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Sooner Cards gain tap-and-go ability OU celebrates 125th anniversary by creating new swipeless ID cards PAGE JONES News Reporter @pageousm
Sooner Cards look a bit different this semester, and they work differently too. The new cards feature a design to commemorate OU’s 125th anniversary as well as new technology to make them easier to use. The cards, which are printed on a primarily white
background and have a smaller photo, allow students to tap and pay at OU dining facilities instead of swiping, said Ryan Trevino, Sooner Card office director. New card scanners are expected at all campus food services by the end of the week. Doors across campus will also feature the new tap-and-go technology, Trevino said. Instead of swiping to enter the residence halls or other campus locations, students can tap their card on a sensor. The new card was designed by the Sooner Card office, University Development, Public Affairs and the president’s office, Trevino said. The card, designed to celebrate OU and its history, has been in the works for several years, but OU officials decided
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to release it in time for the university’s anniversary, Trevino said. The design features Evans Hall as well as the brick archways on Asp Avenue near Campus Corner, Trevino said. The 125th anniversary card design will only be available to students for the 2015 calendar year, Trevino said. In 2016, students can get an updated design without the 125th branding. The cards will still have tap-and-go technology. The card is available for students to purchase at the Sooner Card office, located on the lowest level of the Oklahoma Memorial Union. Cards cost $20. Page Jones, page.c.jones1@ou.edu
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Norman resident Sydney Hulme eats at Qdoba on 24th Ave. Tuesday afternoon. Headington Hall has announced it will soon open a Qdoba restaurant.
Qdoba is coming Burrito chain to open in Headington Hall PAIGHTEN HARKINS Digital Managing Editor @PaightenHarkins
Students with a hankering for giant made-to-order burritos are in luck. One burrito chain is moving closer to campus than ever before — and it has queso. Qdoba Mexican Grill will open its 19th Oklahoma location inside Headington Hall on OU’s campus in either late February or early March, said Eric Renegar, Qdoba partner. The restaurant will be located in the southwest corner of the residence hall facing Jenkins Avenue, Renegar said. The restaurant has street-side doors to accommodate
non-residents. The location will have a full menu, including queso, nachos, tacos and burritos, among other items. Students will be able to use meal exchanges and points at the restaurant in addition to other payment options such as cash or credit card. The restaurant will join Einstein Bros. Bagels and the Wagner Dining Hall as food options in Headington Hall. Einstein Bros. Bagels opened in Headington Hall in February 2014. The university contacted Renegar about opening a Qdoba location in the residence hall roughly a year ago, and he agreed, acknowledging student’s penchant for big burritos.
Students checking Desire2Learn for class information may notice a few changes from last semester. The updates are a result of a Learning Management System pilot testing program held last spring. For the testing, several classes ran under an updated D2L as well as another Learning Management System called Canvas, said Becky Weintz, OU Information Technology communications manager. After much discussion and feedback from the pilot testing, IT decided to stick with the updated D2L option, Weintz said. From these pilot tests, as well as feedback from AT A GLANCE professors and students, D2L Feedback IT pinpointed certain upgrades to implement. Send questions or These specifically regardconcerns to @OUD2L ed interface usability, on Twitter or email itfeedback@ou.edu. valerts when content items are updated and more activities professors can use within courses, said Kevin Buck, OU IT Solution Center lead. Aesthetic changes, such as a textured background, were added after receiving positive reactions from students in pilot tests, Buck said. The biggest addition to D2L this semester is Wiggio, a tool meant to help students share files and communicate with each other more easily. The tool can now be found in the top right corner of the D2L home page. The “wig,” standing for “working in groups,” tool gives students more control over their online communication by allowing them to create and manage their own groups, rather than working through an instructor, Buck said. Students can also invite external users so that colleagues or contacts outside of D2L — such as a student from a different school or company collaborator — can have the same access and information as those inside it, Buck said. The tool also includes a calendar and event-managing feature for groups working together. SEE D2LPAGE 2
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Student organization to march to promote blacks at OU After Ferguson, Sooners fight for representation of blacks on campus ANDREW CLARK News Reporter @A_Clark_OUDaily
A group of students will march across the South Oval Wednesday to raise awareness for issues related to black students at OU. The student march is set to start at 2 p.m. in front of Dale Hall. Unheard, an alliance of black students at OU who want to promote change at the university, planned the event to raise awareness about the lack of black representation and culture on campus, said Chelsea Davis, health and exercise science and pre-med sophomore.
Davis is one of the nine undergraduate executives for Unheard. Davis said Unheard was formed after news broke that a grand jury didn’t indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer, for the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black man. After the decision, Davis said she and others looked at OU’s campus and felt like they weren’t included in OU’s community. The group compiled a list of seven grievances against the university, ranging from a lack of black faculty outside certain departments to retention rates for black students. At the event, speakers will discuss Unheard’s grievances. Despite these issues, Davis said she does not believe the university deliberately caters to non-minority races on campus. “I wouldn’t say anything is done purposely,” she said. “I don’t blame anybody. I think it’s just a lack of knowledge.” Davis hopes the march promotes unity among Sooners
and awareness of issues at the university. Unheard members encourage those attending the march to dress in all black to show solidarity.
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BURRITOS: People approve of new Qdoba at OU Continued from page 1 “I think it’ll definitely be a good fit,” Renegar said. This will be the second Qdoba location in Norman. Taylor Cochran, communications junior, said he would eat at the new location because it is so close to campus. Aryan Roozbeh, mechanical engineering freshman, agreed. “I second that statement,” Roozbeh said. “I like their queso.”
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“It was really a student demand that drove the decision to incorporate [Wiggio],” Buck said. “It just made it easier for them to collaborate and share things.” While the updates include several new features, they are not connected to any costs, as updates are built into OU IT’s original contract with D2L, Buck said. Buck foresees further updates in the future. “Really moving forward, I think that we’re going to be seeing an increase in the rate that new features are
implemented into D2L,” Buck said. “We have a really big focus right now on making sure that we’re on the latest version, offering all the available features that will be beneficial to students and instructors.” IT employees want to hear student and instructor feedback to improve D2L, Buck said. “The more information [students] give us, the more we can implement changes and make sure the product is the best tool it can be,” Grant said.
The proposed water rate increase took an early lead Tuesday as initial early and absentee mail-in ballots were counted giving the “yes” votes a 58 percent lead. That lead increased as the precincts were counted, bringing the final vote of approval in with a 67 percent victory. Norman City Council member Stephen Tyler Holman commented on the fact that only about 10 percent of Norman’s registered voters cast ballots on this issue that affects most Norman residents. Unofficial elections results indicate that 4,465 votes were cast in favor of the water rate increase. There were 2,195 “no” votes representing 33 percent of ballots cast. “There was a process where there was some give and take,” said Council member Dan Quinn of the pubic discussions leading up to the election. “People understand what we need and they’re committed to this community,” said Council member Lynne Miller. All of the council members had positive comments to say regarding the water rate vote as the final results came in as the Norman City Council was winding to a close. The increased revenue will provide a funding stream to repay bonding for the Phase II upgrade of the Water Treatment Plant. Improvements will include safety features for the community and city staff in dealing with hazardous chemicals such as chlorine used in the treatment process. New treatment methods will improve the taste, odor and water quality and safety, bringing Norman into compliance with Department of Environmental Quality requirements. The multimillion project will also improve capacity and allow for blending and heavy metal treatment of well water.
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Soon after Bobby Jack Wright came to Oklahoma to work for newly hired head coach Bob Stoops in 1999, the two went on a recruiting trip to Houston. Wright was supposed to meet Stoops at the airport in Houston mid-afternoon, but received a call from his boss around 1 p.m., far too early. He was ready to be picked up. “I said, ‘Bob, there’s no way you can already be in Houston,’� Wright said. “There’s no flight that gets here that fast.� Still, Stoops was adamant he was in Houston. But when Wright asked him to say where he was exactly, Stoops realized his mistake. “Bob said, ‘I’m standing outside underneath the sign that says Dallas Love Field,’� Wright said. “He turned around and ran back inside to catch his flight to Houston.� That was the first of many recruiting trips for Wright over his 16 year career with the Sooners. The coach brought top talent, including California native Tony Jefferson who now plays safety for the Arizona Cardinals in the NFL, to Norman from every corner of America. Furthermore, Wright was responsible for bringing defensive end Charles Tapper
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to Oklahoma from Baltimore, an area not known as a recruiting hotbed. “He had only had one year of high school football when I saw his tape, so I didn’t see a really good football player,� Wright said. “What I did see was a real athletic guy running around. He never took a lazy step.� Wright held many positions over his college football career, which stretches back to 1979. At Oklahoma, he coached defensive ends, special teams and defensive backs at one time or another. While working his first job at Texas A&M University Kingsville, head coach Ron Harms advised Wright to not focus on one position group, but rather gain expertise on both sides of the ball. “If you do that, opportunities for you may be limited,� Wright said. “If the only thing you excel at is being a
defensive backs coach, you may have the opportunity to go to a better place as a running backs coach and you’re not going to get hired.� He took the advice to heart. At his next job at the University of North Texas, Wright coached running backs and quarterbacks before moving to the University of Texas to coach on the defensive side of the ball again. It was Wright’s diversity that caught Stoops’ eye in 1999 and his success that kept him in Norman until he announced his retirement Tuesday. “It just felt like it was time,� he said. “42 years is a long run. Certainly the 16 years at the University of Oklahoma have been very special to me.� This may not be the end of Wright’s road with the Sooners, however. The now former defensive backs
coach said he would entertain the idea of a front office position with the program in the future. “I don’t know that I’m riding off into the sunset,� Wright said. “Who knows where it’s going to go. If something down the road is available and fits me, great.� As the dead period ends Friday, Oklahoma’s staff will hit the recruiting trail again. For the first time in 16 years it will be sans Wright. “I don’t know how weird it’s going to be that everyone else is going out recruiting and I’m headed to the golf course,� he said. “I have a feeling it’s going to be pretty nice.�
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he Sooners surrendered more points per game in 2014 than they have since 1997 when OU was 4-8 under former OU head coach John Blake. While OU’s 8-5 season can’t be totally pinned on defensive struggles, Stoops made the call to promote defensive line coach Jerry Montgomery to co-defen-
sive coordinator. Montgomery joins Mike Stoops at the helm of a defense that was picked apart by the Big 12’s array of talented quarterbacks. However, OU’s run defense has shined since Montgomery took his job in Norman. The Sooners, though, can’t expect to win too many games in 2015 with a one-dimensional defense. The retirement of cornerbacks coach Bobby Jack Wright should give Stoops a chance to address the ailing secondary head on, but if that unit doesn’t improve 2015 will be another long season for the Sooners. Credit other Big 12 schools for quality game planning, but OU’s secondary has to make better in-game adjustments. The Baylor Bears had a field day with OU’s cornerbacks sitting 10 yards off the line of scrimmage en route to a 48-14 victory for the Big 12 co-champions. While the Sooners may not have the athletes to keep up with some of the speedy receivers in the Big 12, they need to improve schematically, and that’s where more collaboration between Montgomery and Mike Stoops may occur. OU returns all of its starting linebackers and a good portion of its secondary. Plus, the Sooners have collected a handful of commitments from a few of the top defensive
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Our View: Do whatever you want with your hoods,
clearly bans persons from wearing hoods during “the commission of a crime or for the purpose of coercion, intimidation or harassment.” If history shows us anything it’s that criminals often abide by laws, so we’re sure this bill would keep naughty hood-wearing Oklahomans in check. As proponents of civil liberties, the Our View is proposed bill initially outraged us. the majority opinion of However, upon closer inspection, it’s The Daily’s clear the ban is more comical than seven-member threatening, particularly in its deeditorial board scription of who would be exempt. Sure, there are some sensible exemptions, like for those wearing “coverings required by their religious beliefs, for safety or medical purposes, or incidental to protection from the weather.” But a few exceptions are laughably outlandish, even
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While Sooners took a winter break, Oklahoma lawmakers continued to push absurd legislation infringing upon civil liberties. Case in point: in December Sen. Don Barrington sponsored a bill that would make it illegal for Oklahomans to wear hoods in public except under certain circumstances. The Internet exploded with debate on the draconian bill, and we agree banning certain clothing under any circumstances is a grave overreach of state government. However, don’t get out your pitchforks just yet. Students braving icy temperatures trudging to class will not be fined for wearing their coat hoods. Criminals, on the other hand, beware. The bill
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by screwy Oklahoma legislators’ logic. For example, and we’re not kidding, exemptions are extended to minstrel troops, people depicting historical characters, people attending masquerade parties, and “the pranks of children on Halloween.” Any bill that requires explicit exemption of trickor-treaters probably shouldn’t be a priority for Oklahoma’s lawmakers. That’s really the crux of the issue: why do Oklahoma’s lawmakers continually waste time on bills that do not matter? We don’t have a great answer for you, but we do know that public opinion is a powerful thing. Instead of laughing over the hoodie ban and forgetting it after a week, let Oklahoma legislators know we don’t want them using our resources on superfluous bills.
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