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OU DAILY SOCIAL STORM ANDREW CLARK @CLARKY_TWEETS
Hundreds of tweets containing #yOUrbad have stormed Twitter over the past few days, and two university administrators, including OU President David Boren, did not address the hashtag directly when asked to comment on it. The hashtag’s creator, management information systems senior Emily Pham, said she wanted to create a platform for students to share their personal experiences, beliefs and opinions about OU. “I know, as a woman of color, how easy it is to have your voice silenced or ignored, and with campus life, it can be really difficult to voice your concerns and opinions and experiences and really have attention brought to them, whether that’s from the university or from the people around you,” she said. The hashtag was created just days after OU was given an award for its efforts to promote diversity and inclusion on campus. Many Twitter users were upset about the award, and Pham was not pleased either. “I think (Boren) is only pleased to be recognized for a goal that the university has yet to attain,” she said. “If it’s a goal that you don’t follow through on and you don’t commit your efforts to building an inclusive experience for people of color, women, people with disabilities, LGBTQIA and other groups at OU, then your diversity numbers are worth nothing.” OU press secretary Corbin Wallace told The Daily Sept. 1 that the freshman class of 2020 is also the most racially diverse freshman class in the university’s history. Additionally, Boren sent a 14-word statement to The Daily when it asked him to comment on #yOUrbad. “The university remains committed to making inclusion and diversity one of its greatest strengths,” the statement said. Jabar Shumate ,vice president for the University Community, also sent a statement to The Daily regarding the Twitter hashtag, but he did not directly address it or the students using it. “The goal of the university and the Office of University Community has always been, and will continue to be, to create a welcoming environment for everyone,” Shumate’s statement said. “The university acknowledges and understands that addressing this societal challenge will be an ongoing process. We continue to try to make strides toward a more caring and accepting community. We realize that this requires ongoing commitment from all in our community. It requires an effort by everyone to make a positive and constructive contribution see HASHTAG page 2
Twitter hashtag met with relative silence from university STUDENTS SPEAK: TWEETS FROM #YOURBAD Support them. Listen to them. Be a positive influence for change #yOUrbad • #yOUrbad is such an eye opening experience for students of privilege. You should feel uncomfortable. You should want change too. • Everybody posting with #yOUrbad: cite some examples man! Prof. names, classes, etc ANYTHING. Don’t just post things that happened. • This is a disgrace to our university #yOUrbad • I had 33 different profs/instructors at OU. 2 were black. 1 was indigenous. 0 were Latinx. #yOUrbad • A group of OU students at Headington’s Qdoba openly took pictures of me (I was wearing a bow tie) while laughing mockingly. #yOUrbad • Felt like there was nothing I could do because confronting them might have made things worse. I couldn’t even order food in peace. #yOUrbad • Being subjected to actively violent spaces is just part of my daily life. #WOC #yOUrbad • Was once referred to as “the dyke RA.” Was very closeted, just had short hair. Too scared of being outed 2 tell anyone it happened. #yOUrbad • Knowing that as a WOC that your intelligence will always be questioned and your perspective always challenged #yOUrbad • Constantly expected to answer questions re: being LGBTQ, often w/o asking if it’s ok. Once asked who pays when I go on “gay dates.” #yOUrbad • The #yOUrBad trend is so important to acknowledge the lack of diversity on OU’s campus and the experiences of students of color. • No one taught us about COINTELPRO during the Civil Rights section of history class at OU. #yOUrbad • At end of diversity training, a boy genuinely said what he learned was to not discriminate or generalize a g a i n s t w h i t e f rat g u y s . #yOUrbad • There’s definitely a culture of silence at OU that harms marginalized students, faculty, & staff. #yOUrbad • “... taking a suspiciously long shower, GUYS, I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. Girls, cover your ears.” • -my sociology prof #yOUrbad • When you only have two female professors in your entire grad school experience. They were white. #yOUrbad • when your WGS professor uses the terms female and woman interchangeably #yOUrbad • When you have no people of color professors in your entire grad school experience. #yOUrbad • Reading for my anthro class 2day mockingly called indigenous African peoples
spirituality ‘primitive’. #yOUrbad • Bias incident reporting system!!! #yOUrbad • Once I emailed a professor about the discriminatory remarks made by her guest lecturer and how she should’ve intervened + #yOurbad • I’ve never felt needed, accepted, or supported from this institution #yOUrbad • In class, we completely ignore/erase/romanticize the history of colonialism (1/2) #yOUrbad • Our class discussions often demonize black/brown people who still suffering from generational trauma + violent policies #yOUrbad • If you think
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#yOUrbad • When president David Boren wins awards for “diversity and inclusion,” but actively avoids speaking with student activist groups. #yOUrbad • Let’s be honest and call all of this “diversity & inclusion efforts” what it actually is: “postSAE cleanup/admins saving face.” #yOUrbad • A professor told my friend he was ‘brave for wearing pink.’ #yOUrbad • A professor allowed a student in class to say, “Native Americans are the most racist people you’ll ever meet.” #yOUrbad • We’re tired of the ‘diversity and inclusion’ awards at OU, especially
“The university remains committed to making inclusion and diversity one of its greatest strengths.” — OU President David Boren
our frats don’t have a race problem, you haven’t sat in one of my class discussions #yOUrbad • Seeing a professor spew homophobic rhetoric/racialized slurs.. + all 300 students angered/in shock only when some1 stands up to it #yOUrbad • Being a POC at a OU means being a walking token/ photo-op. If I speak up about my experience, I’m demonized. #yOUrbad • OU President David Boren makes extremely harmful and erasing statements without flinching. Gets awarded. #yOUrbad • Defense of OU’s use of “boomer sooner”/ schooner mascot/imagery is just a breeding ground for violent racism #yOUrbad • maybe white professors shouldnt teach non-western dance #yOUrbad • when the professor tries to speak on west african spiritual practices but doesn’t know the difference between voodoo and vodun #yOUrbad • the course spent 4 days on the entire continent of africa and the rest of the course was colonial dances in latin america #yOUrbad • i took a non-western dance course. we spent 1/2 the course talking about india and japan. #modelminorities #yOUrbad • i signed up for a native geology course to learn ndn science methods but we romanticized origin “MYTHS” n used western methods
when students’ efforts are unrecognized. #yOUrbad • “I just think it’s unfair that minorities are paid to go to college?” So why am I working full time in college Billy? #yOUrbad • Is OU seeking true diversity? Because I’ve always felt like I was merely filling the quota. #yOUrbad • Not listening to the concerns and complaints of native students in regards to “boomer sooner” and white washing colonization #yOUrbad • I’ve been at OU for 4 years and I’ve only had one African American professor, and she was in the AFAM studies department. #yOUrbad • When black and brown bodies and voices only matter, when something is to be gained from us. #yOUrbad • “Huh, it must be hard for you to write in English, you know because you think in Spanish” - English composition professors :) #yOUrbad • Not all black students are athletes, not all Latinx students are Mexican :) #yOurbad • Have u guys ever looked at the mural in the union food court at OU? Stop romanticizing colonization. OU is so ahistorical at times #yOurbad • Ok but when will Goddard start offering bilingual/multilingual services? I’ve seen the incompetence with my own eyes #yOUrbad • How can u look at the dropout rates of students from marginalized communities & look at ur PW
faculty & not see the connection? #yOUrbad • getting praised for diversity awards while PoC continue to not feel a p p re c i at e d . h o w S w a y ? ? #yOUrbad • When big oil funds ur university n u cover up the destruction that fracking causes. Boomer sooner translates to fuck natives #yOUrbad • And ignoring Native students’ concerns about the offensive nature of the mascot doesn’t help either #yOUrbad • Cutting scholarships for Native students, as Native enrollment drops below state population % just ain’t inclusive, sorry #yOUrbad • When undocumented folx are called “illegal aliens” in lecture, its easy to understand their otherization in the university #yOUrbad • When the professor doesnt know how to interact with your name because its english and spanish. ASK. #yOUrbad • Michigan, Missouri, Ohio State, Wisconsin all got it together. I’m waiting #yOUrbad • No, I’m not here because of Affirmative Action. #yOUrbad • When the professor says the n word in lecture, denies its a slur and then wants to talk about fostering an inclusive environment #yOUrbad • Please don’t use me as an example for every discussion about race and ethnicity in class #yOUrbad • When the brown students in the lecture have to correct the professor on geography of latin america in a colonial history course #yOUrbad • Pronounce my name right, not the Americanized version, my name is part of my identity and worth your time as a professor #yOUrbad • When white upper middle class professors deny the diversity of human experience by thinking trigger warnings are ppl being “weak” #yOUrbad • When everyone is supportive of a safe space lounge for vets, but one for LGBTQ+ community is a symptom of “sensitive millenials.” #yOUrbad • Michigan, Missouri, Ohio State, Wisconsin all got it together. I’m waiting #yOUrbad • OU show me a functional bias reporting system so students can report the stuff I didn’t, & MAYBE you’ll be on yr way to “diverse” #yOUrbad • “Boomer Sooner.” #yOUrbad • One of my TAs for history told the class that Andrew Jackson was a good president, a man of the people. #yOUrbad • OU continues to violate T VII and T IX to deny the rights of trans students, faculty, staff, despite these issues being reported. #yOUrbad • OU insurance refuses to cover basic healthcare needs because I’m trans. OU specifically requested this from their provider. #yOUrbad • If OU is so inclusive then why are almost all senior level administrators White, able-bodi e d , c i s g e n d e r, s t r a i g h t ,
ANYTIME, ANYPLACE, FOR A PRICE Warhawks will get $1.2 million for game JESSE POUND @jesserpound
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Louisiana-Monroe players go through drills Aug. 10. The Warhawks will be the first opponent to play at newly renovated Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
MONROE, La. — When head coach Matt Viator was directing his first fall camp this August, he could stand on the practice field in the sticky Louisiana heat and look straight through Malone Stadium to the free-standing scoreboard on the other side — his view unimpeded by thousands of seats or gaudy facilities. When he leads the LouisianaMonroe Warhawks onto the field
at the newly-renovated Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Saturday with over 80,000 fans roaring their disapproval, his players will be visitors in a college football world much different from the one they usually inhabit. They’ll also be picking up a check for $1.2 million, as they will be coming to Norman for a “payday game,” just as they did in 2013 and just as the University of Akron did last season. Oklahoma is one of college football’s blue blood programs — and also one of the richest. OU’s athletic department ranked eighth in the country with over
$134 million in total revenue in 2014-15, according to USA Today. Louisiana-Monroe slotted in at 179th with less than 10 percent of OU’s total revenue, making the Warhawks’ budget the smallest among FBS schools and behind more than 50 schools that don’t play football at the highest level. So the Warhawks hit the road in search of money from bigger programs that are in search of easy wins. And they’re not alone. Schools from all of the non-power conferences trade expected losses for lucrative paychecks. With some of the Power Five see MONROE page 3
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NEWS OU offers U.S. experience Students discuss advantages of studying abroad ABBY BITTERMAN @abby_bitterman
OU is the university of choice for students all over the world looking to study abroad. Two study abroad students from outside the U.S. said they have experienced culture shock upon arrival but adjusted to their current means of living quickly after. Zak Swift, a commercial law, international business and international relations junior, is studying abroad at OU from Rotorua, New Zealand. His home university is Victoria University of Wellington in Wellington, New Zealand. “I chose OU because I wanted a school that represented heartland America, and kind of the America we think of when we think America: Trucks and guns and school spirit and energy,” Swift said. “I feel OU captures that firmly. The energy and the pride that Sooners take in the university is incredible.” Swift said he scheduled his study abroad trip so that he would be in America for the presidential election, thinking it would be polarized.
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Zak Swift, commercial law, international business and international relations junior, sits near the OU crest in front of Bizzell Library Sept. 7. Swift is from Rotorua, New Zealand.
“What I found is that ... they may have their own opinions, but they’re quite good at just listening and being curious about other people’s perspective,” Swift said. When it comes to culture shock, Swift said he was prepared for the obvious things, like some people’s lack of knowledge about where New Zealand is, but it has been little things, like crossing roads, that he has had trouble adjusting to. “Here your crossing takes so long ... You can be waiting at a crossing for a couple of minutes before it turns to walk,” Swift said. “In New Zealand, it’s never more than
30 seconds.” Geography junior Junyeop Lee is studying at OU from Daegu, South Korea, where h e a t t e n d s Ky u n g p o o k National University. Lee said he came to OU for the geography program and because he received a scholarship. A major cultural difference Lee has experienced is the prevalence of partying. “In South Korea, we don’t have party culture,” Lee said. “Here, every day people drink beer ... At OU they are very outgoing and sociable.” Lee said he gets homesick sometimes but is able to videocall his parents, which makes it easier. He said his
language barrier has been difficult but that professors have been patient with him. “I’m not good at English, but the professors always try to understand me, so I am motivated,” Lee said. Lauren Lason, a communication and international studies junior, is an OU student from Coppell, Texas, who studied abroad over the summer in the Honors at Oxford program. Lason said she noticed little differences between Oklahoma and England while she was abroad. She is planning to go to Spain to study abroad again in the spring. “An international experience is so valuable,” Lason said. “To see people with different perspectives and study with them and get to talk to all these different people ... It’s really valuable.” But despite the little things, Swift said he loves it here, and that OU students have been very helpful to him. “You can’t walk down the street and say a few words or ask for directions without people being really friendly,” Swift said. “It’s an amazing place to study.” Abby Bitterman abbybitt@ou.edu
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to the effort.” Pham said she thought one of the biggest issues raised by the tweets she witnessed was the need for a university bias incident reporting system. Shumate told The Daily in March that OU partnered with Greenwood Hall, a technology company, to implement such a hotline. He also said the hotline would be installed by the end of that month. However, such a hotline is not in place. “If there is a bias incident reporting system put in place at the university, maybe students would feel like OU was actually committing to its goal and actually following through and creating an opportunity for its students to raise their voices — or at least to share their experiences at OU,” she said. The hashtag has received some backlash on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, and Pham said discouragement toward using the hashtag only perpetuates the issues those using it are facing. “When people discourage people using the hashtag, that means they’re not supportive of
students voicing their experiences that have happened at the university,” she said. Stephen Ellis, a professor in the OU philosophy department, responded to a Facebook heckler who commented in response to a Daily Facebook post. He told The Daily he needed to speak his mind after seeing the heckler’s words. “I’m always surprised with how strong some people want to take the ‘just-suck-itup-and-live-with-it’ kind of view,” he said. “Since I have very strong interests in making OU a better place for all kinds of people, I figured I’d say my piece.” Pham said she hopes people take the time to be empathetic toward the students tweeting #yOurbad. “There are some people who would not be able to understand or who have not experienced what many people have experienced,” she said. “It’s difficult, and you cannot have the same experience as somebody that is, for example, a person of color or a person who is LGBTQIA, if you don’t fit those identities.” “Diversity is nothing without inclusion,” she said. “In the university’s policies, I don’t see, and I’m sure other people don’t see, any sort of system measuring or gauging the impact of the so-called inclusivity efforts for OU.” Andrew Clark
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“Monroe, Louisiana? They ain’t dropping football...
... Been around too long.”
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Louisiana-Monroe players watch practice from the sidelines Aug. 10. The Warhawks have only been to one bowl game at the FBS level.
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conferences restricting teams from playing against low er le vel FC S teams, schools like LouisianaMonroe are in demand. “We get a lot of phone calls because we are an FBS program,” said Brian Wi ck s t ro m, d i re c t o r o f at h l e t i c s at L ou i s i a na Monroe. “The guarantee amounts have increased dramatically.” These payday games help keep entire athletic departments afloat, helping to fund not only football, but also cross country and tennis. “It’s not only necessary to maintain the level of football that we want,” Viator said, “but it’s also necessary to try to maintain the athletic program that we want.” It’s not just the athletic department that is strapped for cash. Every public university in Louisiana needs money, with state funding in an even more precarious position than in Oklahoma. The state’s budget crisis in February was so dire that G ov. Jo h n B e l Ed wa rd s warned that the universities wouldn’t be able to finish the semester, which would take away football in the fall. “Student athletes across the state at those schools will be ineligible to play next semester,” Edwards said. “I don’t say this to scare you.
But I am going to be honest with you.” T h i s p o l i t i c a l p l oy i s not one that scares the Louisiana-Monroe coaching staff. “It’s not going to hurt us recruiting; it’s not going to hurt us any otherwise, because I can go get you the clips from 10 years ago — they’re saying the same thing,” said defensive coordinator Mike Collins, who played at Monroe when his father was the head coach in the early 1980s. “Because let me tell you something: In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, they’re not dropping football. Monroe, Louisiana? They ain’t dropping football. Ruston, Louisiana (home of Louisiana Tech)? They’re not dropping football. Been around too long.” T h e s t a t e l e g i s l a t u re came through, and LSU, L ouisiana-Monroe and other Louisiana schools will play football this fall. But the Warhawks will still travel to Norman, Auburn and Alabama to try to make ends meet. Just a five minute ride from a drive-thru daiquiri stand off U.S. Highway 80, Louisiana-Monroe’s football facilities pale in comparison to those at traditional football powers. Viator, who was previously at FCS McNeese State, said he didn’t see much of a change when he arrived at Monroe. “Compared to McNeese, I don’t know, they’re pretty similar, really,” Viator said.
“I tell the players we have enough to win, and that’s all I’m concerned about.” But the Warhawks are building facilities, despite their budget woes. A new football facility, completed over the summer, includes a new locker room and coach’s offices, but it takes up less than one corner of one endzone. Amid falling oil prices and concern over state funding for higher education, OU downscaled its
coordinator Matt Kubik said. “It’s one of those deals where, hey, you’ve got to keep up with the Joneses,” Collins said. “The Joneses are gettin’ it done, and you’ve got to have something to sell, too.” But the Joneses have athletic departments flush with cash, fueled in large part by media rights that ESPN and FOX pay to conferences that reach above $20 million per school.
“I think it’s starting to kinda trickle down, and for whatever reason, I don’t know if it’s getting cheaper to build these things or whatever, but they’re starting to pop up in some schools that you say, ‘Hey, wait a minute, I didn’t know they had that kind of cash there.” MATT KUBIK, OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR
stadium renovation costs from $350 million to $160 million. The new facility in Monroe cost about $4 million. Still, it’s a small sign that the arms race among college football’s powers is slowly seeping into the smaller corners of the sport. “I think it’s starting to kinda trickle down, and for whatever reason, I don’t know if it’s getting cheaper to build these things or whatever, but they’re starting to pop up in some schools that you say, ‘Hey, wa i t a m i nu t e, I d i d n ’ t know they had that kind of cash there,’” offensive
“In my mind, there’s always been a separation,” Viator said. “So, is the separation growing wide? I think in some cases, I really do. But everything now to me seems like it’s split in half, when in reality, though, it’s split in more than two ways ... they’re not all Oklahoma.” Some other Power Five schools may not be as rich and powerful as the Sooners, but they still get a large cut of the television money. The Big Ten, ACC, Pac 12, SEC and Big 12 support their weakest members. Even Purdue, which has won six football
games in the past three seasons, had a total revenue of $75 million in 2014-15. But when Louisiana-Monroe goes 2-10 like it did last season, there’s no safety net. Inside the maze of hallways where players and coaches zip from one meeting to the next hangs a poster that reads, “Anytime — Anyplace.” Louisiana-Monroe has beaten the big boys before, most recently against Arkansas in 2012 on the way to the Warhawks’ only bowl berth in the AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl. Viator has done it, as well, with his McNeese Cowboys beating South Florida by 32 and playing Nebraska and North Carolina down to the wire. Despite the marquee win over the Razorbacks, the Warhawks couldn’t sustain their success under former coach Todd Berry, so Viator was hired at the end of last season. But Viator knows there is not one clear way to succeed at a place where it is so hard to win. “I don’t know, to be honest with you. I don’t know what the exact answer is,” Viator said. “But you got to try to recruit, obviously. You got to try to keep kids in your program — keep ‘em here all four years and build off of that.” If he’s successful, the Warhawks may be able to move away from these payday games. Wickstrom said his goal is to eventually get down to one guaranteed money game a year, but
revenues need to increase for that to happen. “From our standpoint, a successful football program is critical in terms of the ticket revenue, the donations,” Wickstrom said. But without the cash flow and exposure that comes with lucrative television contracts, building a successful program is not easy. Viator said he believes it’s harder to maintain success at the schools that lack resources. But before he sustains success, he must build it. One way he can do that is by pointing to Garrett Smith, a sophomore quarterback who is on track to play against Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma and Auburn before he turns 21. Viator is selling recruits on everything he has at his disposal, including the chance to make a few cameo appearances on college football’s grandest stages. “Shoot, man, it’s a great (opportunity) for you to get out there, for you to go to a special place like Norman, Oklahoma, and a special program, one of the best coaches in the nation in Coach Stoops,” Viator said. “What a great opportunity. Let’s go play. We’ll sort it out after the game. If you’re any kind of competitor, you embrace that and get excited about that, regardless of the outcome.” Jesse Pound
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ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT
Chloe Moores, a&e editor dailyent@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com/a_and_e • Twitter: @OUDailyArts
Shop combines coffee, charity The Screen Door offers discounts for OU students, faculty
already caught the attention of local Norman residents and OU students. Norman resident Alexis Haven, 25, said she enjoys coming to The Screen Door for the atmosphere.
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Walking into The Screen Door feels like walking into a home filled with endless living rooms and cups of coffee. The Screen Door doesn’t just brew coffee and tea — each week they donate 20 percent of their credit card tips to a local Oklahoma charity. The S cre en D o or is a coffee shop that replaced Coney’s & More on West Main Street a few weeks ago. The Screen Door is open seven days a week from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. B r i d g e t t He f n e r, T h e Screen Door’s founder, said she got the idea to open up the coffee shop because she wanted a new career. “A couple years ago I decided I didn’t want to be an aircraft mechanic at Tinker. I live here in Norman and wanted to do something more emotional and philosophical,� Hefner said. Twenty percent of The Screen Door’s tips go to one designated char ity
“I want the Screen Door to be a destination. I want people to study, sit and visit or just a place to feel comforatble� BRIDGETT HEFNER THE SCREEN DOOR’S FOUNDER
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The chalkboard wall at The Screen Door. The Screen Door donates 20 percent of its credit card tips to charity.
each week. O n one day during that week, everyone associated with that charity receives 20 percent off their purchase. Some of the charities The Screen Door has benefited are Project Outreach and The Underdogs Rescue. Hefner intentionally chose to benefit a different charity every week. “I will never stick with
one charity. I will always use different ones because each charity believes in their purpose,� she said. Th e S c re e n D o o r i s a shop looking to offer people something different and unique, Hefner said. “Ab o u t 8 0 p e rc e n t o f our food is locally grown or from a local farmer. We even make some items inhouse like our honey and
peanut butter,� Hefner said. All of The Screen Door’s products are biodegradable or recyclable, and all OU faculty and students get 20 percent off every purchase, Hefner said. “I want the Screen Door to be a destination. I want people to study, sit and visit or just a place to feel comfortable,� Hefner said. Th e S c re e n D o o r ha s
“I love coming for the comfy chairs. It really reminds me of being home with the big windows and different places to sit, plus I like that it is local and gives to charities,� Haven said. Nursing student Loren Lehtonen said she enjoys coming to The Screen Door for the hours and staff. “As a nursing student living in Norman, sometimes I have to be up at 5 a.m. It is nice to know that there is a local place to get coffee on my way to school,� Lehtonen said. “Also, the
staff is really helpful; when I was there they were constantly checking on me, a n d t h e y e v e n b ro u g ht me ice water while I was studying.� The S creen Door w ill offer craft beer and wine along with an expansion on its hours starting in October, Hefner said. “ The reason the shop opens so early is to offer a variety to customers,� Hefner said. “We catch the morning people, and soon we will be staying open till midnight to catch the night owls.� The Screen Door hosts e v e n t s t h ro u g h o u t t h e week to entertain and provide a fun atmosphere for those in the shop. Some events include trivia night and open mic nights. Chandler Kidd
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Show questions justice system CLASSIFIEDS New HBO series follows lives of criminal offenders MAX ROOT
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“The Night Of,� the limited series on HBO starring Riz Ahmed, Peyman Moaadi and John Turturro, is a realistic portrayal of the plight of people inside the U.S. prison system and the criminals those people can become post-sentence. “The Night Of � was created by Richard Price and Steven Zaillian. It follows Nasir Khan, a straight-laced college student, who spends the night with a woman he just met — only to find her dead body next to him in the middle of the night. Naturally, Khan becomes the primary suspect in the murder case. The show follows Khan through his struggles in prison, as well as his attorney’s efforts to prove his innocence. Mistrust of the justice system is a theme television has capitalized on recently with shows like “The Jinx,� “Making a Murderer,� “Show Me a Hero� and “True Detective.� “The Night Of � isn’t about to end that trend. The transformation of a young man, from a kid to a criminal, isn’t far off from reality. Young offenders were found to be 67 percent more likely to reenter jail by the age of 25 than kids who were not convicted of their original crimes, according to a study
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“The Night Of� is a new HBO series. The show addresses flaws within the U.S. prison system.
conducted by Anna Aizer and Joseph Doyle Jr. published in the National Bureau of Economic Research. John D. Carl, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Oklahoma, said recidivism — a person’s relapse into criminal behavior — is not necessarily just an age issue since criminology’s age-crime curve shows crime and antisocial behavior peak between ages 15 and 25. “I think very little is done in most prisons in the U.S. to actually try to reintegrate any type of offender,� Carl said. The overcrowding of prisons and continually shrinking budgets contribute to the problem of reintegrating prisoners, Carl said. Mass incarceration of nonviolent offenders creates 40 to 50 percent of the prison population, which also contributes to the problem, he said. “While there, we generally do very little with (the prisoners) and then seem surprised upon release when they can’t reintegrate into society,� he said. “The Night Of � also features Khan and his emerging
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drug addiction, which, according to Carl, could cause problems for Khan’s future on the show. “Non-violent offenders who have addiction issues tend to end up back in prison at the highest rates,� Carl said. “Frequently, because they are addicts and rarely get treatment while in prison
— and if they do get it, it’s usually time-limited.� An ugly part of America has been revealed in “The Night Of� which has the potential to increase awareness on the subject. It is already off to a good start. Freshman Tyler Adkins said he found “The Night Of� addictive. “ It w a s s o a m a z i n g ,� Adkins said. “It made me want to get a subscription to HBO NOW after one episode, but I realized if I did that, my productivity would decrease to an all-time low.� Season one of “The Night Of� is available on HBO GO or HBO NOW. Max Root
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OU remains silent on #yOUrbad Complaints of bias, discrimination abound on Twitter THE EDITORIAL BOARD
OU students and alumni have penned several hundred tweets using the hashtag #yOUrbad to share their experiences with discrimination, prejudice, harassment and assault on campus. The university president’s response? Officially, just 14 words. One sentence. “The university remains committed to making inclusion and diversity one of its greatest strengths.” How committed is OU to diversity and inclusion if the university can only spit out 14 words when students are banding together to say that they’re not being heard, that the environment they have to learn in is hostile and unwelcoming to them? How committed is OU to diversity and inclusion when it’s not receiving awards for them? How long until “diversity and inclusion” starts to mean something on this campus? Many haven’t believed the university’s mission to enhance diversity and inclusion before this week, and this administration’s recent actions — or lack thereof — only bolster those people’s arguments. Our View is the majority opinion of The Daily’s nine-member editorial board
make me feel very welcome/included at OU. They aren’t isolated, they occur frequently. #yOUrbad • Mentioned I’m queer to small group during class discussion re: life paths. Man next to me actually rolled his chair 2 feet away. #yOUrbad • White, cis male professors assuming all students are like them and have the same privileges. #yOUrbad • When a group of female students is too afraid for their academic careers to speak out against a student male w/ power in dept. #yOUrbad • Also, same prof told a PhD student that no one would care about her research because it was about Black women. Excuse me?! #yOUrbad • This was a graduate level research class in education, supposedly an inclusive profession. #yOUrbad •Same prof consistently used gender as example of dichotomous variable b/c “it’s easy, there’s only two options.” Transphobia much? #yOUrbad • It was like the academic version of “go make me a sandwich, woman.” How were women students supposed to feel in that class? #yOUrbad • Woman student said maybe he could use it to make his own food. He just laughed and insisted she should use it. Blatant sexism. #yOUrbad • Had a prof say on the first day of class that his wife needs to use the stand mixer he bought her more frequently & make him food. #yOUrbad • @President_Boren’s erasure and rewritting of genocide claiming that “#BoomerSooner” wasn’t racist and/or about violent colonialism #yOUrbad • Allowing professors to say that Natives prior to contact were underdeveloped and primitive #yOUrbad • Having Greek life that uses caricatures of Latinx populations for parties and furthering anti-Latinx racism #yOUrbad • Using Natives as an aesthetic but not listening to their demands for representation and sovereignty #yOUrbad • Having your mascot be a literal settler which invaded lands Indigenous people were on and killed them #yOUrbad #BoomerSooner • Allowing professors to say the word r*dskins without repercussions #yOUrbad • i chose a college where i thought i could learn how to help fight racism, only to learn that its most prevalent on my own campus #yOUrbad • Last year, my (non-LGBTQ+) instructor started a conversation about how it is okay to use the word “fag” after the UPB Rap Battle. #yOUrbad • these classes should include convos bout systematic & institutionalized racism & give students tools 2 create change #yOUrbad • Failure to use faculty and students of color as nothing more than diversity tokens to win awards #yOUrbad • Failure on the university to speak out against police brutality and support #BlackLivesMatter #yOUrbad • When high-ranking professors can support settler colonialism as necessary and good #yOUrbad • If the goal of required genEd humanities is 2 expose students 2 “diversity” maybe OU needs to re-think what diversity means to them #yOUrbad • Failure to take a stance against the #DAPL by a university with one of the highest Indigenous populations #yOUrbad We need to @IndigenizeOU • Failure to have Latinx studies or Asian American studies at a university that is supposed to be diverse #yOUrbad •@President_Boren’s appropriation of Indigenous heritage to dodge hard questions about anti-Native policies #yOUrbad • Failure on the part of the university to require intro classes in ethnic studies so that students go beyond diversity #yOUrbad • When majority-white sororities get university awards for cultural diversity while ACTUAL multicultural orgs get ignored #yOUrbad • Seeing a higher ratio of POC at campus food jobs than in the classroom #yOUrbad • Not to say diversity training was effective but its sus i get an email that transfers arent required anymore after the recognition #yOUrbad • Though OU has been recognized for its swift steps towards diversity & inclusion, which I support, #yOUrbad is a great convo of visibility. • My dad (& uncle visiting from overseas) was dragged out of a fb game & interrogated for ‘messing with a strange device’ (iPhone) #yOUrbad • I often wonder if my education was truly worth all that I’ve lost as a women of color. This system feels hopeless 99% of the time. #yOUrbad • OU should
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Where was the Office of University Community on Monday when the #yOUrbad hashtag emerged? Where was it on Tuesday, on Wednesday (at least, during the day)? Students are asking to be heard, and the Office of University Community — whose job it is to ensure that OU’s diverse communities are being heard — only had this to say on twitter Wednesday morning: “Good morning, OU! Let’s have a great Wednesday!” Wednesday night, Vice President for University Community Jabar Shumate did follow through with a response — after 8 p.m. — but
didn’t address the hashtag. A week ago, OU’s administration had plenty to say. After receiving an award celebrating the university’s commitment to “making diversity and inclusion a top priority” on campus, OU President David Boren said the award confirmed its “goal of being a truly inclusive university family where all feel welcomed.” The whole statement from Boren on the award: 43 words. The statement from Boren when he “expelled” the two SAE members who’d already withdrawn from the university: 175 words.
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The silence from OU’s administration right now speaks volumes. The hypocrisy is deafening. If OU is so inclusive and so aware of students’ needs, why
should they have to turn to Twitter to share incidents of harassment and discrimination? Could it be because they haven’t been given the bias reporting system
that was promised to be up and running in March? It’s September. If that’s not enough, OU quietly dropped diversity training out of its Gateway curriculum and hasn’t yet hired a replacement for Kathleen Wong, who coordinated OU’s diversity training curriculum before leaving this summer. OU boasted that its newest freshman class was the most diverse in history, but diversity isn’t something to be achieved. It’s not a quota. Diversity is more than numbers — it’s more than recruiting minority students to come to the university. It’s about fostering an environment for all students to learn — not just the students who look like OU’s administrators. OU administrators: it’s time to say something. It’s time to do something. Want to prove your commitment to this university’s diverse communities? Now’s your chance. Has #yOUrb ad str uck a chord with you? Tell us about it. Email us with your thoughts or submit a guest column at dailyopinion@ ou.edu.
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