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Who: President and chief operating officer of
ConocoPhillips. John Carrig
What*. “Global Energy Solutions: A New
World Economy" lecture
When and Where: io tun. Friday in
Meacham Auditorium of the Oklahoma
Memorial I nion
Next Speaker: Gerard Arpey. CEO of .American
Airlines, on April 23rd
ness and the state s economy.
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’ he said. “I want this to be a catalyst for the
in the state and 1 think we can do that."
said the academy will teach students practical J
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■xperience through jobs and internships by wor
■losely with the Oklahoma Department of
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Bncktown which .di hei,. hmid the
academy’s image and help students gain recognition and possibly find
■xpand the program to be jobs, Booker said.
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• UCO to open the state’s first
contemporary music school
WhITNIY OrTIGA
The Oklahoma Daily
The University of Central Oklahoma will rock next semester when it
begins offering associate degrees in contemporary music performance
and production.
The program will be the first of its kind in the state and hopes
mimic the successes of other contemporary music academies, incl u< -
mg the inspiration for the program at UCO, said Scott Booker, (. E <>
the Academy of Contemporary Music at UCO.
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England at the Academy of Contemporary Music
within the industry.
Energy is an issue that should concern everyone,
riv said
“IIt] touches each of us every single day and the
more that people understand our current situation,
the better prepared we will be in the future, he
said.                                          
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| panies who are directing our
a largest global corporations."
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J Justin Ely, finance and
I energy management senior,
I said he looks forward to
Carrig's discussion because
I he thinks Carrig will pres-
I ent students with a different
I approach on energy.
I "The challenges the world
I faces regarding future energy
■ consumption are complicated
| so it should be interesting to
get his outlook," Ely said.
But student input is also
important to the company.
Morisseau said
ConocoPhillips is interested in what students have
to say about energy solutions and will look to
students to discover new ways to face challenges
and I’m certain it will have wide appeal across
Oklahoma and perhaps other states as well, he sani .
He said the academy will be an opportunity ftxr the
state as a whole to showcase the talent of students
who are interested in contemporary music jierfor-
mance, production and management careers.
W         The academy’s success will partially rely on its enroU-
F nient, said Rich Taylor, dean of the Weitzenhoffer F anuly
k.         College of Fine Arts.
*1 think the success will be in how many stu-
dents sign up and get in the program." he said.
'Hopefully, [the program] benefits the stu-
dents If it becomes a center for contemporary
music, if it helps Bricktown or the economy
down in Oklahoma City, that’s all well and good.
We’re in the business of helping their dreams
come true and hopefully iheyll be getting the knowl-
edge and support so they can go be competitive out ,het\
Booker said the          ■«         “"^"'.Xrorc
un.il April He sud the prosram is in the praeess of h»
and he has already received many e-mails and phone calls abou
program.
from there He said he wants to eventually expun. ------ • _ _ _ 
ConocoPhillips president to address energy innovation
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♦ Business school hosts       ConocoPhillips spokesman.                                   exposed to leaders ,                                     |
speaker on the future
of energy in today s
economy
Sanora Kunzwiilir
The Oklahoma Daily
ConocoPhillips might mean a gas station to some. of carrigs speech will address                         ■
but the president and chief operating officer of the innOvation in energy and find-
eomoanv has other forms of energy on his mind and ing ways to use energy from
is setto share them with students today.             current and new sources of
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piwent eeonontie situation and able ^tematives like solar and
energy market at 10 a.m. in wjn(] power.                                     . .
W                       Mel Penn. Student Sendees spokesman, said
‘-7kiTof’the? main points will be to address our (arng wiu give a ‘timely and accurate view on
energy security and that we improve our efficiency how this year’s economic challenges w 
the best ire tb^ energy we have."----
SPORTS BRIEFS
Indoor track Big 12 Championships
take place this weekend
The men’s and women's indoor track and field teams
will head to College Station, Texas to compete in the 2009
Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championships on Fnday and
Saturday.
The No. 9 OU men’s squad features senior Shardae
Boutte will try to make it two-in-a-row in the competition,
Saturday at 5 p.m.
No. 7 Texas will attempt to defend its 2008 Big 12 title
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tetter whether tell be available to play on Saturday or not."              ~the      current)y * in the top 25 of the
— JonoGrko/Thi Daily
Softball hosts tournament this week-
end
After traveling toTulsa on Wednesday, the No. 7 Sowers
softball team returns to Norman this weekend for the OU.
Sooner Legends Tournament.
Two other teams, St. Louis and Creighton, will be com-
peting in the tournament. The Sooners will play both teams
at 1:15 and 3:30 p.m. on Saturday and again at 12.15 and
230U tes°5     tough schedule thus far, however, both
G w' b currently 13-3, with their most recent win coming
in a 7-3 victory on the road against Tulsa on Wednesday
The Sooners got a big game from senior first baseman
@ 5:00 PM
Oklahoma Memorial Union - Frontier Room
@ 10:00 AM and 12:00 PM
Oklahoma Memorial Union - Presidents Room
Griffin's status for Saturday uncertain
As of Thursday, sophomore forward Blake Griffin s status
is uncertain for Saturday afternoon's game against Texas
Tech. Griffin has missed the Sooners' past two conference
games, both of which resulted in losses.
Doctors won’t clear Griffin to play until he passes a
battery of tests prior to the game, which includes checking
for a headache and nausea. Griffin has taken part in non   
contact shoot-around and ball-handling drills Wednesday     gOb(|e defending Big 12 champion in the triple jump
and Thursday.
•We aren't going to do anything with Blake until we
know he's fine and that those symptoms have cleared,"           
head coach Jeff Capel said. "Then we’ll be able to determine # $ta(ke<1 ta|eRt. tight of the teams
most recent United States Track and Field and Cross Country
Coaches Association poll.
No. 4 Nebraska comes in as the highest-ranked team,
and No. 6 Texas A&M could be tough to teat in its own
backyard
On the women's side, the unranked Sooners will try to
de-throne two-time defending champion, Texas A&M The
Lady Aggies appear poised to make yet another run at a
title this year, as they currently hold the No 1 ranking.
Aside from A&M, the Big 12 boasts five other teams
currently ranked in the women's top 25, including No. 17
Texas Tech, who will look to Sally Kipyego, winner of both
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All-American second-team selection, and has been an Women s gymnastics goes on the road
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Lindsey Vandever are ranked No. 1,2 and 3 respectively in                io women's gymnastics team takes on confer
the conference in RBIs.                                       ence rival Iowa State tonight in Ames, Iowa The Sooners
OU's pitching staff, consisting of two freshmen in Kirsten              rojQ aftef a home win ,n |ast week s quad meet
and Allee Allen, and a senior leader in OJ. Mathis,has per -            Mjssouri( West Virginia and Brown. Head coach KJ
, w...» with a combined 2.26 ERA^          whQ £0Khe(J at towa State before moving to OU
Sooners play their next six games at home, followed                   ^Ope$ to build on that momentum this
weekend in order to advance in the top 10.
-The goal is for us to get (a team score] in the mid-range
1%V Kindler said. *We're perfectly capable of that. We're
trying to get the score to put us in a secure place in the top
10 We would like to be up a couple more spots."
The Sooners scored a 196.375 last weekend and have a
season high of 197.175 set in January. A win against the
Cyclones would advance OU to 2-1 in the Big 12 and 7-3
overall. Iowa State Is coming off its first win of the season in
a 194.600-191.475 victory over Minnesota last weekend.
OU has outscored the Cyclones season-high of 195.225
in six of eight competitions this season. 0U is also the only
squad in the Big 12 to be ranked in the top 12 on all four
events
Carrig’s discussion is part
of the Price Business College's
“Distinguished Speaker
Series," and will draw at least
300 members of the communi-
ty, said Kate Burch, Business
College spokeswoman. Other
speakers have included
CEOs from AT&T and Devon
Energy.
Morisseau said a key part
innovation in energy and find-
current and new sources of
L He said
of Conoc’oPtdlhps, will address global energy solu- Carng also will disc uss renew-
tions within the |
long term trends in the c
Meacham Auditorium.
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Mel Penn, Student Services spokesman, said
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School of rock rolls into Oklahoma City
“l think people just walking by and seeing all these lads walking
bigger and better than the one in England                  ... •        md withtheir guitars and various instruments will add to the hype
UCO currently offers music degrees geawljporarv of the school,’ he said. “Them being in the center of all this activity
ing, but. Booker said, he believes there is a need o                                                  mlR.h more nbrant
Pn‘Sedidn’t create the ACM to take away fromemTwiXXS toE Cognition,
he said. “We created it to fiU the need that wasn t being fulfilled al any my^ *                                   h»/e wy
The^i won’t just benefit UCO students, though. Booker
said the program is a large step for the states music busi-
“1 hope ACM becomes
in Oklahoma,’
music business
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ways of following
music career.                                              „
Several other academies have been established throughout ^*1*’
since the Academy of Contemporary Music was f-------
the first in the U.S. to enter into a franchise agreement with the acail-
e"-There are very few schools, especiaUy inexpensive schools that are
offering programs like this," Booker said. “It’s been very successful out-
side of the stales and that’s what we’re trying to bring here.
He said UCO will copy what the English academy has done and burid
from there He said he wants to eventually e: