on March 2, 2008M at 12:50 am
Sometimes it’s easy to miss an event, so here’s a look back at the past week or so to help bring you up to date.
As a result of a ruling by the NCAA appeals committee, the University of Oklahoma will have its eight wins from the 2005 football season reinstated. The committee said OU shouldn’t have been found guilty of separate violations for failing to monitor and failing to detect football players who were working at a car dealership.
City officials selected $211 million worth of projects they hope to complete in the next three years, in the first round of more than $830 million in projects approved by voters in December. Improvements to streets, infrastructure and parks made up the bulk of the 2006 general obligation bond package.
Southern Methodist University will be home to George W. Bush’s presidential library, at a cost of more than $200 million.
State Democrats became the first in the nation to select delegates to this summer’s Democratic National Convention. Oklahoma will have 47 delegates in Denver — eight party insiders called superdelegates, one delegate picked by the party chairman and 38 delegates selected last week.
Four strands of hair purportedly clipped in 1837 from the head of the corpse of President Washington sold for $17,000 at an auction in Kentucky.
State legislators have pushed bills that would require voter ID at election polls to reduce chances of voter fraud.
“No Country for Old Men” won the Academy Award for best motion picture, its directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for best director, and cast member Javier Bardem for best supporting actor. Other winners included Daniel Day-Lewis as best actor from “There Will Be Blood,” “Marion Cotillard as best actress from “La Vie en Rose,” and “Tilda Swinton as supporting actor from “Michael Clayton.” and “Ratatouille” as best animated feature.
Langston University students honored Oklahoma civil rights leader Clara Luper as someone who has made history during her lifetime.
Cuba’s parliament named Raul Castro president, ending nearly 50 years of rule by his brother, Fidel.
Classes resumed at Northern Illinois University after the Feb. 14 attack that left five people plus the gunman dead and 17 others injured.
Military officials at Tinker Air Force Base and Oklahoma County sheriff’s deputies were trying to determine what caused Tech. Sgt. Dustin Thorson to kill his two young children, Jourdain, 9, and her brother, Dylan, 4, then commit suicide. Thorson, 35, a decorated airman whose expertise helped capture a notorious terrorist in Iraq, apparently had had an altercation with his ex-spouse.
A delegation of elected officials from the Baghdad area visited Oklahoma City and observed how the city and state governments function. Oklahoma was the first stop for the group as it toured the country as part of a U.S. State Department program.
Pentagon officials said China, agreeing to a long-standing U.S. request, will grant access to sensitive military records that could help resolve the fate of thousands of American servicemen missing from the Korean War and other Cold War-era conflicts.
The state Health Department warned Oklahomans are in the midst of an influenza epidemic that may get worse. Flu activity changed from “widespread” to “epidemic” status when more than 60 percent of patients treated for flu symptoms tested positive for the virus.
Wind-whipped grass fires closed several stretches of Interstate 35 in northern Oklahoma for nearly an hour.
Leading conservative William F. Buckley Jr., columnist, author and founder of the magazine National Review, died at the age of 82.
Iraq’s presidential council rejected a plan for provincial elections and sent the bill back to parliament, a major setback to U.S.-backed efforts to promote national reconciliation.
More than one of every 100 adults in the U.S. is in jail or prison, according to a report. This is the highest rate in U.S. history. The report, from the Pew Center on the States, ranks America as the world’s No. 1 incarcerator. Using state-by-state data, the report says 2,319,258 people were behind bars in the U.S. when the year began.
Gov. Brad Henry signed into law a bill allowing Burns Hargis to become Oklahoma State University’s president earlier than previously allowed. The OSU Board of Regents is scheduled to meet March 7 and is expected to approve his contract. Hargis resigned as an OSU regent in July to seek the school’s presidency. He plans to start the job March 10. The old law would have made Hargis wait a year between leaving the regents board and becoming president.
The British army’s secret has been made public: Prince Harry is fighting in Afghanistan. The army had hoped to keep secret the deployment of Queen Elizabeth’s grandson until he returned home. His service in the war zone was admitted after a leak appeared on a U.S. Web site. He was then transferred out of Afghanistan both for his safety and that of the troops with him.
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