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Student ad denounces teacherPride alumni funded student-written ads openly criticizing band directorPAIGHTEN HARKINSDigital Managing Editor@PaightenHarkins

About 20 Pride of Oklahoma members from different sections, years and majors wrote an ad placed in three Oklahoma newspapers over Homecoming weekend, signed “The Pride of Oklahoma Students.”

The ad asked OU President David Boren to listen to band member’s complaints about Director of Athletic Bands Justin Stolarik’s teaching methods. The letter denounced the band’s strict social media policy, which prevented

members from speaking out against the band.In an Oct. 9 interview before the ads were placed, Stolarik

said, “We encourage students to be professional and to use social media responsibility — to use it with their future pro-fessional careers in mind.”

Stolarik has been the subject of controversy since he was named director in February 2013. After he was hired, many students and alumni protested against Stolarik changing Pride traditions, like their pre-game routine.

Boren met with Pride members in fall 2013 to discuss Stolarik’s position and changes made to the program. Boren told members their frustrations were not felt by their audi-ence and to give Stolarik more time to adjust.

After the meeting with Boren, Pride members continued to complain about Stolarik’s teaching style. On Sept. 16,

2013, many of the band’s tubas boycotted practice because of Stolarik’s methods.

The next day, Stolarik met with band leadership to sort out issues, including changes to pre-game and his teaching methods. Stolarik later told The Daily that every educator had a different teaching style and that teachers should un-derstand the best methods for their students.

“I continue to meet with students to hear their ideas and to work toward the benefit of the entire band,” Stolarik said in the Sept. 18, 2013 story.

The letterThe group who wrote the letter is made up of Pride mem-

bers from freshmen to seniors, and it represents most

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Junior wide receiver Sterling Shepard avoids a player from Kansas State during the 2014 homecoming game. OU lost by one point with a final score of 31-30.

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Player performs despite injury

ACADEMICS

Enrollment levels within colleges fluctuate greatlyJob markets, other external factors influence students declaring majors

KATE BERGUMAssistant News Editor@kateclaire_b

While the university’s total enrollment has decreased by about 2.5 percent from 2003 to 2013, total enrollment within colleges has fluctuated significantly.

The Mewbourne College of Earth & Energy, which includes petroleum engineering, geology and geophys-ics, has experienced a large increase in total enrollment during that time period.

In 2003, the college’s total enrollment was fewer than 200. In 2013 those numbers had jumped to 1,119 — a 470.9 percent increase — according to data from OU Institutional Research and Reporting.

Student enrollment in the earth and energy programs has been increasing since 2006, said Larry Grillot, dean of Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy, in an email. Although petroleum engineering enrollment has in-creased the most drastically, geology and geophysics en-rollments have also increased, Grillot said.

The rise in student enrollment numbers can be at-tributed to the strong current job market in the oil and gas industry, where many earth and energy students find careers, Grillot said.

“Essentially all of our petroleum engineering gradu-ates and a strong majority of our geology and geophysics graduates have gone to work in the oil and gas business during this period,” Grillot said.

To handle the steady increase of students, the college’s administration has been recruiting new faculty and up-grading facilities, Grillot said. Financial support from alumni and companies, coupled with money from the university, help make these changes possible, Grillot said.

Conversely, enrollment in the College of Architecture has dropped fairly steadily over the past ten years, according to data from Institutional Research and Reporting. In 2003, the college had 742 students enrolled, according to the data.

By 2013, the number had dropped to 385 students. During that ten-year period, enrollment dropped every year except for 2012, when students increased from 420 to 449, according to the data.

Sterling Shepard shines against Kansas State

An abundance of mis-takes in Oklahoma’s 31-30 loss to Kansas

State on Saturday marred a historic outing from ju-nior wide receiver Sterling Shepard.

Shepard tied the OU sin-gle-game reception record with 15 catches for 197 yards and a touchdown. After sputtering for the past two weeks, the Oklahoma City

native sparked a bounce back performance by the Sooner offense.

“He’s a great asset,” fresh-man running back Samaje Perine said. “He’s a hard worker and even when he’s a little dinged up he still goes out there and competes to the best of his abilities. That’s something that we re-ally need.”

Shepard did get dinged up

in Saturday’s game. When a deep ball from sophomore quarterback Trevor Knight sa i l e d t h rou g h t h e e n d zone in the second quar-ter, Shepard collided with a cameraman on the sidelines as he attempted to make the catch. He made his way slowly to the sideline before heading back to the locker room.

Over 100 people showed up for recent Magic: The Gathering championship

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Thousands of Oklahomans may occupy Texas for the Red River Showdown, but at least 114 remain for another kind of game, this one being played at the comic and game shop on Jenkins next to Thai Delight.

This is the biggest crowd Wizard’s Asylum has ever drawn, even bigger than the crowd of 102 drawn to the

previous Magic: The Gathering state championship it host-ed. The owner, Bryan Alcorn, was only expecting about 90 this fall, so he’s forced to put tables outside to make room. Fortunately, the weather this Sunday morning is excellent, and, at worst, the scorecards tremble precariously in the breeze.

The indoor players could use the ventilation. So many of them stuff the shop’s three rooms that it’s noticeably warm, and the faint scent of sweaty people in close quar-ters hangs in the air. This does nothing to stifle the excite-ment, however. After the judges have posted table assign-ments, gamers swarm to meet their first opponents of the day. There are a few minutes of banter, and then a judge bellows “Round 1 has begun!” and the rooms are filled with

the noises of dice being rolled and decks being shuffled.Wizard’s Asylum is a business, sure. But its true iden-

tity can’t be fully appreciated until one is present during a tournament like this. First and foremost, the place is a habitat.

Alcorn, who stands at a cash register behind a vanguard of figurines including Batman, Sandman, and Orion of New Genesis, can explain.

“We kind of build a community, a place where they can meet and play,” Alcorn said. “Without the shop, they wouldn’t be able to meet many gamers. It would be a lot harder, anyway.”

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OCT. 20 TO 25MONDAY Beyond Our Walls: A conversation with Kristi Jensen — 3 to 4 p.m. in Bizzell Memorial Library Jensen is from the University of Minnessota’s Open Textbook Initiative and will present “Open Texbooks: Access, Affordability, and Academic Success,” which will discuss open education resources. TUESDAY Schmoozeday Tuesday — 1 to 3 p.m. at Crimson & Whipped Cream OU Hillel will be having its weekly event where students can receive a free cup of coffee at Crimson & Whipped Cream.

WEDNESDAY Chili Cook-Off — 7 to 9 p.m. at 1115 College Ave. Gamma Phi Beta’s 26th annual Chili Cook-Off will raise funds for United Way of Norman. The OU men’s basketball team will serve as judges.

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Alcorn established the shop when he was 24 years old after graduating from OU in 1997. He’s a former employee of the Wizard’s Asylum location in Tulsa, which the Norman location closely mirrors. Since his store’s inception, locals have made it the most prominent of its kind in the area, not just because it sells comics and games, but also because it provides a place for gamers to simply exist.

“You can play games at home or play them else-where, but I just want to have a place where you can meet people who have similar in-terests,” Alcorn said. “You can play Magic online and stuff, but interacting with other people is what I like.”

You might infer Wizard’s Asylum’s success from the size of its Friday night tour-naments, which often draw roughly 60 people, some-times more, from Norman and the neighboring towns of Ardmore, Washington and Duncan. But many of the people at this tournament, the Star City Games State Championships, happen to be regulars, and they testify from experience what makes it special.

“[Alcorn is] very generous in how he runs his store,” physics graduate student Mitchell Yothers said. “He allows me to play here even though sometimes I don’t necessarily buy things for long periods of time. He gives me a place to hang out and play games with the kind of people that I like.”

Yothers is one of the tour-nament’s well-dressed judg-es, clad in black, who patrol

the narrow spaces between folding tables covered in cards and shelves stocked with Warhammer parapher-nalia and graphic novels. He says he volunteered for this role to “give back to the com-munity” he’s belonged to for the last two years.

Yothers believes Wizard’s Asylum is the best shop of its kind in at least a few hours’ driving radius. He says not every shop owner is as toler-ant as Alcorn and as focused on providing a welcoming space. Other owners might kick people out for not pur-chasing items, or make them rent tables to play on. Local cliques can also be a prob-lem, but not here, Yothers says.

“We try to foster being nice to each other and being open because we’re all here to play

games and have fun,” Yothers said. “We don’t need to exile anybody.”

This isn’t just nice — it’s good business sense. Gerald “Jim Bob” Sixkiller, four-time state champion for Magic and owner of Sixkiller ’s Gaming House in Owasso, explains that creating an en-vironment is one important thing local businesses can do that large retailers cannot.

“Community building is very important,” Sixkiller said. “You used to find these [comics] in grocery stores, Walmart … You still can. The big difference is the person-al touch that the people that work here give you.”

Sixkiller says that here, un-like at big places like Vintage Stock, you can expect to re-ceive recommendations and back-and-forth dialogue

about products from the employees. After all, they’re gamers and comic enthusi-asts, too.

By the time it’s dark out-side, most of the tables are empty and the trash cans are overflowing with the foil wrappers of Magic booster packs. The competition pool has narrowed significantly, but the shop is still active.

Some people now play just for fun, while others watch the remaining tournament players duel in the back. For many of them, though, it’s enough to make small talk and simply be there.

For Alcorn, whose goal is to foster a social environ-ment, that’s enough, too.

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Competitors shuffle their Magic: The Gathering cards during the Star City Games State Championships hosted by Wizard’s Asylum Comics & Games Sunday afternoon. Players showed up at the shop at 10 a.m. to battle for prizes, glory, and an invitation to any of the next four Player’s Championships for a chance to win $50,000.

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Devote Ebola resources to Africa

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In this Aug. 11, 2014, file photo, a health worker cleans his hands with chlorinated water before entering a Ebola screening tent, situated in Kenema, Sierra Leone, around 300 kilometers (186 miles) from the capital city of Freetown in Kenema, Sierra Leone.

PRIDE: Advertisement paid for by Pride alumni, Internet fundraiserContinued from page 1

Our View: An Ebola outbreak is unlikely to occur in the U.S., and there are several ways for concerned Sooners to fight the worsening outbreak in West Africa.

If the presence of the Ebola virus in the U.S. has left you feeling confused, frightened and helpless to fight the illness, you are not alone. An Internet search on Ebola can bring up contradictory infor-mation on the virus, but it’s important to know the chances of a full-blown pandemic in the U.S. are slim to none.

As multiple health officials have explained, wash-ing your hands with soap and clean water kills the virus. More impor-tantly, Ebola is not just an issue in the United States. It is a global health problem with its epicenter in West Africa, particularly Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

However, we understand why Sooners might feel personally fearful after seeing breaking news headlines that two of the nurses who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan have contracted the virus. Duncan traveled to the states from Liberia and fell ill soon after arriving in Dallas. He was ad-mitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, but died from the virus.

Sadly, it is not uncommon for health care profes-sionals to contract Ebola after caring for an infect-ed patient. Ebola is transmitted via bodily fluids, particularly blood, feces and vomit, and health workers come into close contact with those fluids. In fact, an estimated 200 healthcare workers have

died from the illness since June. Most of those care-givers were on the front lines of the world’s worst known outbreak of Ebola in West Africa.

While Ebola in the U.S. might seem scary, it’s much more critical to address the outbreak in western African countries. Better yet, we are not helpless when it comes to fighting the virus. There are several aid organizations accepting donations

to provide healthcare in the hardest-hit countries, and some make donating as simple as sending a text message. Here are two ways Sooners can help combat the Ebola outbreak:

• The United Nations Foundation has an Ebola response fund to provide assistance, supplies and medical personnel. Sooners can donate $10 by tex-ting EBOLA to 27722.

• Doctors Without Borders has approximately 2,000 staff members in the region and an impres-sive track record of few healthcare workers con-tracting the virus. Donations can be made via credit card online at the Doctors Without Borders website

Looking back to the U.S., it’s important for Sooners to get their flu shots. It might sound strange, but the common flu is a more legitimate health risk in the U.S. than an Ebola outbreak. The initial symptoms of Ebola are similar to the flu, and unlike the Ebola virus, the flu is an airborne virus, making it much more contagious. An estimated 200,000 Americans are hospitalized each year from flu-related complications, with thousands dying from the flu each year.

Lastly, don’t panic about an Ebola outbreak hap-pening in the U.S. We are nowhere near that situ-ation, and Americans should instead devote their time and resources to fighting the worsening out-break in West Africa.

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sections within the band, from clarinets, to trom-b o n e s a n d c o l o r g u a r d members, said one of the authors of the letter, who is a sophomore member of the Pride. For the purpos-es of this article, he will be called David White.

White preferred to speak under the condition of an-onymity because of the Pride’s media policy, which states that members who speak negatively about the group to the media can be expelled from the group, ac-cording to what Pride mem-bers told The Daily.

White said Stolarik has verbally revoked the policy, but the member still didn’t feel safe using his name be-cause the revision wasn’t in writing.

After the ad was pub-lished in The Oklahoman, T u l s a W o r l d a n d T h e Norman Transcript, Pride members began to speak out on social media, saying they had not been contact-ed about the letter.

White said more mem-bers w eren’t consulte d because the letter-writ-ing group wanted to make sure Boren or band faculty wouldn’t discover the ad before it ran. Because the group included a mix of dif-ferent members, the mem-bers felt comfortable sign-ing the letter as “The Pride of Oklahoma Students,” White said.

“[The group’s diversity is] why we thought we were able to publish the ad in a way that most everybody would agree with,” White said. “With 300 people, of course somebody is going to disagree.”

Member reactionAlthough s ome Pr ide

members said they didn’t want to be spoken for with the ad, many of those mem-bers agreed with the letter’s sentiments.

A senior saxophone play-er in the Pride, who also preferred to remain anony-mous, said he didn’t know about the letter, but he was happy when he saw it. We will refer to this student as Alex Black.

“I was ecstatic when I saw the letter. I finally felt like people would listen to our concern,” Black said. This is Black’s third year in the Pride.

W h i t e s a i d h e a n d other members have ex-pressed their concerns to OU administrators and We i t z e n h o f f e r Fa m i l y College of Fine Arts facul-ty. Black said he sent a letter to Boren, but that he never

received a response.Black said he agreed with

everything the letter said, except he wished it had called for Stolarik to step down or be fired.

The letter-writing group has two main issues with Stolarik’s teaching, White said.

W h i t e s a i d S t o l a r i k doesn’t give the Pride feed-back during rehearsal.

“When we run through the music, it’s literally just a run-through,” White said.

D u r i n g r e h e a r s a l s Stolarik will ask the band to play through different ma-terial, and he will either tell them the run-through was good or that the band needs to play through it again, the member said. Stolarik never indicates at which point in the music or drill the band needs to improve, White

said.The letter-writing group’s

other problem is Stolarik’s lack of organization, White said.

White’s main complaint was how late band mem-bers receive intineraries for trips they go on, such as their trip on Oct. 4 to Texas Christian University for a football game. The member said band members didn’t receive an itinerary until Friday afternoon, and the band was leaving Saturday.

“It’s hard for us to be able to organize things when he can’t organize,” White said.

White also said that while pep band dates are listed on a calendar, the listening doesn’t include the time at which students should be at the event.

Alumni involvement

Those complaints were summed up in the full-page ads, which were paid for by donations from alum-ni. The letter-writing group approached the alumni to fund the project once they decided a single letter to Boren wouldn’t solicit as much outside attention to their cause.

T h e a d s w e r e o v e r $20,000, some of which wa s p a i d f o r t h rou g h a GoFundMe account start-ed by 1986 Pride alumna Rebecca Kinder.

In an interview before the ads were placed, Kinder said she started the account after reading through the band’s handbook and dis-covering students weren’t allowed to talk negative-ly about the Pride to the media or on social media.

“So, to me, the GoFundMe

campaign [was] about mak-ing sure that whatever all our kids think, they have a chance to voice it,” Kinder said.

In the Oct. 9 interview, Stolarik said alumni inter-ested in donating money to the Pride could donate money for scholarships.

T h e D a i l y c o n t a c t e d Stolarik on Friday after-noon for a new comment on the ads, but the email and call was not immediately returned.

Assist ant news editor Mike Brestovansky contrib-uted to this report.

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HEALTH

Doctor helps students find their zenOne-hour sessions combine art with the practice of meditation

KELLY ROGERSLife & Arts Editor@KellyNRogers

There are a number of images that come to mind with the word “meditation.” Whether it’s a serene mountaintop where only the sounds of nature can be heard, or simply deep breathing in the comfort of your home, one OU doctor is en-couraging students to find their zen.

Dr. Surya Pierce has been practicing integrative family medicine with Goddard Health Center for nearly two years. Pierce will be leading students in guided meditation classes in the Sandy Bell Gallery of the museum in conjunction with the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art’s latest exhibit, “Macrocosm Microcosm: Abstract Expressionism in the American Southwest.”

Just as many abstract expressionists turned to meditation to clear their minds, Pierce is hoping students can benefit from meditation as a way to deal with stress.

“Meditation seems to be fairly potent preventa-tive medicine,” Pierce said. “Meditation research has re-vealed a wide variety of pos-itive effects from the daily practice of meditation that range from improvements in everyday mental tasks to in-creased longevity.”

Each one-hour session will provide students with the basic skills they need to begin a daily practice, with special attention given to connec-tions between the world of abstract expressionist art and the practice of meditation.

But what is meditation, exactly? Pierce said there are many different kinds, and these “Meditation in the Museum” ses-sions are cracking the question wide open.

“We are focusing on developing the skill of opening up to what it is,” Pierce said. “We will be learning to open our

awareness to what is actual-ly happening in the present moment and in our current location.”

Pierce said this awareness isn’t as simple to find as it can seem, but it is the foundation for many types of meditation and is generally helpful to liv-ing a healthy life.

Pierce said he remembers when his own parents introduced him to a few simple medi-tation practices at a young age.

“I quickly realized that paying attention to my breath was helpful in coping when I was upset,” he said.

After going off to college he found a group of accomplished yoga meditation teachers who took him much deeper into the practice.

“It was my interest in meditation that eventually led me to

medicine, not the other way around,” Pierce said.Pierce said the exhibit has inspired discussion about med-

itation in a more current context. The idea of boiling things down to their simplistic, abstract forms is evident in the piec-es on display at the museum.

“Many abstract expressionist artists were influenced by meditation, and this is evident in their interest in minimal-ism and attention to subtle aspects of experience,” Pierce said.

Pierce said the long-lasting effects of a relaxed, medita-tion-filled life are especially relevant to college students, who live in a world full of stress.

“Possible benefits of meditation that students might be particularly interested in include better sleep, enhanced cop-ing in stressful situations and improved concentration,” he said. “I think most students could get behind that!”

For more upcoming events, visit the museum’s website at http://www.ou.edu/fjjma.

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In celebration of J.K. Rowling’s recent anagram tweet and announcement of her new Harry Potter spin-off “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” the Union Programming Board will be passing out free rounds of butterbeer at 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 20.

Butterbeer, which is a non-alcoholic drink featured in the popular Harry Potter book and film series, is a sweet-tasting mixture usually consisting of cream soda, whipped cream and vanilla flavoring. The Union catering staff will be pre-paring enough of the concoction for about 100 people, ac-cording to the Union Programming Board.

Students can grab their cup of butterbeer at the Union Programming Board’s Daily Booth, which is located be-tween The Wire studio and the food court on the first floor of the Oklahoma Memorial Union. The butterbeer will start flowing at 11:30 a.m. and will continue until it runs out.

This event is just one of the Union Programming Board’s many daily events. UPB daily events serve as opportunities for students to participate in a fun event in the middle of the school day. These can range from random, fun events like this Harry Potter celebration, to engaging promotions of up-coming UPB events.

For more information about upcoming UPB daily events, visit the UPB calendar at upb.ou.edu.

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delions 42 Bit of this

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class topic 62 Apollo

played it 64 Word

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ENROLLMENT: External factors influence declineContinued from page 1

COLLEGES WITH INCREASED ENROLLMENT

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

FALL 2007

65

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ARCHITECTURE

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ARTS AND SCIENCES

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FALL 2013

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FALL 2013

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E xternal factors have largely caused the decrease in students, said Richard Ryan, associate dean for ad-ministration for the College of Architecture. In an unsta-ble economy, the public may have perceived architecture as a risky field to enter, Ryan said.

Despite the decline in students, the College of Architecture programs have retained their quality and Ryan is happy with the stu-dent to faculty ratio of the programs, he said.

“We’re very proud of what we do in the college,” Ryan said.

Though the College of Architecture, like all col-leges, tries to improve its programs year to year, its ad-ministration’s primary tac-tic in recruitment has been spreading the word about the college’s programs, Ryan said.

The college’s adminis-tration has been focusing on identifying potential students and sending in-formation about its pro-grams to them, Ryan said. The college has placed ads in high school newspapers, increased its use of social media and sent representa-tives to attend college fairs, Ryan said.

“It still boils to, you know, locating high school kids,” Ryan said. “We feel like, if we can get them here, we have a really good chance of impressing them enough to make them want to come to our college.”

Time will show the effec-tiveness of the college’s re-cruitment efforts, but Ryan hopes to see results soon, he said.

“I definitely think it will be fruitful,” Ryan said. “It’s just like everything else: it takes a couple of years to see the effects.”

Though the college has no formal enrollment goals for next fall, Ryan hopes to see roughly a 3 to 5 percent increase in students, he said.

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FALL 2003

416

FALL 2013


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2,104

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If you take away one throw, sophomore quarterback Trevor Knight provided one of the best performances of his career against Kansas State on Saturday. The interception he threw at OU’s own one-yard line that was re-turned for a touchdown can be pointed to as the difference between a win and a loss, and it was the worst play of Knight’s season. Aside from that, Knight was 26-32 for 318 yards and three touchdowns. The Sugar Bowl version of Knight is still in there some-where, and save for one play, he showed up on Saturday. That is a good sign for t h e S o o n e r s m ov i ng

forward.

Senior tight end Blake Bell made an appearance at quarterback in the fa-mous Belldozer package to con-

vert a third and short early in the game on Saturday. This was the second time this season

the Sooners have used the short yardage package that was so suc-cessful for them in 2011 and 2012. Bell also continued to establish

himself as a viable threat at tight end, hauling in a big recep-

tion that set up a touchdown a play later and collecting his

second touchdown recep-tion this season.

The Sooners were surround-ed by hype heading into the sea-son. They found themselves in the top five in most preseason polls and their defense was highly touted before the first snap. But after a loss to TCU in week six, it was clear the team had flaws. An ugly win against Texas last week can be understood because of the rivalry, but Saturday’s loss put the final nail into the Sooners’ playoff hopes and proved that despite the hype, this young OU team is not ready for the biggest of stages.

Senior tight end Blake Bell made an appearance at quarterback in the fa-mous Belldozer package to con-

vert a third and short early in the game on Saturday. This was the second time this season

the Sooners have used the short yardage package that was so suc-cessful for them in 2011 and 2012. Bell also continued to establish

himself as a viable threat at tight end, hauling in a big recep-

tion that set up a touchdown a play later and collecting his

second touchdown recep-tion this season.

As Knight walked off the field holding his arm awhich has been hit as he tried to slide at the end of a run, it seemed the Sooners’ worst nightmare had been real-ized. But Knight’s backup, redshirt freshman Cody Thomas, came out to lead the offense and looked calm as OU marched down the field for a touchdown. Thomas mostly handed the ball to his running backs and let them work, but he did complete two pass-es for 17 yards. His most impressive moment came inside the ten-yard line when he was able to corral a bad snap and scramble for an import-ant first down. It was a small sam-ple, as Knight came back the next drive, but it instilled a bit more con-fidence in the backup quarterback.


forward.

Senior kicker Michael Hunnicutt has been automatic in his time as a Sooner. He has converted 86.4 percent of his field goal attempts and 97.9 percent of his extra point attempts in his career. That’s why it came as a shock when he had an extra point blocked and missed two field goals on Saturday, including what may have been the game winner from 19 yards away late in the fourth quarter. The Sooners were able to hang their hat on their consistently great special t e a m s p l a y during the first half of the season. For the unit to leave seven points on the field in a game that Oklahoma lost by one was completely unexpected.

quarterback Trevor Knight provided one of the best performances of his career against Kansas State on Saturday. The interception he threw at OU’s own one-yard line that was re-turned for a touchdown can be pointed to as the difference between a win and a loss, and it was the worst play of Knight’s season. Aside from that, Knight was 26-32 for 318 yards and three touchdowns. The Sugar Bowl version of Knight is still in there some-where, and save for one play, he showed up on Saturday. That is a good sign for t h e S o o n e r s m ov i ng


forward.

Senior kicker Michael Hunnicutt has been automatic in his time as a Sooner. He has converted 86.4 percent of his field goal attempts and 97.9 percent of his extra point attempts in his career. That’s why it came as a shock when he had an extra point blocked and missed two field goals on Saturday, including what may have been the game winner from 19 yards away late in the fourth quarter. The Sooners were able to hang their hat on their consistently great special t e a m s p l a y during the first half of the season. For the unit to leave seven points on the field in a game that Oklahoma lost by one was completely unexpected.

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Students,Have you ever wondered how your college consolidated course and program fees or college technology fees are being utilized? Here is your opportunity.

The Office of the Senior Vice President & Provost is pleased to provide a master list of meetings the Norman Campus Deans have scheduled to discuss the FY14 expenditure of course and college fees including the college technology and college consolidated and program fees, their FY15 budget plans for this revenue and any proposals for fee increases for FY16.

These revenues are used within each degree granting-college to provide the kinds of specific instructional materials, technology, and instructors needed to best deliver the degree programs to the students within each college.

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SHEPARD: Wide receiver excels during disappointing Sooner seasonContinued from page 1

1. Hunnicutt is human 2. Great performance

overshadows bad play

3. Backup quarterback provides capability 4.

Bell does it all 5. Not their time

He quickly made it clear the injury wasn’t going to slow him down as he hauled in a 28-yard reception on OU’s sec-ond offensive play of the second half.

“I knew it was like a deep bruise, and I’ve played through deep bruises before,” Shepard said. “I never thought I was done.”

While he was still productive, Shepard admitted the inju-ry affected his play.

“It does throw a little bump in your game,” he said. “But I thought I was able to go out there and still perform at a high level. If I wasn’t, then I would have obviously asked for coach Jay (Norvell) to take me out.”

As the unquestioned leader of the Sooners’ young wide receiving corps, Shepard used the injury as a teaching op-portunity as well.

“It sends a message to the young guys that there’s going to be times in their career where they’re going to be banged up, and if they’re the leader they need to push through it,” he said. “So I just try to set an example in that way and show those guys that just because you’ve got a little bang or bruise doesn’t mean you need to sit down.”

The loss was Shepard’s fifth game this season with more than 100 receiving yards and puts him at 911 total receiving yards on the year — 572 more than the next closest Sooner receiver.

After the loss, though, Shepard was quick to dismiss his performance.

“If we don’t get the win I don’t really care what I did

individually.”The loss virtually eliminated the Sooners from conten-

tion in the College Football Playoff and put a serious dent in their hopes for a conference title.

Shepard is on pace to have one of the best seasons in pro-gram history. With five games remaining, he has the ninth most receiving yards in a single season in OU history and is on pace to challenge the record set by Ryan Broyles in 2010.

Shepard has consistently been a bright spot in a Sooner season that is currently at its lowest point.

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