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NADIA ENCHASSICampus Reporter
A new undergraduate major has surpassed its four-year enrollment prediction after only its first year.
The history of science, t e c h n o l o g y , a n d m e d i -cine major — which first became a major last fall after being passed at the
Regents meeting in June 2011— set a goal of hav-ing 12 majors by the fall 2015, said Stella Stuart, Undergraduate Academic A d v i s o r a n d G r a d u a t e Studies coordinator.
Seventeen students are declared majors this fall, she said.
They also set a goal of
having 5 graduates at the end of that academic year — two students have already graduated from the program as of last spring. Stuart said if everyone stays on track, two more students will graduate this May and seven more are set to graduate in 2014.
“When the proposal was sent around the university and, then, to the regents, there were certain expect-ed predictions we had to present, and we’ve already
exceeded the number of majors that we thought we would have at the end of five years,” Stuart said. “So, we’re doing quite well.”
She said the major initial-ly gained traction through its minor program.
“The growth of the minor has really contributed to the success of the major, too,” said Steven Livesey, Brian E. and Sandra O’Brien presi-dential professor and de-partment chair.
The numbers of students enrolled in the minor has increased in recent years, he said. Five years ago the pro-gram was averaging a dozen minors, now they have over 20, he said.
CHASE COOKAssistant Managing Editor
Two hundred dollars doesn’t sound like much, but for Susana Rodriguez, it could mean the dif-ference between a full fridge and a bare one.
Rodriguez is a single mother pursuing her master’s degree in computer science at OU. She works on the side to help pay for school — she doesn’t have scholarships — and she also re-ceives $200 a month from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Her 5-year-o l d s o n , A l e x Mendez, also gets free meals auto-matically thanks to Rodriguez’s receiv-ing the federal aid.
B u t t h a t a l l might change for R o d r i g u e z a n d other students re-ceiving federal aid from SNAP as the U.S. L e gis lat ive branch fights over how to make cuts to the federal aid program as part of the 2012 Farm Bill.
B o t h t h e U. S . H o u s e o f Representatives and the Senate want to limit access to SNAP aid for traditional college students by limiting access to only students pursuing employment-oriented degrees that are typically associ-ated with vocational and technical schools. This may make it difficult
for students not in these types of programs to qualify for aid unless they meet other eligibili-ty requirements, such as
having a child under 5 or partici-pating in a work study program.
The House’s bill — which claims to save taxpayers $16 billion — cuts SNAP further by restricting automatic qualification for SNAP only to those receiving cash as-sistance, thus forcing states to re-instate asset tests that could make it harder for families to meet the income requirements for SNAP benefits.
Currently, families in Oklahoma must meet the 130 percent feder-al poverty level to qualify for aid
and then meet a net income test to deter-mine how much aid is received. Personal assets are not includ-ed in Oklahoma when trying to determine initial gross income el-igibility, accord-ing to DHS.
With the loss of categorically eligibility, some non-traditional OU students could lose access, but the exact number of students getting SNAP services isn’t avail-able because the Department of Human Services does not monitor students specifically. There were 29,452 people receiving SNAP benefits in Cleveland County in fiscal year 2012, according to DHS
data.The Oklahoma Department of
Human Services manages SNAP, but Kathie Wright, OKDHS pro-grams manager, said the office doesn’t comment on pending leg-islation. Wright did say, however, that eligibility for SNAP for tradi-tional college students already is restrictive without the limitations placed by the pending legislation.
“There are many who would tell you the eligibility restrictions are too restrictive,” Wright said.
It’s difficult to determine the impact behind specifying that stu-dents must be in technical or edu-cation programs, but a report by the Congressional Budget Office states about 1.8 million people will lose access to SNAP if the re-source asset test and categorical
eligibility is ended.Rodriguez’s aid is not cer-
tain, but she said she believes her access to SNAP would re-main safe even if the House of Representatives’ version of the bill is made into law. But she said anyone like herself who will lose access to SNAP will struggle.
Last year, Rodriguez had to work three jobs to support herself and her son — two of them on-campus and none of them paid well, she said. The excessive work caused her to start failing some of her classes and to perform poorly at work.
S NA P a i d h e l p e d h e r g e t through that situation, because there was at least always money for food.
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This year, one of OU’s law students is representing the state of Oklahoma as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention.
Erick Harris, a second year law student, was elect-ed this spring to attend the convention.
The convention began Monday and will last until Thursday upon which President Barack Obama will accept the Democratic nomination, according to the convention’s website.
Between 5,000 and 6,000 delegates attend the con-vention, according to the convention’s website.
“I’m really honored to be going, to be honest with you,” Harris said.
Harris submitted an ap-plication to the Oklahoma Democratic Party early this spring and was nomi-nated from the floor at the D emocratic State Convention by Sen. Judy Eason McIntyre (D-Tulsa) and Rep. Jabar Shumate (D-Tulsa), he said.
After being nominat-ed, Harris had about 30 seconds to give a speech to highlight his qualifi-cations, which include paging for Sen. Stratton Taylor (D-Claremore) in 2002, serving as Youth Coordinator for Eason McIntyre’s 2004 Senate campaign and working on Obama’s primary cam-paign in December 2008 in Laconia, N.H., Harris said.
After his speech, the State Convention elected Harris to go as a delegate to the National Convention, Harris said.
SNAP LEGISLATION
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Susana Rodriguez, computer science graduate student, and her son Alex pick out a bunch of bananas. Rodriguez, a single mother, could lose benefits she receives from the federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program if the 2012 Farm Bill passes.
Bill could cut students’ federal aid
SEE SNAP PAGE 2
SEE DELEGATE PAGE 2 2012 Farm Bill cuts could impact almost 30,000 Cleveland County residents
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“It’s one less resource ... I’m sure
I could survive. It would make it a lot tougher situation.”
SUSANA RODRIGUEZ, COMPUTER SCIENCE GRADUATE
Losing food securityOpinion: Aid cuts could leave many hungry (Page 3)
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Losing food security Aid cuts could leave many hungry (Page 3)
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“I think it confirms what we know, which is that our stu-dents are involved today and our students will be involved tomorrow in leadership posi-tions,” Harroz said.
As students continue to re-alize the importance of build-ing a robust resume, that re-flects both academic and ex-tracurricular excellence, they
should consider getting in-volved in things that initially they might not think they can do, Harroz said.
“One of the biggest limita-tions for people is not dream-ing big enough,” Harroz said.
Harris said that he be-lieves his nomination repre-sents what OU has: leader-ship, active involvement in
community service and ver-satile individuals who can represent the university well.
Harris encourages students to volunteer for political cam-paigns and educate them-selves about what’s going on in the political world.
“To be honest, you really don’t know what that could lead to,” Harris said.
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“It’s one less resource . . . I’m sure I could sur-vive,” Rodriguez said. “It would make it a lot tougher situation.”
If Rodriguez loses access to SNAP because of the new re-strictions, her son Max’s au-tomatic qualification for free meals from school would be lost. These new restrictions may lead to 280,000 children nationwide losing access to free meals they receive based on SNAP benefits, ac-cording to a report by the Congressional Budget Office.
The children of these fami-lies who lose access to SNAP will be hit twice, said Paul Shinn, Community Action Project public policy analyst.
“They get hit by not having access to meals at home and not having access to meals at
school,” Shinn said. “That’s kind of a big deal.”
It’s not easy to go through college; it’s expensive, Shinn said. Anything that is limiting access to students, especially those with a child, can alter the life trajectory of both the mother and child.
Losing that extra money a month could force parents to quit school and negatively impact their child’s life, and Oklahoma loses the ability to have another college gradu-ate, Shinn said.
“There is almost universal agreement that we need more graduates in Oklahoma,” Shinn said. “If we don’t get that, our economy doesn’t thrive.”
The House Committee on Agriculture’s office — the committee that passed the bill by a 35-11 vote — did not return phone calls or emails requesting an interview with
The 25-year-old ran against individuals twice his age to secure his seat at the conven-tion, Harris said.
“It’s a coveted position,” he said.
Joseph Harroz, dean of the OU College of Law, said that he wasn’t surprised by Harris’ nomination.
“When you meet Erick, he is a really dynamic leader,” Harroz said.
A great public law school has students who are in-volved in their community, state and nation regardless of which political party they fall under, Harroz said.
Harris’ interest and in-volvement in politics was one of the first things the College of Law noticed upon review-ing Harris’ application to the law school, Harroz said.
Involvement in politics is great for any student consid-ering any career, Harroz said, and the fact that Harris ap-plied shows his interest while the fact that he was nominat-ed shows his ability.
“He has a very bright future ahead of him,” Harroz said.
The College of Law is proud of Harris, he said.
SNAP: 280,000 children could lose free mealsContinued from page 1
HEATHER BROWN/THE DAILY
Erick Harris, law graduate stands in the library of OU Law on Friday. Harris, a second year law stu-dent, was selected to represent the state of Oklahoma at the Democratic National Convention.
Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) Lucas is the chairman of the agriculture committee.
Neither the Senate’s bill — which doesn’t restrict cat-egorical eligibility — nor the House’s bill have been made into law yet. The Senate al-ready passed its version of the bill, but the House of Representatives has yet to bring its version of the Farm Bill to the floor. The legisla-ture is in recess and returns Sept. 10.
Once it reconvenes, the bodies have until the end of September to pass a new bill before the previous one expires.
Until the politicians can work out their differences, the impact these bills will have on Oklahoman families and students like Rodriguez remains in limbo.
BY THE NUMBERSImpact ofSNAP changes
29,452 people in � scal year 2012 receiving SNAP bene� ts in Cleveland County.
1.8M people will lose
access to SNAP if the House bill becomes law.
280K estimated children
nationwide losing access to free meals if House bill becomes law.
Source: Department of Health Services and Congressional Budget Of� ce
DELEGATE: Dean noted Harris’ political involvementContinued from page 1
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THUMBS UP: OU law student Erick Harris was elected this Spring to represent Oklahoma at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. this week. (Page 1)
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Our View: Proposed cuts to food aid program could leave thousands of Oklahomans to go hungry.
Proposed changes to the 2012 Farm Bill would restrict access to the so-called “food stamps” program, par-ticularly for students and working families.
Changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would restrict the option for states to use a special eligibility option called cate-gorical eligibility, which would lower the number of individuals who qual-ify for the program and leave many needy families without coverage.
The costsThe proposed changes will take
benefits from an estimated 1.8 million people, according to the Congressional Budget Office. And it’s not just about monetary aid. SNAP benefits also automatically qualify children for the free-lunch program at their schools. The Congressional Budget Office reports about 280,000 children will lose that access under this bill.
Although it’s difficult to deter-mine how many Oklahomans would be among that number, the Department of Human Services re-ports 250,000 adults and chil-dren in Oklahoma receive aid through this program every month.
This is an especially im-portant issue for Oklahoma. The USDA reports that in 2010, approximately one in seven households was food insecure nationwide — meaning the family did not always have access to the amount of food necessary to live active, healthy lives. Oklahoma ranks fourth in the nation for severe food insecurity, and sixth in the nation for food insecurity overall.
What is categorical eligibility?Categorical eligibility gives states
the option to loosen the initial qualification requirements for fami-lies who receive benefits from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.
Conservatives have targeted this option as needlessly expanding the pool of those who qualify for the pro-gram beyond those who are truly needy. This is likely the reason this provision was singled out for budget cuts. But in practice, this option only expands access to needy families cur-rently overlooked by the program.
Categorical eligibility ensures that a particular type of needy family is not excluded from the program — spe-cifically, working families who have
incomes above the poverty line but are in need of aid be-cause of medical, childcare or other costs.
Eligibility for the program comes in two stages. The first is based on gross income, which is considered without
deductions; the second is based on net income, which includes deduc-tions for necessary expenses.
These expenses may not limit the family’s income on paper, but in re-ality, they leave the family with less money for food and necessities. But the first level of qualification, which families must pass in order to be con-sidered at all, ignores these expenses.
Categorical eligibility allows those families whose income is higher but who are still struggling — most often working families facing hardship — to qualify for consideration.
The American presidential election is a farce.
Both parties’ candidates are controlled by the same interest: corporate money, not the people.
Of course, the Electoral College always has kept the choice of president out of the people’s hands. Then in 2010, the Supreme Court further diluted our political voice by opening the floodgates for corporate cam-paign contributions in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
But now, with the voter ID laws Republicans are using to suppress votes across the country, the basic unfairness of the presidential race has become intoler-able. These laws require a photo ID to vote and inevitably keep poor and minority voters out of the political process.
This is why I’m disgusted with the qua-drennial embarrassment of our presiden-tial election.
The saddest part is some people still think it really matters. In truth, the govern-ment is not being reconstituted so much as our people are releasing pent-up steam.
It is an excuse to get worked up over two very general issues (that most people, including myself, know almost noth-ing about): foreign policy and domestic policy.
The social issues within domestic policy
— gay rights, stem cells, abortion, war on drugs, immigration — are not really af-fected by the presidential election. Real change for them happens much more often on a local level.
America is simply too large for blanket regulations on these issues, to the dismay of demagogues push-ing one way or the other. Honestly, if it bothers you that much, move to a part of the country more toler-ant to your own beliefs.
Foreign policy also is a non-issue in the presi-dential election. There is no real choice. Both can-didates essentially would maintain the aggressive military posture of the United States by support-ing Israel and maintaining troops — ex-cuse me, “military advisors” — in Iraq and Afghanistan.
These positions are the result of hard-and-fast circumstances neither candidate has the political capital to overcome and were caused as much by economic factors as patriotic ones.
It seems as long as we loudly beat our chests and proclaim ourselves a capital-ist country, we will be exporting war for
profit.So the presidential election is an annoy-
ingly inconsequential brouhaha (which, like a true American faced with a public mess, I can’t look away from).
The media is as much to blame for this as our own flawed election institutions.
Instead of educating citizens on their disen-franchisement from the process, it revels in the constant stream of cam-paign stories that make for good “gotcha!” moments but not good debate.
Real ideas take a back-seat to mudslinging and gaffes, and reality takes a backseat to both.
If you care about America, do your duty
and treat the presidential election with the scorn it deserves.
Write to Oklahoma’s senators and repre-sentatives. Tell them how dissatisfied you were with how the election was carried out.
Tell them you want to get the money out of presidential politics and put the power back into the hands of the people.
Telling our legislators what we think is the simplest way to change our system for
the better.We must repeal voter ID laws and
amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United. We must end the Electoral College, and we must include more third parties on the ballot, as President David Boren encouraged the country to do by supporting Americans Elect.
Direct democracy should not be a scary word in the land of the free.
And despite the futility of it, you should probably just go out and vote for President Barack Obama.
He’s the slightly less evil hand puppet of the military-industrial complex, as far as the truth I’m subscribing to is concerned — which, in our post-modern, infotain-ment-drenched world is about the most I can say about that.
Besides, there are important state ques-tions that get answered on Nov. 6. Among other things, there is a bond issue to im-prove Oklahoma’s water infrastructure, something that’s sorely needed consider-ing the dangerous amounts of heavy met-als in our aquifer.
Then, after election day, we can work to reform our currently corrupt presidential election. And I think that’s something ev-eryone can drink to.
Justin Mai, letters junior
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EDITORIAL
Bill puts working families at risk for hungerProcess for determining a family’s eligibility for SNAP program
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Protection from abuseThe amount of monthly aid also is
determined by the family’s income. So families with higher incomes will qualify for aid only if they have heavy medical, childcare, housing or other costs they can deduct.
For example, the poverty rate for a family of four in 2011 was $1,863 a month, according to the Oklahoma Department of Human Services. So, a family making up to $3,726 a month (200 percent of the poverty rate) could qualify for consideration for benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program with categorical eligibility.
But if that family had no deductions beyond the standard, its expected contribution would be $1,071. Since the maximum monthly aid for a fam-ily of four in 2011 was $668, this fam-ily would not qualify for aid under the SNAP program.
In this way, categorical eligibility protects against massive abuse of the system and does not extend benefits to families that are not truly in need.
It merely reflects the fact that not all of the family’s money is free to go toward food.
The asset testThis eligibility option also allows
states to choose to modify or elimi-nate the asset test. With the asset test,
families must have less than $2,000 in countable assets to qualify for the program.
But states largely have discovered that those applying for the program have so few assets that the admin-istrative costs of verifying the assets outweighs the need for the restric-tion, according to the Food Research and Action Center.
If this option is restricted, states not only would be saddled with higher costs, but even more families no lon-ger would qualify.
What now?Oklahoma has chosen categorical
eligibility to eliminate the asset test and save administrative costs. But the state has set its gross income cap at the same as the federal rate. If the House and Senate decide to keep this option in the 2012 law, Oklahoma should consider raising this cap to allow needy working families greater access to this important aid.
But that entails the House and Senate agreeing on a Farm Bill ver-sion that does not include this harm-ful cut.
Go to OUDaily.com to contact your legislators and urge them to protect Oklahoma’s most vulnerable families from hunger.
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Because you’ll know how to success-fully respond to outside challenges, changes could benefi t you big time in the year ahead. Go with the fl ow, and you’ll end up someplace great.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Financial trends appear to be exceptionally encouraging for you at this point in time. Now is the day to look for ways to make extra funds and get rid of old debts.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Part-nership arrangements tend to have better chances for success at this time than do solo efforts. However, should you form an alliance, you will need to play a strong supportive role.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Strong, benefi cial interests will be favoring you at this point in time. Dedicate all your efforts toward generating as much income as you possibly can.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- When and where there is a need to assert authority, do so without any hesitation. You’ll instinctively know how to do so in ways that won’t cause others to take offense.
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After a summer of freedom, it can be hard to
go back to college, mind-numbing schedules and monotonous routines.
Classes only may have started a couple of weeks ago, but some of you al-ready may be suffering from intense boredom.
Below is a list of tried-and-true methods to end the mourning of summer and welcome in the exciting possibilities of a new school year. (Do I sound like an inspirational fortune cookie yet?)
Look through summer vacation photosPersonally, this would make me sob “why has no one
invented a time machine yet?” But some freaky people actually feel better after looking at pictures where they were having a lot more fun than they are now.
Make interesting weekend plansGoing to fraternity houses/house parties/Campus
Corner bars is fun and all, but even those end up turning into a blur of Polo hats and neon puke. Really, there’s only so much you can take.
So rather than doing the same old thing on the week-end, make plans that don’t involve drinking games and stumbling around in heels. Go bungee jumping. See a play. Take a road trip. At the very least, drive to some other college and see if its frat/house parties/bars is more interesting.
Bribe yourselfI am speaking from personal experience here:
Sometimes the only way to get your lazy butt out of bed and to class is to bribe yourself. Think: “If I drag myself all the way to the North Oval, I will reward myself with some-thing from Crimson & Whipped Cream after staring at the wall for 75 minutes.” You may have to wipe the drool off your face after class is over, but presto! It’s cupcake time.
Have something to look forward toWhen all else fails, know that Thanksgiving/Christmas/
your friend’s 21st birthday — and a multitude of shots (yes, that applies in all those situations) — is right around the corner.
Emily Hopkins is an advertising junior.
Megan DeatonLife & Arts Reporter
A s t h e n e w U n i o n Programming Board presi-dent, Patrick McSweeney is putting his New Zealand ac-cent’s charm to the test.
McSweeney, political sci-ence and public relations junior, moved stateside from New Zealand in 2004 be-cause of his mother’s work in the field of biology. His fam-ily now resides in Ardmore, Okla., where his mother works for the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation.
It’s hard not to focus on McSweeney’s accent as he speaks, although his Twitter description reads, “You are the one with the accent.”
McSweeney has been in-volved with UPB since his freshman year and served as co-community service chairman last semester. He now will add president to his list of activities, including being a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
“This year, I’ve really tried to not do quite as much and really focus on UPB, just because it’s something I’m so passionate about,” McSweeney said.
Helping people find things to do is part of McSweeney’s job with UPB. Fellow UPB executive board member Mariah Najmuddin, a public relations and Spanish junior, is confident in McSweeney’s skills as the new president.
“He is always coming up with great ideas to take the organization to the next
Union Programming Board
Board gets fresh accentUPB’s president came from New Zealand in 2004
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Patrick mcSweeney, the new Union Programming Board president, stands near the oklahoma memorial Union. mcSweeney, political science and public relations junior, moved to oklahoma from new Zealand in 2004.
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level,” Najmuddin said. “Last year, he organized Sooner Idol, and it was by far the best one yet.”
McSweeney says that one of his goals is to make fresh-men feel like they have a home at OU — and week-end events help keep them i n v o l v e d w i t h c a m p u s activities.
“That’s kind of one of our purposes, to work with fresh-men and get them, so they’re staying in Norman over the weekend instead of going home,” McSweeney said. “It’s really cool when you can actually see that one of the events we’ve done has actu-ally done that.”
U n i o n P r o g r a m m i n g C o o r d i n a t o r M i c h a e l Giesecke helped choose McSweeney for position of president and thinks he has a lot to offer UPB.
“With student organiza-tions, every student’s involve-ment and personality affects the whole,” Giesecke said. “Patrick brought a lot of cha-risma to the organization and a genuine love of people.”
McSweeney spent the summer on a study abroad
program in Ireland and col-lected ideas for UPB from the friendly Irish attitude.
“He was very inspired by his recent study abroad op-portunity in Ireland and how the communities gath-ered together all the time to share meals and socialize,” Giesecke said.
Above all, McSweeney aims to make UPB events into friendly places where students can just come and enjoy themselves.
“Our motto is ‘Always Something,’ and that’s kind of what I like,” McSweeney said. “There’s always something going on, and there’s always something different.”
Megan Deaton [email protected]
At A GLAnceUPB events» Miss OU interest meeting — 7 tonight
» “Men in Black 3” screening — 6 p.m., 9 p.m., midnight Friday
» Foam Party — 8 p.m. Friday
Carmen Forman, life & arts editorWestlee Parsons, assistant editor
[email protected] • phone: 405-325-3666oudaily.com/life&arts • Twitter: @OUDailyArtsLIFE&ARTS
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football
offense weak in opener
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UtEP kick returner DeShawn Grayson (left) jumps to avoid being tackled by oU senior safety Javon Harris (right) on the opening kickoff of the oU game against UtEP on Saturday in El Paso, texas.
Tobi NeidySports Reporter
Efficiency and precision.Those were the two facets
of the game Oklahoma foot-ball coach Bob Stoops said he wanted to see his team succeed in during the sea-son opener against UTEP on Saturday.
But it was lack of those factors by the Sooner of-fense that kept the Miners right with the nation’s then fourth-ranked team.
Senior quar-terback Landry J o n e s o n l y completed 58 percent of his p a s s e s a n d w a s s a c k e d m o r e t i m e s (three) than he threw touch-
down passes (two) in the 24-7 victory.
The starter said he was disappointed in the fact that he couldn’t get in rhythm with the receivers but also said he expected the offense to start picking up pace as the season progresses.
“Everyone was just a little off, but we haven’t played all year yet,” Jones said. “We weren’t in sync, but that comes with time, practice and playing in games.”
During the first quarter, Jones connected with ju-nior wide receiver Kenny Stills on a 38-yard pass that was called back due to a chop block penalty called on senior running back Dominique Whaley. The call set up a first-and-25 that the Sooners couldn’t
New corps of receivers rusty in season debut
Football
Four Florida A&M players suspended days before game against Oklahoma
the Florida a&M football team suspended four play-ers just days before the team is set to take on No. 5 oklahoma, according to an announcement released by rattlers’ coach Joe taylor on tuesday.
redshirt sophomore wide receiver lenworth lennon, sophomore cornerback devontate Johnson, sophomore wide receiver dewayne harvey and freshman offensive lineman daniel lennon will sit out during the sooners’ home opener on saturday in Norman after violating team rules.
Johnson was ranked ninth in the Football championship subdivision last season with five inter-ceptions.
Tobi Neidy, Sports Reporter
SoFtball
OU catcher Jessica Shults earns third national award for Sooners
oklahoma senior catcher Jessica shults was named the 2012 division i diamond sports catcher of the Year, according to an announcement made by the National Fastpitch coaches association on tuesday.
the award recognizes the top catcher in division i softball as voted on by a committee of d-i coaches.
shults, who finished her junior season with a .378 batting average that included 20 home runs and 65 runs batted in, helped lead oU softball to the final round of the 2012 Women’s college World series.
shults’ honor was the third national individual award earned by a sooner player from last season’s team that finished with a 54-10 overall record. (senior pitcher keilani ricketts was named the Usa softball collegiate player of the Year and the honda softball player of the Year.)
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Kedric Kitchens, sports editorDillon Phillips, assistant editor
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SPORTSOUDaily.com ››Junior wide receiver Roy Finch has proven to be effective over the last two years, but he barely saw the field Saturday. Why?
do anything with, resulting in a punt.
The other key first half missed opportunity came as a result of a freshman misstep.
On a fade route, fresh-man receiver Trey Metoyer s t e p p e d i n c h e s o u t o f bounds on a catch that w o u l d h a v e s c o r e d a touchdown.
“That’s him being a young guy who was just drifting in-stead of staying in,” Stoops said.
But even some of the vet-eran players had trouble connecting on passes.
In the second quarter, after getting a five-yard penalty for delay of game, Jones tried to connect with senior wide receiver Justin Brown on a post route that fell short.
“Landry (Jones) was pro-tected well,” Stoops said. “But unlike him, he threw behind [Brown]. Those were opportunities that weren’t as efficient as we needed to be and therefore we’re sit-ting there in a tight game.”
While the Sooners even-tually scored 24 points in the game, the low offensive production dissatisfied the 30-point favorite.
And the Sooners said they plan to focus on eliminating the missed opportunities.
“After watching the film, we know what mistakes we made and we have to change those to get better,” Stills said.
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