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GREEK HOUSING
Construction pushes fraternity to hotel Alpha Tau Omega members reside in NCED Conference Center Hotel RACHAEL MONTGOMERY Campus Reporter
An OU fraternity’s members have been living in a hotel for over a month as they await the completion of construction on their house this semester. With the official completion date of construction on their house being pushed to October, members of the Alpha Tau
Omega fraternity were unable to move into their new house in August. Instead, they are temporarily living at the NCED Conference Center and Hotel off Highway 9. Although the final completion date is set for sometime in October, members living in the hotel should be able to move in two to four weeks, said Jason Christian, Alpha Tau Omega member and mechanical engineering sophomore. Members were told just two weeks before school started the move-in date would be pushed back for construction on various parts of housing, such as the parking lot, Christian said. The delayed construction was largely due to rain and
other unforeseen factors. As of today, students have not yet received a set completion date from the building company. They expected to be out of the hotel by Sept. 15, but due to unforeseen building constraints, their stay will be extended until further notice, hotel general manager Yves Badaroux said. The hotel has no issue with extending their stay. “We are just playing it by ear,” Badaroux said. The members occupy 50 rooms, but there are more than 50 of them staying at the hotel because some share rooms SEE HOTEL PAGE 3
DISASTER AFTERMATH
FOOTBALL MADNESS
Ford flies down the field with the football
Temporary hospital to open in Moore Facilitiy to offer outpatient lab services while new hospital is being built
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Freshman running back Keith Ford breaks free of a tackle, Saturday against the Tulsa Golden Hurricane in the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. The Sooners beat Tulsa’s Golden Hurricane with a final score of 51 - 20.
ENVIRONMENT
City works to reduce mosquito threat Workers help prevent spread of West Nile Virus BENNETT HALL Campus Reporter
The City of Norman has a plan to lessen the threat of West Nile Virus this mosquito season after four cases have been confirmed in nearby Oklahoma County. These numbers are down significantly from September last year, when there were 40 confirmed cases and two deaths, according to the Oklahoma City-County Health Department. The numbers are down due to heavy rains in July, that washed away many of the mosquito eggs that typically thrive in shallow standing pools of water, said Stephen Warren, a vector control expert for the City of Norman, leading mosquito prevention efforts. Despite heavy rains washing away many eggs, of the four confirmed cases of West Nile Virus this year, there has been one fatality, proving that even with fewer mosquitoes, the virus is still a threat, Warren said. Warren said the first step to control
the virus is for Norman residents to call the city with any questions or concerns after receiving bites in or around their homes. City workers will respond by going out and either fogging the area or setting small traps for the mosquitoes. The chemicals use fog are harmful to humans and the environment, so the city uses this process only when there are 50 or more mosquitoes in an area because a breeding ground is probably nearby, he said. The city uses less invasive, pesticide-filled mosquito traps on a day-today basis, Warren said. The traps are small, inexpensive and harmless to humans, he said. These traps are activated in the evening and attract mosquitoes with a light bulb, after which the mosquitoes are blown into a jar filled with pesticide, Warren said. Residents concerned with mosquitoes in their area can call the city and request that a trap be set up and maintained every few days by the pest prevention team, he said. Citizens can get a trap set up on their property with or without reports of mosquito activity. This serves as a
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AT A GLANCE Mosquito traps For questions and concerns or to request a mosquito trap outside your home, call the City of Norman at (405) 366-5470.
pre-emptive system to keep the mosquitoes away, he said. The City of Norman has been using these mosquito prevention tactics for the past 30 years and is pleased with the results, Warren said. Along with prevention measures like traps and aerosol fogging, there are the even more simple measures to abide by, he said. Residents should always use normal precautions, like making full use of bug sprays containing the effective chemical DEET, wearing long sleeves and pants when working outside and minimizing standing water in pots and low lying areas around their home, Warren said. Bennett Hall benhall@ou.edu
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A temporary hospital building is slated to open this year in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore after a deadly tornado struck the community’s hospital in May. Health officials promised to rebuild a permanent hospital after demolition crews began tearing down the 45bed facility and two adjacent medical office buildings in June. In the meantime, Norman Regional Health System officials said a temporary facility is expected to open in late November or early December, The Norman Transcript reported Saturday. The emergency and urgent care treatment facility will have CT and X-ray capabilities and a lab. That means outpatient lab services can be performed in Moore while the new hospital is being built. Joplin, Mo., also set up a temporary hospital after a deadly EF5 tornado hit the town in 2011. The same company that did the work there will lease modular units to the Norman Regional Health System in Oklahoma for two years. About 170 employees and 30 patients were inside the medical center on May 20 when the deadly twister moved from the nearby town of Newcastle toward Moore. Patients, employees and an estimated 300 people from the community took shelter in the building’s cafeteria on the ground floor of the main building as the tornado raked Moore. The tornado killed two dozen people and injured SEE HOSPITAL PAGE 3
STUDENT RESOURCES
Group offers peer feedback on writing Student-led Honors Writing Groups offer relaxed environment for critiques JORDAN LARSEN Campus Reporter
Students looking for informal feedback on writing assignments can join writing groups led by other students this semester. Honors Writing Groups are entirely student-led and unique from other writing resources on campus because they offer informal, conversational peer feedback as opposed to structured guidance. The writing groups began two years ago among a group of friends and have been in development stages with
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