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Siera Coulter, a physiology sophomore, and Taylor Tyson, an apparel merchandising sophomore, visit the memorial to the fatal crash at OSU’s homecoming. A memorial was set up at the intersection of Hall of Fame and Main after the scene of the incident was cleared after the Sea of Orange Parade. Visitors stopped by on Sunday to reflect on the event and leave notes, flowers and stuffed animals.
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JOE BUETTNER • ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR • @JOE_BUETTNER A day intended to host two joyous homecoming celebrations in the state of Oklahoma turned in to a nightmare for countless families, a school, a city and a state on Saturday. The events that unfolded in Stillwater, Oklahoma — a driver, arrested at the scene for suspicion of DUI, plowed through the crowd at the end of Oklahoma State’s homecoming parade route, killing four and injuring dozens — were unthinkable. The shock and terror, while greatest in Stillwater, were felt beyond the Oklahoma State campus. As game time in Norman approached, a moment of silence was taken at the Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial
Stadium. The OU marching band even raised an orange and white flag with Oklahoma State’s signature “O-S-U” logo at its center. The university paid its respects to the lives lost, the people critically injured and the many others struck by unnecessary tragedy. At coach Bob Stoops’ postgame presser Saturday evening, before speaking on his team’s win over Texas Tech, the long-tenured OU coach offered his condolences to the Oklahoma State community. “I’ll start off by saying that all of us at the OU football program and here in our locker room are really saddened about the tragic events at
Oklahoma State today,” Stoops said. “Our thoughts, prayers are very much with them. We’re all deeply saddened.” “These Saturdays are pretty special for all of us and (for) the people who do the same thing we do. Fans come to cheer — and things like this shouldn’t happen, and we’re sad that it did,” he said. Offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley and several current and former players sent their thoughts and prayers on social media. F o l l o w i n g h i s t e a m’s win, however, junior Baker Mayfield was asked if there was any panic from him S a t u rd a y m o r n i n g . T h e Sooners’ starting quarterback
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dates Oklahoma State senior Baillie Burmaster, a former Cowgirl soccer player. Burmaster wasn’t in Stillwater for OSU’s Sea of Orange Parade. Rather, she was in Norman to watch Mayfield face his former team. “She was in town here for the game — no panic,” Mayfield said. “Obviously, you hate to hear stuff like that. It’s terrible.” Oklahoma and Oklahoma State won’t meet on the football field until Nov. 28. However, the schools’ rivalry ceased Saturday as the state joined together in the midst of a horrible tragedy — a tragedy that won’t soon be forgotten.
At 10:31 a.m. Saturday, 25-year-old Adacia Chambers drove her car into the crowd at the OSU homecoming parade, killing four people and injuring 47 others. Chambers was arrested for driving under the influence and is currently being held at the Payne County Jail on four charges of second-degree murder. The victims: Marvin Stone, a retired regents professor at Oklahoma State University, his wife Bonnie Stone, 23-year-old UCO student Nakita Prabhakar, and 2-year-old Nash Lucas, son of OSU sophomore Nicolette Strauch. Sources: The Associated Press, The Oklahoman, and the Tulsa World
OU ignores ruling, construction to continue District court upheld injunction to halt renovations ANDREW CLARK
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R e n o v a t i o n s t o O U ’s Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium will continue despite a Friday injunction ordering the university to temporarily discontinue them. A construction company sought the injunction to halt renovations to OU’s stadium, which are projected to be finished by the beginning of the 2016 college football season.
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Thad Balkman, Cleveland County district judge, r u l e d i n f av o r o f Ha a s Metal Engineering Inc., who claimed OU violate d O k l a h o m a’s P u b l i c Competitive Bidding Act of 1974. However, Anil Gollahalli, the OU vice president and general counsel to the Board of Regents, said in a statement that construction will continue despite Friday’s injunction. The act says that all public construction contracts worth more than $50,000 shall be awarded to the “lowest responsible bidder.” OU awarded the contract to a different construction company, W&W, who was
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the second-lowest bidder on the contract, because it has more expertise in stadium construction. W & W ha s p a r t i c i p ated in the building of AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City as well as renovations of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. But while W&W has more stadium construction experience, the university had no reason to believe that Haas Metal Engineering Inc. was not a responsible bidder, according to Cleveland County district judge Thad Balkman.
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Jon Haas, President of Haas Metal Engineering, Inc., speaks with the press after the judge announces his decision to sustain an injunction on the OU football stadium construction in court Oct. 23. HME was one of SEE LAWSUIT PAGE 3 the companies that had a bid to turn the Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium into a bowl.
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Diversity, mental health addressed during Byron’s term BRIANNA SIMS news reporter @briannana18
As their term winds down, t h e p re s i d e nt a n d v i c e president of the Student Government Association look back on strides they’ve made in addressing student needs on campus. President Alex Byron and vice president Avery Marczewski are seniors this year and will be leaving their positions in SGA behind. Before they leave their seats in office, they want to address the initiatives they set out to tackle in the beginning of the year: diversity and mental health resource awareness. “Avery has really been the driving force on these,” Byron said. Marczewski wanted to focus on more than race when it came to diversity on campus. She wanted to address all student concerns. “In regards to diversity, we had our international greek exchange at the beginning of the semester, so that’s where we paired international students with greek houses,” Marczewski said. Both she and Byron agree the exchange was a success, especially when they opened the exchange for all fraternity and sorority organizations to participate. “We’re also getting a wider variety of greek houses involved, whereas previously we’ve focused primarily on IFC and Panhellenic,” Byron said. “We’ve reached out to most fraternal and sorority organizations to include people in the multicultural Pan, National Pan, and Independent Greek Council.” In addition, the executive branch of SGA sent out an email to all diversity-focused registered student organizations to open up a dialogue for student concerns. “We just told them that if they have any concerns, anything they want to talk about or if they just want to meet with us, that they could,” Marczewski said. Marczewski and Byron also met with the Student Veteran Association and Native American student organizations to address any needs or wants they might have. “We also met with the leaders of the Native American student organizations as well as the leaders of Indigenize OU. We were really helping them out with the Indigenous Peoples’ Day initiative, which I would say was a success. We were really able to help out these
students,” Marczewski said. On Oct. 12, Byron and OU President David Boren signed a proposal that allowed OU to hold its first Indigenous Peoples’ Day, where Native American students celebrated their vibrant cultures and shared their traditions with the campus. “I think it was a nice coming together of student government, student representatives, Native American community representatives, advocates for indigenous movements in general as well as faculty and administration. I think it was a really nice example of the university coming together, starting with a dialogue, starting with addressing student concerns, student wants and resulting in a clear and tangible action for students on campus,” Byron said. Marzewski and Byron will also be meeting with Queer Inclusion on Campus to discuss if there’s anything SGA can do to enhance their time here on campus. “I think we have made strides in CAC, congress and (Graduate Student Senate) in how we can improve diversity, how all of us can come together and be one driving force,” Marczewski said. Byron and Marczewski hope the next candidates will take their initiatives a n d e x p ou n d o n t h e m, keeping the conversation with the students open and unrestricted.
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“It’s really about encouraging a broader dialogue than what we’ve ever had before. The more people we can have taking part in this conversation, the more adequately we can understand what student needs and
“I think we have made strides in CAC, congress and GSS in how we can improve diversity, how all of us can come together and be one driving force.”
student wants are, and we can better advocate for them that way,” Byron said. Byron and Marczewski are currently researching mental health right now, investigating what other universities have done to inform their students about what mental health is and the services their universities offer. “We met with Dr. Miller at
Goddard because he’s the director of Goddard, and he was really interested in facilitating that dialogue of mental health in freshman orientation because the earlier you know about the symptoms, the earlier you can get treated,” Marczewski said. Marczewski and Byron said they are ecstatic to have a contested presidential
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Students present at a Price College of Business interactive session on Oct. 20. The Gallogly College of Engineering and the Price College of Business worked together to devote a day that promotes STEM field opportunities at OU to American Indian high school students.
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Th e Ga l l o g ly Co l l e g e of Engineering and Price College of Business teamed up to excite prospective American Indian high school students about collegiate academics and opportunities found at OU. The two colleges hosted their second annual “American Indian STEM and Business Day” on Oct. 20, an event that takes prospective American Indian students from Oklahoma high schools and exposes them to the colleges’ programs through interactive workshops. The idea was to show American Indian students different disciplines in business and engineering fields, according to aides.ou.edu. Moreover, the event is an attempt to spur an interest in the prospective students and influence them to seek higher education for the betterment of themselves and their communities, said Lisa Morales, executive director of the College of Engineering’s Diversity and Inclusion Multicultural Engineering Programs. The two colleges have taken up the initiative because American Indians are an underrepresented minority in the student body of each college, which is discouraging in a heavily American Indian state such as Oklahoma. The colleges seek to enhance the university with the benefits that come from having a more diverse student body, Morales said. “We want to see more American Indian students come to the University of Oklahoma. Diversity is important in engineering. We need more diverse engineers to give back and make an impact. Being in the state of Oklahoma, in my opinion, our numbers don’t reflect that,” Morales said. One of the goals is for American Indian students to graduate from OU and then apply what they learned in some capacity for the betterment of their home communities, Morales said. The STEM and Business Day, that over 60 students attende d, is one of the many efforts the College of Engineering puts forth to nurture and create a more diverse student body. Morales heads the Diversity and Inclusion Multicultural Engine er ing Programs, which is a community on campus that seeks to retain and assist minority students, while helping
“We need more diverse engineers to give back and make an impact. Being in the state of Oklahoma, in my opinion, our numbers don’t reflect that.” LISA MORALES, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ENGINEERING DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
promote women in the traditionally male discipline of engineering. For the engineering workshop, prospective students engaged in a water relay, in which they raced one another to pump their respective water to a certain destination using impressive engineering technology, Morales said. “Most of the students had a positive experience and enjoyed interacting with other current engineering and business students as
well as our faculty and staff,” Morales said. On the business end of the spectrum, the students e n g a g e d i n i n t e ra c t i v e workshops that split them into teams, each with a different product to promote. The mission was to identify what the product was, price it, identify a target market, develop a marketing strategy and then work through a market situation that would threaten their product’s viability in the market, said Dena
Newhouse, assistant director of undergraduate professional development for Price College of Business and program coordinator for the Multicultural Business Program. In the past, the Price College of Business has hosted an annual event similar to the American Indian STEM and Business Day, but once the College of Engineering decided it was going to do a similar event, it only made sense for the two colleges to team up, Newhouse said. Garrett Watts gjwatts95@gmail.com
“ The testimony has shown that while HME (Haas Metal Engineering Inc.) might not be the preferred bidder because it lacks experience in constructing stadiums, HME was the lowest numerical bidder, responsible to the bid solicitation and they are a responsible bidder,” Balkman said in his ruling. “No evidence was presented that HME has a history of being late, bad business principles, lack of skill, incompetent, or financially irresponsible,” Balkman said in the ruling. OU referred to a case in 1987, Rollings Construction Inc. v. Tulsa Me t ro p o l i t a n Wat e r
Authority, in which a public construction contract was not awarded to the lowest bidder. They used the case to argue that in some cases, contracts can and should be awarded to companies who are not the lowest bidder. But Balkman saw othe r w i s e ; i n t h e Ro l l i ng s case, the defendant was allowed to give the construction contract to the second-lowest bidder because the lowest bidder was deemed irresponsible. Balkman ruled that Haas Metal Engineering Inc. was responsible. As a result, Haas Metal Engineering Inc.’s motion for the injunction was sustained, and OU was enjoined from continuing the renovations. OU is also appealing Balkman’s decision. Andrew Clark andrew.clarkou@gmail.com
PUBLIC COMPETITIVE BIDDING ACT OF 1974 The Public Competitive Bidding Act of 1974 states that any public construction contract exceeding $50,000 must be awarded to the “lowest responsible bidder.” Contracts under $25,000 are open to negotiation with a contractor, and contracts between $25,000 and $50,000 must go to the lowest bidder that submits a bid in writing. Source: The Oklahoma State Courts Network (oscn.net)
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The Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium under construction on Oct. 19. Haas Metal Engineering Inc. is suing OU.
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Before Saturday, junior cornerback Dakota Austin wasn’t a name many casual fans would recognize. However, when starter Zack Sanchez went down on the first play of Saturday’s game against Texas Tech, he was thrust into the spotlight, tasked with defending the second-best passing attack in the country. Standing at 5-10, he weighs just 157 pounds — not an ideal size for a defensive back. “He’s a littler guy so he tends to get picked on,� cornerback Jordan Thomas said. I m m e d i a t e l y , Te x a s Tech quarterback Patrick Mahomes started throwing Austin’s way. Against Tech’s seven other opponents this season, Mahomes accrued 2,618 yards passing. Previously, his w orst performance was a week three contest at Arkansas, in which Mahomes threw for 243 yards and a single touchdown. Saturday, he undershot that mark by 10 yards, finishing 26-for-40 for 233 yards and a score. By the end of the day, No. 14 OU (6-1, 3-1 Big 12) allowed just 27 points to Texas Tech (5-3, 2-3 Big 12). “You can look at it two ways,� Austin said. “You can look at it as, ‘I’m getting picked on,’ or you can [look at it as], ‘Alright, now he’s about to see why I’m out here.’� Austin didn’t know he was going to be thrown onto the field against Texas Tech. Against such formidable competition, some players might feel the pressure. But not him. “I just went in, and it seemed like, when my name got called, I got even calmer,� Austin said. He’s been waiting for this moment for two and a half seasons in Norman. During his freshman and sophomore years, Austin received action in 10 games combined — mostly mopup duty. So far this season, he’s played in games against Akron, Tennessee, Texas, Kansas State and now Texas
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so long, Austin said he has never given up hope his time wouldn’t come. “What’s different that’ll happen if you stop believing?� Austin said. “You either stop believing and you don’t make plays, or you believe and you probably get in.� His performance Saturday drew praise from fans, teammates and coaches alike. Even Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops took notice of Austin postgame. “I thought he really handled it great,� Stoops said. “My hat goes off to Dakota.�
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today.” “We had a lot of big holes early and guys were running through some tackles,” Riley said. “As they started to load the box a little bit more, our backs were good enough to make guys miss and run through the tackles pretty consistently all day.” Saturday’s monster rushing performance somewhat felt like 2014 to Perine. Last season’s run-heavy offense seemed to reappear against Texas Tech. Perine is still focused, however, on preparing his team for the final half of OU’s Big 12 schedule. “Last year is over with,” Perine said. “I just got to focus on what I can do to get my team better week by week. But it felt good to get out in open field.” Perine and the rest of the running backs weren’t the only ones who relished the win. M a y f i e l d ’s n u m b e r s weren’t as gaudy as they were against Kansas State, but the junior signal-caller attributed the running backs’ performance for
opening more play-action passes and easing the load off of him. “When you have two horses like that in the backfield and you get your offensive line going, it’s good for me,” Mayfield said. The former Texas Tech walk-on quarterback delivered two touchdowns through the air against coach Kliff Kingsbury’s Red Raiders, but Mayfield said he could care less about his stats — winning is all that matters. OU was able to post its highest point total of the season in Saturday’s showing and held Texas Tech to its lowest point total of 2015. Following this weekend, Oklahoma now can look ahead to its road trip to Lawrence, Kansas, against a winless Jayhawks team — the same squad Perine gashed for an NCAA record 427 yards last season.
All Samaje Perine needed was a little extra effort. Midway through the first quarter, the sophomore running back received the ball on first and goal from junior Baker Mayfield. Perine cut to his right but was met by multiple Texas Tech defenders at the line of scrimmage. Perine managed to stay on his cleats and barreled his way to the end zone while carrying a mob of white jerseys fighting to bring the sophomore to the turf. “I told myself I wasn’t going to go down on the oneyard line,” he said. “So I just gave a little extra effort and got in the end zone.” The touchdown was the first of four for Perine and marked one of Oklahoma’s Joe Buettner seven rushing touchdowns joebuet@ou.edu Saturday — a threshold No. 15 OU (6-1, 3-1 Big 12) hasn’t reached since Sept. 8, 2012 against Florida A&M. Oklahoma tallied 63 points on its way to a lopsided victory over Texas Tech (5-3, 2-3 Big 12) largely due to a resurgence from its run game. O U a c c u mu l at e d 4 0 5 yards on the ground — nearly half of which came from Perine. Redshirt freshman Joe Mixon contributed 154 rushing yards of his own, complemented by two touchdowns. Junior Alex Ross ran a score in to the end zone as well. “We finally got over the hump a little bit today,” offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley said. “Now that doesn’t TYLER WOODWARD/THE DAILY mean we’ve got it figured Sophomore running back Samaje Perine stiff arms a tackler at out or we’re over the hump Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Saturday. Perine ran any other time, but we did for 201 yards on 23 carries in the 63-27 victory over Texas Tech.
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Baker Mayfield had a g o o d d ay i n No. 1 7 Oklahoma’s 63-27 win over Texas Tech, throwing for 212 yards and a pair of touchdowns. But Mayfield also had an impact on the defensive side of the ball. While Oklahoma’s defense was on the field, Mayfield was often seen signaling and yelling at the defense next to linebackers coach Tim Kish. “I played there, so I know the offense and the formations and the personnel,” Mayfield said. “I kind of had an idea if it was going to be a run or a pass, so I was trying to help them out however I could.” Oklahoma’s defense played well against the Red Raiders, though it’s impossible to quantify Mayfield’s impact on their afternoon. Te c h q u a r t e r b a c k Patrick Mahomes was held to just 233 passing yards, a season low. The Sooners also picked off Mahomes four times, though two were the result of tipped passes. Linebacker Eric Striker said he felt Mayfield’s help was useful. “He was really helpful,” Striker said. “He was pretty accurate.” While both Mike and Bob Stoops downplayed any role that Mayfield had pre-play, the quarterback
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Junior quarterback Baker Mayfield warms up against Texas Tech on Saturday at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Mayfield used past experience to help the defense plan for Texas Tech.
himself also felt that his contributions were productive. “When you’re at home, it’s kind of tough with the crowd noise to try and give people hints,” Mayfield said. “I helped the best I could, and hopefully it worked.” Mike Stoops also added it would be tough for Mayfield to help the defense recognize play calls because of Texas Tech’s tempo, but Striker said he would glance over at Mayfield when he looked towards his coaches before each play. “You’re looking at the call [from the coaches] and he’s over there on the sidelines [so you see him],” Striker said. This isn’t the first time Mayfield has been spotted helping the Sooners against familiar foes.
“Old Baker Mayfield was on the sidelines and calling out every freaking signal we had, so shout out to Baker Mayfield for that,” TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin said after their 2014 win over Oklahoma. Mayfield was familiar with TCU signals because he played under current Horned Frogs co-offensive coordinator Sonny Cumbie at Texas Tech. Bob Stoops said Mayfield did not have a role in helping the defense prepare for Texas Tech. “He was just letting us know if he recognized something here or there,” Bob Stoops said. Spenser Davis davis.spenser@ou.edu
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ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT
Jessie Barber, arts & entertainment editor dailyent@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com/life&arts • Twitter: @OUDailyArts
›››› Sooner Sampler: Which Halloween movie is your favorite? “Halloweentown.” TYRA WILSON, MARKETING FRESHMAN
“A Nightmare on Elm Street.” PETER HUSETH, INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING FRESHMAN SCREENGRAB FROM YOUTUBE
A screenshot from Laci Green’s most recent video on Oct. 15, in which she discusses breast health. Green posts videos about sex education on her YouTube channel Sex Plus.
Sex educator to visit OU YouTuber Laci Green will speak this Tuesday JORDAN HALE
arts & entertainment reporter
Laci Green, noted YouTube star and sexual education activist, will deliver a speech at the Zarrow School of Social Work Tuesday. Green is the creator and producer of “Sex Plus,” a YouTube channel dedicated to dispelling myths about basic human sexuality and removing the social taboos that lead to harmful understandings of sexual matters. Green struggled with understanding these kinds of issues when she was younger due to a strictly conservative upbringing and has
since made it her mission to “promote a comprehensive model of sex education using technology,” according to her web page. Since first starting Internet-based work in 2012, Green’s work has garnered upwards of 1 million subscribers, and she has been featured on shows like Dr. Phil, according to her website. In 2014, she began hosting the inaugural MTV YouTube channel “Braless”, which won a 2015 Webby award for social activism, according to the Webby Awards’ website. The specific topic for Green’s Tuesday talk is “The Best Sex Ever.” While the subject may seem broad, the expressed mission for the talk is to give students a “crash course about safe and
healthy explorations of sexuality,” according to Green’s website. Due to Green’s large fanbase and extreme popularity, buzz for the event began as soon as the OU Housing Center Student Association created an event page on Facebook. As of Sunday night, more than 300 people said on Facebook that they were going to the event. Should the area become filled to capacity, the OU Housing Center Student Association is considering possible backup areas that would allow for more students to attend the speech, according to a comment made by the Housing Center Student Association on the event’s Facebook page. If that should happen, the Fa c e b o o k p a g e f o r t h e
speech would be updated immediately. The event will take place from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday in the first floor community room of Zarrow Hall.
“Hocus Pocus.” ALLISON NORMAN, CHINESE STUDIES SENIOR
“Casper.” TARYN HAMPTON, PSYCHOLOGY FRESHMAN
WHERE & WHEN
“Halloween.”
What: Laci Green’s talk on “The Best Sex Ever”
LUCAS PUIGGARI, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FRESHMAN
Where: Zarrow Hall When: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday Who’s hosting: The Housing Center Student Association
“Halloweentown.” NATALIE KRESLINS, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SOPHOMORE