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Board approves new department Native American studies department to be created ANNA MAYER news reporter @AnnaMay136

The OU Board of Regents unanimously approved the establishment of a future department of Native American studies.

T h e re g e n t s m e t f o r t h e i r monthly meeting on Tuesday at the Oklahoma Memorial Union to discuss university issues. All agenda items were approved and

included several advances for Native American studies.

OU President David Boren said the progressive move of establishing the department is something the administration had been planning for a while. OU already has one of the most advanced Native American studies programs, and it continues to improve, Boren said.

The regents’ agenda stated that the university has seen a recent increase in demand for Native A m e r i ca n s t u d i e s f ro m s t u dents. The program meets all the

qualifications needed to become a department, Corbin Wallace, university press secretary said.

The department will also look into offering four Native languages, as well as hiring a fifth tenured professor to join the four current full-time tenure-track faculty members.

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Board of Regents member Jon Stuart and OU President David Boren speak during the Regents meeting Tuesday. The Regents unanimously approved the establishment of a future department of Native American studies.

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Officer spotted hauling ass home Norman Police brings lost donkey to safety TANNER OSBORNE news reporter @tannerosbear

E a r l y Tu e s d ay m o r n i ng, Norman Police Department officer Kyle Canaan responded to a call about a loose donkey walking around a rural Norman area.

The call came from the 8100 block of 120th Avenue NE and was reported by a possible neighbor of the unknown donkey owner.

Sarah Jensen, Norman PD public safety information officer, said the donkey was wandering about when officer Canaan responded to the call and decided that rather than let the donkey wander, it would be safer to put the donkey into the back of his squad car.

“He believed he could fit the donkey into the back of his squad car, so he did,” Jensen said.

Canaan said the donkey defecated in his squad car after he lured it into it with feed.

“The donkey was not excited about getting in the car,” Canaan said.

Canaan said immediately after he dropped the donkey off at a pen on the land of a neighbor in the area, he took his squad car to a car wash and power washed his back seat.

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OU students, faculty and families from around Norman celebrate the beginning of the holiday season with OU’s annual lighting ceremony in Burr Park on Tuesday evening.

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ESPN to try to capture spirit of OU football Sports network plans to stage game watch party TANNER OSBORNE news reporter @tannerosbear

ESPN will be on campus this week to create a segment intended to capture the OU football and student culture in light of the team’s successful season.

Starting Wednesday, Dec. 2 and lasting through Saturday, Dec. 5, ESPN’s creative production coordinator Amanda Paschal will be on campus preparing the segment.

ESPN will stage a Saturday night

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football watch party and will be looking for students to sign up and exemplify the spirit and culture of OU football, Paschal said.

“Unfortunately, OU does not actually have a game on Saturday, so we will have to stage the watch party,” Paschal said.

Paschal said ESPN is going ahead with filming the staged OU football watch party ahead of filming OU actually making it into the College Football Playoff.

She said the segment will resemble a piece ESPN does in New York, where it visits alumni bars from various colleges and captures their excitement and football culture

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“We are going for a New Year Championship feel with the video,” Paschal said, “We will go ahead with the video like OU has already clinched the playoff spot.”

Paschal said she started the research for the project online and was eventually led to Chloe Tadlock, the chair of OU’s Campus Activities Council. From there, they have been communicating and planning the event.

Paschal said she is excited to capture the essence of the OU spirit, and also said she and Tadlock talkNOOR EEMAAN/THE DAILY ed recently in preparation for the Students cheer before a game at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. network’s arrival.

ESPN will be on campus today to film a staged watch party.

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Student leader to return to previous SGA position Past president will remain involved in student government BRIANNA SIMS news reporter @briannana18

Former OU Student Government President Alex Byron will stay in SGA and serve in the Undergraduate Student Congress as a Ways and Means committee member.

Daniel Pae was sworn in as SGA president on Nov. 30, and now Byron is preparing to take her position in congress, the place that started her SGA career.

“It’s going to be like returning home. I started out in congress. It’s an integral part of my history in SGA. It was my foundation,” Byron said.

Procedurally, Byron is being very careful not to run into a circumstance of holding two positions at once.

“I stop being the president one week after the validation of the election, so we’re looking at it being this upcoming Wednesday, depending on when that report comes out.

After that, I’ll be able to take my oath and swear in as a congress member, so there’s not any kind of procedural error,” Byron said.

She said she’s looking forward to returning to the Ways and Means committee and working with Ways and Means Chair Matthew Cramm. Cramm said Byron will serve alongside him on the committee during the spring, when they facilitate primary funding, which will be the largest amount of funding SGA sees all year.

“I look forward to continue to facilitate funding for student organizations, mostly because that’s where I found myself really enjoying congress. I got to meet with these organizations, talk to people we were benefitting and affecting and work with them so they are reaching

emphasis in both health care and business approaches, makes him one of the most qualified people in America to lead our Health Sciences Center as provost.”

Boren acknowledged the addition of six donors to the Seed Sower Society, a group of donors who have each offered $1 million or more.

The total number of members is now 206, the highest it has been.

Finally, the regents approved OU’s participation in postseason football and the OU Foundation to handle expenses associated with the contests. OU is waiting to see if the team will make the College Football Playoff after defeating Oklahoma State University Saturday, effectively becoming Big 12 Conference champions.

The next regents meeting will be held in January 2016.

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The regents also approved Jason Sanders as the senior vice president and provost of the OU Health Sciences Center.

Sanders previously held the position of vice provost for planning and administrative affairs at the center.

“Dr. Jason Sanders has demonstrated that he has exceptional leadership abilities,” Boren said.

“He works hard to create a spirit of community where people respect and care about each other. His unique educational background, which includes

“He works hard to create a spirit of community where people respect and care about each other.”

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Former SGA president Alex Byron attends the Christmas tree lighting in Burr Park on Tuesday evening alongside President David Boren. Byron stepped down as president on Monday when Daniel Pae was inaugurated.

their goals,” Byron said.

Future legislation Byron would like to work on includes a “clean up” of the code annotated.

“It’s not the most popular answer. I think in a lot of ways, I have the knowledge and experience from working in SGA for so long, seeing SGA from two different perspectives and working with the code annotated so much, I’ve realized that, if altered in small ways, it can be more functional for all positions,” Byron said.

Byron said this would improve SGA as an institution.

She wants to help facilitate that. She would also like to ensure that the projects she and Avery Marczewski, her

vice president, were “rounding off ” aren’t left by the wayside.

“I’d like to aide in the transition process with those, whether that be with the new administration or with congress,” Byron said.

Byron said she struggled with the decision on whether to stay in congress or finish her time in SGA as the student body president, since she will be graduating next spring.

“Now that I’ve gotten the opportunity to serve in so many different ways in student government, and serving as the student body president, I was struggling to figure out what my next move was going to be. I was

struggling with the dilemma if it would be a good move for myself and SGA as I moved back into congress as a representative or if it was the right time for me to drop out of SGA altogether,” Byron said.

Byron said she decided that there were a few projects she didn’t want to leave, and she found that it was too hard to leave the organization that had meant so much to her during her time in college, which is what drove her to run for congress once again.

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Company ends stadium suit Business drops all claims against OU in renovation case

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Norman Police Department officer Kyle Canaan puts a donkey in his car on Tuesday. The call about the donkey came from the 8100 block of 120th Avenue NE and reported by a possible neighbor of the unknown donkey owner.

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The owner of the donkey has not been found or conContinued from Page One tacted yet; however, Jensen said that the Norman PD is “It was a huge mess in looking for them now. the back — huge mess,” Canaan said.

He added that the Tanner Osborne donkey was friendTannerosborne84@yahoo.com ly and would be kept in the neighbor’s pen until the owner is located or

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Haas Metal Engineering Inc. has dismissed any and all claims asserted against the University of Oklahoma and W&W Steel, effectively ending the parties’ lawsuit regarding a contract to renovate the Gaylord FamilyOklahoma Memorial Stadium.

The company sued the university in October claiming it violated a requirement in the bidding war between construction companies to provide steel to renovate the stadium.

In Oklahoma’s Public Competitive Bidding Act of 1974, a law the stadium renovation project is subject to, all public construction projects exceeding $50,000 “shall be let and awarded to the lowest responsible bidder.” The company alleged in its Oct. 5 petition to the Cleveland County clerk’s office that that its base bid for the project was $11,796,450.

It also said W&W Steel’s base bid was $11,880,680 — $84,000 higher than the company’s bid.

Cleveland County district judge Thad Balkman ruled in favor of the company on Oct. 23 and ordered the

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The Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium under construction on Nov. 18. Haas Metal Engineering Inc. has dismissed all claims against OU and W&W Steel.

enforcement of an injunction to halt the renovations.

He determined the company was a responsible bidder and also the lowest numerically, making it the “lowest responsible bidder.”

Hours after the ruling, Anil Gollahalli, an OU vice president and general counsel, said renovations would continue despite the injunction’s enforcement.

On Oct. 27, Balkman upheld his enforcement of the injunction and ordered the university to award the contract to the company.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court granted a stay of the injunction Nov. 2, meaning the university could continue the renovations until the

appeal process finished.

Court records do not indicate why the company chose to dismiss the claims or if a settlement occurred.

There is no specific date set for renovations to be completed, but it is hoped they will be finished by the beginning of the 2016 OU football season. The Sooners open their home slate Sept.

10 against the University of Louisiana-Monroe.

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Islam struggling with stigma Stereotype talk prevalent on both national, state level BRYCE MCELHANEY news reporter @bryce_mac

Oklahoma Muslims say they feel discriminated against and are criticized for radical-Islamic terrorist attacks around the globe, such as the October attacks in Paris lead by ISIS. Asim Ali is finishing his first semester of college at OU and said he hasn’t felt any discrimination against his Islamic faith. The biochemistry freshman said Islamophobia has played a small role in his life but mostly during high school.

“Honestly, on this campus, I haven’t faced any Islamophobia. But in the first year of high school, it was pretty bad,” he said.

Ali said classmates would call him a terrorist and joke about it.

“One of my friends — he was one of those guys who called me a terrorist. I went to the authorities, the principal, and I talked about it. And then that kid and I just had a long chat about him calling me those things (and) why he did it and why he shouldn’t do it,” he said.

After the talk, Ali became friends with the classmate.

Building relationships with people can combat Islamophobia, Adam Soltani, executive director of Council of AmericanIslamic Relations, said.

“We can talk as much as we want in the media. We can write (government offices), and those will reach a certain audience, but we really have to build relationships,” he said.

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Faculty, students and Norman residents attend a peace rally at Unity Garden on Nov. 20 to denounce Islamophobia following the terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut and Baghdad.

“When you sit down and break bread or have a meal with someone, that builds a relationships that allows them to say, ‘Hey, I know a guy named Muhammad, and he’s a Muslim; and I won’t say that all Muslims are the same because I’ve built this relationship with someone,’” Soltani said.

Islamophobia is something that has been around for some time, Soltani said.

“I don’t think it has appeared all of the sudden. I grew up in the 1980s, and I think it stems from xenophobia, the fear of the unknown or the fear of people who are different,” he said.

“The most offensive thing I’ve heard … is to be told to go back home, because I was born and raised in Kansas, and I don’t want to go back there,” Soltani said.

“People laugh when I

tell them that, but the truth is it’s very offensive to tell somebody to go back home when this is their home,” he said.

Ali said if people took time to read the Quran and talked about it with other Muslims, they would get a better idea about Islam.

“That’s the same thing for Muslims and Christianity.

If we read the Bible, or the Torah or even the Hindu scriptures, then we could probably understand those types of people more and not generalize so much,” he said.

Ali and his twin brother, Atif, were born in the U.S., but his parents migrated from India around 20 years ago, he said.

“We prayed a lot everyday when we were younger, and our mom taught us the Quran. It was pretty important in our childhood,” Ali said.

He said to not assume Muslims hate others who are not Muslims.

“Don’t assume anything about anybody until you get to know them. Get to know them as a person first, and that will probably clear up some negative stigmas you might have about Islam or probably any other culture,” he said.

Islamophobia is not easy to deal with, Soltani said.

“It’s on multiple levels.

You got the social media … You’ve also got things like Representative John B e n n e tt f ro m Sa l l i saw , (who) went on a tirade and verbally attacked the NOOR EEMAAN/THE DAILY Muslim community. Those Mohsain Gill, president of the OU Muslim Student Association, addresses the crowd at a Peace Rally things just catch on and denouncing Islamophobia in the Unity Garden on Nov. 20. trend on social media, and I

“The most offensive thing I’ve heard … is to be told to go back home, because I was born and raised in Kansas, and I don’t want to go back there.”

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think Muslims feel the pressure of that,” he said.

“After the Paris attack, Muslims just go on this heightened sense of awareness, and they kind of take e xt ra p re cau t i o n s, a n d they’re also scared and fearful for their own safety and security of their family,” Soltani said.

Sheryl Siddiqui, chair and spokesperson of the Islamic Council of Oklahoma, said there’s no question about t h e s t i g ma tization of ASIM ALI Mu s l i m s i n Oklahoma.

“People in leadership positions are saying things about Muslims. We’ve got presidential candidates, we’ve got state legislators, and we’ve got a governor who doesn’t defend the rights of her own people — there’s no question that there are things said against Muslims nationally and at the state level,” Siddiqui said.

With that being said, the majority of Oklahomans see Muslims as fellow citizens and don’t cause much trouble to the Muslim community, she said. “(After the Paris attacks),

Muslims, specifically were leary and anticipated getting some slack when they were out in public. That’s not really what’s happening.

In the workplaces, Muslims are still living the American dream,” she said.

“Our neighbors and coworkers have not given us any trouble at all, and many of them are supportive,” Siddiqui said.

She said the council is focusing on helping mosques in Oklahoma reach out to the public.

“We had our first-ever Open Mosque Day, where all the mosques that participate within our council opened mosques on the same day,” she said.

She said the council’s initiative is to improve communications and collaborate on issues that affect Muslims who attend mosques in the state.

“By collaborating together, we can do better public relations and get the word out, and we had people who had never been to a mosque before come to every single mosque, so that was a great experience,” Siddiqui said.

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I have a love-hate relationship with winter weather. I love it because I like the cold, and I love layers. I hate it because I often find myself trying not to look like a toddler with too many layers on.

However, the hero this winter is THE ‘80S, BABY! 1. Long, oversized coats are the smartest — and hottest — trend right now, and everyone should be leaping for joy. Why, you ask? The answer is because now we can all look like we’ve come out of a New York street-style blog thanks to one article of clothing — the long, oversized coat. Putting a sweater and a scarf under a coat can be a struggle. Therefore, this is your answer.

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4. Speaking of leather — Leather booties, specifically point-toe leather booties, are my go-to shoe when the weather gets cold. I highly recommend investing in a pair, because I can honestly say that I have never had another pair of shoes that consistently looks great with almost any outfit.

5. Last but not least, ‘80s trousers — Trousers are highly efficient for several reasons. First, trousers double up for work pants and going-out pants. You can wear them professionally with a blouse and then dress them up at night. Second, if it’s just exceptionally cold, you can wear leggings inside of them without looking like it — and we all know you cannot do this with jeans.

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Dillon Hollingsworth, sports editor dailysports@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com/sports • Twitter: @OUDailySports

OU remains at No. 3 following Bedlam victory Sooners holding on to playoff spot in latest rankings

College Football Playoff Rankings

BRADY VARDEMAN

assistant sports editor @BradyVardeman

JOE BUETTNER/THE DAILY

Senior center Ty Darlington prepares to snap the ball to quarterback Baker Mayfield against Tennessee on Sept. 12. Oklahoma defeated the Volunteers in Knoxville, Tennessee, 31-24 in double overtime.

Darlington defends Vols Noise at Tennessee incomparable for OU team captain JOE BUETTNER

assistant sports editor @Joe_Buettner

Two November road g a m e s i n Wa c o, Te x a s, and Stillwater, Oklahoma, seemed like a tall order for No. 3 Oklahoma.

Fast forward to Nov. 28, and it was OU hoisting its first Big 12 championship trophy since 2012 and the school’s ninth under coach Bob Stoops.

Waco and Stillwater have been difficult places to win for the Sooners of late. The Sooners lost at Baylor and Oklahoma State in 2011, and at Baylor again in 2013,

but escaped Stillwater with a come-from-behind win.

OU managed to win at both venues this season, but the noise levels of the Cowboys’ Boone Pickens Stadium and the Bears’ McLane Stadium did not compare to an early September, out-of-conference clash in SEC country.

The Sooners visited Knoxville, Tennessee, to complete their homeand-home series with the Volenteers. For senior Ty Darlington, no crowd comes close to Tennessee’s Neyland Stadium.

“Absolutely not—not even close,” he said. “Nothing I’ve ever experienced or ever will experience will compare to Tennessee.”

The Volunteers came close to derailing OU’s season

before it even began. But Oklahoma prevailed in double overtime with a 31-24 win, and they’ve been perfect in true road games ever since.

But on top of the rowdy environment, the win gave OU a much-needed challenge, and the result looks even nicer with Tennessee finishing the regular season at 8-4.

This year’s Vols are reminiscent of Oklahoma’s 2014 team, however. While Tennessee pulled out a respectable eight wins, its average margin of loss was by 4.25 points.

“People look past the fact that Tennessee is about 12 plays away from being undefeated or one-loss,” Darlington said. “You could say if they were to pull out s o m e g a m e s, t h a t ’d b e

another really quality road win.”

Darlington agreed that the Vols do remind him of OU’s 2014 squad, which lost three of its five games by one, three and four points.

While OU is enjoying itself much more now, Darlington knows the pain Tennessee is dealing with, being so close to a better season.

“Yeah, we’ve been on the other side of that, besides obviously the Clemson and Baylor games,” Darlington said. “But those other games were one play away, and we can definitely sympathize with that. They’re a quality team, they are. They gave us everything we could handle.”

Joe Buettner joebuet@ou.edu

Oklahoma remained at No. 3 in the latest College Football Playoff rankings Tuesday after clinching a Big 12 title with a 58-23 Bedlam win.

Oklahoma State (10-2, 7-2 Big 12) fell to No. 17 this week. Joining the two schools from the Big 12 are No. 11 TCU and No. 12 Baylor.

The Sooners (11-1, 8-1 Big 12) jumped from No. 7 to No. 3 Nov. 24 after a victory against then-No. 18 TCU. OU has concluded its regular season and will await its postseason fate after conference championship weekend, although the Sooners are considered a virtual lock to make the College Football Playoff.

If the current standings hold, Oklahoma would face No. 2 Alabama in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.

No. 4 Iowa will face No. 5 Michigan State this weekend in the Big 10 Championship. No. 1 C l e m s o n a n d No. 2 Alabama will play the ACC and SEC championships, respectively, as well.

1. Clemson 2. Alabama 3. Oklahoma 4. Iowa 5. Michigan State 6. Ohio State 7. Stanford 8. Notre Dame 9. Florida State 10. North Carolina 11. TCU 12. Baylor 13. Ole Miss 14. Northwestern 15. Michigan 16. Oregon 17. Oklahoma State 18. Florida 19. Houston 20. USC 21. LSU 22. Temple 23. Navy 24. Utah 25. Tennessee

Brady Vardeman bradyvardeman@gmail.com

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