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Fliers sent to Normanites smear negativity about candidatesSHELBY GUSKINCampus Reporter

Norman’s mayoral and City Council races this year brought out accusations and negative statements against certain candidates from opposing campaigns, an action that can make citizens less likely to want to vote at all.

The races culminated Tuesday with Cindy Rosenthal as mayor and four elected City Council members.

During the campaign, fliers were sent to Norman residents from mayoral candidate Tom Sherman accusing Rosenthal, the incumbent in the race, of failing Norman with her previous leadership.

The f i rst f l ier says “Cindy Rosenthal’s leadership has failed Norman,” and then lists three neg-ative results of her time in office. It says she wanted to sell water to Goldsby, a town in McClain County, Okla., and now Norman doesn’t have enough water. Next, the flier says roads in east-ern Norman are “crumbling and dangerous.” It also says she rejected the Warren Theatre from coming

to Norman. The end of the flier says, “Norman can do better!” These statements are inherently false, according to a Norman Transcript article, which claims research doesn’t support the accusations.

“I probably would have worded those differ-ently, and it’s probably my fault for not proofreading those before they went out,” Sherman said. “The message I was trying to get through to people, I still stand behind.”

The next flier has a list of busi-nesses that have left Norman while Rosenthal has been mayor. The flier leads with, “It’s never easy to say goodbye, especially to busi-nesses that take their tax dollars with them.”

The purpose of this flier was to get people to question why these businesses were leaving, Sherman

said.“Did anyone look into why they were leaving?

My guess is that most of those businesses would have left anyway,” Sherman said. “The problem is that no one looked into the groups that left. It’s

just a symptom of the fact that we’re not business friendly.”

The last flier sent out to voters before the election emphasized how much money has been spent in Norman while Rosenthal has been in office.

The flier says $200,000 was spent on the Porter Corridor Study, a plan to develop Porter Avenue, but the project has not yet been implemented. Next, it says $500,000 has been spent on outside legal counsel since 2007, the year Rosenthal was first elected as mayor. Finally, it says $1,000,000 was spent on a Storm Water Master Plan, which was not fully implemented after five years.

While Rosenthal had little to say about the con-tent of these fliers, she urged the city to make prog-ress by working together instead of focusing on the negativity.

“When you have this kind of negativity, it will ul-timately take a long time for fences to be mended and for people to come back together again, and that’s really unfortunate,” Rosenthal said.

David Ray, Honors College dean and former councilman, said such tactics were “quite nor-mal” for Norman city politics — and for politics in

“When you have this kind of negativity, it will ultimately take a long time for fences to be mended and for people to come

back together again, and that’s really

unfortunate.”CINDY ROSENTHAL,NORMAN MAYOR

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AJINUR SETIWALDICampus Reporter

Halal and kosher foods offered in campus restaurants often may go unnoticed by most students at OU, but for Muslim and Jewish students it’s a matter of faith.

Halal is an Arabic word meaning lawful or permitted, according to the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America. How it relates to food is that it includes those containing pork or pork by-products, animals improper-ly slaughtered or dead before slaughter, alcoholic drinks and carnivorous animals, which are all considered haram, or not permitted.

Kashrut or kosher means proper or correct in Hebrew. Judaism requires the blood of animals to be drained from meat and poultry before it can be eaten, according to jew-faq.com. Meat with dairy and grape products made by non-Jews are also not kosher.

OU Housing and Food Services has offered halal food at Couch Restaurants, Crossroads Restaurant and Cate a la Carte for approximately 10 years, nutrition specialist Dot Flowers said. Most of the halal meat is purchased from Midamar, a major U.S. halal food brand and global chain management.

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ATIBA WILLIAMSCampus Reporter

OU’s History of Science Collections has a new acqui-sition: a rare manuscript by a famous astronomer from Galileo’s time.

T h e m a n u s c r i p t , “ Tractatus de Sphaera” by Oratio Grassi, records Grassi’s lectures in mathe-matics and astronomy, ac-cording to a press release.

It also discusses Galileo’s astronomical discoveries, including imperfections on the surface of the sun and moon and the satellites of Jupiter, according to the press release.

“It’s all handwritten — isn’t it beautiful?” said J. Harvey, staff assistant of OU’s Histor y of Science Collections.

It was acquired with a gift of $500,000 from OU’s Athletics Department, ac-cording to the press release.

“I think anybody would

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support the Sooners, even in Texas, if they understood how much the OU Athletics d e p a r t m e n t s u p p o r t e d academics at OU,” said Kerry Magruder, curator of OU’s History of Science Collections.

The manuscript is dis-played among other im-portant documents pub-lished around the same time period.

Overshadowed by a Joe Taylor sculpture that incor-porates science illustrations, the exhibition marks the beginning of a rift between mathematics and physics, Magruder said.

Galileo and other math-ematicians lived in a time when mathematicians were beginning to assert that, guided by the power of numbers, they were able to

do better physics than phys-icists, even though physi-cists were paid three times as much as mathematicians, Magruder said.

O U a l r e a d y o w n s 1 2 first-edition Galileo vol-umes and two Grassi books, Magruder said.

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Campus: afshin marashi, Farzaneh Family Chair in Iranian Studies, listens to kelly Golnoush Niknejad, editor in chief of the tehran Bureau, discuss how her publication produces original reporting in Iran at ellison Hall, thursday afternoon. (oudaily.com)

sooner moms can get together and be recognized for the hard work they do through different events and activities planned throughout the weekend.

this year’s Campus Activities Council’s mom’s Weekend is called “the greatest moms on earth.” events will happen today through sunday, event chairman Aaron Hausher said.

For moms and their students looking for housing in norman, the seventh annual Housing F air will occur from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday in oklahoma memorial Union’s Will rogers room. Approximately 15 representatives from apartment complexes and housing options from around norman will be there to answer questions, according to CAC’s website.

As well, sooner scandals, the annual song and dance review will be at 8 p.m. at donald W. reynolds performing Arts Center’s Holmberg Hall, according to the website.

there will be a list of events throughout saturday going from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. for moms and their students to attend. the events range from the mom’s day tea event at 2:30 p.m. saturday — inviting students and their families to the Boyd House for tea — to the Union programming Board’s Zen night, where moms can get pampered and catered to, according to the website.

to close mom’s day weekend, there will be a sunday Brunch Bonanza from 10 a.m. to noon in the Union’s regents room, according to the website.

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A tiny market sprung up on the South Oval on Wednesday, selling ethical products in an effort to raise awareness for Fair Trade products.

Student Government Association and the Student Organization for Fair Trade teamed up for the Fair Trade Fair as part of SGA’s Human Rights Week to show students Fair Trade

options available in Norman, said Helga Skaftason, vice president of Student Organization for Fair Trade and director of SGA’s Department of International Affairs.

The fair featured products from a local business called STASH, which set up tables filled with a variety of products to entice the passersby.

STASH encourages small producers of ethical products, both locally and abroad, said Rebecca Bean, one of the business’ owners. Everything STASH sells is either vintage, made by local artists or is Fair Trade, meaning it was

produced ethically abroad.The student organization invited all

Norman Fair Trade organizations to be part of the fair, but most were not able to send representatives because of the small size of their staffs, said Skaftason, international and area studies and zool-ogy junior.

Only STASH and non-profit coffee-house Second Wind showcased their Fair Trade products.

“STASH is great because they have such a diversity of products,” Skaftason

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Housing and Food also offers kosher options, said Suzy Sostrin-Rainer, execu-tive director of OU Hillel, the foundation for Jewish cam-pus life at OU.

When a campus restau-rant doesn’t offer halal la-beled food, Spanish senior Samirah Mohamad said she substitutes ingredients, and she gets her halal meat from Middle East Market, a store in Tulsa owned by her father.

While there is debate about how strict halal food must be, Muslims often have to avoid candy with gelatin and certain fish, Mohamad said.

“But everyone agrees, no pig,” Mohamad said.

The halal food offered on campus often already is pre-pared, like halal lunchmeat, Mohamad said. Students can’t often order things like a halal burger or customize the food.

S t u d e n t s a n d g ro u p s are encouraged to contact Housing and Food if options meeting their specific needs are not offered, Flowers said.

“Our first initiative to offer alternatives to meet

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todAy AroUnd CAmpUsA campus awards ceremony celebrating students’ academic achievements will take place at 4 p.m. at donald W. reynolds performing Arts Center.

A men’s tennis game against texas will take place at 5:30 p.m. at Headington Family tennis Center.

A softball game against Baylor will take place at 6:30 p.m. at softball Complex & marita Hynes Field.

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A campus wide event for parents and families of oU students, with activities geared toward moms for “mom’s Weekend” will take place. to see a listing of activities go to CAC’s website.

A softball game against Baylor will take place at noon at marita Hynes Field.

Women’s gymnastics against nCAA regional will take place at 4 p.m. at mcCasland Field House.

sUndAy, April 7

A men’s tennis game against tCU will take place at 1 p.m. at Headington Family tennis Center.

A softball game against Baylor will take place at 2 p.m. at marita Hynes Field.

WednesdAy, April 10

A softball game against north texas will take place at 6:30 p.m. at marita Hynes Field.

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religious dietary needs actu-ally came about in this man-ner,” Flowers said.

Housing and Food of-fers vegan and vegetarian options that may meet the needs of students who prefer halal or kosher food, Flowers said.

“Our goal is to make din-ing across campus an easy and enjoyable experience,”

Flowers said.There also are halal and

kosher food options close to campus, such as Spice and Rice on Campus Corner, Muhammad said.

Homeland grocery store in Norman has a kosher sec-tion, which includes meat products, Sostrin-Rainer said. The Candy Basket of-fers kosher candies, and Old

School Bagel Café has ko-sher bagels.

Jewish students also can find kosher meals at OU Hillel, which has a kosher kitchen, Sostrin-Rainer said.

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general.“It’s a tiny slice of typical

American politics every-where,” he said.

Ray faced some mudsling-ing and personal attacks himself when he ran for City Council, and it contributed to him eventually leaving the position, he said.

Although mudslinging can have a chilling effect on a campaign or a politi-cian’s career, Ray said it’s not uncommon.

“It’s typical American city politics: mediocre and taw-dry,” he said.

Norman voters have to demand the truth in cam-paigns, said Jackie Farley, OU women’s and gender studies professor who helped with Rosenthal’s campaign.

“We’re smart enough to make a decision on what we believe without wading through lies,” Farley said.

A flier also was produced f ro m t h e s i d e o f L i n d a Lockett, the incumbent in the City Council Ward 7 race who ran and lost against Stephen Tyler Holman.

The flier leads with, “It looks like someone is fibbing, and it’s time to set the record straight!”

It accuses Holman of say-ing Lockett had nothing to do with the project to improve 12th Avenue from north of Lindsey Street to Robinson Street. The flier includes a letter from Steve Lewis, Norman city manager, about Lockett’s personal and in-dividual involvement in the project.

In response, Holman said voters deserve representa-tives that are respectable and have good character.

“In the end, whoever is elected has to represent ev-erybody, even if the peo-ple didn’t vote for them,” Holman said.

People can be turned off to voting when candidates start bringing out negative accu-sations against each other, said Allyson Shortle, OU po-litical science professor.

“Sometimes they may feel the system is not represent-ing them and is caught up in these antics and not focusing on the real issues,” Shortle said. “I would definitely say that there’s some evidence that some people are less likely to vote when mud-slinging occurs.”

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kylie kallsen, University College freshman, Helga Skaftason, international and area studies and zoology junior and Jessica Distelhorst, University College freshman, explain to students the ins and outs of the Fair trade system.

said. “It shows consumers that Fair Trade isn’t just chocolate, it’s not just cof-fee — you can really get anything Fair Trade.”

Prices may be slightly higher for Fair Trade prod-ucts than non-Fair Trade products because buying it helps to pay the workers a living wage, she said.

“If it means giving work-ers a better life, then you bet I’d be willing to pay just a little more —that’s not even a decision I’d have to think about,” said Shelby Vanhooser, University College freshman. “I had no idea what [Fair Trade] was or what it stood for be-fore now, but in the future, if it says ‘Fair Trade’ I’ll know what it means and probably be more willing to buy it.”

Education and aware-ness is a big part of getting Fair Trade products on campus, Skaftason said.

O n e o f t h e Stu d e nt Organization for Fair Trade’s current projects is working with the Alta Gracia coalition to get liv-ing wage apparel in the OU bookstore, she said.

“ [ T h e b o o k s t o r e ] doesn’t believe that there’s a demand for ethical ap-parel, but how can you say there’s not a demand if you don’t supply the prod-uct. It’s a viscous cycle,” Skaftason said.

But because Norman is a Fair Trade Town as of 2010, Skaftason believes the demand will manifest

if the bookstore stocks ethical products because Norman residents have shown a ded-ication to support ethical products.

“We believe that people will work their money and show that they care,” she said.

By-in-large, the fair re-ceived positive reactions from students, many of whom showed interest in getting involved, and also al-lowed the student organiza-tion to connect with another

organization on campus un-aware they existed. The or-ganizations plan to meet and create a united front for con-tinued activism, Skaftason said.

“This is about a lifestyle change, not about buying Fair Trade here and there but thinking about it active-ly when you’re consuming products,” she said.

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all 990 tax form documents for the last 10 years as it relates to OU Foundation — to see how much oU Foundation pays in taxes

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michael Nash’s emails since monday, march 11, 2013. — to monitor what the president’s office is communicating about with the community.

Medieval Fair April 5, 6, and 7

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Our View: The Associated Press Stylebook this week rightfully eliminated “illegal immigrants” in favor of more accurate language.

The Associated Press Stylebook is a usage guide followed by most newspapers in the U.S. It is similar to a dictionary and lists all the grammar, punctuation and style rules. For example, it is the reason The Oklahoma Daily doesn’t use the Oxford comma and why some numbers are spelled out — zero through nine — and others are represented in numerical form.

On Tuesday, the AP amended one of its rules: Instead of referring to someone living in a country illegally as an “illegal immigrant,” the AP will spec-ify that an individual or a group of individuals are “living in or entering a country illegally or without legal permission,” according to an AP blog post. It is important for information presented by news orga-nizations across the country to remain current with policies, political views and the U.S. population. This change attempts to remain current with the ever-evolving English language, according to an AP blog post. For example, while “undocumented” was used in the past, it is not precise. An individual may

have documents, just not documents required for legal residence.

It is an issue of precision as well as ridding the AP Stylebook of labels. Behavior — not people — should

be labeled. Newspapers don’t call people murderers, and people are not defined by their crimes or behavior.

We applaud the move because we think the previously accepted language is harmful.

An estimated 11.1 million people in the country are not U.S. citizens, according to 2012 U.S. Census data. These people are

our neighbors, our classmates, our coworkers and our friends. They are as human as someone born on U.S. soil. Reducing someone to a label is dehuman-izing and strips individuals of their humanity and agency. Labels create unnecessary distance between the labeled individual and the news consumer.

When one person uses a label, others feel free to use them, too. Perhaps this is why Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, called Latino immigrants who worked on his father’s farm “wetbacks” in a radio interview last week. Labels lead to racial profiling and legislation infused with counterproductive rhetoric.

Many public education campaigns like “Drop the

I-Word” have encouraged communities across the country to remove dehumanizing slurs from every-day use and public discourse.Explaining whether an individual “overstayed his or her visa” or “crossed the U.S. border illegally” while specifying the indi-vidual’s nationality remains consistent with a news organization’s mission to tell a story and report as much information as possible. It upholds commit-ments to transparency and accuracy and does not concede to political agendas or biases.

The news we consume shapes how we relate to others. If we change how we report the news and how audiences read the news, we can help change the perceptions of many stereotyped, misunder-stood populations.

If people overstay their temporary visas, let’s spec-ify that. If they cross the U.S. border illegally, let’s re-port that.

It’s the news organizations’ responsibility to report fair, unbiased information. Following through by ex-plaining how someone entered the country — and refraining from using ambiguous labels — upholds news organizations’ commitments.

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Despite funding obstacles, cultural center must be completed

When I first heard the American Indian Cultural

Center and Museum was going to be built in Oklahoma City near my house, I was excited and proud. I looked forward to all the educational and cultural events that would occur there.

This enthusiasm and anticipation reached a peak on the day the ground was officially broken in May 2005 and American Indian people came to ceremoniously bless the grounds and the proj-ect. Since then, the stalled construction and the failure of the center to gain financial support has been a huge disappointment and embarrassment to many American Indian people like me. In spite of all of the problems, the cultural center deserves to be completed for the cultural and economic benefit of American Indians in Oklahoma and across the country as well as Oklahoma’s non-Indian citizens.

Many Oklahoma politicians and citizens, both Indian and non-Indian alike, are understandably uncertain about supporting a project that has an expensive history and questionable future. The first reports stated the center would be completed without any state, federal or tribal government money and instead donor money from an undisclosed source would provide funding. Those state-ments turned out not to be true at all, not even at the start of the project.

For instance, in September 1994, legislation Title 74, Section 1226 created the Native American Cultural and Educational Authority, a state agency. This agency began concept and site selection development. The first fund-ing acquired for the planning and design of the project came in 1999 from a $5 million Capital Improvement State Bond Issue. So, what happened to derail the agency after that?

Much of the money that had been pledged toward the cultural center project but not yet put into the project’s accounts simply evaporated as a result of the eco-nomic collapse in 2008. The entire financial system of the U.S. took a huge hit, and so did the center project.

The agency eventually went into a phase known as “contract management,” when the construction process began negotia-tions and was paid for incrementally. That works out well for the general contractor or construction company with the contract because they get a percentage of the total cost of the project, but it is more expensive to complete for those doing the funding. At this point, construction remains suspended.

On top of that, because the economy still hasn’t re-covered and everyone is more conscious of government spending and budgets, efforts to get the state of Oklahoma to help finish the construction using its finances have failed.

I have heard many people, including several Conservative pundits, remark that the tribes, with their

pocketbooks lined with casino profits, need to step up and pay for the completion of the center. Twenty-three of the state’s 39 tribes have contributed large sums along with other private donors and taxpayers, all totaling at least $91 million, according to figures published in the Oklahoma

Gazette.So, why would tribes or anyone else want

to invest heavily in what looks like an over-priced lemon of a project?

Sen. Kyle Loveless, R-Dist. 45, recently claimed he had become a convert and evan-gelist of the cultural center project. “[The project] would have an economic impact of more than $325 million. The streams of rev-enue going into the state could be used to pave highways, purchase SMART boards for rural schools or build rural hospitals where we have a shortage of doctors. For the cost of a cup of coffee for each taxpayer, we could reap the benefits of our investment — but only when the [agency] is open,” he wrote in an article on NewsOK.com. He added that any elected official would be shortsighted if he or she did not want a Smithsonian-style museum in their district.

Taking all that into account, I still have room for hope and enthusiasm for the future of the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum and so should you. Raise your voice on this issue to state legislators.

Scott Starr is a Native American studies senior.

AMC aired the sea-son finale of “The Walking Dead,”

on March 31. I had never watched “The Walking Dead” and was hoping to gain insight into the pub-lic’s obsession with zom-bies. Unfortunately, I found very little originality view-ing the show, and I since have concluded zombies are vastly overrated.

The pandemic is not unique to “The Walking Dead” fans, however. Zombies have a fan base on par with the number of those affected by last year’s flu season. Students may be surprised to know OU even offers a course in “zombie culture” (finally). Every year, various states hold a zombie 5K. Hollywood has not let the zom-bie epidemic slip through its cold, dead fingers with vari-ous films including “Resident Evil,” “Zombieland,” “Dead and Breakfast” and “28 Days Later,” to name just a few. Don’t forget your zombie merchandise, including zombie t-shirts, hoodies, posters and iPhone apps.

Fans infected by the zombie virus resemble a cult who mindlessly stare with open mouths and drool at

their television, fantasizing about an impending zombie apocalypse.

Enough is enough. Don’t get me wrong; mindless corpses actively feeding upon human flesh make for fun entertainment, but the widespread obsession with zom-bies extends the limits of anything that can be regarded as “normal.” The number of people actually obsessed with zombies can be regarded as an epidemic in its own right. It’s sort of like bacon. Can we agree bacon is good? Now enough with the bloody memes. Does it disturb anyone else that the general public was almost filled with glee by last year’s reports of bath salts that allegedly caused some to engage in zombie-like behavior?

Worse, zombies aren’t even a coherent concept. The term “zombie” largely varies with respect to context and culture. Traditionally, zombies have been understood as the walking dead who lack souls and free will.

This definition is increasingly ambiguous. With this line of reasoning, every entity that lacks the cognitive faculties of a human being could be qualified as a “zombie”—in-cluding your beloved dog or cat.

According to this term, I qualify as a zombie every time I blindly sleepwalk into my kitchen for a midnight snack. Furthermore, this definition of a zombie is all the more vague, as it substitutes the ambiguity of one term with two. Now, further elaboration is needed regarding what

constitutes a “soul” and “free will.” Quick, someone con-sult Socrates!

It could be argued that the proposed definition of a zombie lacks a crucial feature—resurrection. Usually, a zombie is the corollary of a once-living person infected by some virus who lacks consciousness but exhibits canni-balistic behavior.

This description of a zombie is slightly better, as it is a phenomenon that can be found in nature. The parasite Lancet Fluke, for example, reproduces in the stomach of cows. In order to reach the cow’s stomach, the parasite al-ters the chemistry of an ant’s brain in such a way that the ant climbs to the top of grass blades in an effort to be con-sumed by a cow.This description of a zombie is not with-out its difficulties, however. A zombie is dead.

Presumably, dead is taken to mean biological organs have ceased to function. Accordingly, a zombie moves and feeds due to the working of the brain. If all the zom-bies’ biological organs are functioning, then clearly it is not really a zombie.

Without doubt, I will leave these difficulties to be sorted out by zombie fans. Meanwhile, I will take interest in is-sues that actually matter.

Nathan Cranford is a philosophy senior.

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Cultural center construction2006: Construction began

2008: Visitor’s center and promontory mound completed

2010: East gate entry wall completetd

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Play brings history to life

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Kyle Whalen, drama senior, acts in a scene for “One-Third of a Nation,” inspired by Living Newspapers, which will be held at 6 p.m. Friday at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of art.

Students bring new perspective to play

Molly EvansLife & Arts Reporter

Students of an advanced directing class will perform scenes from a 1930s govern-ment theater initiative at 6 p.m. tonight at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.

Twenty-five students from the OU School of Drama have collaborated this semester to reproduce nine scenes and five monologues from the 1938 play “One-Third of a Nation” by Arthur Arent, directing professor Susan Shaughnessy said. The per-formance is presented in conjunction with the “Art Interrupted” exhibition that opened March 2 at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.

The excerpts from “One-Third of a Nation” portray the harsh living conditions fueled by rapid urbaniza-tion and immigration with-in Depression-era tenement housing in New York City, Shaughnessy said.

“It really was a story that needed to be told,” she said.

The story was told through “Living Newspapers,” an innovation of the Federal Th e at re P ro j e c t d u r i ng Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, said Susan Baley, di-rector of education for the museum.

T h e Wo r k s P r o g r e s s Administration created the Federal Theatre Project and Federal Art Project to com-mission American artists, Baley said.

These artists worked to af-fect social change, particu-larly for immigrants, through their work, Shaughnessy said.

“The hope was that strides would be made for this so-cio-economically oppressed group of people,” she said. “I think that that’s still an issue in our country and that it’s good to take it out and look at it.”

T r a n s l a t i n g u n i m a g -inable poverty and injustice for a modern audience was among the production chal-lenges for the nine directors, dramaturge Bree Windham said.

“[The play] is so stuck in a time and place given that it’s coming from specific news-papers and dealing with such a specific problem,” Windham said. “We had to figure out ‘how do we make it relevant.”

Windham, as a graduate student, has been research-ing throughout the semes-ter for her thesis on Hallie Flanagan, the forerunner of the Federal Theater Project and creator of the “Living Newspaper.”

Windham has used texts such as “How the Other Half Lives,” by Jacob Riis, the Congressional Record and the First Federal Summer Theatre report to aid in her study of the play, she said.

“The ‘Living Newspaper’ is called that because they pull all of these facts directly from the newspaper,” Windham said. “When you look at the original script, it will be foot-noted with the headlines and the specific article because they’re making such a social statement in this play.”

Scenes like “What They Got — Cholera,” “Rent Strike” and “Government Housing” required ample research and problem solving in order to understand the style and lan-guage of a 1930s play and also convey the unique condi-tions for a modern audience, Windham said.

“We’re not really aware of all the trials they had to go through in their lives,” Windham said. “You can read it in a textbook, but it’s not really going to register on the same level.”

The troupe of students also incorporated technology into the performances with an informative slideshow,

projections of tenement con-ditions and a human loud-speaker, Windham said.

Senior Christa Ruiz will narrate as the loudspeaker on stage, but she will be hidden behind a large replica of the painting “Tenements,” by O. Louis Guglielmi, Windham said.

“Tenements” and the liv-ing newspaper were inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s second inaugural address, Baley said. The speech is called ‘One-Third of a Nation’ because of Roosevelt’s quote about the “ill-housed, ill-clad [and] ill-nourished” portion of the U.S. population.

“It’s a part of our American

heritage — this art and this time period where the gov-ernment stepped in and sup-ported artists financially be-cause they needed it as much as builders and teachers and all the other projects of the New Deal,” Windham said.

This play is different from what drama students usually perform because it’s neither a classic nor a contemporary piece, Windham said.

“Commercial theater at the time was an escapist art — it was trying to get you out of the doom and gloom,” Windham said. “And these paintings and this theater were trying to show you what’s really going on.”

The presentation will be held in the museum’s Mary Eddy and Fred Jones Auditorium, according to the event program.

T h e e x h i b i t i o n “A r t Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy” will run through June 9.

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‘Evil Dead’ terrifies, lacks Raimi mastery

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Life & ARts coLumnistIn 1981, “The Evil Dead” hit theaters in the U.S., and although

it was not the first slasher film, it had a terrifyingly huge impact on the genre and definitely has helped to make slasher movies what they are today.

Fast forward 20 years and we have “Evil Dead,” which hit theaters today with its tagline, “The most terrifying film you will ever experience.” “Evil Dead” had to be redone perfectly to live up to its predecessor. And to the naked eye and almost everyone in the theater it seemed like “Evil Dead” delivered on its promise of being the most terrify-ing film you will ever experience. But not so fast.

Making his directorial debut in this feature film, Fede Alvarez was handed the job of making “Evil Dead” better than the original; a tough task for a first time feature di-rector, but Alvarez was not completely alone on his quest to make the 2013 version of “Evil Dead” scarier and bet-ter than its predecessor. By Alvarez’s side is Sam Raimi, director of the 1983 version, to help guide Alvarez on his directorial journey and keep him from taking away from the name he had so diligently created more than 20 years earlier.

The cast of “Evil Dead” features no clear hero like the original’s Bruce Campbell. However, the cast delivers versatile roles from predominantly television actors in-cluding Jane Levy (“Suburgatory”) playing Mia, Shiloh Fernandez (“Jericho”) as Mia’s big brother David, Lou Taylor Pucci (“Carriers”) playing David’s friend Eric, Jessica Lucas (“Edgemont”) playing Olivia and Elizabeth Blackmore (“Legend of the Seeker”) playing David’s girl-friend, Natalie.

“Evil Dead” takes place in the secluded woods at Mia and David’s parents’ old cabin. Mia is a struggling cocaine addict who has decided to quit cold turkey, and she finally has gotten David to come home and support her through her withdrawal. After learning Mia and David’s mother went crazy and died in a mental institution, things start heating up when the five main characters discover a hid-den door leading to the cellar.

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SPORTSOUDaily.com ››� e No. 13 OU baseball team is looking for its � rst series victory against Texas since 1998 when it heads to Austin this weekend to battle the ’Horns.

CECILY TAWNEYSports Reporter

The OU women’s gym-nastics team will host one of six NCAA regional compe-titions at 4 p.m. Saturday at Lloyd Noble Center as a No. 1 seed against Stanford, Penn State, Washington, Iowa and Southern Utah.

Coming off of a Big 12 Championship and a dy-namic 19-1 regular season, the No. 2 Sooners look for-ward to continuing their suc-cess as they kick off the post-season in front of their home crowd.

“I feel like we have real-ly put ourselves in a good position moving into the post-season with one of the best regular seasons in school history,” coach K.J.

Kindler said. “With a difficult group coming in here, we have the opportunity to show our fans at home what we intend to do down the road, and we just want to go in and have the best meet that we are capable of having.”

I n o r d e r t o e a r n i t s 10th-consecutive NCAA C h a m p i o n s h i p b e r t h , Oklahoma must place in the top two at the regional competition.

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Sooners also hope to take home their fourth-straight Regional title.

“We want them to fight for it,” Kindler said. “Every step, every movement, every rou-tine, we just want them to fight, fight, fight all the way through.”

Saturday’s Regional also will bring about some fa-miliar competition as OU faces No. 11 Stanford and Washington — two teams it has previously defeated this year during the regular season.

“We have seen Stanford this season at home, so that’s a well-known area for us,” senior Brie Olson said “That gives us confidence, but you still have to do your best. Stanford is a great team, es-pecially on beam, so we just have to keep the confidence we have had and bring it into the post-season.”

As the Sooners look on with confidence, they are placing emphasis on one small detail – their landings.

“Stuck landings are a huge thing,” Olson said. “During the regular season, we gave away a lot of tenths for not sticking our landings so I think that is a huge focus for us right now.”

“We just need to have that meet that all the events come together,” Kindler said. “A big part of that is going to be

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“This is kind of the first kicker, your first taste of the pressure and the excitement of it all,” Kindler said. “It cer-tainly will give us good experience moving for-ward in the post-season and I think our team is ready. We are just ready to get out there.”

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