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1 Suicide is too many Boomer Lake hosts Red Dirt Military Moms’ commemoration for the 22 veterans, on average, who take their lives every day.

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22-mile Walk Honors victims of veteran suicide >Red Dirt Military Moms holds secondannual Warrior Walk BY aub rie B ow l a n

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s the sun rose over Boomer Lake, the light shined on the row of 22 pairs of combat boots displayed in the park to represent the number of U.S. veterans who take their own lives every day.

This issue has led to a surge of remembrance walks, runs and other events held in solidarity against it. The lake was the scene of one of the walks Saturday morning, and more than 60 people stood in line to check in for the event.

Stillwater’s Red Dirt Military Moms held its secondannual Remember the 22 Walk to raise awareness for veteran suicide rates in the U.S. The walk was 22 miles, which is six laps around the lake. Although most participants walked the trail, others ran, and some carried large, weighted bags to represent the conditions that soldiers go through in combat.

Eva Turner and her moth-

er, Pat Apperson, co-founded Red Dirt Military Moms to provide an organization to local families dealing with prewar and postwar troubles as well as active-duty issues.

The cause hits close to home for Apperson, who had three grandsons serve in the Army and one in the Marines.

Turner’s son, Andrew, is an active-duty sergeant stationed at Fort Riley near Junction City, Kansas, and is about to deploy to Korea for nine months.

“Red Dirt Moms started because he was my baby, and he left me,” Turner said. “I didn’t know how to not be a mom. There were no more ball games, no more band concerts, no more school programs to go to. And there were no military mothers’ organizations here, so we started one.”

The organization hosted its first walk last year, and 14 people participated. This year, more than four times the number of the inaugural year made the trek.

Red Dirt Military Moms teamed with Rick Hansen, a coordinator for the Student

City veteran centers and holds sessions with a Tulsa counselor for veterans every Tuesday, Hansen said.

September is Suicide Prevention Month, and the Student Veteran Organization organized a combat boot display in the Student Union and brought it to Boomer Lake Park on Saturday. The organization partnered with Red Dirt Military Moms for the walk because the organizations’ “goals are the same: to raise awareness,” Hansen said.

Hansen said mental health awareness is key to lowering suicide rates.

“In the military, you don’t talk about your feelings,” he said. “You don’t visit mental health professionals because your command’s gonna find out, and all of a sudden, you’re not being promoted.

You can lose security clearance or your job. So you just aubrie bowlan/O’COLLY bury it.”

A boot display at Boomer Lake Park commemorates the 22 This year’s walk was “very veterans who, on average, take their own lives every day. real” to Turner and Apperson; Andrew, Turner’s son, but it represents about 650 Veteran Organization at suffered this loss when his veteran-students and 270 Oklahoma State, to get the best friend took his own life word out about the event. military-affiliated students.

The organization is only a a few days before ThanksThe department coordinates year old on the OSU campus, with the Tulsa and Oklahoma giving in 2015. Her nephew

Bobby Evans is a Purple Heart recipient and led Saturday’s walkers around the lake while carrying 65 pounds in his backpack. Evans is filming a documentary on postwar recovery.

Returning from combat is hardest on veterans who don’t have family to support them, Turner said. Taking her uncle to the Veteran Affairs hospital, she saw some veterans are treated with no one to care for them, and she said it’s those situations that make her understand how someone could “make that ultimate decision.”

“There’s training to go into war,” Turner said. “There’s no training to go back into civilian life.”

For more information on Red Dirt Military Moms or its parent organization, Warriors for Freedom, visit their website, warriorsforfreedom.org.

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Fourth Avenue Parking Garage lacks Safety Equipment BY oliv ia Rid dl e staff reporter

There are no blue light emergency phones or operating security cameras in the Fourth Avenue Garage.

The garage, which has been open for more than four weeks, has 687 parking spaces. A permit for the garage costs $275 and is available to only staff and commuter students.

The Oklahoma State Department of Parking and Transportation Services is unsure of exactly when security cameras will be installed, but Jan Cook-Hernandez, Parking Services manager,

said she is hopeful it will happen soon.

Cook-Hernandez said she knows her department is working on installing the security cameras and has been for “a week or two.”

“I was over there last week, either Wednesday or Thursday,” Cook-Hernandez said.

“The camera guys were there.

I talked to one of them, and they said they were getting (security cameras) hooked up as soon as possible. Hopefully they do that.”

Cook-Hernandez directed the O’Colly to the OSU Police Department for information on installing the

blue emergency phones, but OSUPD Lt. Mark Shearer said installation of the emergency phones is not OSUPD’s responsibility.

The emergency phones were ordered, Shearer said, but their status is unknown.

“I’m sure there will be an adequate amount,” Shearer said. “I’m not with parking. (The Fourth Avenue Garage) is their facility. Since I’m with the police, not with parking services, I don’t really know anything. That’s their responsibility.”

Cook-Hernandez then

pointed the O’Colly toward OSU Long Range Facility Management. Cade Pearson, construction manager for OSU Long Range Facility Management, said the security cameras should be installed no later than Friday.

Junior Diana Ting, who uses the garage, doesn’t always feel safe walking to her car, she said.

“There’s no blue lights in here, but there’s also no blue lights anywhere surrounding here,” Ting

said. “You would have to go way further on campus to get to one. It’s super sketchy.”

The cost doesn’t balance the value, she said.

“It kind of bothers me because I spent a ton of money on the parking permit for this garage, and I want to feel safe here,” Ting said. “I kind of expected there to be at least a couple (security cameras) somewhere.”

Nathan Laszlo, a business management junior, said the parking garage should have cameras. The garage can feel daunting, he said.

“Especially considering the rest of campus has that type

of safety stuff, why shouldn’t this place?” Laszlo said.

Cook-Hernandez advised students to follow basic safety procedures at all campus parking garages and lots.

“Definitely lock your vehicle,” Cook-Hernandez said.

“Know your surroundings when you’re stepping out of your vehicle.”

Olivia Riddle is a mulitimedia journalism freshman from Fort Worth, Texas. She can be reached at olivia.riddle@okstate.edu.

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OSu plans to replace on-campus lots with garages BY vi cto r ia dodge staff reporter

Oklahoma State University’s parking problems will be solved, but it might take until 2030.

OSU plans to remove parking from the core of campus and into garages on the corners of campus, said Mike Buchert, director of Long Range Facilities at OSU. The most recent development in the plan was the Fourth Avenue Garage, the second of four parking structures. The Monroe Street Garage was the first.

There is still construction on the Fourth Avenue Garage, Buchert said, but it is close to completion.

“We’re going through what’s called our ‘punch list,’” Buchert said. “It is functional enough for cars to park in it. Not all the parking spaces are open yet, but the vast majority are. It’s not as clean as we would like it. Some of the glass needs to be replaced; some of the steps need to have some paint over spray cleaned up.”

The construction on that block, though, is far from over. Construction for a performing arts center and plaza will start January 2017.

The plaza will be at Ramsey Street and University Avenue.

“It is designed to be focused more towards music,” Buchert said. “The current performing arts center will then focus itself more on theater.”

Map by Oklahoma State University, Photo Illustration by Hayden Barber/O’Colly

As part of a long-term parking plan, on-campus parking will be removed from Oklahoma State; four parking garages will replace all lots. Construction will be completed in 2030.

In October, construction to relocate a major sanitary sewer line till began. The gravel parking lot next to the garage will be fenced off at the beginning of next year when construction starts, Buchert said.

Buchert said the third garage will be where the Kerr-Drummond residence hall is after the buildings are demolished.

Nigel Jones, university architect of Long Range Facilities, said the Drummond parking garage is not only good because of its proximity, but also the natural slope of the area leads to easier building.

The final garage will be on the east side of campus but has no planned exact location, Buchert said. One of the places looked at for

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the fourth garage is near the University Parish of Saint John the Evangelist on West Miller Avenue.

Long Range Facilities has made offers for the church in the past but couldn’t acquire the land.

The church is constructing a building west of Stillwater, but Buchert said it might keep its current building for student services.

Because the garages will be removed from the campus interior, there will be a bus system put in place, he said.

“Here in Stillwater, we’ve been spoiled for so long because we did have this space,” Jones said.

As OSU builds, it has to expand, and the best place to build is parking lots,

Jones said.

“That’s a more urban approach to things,” Jones said. “That’s the way it’s really going to be as the campus grows and evolves.”

The parking structures are a part of OSU’s plan.

In 2005, the OSU/A&M Board of Regents commissioned a 20-year scheme.

The proposal extended another five years, but Phil Thomas, associate director of Long Range Facilities, said changes to the plan are nothing new.

“A master plan is never a final document,” Thomas said. “You re-look at your master plan and you update it based on what you achieved, and you reevaluate based on opportunities that you’ve identified

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within that master plan.”

The objective of the plan is to return campus to its original layout from 1910.

As specified in the Master Plan 2025, the layout was “green quadrangles with buildings placed symmetrically and axially.”

Jones said the campus has a solid axis going north to south, but the lines going east to west turn into a grid pattern.

“The scale of the spaces, the scale of the buildings, all of those things that make our campus what it is, that’s what we’re trying to do,” Jones said. “We’re creating quads.”

Jones said the campus lost a lot of its green spaces in the 1980s and 1990s when the school put asphalt down for parking lots.

“As the campus has grown, we’ve had two options: Do we keep businesses (majors) together, or, like other campuses, they started building off campus and you end up with the bus system?”

Jones said.

With more construction in the works, parking lots will start disappearing, and it’s up to OSU Parking and Transit and Director Steve Spradling to play catch up.

“All a parking lot is, is a good place to build a building,” Spradling said.

When it comes to building placement, Long Range Facilities gets the final word. Spradling said the parking department is more reactive than anything.

Parking expenses are an issue, as well. OSU hasn’t gradually increased its parking fee, leaving the school with holes to fill, Spradling said, which means more construction is to come.

Buchert said there will be a new graduate lab for engineers at Hester Street and Athletic Avenue.

Long Range Facilities is working on making the ROTC parking lot into a green space, said Jones, the university architect.

As agriculture develops, it is expected to grow to Cleveland Street and West Hall of Fame Avenue, Jones said, and the green houses will be redone.

The Cordell Center, west of Boone Pickens Stadium, is scheduled to come down.

“Develop a kind of plaza, which would maybe have trees but still have parking,” Jones said.

All of the construction in the past decade has been done without state money, Jones said. Affording the buildings either comes from private donations or a bond called “a master lease,” which means each student is paying a building fee.

“You’re paying the mortgage for this,” Jones said.

Victoria Dodge is a sports media senior from Sebastopol, California. She can be reached at vickiy. dodge@okstate.edu.

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Sprouts coming, local competition preparing the competition.

“Competition is always good,” Fry said. “We have Deciding where to go grocery shopping is about to made major changes in this store in preparation for get a little more difficult.

Sprouts Farmers Market is (Sprouts) coming in, and we set to open its Stillwater loca- know we’ll have our market and they’ll have theirs. … All tion Oct. 26 at 909 W. Sixth Ave., where Consumers IGA in all, we’re ready for them, was, according to the Sprouts and we’ve planned for it.”

Food Pyramid’s changes in website. preparation for Sprouts comConstruction was approved ing into the local market had March 7 and has an estimated much to do with its produce cost of $1.8 million, accordand some remodeling, Fry ing to the city of Stillwater said. building permit application.

“We concentrated more on Food Pyramid mana fresher image and updated ager Roger Fry said several display merchandising, so changes have been made in anticipation of Sprouts’ open- that we’re not putting as ing, and they look forward to much product out at a time,”

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Coming to Stillwater What: Sprouts Farmers Market Inventory: fresh foods, meats, produce Opening Day: Oct. 26 Where: 909 W. Sixth Ave. Hours: 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week Fry said. “We’re constantly rotating and turning the product on a quicker basis.”

Sheldon Shaw, an architect for AAD Fitch Inc., the firm that designs most Sprouts locations, said this branch posed some difficulties, most of which had to do with the building.

“We develop (Sprouts’) prototype, and we do most, if not near 90 percent, of their

store for them,” Shaw said.

“Whether it’s a brand new building from the ground up or if it’s a building like this that might be an older grocery store that we are remodeling or rebuilding or expanding.”

Shaw said many changes had to be made to the normal building design of a Sprouts to fit with the building.

“The deal that the real

estate department had made was it’s more of an, ‘as is,’ condition,” Shaw said. “This building had been added on in the past several times, and we really had no really good ‘as built’ conditions, so we really didn’t know what we were getting into.”

Another issue was the building’s age and some of the materials that had been used for construction in the past such as asbestos, Shaw said.

Despite all of these issues, Shaw said Sprouts is still on schedule to open before the holiday season.

Although some OSU students, such as Reid Joyner,

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Dale Barnes BRINGING US TO GOD! “For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.” (1 Pet.3:18 NIV) Peter simplifies things. Sometimes a simple, clear word picture can be very helpful. The purpose of Christ’s work is to bring us to God. First, he had to remove the great obstacle that was separating us; our sin. We have all sinned, and we were so blind and trapped that we saw no need even to reach out to God. “No man seeks God; no not one.” So the righteous one died and paid the penalty for us, the unrighteous. He moved the obstacle out to the way. Amazing!

As this good news goes out by preaching and witnessing, the Spirit of God touches us and shows our need, and God’s solution. He opens our spiritual eyes and we see Christ and his eternal salvation.

a business sophomore, have “no strong feelings,” toward Sprouts, some students, such as Ashley Walters, a natural resources junior, are excited at the idea.

“I really enjoy shopping there,” Walters said. “I prefer it to Wal-Mart’s produce because it’s better priced and usually fresher.”

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Remember his purpose is to bring us to God. Not only has God moved the obstacle; sin, but he is telling us that we can have fellowship with God. By his Holy Spirit and the Bible, we can grow in the knowledge of God. We can get to know him better, experience his life and do things with him that will better others. We are brought to God to have a personal, close relationship with him. Christ died to bring you to God! But it does not stop there. The apostle Paul gives us wonderful incite. He tells us the Lord Jesus, one day, will descend from heaven with a shout, the voice of an archangel and God’s trumpet call. Wow! The true believers who have died, will rise from the grave, and those believers who are alive at the time, will be caught up together and meet the Lord Jesus in the air.

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Voter Registration & Information Tables (Sept. 19-26th, 11am-1pm, Chi-O Clock) – Do you need to register to vote? Do you have questions about the voting process or this election? Then come get some answers!

Round Up Block Party (Sept. 21st, 10am-2pm, SU Plaza) This event includes voter registration and information tables, free food, music, photo booth, an inflatable obstacle course, and more!

Pies & Politics (Sept. 21st, 7pm, SU Theater-Room 203) Senator-Elect Tom Dugger and an international student panel will be discussing civic engagement and the importance of voting! There will also be cherry, apple, and blueberry pies!

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Presidential Debate Watch Party & Bingo Night (Sept. 26th, 7:30pm, SU Cowboy Underground-Room 070) – Come watch the first of three presidential debates while winning prizes with Bingo!

TEXT, TALK, VOTE Get your friends and text “VOTE” to 42016 for a facilitated conversation on civic engagement and issues surrounding the election! Use code TTV700 when prompted! *Brought to you by the Department of Leadership and Campus Life, the Student Union, and the Office of the Vice President of Student Affairs.

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For any questions regarding the voting process, check out:

LcL.okstate.edu/voteweek2016

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