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CHASE COOK AND JARRETT LANGFORD Assistant Campus Editor, Campus Reporter Crime reported to OU po- lice increased overall from 2010 to 2011 with sexual as- saults making the biggest jump from four reported in- cidents to 16. The Sooner Safety and Fire Report 2012 was released Thursday and showed all crimes increased except aggravated assault, murder, manslaughter and non-forcible sex offenses. From 2009 to 2010, forcible sex-offenses increased from three to four reported inci- dents. As of Sept. 14, there have been four reports of sexual assault, three of which are classified as forc- ible rape, according to po- lice reports. The increased number of these reported sexual as- saults may not be because of an actual increase of these attacks on campus, said Clarke Stroud, vice president for Student Affairs and dean of students. Any report of sexual as- sault is disconcerting for OU, and the university has made a concentrated effort to give students the resourc- es they need with programs WWW.OUDAILY.COM 2011 SILVER CROWN WINNER FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 e University of Oklahoma’s independent student voice since 1916 Soccer bearing down Sports: Sooners take on Baylor (Page 3) L&A: Local band sticks together years after graduation (Page 5) OUDaily.com: Clint Eastwood shines in “Trouble with the Curve” Facebook facebook.com/OUDaily Twitter twitter.com/OUDaily VOL. 98, NO. 27 © 2012 OU Publications Board FREE — Additional copies 25¢ Visit OUDaily.com for more INSIDE TODAY Campus ...................... 2 Classifieds ................ 4 Life&Arts .................. 5 Opinion ..................... 3 Sports........................ 3 Show OU pride — cheer for all student wins Opinion: After supporting Sooners at the game this weekend, make plans to attend a student performance. (Page 3) OU research awards total $93 million this year News: Norman campus research expenses have increased by more than 70 percent over the past 10 years. (Page 2) STUDENT GOVERNMENT UOSA plans another big tailgate party The University of Oklahoma Student Association will hold its tailgate party for the Kansas State football game from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday at the intersec- tion of Lindsey and Asp. Thomas Owens, co- chair of UOSA’s Sooner Freshman Council, said the amount of food will be comparable to what UOSA had at the latest tailgate. Between four and six hundred hot dogs and three cases of chicken sandwiches were bought for the Florida A&M tailgate party, Owens said, and 600 to 1,000 people attended. UOSA Vice President Rainey Sewell said many of the supplies and food items for the tailgate are donated by Housing and Food Services even though UOSA sponsors and hosts the event. Mike Wormley [email protected] LINDSAY BODMAN Campus Reporter OU’s Financial Education and Counseling Center is kill- ing two birds with one stone with a program that provides jobs and work-study oppor- tunities to students and of- fers free help to academic departments. The Student Worker Assistant Team program pro- vides academic departments with filing, mail campaigns, data entry and general office duties. “[The program] helps stu- dents earn a living as well as network to other depart- ments,” coordinator Shanna Stanton said. “It helps de- partments who are low staffed with tasks.” Students work anywhere from five to 15 hours a week depending on their sched- ules’ flexibility, said Stanton. “It’s mostly independent work,” English writing senior Marilyse Figueroa said. “It’s flexible, and I go right after classes.” Work-study students are paid directly through the Financial Education and Counseling Center, and de- partments can reserve stu- dents one to twelve days in advance by going to Financial Education and Counseling’s website, Stanton said. The application for work- study through the program is unavailable at the moment, Stanton said. Lindsay Bodman [email protected] STUDENT LIFE Program offers students jobs, helps academic departments Students can work for Student Worker Assistant Team GO AND DO UOSA Tailgate When: 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday. Where: Intersection of Lindsey and Asp Avenue KINGSLEY BURNS/THE DAILY Casca (right), played by drama junior Andrew Rathgeber, grabs Cassius, drama junior Brooke Reynolds, during dress rehearsal of ‘Ceasar 2012’ Thursday in the Weitzenhoffer Theatre. The play is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’, setting the play’s power struggle in the framework of a modern political election. CRIME Number of sex offense reports rises Increased reporting may not mean more assaults occurring on campus ‘Julius Caesar’ takes a modern twist PAIGHTEN HARKINS Campus Reporter A new microbiology study abroad program will infect OU’s Arezzo cam- pus next July and make it easier for science ma- jors to earn credit while abroad. The summer pro- gram will include OU’s basic immunology and pathogenic microbiology courses and will join two other science programs already offered in Arezzo — Organic Chemistry/ Chemistry & Wine Culture and Chemistry & Art. Science classes offered abroad are a rare phe- nomena for a number of reasons, immunology professor Casie Collamore said in an email. “I think part of the rarity is because it seems daunt- ing to offer hard science courses in a four week time frame,” she said. “Some subjects just can’t be tailored to fit such a tight schedule and expect the students to really ab- sorb the material. Another problem is that many hard science faculty also have research labs that require their attention, and it is difficult to leave the lab bench and their students for a long period of time.” This isn’t the first time the microbiology de- partment has attempted to offer classes abroad, Collamore said. A few years ago, pathogenic microbiology professor Tyrrell Conway submitted a proposal to teach a mi- crobiology class, but it was denied because it wasn’t going to be taught along- side a second course. As microbiology advi- sor, Collamore spoke with a number of microbiol- ogy students who want- ed to study abroad but couldn’t because none of the offered classes STUDY ABROAD Science course offered abroad Arezzo campus opens course in July LECTURE Expert talks global markets Economist has founded multiple financial groups EMMA HAMBLEN Campus Reporter An economist named “the father of financial fu- tures” by Time Magazine in 2007 will discuss his most recent publication on financial derivatives at a dinner and lecture at OU next month. Richard Sandor uses personal experience in the global markets to il- lustrate the power of financial innovation in “Good Derivatives: A story of Financial and Environmental Innovation,” according to an OU press release. The reception will start at 6 p.m. on Oct. 1 in Sandy Bell Gallery in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. A book-signing will follow the dinner, univer- sity spokesman Michael Nash said in an email. “Mr. Sandor is one of America’s most well- known economists. His expertise in global eco- nomics will make for a very interesting discussion on today’s current financial climate,” Nash said. Sandor served as vice president and chief econo- mist of the Chicago Board of Trade in the early 1970s, according to the press release. He founded the Chicago Climate Exchange in 2003, the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange in 2004 and the European Climate Exchange in 2005. He has served as chief economist for The Chicago Board of Trade and is a member of the Board of Governors of the School of SEE EVENT PAGE 2 SEE ABROAD PAGE 2 KINGSLEY BURNS/THE DAILY Marilyse Figueroa, English writing senior, cuts letters for the Psychology department bulletin board Thursday in Dale Hall Tower. AT A GLANCE Microbiology in Arezzo Basic Immunology: 4000 level course about immune response to pathogens Pathogenic Microbiology 4000 level course teaching pathogenic infenctions Source: Cassie Collamore & http:// catalog.ou.edu/courses/microbiology_ courses.htm For additional information on the SWAT program Phone: (405) 325-4183 Online: http://www. ou.edu/content/ financialed/swat.html AT A GLANCE: For Additional Info SEE ASSAULT PAGE 2 oud-2012-09-21-a-001,002.indd 1 9/20/12 10:41:23 PM

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CHASE COOK AND JARRETT LANGFORDAssistant Campus Editor, Campus Reporter

Crime reported to OU po-lice increased overall from

2010 to 2011 with sexual as-saults making the biggest jump from four reported in-cidents to 16.

The Sooner Safety and F i r e R e p o r t 2 0 1 2 w a s

re l e a s e d Thu r s d ay a n d showed all crimes increased except aggravated assault, murder, manslaughter and non-forcible sex offenses. From 2009 to 2010, forcible sex-offenses increased from three to four reported inci-dents. As of Sept. 14, there have been four reports of

sexual assault, three of which are classified as forc-ible rape, according to po-lice reports.

The increased number of these reported sexual as-saults may not be because of an actual increase of these attacks on campus, said Clarke Stroud, vice

president for Student Affairs and dean of students.

Any report of sexual as-sault is disconcerting for OU, and the university has made a concentrated effort to give students the resourc-es they need with programs

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Show OU pride — cheer for all student wins Opinion: After supporting Sooners at the game this weekend, make plans to attend a student performance. (Page 3)

OU research awards total $93 million this yearNews: Norman campus research expenses have increased by more than 70 percent over the past 10 years. (Page 2)

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

UOSA plans another big tailgate party

The University of Oklahoma Student Association will hold its tailgate party for the Kansas State football game from 3 to 6 p.m.

Saturday at the intersec-tion of Lindsey and Asp.

Thomas Owens, co-chair of UOSA’s Sooner Freshman Council, said the amount of food will be comparable to what UOSA had at the latest tailgate.

Between four and six hundred hot dogs and three cases of chicken sandwiches were bought for the Florida A&M tailgate party, Owens said, and

600 to 1,000 people attended.

UOSA Vice President Rainey Sewell said many of the supplies and food items for the tailgate are donated by Housing and Food Services even though UOSA sponsors and hosts the event.

Mike Wormley

[email protected]

LINDSAY BODMANCampus Reporter

OU’s Financial Education and Counseling Center is kill-ing two birds with one stone with a program that provides jobs and work-study oppor-tunities to students and of-fers free help to academic departments.

T h e S t u d e n t Wo r k e r Assistant Team program pro-vides academic departments with filing, mail campaigns, data entry and general office duties.

“[The program] helps stu-dents earn a living as well as network to other depart-ments,” coordinator Shanna Stanton said. “It helps de-partments who are low

staffed with tasks.”Students work anywhere

from five to 15 hours a week depending on their sched-ules’ flexibility, said Stanton.

“It’s mostly independent work,” English writing senior Marilyse Figueroa said. “It’s flexible, and I go right after classes.”

Work-study students are paid directly through the Financial Education and Counseling Center, and de-partments can reserve stu-dents one to twelve days in advance by going to Financial Education and Counseling’s website, Stanton said.

The application for work-study through the program is unavailable at the moment, Stanton said.

Lindsay [email protected]

STUDENT LIFE

Program offers students jobs, helps academic departmentsStudents can work for Student Worker Assistant Team

GO AND DOUOSA TailgateWhen: 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday.

Where: Intersection of Lindsey and Asp Avenue

KINGSLEY BURNS/THE DAILY

Casca (right), played by drama junior Andrew Rathgeber, grabs Cassius, drama junior Brooke Reynolds, during dress rehearsal of ‘Ceasar 2012’ Thursday in the Weitzenhoffer Theatre. The play is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’, setting the play’s power struggle in the framework of a modern political election.

CRIME

Number of sex offense reports risesIncreased reporting may not mean more assaults occurring on campus

‘Julius Caesar’ takes a modern twist

PAIGHTEN HARKINSCampus Reporter

A new microbiology study abroad program will infect OU’s Arezzo cam-pus next July and make it easier for science ma-jors to earn credit while abroad.

T h e s u m m e r p r o -gram will include OU’s basic immunology and pathogenic microbiology courses and will join two other science programs already offered in Arezzo — Organic Chemistry/Chemistry & Wine Culture and Chemistry & Art.

Science classes offered abroad are a rare phe-nomena for a number of reasons, immunology professor Casie Collamore said in an email.

“I think part of the rarity is because it seems daunt-ing to offer hard science courses in a four week time frame,” she said. “Some subjects just can’t be tailored to fit such a tight schedule and expect the students to really ab-sorb the material. Another problem is that many hard science faculty also have research labs that require their attention, and it is difficult to leave the lab bench and their students for a long period of time.”

This isn’t the first time the microbiolog y de-partment has attempted to offer classes abroad, Collamore said. A few years ago, pathogenic microbiology professor Tyrrell Conway submitted a proposal to teach a mi-crobiology class, but it was denied because it wasn’t going to be taught along-side a second course.

As microbiology advi-sor, Collamore spoke with a number of microbiol-ogy students who want-ed to study abroad but couldn’t because none of the offered classes

STUDY ABROAD

Science course offered abroad Arezzo campus opens course in July

LECTURE

Expert talks global marketsEconomist has founded multiple financial groupsEMMA HAMBLENCampus Reporter

An economist named “the father of financial fu-tures” by Time Magazine in 2007 will discuss his most recent publication on financial derivatives at a dinner and lecture at OU next month.

Richard Sandor uses personal experience in the global markets to il-lustrate the power of f i n a n c i a l i n n ov a t i o n in “Good Derivatives : A s t o r y o f F i n a n c i a l a n d E n v i r o n m e n t a l Innovation,” according to an OU press release.

The reception will start at 6 p.m. on Oct. 1 in Sandy Bell Gallery in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. A book-signing will follow the dinner, univer-sity spokesman Michael Nash said in an email.

“Mr. Sandor is one of Amer ica’s most wel l-known economists. His expertise in global eco-nomics will make for a very interesting discussion on today’s current financial climate,” Nash said.

Sandor served as vice president and chief econo-mist of the Chicago Board of Trade in the early 1970s, according to the press release. He founded the Chicago Climate Exchange i n 2 0 0 3 , t h e C h i cag o Climate Futures Exchange in 2004 and the European Climate Exchange in 2005. He has served as chief economist for The Chicago Board of Trade and is a member of the Board of Governors of the School of

SEE EVENT PAGE 2

SEE ABROAD PAGE 2

KINGSLEY BURNS/THE DAILY

Marilyse Figueroa, English writing senior, cuts letters for the Psychology department bulletin board Thursday in Dale Hall Tower.

2 0 1 1 S I L V E R C R O W N W I N N E R

Soccer bearing down Sooners take on Baylor (Page 3)

AT A GLANCEMicrobiologyin ArezzoBasic Immunology: 4000 level course about immune response to pathogens

Pathogenic Microbiology4000 level course teaching pathogenic infenctions

Source: Cassie Collamore & http://catalog.ou.edu/courses/microbiology_

courses.htm

For additional information on the SWAT program

Phone: (405) 325-4183

Online: http://www.ou.edu/content/� nancialed/swat.html

AT A GLANCE: For Additional Info

SEE ASSAULT PAGE 2

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CAMPUSOUDaily.com ››OU received a gift commitment of $600,000 from the Rainbolt family of Oklahoma City. President David Boren announced the gift at the Board of Regents meeting this week.

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TODAY AROUND CAMPUSGuess the Score sponsored by Union Programming Board will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s first floor lobby. Students will have the chance to guess the score for Saturday’s football game and win prizes.

Mid Day Music will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s food court.

A symposium over water and sanitation issues in developing countries and hosted by the OU WaTER Center will be held from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union, Governors and Regent Rooms.

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were required for their de-grees. When she heard that Conway’s proposal had been denied, she spoke with him and they came up with a new proposal together, Collamore said.

T h e t w o p r o f e s s o r s thought Arezzo would be the perfect place to teach the two classes because it is the birthplace of Francesco R e d i , a p h y s i c i a n w h o helped disprove spontane-ous generation. This find-ing led to the Golden Age of Microbiology, a time dur-ing which scientists discov-ered that microbes exist and

cause disease, Collamore said.

“It is thought [Francesco Redi’s] body is buried there as well, but nobody can find it,” Collamore said. “It seemed like a very fit-ting place to teach the two subjects.”

Conway and Collamore will teach the pathogenic microbiology course and immunology course respec-tively. While pathogenic mi-crobiology is required for microbiology majors, basic immunology is a popular course commonly taken by microbiology majors to meet their elective require-ments, Collamore said.

Only 20 students will be

able to enroll in the program next summer, and those students will be chosen on a “first applied-first accept-ed” basis, international pro-grams coordinator Karen Elmore said in an email.

B e cau s e o f t h e s ma l l number of students able to enroll, the rarity of sci-ence classes abroad and the amount of student feed-back they’ve received, both Elmore and Collamore said they are optimistic about filling the classes.

Paighten [email protected]

ABROAD: Limited spots availableContinued from page 1

Art Institute of Chicago and the Board of Visitors for the International Programs Center at OU, according to the press release.

Additionally, Sandor has held academic positions at several institutions includ-ing the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, the business schools at the University of California at B erkele y, Stanford University, and Columbia University, and is currently at the University of Chicago Law School.

He is also a distinguished professor of environmen-tal finance at Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in China, according to the press release.

Emma [email protected]

AT A GLANCEHow to AttendRSVP by calling OU Public Affairs at(405) 325-3784 or emailing at [email protected]

l i ke t h e S e xu a l A ssau l t Response Team, the new Title IX coordinator and the recent changes to the sexual misconduct policy, which now defines consent, Stroud said.

“We have broken the bar-riers down and encouraged sexual misconduct victims to come forward,” Stroud said. “We have provided them an avenue to seek jus-tice and to provide educa-tion to prevent these events from happening.”

Sexual assaults can be difficult for administrators

and law enforcement to pin down an exact num-ber of occurrences. The Department of Justice re-leased a report in August that stated rape and sexual assault were one of the top unreported crimes with 65 percent of these incidents go unreported.

OU Police Department spokesman Lt. Bruce Chan said the university has pre-ventative measures, as well as programs that facilitate reporting sexual assault. Students have access to SafeWalk and SafeRide, Chan said. These programs help students get home from late night studying or

festivities.“Student safety is very im-

portant to us,” Chan said.The Sooner Safety and

Fire Report is released each year and details crime sta-tistics on campus to com-ply with federal regulations. The report also features fire reports and other safety in-formation such as policies and phone numbers.

Chase [email protected]

Jarrett [email protected]

ASSAULT: 65 percent of rapes go unreportedContinued from page 1

LIBRARY

Endowment given for library exhibit

The OU Athletics Department has endowed $500,000 to University Libraries’ Books That Inspire exhibit and History of Science Collections.

Joe Castiglione, vice president for Intercollegiate Athletics at OU, estab-lished a partnership with Sul H. Lee, emeritus dean of University Libraries, to launch the Books That Inspire exhibit, which annu-ally coincides with National Library Week and promotes reading across campus, according to an OU press release.

The exhibit began in 2000, Sarah Robbins, the public relations director for OU libraries, said.

The recently established endowment from the

athletics department is an outgrowth of this partner-ship, according to the press release.

It will continue to fund the Books That Inspire exhibit and the History of Science Collections, according to the press release.

“This partnership will have an enormous impact on students and scholars at the university for genera-tions to come,” Lee said, according to the press release.

Emma [email protected]

RESEARCH

Record number of research awards received

OU’s Norman cam-pus faculty received an all-time high in research awards this past year.

The Norman campus received a record $93 million in research awards for the 2012 � s-cal year, according to a press release.

“During a challenging economy, our faculty worked exceptionally hard to achieve this remarkable record, which bene� ts the state of Oklahoma by continu-ing to spur economic growth,” President David Boren said in the release.

Norman campus research expenses have increased by more than 70 percent over the past 10 years.

This funding will be used to support a new department of the Interior Climate Science Center, renewal of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Research and a new Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, according to the release.

Ali [email protected]

GO AND DOHistory of Science exhibitWhere: Fifth � oor of Bizzell Memorial Library

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THUMBS UP: The OU Athletics Department has given $500,000 to an annual University Libraries’ exhibit and its History of Science Collections. (Page 2)

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teams they played actually are.

“Some teams we’ve made look better than I think they were,” Potter said. “Is [Baylor] the best team we have faced so far? Maybe. I don’t know that until we get to play the game.”

Howell said Baylor is a team that causes problems the Sooners haven’t seen since playing Oklahoma State.

“We are expecting a very aggressive team, some-thing we haven’t seen since the OSU game,” she said. “[Baylor] doesn’t have a star player on their team. They move the ball well, but they are very aggressive. That’s how we’ve heard they win games and that’s how they’ve won games in the past.”

Luckily, the Sooners play the Bears in Norman where they have been dangerous (3-2-1) so far in the season. One other thing Oklahoma has going for it is that it has played to the level of their competition, and this up-c o m i n g c o m p e t i t i o n i s good.

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SOCCEr

Sooners to battle with Bears at home

Ben Williams/The Daily

Senior forward renae Cuellar dribbles down the field during the soccer team’s Bedlam match against then-No. 3 Oklahoma State. Cuellar scored the only goal of the match to propel the Sooners to a 1-0 victory over the rival Cowgirls for the first time in 11 matchups.

RoSS StRackeSports Reporter

It has been three games since the OU soccer team stunned the nation and took down powerhouse Oklahoma State, but in that time, the Sooners have two losses and one tie and will host a tough Baylor squad at 7 tonight at John Crain Field.

Tou g h e ve n m ig ht b e an understatement at this point. Statistically, the Bears are dominating the Big 12, leading the league in 10 out of 14 categories and every offensive category except corners.

Junior defender Annalisa Hall said she has taken no-tice of a different category the Bears are leading in, fouls.

“They are more of an ath-letic team, and that’s what I have heard that they rely on is their athleticism,” Hall said. “I think it’s going to be more of them bodying up on us. It’s going to be a very physical game, not so much actually playing soccer.”

Coach Matt Potter said

Baylor leads the Big 12 in 10 of 14 offensive categories

he is eager for the challenge Baylor poses.

“I hear good things about them collectively as a team,” Potter said. “Obviously, they have got their threats up front, but I think collective-ly as a team that’s what I’m

excited to see.”To beat Baylor, the Sooners

are going to have to play much better than they have recently. Last Sunday, they were shut out by SMU and gave up more goals (three) than they had allowed in a

single game all season.J u n i o r m i d f i e l d e r

Samantha Howell said OU’s recent play hasn’t reflected the hard work the players put in every day.

“We are a pretty competi-tive team, so it’s whether

we can take what we do and practice and translate it into the game,” Howell said. “I don’t think we have been beat, just beaten ourselves.”

Potter said the outcome of the Sooners’ games doesn’t always reflect how good the

Our View: When you’re filled with Sooner pride during football season, don’t forget other fellow students who need your support.

Football season has begun, and thousands of students will be braving the crowds to go to home games and cheer on the team. We’ve writ-ten often urging you to attend even those games that are easy wins.

But other students contribute to OU’s excel-lence who are just as successful as the foot-ball team and just as deserving of your support.

The Peggy Dow Helmerich School of Drama is the second oldest academic theater program in the nation, and the Max Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre is the only program of its kind.

University Theater produces a full cal-ender of shows each year — all of which are al-most entirely produced by students.

The major shows often are well-attended, but sometimes more by donors than students. The minor shows often garner much less attention. If you see a show like “Seussical: The Musical” or “Dracula” in the calender, you might imme-diately get excited about seeing it.

But what about shows like “Cheese” or “Iphigénie en Tauride” that you aren’t necessar-ily familiar with?

These productions all are engaging perfor-mances, and some are better than what you can see from a professional company. And it’s all student work that creates them.

These students and their impressive accom-plishments deserve your support — even if you don’t recognize the title of the play.

If you find out more about upcoming

productions, you might even be surprised at which ones catch your interest.

For example, are you interested in politics? The upcoming “Julius Caesar” will take place in a modern setting and sharply parody the elec-tion season.

Does a darker take and a surrealist, psycho-logical journey sound more like you? “Lion in the Streets” explores the power dynamics in a romantic relationship against the backdrop of a sexual assault.

Or maybe you’d prefer a witty explo-ration of edgier themes like sex and intimacy? “In the Next Room” (or “The Vibrator Play”) follows a young woman’s sexual journey as she receives the newly invented treatment for female hysteria.

Even if theater doesn’t appeal to you, OU students need your support across

the arts district.OU’s School of Dance was ranked in the top

three of all dance programs in the nation by Dance Magazine.

Students from the school perform several shows throughout the year with an emphasis on classical ballet and modern dance.

Upcoming performances include “Iphigénie en Tauride” and the “Oklahoma Festival Ballet,” which will feature works from “Cinderella.”

Or, if music is more your thing, OU’s School of Music is a comprehensive program that offers instruction in a wide range of instruments.

This school holds more performances than any other group on campus, featuring a wide diversity of performers, instruments, styles and genres.

Whichever kind of performance excites you, this is the time to immerse yourself in cultural

opportunities. College students have more con-venient access to the arts, right here on campus, than they ever will again.

And understanding and appreciating these works teaches things about humanity and soci-ety that are irreplaceable. Understanding art is essential to leading a full, rich life.

Even if you don’t particularly care about art for its own sake, or the particulars of these performances, attending these shows is your chance to show your pride in all of OU’s accom-plishments and to support your fellow students in their hard work.

So, after the fireworks fade from the last touchdown this weekend, exit the stadium and head to the theater.

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University Theater:

“Julius Caesar” by William shakespeare

8 p.m. sept. 21, 23, 27-29 3 p.m. sept. 23, 30

Find a link to the full calendar at OUDaily.com

School of Music:

OU symphony Orchestra performance

8 p.m. to 10 p.m. sept. 24 sharp Concert hall

Find the full calendar at music.ou.edu/calendar

School of Dance:

“iphigénie en Tauride”

Oct. 17-21 Reynolds Performing arts Center

Find the full calendar at ou.edu/finearts/dance

School of Art:

Graphic Design association exhibit

Oct. 3-18 lightwell Gallery

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Nedbalek and Praizner also are in a six-piece band, The Samurai Conquistadors, which Nedbalek described as having “a pretty strict vision” compared to the riffing, laid-back nature of Tree Piece.

The three initially bonded over their mutual admiration for Norwegian instrumen-tal rock outfit The Samuel Jackson Five. That, combined with the fact that none of them can sing, Morgan said, led them to the decision that Tree Piece would be an in-strumental band, too.

“ The biggest focus of Tree Piece has been to play

whatever came naturally to us, and this is most defi-nitely it,” Morgan said. “I’m not going to worry about the fact that we don’t have a sing-er just because most other bands do. And I don’t feel it in any way limits our ability to be expressive.”

Tree Piece combines guitar, bass, saxophone and drums to create its signature instru-mental sound. Other than The Samuel Jackson Five, the band members said they count such artists as Dilute, Piglet, Andrew Bird, Victor Wooten and John Coltrane as influences.

Morgan said they like to experiment with the way they create the music, thus mak-ing up for any depth that may be lost with the lack of a lead singer.

“We don’t have vocals, don’t really dig electronic sounds and frequently use odd time signatures, major keys and more colorful chord shapes,” Morgan said. “Not intentionally, exactly, but

and stone walls sent a throwback to the Julius Caesar of early Rome.

TV screens on both sides of the stage provided the perfect updated touch to the show and flashed footage from political rallies, dis-playing everyone from John F. Kennedy to Adolf Hitler.

At first, the placement

of Shakespearean prose in such a modern setting seemed strange. However, as the plot evolved, it was easy to see how times may have changed, but the core principles of the play still hold true in modern society.

Violence and greed, driven by pure political ambition, can corrupt and

destroy the most honorable of men.

Fitting with the time peri-od change, the gender roles in the University Theatre production were completely switched in some cases. Most importantly, Caesar was portrayed as a woman, while her husband took the traditional female role of

Calpurnia.

Megan Deaton is an international and area studies and journalism junior.

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Casca (left), played by drama junior Andrew rathgeber, reacts as he is grabbed by Cassius, played by drama junior Brooke reynolds, during a dress rehearsal of “Ceasar 2012” on Thursday in the weitzenhoffer Theatre. The play is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” setting the play’s power struggle in the framework of a modern political election.

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Some high school relation-ships really are meant to last.

As is the case with the three members of Norman band Tree Piece — Geo Morgan, Zach Nedbalek and Josh Praizner — who have been together since graduating from Norman North in 2007 and 2008.

Tree Piece will be playing a show at Gray Owl Coffee tonight, marking the band’s first performance in about five months.

Morgan and Praizner met in jazz band in high school, and Nedbalek knew them both from being in a differ-ent band, Action!, with each of them.

“We’ve all just been kind of jamming together in all dif-ferent bands, and then we just decided to start this up as a fun little side project,” Nedbalek said.

What began strictly as a way to let loose, he said, turned into something a bit more.

“It started out as just for fun, and to a big extent it still is,” Nedbalek said. “When we started this, we were all in other bands that were re-ally serious, so this was kind of our excuse to get together and play music and not over think it.”

Tree Piece to perform at Gray Owl Coffee tonight

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In an election year, few plays are better suited for audiences than “Julius Caesar.” OU’s Peggy Dow Helmerich School of Drama’s production of the classic opens this weekend and puts a modern twist on a tragic tale that warns of the dangers of political ambition.

For those unfamiliar with the plot, “Julius Caesar” is William Shakespeare’s tale of how Caesar was slain by Roman senators and the chaotic aftermath.

The OU performers re-tained Shakespeare’s clas-sic prose in their rendition, although there were many major changes to the play, including an entire shift in time period.

Shakespeare’s version of “Julius Caesar” was set in 44 B.C., while University Theatre’s version transports viewers to the year 2012,

complete with televisions and iPhones. Guns take the place of swords and an e-reader replaces the classic scroll for an entirely modern setting.

The intimate setting of the Weitzenhoffer Theatre allows for close interactions between the viewers and actors.

With such a modern set-ting, the actors are hard to differentiate from the theatergoers in everyday clothing. Nevertheless, it was clear that great care was taken in all of the costume and set designs.

The set remained un-changed throughout the show but was versatile enough to let the audience’s imagination form the set-ting. With a balcony serv-ing as a political platform, the set mimicked a political rally, but a marble platform

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I’m sure a large part of why we find these ways beau-tiful is because they are uncommon.”

The trio has been out of the loop for a little while, as Praizner had been unable

to play because of a back injury.

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