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STRESSED?
UNDER PRESSUREPressure to please parents among factors
leading to unhealthy coping mechanisms
JAMES LOVETTThe Oklahoma Daily
A majority of college students are feeling stressed, and a sub-stantial number are at risk of depression.
According to a new Associated Press-mtvU poll, 85 percent of students surveyed reported feeling stress in their daily lives, and cited grades, money and relationships among their major
worries.The survey also found 42 percent said they had felt down, de-
pressed or hopeless several days during the past two weeks.The AP-mtvU poll surveyed 2,240 undergraduate students
ages 18-24, and included interviews conducted at 40 U.S. universities.
Jessica Hawkins, director of prevention at the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, said college students often turn to unhealthy coping mecha-nisms when dealing with stress.
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Discovery takes cancer
research to next level
KYLE WESTThe Oklahoma Daily
OKLAHOMA CITY — Researchers at the OU Cancer Institute have discovered how a particular cancer stem cell protein causes tumors to grow.
Cancer biologist Shrikant Anant and Dr. Courtney Houchin an-nounced their discovery at a press conference Thursday in the Stanton L. Young Biomedical Research Center in Oklahoma City.
“I would like the public to know that we are taking a different ap-proach to researching cancer,” Houchin said. “This idea has been around for a while, but it’s only re-cently become a hot issue. I believe it’s going to be the future of cancer therapy. This will make it easier to target specific cancers in specific ways.”
The researchers say this is the first evidence of a stem cell protein regulating a tumor suppressor, ac-cording to a statement from the institute.
By targeting this newly discov-ered protein, researchers hope to develop new therapies that would specifically target cancer stem cells, stopping cancer from growing and reoccurring.
Houchin and Anant have been researching cancer stem cells lon-ger than others in the field, they said.
“It’s a big race right now,” Anant explained. “God’s given us the abil-ity to find these cells. Though we’re a small group, we’re ahead of the others in many ways.”
He said since beginning their re-search, teams at Stanford, Harvard and the University of Michigan have started their own cancer stem cell research.
S t a t e S e n a t o r J o h n n i e Crutchfield, D-Ardmore, helped fund the team’s research.
“If you had to sum it up in one word, it’s hope,” said Crutchfield, a cancer survivor. “The very real bottom line for me as a survivor is the hope that if my cancer re-oc-curs, there will be a less traumatic, less invasive and more success-ful medicine that will allow me to live a normal life and continue as a functioning member of society.”
STEM CELLS“Stem cells make a signature of
proteins which are unique to the cell,” Anant said. “One of these pro-teins we’ve identified is very unique in the stem cells. The protein is made in the cell and can become a cancer stem cell. We believe that if we target the stem cell we can stop the cancer.”
He explained how cancerous stem cells reproduce slower than normal cancer cells.
“Drugs kill rapidly dividing cells,” Anant said. “Stem cells don’t divide very fast, so the drugs we’re using don’t kill cancer stem cells.”
He said one of the problems with traditional cancer treatment is that it only targets fast-dividing cells. Though the cancer might go away for a while, cancerous stem cells still remain, which causes the cancer to reoccur later.
Cancerous stem cells cannot be killed effectively with traditional treatment.
“To kill those cells, we have to use a large amount of drugs,” Anant said. “That is more of a killer than the cancer itself.”
WHAT’S NEXTHouchin estimated that it would
be another five to seven years before their research would be manifested into a viable therapy, depending on the amount of fund-ing they receive. He also explained their research could be applicable to other forms of cancer research.
“We think this protein is not only a marker of stem cells,” Houchin said. “If we can block that protein, we can block cancer from growing or spreading.”
Fo r c a n c e r s u r v i v o r s l i k e Crutchfield, the promise of a more effective cancer treatment based on Houchin and Anant’s research is on the horizon.
Crutchfield said the completion of the OU Cancer Institute’s new building in 2010 will put Oklahoma at the forefront of cancer research.
“I think what we’ll end up with is a facility that we’re very proud of,” Crutchfield said. “It will give
us a world-class place where peo-ple can come and get top-notch, world-class cancer care. It was a dream — now it is a reality.”
Anant agreed the future of cancer research in Oklahoma is
promising.“We want people to realize
great things are going on here,” Anant said. “Oklahoma has really blossomed as a Mecca for cancer research.”
OU BIOLOGISTS FIND KEY TO COMBATING CANCER
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Researchers Shrikant Anant and Courtney Houchin of the OU Cancer Institute hope to develop new therapies to fight cancer using stem cells.
Names are compiled from the Norman Police Department and OUPD. The reports serve as a record of arrests, not convictions. Those listed are innocent until proven guilty.
COUNTY WARRANTKeon Robert Bell, 24, 1000 N. Interstate Dr. W., SaturdayNicholas Eugene Orrie Rockholt, 19, 1300 E. Lindsey St., SaturdaySimon M. Shaw, 27, Franklin Rd., Saturday
DOMESTIC ABUSEChristopher Paul Cook, 30, 826 Denison Dr., SaturdayGwendalynn Dee Tyon, 32, 2913 Woodview Dr., Saturday, also county warrant
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCECody James Decordova, 21, Eddington St., SaturdayAmber Dawn Poole, 28, Jenkins Ave., SaturdayChristopher Don Watts, 21, 2300 24th Ave. SW, Sunday
POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIADustin Wade Graham, 24, N. Berry Rd., Saturday
OUTRAGING PUBLIC DECENCYAustin Guy Heath, 24, 302 N. Creekdale Dr., Saturday
DISTURBING THE PEACEJennifer Denise Hill, 36, 117
W. Frank St., SaturdayJacob Louie Jones, 22, 617 N. Peters Ave., SaturdayJeanie Marlene Columbus, 43, 225 Chalmette Dr., SaturdayMary Ann Sewell, 25, 225 Chalmette Dr., Saturday
PUBLIC INTOXICATIONRobert Mac Hughes, 42, 2400 W. SH9 HWY, SaturdayMichael Gregory Wilson, 37, 2400 W. SH9 HWY, SaturdayJohn David Martin, 24, 710 Asp Ave., SundayJohnny Clifton Payne, 46, 114 Keith St., Saturday
MUNICIPAL WARRANTDavid Michael Reed, 27, 2005 Oak Hollow, SaturdayShawn Thomas Boswell, 30, 1515 Lindale Cir., Saturday
ASSAULT AND BATTERY WITH A DEADLY WEAPONJesse Alan Workman, 26, 1805 Twisted Oak Dr., Saturday
POSSESSION OF MARIJUANADavid Lynn Emerson, 38, 1515 Lindale Cir., Saturday, also pos-session of drug paraphernaliaDereil Shane Howell, 18, 601 12th Ave. NE, Saturday
LARCENYJennifer Lynn King, 35, 1933 Aladdin St., Sunday
POLICE REPORTS NEWS BRIEFS
Baker appointed new OU judicial services director
Andrea Baker has been appointed the new OU judicial services director.
Baker served as UOSA general coun-sel as an OU law student, and currently serves as the deputy general counsel for the offi ce of Gov. Brad Henry.
Baker is replacing Justin McFeeters, who left for a job as a pastor.
OU judicial services is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the university discipline system, due pro-cess under the Academic Misconduct Code and alcohol education programs.
Man dies in Norman shootingNorman police are investigating a
Sunday night shooting that resulted in the death of one man on the city’s east side.
Police said officers responded at approximately 5:40 p.m. Sunday to a report of a gunshot victim in the 400 block of north Crawford Street.
The victim was found dead at the scene when officers arrived. As of Monday night, the victim’s name had not been released pending notifi cation of his family.
The incident is under investigation by the Norman Police Department Criminal Investigations Bureau.
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“The 18-24 year-old age range is the most concerning for us,” Hawkins said. “Underage drinking and tobacco use is higher than for anyone else in Oklahoma, and I think there’s no doubt that there is a relationship between the enormous amount of stress on college-age people and that often is their go-to thing. There is a direct link between substance abuse and depression. Binge drinking is a di-rect contributor to a lot of the problems in the study.”
Brendan Brock, fi-nance sophomore, said most of his friends binge drink on the weekends.
“For us, it’s kind of like we study and go to school all week and then want to let loose on the weekend,” Brock said. “I guess it might be that we are coping with our stress through drinking, but I hadn’t really thought of it like that before. I just feel like everyone drinks, but this survey makes it sound like everyone is stressed, so I guess it makes sense.”
Brock said he thinks there is more pressure on college students to make higher grades.
“I always made A’s in high school, so I didn’t want to let my parents down in college,” he said. “I took Adderall fresh-man year, but I didn’t really like how it made me feel, so I stopped. I just felt like
if I didn’t get the grades I made in high school, my parents wouldn’t be happy.”
Dr. Kathryn Reilly, OU Physicians family medical specialist, said everyone has stress in his or her lives, but depres-sion should be more of the cause for concern.
“Adolescence is a period in life when de-pression is more com-mon than other times,” Reilly said. “I think the problem with the AP re-port is that, unless their criteria for stress and depression were very well defined, the num-bers may not mean too much. I would be
surprised if most people in the U.S., re-gardless of age, didn’t express feeling stress in their daily lives. Feeling down can be a temporary reaction to minor ups and downs in life, and is probably different than feeling hopeless or even ‘depressed.’”
Both Reilly and Hawkins stressed the importance of seeking help when stu-dents begin to feel overwhelmed.
“It’s important for college students to understand how many resources are available to them,” Hawkins said. “When you’re on your own for the first time and away from home, a lot of the young people don’t realize the resourc-es that are available, especially on their university.”
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EDDIE RADOSEVICHThe Oklahoma Daily
For the fourth time in the last 109 years, OU will host an NCAA Regional when they welcome Arkansas, Washington State and Wichita State to L. Dale Mitchell Ballpark Friday.
Oklahoma (41-18), the No. 7 national seed, joins seven other teams from the Big 12 in the field of 64, including Texas — who wrapped up the Phillips 66 Big 12 Chamionship in Oklahoma City Sunday, securing the No. 1 national seed.
OU puts itself in a good position as they get set to start post-season play. With the op-portunity to play at home, the Sooners have a chance to control their own destiny as they won’t have to leave Norman on their road to Omaha.
This comes after a weekend of disappoint-ment at the Bricktown Ballpark, in which Oklahoma went 1-2.
The Sooners got things going early in the tournament, beating Texas Tech in their opening game. Paced early by Friday night starter Andrew Doyle, Oklahoma rolled to a 5-2 victory.
Ross Hubbard delivered two key hits and tied a career-high four RBIs leading the Sooners offense. Jamie Johnson and Casey Johnson added two hits apiece.
That was all the run support Andrew Doyle needed. He won his eighth game of the year after he limited Texas Tech to four hits and two runs, both unearned, in eight innings of work.
The Sooners’ first loss came against Texas
A&M, a team that came into the Big 12 tour-nament reeling at the hands of a sweep the previous weekend in Norman.
Scoring six runs in the top of the first in-ning was not enough for a shaky and suspect Sooner pitching. Starting pitcher Michael Rocha was ineffective after two previous end of the year outings that turned many heads. Rocha was pulled after two-thirds of an in-ning, giving way to five other Sooner pitchers throughout the night.
Trailing seven runs with only three outs left, OU mounted a rally but fell short losing 17-15 — a total closer to a football score from the two Big 12 South rivals.
Saturday’s third and final pool-play game matched No. 2 seed Oklahoma versus No. 3 seed Missouri.
After losing a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the sixth inning, the Sooners rallied with a single run in the next innning to cut the lead down to one run. In the eighth inning, the Sooners loaded the bases, but pinch hitter Kaleb Herren grounded into an inning-ending double play.
In the ninth inning, center fielder Jamie Johnson led off with a double down the left-field line. Down 5-4, the Sooners placed run-ners on the corner bases following a Matt Harughty single to left.
Once again, Missouri slammed the door shut.
The Tigers reliever Phil McCormick came up big, striking out Oklahoma first baseman Aaron Baker for the first out of the inning.
Big 12 Player of the Year J.T. Wise then grounded into a game-ending double play.
Missed opportunities proved costly for the Sooners.
“This was a tremendous disappointment for our young men to come in here, where we feel like we have a lot of the pieces of the puzzle,” head coach Sunny Golloway said.
“We are an extremely talented ballclub and we just broke down.”
OU finished the game 4-for-14 with base-runners in scoring position.
With the loss, Oklahoma fell to 22-22 all-time in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship.
Sooners lose two games in the Big XII Tournament
ELI HULL/THE DAILY
The Sooners celebrate their win against the Red Raiders (5-2) at the AT&T Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, May 20. Oklahoma will go on to lose the next two games, but would clinch a home berth at the NCAA Regionals.
Th e good, the bad and the ugly
ELI HULL/ THE DAILY
Oklahoma pitcher Andrew Doyle sails a strike past Texas Tech thrid basemen Justin Berry (10) May 20 at the AT&T Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City.
ELIZABETH NALEWAJK/ THE DAILY
The Sooners look on as the lead slips through their fingers against the Aggies Friday night at the AT&T Bricktown Ballpark.
ELIZABETH NALEWAJK/ THE DAILY
Catcher, J.T. Wise misses the tag allowing center fielder Greg Folgia (10) to score during Saturday’s game. The Sooners will go on the lose their second game 5-4.
ELIZABETH NALEWAJK /THE DAILY
Oklahoma shortstop Bryant Hernandez (2) trips and misses the ball Saturday against Missouri.
ELIZABETH NALEWAJK/ THE DAILY
Oklahoma center fielder Jamie Johnson is tagged out in the 5th inning by Missouri first basemen, Steve Gray.
ELIZABETH NALEWAJK/ THE DAILY
Pitcher Antwonie Hubbard (11) bobbles the ball during Friday night’s game against Texas A&M.
The best and the worst of the
Sooners’ Big XII Tournament run
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- What you couldn’t see before, you will see at this time. If you study the procedures or tactics used by those who are success-ful, you’ll better understand what you need to do to advance your interests.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- If you have worked hard on behalf of another’s interests, there is a good chance that your reward is at hand. You could be selected for that big advance-ment by the powers-that-be.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Being kind and thoughtful won’t dilute your strength; it will do just the opposite. Talking softly brings tremendous power to make people want to comply with your wishes.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Those very people to whom you’ve been lending a helping hand will be there for you. They will do a job you can’t, allowing you to accomplish something extremely important.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Don’t hesitate to promote your ideas with fl air. The more relaxed you are, the better your chances will be to sell your thinking to those you want to impress. Just be you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Your inherent sixth sense will guide you when it comes to money matters; trust it. It can be extremely relevant if negotiations or bargain making are of vital importance.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- It won’t take much to set aside more serious concerns and to let your hair down a bit. You will be doing yourself a world of good; don’t hesitate when the mood strikes.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Nothing is ever too good for those you love. If one of them wants or needs something, you’ll fi nd a way to help out materially and emotionally.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- You can be a charismatic person so it shouldn’t be any surprise if people automatically follow your lead. Even those who are heading in another direction will join in.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- It is natural for you to be humble and inoffensive in situa-tions where assertiveness is not required. Yet you are likely to be a power to be reckoned with when it comes to something important.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Because you are likely to see the world with greater sensitivity, a much-anticipated opportunity to better your position in life could suddenly appear. Be ready.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Objectives and goals have better chances of fulfi llment if you share your desires only with those who aren’t in competition with you. Better yet, keep them to yourself.
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According to a poll re-leased by the Associated Press and mtvU, 85 per-cent of college students a r e r e p o r t i n g f e e l i n g stressed and a large por-t i o n o f t h o s e s t u d e nt s are at risk for developing depression.
Unfortunately, this isn’t going to be going away anytime soon.
T h i s n e w f e e l i n g o f worry is just setting in and will set the stage for the troubles you will face and worry about in the “real world.”
College can be stressful, especially during exams, and taking these first steps into your independent life are almost guaranteed to have some kind of bumps. College is definitely more difficult than high school, and it is designed to test you.
But let’s face it, when times are really tough,
you have your fr iends, stress-relieving programs within the university and other mechanisms of cop-ing you may not have after you gradute.
Whenever your class or exam is over for the day, you have an opportunity t o u n w i n d a n d g a t h e r yourself. In your later life, you may be facing stress with finances, family mat-ters, your day-to-day job among other things.
F o r t u n a t e l y , y o u are still young and it is summertime.
Regardless of whether or not you are taking a summer course, use this time to enjoy a break from the spring semester.
Find yourself a swim-ming pool, a stretch of open road or a great desti-nation to enjoy one of the few breaks you have left to be young.
OUR VIEW
Stress will get worse even after college years go by
COMMENTS OF THE DAY
IN RESPONSE TO THURSDAY’S OUR
VIEW, “SEPARATION OF CHURCH
AND STATE IN JEOPARDY”
“We don’t want to sound anti-religious or anti-Christian...”
I do. The very rep. who is going to pay or this is a pretty big idiot. He traces the law thusly, and I’m paraphrasing: “The 10 commandments influenced roman law and gave us our law.” Which is of course not true.
The 10 have no historical value. Only 3 of them are laws! Moreover, why do we need a monument to laws, when there exists no other?
It is pretty clear what is going on. Christians are trying to put a monument up so as to pick a fight then look like the victims so they’ll win more for their cause.
If they put it up, I’m gonna take a deuce on it.- jfreezy
This seems like a very slippery slope to me. At some point, somebody will want a monument displaying another religion’s precepts. At that time, somebody on the Legislature staff will have to make a decision to display and “honor”
or not. When that decision is made, the matter WILL be about making a “law” in the form of a legislative decision that is all about religion.
The Oklahoma State Capitol represents all people in Oklahoma, not just Christians. Keep religion and display of precepts in pri-vate homes and houses of worship, where they belong, not in our State Capitol, where they do not.- DenaliDad
Since the announcement of 1330, i’ve been wondering: is the ACLU out of business? any-time somebody incorrectly breathes, the ACLU is all over it. what’s up?- kdbp1213
I say we let this lie. Allow the rest of the country to move ahead in the 21st century, while we go ahead and stick to the past for a while. We’ll catch up eventually.- mythman
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Thanksgiving has turkey dinners. Christmas has present exchanges. The fourht of July has fireworks. What does
Memorial Day have? C o o k o u t s a n d
swimming. This past weekend was
the first of the “Let’s go to the lake!” summer holi-days. Unfortunately, if you are like me and spent your Memorial Day in Norman, you may have found there were not too many ways to enjoy this holiday.
Campus Corner looks like an abandoned city – the town’s popula-tion is a tenth of what it was just two weeks ago – and the new Transformers movie is still a month away.
However, a few friends and I were still going to try to celebrate Memorial Day Weekend. This year, we decided the best
place to observe the holiday was poolside. We quickly found out that unless you have your own place to swim, it can be hard to find a pool in Norman.
We attempted to visit various apartment complexes before being told that the pool was for residents only. After being remind-ed of the iSwim debate two years ago, we figured the place to go would be OU’s very own swim complex. However, we were sur-prised to not only find out that it was closed this weekend, but that it was not because of Memorial Day.
According to OU’s Recreational Services website, “The outdoor pool will not be open Memorial Day weekend due to the low water temperatures.”
I do not know about you, but low water temperatures are exactly what I look for when trying to find a pool.
It makes me think OU simply just did not want to open their pool this weekend, and if that is the case, the least they could
have done is come up with a better excuse than having a pool that is too cold – which is about on par with a restaurant closing be-cause their grill is too hot.
Left with the only other option of getting a gym membership, we decided to pass on our dreams of swimming and resigned to backyard grilling, as that was the only thing left to do.
After searching online, I found out that Oklahoma City has over 15 public pools, while Norman only has one – the Westwood Water Park.
The problem with this, is the Westwood Water Park over crowded on a daily basis with people ranging anywhere from tod-dlers trying to learn to swim, to the elderly still trying a get a summer tan. Also, at least one day a week it is rented out to private parties.
Until the new swim complex is built, OU only has two swimming pools available for students.
Public swimming pools may not seem like a pressing issue, but it does have many benefits.
It provides the community with a place of entertainment and potentially a good source of exercise. It is also a cheap and ef-fective way to cool yourself off during these hot summer months, instead of running the air conditioning and using hundreds of dollars worth of electricity each month.
The lack of public pools is not just a Norman issue either, in Virgina officials have began replacing public pools with what they call sprinkler-filled playgrounds, which is basically a grass field with sprin-klers in it, claming that public pools are not only costly but dangerous.
So next time you slip on those trunks and jump off the high dive, remember that many of your fellow Normaners won’t be quite that lucky today.
Dara Mirzaie is an economics senior.
DARAMIRZAIE
More swimming pools needed for summer fun
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Eli Wimmer is a multiple disciplinary studies senior.
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CITY OF EDMONDSummer positions at Pelican Bay Aquatic Center: Asst Pool Manager, Cashier & Cafe Managers, Cafe Staff/Cashiers, Lifeguard Staff, Water Safety Instructors. Golf Course, Arcadia Lake, Parks & Rec-reation jobs also open.
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Community After School Program is now hiring part-time staff to work in our school-age childcare programs for Fall 09. Inter-view now for work to begin August 17, 2009. Must love children and have a de-sire to improve their lives. Hours: M-F2:20-6 p.m. We offer competitive wages starting at $7.25/hour. Higher pay for those with qualifying coursework in edu-cation and related fi elds. CASP is an off campus work study location. Also hiring for AmeriCorps members to work with our tutoring program starting in September. Complete application at 1023 N Flood Avenue or online at www.caspinc.org. Submit your fall class schedule and cur-rent transcript when applying.
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612 Ash, $750; 916 Branchwood, $775;
826 Jona Kay, $975; 3401 Abilene, $1000.
Call 360-2873 or 306-1970.
Available 4/18
1700 Jackson Dr. 3/2/2 $950Available 6/1
1413 Peter Pan 3/1.5/2 $950140 Alameda Plaza 3/2/2 $1000
321 Waterfront 4/2/2 $1260Contact Wendy at KW, 473-6832
933 S Lahoma, 2 bd, 1 bthRefrig, w/d, stove, wood fl oors, no pets, $775/mo, $500/dep. Lawn maintenance optional. Call 329-1933 or 550-7069.
2 bd/1 ba house, $825/mo, W/D hookups, 2 mi from campus. 316-641-2628
JUNE RENTAL202 S Flood - 2bd, $700/mo+bills. 212 S Flood - $600+bills. Smoke-free, no pets,
1 year lease, security dep. 360-3850
Small 1 Bdrm Forest CottageClose to OU, all bills paid, internet, cable, hot tub, w/d, non-smoking. Available now, lease $640/mo. 701-5931.
4bd/2ba house for rent in June! 1 mile to OU. Built in 2005. $1200/mo.
469-360-3397
Handy Man Special in OKC, 2 bdrm, 1 bth, 1 car, fenced yard, needs TLC, rent free in lieu of repairs. 714-726-1204
3-4 Bdrm homes near OU, ReasonableCall 329-4119
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Looking for friendly, respectful roommate for summer or fall, 2 bdrm furn at Kraettli, bills incl’d, $300. Ref avail. 405-796-7118
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Andy Boatman works in a t-shirt, shorts and tennis shoes, with his sunglasses on, his hair in a curly ponytail and his beard in pigtails.
He spins, dips, cools, rolls, shapes and blows, and all the while he tells fascinated onlookers about the process, which takes at least thirty individual steps.
A furnace called The Glory Hole burns brightly and its heat fills the warehouse.
Observer Mike Holmes has taken lessons for about seven months, but he is still impressed with Boatman’s finesse.
“He makes it look easy,” Holmes said. Boatman is a glassblower, and his artistic home is Blue Sage
Studios in Oklahoma City. He and other Blue Sage Studios artists participated in the Paseo Arts Festival this Memorial Day weekend in the Paseo Arts District of Oklahoma City. Some of the artists also remained at Blue Sage and gave glass-blowing demonstrations.
For Boatman, the art runs in the family – he was intro-duced to glassblowing by his aunt. In 2003, he opened a stu-dio with a few friends in a barn in Arcadia and moved to his current location in Oklahoma City in 2007.
“Anytime we are working, people are welcome to come in and watch,” Boatman said. “I hope we cultivate a laid back atmosphere where people feel welcome. We always have ice cream in the freezer, too.”
The open studio encourages observers to experience what Boatman calls the Zen qualities of glassblowing – “being in
the moment and the movement and the heat.” “It isn’t really the end product but the journey to get there
that is the most fun,” he said. Boatman also offers individual glassblowing lessons, since
teaching is one of his strengths.He teaches middle school computer classes at Sequoyah Middle School in Edmond before coming to Blue Sage Studios in the evenings.
Fellow glassblower at Blue Sage Richard Bricker, called Sparkey, said that Boatman’s gifts as a teacher benefit his art and the artists around him.
“He has the patience to do this, and seeing others learn something is his light bulb,” Bricker said.
At Blue Sage, there are about eight regular artists who work at the studio and about a dozen more that come in oc-casionally, Boatman said. He also offers classes through the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
“Folks just seem to show up,” Boatman said. This weekend marked his fifth year at the Paseo Festival. “It is a wonderful arts festival,” Boatman said. “The people
are great. [There are] so many Oklahoma artists and many have become very good friends.”
The three-day festival showcased the work of about 75 art-ists from all around Oklahoma, and even some from Texas, Arkansas and other states. Sunny weather over the weekend brought out large crowds to see the many painters, sculptors, jewelers, woodworkers, weavers and glassblowers.
Two stages also provided music that was heard throughout the whole festival.
“This [festival] is always the highlight of the summer and a great way to kick off school getting out,” Boatman said.
TuesdayNEWMUSIC
This Swedish outfit pro-vides the perfect summer cool-down with their debut release. The side project of producers Bloodshy and Avant (the men behind re-leases from Christina Milian, Kylie Monogue and even Britney Spears’ “Toxic”) en-listed friend Andrew Wyatt to create a sort of Scandinavian N*E*R*D*. The result is a re-cord that is unmistakably beautiful and undeniably cool.
These boys must have been saving the best beats for themselves. The songs sound just as poppy as the music they had produced before, but with a much cooler edge. Frost-tinged beats and icy swirls of synths make you feel like you are partying at an Antarctic dance club.
“Black and Blue” glides around at a frantic pace, while “Silvia” sounds like the best OneRepublic song they never wrote. The band is fir-ing on all cylinders with the two leadoffs to the album: “Animal” and “Burial .” “Animal” blips and hops along with an unforget-table hook. Then the blurry “Burial” whirls around like a blizzard viewed outside an icy window. The song won’t leave your head for days, and you won’t want it to.
Miike Snow’s debut is a testament to how good unpretentious pop songs can be. Just leave it to the Swedes.
MIIKE SNOW “MIIKE SNOW”DOWNTOWN RECORDSRELEASE: JUNE 9
Passion Pit’s “Manners” has songs ranging from dance f loor burners to full- blown electro-rock an-thems. The whole record has the essence of being re-corded in the depths of the
ocean, splashing and div-ing with the glimmer of the moonlight overhead.
T h e m u s i c b o u n c e s along like lightning through a thunderstorm and silver shimmers dancing across a gloomy skyline. They kick things off with the re-markable “Make Light” be-fore throwing back to the ‘80s with “Little Secrets.” Highlights come in the form of “Moth’s Wings” and “The Reeling,” which both un-cover a glimpse of what feels like the future of music.
If you feel like dancing, nodding, bouncing, kicking, rocking and hopping, then this is the record for you. It’s got something for everyone, and everything if you want it all.
PASSION PIT“MANNERS”FRENCHKISS RECORDSRELEASE: OUT NOW
I was almost uncontrol-lably excited when I heard “1901” a few months ago. The aspect of a new Phoenix a l b u m o n t h e h o r i z o n brightened my day like a ray of sunshine. Sure enough, the album came out, and it is my favorite release of theirs to date.
Their music is the defini-tion of European chic to me. It’s as though their music is dressed up in a tight leather
jacket, skinny jeans, puffing on a slender cigarette with that effortlessly hip attitude.
But these Frenchies aren’t just style, and they have a heck load of sub-s t a n c e . D u b b e d a s a “European Strokes,” they have proved themselves more reliable than their New York City counterparts, crafting alternative rock as polished as a ‘70s Corvette. They don’t disappoint with the new stuff either.
The glossy “1901” paces back and forth over a fuzzy disco beat and zigzagging guitar. “Lisztomania,” the
leadoff track, is as catchy as a cold, and songs like “Lasso,” “Rome” and “Big Sun” show that the band refuses to ease off the gas as they cruise to a close.
As glitzy and captivat-ing as this record is, you’d be doing yourself a disser-vice to not pick it up. Who knows? Maybe a little bit of that European cool will rub off.
PHOENIX“WOLFGANG AMADEUS PHOENIX”GLASS NOTERELEASE: MAY 26
THE DAILY’S JOSHUA BOYDSTON REVIEWS NEW ALBUMS FROM INDIE FAVORITES MIIKE SNOW, PHOENIX AND PASSION PIT
Joshua Boydston is a psychology
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Telekinesis stormed through Norman Sunday night. I came to the show expecting a quaint, intimate evening.
The openers, Justin Rice and Sherree Chamberlain, kept the night on that peaceful path before the headliners de-cided to crash down with a roar of thun-der. And nothing is quite as good as the unexpected.
Seattle’s Telekinesis has been buzzing all over the music scene since early 2009. The band was the darling of SXSW, and has been supporting acts like Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s, Ra Ra Riot and Cut Off Your Hands since March. They came to Norman on their own however,
and I have a feeling their next time through they’ll be oc-cupying a much bigger stage.
The band’s brand of power-pop is that straightforward, familiar type of music that instantly feels as though you have heard it before. Though it could be easy to write it off as generic with that sort of songwriting, Telekinesis has found a way to keep these down-to-earth melodies fresh, interesting and miles away from boring.
The darling Carly Gwin of The Workweek and a solo per-formance by Student Film’s frontman Justin Rice opened the show, followed by Sherree Chamberlain. Her set was relaxed and intimate without the full band backing her. She debuted several new songs and sounded absolutely stellar with her inspirational, folksy ditties.
Then, the storm began.Telekinesis is basically the one-man-act of Michael
Benjamin Lerner, but he is accompanied by three fellow Seattle musicians on tour. Lerner helms the drums on stage, but continues as lead singer without skipping a beat. The debut record has a very relaxed, gentle feel to it, but performed live, the songs take on a much more vigorous, frantic form.
They launched into the set like a tornado, with a fast paced, frenzied dashing between the songs on the set list. They are one of those few bands whose songs might ac-tually sound better live. “Look to the East” and “Tokyo” scurried along hysterically with Lerner’s drums thudding dominantly.
They took well-deserved breaths with the sauntering “Plankton” and “Awkward Kisser” and even rendered a cover of The Kinks’ “House in the Country.” The show was at its absolute best with “Calling All Doctors,” which darted around daringly, and the power pop perfection of “Coast of Carolina,” which the band elected to close with.
You would be hard pressed to find anyone that wouldn’t instantly fall in love with the beautiful melody and en-chanting lyrics of this song to a distant lover. If your life was a movie, this is the song that would play over all of the hap-piest moments, and Telekinesis provided me with one of my happiest moments of the summer with their pleasantly unexpected show.
Telekinesis hit me like a ton of bricks, and I was prob-ably happiest buried beneath all the rubble.
GLASS ARTIST HEATS UP PASEO FESTIVAL
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Andy Boatman demonstrates how to make a glass bowl Monday at Blue Sage Studio during the Paseo Arts Festival in Oklahoma City. Boatman is one of eight artists who currently work in the studio.
Seattle band shakes up the Opolis Sunday night
JOSHUABOYDSTON
Joshua Boydston is a psychology sophomore.
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