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ENVIRONMENT

Energy conservation leader wanted

Original of large duck sculpture series goes missing from Lions Park yesterday

MATT WOODSCampus Reporter@mataphor

OU President David Boren announced Thursday the uni-versity will post a staff position for a new environmental sus-tainability officer to coordinate with student groups and fur-ther green initiatives.

Facilities Management director Brian Ellis will oversee the new environmental sustainability and energy conserva-tion officer. Students involved in environmental groups have been advocating for a central position to improve coordina-tion between the wide range of campus programs.

Whoever takes the position will identify, collect, commu-nicate and incorporate energy conservation and sustain-ability efforts into campus, Ellis said in an email.

The new position will let environmentally conscious students better share information and volunteer oppor-tunities, said Jessica Scott, Geography and Environmental Sustainability Club president.

Scott said she’s impressed with how closely administra-tors have listened to student concerns. However, Scott still plans to submit a document she has been drafting with other campus environmental leaders, which specifies to administrators the benefits of the new position.

Ellis said he and his management team will select the new sustainability officer, but students won’t participate in “the university’s legal process for hiring.” However, Ellis said his team will seek out a candidate who will work closely with student-advocacy groups.

The primary criteria for selecting their candidate include his/her ability to measure and verify sustainability initia-tives, analyze the financial impact on university operations and communicate victories to the community, Ellis said.

Alex Lyakhov, environmental sustainability graduate

student, harbors some concerns about the hiring process for the new position, but he said he remains cautiously optimistic.

“I’d like the process of hiring this sustainability coordina-tor to be transparent so that students, staff and faculty have some input,” Lyakhov said.

Lyakhov said he hopes to discuss the students’ ideas with Boren and Ellis to ensure the university’s resources align with student programs.

Earth Rebirth founder Andrew Sartain said he’s not overly concerned about how the university will fill the new posi-tion, but he said officials should find a candidate qualified to handle the diverse range of responsibilities and set a high standard from the start.

OU was recently recognized as the U.S. university with the “most widespread” student groups devoted to environmen-tal sustainability by NerdScholar, a prominent informational

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A white plaster duck sits alone outside the Firehouse Art Center on Thursday afteroon. Samo Ducky, previously located next to this one, was a yellow duck reported missing this morning.

Students excited about new staff position focused on natural issues

ALEX NIBLETT, Assistant Campus Editor, @alex_niblett

It may not have been as famous as Donald Duck, but Thursday another famous duck (at least locally), Samo Ducky, was reported missing from a nearby park.

A police report was filed at 10:24 a.m., said Norman Police Department Captain Tom Easley. Samo Ducky was the first of 12 duck statues that sit in Norman’s parks and was part of the Samo Ducky project.

Each of the project’s ducks measure 44 inches tall and are made to replicate the original Samo Ducky sculpture created by Douglas Shaw Elder in 2010. Before it went missing, Samo Ducky resided in Lions Park next to the Norman Firehouse Art Center, but now all that’s left is a bare cement circle where the 200-pound Samo Ducky once rested.

Elder, the executive director at the Firehouse Art Center, was saddened by Samo Ducky’s absence in the park and said because Samo Ducky was the original duck in the series, it wasn’t made with the same materials the other ducks were made of, which made it easier to steal.

“All of the other ducks placed in children’s parks around Norman are made of fiberglass and bolted down to a cement pad,” Elder said. “This ducky, because it was the original, was made of plaster.”

Elder sculpted the duck for the children in Lions Park, and at the time he created it, Norman’s Public Art Board was look-ing for a community project to take on. The Samo Ducky proj-ect took flight.

The project gets three new ducks every year. Local artists submit their designs and if they’re accepted, they get paid and paint the duck, Elder said.

Tulsa has decorated penguin statues as local landmarks,

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SGA

Students encouraged to apply for executive cabinet positions

DUCK

WHERE’S SAMO DUCKY?

Nearly 40 Okla. tribes to meet at Centennial Powwow at Lloyd Noble

AMERICAN INDIANS

OU will hold its largest cultural celebration for American Indians on Saturday at the Lloyd Noble Center, with more than 39 different Oklahoma tribes participating.

The American Indian Student Association’s Centennial Powwow will celebrate the university’s first Centennial Powwow, said Turner Went-Worth Hunt, American Indian Student Association cultural affairs chair and Mr. Indian OU.

“The University of Oklahoma had this powwow years before Native Americans were even considered citizens of the United States of America,” anthro-pology junior Hunt said. “This is a history-making event.”

The powwow will begin with an afternoon prayer and a dance called a gourd dance, which will consti-tute the quieter portion of the event. After a dinner, there will be the grand entrance, with Fancy-style dancing, Hunt said.

“To put this in different terms, if one applied sov-ereignty, which they rightly should, this would be the biggest meeting of nations, outside the U.N., in the United States,” Hunt said.

For more information on the event, visit the American Indian Student Association’s website at ou.edu/aisa.

Megan Deaton, ESCAPE EditorPHOTO PROVIDED/THE DAILY

Pictured are former Student Government Association President Ernest Ezeugo’s cabinet members. Applications for students interested in becoming a member of SGA’s executive cabinet will be open until April 17.

Applications due by next Thursday

SHAIDA TABRIZICampus Reporter@ShaidaBee

Ap p l i c at i o n s f o r s t u -dents interested in becom-ing a member of Student Government Association’s executive cabinet will be open until April 17.

The executive cabinet is made up of directors for each of the five departments with one to 10 officers per department, said Student Government Association president Matt Epting said in an email. The applications are available on the SGA website. They are due April 17 at 4 p.m.

Any student enrolled at

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Our View: OU students should take part in university tradition by attending Saturday’s spring football game.

We’re not sure how any OU student could not enjoy Oklahoma football, but we’re sure there are some people who view football as a sport unwor-thy of their attention. Whether you couldn’t care less about OU football or are a loyal fan, we believe there is merit in taking part in our univer-sity’s football tradition. We want to encourage all OU students to attend Saturday’s spring game, because foot-ball really is so much more than just a sport at OU.

The best part of the spring game is that it’s free for all students with a valid student ID. So even if you don’t know a wishbone from a hambone, at least you can enjoy the weather and the congenial nature of Owen Field when hundreds of OU football fans get together. Spring games are relaxed versions of regular season games — all the hype but with a less intense at-mosphere. And that’s why we believe attending Saturday’s spring game is a great way to get acquainted with Oklahoma football if you’ve never at-tended a game before. It’s a way to dip your toes in the water of OU tradition without the commitment of paying for a ticket or dealing with rival fans.

Spring games are almost like cel-ebratory festivals heralding the new football season. On Saturday, there will be a spring sale with new mer-chandise, a kid’s zone with carnival rides, the Boomer Barbeque at noon and, finally, the game itself at 2 p.m.

No, our football team will not be playing a rival team, and yes, spring games can be thought of as glorified scrimmages. But it’s an opportunity to see our players, the men the Sooner Nation hangs their hopes and dreams on, and to relive a little of the glory from last season.

We also believe attending Oklahoma football games and caring

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

editorial

Be a ‘sport,’ attend free spring game

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Running back Roy Finch scores a touchdown for the Red team during the annual Red-White spring game on April 13, 2013. The White team won 28-24.

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University College freshman Jack Dastugue fills his bottle at one of the water filtration stations in Adams Center. OU is opening a position for an Environmental Sustainability and Energy Conservation Officer.

environment: New position to link students and staff on sustainabilityContinued from page 1

website evaluating colleges.“Sustainability touches every aspect of

university life, from our campus economy and long-term business plans to the envi-ronmental and social implications upon fu-ture generations,” Ellis said.

In keeping with a resolution recent-ly passed by the Student Government

Association’s Undergraduate Student Congress, the university will also acquire and put in place water filtration stations in 10 buildings across the campus so students can refill water bottles and reduce waste, ac-cording to a press release.

“We’re ecstatic,” Sartain said. “We’re really just excited to see where we go from here.”

Matt Woods, matt.woods@ou.edu

SGa: Fall term shorter than usualContinued from page 1

the Norman campus this fall is eligible to apply, in-cluding graduate students, Epting said.

“(SGA vice president Sarah Campbell) and I are really excited to get stu-dents involved in making the OU student experience the best it can possibly be,” Epting said.

C a b i n e t d e p a r t -m e n t s c o n s i s t o f t h e Department of the Interior, the Depar tment of the Exterior, the Department o f C o m m u n i c a t i o n s , t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f

Student Organizations and the Department of International Affairs, which will soon change to the Department of Special Communities, Epting said.

Because this year’s SGA presidential term comes during a transition year, Epting and Campbell’s term will be half the length of the normal presidential term and end in November.

Epting and Campbell said they have an ambitious platform and don’t want the short term to discour-age anyone interested in serving SGA.

“Since we only have a limited amount of time in

office, we need excellent student leaders to join us and work to make them a reality,” Epting said.

The single-semester term will allow seniors who are taking an extra semester, but who aren’t staying the entire year, to apply as well as students who might have a more significant time commitment in the spring, Epting said.

“Any student with a pas-sion for OU and the desire to improve it should apply,” Epting said.

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about our team is a crucial aspect of the Sooner experience, which would be a shame to miss out on. Some of the best memories come from living through a Bedlam foot-ball game or waking up at 4 a.m. to stand in the crowd when ESPN’s College Game Day comes to town. OU football fans are regularly voted as some of the best fans in the nation, and there’s a reason for that. Sooner football represents communal pride and a decades-long commitment to excellence.

Beyond the sport itself, going to OU football games is an activity that tran-scends our four years in college. Many alumni make the trip to Norman to at-tend games long after they’ve graduated.

Taking part in Oklahoma football is also a chance to get involved in something we will likely never again experience: undergraduate collegiate sports.

Leaving our homes and everything we’ve known for college can be a hard, isolating experience. But getting involved with on-campus traditions, such as OU football, is a way to feel an instant sense of community and family. There is no feeling quite like being in the stands during a home football game in Norman. You will high five complete strangers after an OU touchdown and get into serious conversations about the offensive play calling with the random person sitting next to you. We promise, even if you didn’t have a lick of school spirit in high school, it is so easy to become a part of one of the greatest collegiate traditions around just by going to OU football games. And you have a chance to enhance your Sooner expe-rience on Saturday by simply attend-ing the free spring game.

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and Oklahoma City has decorated buffalo statues dispersed throughout the city. Ducks have become Norman’s community icon, Elder said.

“I decided it was either going to be a rubber ducky or a plump, pink piggy,” Elder said. “Anything that would draw the kids like a magnet to them.”

The Public Art Board’s goals for this project, Elder said, is to provide these whimsical statues for the N o r m a n c o m m u n i t y ’s children.

“It’s our wish that kids will have the opportunity

to grow up with art in their local parks,” Elder said.

Some of the other ducks located around Norman include Liberty Bill Duck, Glow in the Duck and Ziggy Star-Duck. Norman artists, including local high school students, painted and deco-rated the ducks.

Samo Ducky will be re-placed in a few weeks with a new fiberglass body and will be bolted in the ground like the others are. Elder said the ducks are extremely difficult to steal this way, and he said Norman donors have noth-ing to worry about.

Because of the wear on Samo Ducky over the last few years, Elder said the

board was already plan-ning to replace the duck with a new one. Since local art projects like these are funded by the community, the board is footing the bill for the new fiberglass Samo Duck.

It will cost the board $2,000 to replace the local trademark, Elder said.

“I’m more sad for the chil-dren in the next few weeks who expect to come play on it,” Elder said. “Many of them come everyday. They want to sit and ride the ducks.”

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This 1888 poster advertises one of Pawnee Bill’s Wild West shows. Pawnee Bill was a showman, performer and a proponent of the Boomer Movement, the process of colonizing Oklahoma Territory.

89er Day is an annual celebration of the opening of the “Unassigned Lands” in central Oklahoma for white settlement on April 22, 1889. The theme for this year’s festivities will be “True Grit,” and will include a parade through downtown Norman, family friendly events at the Cleveland County Fairgrounds and a special per-formance by the Pawnee Bill Original Wild West Show this Saturday:

Pawnee Bill’s Original Wild West Show performs annually on the last three Saturdays in June at his-toric Pawnee Bill Ranch i n Paw n e e, O k l a h o m a . Saturday’s performance at the Cleveland County Fairgrounds wil l be the first time the show has per-formed outside of the ranch.

Pawnee Bill was a Wild West performer at the turn of the century who toured with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show before establishing his own touring attraction in 1888.

Touring Wild West shows was a popular form of mass entertainment in the age before television and sound film. These shows featured everything from trick riding and shooting, to songs and jokes.

Pawnee Bill’s Original Wild West Show is being brought to 89er day to tie in to the parade’s overall west-ern theme.

• The Pioneer Library System’s annual Big Read event promotes reading in communities by highlighting a spe-cific literary work each year. The centerpiece of the li-brary’s efforts this year is “True Grit” by Charles Portis. The library has partnered with 89er Day to theme the pa-rade after Portis’ famous novel.

• The novel was adapted into a film in 1969 starring John Wayne, who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as gritty U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn. Wayne re-prised the role for the 1975 sequel, “Rooster Cogburn,” but it was unrelated to the original novel.

• The author, Charles Portis, is notoriously reclusive, doesn’t use email and has no publicly listed phone num-ber. Despite being credited as one of the most important

American novelists of the 20th century, he has not pub-lished a novel in over 20 years.

• Another attempt at a sequel to the first film adaptation of the novel was made in the form of 1978 made-for-TV movie “True Grit: A Further Adventure.” Warren Oates took over the role of Rooster Cogburn, but the movie failed to capture popular imagination.

• The novel was adapted again in 2010 by directors Joel and Ethan Cohen, who sought to create a film that would adhere more closely to the original story. “True Grit” (2010) was a commercial and critical success, but despite being nominated for 10 Academy Awards didn’t take home any Oscars.

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Red-White game to pit A-team offense against A-team defense

t’s April, but talk of a national champi-onship has already begun swirling in Sooner Nation, as the team is set to give

fans their first glimpse of what looks to be a capable contender in 2014.

The annual Red-White spring game kicks off Saturday at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. While the team has lofty goals when fall rolls around, the Spring Game won’t reflect the deep pool of talent.

Oklahoma will be without 11 players because of injury, coach Bob Stoops an-nounced earlier this week. None will re-quire surgery, but many fan favorites will be missing in a game catered to give attendees their first taste of football in months.

Senior Blake Bell — who recently switched to tight end — and junior wide re-ceiver Sterling Shepard highlight the offensive injury scene. On the defensive side, senior safety Julian Wilson and junior defen-sive tackle Jordan Phillips will be sidelined.

But the Red-White game isn’t centered on playing the squad’s stars. Stoops isn’t looking for players to fill up the stat sheet, he wants something simpler than that.

“Just development,” he said. “Developing depth and players that haven’t played as much. Prove to us that you’re ready to play at a consistent level so we can put you on the field and trust you.”

Every year, an unknown player buried within the depth chart makes his emer-gence during the Spring Game. Other

times, fans catch a glimpse of a recognized player working a dif-ferent position.

Senior Geneo Grissom has played tight end and defensive end during his tenure in crimson. But on Saturday, Grissom will be lining up at outside linebacker and his coach credited the switch to the big man’s athleticism.

“Geneo is very athletic,” Stoops said. “Heck, if you put him on a basketball team he’d be playing for somebody. He’s very athletic, and it really fits him well.”

With the regular focus on sophomore quarterback Trevor Knight and the evolv-ing Oklahoma offense, defensive coordi-nator Mike Stoops expects one of his best

defenses despite the side’s youth.“We’re young in our develop-

ment with this defense, young personnel wise and young in ex-perience,” Mike Stoops said. “I think we grew as the season went on, and I think we understand our position much better than a year ago.”

The team is young, but several key starters have returned com-ing off last year’s Sugar Bowl vic-

tory to end the season. Positive impacts are still felt from knocking off Alabama.

“The win showed us that we’re one of the top teams in the country,” sophomore linebacker Dominique Alexander said. “It gave us a lot of confidence. We’ve got a lot of people coming back, and we’re just going to keep building.”

At a school like Oklahoma, na-tional championship aspirations never disappear. The quest for No. 8 is not a fantasy but a reality for the team.

“I feel like that’s everybody’s thoughts,” Grissom said. “We’ve had one of the best winter work-outs since I’ve been here. We’ve got a different type of feel than we’ve had in the past.”

Energy has been renewed within the pro-gram, and even the head coach has noticed a different mindset amongst his players.

“We just haven’t had problems,” Stoops said. “The guys have been awesome in how they’ve worked and their attitude on the field.”

The Spring Game will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Stoops plans to start his A-team offense against the A-team defense and so on. The scoring system for the game has yet to be decided.

Injuries or not, the Red-White game will be the first live action Sooner fans will see before the team kicks off its 2014 season in late August.

“We’re going to have a great atmosphere,” Stoops said. “We’ve got a lot of exciting things going on and we’ll go out and per-form and hopefully get a lot out of the way we play and have a little fun with the crowd.”

Joe Mussattojmussatto@ou.edu

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