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Litigation

Regent: Family not liable for art’s return

Kelly RogeRsCampus Reporter

An OU regent and a French lawyer agree on at least one thing: Aaron and Clara Weitzenhoffer’s family never offered to return a disputed French painting to Léone Meyer and her family.

The Daily quoted Regent Max Weitzenhoffer in Feb. 12 article, saying his parents offered to return “Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep” to the Meyer family, who declined the offer.

Meyer’s lawyer, Pierre Ciric, emailed The Daily on Friday, saying the two families had never been in contact.

Weitzenhoffer said Tuesday in a second interview, “My clarification is, that [Raoul] Meyer had the opportunity

to get the painting back before we ever owned it, but not through us whatsoever.”

Although Weitzenhoffer said he read the article and thought his statement was incorrect, he did not contact The Daily to correct or clarify the statement.

“I was misquoted in that article,” Weitzenhoffer told The Daily. “I just didn’t bother to tell you because you had al-ready written it.”

The disputed painting now hangs in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, and is the subject of a lawsuit between Léone Meyer and the university. Léone Meyer filed the law-suit in May 2013 to get OU to return the painting, which was stolen by Nazis during World War II, to her family.

OU President David Boren said the painting will not be returned unless the court decides in Meyer’s favor.

Boren said the university will immediately comply with whatever the court rules.

“It would set a bad precedent for the university to

voluntarily give away to other people those gifts that have been given to us until all of the legal issues are determined,” Boren said in a Feb. 12 statement.

Ciric said Weitzenhoffer’s quote was inaccurate, accord-ing to the email.

“Neither Raoul Meyer, nor his daughter, Léone Meyer, had any contacts with any member of the Weitzenhoffer family, nor were they aware that “La Bergére” had entered the United States,” Ciric said in an email.

On Tuesday, Weitzenhoffer stuck to his assertion that the Meyers could have gotten the painting back before his par-ents donated it to the university.

“For 15 years while he (Raoul Meyer) was alive, the paint-ing was hanging around our house, and we never heard anything,” Weitzenhoffer said. “It wasn’t a big secret where it was.”

Léone Meyer’s lawyer said the complaint shows the

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English writing senior Elizabeth Lucas said she knew passing on her lectures equated to missing essential information for the tests, but the silent double-digit cost still caught her by surprise.

“I never realized a lecture cost so much,”

With students paying estimat-ed costs for in-state tuition of nearly $9,000 and out-of-state

costs of around $21,000, students are learning that going to class pays.

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L&A: An OU professor is working toward social justice through film. (Page 5)

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CAmPusskipping: Students recognize the finacial impact of not attending classContinued from page 1

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Geophysics senior Jennifer Roberts (left) and physics sophomore Addie Chenot arrive 10 minutes early and discuss the material in their physics course before class on Monday afternoon in Dale Hall. While some students arrive early, others choose to show up in the nick of time, or not at all.

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Ma u r i c i o C a r v a l l o b e -lieves attendance at the university level should be up to individual students, since they’re adults. With a maximum course capac-ity of 450, his “Elements of Psychology” students can avoid lectures largely unno-ticed if they choose.

Carvallo provides incen-tives for attendance in his large section by rewarding present students with points for answered questions, to-taling about 10 percent of the course grade.

In his honors section of fewer than 20 students, Carvallo removes the incen-tive, relying on students’ de-sire to succeed rather than fall behind. This strategy has proven to be effective, and his smaller section usu-ally has high attendance.

“I don’t understand why a student will sign up for course and not show up. It is a waste of money,” Carvallo said.

Often, students who fre-quently skip lectures quick-ly realize they’re not achiev-ing their expected grades, Carvallo said.

B i o l o g y p r o f e s s o r Douglas Gaffin came to the same conclusion for his in-troductory zoology course.

“Excessive absences are strongly correlated with low grades,” Gaffin said in an email.

A d e s i re t o m a i n t a i n grades pushes University College freshman Clayton Ingmire to skip class only about twice a month so he can sleep in.

W hile Ingmire didn’t know the exact financial

impact of his skips, he said the mildly surprising cost per lecture makes sense.

For some students, only extreme sickness would prevent class attendance. Chemical engineering ju-nior Jon Alexander said, in his experience, usually only sickness and late-night studying prevent his engi-neering peers from attend-ing class.

Since Alexander pays for classes out of his own pock-et, he avoids wasting money whenever possible.

“I haven’t skipped yet this semester,” he said.

University College fresh-man Addison Brown also doesn’t unnecessarily skip classes.

“If I’m paying for classes, I might as well go to them,” Brown said.

However, Brown specu-lated instructors’ teaching styles play a major role in class attendance.

“If the professor is really boring and doesn’t involve students, I think a lot of peo-ple skip,” Brown said.

Matt Woods matt.woods@ou.edu

Estimated cost to skip a single lecture class, not accounting for textbooks or departmental and some miscellaneous fees:

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Out-of-state: $67

Figures based on tuition estimates from OU’s Office of the Bursar. Estimates assume two lectures a week, excluding breaks for a total of 28 sessions including exams. Figures have been calculated without tax.

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Career fair kicks off in union

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In this Daily file photo from spring 2013, architecture senior Penghei Xu talks to an architect from SAIC about his profolio during a career fair. This year’s career fair will be held from 12:30 to 4 p.m. today in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom.

Spring fair gives students chance to impress employersMegan DeatonESCAPE Editor

One-hundred and twen-ty-seven companies will participate in the Spring Career Fair on Wednesday, an increase from the fall se-mester’s event.

The fair, which allows stu-dents to network with em-ployers on campus, will be from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Feb. 19 in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren Ballroom, according to the Career Services website.

All the employers with ta-bles at the career fair will be there because they have job openings, Career Services director Bette Scott said.

Scott said events prior to the career fair, such as “Acing the Interview,” “How to Find an Internship” and “Professional Dress,” are meant to prepare students for the fair.

“There will be a lot of students who will be at-tending the career fair who have never been to a career fair,” Scott said. “We want to send the students to the ca-reer fair armed and ready and really knowing what to anticipate.”

Scott said her goal is to make sure students know exactly how to dress and act at the career fair.

“It’s an opportunity to re-ally do a good first impres-sion,” Scott said.

T h e C a r e e r S e r v i c e s website also has a link to a

Pinterest page with exam-ples of professional dress for students wanting to look sharp in interviews.

For those unable to at-tend the trainings, Scott said Career Services em-ployees are trying to use technology to reach all stu-dents. Sessions on resume writing and other skills are available on YouTube or iTunes U.

Olivia Deakins, a man-agement information sys-tems senior and Career Ser vices employee, will graduate in May and al-ready has a job thanks to some Career Services re-sources, she said.

Deakins secured an in-ternship with Phillips 66 at a 2012 Career Services event. After working there in summer 2013, Phillips 66

offered her a job.“Career Services’ training

helped me obtain my dream internship by teaching me to stand out from the crowd in the way I presented my-self and communicated an-swers to their questions,” Deakins said.

Deakins said having good grades is not enough any-more when it comes to bag-ging a job.

“In my field, almost every student has a good GPA and will display a lot of the same skills coming out of college,” Deakins said. “What will re-ally make the difference is your ability to communi-cate and relate to people in a business setting and on the job experience.”

Scott agreed, saying en-thusiasm from the student can make all the difference

to an employer.“[Employers] are look-

ing for an awesome student who is eager to go to work for their company,” Scott said. “If you do come across that way, and you express an interest in them, then your chances of them want-ing to talk to you further just skyrocket.”

Scott said Career Services wants students to go that e x t r a m i l e s o t h e y c a n end up like Deakins, with job security even before graduation.

Still, Scott said the career fair is not just for May grad-uates. December graduates and even students looking for a summer internship can use Career Services. As in Deakins’ case, an intern-ship can lead to a full-time job.

Aside from the upcoming career fair, Career Services has many other tools for students. Public relations senior Annahlyse Meyer said Career Services helped her discover her ideal ca-reer path.

Meyer said she had al-ways thought she want-ed to be a doctor, but after an aptitude test at Career Services, she found out she was better suited for public relations.

“That was two years ago, and I absolutely love my new major,” Meyer said. “I certainly wouldn’t have found this good of a fit on my own.”

Megan Deaton meggiejennie@ou.edu

Litigation: Painting stolen by Nazis fuels dispute between two familiesContinued from page 1

Meyers had been searching for the painting since 1945. The Meyers contacted artist Camille Pissarro’s family in 2000 and 2001, but they didn’t know the painting’s whereabouts.

“My answer is, why didn’t they approach my mother if they wanted it back?” Weitzenhoffer said.

Léone Meyer sent an open letter to the People of Oklahoma on Feb. 11, asking Oklahoman’s to consider the historical and emotional context of her lawsuit.

Léone Meyer, who was adopted into the Meyer family after World War II, is the family’s sole heiress. Her efforts to find the family’s stolen or lost artworks since World War II are outlined in the letter.

Raoul Meyer, a Jewish French businessman and avid art collector acquired the painting prior to World War II, ac-cording to court documents.

Léone Meyer also explained the emotional impact the painting had on her family.

“This has nothing to do with money. It is about justice and a duty to remember,” Léone Meyer said in the letter.

Weitzenhoffer, who is also Jewish, said his family was per-sonally affected by the war.

“You have to understand that this war touched drastically on my family, too,” Weitzenhoffer said.

Weitzenhoffer said the bottom line is that everyone who was Jewish suffered during and after World War II.

“There are a lot of gray areas to this whole thing ... let’s just see where it goes” Weitzenhoffer said.

Kelly Rogers, kelly.n.rogers-1@ou.edu

By: Camille Pissarro

style: French Impressionist

year painted: 1886

Medium: Oil on canvass

Source: Fred Jones Jr. Museum website

AT A GLANCE Bergère rentrant des moutons (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep)

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Our View: We do not believe a reduction in tax rates is worth a cut in funding to Oklahoma arts councils.

“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., former associate justice of the Supreme Court. Now, we aren’t saying that we should all pay an 80 percent income tax, or even that we have the solution to the endless question of what and how to tax U.S. citizens. But, we do know that Gov. Mary Fallin’s proposed executive budget would consolidate five different Oklahoma coun-cils, including the Oklahoma Arts Council, into the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department, constituting a 15 percent in funding.

Sure, the programs facilitated by the Oklahoma Arts Council will supposedly still exist but as part of the proposed blanket Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department. As described on the Oklahoma Arts Council’s website, “there is no assurance that the arts will be a future priori-ty of the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation.”

The Oklahoma Arts Council provides grants for arts programs, and 56 percent of its grants go to schools in rural communities and nonprofits, ac-cording to the website. The council also facilitates community leadership and development pro-grams and conferences. Fallin’s proposed funding cut wouldn’t just mean that there would be less Oklahoma-produced art hanging on the walls. It means children in rural schools and tribal govern-ments would lose out on art program grants to en-hance their communities.

Art makes us better. It allows people to explore and share their experiences, as well as develop

a sense of community through arts programs. Beyond enriching humanity, the services provid-ed by the Oklahoma Arts Council actually bring revenue to the state. Patrons of arts shows and galas that purchase artwork pay sales taxes and put capital into the community. We believe slash-ing arts funding to allow a minimal tax cut isn’t worth it.

The supposed motive behind combining the five councils is that it would help allow for a fur-ther .25 percent reduction to Oklahoma’s top in-dividual income tax rate, according to the budget.

So let’s get this straight, our governor would like to consolidate and cut funding to arts councils so that Oklahomans can save a few bucks. And when we say a few, we mean a few.

The current top income tax rate is 5.25 percent, and for sin-gles, the highest rate kicks in for earnings over $8,700. So, the .25

percent reduction would save someone who is single and makes $8,700 a whopping $21.75. As income increases, savings from the proposed cut remain negligible. The average annual wage in Oklahoma is $41, 630, which means you’d save about $104.10 from Fallin’s proposed cut.

We do not believe that such a small real-world reduction in tax rates is worth a 15 percent cut in funding to Oklahoma arts councils, which pro-vide invaluable services across the state. If taxes are the price we pay for civilization, then we be-lieve it is worth losing a Benjamin to maintain arts programs across Oklahoma.

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Kelsey BennettLife & Arts Reporter

Zoe Sherinian leaned back in her chair to think about the question and then smiled when she was sure of her answer. “Social justice,” Sherinian said. That is the professor’s biggest passion.

“The thing that drives me in my whole career is social justice,” Sherinian said. “And it’s not just me imposing a message or doing things — it’s creating a forum, whether through writing or through film or through mu-sical performance, for op-pressed people to share their message, their experience, their issues, their goals, their dreams for a better world.”

Sherinian is an associate professor of ethnomusicol-ogy at OU, with degrees in both music and anthropol-ogy from Oberlin University. She did her graduate work at Wesleyan University.

Sherinian has been a per-cussionist since she was 10 years old. As she spoke of the different drums she has learned to play, she picked one up.

Sherinian’s specialty is the music of south India. As she described the mridangam — a classical drum of south India — her fingers moved with both a fluidity and stiff-ness, impacting the head of the drum with ease and precision.

Jill Irvine, director of the women and gender stud-ies program at OU, is a col-league of Sherinian’s.

“(Sherinian) is complete-ly dedicated to her work as an ethnomusicologist and her work in supporting what others are doing around the world to bring equal rights to women and other margin-alized populations,” Irvine said.

David Nelson, adjunct as-sistant professor at Wesleyan U n i v e r s i t y , h a s k n o w n Sherinian since she was a grad student at Wesleyan.

“She’s obviously a great scholar and teacher and a

terrific cook to boot,” Nelson said.

Sherinian is also the di-rector of the documentary “This Is a Music: Reclaiming an Untouchable Drum.”

Sherinian’s film explores the relationship between the caste system and music, specifically the parai drum-mers. The parai is a framed drum, made out of cow or buffalo hide, according to Sherinian.

“ T h e f i r s t t i m e I s aw [Professor] Sherinian’s film,

I was utterly spellbound,” Ir vine said. “And, I was struck by how important her work is for capturing the way in which cultural traditions can be reinterpreted to em-power women.”

Nelson has shown the film to his class every year since it was first released.

“Everybody doing south Asian studies should see it,” Nelson said.

Sherinian spent all last summer and winter break in India working on her new project, a second film focus-ing on female parai drum-mers. Part of this new film includes teaching a group of young women filmmaking skills, letting them tell their own story and incorporating their work into the film.

Sherinian said she began using film in her disserta-tion work, as a tool in her re-search, and in her field work to capture the whole scene.

“I just finished a book,” Sherinian said. “So many more people have already seen my film than will prob-ably ever read my book.”

When asked to decide which of her many disci-plines she most identifies with, Sherinian said they cannot be separated.

“I’m a teacher, I’m a mu-sician, I’m a percussionist, I’m an activist, I’m a schol-ar-filmmaker, I’m a feminist and I’m queer,” Sherinian said. “I’m all of those things — one big package.”

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Professor fights for social justice

The thing that drives me in my whole career is social justice.”

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professor Zoe Sherinian relaxes in her office with her multitude of percussion instruments. Sherinian is currently working on her second ethnographic film focusing on indigenous indian music.

Film seniors return from French festival

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Editor’s note: Patrick Vaughn was an ESCAPE reporter during the fall 2013 semester.

Keaton Bell Life & Arts Reporter @KildeBell

Film and media studies seniors Matt Skuta and Patrick Vaughn recently traveled to Clermont-Ferrand, France with film and media studies professor Katrina Boyd for the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival.

The festival took place from Jan. 31 - Feb. 8.Overall, OU had 12 films screened at the festival. As

both a festival and a marketplace for the films, it presents a unique opportunity for the students. Not only do they get to present their films to a large, international audi-ence, but they also get a feel for a festival setting outside of a normal classroom setting.

“It was incredible,” Skuta said of having his work screened at the festival. “With it being a short film festival, I realized they don’t get the same exposure in the United States that they do overseas.”

Skuta was taken by how seriously short film, or la court-metrage, is taken abroad versus in the U.S.

“Here you see a lot of short film worked on by a limit-ed number of people,” Skuta said. “Over there, there were movies a little under two minutes, and as long as 35 min-utes, that had crew[s] as big as a lot of the movies that see wide releases here.”

The festival serves as an opportunity for film & media studies students to realize the potential global market for their own films and how films can cross cultural borders, Boyd said.

“Obviously we have the term ‘globalization’ thrown around all of the time, but film has always been a global art with the idea that even from the earliest days of silent cine-ma, film was crossing national borders with a great amount of fluidity,” Boyd said. “It works on a universal scale, so I think the festival is a really interesting encounter with film in a global context.”

Vaughn said the festival provides a great learning environ-ment for film students, so long as they keep an open mind.

“You really get a grasp for the themes and styles and types of films that are resonating with people on an international level,” Vaughn said.

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Freshman guard Gioya Carter takes a difficult shot against Baylor on Feb. 3 at Lloyd Noble Center. The Sooners fell to the Bears 81-67.

Carson WilliamsWomen’s Basketball Reporter @carsonwilliams4

A double-digit lead is never safe in this league.

Last Thursday night, the Sooners experi-enced a double-digit West Virginia come-back, a pattern that began with a similar loss to Texas earlier this season.

The Sooners led by as many as 12 against Texas that game, but the Longhorns charged back and forced overtime. The Longhorns would eventually go on to win.

This time around, it’s a different story as the Sooners take on Texas at home Wednesday night.

Texas was without Chassidy Fussell, one of their top performers, in their last m a t c h u p against OU.

H e a d coach Sherri Coale knows h o w d i f f e r-ent, and how crucial, this m a t c h u p against Texas is.

“ Te x a s i s getting better, and they’ve c o nt i nu a l l y improved throughout the run of the sea-son,” Coale said. “I think we have to have a concerted effort — five guys doing their best to block out every possession. If we have even one slip, they’re gonna come down with the rebound, so we gotta do that.”

On the season, Oklahoma is out-re-bounding their opponents by an average of 2.3 per game. However, in their last meet-ing, the Sooners were outrebounded 49-31.

Sophomore forward Kaylon Williams, one of two true posts Coale rotates, had

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just two rebounds in OU’s last meeting with the Longhorns. Williams credits Texas’ re-bounding, but says it all comes down the fundamentals.

“Texas is a great rebounding team,” Williams said. “They have some really

athletic posts in there, so our key is to build a wall around the paint and keep them out. If we go into a zone, make sure we block out and put a body on somebody and keep them off the boards and make a different outcome than last time. Just go get it.”

Coale, who is four wins away from career win No. 400, also credited how good the Longhorns are at the fastbreak and said tak-ing away that element would be a big key for Oklahoma.

“Always, with Texas, you take away their transition and make them play in the half court,” Coale said. “We’re gonna have to knock down some shots. I don’t think that’s a secret.”

It is definitely not a secret but is more of a challenge now.

Senior guard Aaryn Ellenberg did not practice Monday and is out for Wednesday’s game after colliding into a screen in the sec-ond half of Sunday’s loss at Oklahoma State.

In her absence, junior guard Sharane Campbell will be the likely candidate to carry the scoring load Ellenberg normally shoulders. However, Campbell says her ap-proach should not change.

“I just gotta play how I play normally,” Campbell said. “I gotta be aggressive and just keep on going. I have faith in my team-mates, and I know we can pull this out.”

It is no doubt a win against Texas would be monumental for the Sooners.

Coale knows this season has not gone according to plan. The 18-year head coach believes a solid stretch could make a dif-ference and that it all starts on the practice court.

“We’re just so inconsistent. I’ve said this before. It’s so microscopic, and yet it’s 900 yards,” Coale said. “We’re so close and yet so far away. I think we just need to have maybe a half, maybe it’s 40 minutes of everybody being here to kind of take a deep breath and go, ‘Yeah, this is who we could be,’ because I think we’ve forgotten that. … Being able to be good consistently for a couple of hours in practice is where it begins, no doubt.”

The consistency can begin in an in-stant. That instant will be on display when the Sooners take on Texas at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Lloyd Noble Center.

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“[Texas has] some really athletic posts in there, so our key is to build a wall around the paint and keep them out.”

KayLoN WiLLiamS, SophomoRe FoRWaRd

pLayeR pRoFiLesharane Campbell

year: Junior

Position: Guard

Statistics: Average 12.2 points, 5.3 rebounds and 26.5 minutes per game