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OU, Chinese university breaks ground OU to OU to serve as training base for Beijing-based oil college EMMA HAMBLEN
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Oklahoma’s reputation as an oil and gas state has drawn international attention to OU. The China University of Petroleum— Beijing senior executive delegation visited OU on Tuesday to meet several university leaders and discuss future training initiatives. Larry Grillot, College of Earth and Energy dean, Tom Landers, College of Engineering dean, Outreach Vice President James P. Pappas and other
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university leaders met with the delegation, said Richard Little, senior associate vice president for University Outreach. The China University of Petroleum —Beijing senior executive delegation is comprised of five individuals: the vice president of the university (who is heading the delegation), the dean and vice dean of petroleum engineering, a faculty member and the director of training, Little said. A ceremony was held at 11:30 a.m. in the Thurman J. White Forum Building to dedicate OU as a training base for the China University of Petroleum—Beijing, Little said.
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Student-created TV show coming soon Series will run for six episodes NICK WILLIAMS
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Editors Note: Tony Beaulieu is part of The Daily’s Life & Arts staff. Deep behind the walls o f t h e Gay l o rd C o l l e g e of Journalism and Mass Communication, a small army of OU students has been working with dedication during weekends throughout this semester to put together a television show. The show “Twenty Somethings” still is in production and will be a sixepisode series about four mid-20s students finding their way in a new, big and sometimes awkward university experience. The idea really sprouted last spring between Jeremy Dickie-Clardy,former Student Film Production Club president and current president Kelsey Hightower, Hightower said. “We wanted to have a project of our own of a longer-term nature that we see ORGANIZATION pAGe 2
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Crew members shoot the closing scene of “Twenty Somethings” Nov. 29 on the balcony of Gaylord hall.
Adjustments to adjunct faculty salaries possible ARIANNA PICKARD
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Amidst budget declines and limited tenured faculty, OU is participating in a national survey to take a more careful look at adjunct faculty salaries. The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, or CUPA-HR, has been surveying the salaries of adjunct faculty at universities across the nation, according to the organization’s website. The association defines adjunct faculty as “nontenured faculty serving in a temporary or auxiliary capacity to teach specific courses on a course-bycourse basis,” according to the website. It excludes regular part-time faculty (because they are not paid on a course-by-course basis), graduate assistants, full-time professional staff of the institution and appointees who teach non-credit courses exclusively. “All the public universities are having to use more of these kinds of folks, because we can’t afford to hire more tenured faculty because of the decline in budget,” said Nancy Mergler, senior vice-president and provost for OU’s Norman campus. Universities across the country are using this survey to take a closer look at how their adjunct faculty members are being paid, Mergler said. Through this survey, OU can see how other universities are paying adjunct faculty see FACULTY pAGe 2
Sooners fall to Razorbacks
Sports: The OU men’s basketball lost to Arkansas, 78-81, Tuesday night in Fayetteville, Ark., after a late-game rally fell short for the sooners. (Page 6)
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Students to explore Students present business plans for products, programs boundaries of gender in course
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Transcending Gender returns to campus after semester hiatus
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After a semester of researching, programming and preparing, the student teams at OU’s Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth presented their recommendations for each project during final presentations. Each team presented their semester research in 15-minute presentations at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History’s Robert S. Kerr Auditorium. The teams detailed their products and initiatives, target markets, analysis of competitors and the potential profit of each project. The first team to present was the Technology Commercialization team, which worked on marketing a new X-Band radar technology called the Ranger
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weather prediction system can be used by oil companies with deep-water platforms to save money. The radar team waited through the small audience’s massive applause to answer the first questions of the
Next semester, Sooners will have the chance to take a new look at gender and its implications in a refurbished expository writing class. Transcending Gender, taught by expository writing professor Eric Bosse, will teach students about gender and how it relates to society. The class will feature a particular interest on how erIC BOSSe transgender individuals fit into society, although the main goal of the class is to teach academic writing, Bosse said. Bosse first taught the class during fall 2010 and continued to teach it through fall 2011. He then dropped the class for spring 2012 to make room for another expository writing class, The Writing Life, and hasn’t taught the gender course since. After recognizing that Transcending Gender is the class he is most compelled to teach, Bosse is bringing back the class for the spring 2013 semester, this time adding a second section. “I realized that of the three courses I teach, the
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Charlotte lunday, meteorolgy senior, introudces the International eye Institute between OU’s Dean mcGee eye Institute and Sichuan Provincial People’s hospital in China wtih team members.
Radar, which was developed by Enterprise Electronic Corporation with researchers at OU’s Advanced Radar Research Center. The four-person radar team then presented its product: a small, portable radar system called Ranger, whose improved technology and
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