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WHERE ARE YOU GOING? About this map: The Daily collected responses about where OU students are headed for spring break. The 57 responses collected are represented in the map below — states that are filled in are states with student responses.

WHAT ARE YOU EXCITED FOR?

PHOENIX, AZ “I am going with the Southmoore High School varsity baseball team to help coach in the Best of the West Invitational!”

KEVIN ADLER, HISTORY SENIOR

ADD YOUR PLANS Don’t see your trip on the map? Go to oudaily.com to fill out the form and get on the online map.

ADD THESE TO YOUR #SB2K16 PLAYLIST Spring break is just around the corner, and whether you’ve got a long car ride, a plane ride, or just a week-long break of stretching out in front of the TV, here are some new and old songs that will keep your spring break interesting. For the full playlist, go online to oudaily.com.

1. Music of the Sun • Rihanna 2. Best Day Of My Life • American Authors 3. My House • Flo Rida 4. I’m Good • The Mowgli’s 5. Good Morning • Kanye West 6. Ride • Twenty One Pilots 7. Jumpman • Drake, Future 8. Island in the Sun • Weezer 9. Here Comes the Sun • The Beatles 10. California Girls • The Beach Boys

Fun not far from campus Stuck in Norman for break? Have no fear: JESSICA BARBER • @JESSICADYLAN16

ST. LOUIS, MO “I get to see my fam and show my boyfriend my favorite city.”

PEYTON LETTKEMAN, PRE-NURSING SOPHOMORE

Spring break is here, and while many are packing up and heading out of town for the week, there’s plenty to do right here in Norman.

Here are a few things to do if you’re stuck in Norman for spring break: March 11 Norman’s 2nd Friday ArtWalk Norman’s 2nd Friday Artwalk is back and will include a Goth Pop! art display at Big Foot Creative, located at 315 E Main St. There will also be food trucks and music to accompany this month’s many exhibits.

When: March 11 Where: Downtown Norman

March 12 O’City St. Patrick’s Fest and Parade Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a parade starting in downtown OKC and ending in Bricktown with live music, food and beverages.

March 15

March 19

Anyday Go for a hike

Cullen Omori in concert

Third Saturday Market

The former Smith Westerns front man performs at Opolis.

Fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers will be for sale at this outdoor market, alongside food trucks and music.

Tickets: $10 When: 9 p.m., March 15 (doors open at 8 p.m.)

When: 11 a.m.

Where: 2 South Mickey Mantle Drive, Oklahoma City

When: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., March 19 Where: 500 W Main St.

11. Smile • Uncle Kracker

Take a day trip to the Wichita Mountains or Turner Falls. Make sure to pack snacks and plenty of water.

Go to a museum Want to stay close to campus? Try the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art or the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History. If you want to venture out, try the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO “I am excited to go with my friends from Paradigm and to grow more in my walk with Christ!”

EMILY LENHARDT, METEOROLOGY FRESHMAN

12. Pocketful of Sunshine • Natasha Bedingfield 13. Mr. Blue Sky • Electric Light Orchestra

WHERE GREEK ORGANIZATIONS ARE GOING FOR SPRING BREAK

14. I Really Like You • Carly Rae Jepsen

BYX: Angel Fire, NM; Crested Butte, CO; Grand Canyon

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Phi Lamb: Mission trips with their churches to Haiti, Nicaragua, and Tijuana, Mexico.

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New board has wheel appeal Impulse buy allows freshman to cruise at speeds of 15 mph

riding the Onewheel around campus has been the stares, Kelton said.

“The first day I rode it I texted Stroh and asked him CHLOE MOORES how he dealt with everyone @chloemoores13 staring at you. He said, ‘You just ignore it,’ and I tried takAn odd contraption on ing that to heart,” she said.

Kelton typically offers campus has been attracting some stares: a one-wheeled rides on her one-wheeled skateboard. The skateboard contraption to the few conzooming across campus, of- fident people that speak up ficially called the Onewheel, and ask Kelton about the belongs to Allyson Kelton Onewheel, she said.

Sophomores Eric and is a $1,500 purchase she DeCourcy and Jeremy is satisfied with.

Kelton, a biomedical engi- Cleveland spoke up.

DeCourcy, an electrical neering freshman, became engineering aware of the major, usuCalifornia “It was a two ally rides a invention o’clock in the skateboard when she s a w O U morning buy, and I around camg r a d u a t e said, ‘I’m going for pus, so stepping onto Andrew it.’”

Ke l t o n ’s Stroh ridOnewheel ing around ALLYSON KELTON, was a new on one of BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING experience, his own, she FRESHMAN he said. said.

“I thought, “My friend and I stopped him, and later ‘I really want to try that I went back to my dorm (Onewheel) out,’” he said. “I room,” she said. “It was a two really like it versus the hovo’clock in the morning buy, erboard concept. It seems and I said, ‘I’m going for it.’” way smarter in design.”

Cleveland, a socioloKelton ordered the 25pound, electric-powered gy major, is a skateboard and motion-sensored skate- rider as well, but he said the board last October and wait- Onewheel works with a set ed until the board came in of muscles he was unfamilDecember. Kelton said her iar with.

“On a skateboard there are mom was a fan, but her dad was shocked she spent so four wheels, and you don’t have to worry about falling much money.

“He kind of didn’t see forward or back, but on this a point, and then I turn one, you do,” he said. “They around, and he was stand- are very expensive, so if I ing on it,” she said. “He’s got rich or they go down in pretty old, so I thought, ‘Oh price, I’ll get one.”

The Onewheel comes my god, I don’t know how to with a one-year warranhandle this situation.’”

The hardest thing about ty that covers any repairs

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Biomedical engineering freshman Allyson Kelton poses with her Onewheel Friday, March 4 on the South Oval. Kelton’s skateboard draws attention from passerbys with its single wheel.

unless the board has been modified or spray-painted.

Some common modifications Kelton has seen are covering the sides with carbon fiber, wrapping lights around the entire board or modifying the Solid State MEMS 6-DOF sensors in the front foot pad, Kelton said.

Onewheels are also created with three different rides in mind: classic, extreme and elevate. Classic allows a slower ride, giving a tug back when one hits 8 mph.

Extreme is the mode Kelton most commonly uses. It

allows the user to easily ride at the board’s top speed, which is 15 mph. Elevate is strictly for riding on uneven terrain like snow, grass and sand.

With the Onewheel iPhone or Android app, you can toggle between modes and turn the lights underneath the front and back of the board on and off, she said.

Kelton said she has experienced a few wipeouts with her board. She said one of her worst wipeouts was when she was swerving to

avoid a car in the road and flew off the board at 15 mph.

After the accident she had to go to class while her knees were bleeding through her jeans, she said.

“I try to avoid it, but it happens. You have to blow it off and keep riding because it’s a lot of money, so you can’t just put it in the closet,” Kelton said.

Kelton carries her board by the handle that is built in underneath the board, and she brings her charger with her to charge the electric motor, which is housed

within the giant wheel.

Twenty minutes of charge equals an hour ride time, she said.

“I’m going to be here for five more years with my degree, and it takes a long time to walk from the dorm all the way over to the engineering pod,” she said. “I can spend that time studying in my dorm room or getting to class early, and it’s a good conversation starter.”

Chloe Moores

margaret.c.moores-1@ ou.edu

March 10-20, 2016 •

SPORTS WEEKEND SCHEDULE Men’s basketball Big 12 Championship, March 10-March 12 @ Kansas City, Missouri 8 p.m. Thursday vs. Iowa State (First Round) Baseball Home series vs.

Long Beach State 6 p.m. Friday 2 p.m. Saturday 1 p.m. Sunday Softball OU Tournament 3:30 p.m. Friday vs.

Saint Louis 5:45 p.m. Friday vs.

Brigham Young 3:30 p.m. Saturday vs. Brigham Young 5:45 p.m. Saturday vs. Maryland Noon Sunday vs.

Maryland Men’s gymnastics 4 p.m. Friday @ Ohio State Women’s gymnastics 4 p.m. Sunday @ UCLA Men’s tennis Noon Saturday @ Tulsa vs. Virginia Women’s golf Clover Cup @ Mesa, Arizona March 11-March 13 Source: soonersports.com

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New group finding footing Kendall and Murray join Mayfield in mix at quarterback DILLON HOLLINGSWORTH @DillonJames94

As Oklahoma dives into its spring practice schedule, its quarterback room is a stark contrast to what it was at this point last year.

In 2015 the Sooners had three potential starters — and three guys who had played together for at least a year — in Trevor Knight, Cody Thomas and Baker Mayfield. This year it’s Mayfield, who enters the season as a Heisman Trophy candidate, and two newcomers.

Early enrollee Austin Kendall finds himself in position to be the back up quarterback by default, as Texas A&M transfer Kyler Murray has to sit out the s e a s o n d u e t o t ra n s f e r rules.

While offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Lincoln Riley had good things to say about both of the fresh faces in spring camp, he also acknowledged it’s a different atmosphere than last year’s tight-knit trio. “ It ’s d i f f e re nt,” R i l e y said. “That room last year — r ight when I walke d into it — had such a strong bond. I was the outsider in that room for a while. And that was maybe the easiest quarterback room to manage in the history of football. This room is different because there’s different

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Quarterbacks Kyler Murray, Austin Kendall and Baker Mayfield throw footballs during spring practice March 8. The spring football game will be April 9.

guys at different points.”

While Murray won’t have the opportunity to make an impact on the field this season, Mayfield’s aggressive style of play could create an opening for Kendall to see the field during his freshman campaign. While it’s not necessarily ideal, Riley believes Kendall will be ready.

“I wish we had maybe more bodies there, but no,

I’m not concerned with him,” Riley said. “Austin’s done a really nice job so far. I like his makeup. I like (that) he’s mature. He doesn’t act like a guy that still should be going to his high school math class. He doesn’t act like that at all.

He acts like he belongs, and because he acts like that, he does belong.”

There’s no instant cure for the loss of leadership

Sooners set for Big 12 Tournament

that came with Knight’s departure to Texas A&M or Thomas’ decision to focus solely on baseball, but Riley said the three scholarship quarterbacks are on the way to a bond of their own. “ You’ve got new guys coming in, but there’s a lot of respect between them,” Riley said. “There’s a lot of fun competition between them. They’re all three talented guys, they all three

— Baker obviously more in the present — but they all three have really bright futures. And you can see their bond starting to grow, with them starting to help one another out a little bit more, get a little bit closer, trust each other a little bit more.”

Dillon Hollingsworth dillon.j.hollingsworth-1@ ou.edu

BIG 12 BASKETBALL STANDINGS

Three-day stretch in Kansas City to determine conference champion

Thursday, March 10 Game 3: No. 4 Texas vs. No. 5 Baylor — 11:30 p.m. — ESPN2 Game 4: No. 1 Kansas vs. *Kansas State — 1:30 p.m. — ESPN2 Game 5: No. 2 West Virginia vs. *Texas Tech — 6 p.m. — ESPNU Game 6: No. 3 Oklahoma vs. No. 6 Iowa State — 8 p.m. — ESPNU

Friday, March 11

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1. Kansas (15-3)

1. Baylor (17-1)

2. West Virginia (13-5)

2. Texas (15-3)

3. Oklahoma (12-6)

3. West Virginia (12-6)

4. Texas (11-7)

4. Oklahoma State (11-7)

5. Baylor (10-8)

5. Oklahoma (11-7)

6. Iowa State (10-8)

6. Kansas State (8-10)

7. Texas Tech (9-9)

7. TCU (8-10)

8. Kansas State (5-13)

8. Iowa State (5-13)

9. Oklahoma State (3-15)

9. Texas Tech (3-15)

10. TCU (2-16)

10. Kansas (0-18)

Game 7: Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 winner — 6 p.m. — ESPN2

Source: Big12sports.com

Game 8: Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 winner — 8 p.m. — ESPN2

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Unheard issues campus report Alliance gives OU grades of Cs, Ds, Fs based on past year STAFF REPORTS

OU Unheard released a report card March 8 critiquing how the university has addressed its list of grievances in the past year, and no response received a grade higher than a “C.�

The release of the report card came exactly one year after the SAE incident that thrust issues facing minority students at OU into the national spotlight.

The cumulative GPA for the report card is a 1.14 on a fourpoint scale.

Black faculty beyond the African and African-American Studies Department: D The report says several new black faculty members have been hired in the past year, but there has been no progress in increasing the number of black faculty members with tenure. The report card also criticizes the university for not having data about the racial makeup of faculty readily available.

Retention rates among black students: D The report card lists a handful of programs that have been implemented to help with retention and says there has been an 11 percent increase in black students at OU. However, the report card again criticizes the university

for not having data readily available and says the rising cost of attendance will hurt retention rates among black students.

Financial assistance/ scholarships received by black students: D The report criticizes a new fee for admitted students that the report says will disproportionately affect black students.

Unheard leader Chelsea Davis said the fee is not yet official, but if it is finalized by the Offices of Enrollment and Student Financial Services, it would go into effect in April.

Vice President and Registrar Matt Hamilton said the description of new fee is “inaccurate and out of context,� but incoming freshmen will be asked to pay a $1,000 enrollment deposit.

Supportive programs for black students: C The report states two colleges, Price College of Business and The College of Arts and Sciences have created programs to help minority students and that all colleges have appointed a diversity officer to work with the Office of University Community.

The OU experience: F The report says the concerns of black students and black student organizations were not taken into consideration with last semester’s Must Stay Weekend, CAC Homecoming and Rap Battle events. The report also criticizes the OU greek community for cultural misappropriation in party themes.

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Unheard released a report card detailing its thoughts on how OU has addressed grievances it released in January 2015. The report card release also marks the anniversary of the SAE incident.

Lack of a presence within executive hierarchy: C The report card lists multiple new hires to address this issue, including Stan Evans as assistant dean of the OU College of Law. Equitable funding for black student organizations: F The report says the Student Government Association and

the Office of Student Affairs have been uncooperative with attempts to address funding issues. The report also says the budget allotment for the Black Student Association is inadequate, and it demands an outline addressing how SGA and Student Affairs will make funding changes in the next month.

EMMA KEITH @shakeitha_97

An education technology company has partnered with OU to implement a new university hotline for discrimination issues.

OU has entered into an agreement with Greenwood Hall, a company that works with universities to improve student engagement, to implement a “Safe Campus� system, according to a press release. The system will provide OU with a 24/7 “bias hotline� for anyone wishing to report issues of discrimination or unethical conduct at OU. The hotline should be up and running by the end of this month, said Jabar Shumate, the OU vice president for University Community.

The “Safe Campus� plan aims to create a healthier learning environment through the hotline, which

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Jabar Shumate, the OU vice president for University Community, speaks at SGA Inclusivity Night March 7. Shumate said OU still had “a long way to go� to create an inclusive campus.

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Political science and economics sophomore Jesse Hare studies in the Edith Kinney Gaylord Library in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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Gaylord library will undergo renovations The space will be like collaborative areas inside Bizzell

with the space yet but that campus to receive a makeone possibility includes re- over. In 2014, the Peggy V. locating The Daily to the Helmerich Collaborative libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current location. Learning Center opened on He said the contents of the Lower Level 1 of the Bizzell LAUREN MASSING library, including all of its Memor ial L ibrar y. The @LaurenMassing archives, would likely re- learning center offers group main in Gaylord so students study rooms, flexible seating T h e G a y l o rd C o l l e g e would still have access to it, with outlets, digital recordof Journalism and Mass whether in digital or physi- ing resources and an open, collaborative environment.

Communications is consid- cal forms. ering renovating its library to transform the space in order â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wanted to show that OU libraries can to better accommodate the be more than silent, solitary archives for needs of the college. independent study.â&#x20AC;?

According to Ed Kelley, newly appointed dean, plans CHELSEA JULIAN, to relocate the resources in COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR the library and utilize the space for something else have been in the works for â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is definitely still a Ad d i t i o na l l y , t h e O U some time now. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just trying to max- need for the resources the li- Colle g e of Law re centimize that space the best we brary has to offer, and one of ly received a $1.5 million can,â&#x20AC;? Kelley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a my goals is to make sure the grant from the Inasmuch lot of demand for the build- archival material remains in Foundation to transform its ing, and the library is in a Gaylord Hall should we de- library into a collaborative great location and offers a cide to renovate the library,â&#x20AC;? learning center. The cenKelley said. ter will feature multimedia lot of space,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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Julian also said the success of the learning center paved the way for similar models on campus, like the collaborative learning center that opened this year in the Price College of Business.

Annie Ratcliff, an international business freshman, said she likes studying in the collaborative learning center at Bizzell because she can study in a quiet room

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Board of Regents appoints new deans Monetary gifts and new facilities among other topics TANNER OSBORNE @tannerosbear

The OU Board of Regents meeting saw the approval of several proposals and appointments Wednesday.

Below are five takeaways from the meeting: 1. Max Weitzenhoffer named new regents chair: This meeting was the very last for former Regents Chair Jon Stuart, and his replacement will be longtime regent Max Weitzenhoffer. After a lengthy, surprise item was added to the meeting agenda that recognized Stuart and his work as chair by OU President David Boren and the board, a motion was approved to appoint Weitzenhoffer as the new chair. Clayton Bennett was also appointed vice chair, and Chris Purcell, the OU vice president for University

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President David Boren prepares for the March 9 Board of Regents meeting in Oklahoma City.

The regents appointed two new deans.

Governance, maintained her position as the board’s secretary. According to a press release from OU’s Public Affairs department, Weitzenhoffer has served on the board since 2003. Achievements for Weitzenhoffer over his term include helping create the school of musical theatre and supporting the Weitzenhoffer Family College of the Fine Arts at OU, which is named after

his family.

2. Gifts announced for new physics facility: Boren announced during his presidential speech that thanks to two lead gifts by the Avenir Foundation and former professor of OU’s physics and astronomy department member Chun Lin, it is now possible to begin construction on the new academic building and research laboratory

for the department of physics and astronomy. The new building will be located where Gittinger Hall, which will eventually be demolished, is currently located. The new facilities will cost about $33 million. The research lab alone will be 18,000 square feet, and construction on the project will begin in fall of 2016, according to a press release.

3. Chickasaw Nation

gives $3 million to diabetes research: Boren also announced that the Chickasaw Nation has given $3 million to the Harold Hamm Diabetes Center and OU College of Pharmacy. Boren applauded and thanked Chickasaw Nation Gov. Bill Anoatubby for the generosity and dedication to the cause of diabetes research.

“Diabetes is a devastating disease that has ended or shortened far too many lives,” Anoatubby said at the meeting. Boren and the rest of the board gathered to thank Anoatubby, who expressed a desire to continue the research and the fight to end diabetes.

4. Architecture, journalism deans appointed: Hans Butzer was appointed interim dean of the OU College of Architecture and Ed Kelley was appointed as permanent dean of the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Butzer’s appointment comes after former dean Charles Graham died of heart complications on Feb. 12. Kelley was named interim dean of Gaylord College in July 2015 and began his duties after former dean Joe Foote stepped down in August 2015.

5. Inasmuch foundation gives $1.5 million for College of Law library: Oklahoma City-based Inasmuch Foundation donated $1.5 million to the OU College of Law to transform its library into a collaborative learning center. Boren said when OU began its initiative to improve its library system, it turned the Bizzell Memorial Library into a lively and essential space for learning at OU. New features of the center will include four multimedia rooms with movable whiteboard desks, stands and walls.

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Campus renovations funded by private donors, revenue ‘Generosity’ allows projects to continue despite budget cuts TANNER OSBORNE @tannerosbear

OU is undergoing a number of million-dollar construction projects despite a severe budget shortfall affecting a number of its sectors, and the sources for the funding come from a wide variety of origins.

“The university is being very careful about taking on new debt in these difficult budgetary circumstances. We simply could not be undertaking current construction

projects without the generosity of our private donors,” OU President David Boren said in a statement.

Below is a list of various projects either currently underway or slated for the near future, as well as the sources of their funding, provided by OU press secretary Corbin Wallace: The improvements and additions to OU’s Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium will be completely funded by the Athletics Department budget with revenue from sources including ticket sales, conference revenues and private donations for special seating. Improvements include additional seating, business

centers and suites.

The residential colleges being constructed on Asp Avenue will be funded by generous private gifts, Wallace said. The lead gifts were made

by Tim Headington and by Linda and Archie Dunham, with additional funding from room and board revenues.

The university has a small positive revenue inflow when more students live on campus, Wallace said.

The construction of a two new parking garages on campus, to be located on either side of Lindsey Street, will be funded by parking revenues, which Wallace said are projected to have a slight positive balance above scheduled bond payments.

Renovations in Kaufman Hall will be funded from Section 13 revenues, which come directly to the university each year without appropriation, Wallace said.

Gittinger Hall stands in place of what will soon be a physics and astronomy building, and its demolition and eventual replacement was approved by the Board of Regents March 9. The new construction to the physics and astronomy building which will include the construction of a research laboratory, will be funded totally by private gifts, Wallace said.

Contributors, private donors and foundations were acknowledged by Boren and the regents during the March 9

meeting.

A new building for the School of Biomedical Engineering will be funded almost completely by private gifts from the Charles Stephenson and Jim Gallogly families, Wallace said. This addition was another item that was considered and approved by the regents on during their March 9 meeting.

The new residence hall storm shelters will be also be constructed using Section 13 constitutional funds that are not appropriated, Wallace said.

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CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS • OU is currently undergoing numerous millon-dollar projects • Current projects: Improvements and additions to Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, new residential colleges, two parking garages, renovations to Kaufman, the demolition of Gittinger Hall and a new building for the School of Biomedical Engineering