http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ou/ en-us Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:40:30 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987062/posts OKLAHOMA CITY -- University of Oklahoma President David Boren called on lawmakers Friday to reconsider the passage of a bill that would allow certain people to carry guns on college campuses. "If it would help for me to get down on my knees to plead with the Legislature for the safety of our students, I would do so," Boren said in a prepared statement. House Bill 2513 by Rep. Jason Murphey, R-Guthrie, passed 65-36 on Thursday. It would allow veterans, active-duty military and National Guard and reserve personnel, and people trained in law en forcement to carry concealed guns on... Tulsa World http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987062/posts#comment Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:40:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986193/posts OKLAHOMA CITY -- The state House agreed Thursday to allow people with specialized firearms training, such as military personnel, to carry concealed weapons on the state's college campuses, despite opponents who said it made no sense following shootings at schools across the country. The measure was approved 65-36, and now heads to the state Senate for a vote. Introduced by Rep. Jason Murphey, R-Guthrie, the law would authorize active-duty military and National Guard and reserve personnel, honorably discharged veterans and others with firearms training certified by the Council on Law Enforcement Education who hold a state concealed weapons license to... Times Union.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986193/posts#comment Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:34:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1894848/posts OU-UT rivalry at center of bloody bar fight Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — To hear Oklahoma football fans tell it, some things just aren't done in the heart of Sooner Nation, and one of them is to walk into a bar wearing a Texas Longhorns T-shirt. That's exactly what touched off a bloody skirmish that left a Texas-shirt-wearing fan nearly castrated and an Oklahoma fan facing aggravated assault charges that could put him in prison for up to five years. The shocking case has set off a raging debate in this football-crazed region about the extreme passions behind a... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1894848/posts#comment Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:21:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825732/posts Here is another example of why our Universities are so antithetical to American values that they are dangerous to society... Apparently, the University of Oklahoma is putting up a memorial to a fool who blew himself up when a homemade bomb he assembled went off while he held it as he attended a football game in the University stadium. Fortunately, he only killed himself and not anyone around him. To this kid we should be saying good riddance and he should be quickly forgotten. But here is the U of O mourning this idiot's death as if he were some... Men's News Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825732/posts#comment Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:31:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1824229/posts <p>NORMAN — The University of Oklahoma has put outside the student union a patio stone engraved with the name of the student suicide bomber.</p> <p>"I was just kind of horrified,” said OU football fan Jenny Clemons, who spotted the stone after OU's Red-White game April 7. "I don't think he has any business being out here.”</p> The Oklahoman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1824229/posts#comment Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:58:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1749844/posts DENVER -- The brother of a University of Oklahoma student who blew himself up outside the OU football stadium last year has been charged with threatening a second FBI agent. The additional charge against Thomas Carlisle "Tom" Hinrichs of Colorado Springs is contained in an indictment that was made public Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Denver. Hinrichs originally was charged Nov. 21 with threatening during Nov. 15-16 interrogations to assault or murder an FBI agent identified only as "Todd" in Colorado Springs. The new charge alleges that Hinrichs threatened in an Oct. 12 telephone call to "bury" William Burruel,... Tulsa World http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1749844/posts#comment Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:30:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1742877/posts PM Ehud Olmert received a standing ovation at the Orthodox Union’s annual convention in Jerusalem, speaking after outgoing Ambassador Danny Ayalon discouraged those present from coming on Aliyah. Ayalon, who just finished his term as Israel’s Ambassador to the US, stressed the need to unite behind Israel’s officials during these critical times. He also responded to Jewish Agency Chief Ze’ev Bielski’s call for American Jews to immigrate to Israel, saying: “I join Ze’ev’s call for Aliyah (Jewish immigration) from the states – but I have to say, you can wait a while.” Ayalon told the crowd of observant Jews that... Arutz 7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1742877/posts#comment Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:23:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1715132/posts With 100 Texas-Oklahoma games in the history books, it's time to draw a few conclusions about the Red River shootout (we still find "Red River Rivalry" to be a mouthful). First, Texas will win Saturday 16.5 to 15.7. OK, that's not a real score, but it is the historical average for points scored in this game. In all, the Longhorns have won 56 of the first 100 Texas-Oklahoma games. OU lays claim to 39, and five were tied. For years, the game was known for its close outcomes. Forty-nine games have been decided by nine points or fewer. The 1996... Statesman.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1715132/posts#comment Fri, 6 Oct 2006 22:10:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714673/posts Godzillatron will soon have a new rival. Texas and Oklahoma fans be warned. After walking past the Chevy truck display, the World's Largest Traveling Candy Store and Granny's Funnel Cakes, you can't miss the newest attraction at the State Fair. A massive video board, measuring 83 feet wide and 57 feet tall, is being erected over the Cotton Bowl's south end zone. The video board and a new state-of-the-art sound system are part of the $20 million earmarked for stadium upgrades. Texas and Oklahoma agreed to a contract in May that keeps the series at the Cotton Bowl through 2010. The Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714673/posts#comment Fri, 6 Oct 2006 03:31:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1704977/posts David Boren is a former governor and United States Senator. He's the current leader of a major institution of higher learning. He is not a face-painting, ref-berating tailgater; he only plays one on TV. Boren is the Oklahoma president who called for the Pac-10 officiating crew that blew two critical calls in the Sooners' loss at Oregon to be suspended for the season. Boren also wrote to Big 12 commissioner Kevin Weiberg asking for his school's defeat to be expunged from the record books. FOXSports.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1704977/posts#comment Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:29:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1703796/posts NORMAN, Okla. -- University of Oklahoma president David Boren sent a letter to Big 12 Commissioner Kevin Weiberg on Monday, asking him to push for the Sooners' game against Oregon to be eliminated from the record books and have the Pac-10 officials involved in the game suspended for the remainder of the seasonhttp://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2593369 ESPN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1703796/posts#comment Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:43:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1686985/posts NORMAN, Okla. (AP) _ University of Oklahoma officials say OU will not issue jersey number 38 this football season as part of the university's plans to honor the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Sooners' first black player, Prentice Gautt. Members of Oklahoma's team will wear decals with the number 38 on the back of their helmets this season to commemorate Gautt, who died in March 2005 at age 67. Fullback J.D. Runnels wore number 38 last season for the Sooners, when he was a senior. OU President David Boren says the decision to honor Gautt was made to... KOTV Channel 6 Tulsa http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1686985/posts#comment Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:09:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1678845/posts I'll try to be as discrete as possible, because i din't want to implicate someone and then get sued. My girlfriend works in the office of a large dealership where we live. She has only been there about a month, and she was dealing with handing out payroll checks. . . TexAgs.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1678845/posts#comment Sun, 6 Aug 2006 21:44:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1676545/posts Bomar off OU football team From Staff and Wire Reports Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops says he's dismissing two players from the Sooner football team. Oklahoma confirmed that two players had been dismissed by the team but did not identify them. The school said in a statement that the players violated NCAA rules by working at a private business and taking "payment over an extended period of time in excess of time actually worked." Oklahoma City television station KWTV reported that Bomar, who set an Oklahoma freshman record with 2,018 passing yards after taking over as the Sooners' starter in... The Daily Oklahoman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1676545/posts#comment Wed, 2 Aug 2006 18:42:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1676659/posts Norman - NewsChannel 8 has confirmed that OU starting quarterback Rhett Bomar is one of two players who have been kicked off the team following an internal investigation. A press release from the university doesn't name the two players who were dismissed, but NewsChannel 8 confirmed this afternoon that Bomar and another player were paid to work at a private business and paid for hours they didn't work. Several reports say the other player is offensive lineman J.D. Quinn, who was expected to possibly start at guard this season. A press release from the University also states the players have... ktul http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1676659/posts#comment Wed, 2 Aug 2006 22:06:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666649/posts OU death not linked to terrorism By Nolan Clay The FBI concluded a University of Oklahoma student who blew himself up last year on campus was not a terrorist, the top agent in Oklahoma says. "We have no evidence he had a social or political agenda that he was trying to bring attention to," said Salvador Hernandez, the FBI's special agent in charge in Oklahoma. "We don't consider this terrorism the way we define it," he said. "There would have to be a cause." Joel "Joe" Henry Hinrichs III, an engineering student, died Oct. 1 when his bomb went off... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666649/posts#comment Sun, 16 Jul 2006 16:04:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1630069/posts Taking flightBurleson native Kelly Clarkson is taking off again, this time with the Blue Angels. American Idol's first sweetheart will fly with the Navy's flight demonstration team today at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth. She'll join Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops and CBS Channel 11's Babe Laufenberg in a preview performance of this weekend's air show. Ft. Worth Star-Telegram http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1630069/posts#comment Wed, 10 May 2006 21:24:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1587763/posts NORMAN - A Norman police bomb expert said Tuesday he does not believe University of Oklahoma student Joel Henry Hinrichs III committed suicide by blowing himself up outside a packed football stadium. "I believe he accidentally blew himself up," Sgt. George Mauldin said. Mauldin said Hinrichs, 21, an engineering student, had two to three pounds of triacetone triperoxide, commonly known as TATP, in a backpack in his lap when it exploded Oct. 1. When asked if he believed Hinrichs meant to enter the stadium with the explosives, Mauldin replied, "I don't believe he intended for an explosion to occur at... The Oklahoman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1587763/posts#comment Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:01:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1557141/posts Note the reference to three Algerian terrorist plotters with al Qaeda links who were arrested in Italy last month for planning attacks on U.S. stadiums and other targets. Now, watch this news report by Oklahoma reporter Tamara Pratt at News9 and note the destination on the plane tickets for Joel Hinrich's roomie, which were reportedly found in the apartment the two men shared. Tapscott's Copy Desk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1557141/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jan 2006 03:33:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556431/posts Norman, Oklahoma (population 100,923), is as American heartland as it gets. So on October 1, 2005, when Joel Hinrichs III, a 21-year-old Colorado Springs, Colorado engineering student at the University of Oklahoma strapped explosives to his body and blew himself up outside the college stadium where 84,000 fans were watching a Saturday-night football game, thus earning the town the distinction as home to America's first suicide bomber, I was, well, curious. Within 24 hours of the event, three players in the unfolding story issued statements aimed at quashing rumors that the bombing was terrorist related. University President David Boren, in... WomensWallStreet.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556431/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:27:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518806/posts NORMAN - Two men charged in Cleveland County with breaking into a University of Oklahoma room marked "biohazard" were involved in a "stupid prank" and not something more sinister, an attorney for one of the men said. Christopher Thomas Boyce, 24, of Norman and James Kent Eldridge, 21, are both charged with felony counts of second-degree burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary. Eldridge is an OU junior from Oklahoma City studying in the College of Arts and Sciences, according to the OU Web site. Boyce was not listed as being enrolled at OU. On Oct. 20, a woman told OU... News 9 / The Oklahoman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518806/posts#comment Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:52:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1517386/posts Two former OU students accused of breaking into OU’s underground tunnel network are members of a local activist group that claims it has been harassed by the FBI. Group members said they were questioned by FBI agents about Joel Henry Hinrichs III and the books they own. Christopher Boyce, 24, and James Kent Eldridge, 21, who are both charged with second-degree burglary and conspiracy to commit second-degree burglary, belonged to the Greenbriar Collective, a group that practices organic gardening and operates a lending library out of a house in east Norman. According to the Cleveland County District Attorney’s office, Boyce... OU Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1517386/posts#comment Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:05:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1515733/posts Prosecutors are considering felony charges for an OU campus burglary. ‘The circumstances of today’s environment caused everybody to look at it in a worst case scenario framework,’ an assistant district attorney says. ----------------------- Two men arrested for breaking into maintenance tunnels beneath the University of Oklahoma and burglarizing a biology building entered a room marked “biohazard,” according to the Cleveland County District Attorney’s office. Cleveland County assistant district attorney Rick Sitzman said Christopher Boyce, 24, and James Kent Eldridge, 21, broke into an opening into a tunnel network beneath the university, made their way underground into the Richards Hall zoology... Oklahoma Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1515733/posts#comment Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:57:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1513430/posts NORMAN, Okla. -- Hundreds of students are now under investigation after fake IDs are found on the University of Oklahoma campus. Police said the latest rash of fake IDs have come from Dallas and that an OU fraternity member is selling the bogus Texas driver's licenses for about $100 each. Experts say these IDs are so close to the real thing that they're virtually undetectable. "The ones coming out of Texas are really good, and they're getting better," said O'Connell's bartender Todd Emerson. Emerson has confiscated dozens of fake IDs at the Norman pub. "Most of these IDs are pretty... KOCO Channel 5 News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1513430/posts#comment Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:16:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1509712/posts OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma - Has terrorism returned to the Oklahoma City area? That is what folks in Norman have been asking, ever since a 21-year-old student at the University of Oklahoma killed himself in what some are calling an attempted homicide bombing. On Saturday, October 1, engineering major Joel Hinrichs detonated a homemade bomb near Memorial Stadium, where 84,000 fans were watching the hometown Sooners take on Kansas State. That was just a hundred yards from a newly replaced bench -- it was there, just before halftime, that a powerful explosion ripped through the entire area, taking Hinrichs with it.... CBN News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1509712/posts#comment Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:40:47 GMT