewing process.

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CONFLICT: Smoker, ‘Just let us be’ Continued from page 1

POLICY: Course teaches brew chem Continued from page 1

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A beer sits on the table at McNellie’s Abner Ale House in downtown Norman. The extensive beer menu at the pub includes various locally brewed beers.

There are 42 OU students enrolled in the course this semester, and 8,500 people are registered for the course online, Morvant said.

This is the course’s first semester. In the past, Morvant has taught another one-cred-it course called Consumer Chemistry with Paul Sims, chemistry and biochemistry as-sistant professor. In the course students an-alyzed the chemistry of common products including toothpaste and cheese.

“Learning how to translate things [they’re] learning in [their] classes and connecting it to things they use on a daily basis, and the peer-to-peer action … it’s interesting to see,” Morvant said.

The open Chemistry of Beer course is free for anyone and is an online-only class. Students signed up will watch educational videos and will have quizzes throughout the course. For class credit, students must have taken organic chemistry. Students can enroll through oZONE. For the open course, the only requirement is an email address, and students can sign up at the JANUX website.

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Our View: Students should fill out course evaluations to provide feedback on how to make our university better.

We know probably all OU students are accus-tomed to waking up to multiple OU mass emails, or OUMMs, on a daily basis. And we know most of us ignore those emails, but there’s one OU mass email you received this week that is imperative to pay attention to. Course evaluations are now open

for all OU students, and while evaluating your classes and pro-fessors might seem like one more chore to do, it’s actually vital to the university and to our educations that students fairly and accurately complete those evaluations.

We implore Sooners to take a few minutes out of their day between now and the start of finals week, May 4, to complete their course evaluations. We aren’t asking students to devote hours to finish the evaluations; the form is relatively short and should take only a few min-utes to complete. In fact, students might not even have to set aside any of their own time to fill out the evaluations because many professors allot a few minutes of class time for students to fill them

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It’s the time of the year when teachers are constantly reminding students to complete course evaluations. Course evaluations help teachers and faculty members improve for future semesters.

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

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Freshman McKenzie Wofford does a flying jump during her balance beam routine on March 7 against Arizona State at Lloyd Noble Center. The Sooners beat the Sun Devils 197.45-194.150.

In light of the OU women’s gymnas-tics team winning

its first NCAA National Championship on Saturday, I think it’s only appropriate to do a little bragging about OU’s ath-letic department, and that praise extends to intramu-ral athletes as well.

It goes without saying that OU’s football team has been one of the best for the past couple of decades and will no doubt continue to be for years to come. OU’s football department brings in sizable revenue, which helps boost our university’s economy. However, football is not the only sport that OU excels at, and the results of last weekend’s gymnastics meet prove that.

Athletes in OU’s various sports all demonstrate exceptional skill and work extremely hard to perform their best. It is this level of performance that draws us to attend sporting events. However, the student attendance levels for these games and meets never come close to those of football games.

While it is undeniable that the experi-ence of attending an OU football game is incomparable to really anything short of the Super Bowl, it didn’t start out like that.

As with all other traditions, it had to begin somewhere, and that’s where you come in. If more students attend the games and meets of non-football related sports, those sports might finally get the big-time atten-tion and audiences they deserve.

Even though the student turnout at baseball games

and gymnastics meets isn’t on par with the student section at football games, the football team isn’t the only athletics group on campus with national championships. There is absolutely no reason for Sooners not to flock to future women’s gymnastics meets to cheer on their peers and their school.

Life can get dull during football’s off-season. Finding other sports to peak your interest not only gives you something to do and follow, but it also provides sup-port to sports that still involve just as much strategy, talent and action that is displayed during football games.

OU has so much to offer in terms of its sports, and as a student, now is the best time to attend games for all sorts of sports. When else in your life will you be able to get your hands on reduced-price tickets or free admittance to a Division 1 sporting

event? Plus, you have every right to be at those meets and games. Those athletes you see on the balance beam, baseball di-amond, wrestling mat or soccer field are students just like you. They are your class-mates and are competing on behalf of your

school, so what’s to lose by showing them a little support?

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out.Even better, filling out the class assessments is

as simple as logging into a website — eval.ou.edu, to be more precise. Although we want all OU stu-dents to fill out the digital evaluations, we don’t want students to rush through the online form. Clicking random buttons and finishing the eval-uation as fast as you can doesn’t help anyone. Professors and college departments use the evalu-ations to judge instructor performance and make decisions about future curriculum, which is why providing honest, fair answers in the evaluations is so important.

As students, we are on the receiving end of any class changes made as a result of our feedback in the course evaluations, and we think all Sooners want to improve our educations, not confuse pro-fessors with bogus evaluations. The evaluations provide students with an opportunity to give hon-est input about their classes and instructors anon-ymously. While anonymity is helpful in encour-aging truthful responses without fear of punish-ment, it can also be dangerous when students use it to bash professors without accountability.

Sure, you might have disagreed with how your professor graded one of your essays, but that doesn’t give you the right to crucify the instructor

in your evaluation under the veil of anonymity. Rather than “sticking it to the man” in the evalua-tions, it’s much more beneficial to professors, col-lege deans and future students to accurately eval-uate the professor’s performance and the course as a whole.

Every part of the evaluation form is essential, but we think it’s especially important for students to faithfully complete the short answer portion of the evaluation, or the “comments about the course and instructors” portion. The numerically scaled evaluations provide general information about the class, such as how a certain aspect of the class contributed to your learning and if assign-ments were graded and returned appropriately. But the open-ended section allows students to specifically address weak or strong points of the course and provide professors with more detailed information about how to improve their classes.

We all pay tuition and attend classes every day, so why not get the most out of your money and evaluate your courses to make them better? Constructive criticism helps everyone, so take a few minutes to fill out your course evaluations and improve our university.

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Your keen interest in helping others will come to the forefront this year. You will have to decide which among many options will be the most valuable. By developing a friendship with an older person, you will gain knowledge, expertise and profound perception.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Don’t get drawn into any arguments. Even though things may not work out as planned, you should accept the changes happening around you. Compromise will eventually lead to victory.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- You are on an upward trend right now, so enjoy the ride. If you take advantage of your wealth of experience, nothing will hold you back. Embrace the future.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Mull over an investment, but don’t wait until it’s too late to make your move. Be prepared to make the choice that is most likely to benefi t both you and your family.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Your goals and lifestyle need a little adjustment. Be receptive to new ideas, and make a change if you want to feel better about the direction you are heading.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Your leadership qualities will help you gain control. You will attract individuals who want to support your plans. Much can be accomplished if you take action.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- You can gain valuable insight if you include youngsters or seniors in your plans.

Opt for a creative outlet that will let you use your teaching skills.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Don’t feel overwhelmed by your long list of chores or responsibilities. Negative thinking will only slow you down. If you take the tasks one at a time, you will accomplish what’s necessary.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- You should consider ditching your regular routine in favor of something different. A day trip or talk with people from different backgrounds will spark new concerns as well as a solution.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Your curiosity and adaptability will lead to favorable changes in your life. Head in a new direction, and you will be applauded for your innovative and inspirational ideas.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- You will be respected for your opinions and insight if you have the courage to speak out. Your clarity and vision will draw attention and lead to improvements.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Take a moment to adjust to the necessities of a demanding situation. A small respite from daunting responsibilities will help recharge your batteries as well as encourage innovative solutions.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Get involved in a cause and interact with interesting people. You will fare best with a serious-minded group striving to implement positive social change. Your contribution will be valued.Instructions:

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related 14 Opposing

sides 15 Martial arts

school 16 They may

break your bones?

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20 Beginning of a conclusion

21 Draw forth 22 Abbreviation

meaning “and others”

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pronunciation 33 Guided trip 34 Employed 38 Furniture

maker’s adhesive

41 Dispatched 42 Cambodian

coin 43 Fingerprint

part 44 Airline

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47 Grassy Argentine plains

51 Poker buy-in 53 Lacking

human warmth

54 All 52 cards 57 Difficult duty 60 Dairy offering

63 “___ Tu” (’70s hit)

64 Prefix meaning “trillion”

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8 Modernize, as a room

9 Biblical mount

10 Car trick, briefly

11 Kick out 12 Take one’s

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36 Widely used currency

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39 Uneaten morsels

40 Acting lover of Charles II

44 Sometimes-cracked container

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47 It loses to scissors

48 Car buyer’s option

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50 They’re often placed on the back burner

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Graham DuDley, Sarah PittSESCAPE Reporter, Life & Arts Reporter

F r e n c h p s y c h -p u n k o u t f i t L a Femme started play-ing its own brand of high-tempo dance tunes in 2010. And while the collective is notoriously re-clusive and secre-tive about its com-plete line up, known members include keyboardist Sacha Got, guitarist Marlon Magnée, bassist Sam Lefévre and drummer Noé Delmas.

La Femme will make the journey from Bairritz, France, to the Norman Music Festival, where it will play at 4:15 p.m. Saturday on the main stage.

From San Rafael, Calif., Magnée and Got spoke with The Daily about La Femme’s music, touring schedule, and future plans.

La Femme’s music combines many popular genres of yesteryear, Magnée said.

“On our new album, ‘Psycho Tropical Berlin,’ we’re kind of old school, like ’60s, and new wave,” Got said.

Magnée said he is satisfied with all the songs on the new album. The album cements the group’s disparate influences into an idiosyncratic sound.

“It’s a good record to play in the car on a long trip, you know,” Magnée said.

Got and Magnée agree that the goal of La Femme is to have fun with their music, which won’t be any different when they stop by Norman for the music fes-tival, Got said.

Later this year, La Femme will play about 40 shows in the U.S. then travel to Mexico, South America, Australia, Iceland and England, Magnée said. Afterward they plan to play even more festivals in Europe before settling down to record again, Got said.

Got plans to make La Femme’s first show in Oklahoma a memorable one, and she said she enjoys the festival atmosphere because it allows the group to interact with fans and other bands.

“I think at the end of the tour there will be more people who know us,” Got said.

GO AND DOLa Femme at Norman Music Festival 2014When: 4:15 p.m. Saturday

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Info: French psyche-punk band Le Femme plays their first show in Oklahoma as headliners for Norman Music Festival.

Band combines retro genres

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When he returned to Tulsa to start Marshall Brewing Company, Marshall said he was met with overwhelming support.

“I think the best thing about having a brewery in Oklahoma is the people,” Marshall said. “Oklahomans are very passion-ate people and love supporting the local guys, and the pride that people have in what we are doing is extremely gratifying.”

As the craft brewing industry continues to grow, Marshall believes regional breweries offer freshness not available from larger companies.

“Most of the draft beer that goes out of here on a weekly basis was kegged within 48 hours of it going out the door, and most of the bottles are not much more than that,” Marshall said.

His goals for the future are to keep the company small to continue providing freshness to customers.

Chase Healey founded Prairie Artisan Ales with his wife and brother after gradu-ating from OU with a degree in journalism and advertising in 2009.

Healey started, like so many others, as a home brewer in 2005 after his wife, Erica, bought him a home brewing kit while they were both still dating at OU.

“My roommates loved the beer I was making,” Healey said. “We pulled out all the food in our fridge so we could have three beers on tap at all times.”

What started as a hobby quickly fermented into a passion for making great beer. Healey helped start COOP Ale Works, a craft brewery in Oklahoma City, in 2008 while still a student, but he always wanted a brewery all his own.

Oklahoma’s highly-prohibitive alcohol laws didn’t stop Healey from setting up shop in Tulsa.

“Tulsa is home to me,” Healey said. “It would have been just as easy to do Prairie (Artisan Ales) in Dallas, but we believe in Tulsa and the opportunity to help build its identity.”

Prairie Artisan Ales primarily produces beer aged in bar-rels, like wine and spirits.

“I shoot to offer beers that are exciting and, more or less, sell themselves,” Healey said.

Healey said Prairie Artisan Ales’ selection mainly appeals to specialty and experimental beer markets in Oklahoma and across the world.

“We sell beer in places like Paris and Singapore,” Healey said. “People think its cool when they find out where we are located.”

Prairie Artisan Ales have been featured on “Brew View,” an Oklahoma beer-centric podcast, which is undergoing the transition to a full-blown beer blog “Adventures in Pints.”

Norman resident Chris Crockett started the podcast “Brew View” in 2012 with friend Matt Cash.

What began as a weekly show about beer, sports and video games morphed into a podcast all about Oklahoma-bred beers.

“We started by drinking whatever was new or caught our eye at the liquor store,” Crockett said. “But shortly after, we started finding all these great beers that were being released from Oklahoma. So, we started just drinking Oklahoma beers.”

Crockett believes Oklahoma’s small brew culture is on the rise.

“We only have a few breweries in the state, but they are high quality, and there are more in the planning stages,” Crockett said.

It’s not only breweries that are growing in number, Crocket said, but also festivals, tastings and beer-centric bars.

Crockett admits Oklahoma’s “dark age” alcohol laws are a major hindrance to the further growth of the state’s small brew culture but also acknowledges some benefits.

“Our strict laws are keeping out a lot of the competition,” Crockett said. “That makes Oklahoma beer more attractive on the shelf and in bars.”

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The music of Nashville rockers Diarrhea Planet has been loosely classified as pop punk by many critics. Their latest record, “I’m Rich Beyond

Your Wildest Dreams,” swings from musical branch-es on the rock ‘n’ roll family tree on hooks of pure lead and youthful vigor. Tracks juxtapose every-thing from the bombastic guitar-singed swagger of ’70s hard rock to the dreamy introspective angst of the grunge era.

Power, noise, pop, punk — call it what you want — Diarrhea Planet just wants to have fun while riding waves of undeniably catchy riffs on a nightly basis. The tongue-in-cheek noncha-lance of their name pretty much sums up that attitude. Lead singer and guitarist Hodan Dickie attested to this when he sat down for a Q&A with The Daily ahead of Diarrhea Planet’s headlining performance at the Norman Music Festival 6 p.m. on the main stage:

Diarrhea Planet has four guitarists, which on paper seems like it would be a pretty cumbersome set up. How have you been able to pull that off and make it work? Were there difficulties making that work at first?

Our first show with this line-up was a disaster and we had to sit down and pretty much reconfigure how the band worked. So, what we initially did was me, the drummer and the bass player functioned as a unit, and Emmett (Miller, guitarist) and Evan (Bird, guitarist) functioned as like one person, and then Brent (Toler, guitarist) just functioned by himself, so we were basically like a three piece.

Emmett and Evan would always play off of each other and then me, Mike (Boyle, bassist) and Casey (Weissbuch, drummer) would write stuff that would play off each other and be like the backbone. Brent always writes really unique parts, so he just started functioning with his own stuff. So, initially we just had to learn to work as a three piece, sort of.

Now we all just understand each other’s playing style re-ally well. Like when I bring in a new song now, typically ev-eryone just falls into roles pretty quickly. Or if I have stuff already written, I can just go like, ‘Yo! You play this, you play this, you play this.’ Now everybody plays well enough with each other after being a band for a while. It’s not really that difficult anymore, but initially it was pretty tough.

Could you briefly describe how Diarrhea Planet came together?

We met at Belmont (University), and originally there was another guy named Evan Donohue— who’s no longer in the band — me and him just started messing around and making noise demos and jokingly calling it Diarrhea Planet.

Then we ended up playing an actual show, but just me and him playing guitar and Casey on drums. It was one year when we were on spring break and didn’t go anywhere. So I wrote a couple songs and we played them. And then I met Evan and Emmett through playing in another band with them, and then Mike and Brent we knew from another band that they were playing in that we liked. We all just jokingly started playing together and everybody ended up sticking. Pretty much everything about the band, from one phase to another, started out as a joke.

Your latest album, “I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams,” shows a bit of a maturation from your early EPs. So a song like “Skeleton Head” is obviously very different from a song like “Ghost With A Boner.” How did that evo-lution happen and is there a direction the group is head-ing in or is it just growing organically?

You know, all the initial songs were just written very half-assedly, you know, there was just not an element of

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caring about what we do and it was just kinda like how can we be goofballs. And that element still comes out sometimes.

But I know personally I keep trying to figure out new ways to write songs and bring new style into the band. The di-

rection the band is going in now is going to be one of two things: either it’s going to be more extreme than what

it already is — like the quiet parts will be quieter, the loud parts will be louder, the heavier parts will be

heavier — or it will be completely different, if that makes sense.

We may move in a direction that is totally different. It’s just kinda what song do I want to write, and that’s how I’ve been doing it. But the last year and a half I’ve been trying to push my-self as a songwriter to not just come out guns blazing but be a little more dynamic.

What is the craziest thing that’s ever happened at a Diarrhea Planet live show?

We were playing a house show in Columbus, Ohio— I think there’s video of it on YouTube— but in

the middle of our set a possum just drops down from the ceiling, so that was super weird.At South By (Southwest Music Festival) just a couple

weeks ago, we played this show at the Sailor Jerry’s stage that was so rowdy that they actually shut it down 20 minutes early. It was just super chaotic, kids were diving off every-thing, so they cut our set short. And there’s a video of this dude coming up on stage — I never saw this while we were playing — but this dude just walks up on stage and he lifts up his shirt and his pants and underwear are down flashing his dong, and this guy just stage dives nude, basically.

Most of the crazy stuff that happens at shows is just be-cause the crowd is so rowdy because the venue were we’re playing is getting rocked so hard, at South By Southwest the tents were shaking and falling apart.

Diarrhea Planet is preparing to tour this summer — during which time they will appear at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee — while also re-cording their next EP for a fall release.

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BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIPSAs the semester comes to a close, teams are wrapping up their seasons

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Then sophomore Anne-Catherine Tanguay tees off on hole four in the Bedlam Cup’s 2012 morning alternate shot match against OSU.

OU to tee off against UTwomen’s golf

TrenT CrabTreeGolf Beat Reporter

The OU women’s golf team will be in enemy territory Friday as they travel to Austin for the Big 12 championships.

The Sooners are looking to win their sixth conference title their second in three years. Oklahoma will also try to regain its early sea-son form. The team has struggled lately, placing outside the top five in the last two tournaments.

H e a d c o a c h V e r o n i q u e Drouin-Luttrell believes that this week will be a chance to start with a clean slate.

“I tell the girls all the time it’s a different season. We’re starting over,” Drouin-Luttrell said.

The No. 11 Sooners are one of only two teams in the Big 12 cur-rently ranked in the top 25. The defending Big 12 champions, No. 16 Oklahoma State, is the squad likely to give OU the most trou-ble. The Texas Longhorns will be playing on their home course, so there is an outside possibil-ity they could make a run come Sunday.

“Anything can happen, and you kind of have to go one tour-nament at a time. Just play your game and see what happens in the end,” Drouin-Luttrell said

However, Drouin-Luttrell said her team will be ready. She said they can’t afford to worry about their recent play.

“What happened in the spring with scores and tournaments

and everything, it doesn’t matter now. The girls know and they’ve really been focused on their games,” Drouin-Luttrell said.

The University of Texas Golf Club is a relatively long layout at a little over 7,000 yards but is also a large and wide-open golf course. Meandering through Texas Hill Country, the course consists of various water hazards and natural brush just off the fairways that should cause prob-lems for the players.

“We’ve played out here quite a bit the last few weeks and hope-fully that’s what we needed. We’ve played well and had some good scores, so hopefully that boosts their confidence,” Drouin-Luttrell said.

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The OU women’s tennis team finished its regular season with a 4-3 Bedlam vic-tory on Saturday and is now moving on to the Big 12 Championships.

The team faces Texas Tech first, to which Oklahoma lost 2-5 in the regular season on March 21. The result of the upcoming match will more than likely be different from the last, as the Sooners were without reigning Big 12 Player of the Week, senior Whitney Ritchie. Ritchie played doubles with fellow senior Mia Lancaster, but could not muster the strength to play singles because of a stom-ach bug. As a result, every member of the team was forced to play one spot up from their normal spots, shaking up the lineup and the Sooners’ confidence.

Sophomore Abbi Melrose, who clinched Saturday’s Bedlam victor y w ith a 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 match victory over Carla Tur Mari, said hav-ing Ritchie back in the lineup would tremendously help the team on Friday.

“It will bump everyone down one spot,” she said. “She’ll be healthier in doubles, and the entire singles lineup will be better, so I think it will definitely help.”

Ritchie’s importance to the team was on full display against Oklahoma State

on Saturday. She defeated her opponent, No. 44 ranked Viktoriya Lushkova, 6-1, 6-1 after losing to her on March 9 in two sets.

Ritchie said that not only will her return to the

lineup make a big impact on the outcome on Friday against Tech, but the team has also grown since its first meeting.

“It helps moving everyone down one spot back to their normal po-sitions,” she said. “But I think if we keep playing the way we’ve been playing, we’ll be just fine.”

Head coach David Mullins is very confi-dent that his team will beat Tech on Friday, and the Sooners are better than the Red Raiders with Ritchie in the lineup.

“Overall, we’ve had the better year than Tech,” he said. “Having Ritchie back in the lineup makes the match so much differ-ent, and their coach knows it as well. ‘With Ritchie in the lineup, you guys beat us.’ We have to go and prove that.”

The Sooners expect different results this time around against the Red Raiders with Ritchie back healthy in the lineup. The Big 12 Championships will be hosted by Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. The Sooners will face the Red Raiders at noon Friday.

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Ritchie’s return boosts SoonersBRADY VARDEMANMen’s Tennis Beat Reporter

After closing out its regular season with a Bedlam win, Oklahoma men’s tennis heads to Fort Worth, Texas, this weekend for the Big 12 Championship tournament.

Because of conference tiebreaker rules, the Sooners, who finished 21-2 and 4-1 in Big 12 play, is seeded third in the tourna-ment, despite being rated No. 3 nationally in the latest ITA rankings. Unlike the top two seeds Baylor and Texas, the Sooners will have to play a first round match.

Head coach John Roddick says the extra match can help the team, however.

“If we go out and play the way we know we can play, it can be a very good thing going into the tournament,” he said. “But if we have a tough match and don’t do things the way we are capable of doing, it can hurt us. It’s all about our mindset.”

The first match is not going to be easy for OU, however. They face TCU, a team which the Sooners barely got by less than a month ago.

“No one’s

disappointed that we play TCU again,” junior Dane Webb

said. “Last time it was way too close.”To make things even more difficult for

Oklahoma, the Big 12 tournament is at the Horned Frogs’ facility, where Webb said the home-court advantage was noticeable earlier this season.

“They were pretty annoying,” he said. “But if we go in professional and take care of business, it can be a totally different match than last time.”

Despite a tough first round, no one on the team is turning a blind eye to the possibility of playing rival Texas, which awaits the winner of OU and TCU. The Longhorns are the Sooners’ only conference loss this season. They upended Oklahoma 3-4 in Austin.

“Everyone wants another shot at Texas,” Webb said. “We know we can make it

different this time.”When the TCU match begins Friday,

the Sooners will enter the final stage of their quest for a third consecutive Big 12 Championship, something no Oklahoma team has ever done before.

Junior Nick Papac said this team is much different than other Sooner teams of the past.

“What sets us apart is our competitive-ness in practice,” he said. “In practice, we all want to kill each other. No one wants to lose.

“There’s not one guy in the locker room who is going to let a point go and that trans-lates to the actual matches.”

Oklahoma tips-off against TCU at noon on Friday in Fort Worth. Coverage of the match can be found on Twitter at @OU_MTennis.

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ach bug. As a result, every member of the team was forced to play one spot up from their normal spots, shaking up the lineup and the Sooners’ confidence.

Sophomore Abbi Melrose, who clinched Saturday’s Bedlam victor y w ith a 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 match victory over Carla Tur Mari, said hav-ing Ritchie back in the lineup would tremendously help the

“It will bump everyone down one spot,” she said. “She’ll be healthier in doubles, and the entire singles lineup will be better, so I think it




lineup make a big impact on the outcome on Friday against Tech, but the team has also grown since its

“It helps moving everyone down one spot back to their normal po-sitions,” she said. “But I think if we keep playing the way we’ve been playing, we’ll be just fine.”

noon Friday.

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team was forced to play one spot up from their normal spots, shaking up the lineup and the Sooners’ confidence.

Sophomore Abbi Melrose, who clinched Saturday’s Bedlam victor y w ith a 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 match victory over Carla Tur Mari, said hav-ing Ritchie back in the lineup would tremendously help the team on Friday.

“It will bump everyone down one spot,” she said. “She’ll be healthier in doubles, and the entire singles lineup will be better, so I think it will definitely help.”




lineup make a big impact on the outcome on Friday against Tech,

going into the tournament,” he said. “But if we have a tough match and don’t do things the way we are capable of doing, it can hurt us. It’s all about our mindset.”

The first match is not going to be easy for OU, however. They face TCU, a team which the Sooners barely got by less than a month ago.

“No one’s

disappointed that we play TCU again,” junior Dane Webb

said. “Last time it was way too close.”To make things even more difficult for

Oklahoma, the Big 12 tournament is at the Horned Frogs’ facility, where Webb said the home-court advantage was noticeable earlier this season.

“They were pretty annoying,” he said. “But if we go in professional and take care of business, it can be a totally different match than last time.”

Despite a tough first round, no one on the team is turning a blind eye to the possibility of

on Friday in Fort Worth. Coverage of the match can be found on Twitter at @OU_MTennis.

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No one’s diddapointed that we play TCU again.

Last time it was way too close.”

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