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Growing deficit threatens tuition OU looks to fill deficit without relying on raising tuition rates MIKE BRESTOVANSKY Campus Reporter @BrestovanskyM
As the Oklahoma legislature discusses a bill that would cut OU’s budget by 5 percent, OU officials are wondering how to fill the deficit, OU President David Boren said during a presentation Tuesday. If the budget cut is approved, it would bring the university’s deficit to $15 million, when added to flat-rate expenses,
Boren said. “(This deficit) is one of the biggest problems OU has faced in a long, long time,” Boren said. “And as of now, we don’t have any definitive answers.” Boren said OU received 15 percent of its budget from state appropriations for the 2014-2015 school year, as opposed to 32 percent 10 years ago. Conversely, in 1995, tuition accounted for only 16 percent of the budget, while today it accounts for 34 percent. “This is a problem that practically every school in the nation is facing,” Boren said. “And if it is not resolved, the U.S. will go from being first in the world in terms of college attendance to being 14th in just 10 years.”
Boren hopes that the 5 percent cut will be reduced or erased completely in the state legislature, but for now OU must operate under the assumption that it will not. As such, OU faculty members have been working to minimize department operating costs by whatever means necessary, Boren said. If OU were to pay for the $15 million deficit only through tuition costs, it would require a tuition hike of 10 percent, Boren said. However, Boren said this would be an absolute worst-case scenario and that the university would explore other options. SEE MONEY PAGE 2
ENGINEERING COMPETITIONS
OU Rocket Club exceeds expectations Students in the recently founded engineering club beat out competition AMBER FRIEND Campus Reporter @amberthefriend
Wakeam, electrical engineering senior and team member. This year, the competition will take place from May 12 to May 14. The competition is spread out over three days. The first day is designated for track set up, Tech and practice. The Tech component of the day is when race officials perform a technical inspection of the car to make sure it conforms to the various race specifications. The inspection considers the make
On a stormy September day in Pawhuska, Okla., several OU students stood among competitors at a contest hosted by the Tulsa Rocketry Club. It was the newly founded Sooner Rocket Team’s first contest, and its expectations were fairly low. As it came time for launch, the Sooners set up the bright red Minie-Magg rocket. Within minutes they would win first place, kicking off a year of collaboration, learning and success. During summer 2012, aerospace engineering junior Hunter Pemberton, aerospace engineering senior Data Condulle and several of their peers realized, while OU’s College of Engineering had many clubs for building race cars, bicycles, aircrafts and canoes, there was an unrepresented area: rockets. Throughout the 2012-2013 school year, with the help of engineering professor David Miller, they spread the word, recruited friends and peers and began working through the process of becoming an official OU organization, team president Pemberton said. Now finishing its first year as a registered club, the Sooner Rocket Team members reflect on its unprecedented success and what is to come. The team has been successful at both contests this year, even when competing against other university teams that have been organized for nearly 20 years, Pemberton said. The team earned first place at its first competition in September and recently won second and third place at a competition earlier in April. The team worked approximately a month in advance for the September contest, and the members spent most of the year preparing for the April competition, vice president Condulle said. Most of the fall semester was spent planning and designing the rockets, and the spring was spent building and testing them, Condulle said. To prepare, especially during the fall semester, team
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Members of the Sooner Electric Racing work on two vehicles in the Rawl Engineering Practice Facility. OU will be entering two electric vehicles in the Purdue EV Grand Prix.
Sooners to race electric car A team of engineers preps for annual contest EMMA SULLIVAN Campus Reporter
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n May, Sooners will race electric cars in the annual Purdue EV Grand Prix, a competition that will test the cars they’ve spent the spent the semester building. The weight of the cars the teams are racing, and the drivers of those cars, can be no more than 625 pounds. The cars are fueled by battery packs that
cannot be more than 50 percent of the vehicle’s total weight, according to the Purdue Collegiate 2014 Vehicle and Team Equipment Specifications manual. OU’s car is a low-to-the-ground red machine, with wheels that look like they could move a lawn mower. The car is called “Spirit of Oklahoma,” and the team is currently working on the eighth version of the car for the Grand Prix. The Sooner Electric Racing team won last year’s competition and placed third two years ago, said Joshua
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Forty countries come together for Wild West experience OU Cousins host their 18th barbecue EMMA SULLIVAN Campus Reporter
Students can get a taste of the Wild West at the 18th annual OU Cousins barbecue, which will take place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Whinery Ranch. The event will include free food, a live country band and square dancing and line dancing lessons, according to a mass email. The event is open to all
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OU students, and free transportation will be provided from either the northeast corner of the Lloyd Noble Center or in front of Couch Restaurants. Buses will begin loading at 5 p.m. and will leave at 5:15 p.m. Students are required to take university-provided transportation, according to a mass email. The ranch gives the students the “Wild, Wild West” atmosphere that is a classic American experience, Wolber said. “The barbecue is a blast
every year,” said Raymond Wolber, student director of OU Cousins. The barbecue has been held every year since OU President David Boren and his wife, Molly Shi Boren, started the program in 1996, Wolber said. OU Cousins was created to give a better experience to students studying abroad at OU. Through the OU Cousins program, students are matched with international and exchange students based on similar interests, hobbies and countries of
interest, according to the OU Cousins website. Matched students are encouraged to spend time with each other outside of official OU Cousins events, according to the OU Cousins website. Forty countries will be represented at the barbecue, giving students the chance to meet people they might not have otherwise, Wolber said. Emma Sullivan emmanic23@gmail.com
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members built individual rockets to learn more about the design process and improve their building skills, Condulle said. “We like to build stuff [and] shoot things off just for fun. It’s always a blast — no pun intended,� Condulle said. Throughout the semest e r, t h e t e a m m e mb e r s worked alongside Stewart Ohler, aerospace engineer and OU alumnus and rocket enthusiast Larry Ortega. Both gave the team advice and materials, and Ohler worked alongside the team members during most meetings. More online at OUDaily.com
money: State appropriations decline over time Continued from page 1 International bond ratings agency Fitch Ratings said OU may increase tuition by 2.9 percent for non-residents. The bond rating indicated that resident tuition wouldn’t increase. However, Boren said the prediction was irrelevant because no one can know what the university will do until the bill leaves the state legislature. Despite these problems, OU still has the second-lowest resident tuition fees in the Big 12, behind West Virginia University, and it has a number of new construction projects planned for the next few years, such as new residential colleges and an F-5 tornado-proof tornado shelter, without state appropriations, Boren said. These projects will be funded through Section 13 earmarks, so they will not affect tuition costs, Boren said. However, one of the stipulations for Section 13 earmarks is that they can only be used for capital gains projects, meaning they cannot be used to fill the deficit, Boren said. The state budget will be finalized in approximately three weeks, Boren said. Mike Brestovansky mcbrestov@gmail.com
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Continued from page 1 and weight of the car, the safety cage that is situated on top of the car to protect the driver and the materials and fastenings that compose the car, according to the 2012 Technical Specification sheet. The second day is practice, and the third is race day, Wakeam said. The race is divided into two tracks, based on different qualifications. The teams race their cars on a quarter-mile track and each lap takes about 30 seconds. Typically, races take about 30 minutes, Wakeam said. Races were once 100 laps, but they were shortened because of time restraints, Wakeam said. Students typically spend a semester working on their cars to compete in the EV Grand Prix, Wakeam said. “I love traveling to compete, but you have to put in a lot of effort on the front end to be able to do that,� Wakeam said. In addition to having fun, the students, who participate on the team, use the engineering concepts they learn in class on the cars, said Jaime Cervantes, civil engineering junior. The program currently includes approximately 10 students, but they are always looking for more help. Students who aren’t engineering majors can join as well, Wakeam said. “There’s a lot going on. Fundraising and sponsorship are important, too,� Wakeam said. The team’s driver is a marketing major and uses what he has learned in his marketing classes to help the team. “I get to drive, but I also get to tie in a lot of marketing stuff like getting money for the team,� said Bryce Cornet, the team’s driver and marketing junior. Emma Sullivan, emmanic23@gmail.com
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Keep religion out of curriculum another. While many people take great solace in the curriculum clearly violates separation of church Bible and devote time to studying it, we do not and state, and we want Sooners to let Oklahoma believe it is an appropriate framework to use to lawmakers know of their disapproval. teach students about any public school subject, let alone history. There are not specifics on which An Oklahoma public school district adopted new curriculum this month that almost comical- biblical stories will be used, but we have a hard time thinking of a single one that would acculy violates the principle of separation of church rately teach historical or scientific fact. Will they and state. Mustang School District approved of curriculum supporters say will teach high school use the story of Noah and the worldwide flood to students archeology, history and the arts through explain how mountains formed and animals mibiblical stories. As if it weren’t bizarre enough that grated? We feel this curriculum choice is disturbing and will do more harm public high schools in Mustang will soon incorporate biblical stories into lesson than good to Oklahoma students’ plans, students will also be taught educations. The Our View that all sinners must “suffer the The questionable legality of is the majority opinion of Mustang School District’s new curconsequences” of disobeying The Daily’s God. riculum is perhaps not the most ofeight-member fensive aspect of this controversy. We We are actually flabbergasted editorial board by how a public school district believe this educational program will could legally approve of religious-themed schooling. Sure, the principle of the do a disservice to all separation of church and state, a political ideal non-Judeo Christian that government will remain secular, is not exstudents attending Mustang schools. pressly stated in the Constitution. However, the principle was cited multiple times by the foundHow would you feel ing fathers, has been used by the Supreme Court if you were a Hindu, and is embodied in the First Amendment’s open- Muslim or atheist student attending ing, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free Mustang High exercise thereof ...” We believe it’s pretty obvious; School, being using biblical messages in public schools is a clear forced to learn about biblical establishment of religion. Private schools have every right to teach relistories? We hope gious messages because state and federal govyou are just ernments don’t fund them. In fact, many families as outraged over this choose to pay extra to send their children to religious private schools. But public schools are a curriculum service, made possible through taxpayer dollars, choice as we and they have no business using biblical stories are and will to teach students. Mustang School District is dis- take action to regarding U.S. legal precedent and students’ best let Oklahoma lawmakers know we do not approve of interests by choosing to laud one holy book over Our View: Mustang School District’s new religious
establishing religion in public schools. Write Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin a letter, call your state representative and spread the message on social media. We believe the more people find out about Mustang’s religious curriculum, the more outrage will spread. Let’s use our power in numbers to attempt to rectify this wrong done in Oklahoma schools.
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remember strolling through the South Oval as a freshman years ago and daydreaming that it would be the coolest thing in the world to walk through campus and be encapsulated by the overwhelming green of vegetation along the buildings. The infrastructure at OU is filled with beautiful brick walls and flat roofs. How incredible (and profitable) would it be to see food growing along the walls of those buildings? What if the library had a green wall all the way up the side that highlighted the innovative nature of OU’s campus and student body? The concept is quite new to the state of Oklahoma. The idea of growing food along walls and roofs was designed to help with food shortages in urban sprawls like New York City and Chicago, not the open farmlands of the Midwest. But why waste land and ignore the vast potential of untapped space in existing infrastructure? Or why buy processed food for students when we could grow a large portion of our own diets? OU has a green roof on campus. It is on the south part of campus on top of the National Weather Center. The problem is, no student can even go into the National Weather Center without checking in and providing an ID. Many students never step foot in the center during their OU careers, much less discover that a green roof project is going on there. A green roof or wall is not a project that should be held in exclusivity on the back end
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of campus. The true impact of such a project should come from the example it would provide if visible to the majority of the student body. It needs to be visible during the average school day, accessible to the average student and something for all to appreciate. Almost every environmental group on campus has expressed substantial interest in community gardening. The more the campus is able to embrace the project, the more the project impacts the campus. Stan Khrapak, education graduate student, said, “The industry of campus sustainability is changing. OU has the potential to be on the forefront of that change.” This is why members of the Environmental
Concerns Committee and several student organizations have made it their mission to bring a green wall to OU’s main campus. The idea is to center a class, or classes, on a green wall project over the course of a semester. The project would include two portions: maintaining a portable wall unit that can be wheeled around campus and an installed wall unit somewhere highly visible on campus. The wall could be designed into a large OU vegetation design, and classes nursing the plants before transplant could use the portable units. Green Living Technologies, a company based out of New York, has turned this process into a global success. Starting with a pilot program in a Bronx high school science
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It ain’t no quack, the Norman Public Arts Board (PAB) is taking applications from young, local artists for new designs for the Samo Ducky Project. A collaboration between Norman Arts Council, Norman Parks and Recreation Department, Firehouse Art Center and the PAB, the Samo Ducky Project installs unique fiberglass ducks in parks around the city. And now they’re looking to involve local artists and craftspeople in the expansion of the project. Applications will be due May 23, and instructions can be found on the Norman Arts Council website, said NAC executive director Erinn Gavaghan. There are currently 12 ducks installed, and the board is looking at proposals for three new duck designs, said PAB chair Larry Walker. “If we are trying to do great things for Norman and turn it into an arts community, we have to provide some type of project for younger artists to get experience, build their resume and also get them to understand that everybody needs to do their part contributing to this community,� said Douglas Shaw Elder, executive director of the Firehouse Art Center and original duck sculptor. Every duck goes into a park with a children’s playground, Elder said. Because there are 28 parks, the goal is to eventually create 28 duck sculptures. The project began in 2008 when Elder pitched the idea to the PAB. The Firehouse Art Center had begun moving large sculptures outside including a fish, Elder said. They also had a popular, almost 8-foot-tall duck sculpture, Elder said. “We saw how the kids were responding to it, but it was too large for small children,� Elder said. “So I began working on a smaller duck, pretty much just a give-back to the
community and something for the local kids.� Twelve ducks later, the community showed how much the duck sculptures meant to it when the original duck, Samo Ducky, was stolen April 10. “There was a huge outburst of support from not only Norman but Oklahoma City, and the children were so distressed that it was stolen,� Elder said. Samo was returned April 14, The Daily reported, and the whole ordeal confirmed that the project had influence within the community. “Plans have been made to repair the plaster, and an additional fiberglass duck will be installed near the Firehouse Art Center in Lions Park on Flood Street,� Walker said. The duck project has not only caught the attention of community members but also of sculpture commission members from Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Elder said. Both cities have similar projects with the cows around downtown Oklahoma City and the penguins in Tulsa. However, Elder said he wanted this project to be unique by keeping everything local. The original sculptor, Elder, is a local artist. The person casting the fiberglass pieces is a local technician. The ideas to enhance the new ducks will be taken from local artists, and most importantly, all of the sculptures will be installed in local parks, Elder said. The overall goal of the duck project is for children and community members to experience art every day. “As children and families are interacting with these ducks, and they’re able to climb on them and get their pictures taken on them and stuff like that, they’re really learning about how to interact with art and have art be a part of their lives,� Gavaghan said.
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The man in charge of Oklahoma sports is reaping the benefits of strong play by the Sooners. OU Athletic Director Joe Castiglione was awarded a $30,000 bonus after the Sooners women’s gymnastics team took home a share of the national title, according to the terms of his contract as reported by Bloomberg Businessweek. According to the report, Ca s t i g l i o n e w a s aw a rd e d $10,000 for the team’s Big 12 championship in March, with the other $20,000 coming after the Sooners were named co-champions with Florida on April 19. In an email, OU athletics JOE CASTIGLIONE spokesman Pete Moris said ATHLETIC DIRECTOR Castiglione’s contract has featured these incentives since at least 2010. “It’s my understanding that Mr. Castiglione’s contract has remained unchanged for the past four years and that (OU President David) Boren and the Board of Regents (based on their research) deemed it appropriate to include standard bonuses in his agreement for the team accomplishments of OU programs,� Moris said in the email. The women’s gymnastics coaches also received a little something for their effort. Head coach K.J. Kindler and assistants Lou Ball and Tom Haley received bonuses equaling 40 percent of their base
salaries for winning both the conference and national titles. Kindler’s bonuses totaled $70,000 this season, the first national championship season in the program’s history. The gymnastics bonuses are awarded despite the fact that only football and men’s basketball turn a profit for the athletic department. Castiglione is in his 16th year as athletic director and receives a base salary of $905,000. The gymnastics bonus is the latest he has received for stellar postseason performances by variKJ KINDLER ous teams. WOMEN�S GYMNASTICS COACH Through the first four months of this year, Castiglione’s bonuses total $130,000. OU football earned Castiglione $40,000 along with a trip to the Sugar Bowl, while both men’s and women’s basketball earned Castiglione $25,000 for NCAA tournament appearances. He also received $10,000 for the Big 12 title won by men’s gymnastics. Castiglione isn’t the only AD receiving bonuses for postseason results. Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith received an extra week’s worth of pay when wrestler Logan Steiber won the 141-pound NCAA individual championship earlier this year, earning Smith more than $18,000, according to a Forbes article. Smith could earn six weeks of extra salary, more than $110,000, if Ohio State wins either a football or men’s basketball national title, according to an article in Forbes. Between 20 and 30 athletic directors have similar incentives in their contract.
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The women’s gymnastics team crosses the tarmac to meet fans, friends and family at Max Westheimer airport on Easter Sunday holding their National Championship trophy. The Sooner’s score of 198.175 matched the highest score in NCAA championship history.
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“Heart, soul, genuine, smart, strong — any emotional word, really. All describe Taylor,” K.J. KINDLER, WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS COACH
Senior Taylor Spears becomes the first OU women’s gymnast to win an individual title in 26 years The OU women’s gymnastics team created history when they won their first National Championship on April 19, but one Sooner was not done winning Championships. On April 20, senior Taylor Spears competed in the individual finals for uneven bars and balance beam. Up last on beam, Spears was about to perform her final routine in her college gymnastics career. She was encouraged by a loving message that was broadcast for all to hear from her mother, and then Spears took to the beam one last time. “Everything was so easy when I got up there. It just happened. I wanted to have fun and end my career having fun. Winning was just icing on the cake,” Spears said. Spears became the first OU gymnast to win an individual National Championship in 26 years. For Spears, her title came on balance beam — a true honor for a gymnast that knew she wanted to be a Sooner from her very first visit. “When I was 16, I accepted my scholarship to OU. It was the only trip I went on, and I just knew that I wanted to come here,” she said. Those who came before her at OU mentored her on balance beam, an event that Oklahoma gymnastics prides itself on. In her four years here, Spears has become an inspiration to her teammates, as Coach K.J. Kindler explains. “I asked a couple of her teammates, about midseason, who on the team inspired them, and a lot of them said Taylor Spears. She was an amazing example to everyone around her with her big heart and her leadership,” Kindler said. Spears lost her father at the age of 10, which was difficult for her. Her father’s death spurred a move to Dallas, where Taylor began
training with World Olympic Gymnastic Academy, which is very well known in the gymnastics world. This move furthered Spears’ gymnastics career, and she often thanks her mother for all she has done. When Kindler was asked to describe Taylor in one word, she found it impossible. “Heart, soul, genuine, smart, strong — any emotional word, really. All describe Taylor,” she said. A gymnast like Spears surely deserves to go out with a bang, and that she did. Every year at OU was filled with new experiences for Spears as she described her journey at Oklahoma as “simply thrilling”. “Freshman year, everything was new. Sophomore year, I had a year of experience under my belt but still had my struggles. Then junior year was the highest level I had been at in a long time, and I won a lot of individual awards. And then senior year, we win the whole thing and an individual National Title. What more can you ask for?” Spears said. The heart and soul that Taylor Spears possessed, no doubt, propelled her to making history here at OU, both as an individual and as part of the first National Championship team in program history. Spears commented on what winning the individual title meant to her and the program. “K.J. is the beam coach, and she works a lot with us. I am really happy for her that I was able to do that for her. I always looked up to K.J. She helped me through the last four years and always supported me,” Spears said. Kindler had equally as complementary words to say about Taylor’s last performance as a Sooner. The pride she has for Spears is a true testament to not only the competitor that Spears was but also the person that she is. “I was so excited to see her last routine of her life and for her to go out there and hit it like that. I was mesmerized. To have the results that she did, that is the stuff that fairy tales are made of,” Kindler said.
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