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Police reveal steady records Alcohol related events unaffected by games JESSE POUND news editor @jesserpound

Game days at OU bring an influx of celebratory people and their drinks of choice, but this has no effect on how many alcohol related incidents OUPD deals with on a given Saturday. Police records from the 2014 season of all Saturdays between Aug. 1, 2014, and Nov. 30, 2014, a time period encompassing five OU home games, showed that whether or not there was a home game had no effect on the number of alcohol related incidents. The highest amount of alcohol related incidents for a game day was Sep. 13, 2014, when Tennessee came to town. However, there were just five incidents on this date, the same amount as Oct. 25, 2014, when OU had a bye week. There was not a single alcohol related incident on Nov. 8, 2014, when the Sooners hosted Baylor. The pattern has held this year. There were three incidents on Sept. 5 for the game against Akron, one for the Sep. 19 game against Tulsa and one for the Oct. 3 game against West Virginia. OUPD gets assistance from a number of other agencies on game days, but all the reports generated would come from an OUPD officer, said OUPD Major Bruce Chan. When asked if police officers are more likely to overlook a publicly intoxicated person in the hectic game day environment, Chan was non-committal. “I wouldn’t say yes or no to that (question),” Chan said. “The likelihood of getting a public intox on game day is probably more related to what the officer is presented with.”

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Junior quarterback Baker Mayfield dodges Baylor defenders at McLane Stadium in Waco, Texas on Saturday. Mayfield’s pass to fullback Dimitri Flowers helped toss his name into the Heisman Trophy conversation.

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BRADY VARDEMAN ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR • @BRADYVARDEMAN WACO, Texas — With 4:58 left in the fourth quarter, Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield took the snap from the shotgun on third down and goal. The Sooners, up 37-34 and again threatening on the Baylor 7-yard line, were looking to put a nail in the coffin of a cold and rainy night in Waco, Texas. Mayfield dropped back and looked for an open receiver. One, two, three… His darting eyes saw nothing acceptable, so he momentarily tucked the ball, looking to run.

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Four, five… Just yards ahead of Mayfield a Baylor defender hurtled toward him. Running was no longer an option, so he dropped back once more.

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Six… Mayfield spotted fullback Dimitri Flowers in the endzone, not a teammate he expected to see going out for a pass. Regardless, he let the ball fly.

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Baker Mayfield prepares to take the snap during Oklahoma’s game against Baylor. Mayfield finished with four total touchdowns in the Sooners 44-34 win on Saturday at McLane Stadium.

Staff apologizes for words used in caption Phrasing did not reflect the vision of The Daily JOE MUSSATTO editor-in-chief @joe_mussatto

The Daily ran a photo caption with a story on Thursday that referred to Missouri students as “colored.” It was an egregious mistake that we deeply regret. The Daily is committed to promoting diversity

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and inclusion and this error is not reflective of our organization as a whole. Co-assistant visual editor Noor Jaffery was responsible for writing the caption and issued this statement Thursday night: “I would like to sincerely apologize for my use of the phrase ‘colored students’ in the caption on the photo attached to tonight’s article concerning the blackout event hosted by Unheard and BSA. It was incorrect, disrespectful and reminiscent of a horrible time in

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America’s history. I regret having written it and never intended to use the phrase at all. Other photo captions used the phrase students of color or people of color, a group I proudly identify with. I apologize for the harm I have inflicted through my use of any derogative language. I understand the enormity of my mistake and hope that The Daily’s audience will not choose to judge a respectable publication by the mistakes of an individual. It is my responsibility as visual desk editor to check each

of the photo captions before it is published either online or in print. I did this with my own image and published without having another editor check my work. I did not do due diligence in this case and for that I apologize. I never intended to upset or offend any of our readers and hope you will accept my humble apologies.” After Jaffery issued her apology, Daily editors reached out to members of OU Unheard, Indigenize OU, the Black Student Association and Queer Inclusion on Campus

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to apologize and invite members from the groups to meet with editors if they wished. Three Daily editors will meet with representatives from Unheard, Indigenize OU, the Brown Collective, Queer Inclusion on Campus and OU Disability Inclusion and Awareness today to discuss the error and future coverage. Joe Mussatto jmussatto@ou.edu

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