It was bound to happen eventually.

Heading into a rematch of the 2009 National Championship game against No. 2 U. North Carolina, No. 1 Northwestern U.  had a 41-game winning streak and had not lost in Evanston since 2004—an NCAA-record 58 straight home wins.

Both streaks hit zero Sunday.

After a high-scoring first half ended in a 12-12 tie, the Tar Heels’ attack struck first and let their defense do the rest. The Wildcats converted only four of their 15 second-half shot opportunities and never reclaimed the lead from North Carolina, which held on to stun NU 18-16.

“This team needs to step it up,” coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said. “This has been something that I’ve been saying for the past four weeks, and it hasn’t really penetrated. I think it has just penetrated their minds and their hearts.”

In Amonte Hiller’s nine seasons at NU, the Cats have never allowed more goals than they did Sunday. NU jumped out to a 6-2 lead midway through the first half, but North Carolina bombarded NU with six unanswered scores in less than five minutes to pull ahead 8-6.

The Cats mimicked the outburst, immediately following the Tar Heels’ run with a 6-0 streak of their own. With two minutes to go and NU leading 12-8, North Carolina roared back with four goals to end the half, including two in the final 15 seconds.

“It was little things like we couldn’t come up with a ground ball or we’d turn the ball over, and that led to two or three goals on their end,” Amonte Hiller said. “Those are things that I’ve been saying all season long that we’ve been doing.”

The final statistics mirrored the close score. NU took two more shots and recovered three more ground balls, but North Carolina had one more save and four fewer turnovers. The teams finished even with 18 draw controls.

Yet with the game on the line, the Cats’ offense faltered while North Carolina goalie Logan Ripley stepped up. After Jenn Russell put the Tar Heels ahead 18-15 with 7:31 to play, Ripley shut NU down on three free position opportunities. The Cats converted both such chances in the first half but did not find the back of the net on their five looks in the second stanza.

Ripley, last season’s IWLCA National Goalkeeper of the Year, was taken out of the game during the first half to settle her down and reignite the defense. Her struggles in the opening minutes did not carry over into the second half, as her seven saves prevented NU from mounting a comeback.

“(Ripley) is a great goalie, and I’m glad that she finished as strong as she did,” North Carolina coach Jenny Levy said. “She was the margin of victory down the stretch.”

While the Tar Heels got all six of their second-half goals from different players, the Cats relied mostly on Katrina Dowd. The senior attacker scored three of NU’s four goals in the half on her way to tying a career high with seven.

Though the Tar Heels had difficulty stopping Dowd, they successfully contained her fellow attackers and Tewaaraton Trophy nominees. Sophomore Shannon Smith scored twice and senior Danielle Spencer failed to record a goal for the second time this season.

“I just have to find a way in practice this week to work on my dodging and shooting and improve that shooting,” Spencer said. “I’m disappointed in myself, but from a team perspective maybe a loss is what we needed, a little jump start forward.”

Since its creation in 2007, Lakeside Field had never hosted an NU loss. The record-setting 1,705 fans at the game saw the scoreboard flash a Cats’ defeat for the first time. More than half of the NU players lost their first collegiate game.

NU’s streaks are over but the season is not, and the schedule remains tough. Next up is No. 9 Vanderbilt, followed by the only team to beat North Carolina, No. 5 Virginia.

Less than one month after their loss to Pennsylvania in 2008, the Cats got a second chance to beat the Quakers in the National Championship game. NU got revenge, captured its fourth consecutive title and kept the momentum going for 35 more games.
For the upperclassmen who experienced the loss to Penn, the mentality is the same—learn from the mistakes, step up and move on.

“We have to look inside ourselves, we have to let this fuel us and we can’t forget this easily,” Dowd said. “Never in my career have I lost on this field, so it means a lot. We can’t get down on ourselves. We have to push that much harder.”

Like many of the characters contained in its 117 minutes, the movie Kick-Ass has an identity crisis.

Is it a comedy reminiscent of Superbad? Is it a graphic-novel-turned-movie similar to Watchmen or Sin City? What is the target audience? These questions (among many others) are raised over the course of the film.

For those who enjoy movies with graphic violence — as well as films with colorful language and innuendoes — Kick-Ass is the perfect marriage of cringe-worthy audio and visuals.

It opens with the introduction of the main character, Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson). He is a self-described “regular guy” whose main pastimes include attending high school, watching TV, and “being invisible to girls.” Growing up in New York City, Dave and his equally average friends have all been mugged more than once. Mild-mannered Dave reaches the breaking point, however, when one bystander watches from an apartment window as he and his friend are robbed.

This is when the movie misfires in its attempts to have a moral. Dave, who is average in his abilities, is frustrated by other peoples’ indifference to the misdeeds that are going on around them. He decides to decorate a green wetsuit, mask his face, and call himself “Kick-Ass.” What is Dave’s first task as a self-proclaimed superhero? Getting his own ass kicked. Brutally. Several times.

Cue the beginning of the movie’s identity crisis. Kick-Ass hovers between being a comedy about awkward adolescence and a warped story about people taking matters of justice into their own hands. Dave’s flailing about as a self-described “stupid dick in a wetsuit” maintains a lighthearted tone throughout the story.

However, dressed as his alter-ego, Dave (a.k.a. Kick-Ass) is introduced to a world of murder, violence, and drug dealing.

Kick-Ass meets fellow average-citizen-turned-superhero Damon Macready (Nicolas Cage) and his young daughter, Mindy (Chloë Grace Moretz). He only knows these two characters by their superhero names: Big Daddy and Hit Girl. This duo is first introduced to us when they take down an apartment full of bad guys in a storm of high-tech weapons, blood, and kung-fu moves.

This is what caused some confusion: Is the audience supposed to laugh at these moments of graphic violence, just because they involve an 11-year-old with a grownup vocabulary?

The subplot of Damon and Mindy adds the dark, graphic-novel quality to the film. While some audience members laughed the whole way through (from sex jokes to watching a man explode in a giant microwave), others started laughing, then trailed off. Some unspoken question marks hung in the air of the theater.

Perhaps the most disturbing character in Kick-Ass is Mindy. Although she probably has yet to graduate from middle school, she mows down hit men like nobody’s business. Her reactions throughout the film — whether in response to death, or getting pummeled by a coke dealer — are uncomfortably cool.

The movie wasn’t terrible, just misguided. For the right person, Kick-Ass will be the perfect violent sundae topped with a heaping scoop of obscenities. Call this critic old-fashioned, but I prefer my graphic violence and comedy served separately.

Five U. Kentucky athletes found themselves visiting an orphanage during their unconventional Spring Break trip to Nicaragua.

UK football players Jacob Lewellen and Marcus Davis; volleyball players Ann Armes and Sarah Rumley; and women’s soccer player Laura Novikoff all made the trip to the Central American country. The trip was made possible through Athletes in Action, an international Christian sports ministry program.

While in Nicaragua, the athletes spent the bulk of their time at an orphanage, participating in games and getting to know some of the kids, an experience that moved Lewellen, a freshman defensive end, the most during his stay in Nicaragua.

“To me, what stood out the most was the fact that these kids are so hurt on the inside, but they put on a smile and cling to the people that come out, and they really attach to them. They show you love and they wear a smile even though they’re hurting,” Lewellen said, “It’s really re-enforcing to yourself to say that you can come back to the states and nothing that we’re experiencing here is as bad as what they’re experiencing (in Nicaragua).

“We should always have a smile on our face for the opportunities we have here … I really saw how it impacted me when I got back and now I look at life a lot differently.”

Like Lewellen, Davis, a junior center  and three-time SEC Academic Honor Roll student, was encouraged the most by the relationships he formed with the kids at the orphanage.

“I would have to say (what that stood out most) was how great it was to connect with the kids. The kids were able to trust and befriend us; they really wanted to be with us,” Davis said. “I think it would have been easy for them to say that these are just more visitors. But instead, they genuinely wanted to be around us.”

Along with the experience, Davis said he made a new friend at the orphanage during his stay.

“I made a pretty good friend down there, a kid by the name of Ayuhendo,” he said. “He showed me a lot about his culture and just the things they do to have fun. It was fun and it was great, I loved hanging out with him. If I could go back and hang out with him and see him again that would be great. And if not, I hope he’s blessed with whatever he’s doing.”

When asked if he would go back to Nicaragua or visit another developing country, Lewellen gave a clear-cut answer: Yes.

“I would definitely go back, and if not to Nicaragua then to any other place,” Lewellen said.  “I got the hunger to see other places in developing areas and to see how they can impact my life as much as I can impact their lives.”

A year ago, as the U. Michigan football team took the field for its annual spring game, high school senior Denard Robinson stood on the sidelines at the Big House.

Donning his bright red and yellow Deerfield Beach High School letterman jacket, the dual-threat quarterback looked on as early enrollee quarterback Tate Forcier impressed Michigan fans and coaches to the tune of three touchdowns through the air.

But in this year’s edition, Robinson didn’t spend much time on the sidelines.

The sophomore, who contributed mostly with his legs last season, threw three touchdowns and ran for one Saturday while working with the first-team offense, standing out in comparison to the other two quarterbacks in contention to start — Forcier and early enrollee Devin Gardner.

“He’s developed a whole new aspect of his game as far as making great reads and making great throws,” senior defensive lineman Ryan Van Bergen said. “His throws are on lasers now, he’s not throwing balls up for grabs. He’s putting it right on receivers. … He’s dangerous and he’s probably made the most progression (this spring).”

“He’s always had the ability to throw it,” Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez added.

Backed up to his own three-yard line, Robinson stood comfortably in the pocket and delivered a rope straight into the hands of sophomore wideout Roy Roundtree who had been streaking on a post route over the middle of the field. Roundtree took the catch the distance, completing the scrimmage’s most electrifying play— 97 yards long — and solidifying Robinson’s impressive performance.

After the game, Roundtree insisted that Robinson’s improved passing ability has become obvious over the course of the spring, as he has focused more on adding touch to his throws.

Without that necessary touch last season, Robinson threw four interceptions to just two touchdowns.

“His arm is way better than it was freshman year,” Roundtree said. “He’s not throwing it as hard like he was, jamming people’s fingers.”

The talk surrounding Robinson’s spring maturation had been getting louder and louder as spring practices went on, and with Robinson’s performance Saturday in front of 35,000 fans, the talk of him challenging incumbent starter Forcier’s job is now at its loudest.

But Rodriguez insists that the competition remains too close to call, with all three quarterbacks making strides in the spring’s 15 practices.

“I’m pleased that they’ve gotten better (but) nobody has taken the position and grabbed it,” Rodriguez said. “I was hoping more than one guy would anyway… I don’t know if it will be solved, who’s the No. 1 guy, by the first game.”

Forcier — who had injured his ankle in practice on Thursday — looked much less impressive than he did in his first spring game, nearly throwing an interception on his second play of the afternoon while also losing a fumble.

After leading Michigan to a 4-0 start last season, Forcier’s production dropped off significantly in the second half of the season, as the Wolverines stumbled to a 5-7 finish.

Despite the well-publicized battle between Robinson and Forcier, the day’s biggest ovation came when an entirely different signal caller took the field.

Gardner, whose hype had preceded him as the nation’s top dual-threat quarterback, struggled at first in his debut in the Big House, fumbling his first snap and throwing an interception. But his potential was obvious as the game went on, as he launched a perfectly thrown deep ball to junior slot receiver Martavious Odoms late in the scrimmage, which Odoms let fall between his hands.

“Tate and Denard are a little bit ahead of Devin,” Rodriguez said. “They have a little more experience.”

Despite the fact that Robinson’s performance took place in a spring scrimmage, his obvious improvement in the passing game could open the door to him being named the winner of Michigan’s quarterback battle.

As he stood on the sidelines last spring, even then, Robinson knew being in the starting lineup could be in the cards for him.

“I’ve got a pretty good chance,” Robinson told the Daily after last year’s spring game about his opportunity for playing time last fall. “That’s my gut feeling, but the coaches are telling me I’ve got a chance to start.”

And that chance could be drawing near in his second season, as spring practices end and the summer competition heats up under center.

Duke U. walked into Charlottesville, Va. on an eight-game win streak, but without a marquee victory to its name. It leaves having knocked off the top team in the nation, an undefeated U. Virginia squad looking to beat Duke for the first time in seven years.

The No. 5 Blue Devils did more than just defeat the Cavaliers in their 13-9 victory Saturday night. They dominated Virginia in all facets of the game and head back to Durham with a newfound confidence.

The Cavaliers (11-1, 2-1 in the ACC) scored the first three goals of the game before Duke (11-3, 1-2) got on the scoreline. Senior Steve Schoeffel found redshirt sophomore Justin Turri in front of the Cavaliers’ net for Duke’s first goal with just more than a minute remaining in the first period.

“[The goal] was big because the longer it takes to get the first one, it seems like you’re never going to score,” head coach John Danowski said. “Psychologically and emotionally, I think the guys really did settle down and take a deep breath and said, ‘It’s going to be okay.’ If you had said to me at that moment, ‘You’re going to score 13 goals tonight,’ I would have said, ‘You’re crazy. That’s not going to happen.’ It was an emotional goal for everyone.”

Just 14 seconds into the second quarter, Turri struck again, this time off a pass from senior Parker McKee. Two minutes later, senior Ned Crotty got in on the action with his 12th goal of the year.

On the next Blue Devil possession, Crotty was knocked down in the offensive zone and flipped a pass towards the front of the net. Senior Will McKee grabbed the bouncing ball and scored the Blue Devils’ fourth goal of the game.

The Cavaliers were not prepared to lose their undefeated season easily. Virginia ended the half with three goals of its own to give it a 6-5 lead at halftime.

After the break, Crotty showed why he is one the leading candidates for the Tewaaraton trophy, given to the nation’s best player. The senior entered the game leading the country in assists, and in response, the Virginia defense backed off him and played the passing lanes, hoping to limit Crotty’s playmaking ability. Instead, Crotty adjusted his game and attacked the net, scoring two more goals within the first five minutes of the second half to put the Blue Devils up 7-6.

“They were playing him to be a feeder, so Ned just recognized what the opponent was doing,” Danowski said. “He knew he had to go to the goal. He played like a senior and not only scored goals, but made a lot of great decisions with the ball.”

Duke continued its domination throughout the third quarter, scoring two more goals, and emerged with a 9-7 lead. At the beginning of the fourth period, the Blue Devils ensured that Virginia wasn’t going to save its perfect season.

Sophomore CJ Costabile took the faceoff to start the final 15 minutes, and after a tough battle, won the draw. Costabile then dished the ball off to junior Zach Howell, who fired it past Virginia goalie Adam Ghitelman for his first goal of the game to give the Blue Devils a three-goal advantage.

A minute later, Quinzani sprinted around the net and bounced a shot past Ghitelman for his second goal of the game. Just 22 seconds after that, Howell added his second score, and Duke never looked back.

After a tough start to the game, Duke dominated the final three quarters. The defense shut down the Virginia midfield throughout the entire second half, surrendering just 11 shots and three goals in the final 30 minutes.

But though the victory was big for the Blue Devils, the team knows that it still has a lot left to play for this season.

“It’s a big win because of confidence,” Howell said. “I don’t think we get much further than that, because we have to get up and play them again on Friday in the ACC tournament.”

After Saturday’s performance, Friday can’t get here quick enough.

Probably for decades, high school seniors lucky enough to get into Cal have been subjected to two things: profuse congratulations and a specific question from that conservative authority figure, perhaps a teacher or an uncle. The question usually goes like this: “Berkeley? So you’re going to become a hippie/stoner/hobo now?” This is usually followed by a hearty laugh reveling in one’s supposed wit.

I got all the congratulations, but definitely not the question. The commentary was far more pointed. My favorite teacher, who had gently poked fun at my political views all through high school, chuckled sarcastically, “Oh, you’re going to have fun with all the liberals!”

Like many refugees from communist countries, I’ve always had a deep appreciation for the freedom this great country affords. This background has led many of these refugees-Cubans, Vietnamese, Russians-to become committed conservatives. So it was natural for those who knew my views to be surprised to see me matriculate to Berkeley, a famed bastion of leftism. More than that, they thought the political atmosphere here (or at least the one they imagined) would be something I could not tolerate.

In fact, the decision was not difficult. Berkeley was the best school I got into and offered a tremendous value for the money. (It really does-far inferior schools charge as much in tuition a year as Cal does in four.) Simple as that. The politics never figured into it.

I did think about that factor-both town and gown indeed have a reputation for being intolerant of dissenting views, namely conservative ones. I recall when enraged protesters forced their way past police barricades, preventing Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu from making a speaking engagement at the Berkeley Community Theatre. I remember when eminent Islamologist Daniel Pipes had his lecture on campus disrupted in a vile fashion.

But I also knew that any reputable university, outside of a few Christian institutions, is predominantly leftist-a function of the basic fact that both youth and education correlate positively with leftist political views. Now, certainly some universities are more in-your-face with the activism and consequently less tolerant of opposing views. The opposite is also true, and one might think that a less political environment, such as the one that exists at UCLA or USC, may be better for students with views outside the youth mainstream.

Of course, why have differing views if nobody cares anyway? As one of my professors, a former Bush 41 speechwriter, told me, there is no better place to refine one’s political views than in a hostile environment.

That argument only goes so far. I did not want to go to college to promote any political ideology or to “create change.” My goal was to do well in school, get my degree and have a good time while at it. I knew none of that had anything to do with politics.

My freshman year, I was not disappointed. Sure, I had talks about politics with my floormates in the lounge. Many found my views alternatively appalling and humorous. (Some still fondly recall when I would, a forty or two into the night, sing “Rule Britannia” to commemorate the lost glory of British imperialism.) But my politics never defined my relationship with the people I have encountered here. Simply put, I do not feel I have been treated differently by anybody I know because I’m a conservative.

This is partially attributable to one of my favorite features of Berkeley-its size. Because it is so huge, you can find exactly the type of people you like to interact with, activities you want to be involved with, etc. For example, I don’t find the students heavily involved with political causes to be ones I enjoy spending much time with. So I don’t have to. Conversely, if you’re somebody who wants to be especially involved, you can easily find the outlet for that.

Let’s go back to that snarky authority figure cracking jokes on how Berkeley is filled with hippies and communists. More likely than not, he is stuck in a view of campus straight from the ’60s. I don’t think everybody was particularly involved back then either, but you won’t hear much about the kid who took his classes quietly, avoiding the campus activism. But the causes were certainly more engaging then than they are today.

Most of the discontent that has fueled Berkeley activism recently stems from tuition fee hikes. As unpleasant as they are, they lack the same ability to galvanize students in the same way free speech issues, the Vietnam War and ethnic agitation did in the ’60s. There is just no issue today that has the same ability to inspire apathetic students.

This has been one of the most politically active years in Berkeley’s recent history. We’ve seen rallies, marches, riots and a divestment battle. Yet we can safely say the spirit of the ’60s is behind us. Instead, we have a campus where it is equally easy to get involved in politics, as it is to avoid it.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week appointed a U. California-Berkeley professor to serve as a new type of adviser on clean energy issues for countries in the Western Hemisphere.

Daniel Kammen, a professor in the campus’s Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy and the Department of Nuclear Engineering, will serve as one of three senior fellows for the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas. The partnership was proposed by President Barack Obama in April 2009 to encourage clean energy development.

“This position is kind of a new channel of discussion between nations, and it’s also … a nice challenge,” Kammen said.

According to Kammen, two of his first projects will be improving the efficiency of stoves and health in Central America and expanding support of solar and wind energy efforts in North America.

“It would be ideal to see better science and deployment networks in the Americas on clean energy, and to expand the support for energy efficiency,” he said in an e-mail.

Kammen said while other countries like Chile are ahead of the U.S. in some areas of clean energy, the U.S. still has the most research and development activity.

“We have a lot to offer other countries,” he said. “But I think this is much more of a two-way dialogue.”

Still, Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a Washington, D.C.-based research group, said local communities have to carefully consider what outside advisers say because while the careers of the advisers continue, the social cost paid by these communities for following the advice is often high, and the advice cannot be retroactively validated.

Birns said the U.S. government has often hired university consultants who have provided advice that served the political desires of policy makers rather than the needs of the country being advised.

“It would be very good if consultants are evaluated on the nature of their consultation rather than on whether they’re saying things that the government wants them to say,” he said.

Oh snap.

Slash just pulled a Santana.

The ex-Guns N’ Roses lead guitarist, current Velvet Revolver guitarist and resident top hat-wearer just released his solo album. It consists of all guest appearances from his rock and pop star friends, pulling a page directly out of the famed Latin guitarist’s album “Supernatural” — but Slash replaces the Latin and chill vibes with full-on, hair metal-influenced riffage.

Slash, known for his mysterious nature and pure rock star style, was one half of what made Guns N’ Roses (the ’80s version of Led Zeppelin, if you haven’t heard of them) great. Following the band’s split, Slash started another band called Slash’s Snakepit, in which he played guitar, before forming Velvet Revolver with a few members of GnR, a guitarist for Wasted Youth and notoriously crazy ex-Stone Temple Pilot frontman Scott Weiland. He also wrote an autobiography in his spare time.

For his new self-titled effort, Slash called upon a wide array of vocalists to help him out — like Ozzy Osbourne, Iggy Pop, Lemmy Kilmister, Myles Kennedy (of Alter Bridge), Adam Levine, Andrew Stockdale (of Wolfmother) and Fergie, to name a few.

With all the various contributors, this album acts as a sort of sonic chameleon — Slash changes colors and blends in pretty well all the time, but you still know he’s there (and that’s a good thing).

Almost every song comes packaged with a head banging riff and a soul-crushing solo.

Songs like “By the Sword (featuring Stockdale)” prove just how much riff a song can take. Built on the prowess that only a member of the last generation of rock guitarists can offer, the song rocks like no other, with every other verse and chorus being a full out rock moment.

Artists also happen to bring their own styles in — for example, “Crucify the Dead (featuring Ozzy Osbourne)” takes (predictably) a very Ozzy-like tone. But it works, because he rocks just as hard as Slash does. When Motörhead’s Kilmister makes his appearance, the song molds into the famous metal two-step, but it’s just bloody awesome. Slash rips into the song with guitar virtuosity, and Kilmister gets low in his yell/growl and brings the metal.

Even in cheesy ballads like “Gotten (feat. Levine),” Slash slips bluesy solos and rockstar rock into a song that borders on sounding a bit too much like Levine’s Maroon 5 (with lyrics like “you just get me like I’ve never been gotten before”).

But hey — every hair rock album needs its cheesy ballad right? Let us not forget that “Welcome to the Jungle” was on the same Guns N’ Roses album as “Sweet Child of Mine,” and the band wrote ballads like “November Rain.”

Slash even goes instrumental to show off his skills (along with those of Dave Grohl, Nirvana and the Foo Fighters) and Duff McKagan (GnR) and solos for almost four minutes.

Even during the should-be low points of this album (the songs with Fergie and Kid Rock, for example), Slash holds it together. Just enough, mind you, but he does keep it from dipping into badness.

With his new album, Slash helps to solidify himself as a legend of the modern rock cannon. He is the ’80s embodiment of the perfect guitarist (preceded by Jimi Hendrix in the ’60s, Jimmy Page in the ’70s and followed by Kurt Cobain in the ’90s) and forever a pop culture icon.

So even if this album is just another footnote in his career, at least it has his name stamped on it — and on the disemboweled and dismembered bodies of rock he leaves behind in his riffmaking wake.

Long live Slash.

Grade: B-

An Ohio U. College of Business professor accused of having inappropriate relationships with students and subordinates will retire at the end of June.

C. Aaron Kelley, a former dean of the college and professor in Management Systems, sent Ohio his resignation letter last week.

OU President Roderick McDavis initiated de-tenuring proceedings against Kelley in September, 15 years after the first allegations of the professor’s inappropriate behavior surfaced.

Kelley has admitted to having a sexual relationship with his secretary while he was business dean. He resigned from that position in 1996 after faculty and staff expressed discomfort and concern about his actions.

He has also admitted to a relationship with a former student that began in spring 2001.

Kelley has denied allegations that he had inappropriate relationships with two students in OU’s Master’s in Business Administration program in India. The first of those relationships is alleged to have happened in 2002, at which point the college removed Kelley from the program for several years.

The most recent accusations against Kelley arise from text messages found on a cell phone he used in India in 2007 that hint at an intimate relationship with a woman who was in his class at the time. In texts and e-mails to the woman, Kelley referred to himself as “Mr. Banana” and signed some of them “love.”

College of Business faculty and administrators were particularly concerned about the possibility that Kelley may have altered the woman’s grade because of their relationship.

Kelley has denied that he adjusted her grade. His resignation comes after his department and college, along with the president, provost and a Faculty Senate committee recommended he lose tenure.

Kelley has not been teaching in the college since 2008.

Kelley will need to work with the State Teachers’ Retirement System to coordinate retirement benefits. The Post could not immediately confirm whether he will receive money from OU. His attorney could not be reached for comment.