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A group of bird rehabilita-tors impressed and informed audiences with nearly a dozen species of Oklahoma’s avian wildlife at Norman’s Medieval Fair Friday through Sunday.

T h e R o y a l Gauntlet Birds of Prey, an or-ga n i z at i o n o f licensed falcon-ers and volun-teers based in Coweta, Okla., made its 17th trip to Reaves Park to educate fairgoers, collect donations and share their pas-sion for their re-cuperating raptors, said Bob Aanonsen, Master Falconer.

Aanonsen and his team of volunteers put on a 30-min-ute show on the Camelot Stage of the fairgrounds three times daily Friday through Sunday. Vested in medieval-themed threads, Aanonsen discussed biolo-gy, ecology and conservation while the various species of owl, hawk, and falcon soared

across the audience to and from their handlers.

“It’s so much different than seeing them in a zoo because you’re virtual-ly two inches away from this bird,” Aanonsen said. “They all have their per-sonalities, and they’re dif-ferent, every single one of them.”

Peregrine and saker fal-cons, sharp-s h i n n e d and red-tail h a w k s a n d great horned and Eurasian e a g l e o w l s were featured in the show, a n d s e v e r -al other spe-cies were kept at the Royal G a u n t l e t ’s t e n t i n t h e n o r t h w e s t

area of the fairgrounds.The American kestrel,

rough-legged hawk, ferru-ginous hawk, red-shoul-dered hawk and Northern harrier are also classified as birds of prey by their keen eyesight, hooked beaks and sharp talons, ac-cording to the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife

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Tamara Vanderhoof has been drawing intricate, temporary tattoos on peo-ple’s skin in her booth at the Medieval Fair for 17 years.

“I’ve always been an artsy, craftsy person,” Vanderhoof said. “And I realized henna wasn’t something being d o n e a t t h e s e t y p e s o f events.”

Henna is a form of design, she said. It’s a custom whose origins date back to thou-sands of years ago in coun-tries from Africa and Asia.

This art of temporary tat-tooing took its name from the flowering plant from which the designs are made, she said. In its dried, pow-dered condition, the red-or-ange lawsone, or hennotan-nic acid, present in henna plant leaves is small enough to penetrate skin cells and dye many different surfac-es such as skin, fingernails, hair, leather, silk and wool.

“Henna often just seems

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Pirates, assassins, princesses, elves, maidens and the pope were among those in the menagerie of masked peo-ple hoping to win the Saturday leg of the Medieval Fair’s daily costume contest.

The outfitted individuals flaunted their costumes at around 1:30 p.m., going on to the chess board-themed Camelot Stage and introducing themselves, telling wheth-

er their costumes were hand-made or store-bought and then giving a little twirl.

For the winner of the teen portion of the contest, who goes by the name Lady Katherine Swynford, win-ning the contest was just a fun part of the day, which she says was ultimately made by getting to hang around the king and queen of the fair all day, she said.

“The king is hilarious,” Swynford said.

Swynford’s costume, a creamy white dress, com-plete with head jewelry re-sembling Princess Leia’s from Star Wars, was hand-made mostly by her mom, but she helped a little, she said.

Each contestant got about five minutes on stage to strut their stuff and let the judg-es know the effort that went into their medieval display. However, for at least one judge, a few minutes were all she needed.

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Chess match comes to life

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A man in black armor stood over a woman in a long gold and brown dress repeatedly striking her face with his fists. She eventually stopped mov-ing. Another woman in a jester hat jumped from the sidelines and joined them on the white and black-checkered platform. She charged toward the man, snatched his sword and mockingly pranced around him while he chased her. He got another sword and they proceeded to duel. She turned a som-ersault, grabbed another knife and knocked the ar-mored man to the ground, striking him with the knife.

“Pawn takes rook in exchange for the queen. Check-mate,” the jester announced, and the crowd watching yelled “Huzzah!”

This was the final scene of the human chess game performed by members of a local non-profit called the Arthurian Order of Avalon at the Medieval Fair this Friday through Sunday on the Camelot stage at Reaves Park.

The human chess game is a 25- to 30-minute play, said Brendan Agnew, who plays the part of King Arthur and is the president

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Fairgoers travel back to Renaissance

ARiANNA PiCKARDCampus editor

Roughly 300,000 people escaped modern life and stepped into another era at the 37th annual Medieval Fair Friday through Sunday at Reaves Park.

Run through the Oklahoma Center for Continuing Education, the free fair featured 30 food vendors, 521 other vendors peddling

crafts, games, entertainment and education ex-hibits and thousands of people dressed in me-dieval attire, said John Angier, the fair’s logistics coordinator.

The fair also featured jousting, a human chess game and people dressed in costumes of every sort.

As Oklahoma’s largest single weekend event, the fair averages about 300,000 attendees, Angier said. The highest attendance at the fair was seven or eight years ago when 600,000 peo-ple came to the event.

Employees at the fair gauge the attendance by

measuring the substance in the privies, or por-table toilets, when they’re emptied out at the end of each night, Angiere said. There is a for-mula that can be used to estimate the amount of people at the event from the amount of sub-stance in these toilets.

The fair was held on the South Oval when it was first started 37 years ago, but outgrew it and moved to OU’s Duck Pond at Brandt Park, which it then outgrew and was moved to Reaves Park at Jenkins Avenue and Constitution Street, Angier said.

Vendors, performers offer free weekend of family entertainment

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Fairgoers partake in costume contestCompetition features contenders decked out in medieval-style clothing

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Falconers teach audience medieval history of raptorsGroup rescues 23 birds this year

Artists create natural tattoosHenna made from plant-based dye

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go anD DoFor costume enthusiasts, here is another costume contest coming in JuneWhat: soonercon 22, a science-fi ction fantasy media convention

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Members of the Medieval Fair wait in line at the Royal court to meet the King and Queen on saturday.

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An OU freshman met for-mer President Bill Clinton at a global initiative conference Friday and started her jour-ney toward alleviating pov-erty in Nepal.

When University College freshman Kanchan Amatya first saw Baseri, a remote vil-lage in west Nepal, she knew she had to do something about the villagers’ living condition.

There are no direct roads - Amatya had to hike for days and cross rivers - but when she finally got there, the scenery inspired her, she said.

“It was an eye-opening ex-perience,” she said. “Being from Kathmandu [Nepal’s capital], I thought it was im-possible that places like this existed, especially in my country.”

Baseri is green, mountain-ous and beautiful, but chil-dren have to walk for hours for supplies, Amatya said.

Amatya first heard about it from her schoolmate, Penna Lama, who was born in Baseri and had to leave behind everyone she knew

to pursue an education in Kathmandu, Amatya said.

A f t e r h e a r i n g a b o u t Baseri, Amatya decided to do something about the vil-lagers’ poverty, she said.

At her high school, the United World College of the Red Cross Nordic in Norway, Amatya or-g a n i z e d s e v e r a l f u n d r a i s -e r s, s h o w s a n d c a f e s w i t h S a v e t h e Fu t u re Generation, s h e s a i d . S h e u s e d the funds to help put in-frastructure i n B a s e r i schools, she said.

But that wasn’t enough.“I felt like I needed to do

more,” Amatya said.She devised a project that

involved Baseri villagers.She decided they should

use these ponds as f ish farms and teach villagers about fish farming in their rice paddies to provide a way for the villagers to receive in-come, Amatya said.

Amatya’s project will pro-vide the villagers with loans to purchase supplies needed

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Freshman works to aide Nepal’s poor

to start the fish farms, she said. Armed with knowledge of how fish farms work, the villagers are expected to pay back the loans at a 5 percent interest.

Clinton looks at the nu-merous projects submit-ted to the Clinton Global

I n i t i a t i v e e a c h y e a r, Amatya said. Clinton then chooses 16 projects, and the winner i s c h o s e n by popular vote.

Amat ya’s p r o j e c t , “Sustainable Fish Farming Project” is in the top four

in the nation, according to the Clinton Global Initiative University website.

Although her project did not win, being in the top four means that her project will still receive funding and sup-port, Amatya said.

Amatya was supported

by Craig Hayes, coordinator of the Davis United World College scholar program at OU, she said. When he heard about the project, he imme-diately got the word out to faculty, staff, and students.

“To think that her project is now in the top four in the nation? There is no sliding that … that’s an amazing ac-complishment,” Hayes said.

Amatya represented OU at the sixth annual Clinton Global Initiative Meeting on Friday. Besides Clinton, the three-day conference featured fashion designer Kenneth Cole and Stephen Colbert, news satirist.

Amatya saw this as an opportunity to network and raise funds for Baseri, since she met many power-ful and accomplished peo-ple at the conference, she said. Amatya has also been selected for a private din-ner with Chelsea Clinton, Bi l l C l i nto n ’s dau g hte r and board member of the Clinton Foundation.

“This is a big opportunity for change,” Amatya said.

“Being from Kathmandu [Nepal’s

capital], I thought it was impossible

that places like this existed, especially in

my country.”KanChan amatya,

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Jennene Stanley, con-test judge and professional costume-maker, who was dressed in a maroon and tan dress with a floral pattern she made herself, said as a judge she looks for costumes that were homemade. Past that, she wants to know if they are completed, with no undone stitches or hastily put togeth-er fixes, she said.

S h e a l s o w a n t s t h e c o s t u m e s t o b e body-appropriate.

“That doesn’t necessarily mean the person has to be skinny. It just needs to look good on their body,” Stanley said. “My favorite example is someone showing up as Princess Leia with Jabba the Hutt’s figure.”

To Stanley, though, cos-tumes don’t just make for a fun spectacle. They’re an in-tegral part of the fair, she said.

Looking around the fair, which was packed with peo-ple of every age, many were dressed in some kind of cos-tume, spanning well out of

the reach of the medieval times, including mermaids or modern video game char-acters like Ezio Auditore from the Assassin’s Creed franchise.

One year, a group of people showed up to the fair as Star Trek characters, Stanley said.

“It’s always an adventure to see who shows up,” she said.

Plainly-dressed people

waited in the line to get a fro-zen lemonade, followed by a member of an imagined royal court, dressed in a long flow-ing dress with braided hair — and no one gave her a second look, unless to admire her costume.

“It’s a weekend that any-one can wear just about any-thing and not have to worry about getting thrown in the

loony bin,” Stanley said.T h e c o s t u m e c o nt e s t

ended around 3 p.m., and as the winners were an-nounced, the menagerie of people dressed as pirates, angry blacksmiths, satyrs, creatures who look like a human with the feet and tails of a goat, and more dispersed into the crowded park to con-tinue the weekend festivities.

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tamara Vanderhoof temporarily tattoos Moore resident Kim Diuguid with henna sunday at norman’s Medieval Fair.

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chess: Court jester intervenes to seal winContinued from page 1

of the Arthurian Order of Avalon. The characters act as the chess pieces, and when one of them takes another, there’s a fight to see who gets to take the square.

The fights are all prewrit-ten like a choreographed dance using dull but real steel sword s, Agnew said.

“It’s kind of our bread and butter,” Agnew said.

The performance features Arthurian legends and ideals of chivalry and knighthood by combining drama with martial arts, Agnew said. Participants start rehearsing about seven months before the fair and learn how to use weapons and wear armor, a lot of which is made by participants.

The part of Dagonet, King Arthur’s jester, was played by Kate Robertson, who said she brings comedic relief to the performance when sit-uations get too serious and steps in to fight when some-one is in trouble.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re a woman; you can still kick some serious butt,” she said.

Robertson said she be-ca m e i nt e re s t e d i n t h e Medieval Fair when she at-tended it as a “wee child” and was entranced by all the people in costumes singing, dancing and jousting.

“I said I want to do that. So I did,” she said.

When Robertson isn’t turning somersaults and going sword-to-sword with dark knights on a giant chess-board, she entertains at vari-ous parties, she said.

“I take flaming balls on the ends of chains, and I swing them about my body in a way that one might consider dancing,” she said.

She said she also performs by tying herself in ribbons in the air and swings back and forth on trapezes.

R o b e r t s o n h a s s o m e

gymnastics experience and a lot of dancing, martial arts and combat choreography experience, she said. She began studying pre-med-icine at OU but switched her major to acting. She left school before graduating because she decided no one would really care if she had an acting degree or not.

One woman watching the human chess game on

Saturday, Diane McCall, said Dagonet the jester was her fa-vorite character.

“I really liked Dagonet – she was a lot of fun,” McCall said.

McCall said she’s come to the fair about seven or eight times throughout the years and likes to learn about how people lived in the medieval era.

“It’s a part of history, part

of the past,” she said. “The way they used to do things is interesting and fun to see how far we’ve come - we have all the conveniences, and how it was back then is just interesting.”

Robertson said she thinks it’s important for people today to learn about the Medieval times so history doesn’t repeat itself.

“History is always import-ant, isn’t it? Something about we’re doomed to repeat it,” she said. “Hopefully not this era though - I think repeating it right here is good enough.”

After 14 years of partici-pating in the fair, Robertson said it’s a place where she can connect with old friends whom she only sees once or twice a year.

“This fair will always have a very soft spot in my heart - it’s my home,” she said. “I’ve been here forever, and I’m sure to keep coming back. It’s home.”

at a glanCeArthurian order of Avalon• A non-profit organization in Norman dedicated to medieval life and history for the purpose of entertainment and education.

• Activities include feasts, dance, music, fight choreography, jousting, riding and armor-crafting.

• In addition to performing at the Medieval Fair of norman, members also participate in the iron thistle Festival april 27-28 in yukon and soonercon, a science fiction convention June 28 to 30.

Source: Brendan Agnew, president of the board of directors of the Arthurian Order of Avalon

like Barbie doll cake decorating,” Vanderhoof said. “But it can be really beautiful and takes a lot of practice.”

Henna can be applied with many traditional and inno-vative tools, including cones, syringes, brushes or fingers, she said. After time, the dried-up paste is scraped away leaving the desired stained design, she said.

Henna tattoos are orange soon after application but darken in a few days to a reddish-brown, she said. They can last a couple of weeks, up to over a month, depending on how long the henna stays on, the placement, individu-al skin types, washing habits and other factors.

Clayton Roberts became Vanderhoof’s work and life partner nine years ago, when they met at her henna booth at a county fair in Arkansas, she said.

Arkansas is now home to the duo, but they travel year-round, sharing their talent at similar events nationwide.

“Norman is lovely, and the people are great,” Roberts said. “It’s a pleasant atmosphere, and we both really enjoy it.”

The City of Norman’s ordinance prohibits smoking and alcoholic beverages in city parks, according to the Medieval Fair website. Pets are allowed, though leash laws are strictly enforced.

“The rules make this a very family-friendly venue,” Roberts said. “Everyone is generally in a good mood, there’s less trouble and a dog pretty much everywhere you look – it’s fun.”

Their henna tattoos average between $15 and $20, de-pending on the intricacy. Still, they work with people’s budgets, because the experience is worth more than the money to them, he said.

Conservation.The team has taken in 23

rescues this year from all over Oklahoma that have sus-tained injuries from preda-tors, hunters and cars and contracted diseases from in-sect bites including West Nile virus and even malaria in the past, Aanonsen said.

“It’s kind of a slow year,” Aanonsen said. “Usually we’re probably up to around 90.”

Jessie, a 3-year-old Harris’ hawk, proved the instinctive

independence of the raptors during the group’s first show of the weekend. Her name is from a Latin root meaning “to seize,” Aanonsen said.

In one demonstration, Jessie f lew well beyond the hooked arm of trainer, Shannon Cole, to perch on a tall tree several hundred feet above and behind the audi-ence of the outdoor stage.

“She has quite the attitude, but we have learned to work with each other,” Cole said.

“She makes my life complete along with my husband, al-though I like her sometimes better than him.”

Within a couple minutes, Aanonsen lured Jessie from the treetop with raw bits of food.

However, it’s always a pos-sibility that the birds don’t re-turn to the trainer’s gauntlet, the Kevlar glove protecting the trainer’s forearm from 200 to 700 pounds of talon pressure depending on the

species of raptor, Aanonsen said.

Gaining trust through training is part of the reha-bilitation process, Aanonsen said.

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The Texas A&M University Student Senate is at-tempting to cut off services for GLBTQ students. The senate passed a bill allowing students to opt out of student fees for organizations they disagree with for religious reasons.

The language in the bill was changed at the last minute to mask its real purpose, to deny funding to the GLBT campus resource center. Twenty-four hours before the bill was passed, the name had been the “GLBT Funding Opt Out Bill.”

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“Abuse” means using something for a negatively improper use, misusing some-thing or causing damage or harm in some way. There is nothing positive or okay about it.

Many people use this word casually, whether they are di-rectly or indirectly talking to someone else. While the person who said it is likely being sarcastic or kidding, it’s not a joking matter to everyone.

It’s time to stop using the words “retard” or “retarded” in the form of an insult, whether you use it lightheartedly or not. This word may not carry much meaning to some, but to many who are mentally challenged, the word is offensive and hurtful.

For this reason, Special Olympics began promoting a campaign called “Spread the Word to End the Word.”

Soeren Palumbo, a co-founder of the campaign, said in an email interview this is an education and engagement cam-paign aimed at bringing awareness to the hurtful and dan-gerous consequences of the words “retard” and “retarded.” He explained how this campaign came to be and why the message behind it is so meaningful and important.

“[My colleague and I] thought to ourselves that generally, most people don’t like causing others pain and therefore, there must have been a lack of awareness regarding the effect that this word has on people with intellectual dis-abilities, as well as their friends, families and colleagues,” Palumbo said.

Besides the Special Olympics, Palumbo explained how college students are also actively playing a role in the campaign.

“This was an issue that could be championed by young people, especially college students. We de-signed an engagement event and called on student leaders at colleges and universities to bring this issue to their campuses through pledge drives,” Palumbo said.

Spread the Word to End the Word has reached several hundred colleges and uni-versities, as well as thousands of high schools and plans to continue spreading.

The more people learn about the rippling effects of this word, the sooner people may think twice before using it out of context.

“By addressing this source of pain expe-rienced by people with intellectual disabilities, Spread the Word is improving lives,” Palumbo said. “At the same time, Spread the Word brings together people with and without intellectual disabilities as collaborators and partners in advocacy.”

Campaigns like Spread the Word are great in advocating change, but change doesn’t just start with a campaign; it starts with you. By eliminating the usage of the words “re-tard” or “retarded,” you’re being kind and considerate by acknowledging concerns and feelings of others who feel dis-respected by the terms.

The proposal to stop using these words is not asking much; all you have to do is think before you speak. Is it too hard to find another word to use? Even if the word is not di-rected or used toward someone mentally challenged, the continuous use of the word preserves the ideology that men-tally challenged people are people of incompetence and stu-pidity by solidifying a negative association with the words.

Special Olympics athlete John Franklin Stephens has Downs Syndrome and finds the use of the word ‘retard’ to be

inappropriately used too often. In a blog post as a response to a particular tweet, he expressed how ‘retard’ carries a heavy meaning and is more detrimental than some people realize.

On Oct. 22, author and political commen-tator Ann Coulter tweeted, “I highly approve of Romney’s decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.”

Stephen’s response? “After I saw your tweet, I realized you just wanted to belittle the President by linking him to people like me,” Stephens wrote.

He went on to explain his emotional thought process after reading her tweet, and I recommend you read his response. His re-sponse to the Coulter’s tweet clearly conveys his message to her and the world that it’s im-

polite, degrading to use the word.This is a perfect example of how the word may impact

someone in a way you may not have realized.Maybe I’m just biased and feel sentimental about this

topic because I’ve witnessed firsthand how the r-word emo-tionally affected my mentally challenged cousin and my aunt, but I think it’s important to be mindful of how people feel. We don’t always realize our impact on others until we see it for ourselves.

If you can’t come up with a word to replace ‘retard,’ open up a thesaurus; I’m sure you’ll find an equally compatible word. There is not a good enough reason why you can’t sub-stitute it. Please show your respect. It’s one small change we can make in our lives that can make a bigger difference in other people’s lives.

If you’re interested in learning more about the campaign, you should visit www.r-word.org

Alex Niblett is a journalism junior.

At some point during our time at OU we have been handed

condoms. Student groups educate other students about safe sex once or twice a year by handing out male condoms and pamphlets on the South Oval. The infor-mation is basic, yet vital as it details how to use a condom.

Recently, administrators at Boston College threatened members of the Students for Sexual Health organization with expulsion for providing male and female condoms, along with information regarding safe sex practices. To en-sure students were educated and prepared, Boston College Students for Sexual Health designated dorm rooms across campus as a “Safe Sites.” The buildings and room numbers for the Safe Sites were listed on the group’s website. Students could knock on the door and ask for condoms and safe sex information, according to organization’s website. The entire process is quick and discreet.

Boston College administrators were outraged. Boston College is a Catholic Jesuit college and a privately funded institution. Boston College decided the best course of action was to send cease and desist letters and threaten students who did not comply with expulsion.

I understand the importance of religious beliefs, but safe sex practices are crucial to the health of college students. Contraception is a private choice. The students at the col-lege were not pushing the use of contraception on students. They were simply making condoms available to those who made the personal choice to use them.

Officials at Boston College claim contraception distribu-tion goes against its Catholic beliefs. Other Catholic colleges support Boston College’s course of action. “If a student or student group was doing something like this on our campus, we would ask them to stop,” Providence College spokesman Steve Maurano said in a report by the Boston Globe.

Denying contraception was deemed unconstitutional in 1965, according to Griswold v. Connecticut. Because of this, Boston College does not have the right to outlaw the educa-tion and practice of safe sex on their campus.

Many feel Boston College’s actions infringe on personal rights. So many, in fact, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts got involved. In a statement given to the Boston Globe, Sarah Wunsch, an attorney for the union, called the disciplinary action against students inappropri-ate. “The students have rights that are at stake here,” Wunsch said. The union said it will take legal action if Boston College does not rethink the decision to expel students.

We have the right to protect our bodies and educate our-selves in a way that makes that possible. Boston College’s decision infringes upon that right. Boston College officials need to look beyond their own religious beliefs and put stu-dent health first.

Sarah Sullivan is a professional writing junior.

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

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The “r-word” should be eliminated from our vocabulary

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10 Potential Guinness entry

14 Approximat-ing word

15 Before much longer, poetically

16 Margarita garnish

17 “Violet” or “sound” introduction

18 Wonk 19 Shark

stimulus 20 Gardener’s

device 22 Cysts 23 More com-

mon name for caustic soda

24 Issue 26 Juicy tidbit 30 Seedsman 32 Touched the

tarmac 33 Geraint’s

better half 35 Bowler’s

challenge 39 Violin’s

predecessor 41 Sash for

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43 Jerry and George’s TV buddy

44 Match up 46 Vacation

idea 47 Potter’s

apparatus 49 Be unable

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56 Rummage 63 Move

merchandise 64 Egyptian

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66 Great Lake name

67 Free from contaminants

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France 2 Empowered 3 Very small

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9 First name of two U.S. presidents

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29 Watch that runs without batteries

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51 Wandered about

52 Board of manicurists

53 Barbara Eden played one

54 Standard anesthetic, once

57 Weight of obligation

58 Gumbo need 59 It precedes

much testimony

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61 Indian restaurant bread

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T h e No. 2 O k l a h o m a women’s gymnastics team cruised its way to a fourth-straight NCAA Regional title in a defeat over Stanford, Penn State, Washington, Iowa and Southern Utah on Saturday at Lloyd Noble Center.

The top-seeded Sooners p o s t e d a t e a m s c o re o f 1 9 7 . 3 7 5 , a h e a d o f s e c-o n d - p l a c e S t a n f o r d ’s 196.800. The two teams will advance to the NCAA C h a m p i o n s h i p s i n L o s A n g e l e s f r o m A p r i l 1 9 through 21.

“It never gets old,” coach K.J. Kindler said. “This is our fourth-straight year of winning a regional, and I think it says a lot for how far our program has come and where we’re going.”

Oklahoma’s advance-ment to the Championship is the 10th straight for the Sooners and 13th in OU history.

The S o oner ’s op ene d the night on vault and con-tinued with strong perfor-mances on bars and beam before closing the night on floor and posting their high-est events score of the meet with a 49.425.

“Floor was a great rota-tion. It was impeccable,” Kindler said. “I couldn’t have ended it better if I had scripted it out.”

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OU’s second-ranked men’s gymnastics team won its 20th conference title Saturday at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Conference Championship in Colorado Springs, Colo.

The Sooners beat No. 4 Stanford, No. 9 California and No. 11 Air Force to claim their 12th conference crown in 15 years.

“I’m ecstatic for the performance our team did today,” coach Mark Williams said. “When I looked at this team early in the season, I didn’t expect a whole lot in terms of overall team success through-out the entire year, but they’ve met and exceeded all the expectations I’ve had for them.”

OU won five of the six individual event titles and took home the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation coach and gym-nast of the year awards, which went to coach Mark Williams and junior Presten Ellsworth, respectively.

“It just makes today’s win even bet-ter,” Williams said. “We certainly look forward to the challenge of the NCAA Championships coming up, and I think we put ourselves in a good position to contend for another national title.”

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Junior Taylor Spears performs an aerial back walkover during OU’s Jan. 18 meet against Denver. Spears won the beam, tied for first in the vault and had the highest all-around score in the win.

Ju n i o r Ta y l o r S p e a r s won her eighth all-around title of the season while the Sooners individually claimed five event titles — sophomore Rebecca Clark and Spears sharing the bar title, Spears sharing the beam title and senior Brie Olson and freshman Haley Scaman sharing the floor title.

With the last meet in front of their home crowd this season, the gymnasts fed off of the fans’ energy.

“They were right there

with us the whole time, cheering for every routine,” junior Madison Mooring said. “To look up and just see them all cheering for you is a great feeling. They make us perform even bet-ter because we know that they love us, and we love them.”

F o l l o w i n g t h e m e e t , Kindler was announced the South Central Region Coach of the Year while assistant coaches Lou Ball and Tom Haley were named South Central Region Assistant

Coaches of the Year.With a bye week ahead,

the Sooners will waste no time to prepare, and they a re re a d y t o w o rk ha rd f o r t h e i r f i r s t Na t i o n a l Championship title.

“We are striving to be our best,” Mooring said. “We need to put ever y-thing we have out there for Nationals.”

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O K L A H O M A C I T Y — Driving to the basket in c r u n c h t i m e, Ray m o n d Felton slipped to the floor and lost the basketball in the process. All he could do was lunge back at it and bat it to-ward J.R. Smith as the shot clock ticked closer to zero.

For the second straight possession, Smith beat the buzzer — this time with a 3-pointer — and the Knicks closed out a 125-120 victory against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday.

“ He ma ke s p l ay s l i ke that. He makes tough shots. Sometimes I think he likes to take the tougher shot than the easier shot. They still go in,” said teammate Carmelo Anthony, who had 36 points and 12 rebounds while mov-ing ahead of Kevin Durant to become the NBA’s top scorer.

“That shot, it was a nail in the coffin.”

Smith finished with 22 points, including the two biggest shots of the game. He connected on a 23-foot jumper from the right wing as the 24-second clock ex-pired to put New York up 117-113 with 1:30 to play, then swished a 3-pointer with 56.8 seconds left that all but sealed New York’s 50th win of the season.

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accident, a great play,” Felton said. “I slipped, knocked the ball to him and he did the rest. He knocked down the big shot.”

The victory was the Knicks’ 12th in a row and put them at 50 wins for the first time in 13 years. They also moved 2 1/2 games ahead of Indiana for second place in the Eastern Conference and moved onto the doorstep of clinching the Atlantic Division title.

Russell Westbrook had 37 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists for Oklahoma City, which fell a game be-hind San Antonio for first place in the West with five games left.

The Thunder had gained control of the race for first by beating the Spurs but were unable to complete a three-game sweep of San Antonio, Indiana and New York in a less than 72-hour span.

“We’re good. We’ve got five more games to go,” said Durant, who scored 27. “We lost a tough one. This team, they shot the ball well to-night. They hit some tough shots all night. We forced them to shoot some tough ones and they hit them.

“You’ve got to tip your hat to them, but other than that, what’s the need to panic for? We’re good.”

Anthony’s scoring aver-age improved one-tenth of a point to 28.44, while Durant’s stayed about the same at 28.35.

“I try not to think about

that,” Anthony said. “I just go out there and play ball.”

A n t h o n y , p l a y i n g a t Oklahoma City for the first time since April 2010, added to one of the more colorful histories of any visiting play-er despite failing to extend his run of 40-point games to four. He tied Bernard King’s Knicks record with three in a

row, going for 50, 40 and 41 in his previous three games.

Anthony hit game-win-ners in the closing seconds of Denver’s only two games at Oklahoma City in 2009, then was knocked unconscious in the third quarter before re-turning in the fourth as the Nuggets rallied to win the 2010 game.

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No. 13 OU wins third conference series of seasonJono GrecoAssistant Sports Editor

The No. 13 Oklahoma baseball team did some-thing during the weekend no Sooner baseball squad has done since 1998: win a series against Texas.

After splitting the first two games — a 2-1 win Friday and a 1-0 loss Saturday — the Sooners (27-6, 7-2 Big 12) used a three-run eighth inning to come from behind and claim the 4-2 victory Sunday at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

The series win was OU’s third-straight series victory in conference play and first in Austin since 1997.

“It fel t great — real ly for our young men,” said coach Sunny Golloway in a postgame radio interview. “It was a tough weekend. We knew we were going to make a run, but — you know — you’d like to have made it earlier, but they countered. We made a run at the right time.”

The Sooners’ eighth-in-ning surge was powered by senior leadership and fin-ished off with a newcom-er making a splash in his first Red River Rivalry, fac-ing Texas’ Preseason All-American pitcher, junior Corey Knebel.

Senior shortstop Jack Mayfield, who went 3-for-5 in Sunday’s finale, led off the eighth with a single and advanced to third on a sac-rifice bunt and wild pitch before senior right fielder Max White tied the game with a soft line-drive RBI single.

After a strikeout by ju-nior first baseman Matt Oberste — whose hit streak came to an end at 30 games

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Junior first baseman Matt Oberste receives the throw from junior second baseman Hector Lorenzana for an out in the top of the sixth against the Jayhawks on March 29 at L. Dale Mitchell Park. The Sooners won by a walk-off sacrifice fly to win, 2-1. Oberste went hitless against Texas, ending his OU-record 30-game hit streak.

after he failed to get a hit in any game this weekend — and single by freshman designated hitter Kolbey Carpenter, junior second baseman Hector Lorenzana drove in the game-winning runs on a two-out, two-run double to give the Sooners the late 4-2 lead.

“Once I got to second base, I saw those two runs score, and I was just point-ing at my teammates, point-ing at my parents — it was their anniversary — it was the best feeling I’ve had in a long time,” said Lorenzana,

who had two hits in the se-ries, in a postgame radio interview.

Texas scored its only two runs of the game — it scored four during the series — on a triple by junior third base-man Er ich Weiss in the third inning off OU start-ing pitcher redshirt fresh-man lefty Adam Choplick. The Sooners’ bullpen held the Longhorns scoreless during the final 6 1/3 in-nings. Relief pitchers se-nior Jake Fisher, freshman Ralph Garza Jr., junior Billy Waltrip and freshman Jacob

Evans combined to allow just two hits while striking out six batters during that stretch.

The bullpen has allowed just seven runs — six earned — in 34.1 innings of work during Big 12 play, with six of those runs coming in a 10-8 loss against Kansas on March 30. The bullpen went 8 2/3 innings in that loss.

The Sooners got nine in-nings of scoreless ball from their bullpen this weekend.

OU’s staff as a whole has been dominant, as well. It has allowed two earned

runs or fewer in 14 of its last 18 games, a period in which the Sooners went 15-3.

T h e 2 - 1 w e e k e n d i n Austin helped keep the S o o n e r s a t o p t h e B i g 1 2 s t a n d i n g s , a n d t h e Longhorns (17-12-1, 3-6 Big 12) are tied with TCU for last place in the confer-ence. OU leads Kansas State by a game and Baylor by 1.5 games, making next week-end’s matchup in Waco a big one for both the Sooners and Bears.

OU does not have any midweek games this week,

so the players and coaches have almost a week to pre-pare for Baylor and enjoy a long-awaited series win against a much-hated rival.

“I grew up always hat-ing Texas,” said Fisher, a Tahlequah, Okla. native, in a postgame radio interview. “For our team, this is a huge win. (It) hasn’t been done in years, and to come down here and do it with this group is very special.”

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The Oklahoma premiere of “Girl Rising,” directed by Richard Robbins, will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Meacham Auditorium following a panel about human traf-ficking.

Kandice LawsonLife & Arts Reporter

Award-winning maga-zine World Literature Today, which operates on OU’s cam-pus, will be hosting its an-nual Puterbaugh Festival of International Literature and Culture this Tuesday through Friday.

The Puterbaugh Festival began in 1968 and is held in memory of J. G. Puterbaugh (1876–1965). He was an Oklahoma philanthropist, entrepreneur and civic lead-er who loved poetry and believed it to be a source of cultural enlightenment and a means for understanding other cultures, according to World Literature Today’s website.

director and editor in chief of World Literature Today. In more recent years, the festi-val has been geared toward involving students, and fea-tures music, dance, poetry, theatre, film and other cul-tural elements that help en-hance the appeal to audience to learn more about different cultures around the world.

“Puterbaugh’s vision was for students and faculty to be exposed to different languag-es, poetry, and for people to be opened up to the world in terms of what literature is out there beyond American Literature,” Simon said.

This year’s festival will focus on literature and pho-tography that aids in wom-en’s empowerment around the globe. Maaza Mengiste, Ethiopian-American writer

of “Beneath the Lion’s Gaze,” will be this year’s featured writer, Simon said.

Mengiste’s book has been translated into several lan-guages and appeared on several “Best of 2010” lists, according to the Puterbaugh Festival’s website. The book also was selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books.

Photographer Phil Borges has lived with and docu-mented indigenous and tribal cultures around the world. Borges’ work will be displayed in Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, according to the festival’s website.

Simon said he hopes the festival’s theme will bring about more awareness.

“Students will get the

opportunity to meet the writ-er, panelists and speakers, and to ask questions, read their work and to get the knowledge to go back to their communities to get involved in global issues,” Simon said. “There are so many things students can be compassion-ate about and change [them]. This could be inspiration.”

Madeline Alford, English senior and president of the World Literature Today Student Advisory Board, also hopes the festival will en-courage students to expand their thinking, she said.

shannon BordenLife & Arts Reporter

A crowd gathered Saturday night at Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center to watch six teams duke it out for the top prize at the 70th anniversary of Sooner Scandals.

This year’s theme was “We Didn’t Start The Fire,” based on Billy Joel’s hit song. Teams were challenged to choose a cultural reference made in the song and create a 12 minute musical centered around it. The performances included Woodstock, Disneyland, Television, Ronald Reagan, Punk Rock and Elvis Presley.

Delta Delta Delta and Beta Epsilon Chi Inc.’s show, “Woodstock: The Journey to Revolution,” captured the night’s highest honor. In the show, Michael Lang (Keegan Josephson) and his best friend Artie Cornfield (Elvie Ellis) are successful event promoters hoping to have another music festival called Woodstock but encounter a few ob-stacles. They overcome them, and Woodstock goes down in history as the greatest music festival of all time.

Josephson, vocal performance sophomore, won Best Male Lead and Ellis, vocal music education senior, won Best Supporting Character. The show also took home awards for Crowd Favorite, Best Choreography, Best Vocal Performance and Best Song for their rendition of The Killers’ hit “All These Things That I’ve Done.”

Not only was the event a competition of talent, but it was also a charity event benefitting Children’s Miracle Network. During the award show, Soonerthon chairwoman for 2014, Sarah Campbell, announced Sooner Scandals brought in $1,169 for Children’s Miracle Network.

This year introduced the Sooner Scandals Cast, a cast of singers and dancers who kept the show moving between acts with a storyline of their own.

Between each performance, the Sooner Scandals Cast performed a skit about students who didn’t understand the value of learning and eventually get their teacher fired. Each gap between shows gave another chapter of the story.

Kylie Frisby, Sooner Scandals Cast member and public relations sophomore, joined the Cast because she enjoys the excitement and energy of Sooner Scandals and wanted to be a part of it, she said.

“It may be competitive,” Frisby said. “But Scandals is a great time for a community of students to come together and have a good time with each other.”

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Few video games touch on such controversial issues as fanatical na-

tionalism, extreme prejudice and justifiable homicide, but “BioShock: Infinite” manag-es to do so with stimulating scrutiny and careful tact. It’s a rare game that makes you question your actions as a protagonist and guides you on a magical and puzzling journey through a world that is at many times gloomy and frightening.

Most of all, “Infinite” is an experience chock-full of breath-taking action and some truly unforgettable moments that stick with you long after you’ve finished the game. These moments, along with a fascinating narrative, set “BioShock: Infinite” apart from an overrun market of multiplayer-ori-ented shooters. Simply put, this is a thrill ride you don’t want to miss.

The year is 1912, and as Booker DeWitt, a private inves-tigator with a shadowy past and a sizeable gambling debt, you find yourself reluctantly agreeing to track down and recover an enigmatic girl named Elizabeth. After a quick in-troduction sequence, reminiscent of the original “BioShock,” DeWitt literally is rocketed to Columbia, a dream-like, early-American utopia floating in the sky; an intricate bal-loon-suspended city-state that has defiantly seceded from the U.S. And what better place to do it than among the clouds?

Eventually, DeWitt comes to find the city is not as heaven-ly as it’s made out to be. Led by Father Comstock, a self-pro-claimed “prophet,” the citizens of Columbia go about their daily lives discussing politics, visiting the local fair and oc-casionally throwing baseballs at interracial couples. Yes, the streets are vibrant and alive, but they also are teeming with racist sentiment and destructive patriotic zeal. Ultimately, the culmination of these surprisingly relevant issues re-sults in some incredibly uncomfortable, and sometimes

infuriating, encounters.Despite its dark undercarriage, Columbia is simply

awe-inspiring. Picturesque skylines loom around every corner of early-1900’s American architecture, while de-tailed and consistently striking set-pieces overshadow any instances of repetitive level design. Old-fashioned radios sit in shop windows and offices around the city playing an enthralling array of period-appropriate hits. This music serves as another defining staple of Columbia’s brilliant at-mosphere. Remarkable environments are something the “BioShock” series has done well in the past, but beyond the drastic relocation from sea to sky, “Infinite” distinguishes it-self from its predecessors with new and innovative game-play elements.

One example is the introduction of the rollercoaster-es-que “skyline.” Using a tool known as a “skyhook,” the player can ride the skyline for quick transportation or use it to get the drop on an enemy. In addition, after finally coming in contact with Elizabeth, she joins you as a com-panion. During battle, Elizabeth will provide you with items such as health and ammo, and unlike most games where these situations usually turn out to be both-ersome escort missions, this young girl can completely take care of herself.

But despite its entertaining combat and refreshing originality, “BioShock: Infinite” is not a perfect game. Early on, it stumbles from some minor pacing issues. After tak-ing the necessary time to establish the set-ting and main characters, the narrative drags slightly, causing awkward fluctuations in early action sequences. And although combat is ex-citing and brutal from the moment you acquire your first sidearm, gunning down wave after wave of enemy units can at times become rather repetitive. The item collec-tion system is “Infinite’s” biggest flaw, one from which each previous “BioShock” game has also suffered. For the most part, there is no rhyme or reason to where items are found

and hunting for them always ends up feeling tedious and obstructive, rather than challenging and rewarding.

Although its developers missed a significant opportu-nity to address some of the more serious downsides of the game’s precursors, “BioShock: Infinite” is undoubtedly one of the most shocking and unique video games to have been released in over a decade. With a wildly elaborate setting and a well-defined cast of diverse characters, it pulls you into a world you may not be entirely ready to deal with. The in-fluence of the original “BioShock” is apparent, but after the game’s darkest secrets are revealed, and the story reaches

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awe-inspiring. Picturesque skylines loom around every corner of early-1900’s American architecture, while de-tailed and consistently striking set-pieces overshadow any instances of repetitive level design. Old-fashioned radios sit in shop windows and offices around the city playing an enthralling array of period-appropriate hits. This music serves as another defining staple of Columbia’s brilliant at-mosphere. Remarkable environments are something the “BioShock” series has done well in the past, but beyond the drastic relocation from sea to sky, “Infinite” distinguishes it-self from its predecessors with new and innovative game-

One example is the introduction of the rollercoaster-es-que “skyline.” Using a tool known as a “skyhook,” the player can ride the skyline for quick transportation or use it to get the drop on an enemy. In addition, after finally coming in contact with Elizabeth, she joins you as a com-panion. During battle, Elizabeth will provide you with items such as health and ammo,

But despite its entertaining combat and refreshing originality, “BioShock: Infinite” is not a perfect game. Early on, it stumbles from some minor pacing issues. After tak-ing the necessary time to establish the set-ting and main characters, the narrative drags slightly, causing awkward fluctuations in early action sequences. And although combat is ex-citing and brutal from the moment you acquire your first sidearm, gunning down wave after wave of enemy units can at times become rather repetitive. The item collec-tion system is “Infinite’s” biggest flaw, one from which each previous “BioShock” game has also suffered. For the most part, there is no rhyme or reason to where items are found

Although its developers missed a significant opportu-nity to address some of the more serious downsides of the game’s precursors, “BioShock: Infinite” is undoubtedly one of the most shocking and unique video games to have been released in over a decade. With a wildly elaborate setting and a well-defined cast of diverse characters, it pulls you into a world you may not be entirely ready to deal with. The in-fluence of the original “BioShock” is apparent, but after the game’s darkest secrets are revealed, and the story reaches

its gripping finale, “Infinite” clearly stands out as a more impactful and satisfying

experience.

Ryan Boyce is a broadcasting and

electronic media sophomore.

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fair actors pose as fairies to delight children and entertain adults at Norman’s Medieval fair on friday in reave’s Park. Workers at the fair dressed in period or fantasy costumes and took on period personas to interact with fair attendees and take them out of their everyday lives.

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