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WORKERS RIGHTS

Boren on board with new group Sooners Against Sweatshops are working towards completing their goal

independent labor rights monitoring group on Thursday, so Sooners Against Sweatshops members will discuss a new path of action at their meeting this Thursday. The new Sooners Against Sweatshops organization PAIGHTEN HARKINS began the school year with the goal of getting OU to affiliAssistant Campus Editor ate with the Workers Rights Consortium, an independent After accomplishing their main goal only two months group who would monitor the factories that produce OU into the semester, members of Sooners Against Sweatshops merchandise to ensure they met fair labor standards, said are looking for a new cause to tackle. the group’s president Leah Kennedy. OU President David Boren agreed to partner OU with an On Thursday, Boren announced in a letter to the group

HOMECOMING

that OU would be affiliating with the consortium, saying he would work “expeditiously” to make OU a Workers Rights Consortium member. “We have a strong commitment to making sure that appropriate standards for workers’ health and safety, both in this country and around the world, are met,” Boren said in the letter. Affiliating with the consortium will cost $50,000, which will be paid annually from licensing revenue for use of the SEE WORKERS RIGHTS PAGE 2

CAMPUS TALKS

Series of talks explain online access to works Open Access Week will discuss the benefits of online publication CAITLIN SCHACHTER Campus Reporter

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OU freshmen Chase Smith and Adam Masters turn their heads to look at a homecoming board Tuesday on South Oval. The boards were painted by various OU clubs and organizations.

Homecoming boards line South Oval OU tradition lives on as Sooners rally against Texas Tech RACHAEL MONTGOMERY Campus Reporter

More than 20 student groups set up boards for the Homecoming South Oval Board Competition on Tuesday, which will line the

South Oval for the remainder and innovation, said Hayley of the week. Poarch, the The groups, “I think the boards S o u t h O v a l ranging from Board comget better and combined petition chair. c l a s s e s t o better every year.” Each board paired fraterwas required ALYSE WILLIAMS, HEALTH nities and soto include the AND EXERCISE SCIENCE rorities, cregroup’s name, SOPHOMORE ated and dethe Campus signed boards Activities that displayed creativity Council Homecoming logo

and an image pertaining to the upcoming football game against Texas Tech University on Saturday, Poarch said. The boards will be judged mostly on creativity, she said. The Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Phi Lambda and Lambda Chi Alpha team collaborated to make an “Alice in Wonderland” themed board

As universities across the nation work to provide open access to academic work produced by their students and faculty, a pizza lunch was held Tuesday on campus to help Sooners understand the benefits of open access. GO AND DO T h i s w e e k i s i n t e rWednesday national Open Access Week, so OU Libraries Info: A coffee event staff members have orto explore open ganized several events to access topics such as help Sooners understand increased research the ins and outs of open impact and citation access, said Karen Rupprates, journal open access policies and Serrano, director of OU open educational Collection Development resources to and Scholarly supplement or replace Communication. high-priced textbooks. “Open access is part of the higher education When: 8:30 to 10 a.m. landscape now,” RuppWednesday Serrano said. Where: Writing Center Several professors at of Wagner Hall the lunch on Tuesday voiced concerns about open access depriving graduate students of private access to their dissertations. Rupp-Serrano responded that these students must open up their dissertations to the scholarly community for comments and review in order to obtain their degrees. “It does make the students’ work easier to access,” she responded. “Dissertations have only been accessible online since the early 2000s, but we are joining other

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CAMPUS BRIEFS GLOBAL WARMING

Guest lecture to provide a different perspective on climate change and meteorology this Tuesday The School of Meteorology will hold a lecture on reducing and adapting to climate change in the U.S. and Australia at 4 p.m. Thursday at the National Weather Center, Room 1350. David Karoly, meteorology professor for the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia and William Hooke, senior policy fellow for the American Meteorological Society, will discuss international policies and issues related to climate change, said David Parsons, director of the School of Meteorology. Karoly, a former OU faculty member, will specifically address pricing policies and

research in Australia, Parsons said. Hooke will follow Karoly speaking about recent extreme weather, such as Superstorm Sandy, which affected much of the East Coast a year ago, Parsons said. The lecture will allow students to hear from leaders in the field who have different views on high impact weather, Parsons said. OU’s Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability will present the joint seminar. Jaye Pelley, Campus Reporter

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BOARD MEETINGS

Regents discuss extending curriculum of medical program The OU Board of Regents will discuss the expansion of a Tulsa medical program as a solution to Oklahoma’s physician shortage at an 8:30 a.m. meeting Wednesday in Lawton, Okla. “The regents will consider expanding the Tulsa School of Community Medicine M.D. Program Track at the College of Medicine in Tulsa, Okla. from two years to four years of medical curriculum,” said university spokesman Michael Nash. The University of Tulsa faculty will administer the pre-clinical curriculum on site at the Tulsa School of Community Medicine campus if expansion is approved, Nash said. The board also will discuss a proposal

to purchase a rock testing system for OU petroleum and geological engineers, Nash said. Additionally, the board will consider the replacement of the portable bleachers in the McCasland Field House to increase seating capacity, Nash said. The meeting will take place at the McMahon Centennial Complex at Cameron to first discuss items submitted by Cameron University, then Rogers State University and finally OU. The next meeting of the OU Board of Regents is currently scheduled for Dec. 5 and 6 in Norman.

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