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software struggles late Fixes to banner system prompt issues for Oklahoma State students, faculty

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page 4: Chambers’ motion to change venue denied

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OSU’s new software system causes problems United Health Care, is Jordan’s only health care Evan Jordan, a fourthinsurance provider. When year doctoral student in Jordan found out she experimental psychology, wasn’t covered, she had to was on a waiting list at cancel her regular appointOklahoma State University ments she made before since August to get health school started. insurance.

“Dermatology can wait,” She finally got an insur- she said. “My concern is, ance card Oct. 24. if I am seriously injured, I Failures in the newly can go to the (emergency implemented software sys- room) and get my money tem, known as Banner, left back at a later time, but some people without pay how long? Paying out for two weeks at the start of pocket when you’re of the semester and about not sure when there’s a 150 more without health coverage date in sight is a care coverage. terrifying thing to do.”

It mostly affected graduJordan said the psycholate student employees, and ogy department was not those without health insur- aware she wasn’t covered ance were still able go to at the beginning of the a doctor if they back filed semester. When she called an order to be reimbursed the Graduate College, she later. However, Jordan said they knew about the said the solution was as problem and put her name inconvenient as not being on a list. Jordan said she covered at all. was not warned of any is“If I had back filed, I’m sue before she found out. not going to see my money Graduate assistants are for maybe 12 weeks,” eligible for health insurJordan said. “But as a ance based on the number poor college student who of hours enrolled and doesn’t have any money, hours worked.

I can’t afford to wait that Holli Boneé, OSU hulong.” man resources director of Darlene Hightower, benefits, said a software OSU IT chief information program was created for officer, said in an email to the department and implethe O’Colly that departmented in July and the ments will continue to health care insurance error identify and correct issues. was a result of switching “Sometimes corrections to Banner. are needed after appli“A programmer had to cations are placed into completely rebuild that production,” Hightower file,” Boneé said. “And it said. “Interfaces between was late to begin with beBanner and third-party ap- cause of the complexity, so plications will be ongoing we thought it was working, as the need arises.” but as we were moving The school’s insurance, along, we had other grad BY chr istie tap p

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support had ended. OSU had also contracted with a third party company, which wrote software for aid requirements, and those system updates were What is it? no longer available.

A universitywide software Texas A&M University switched to the Banner system system in 2008. Ramash What does it facilitate?

Kannappan, director of enterprise information Human resources, payroll, systems, said it costs the Texas A&M System about financial aid, student $400,000 a year for mainregistration, student grades tenance. He did not know the initial cost.

How much did it cost?

“Maintenance cost is pretty typical when you’re $21.3 million buying a package like this What is the maintenance cost? from a vendor,” Kannappan said.

More than $1 million a year Texas A&M has several branch campuses across Texas, including West Texapproved the Banner students who called and as A&M University, Texas system in 2014, and the said, ‘Hey I don’t have A&M San Antonio and implementation process health insurance.’”

Texas A&M Health SciBoneé said there was no began in 2015. The proence Center. Each campus way of knowing the system gram costs $21.26 million, has its own Banner system to apply the software and didn’t affect students who with its own execution were eligible for insurance hardware purchases for process, Kannappan said. three years. Beginning in unless the students called But there were no major 2017, the annual mainthe department. Human problems after it was intenance cost will be $1.1 resources worked with stalled, he said. million. the IT department and “With any system there The Banner System the Graduate College to are bound to be issues but has been applied to all compile a list of students nothing we were not able who might not be covered, the schools in the region, to resolve,” he said. “A lot including Connors State, she said. of the issues were training Oklahoma Panhandle State type of issues because it Boneé also said the department communicated University and Langston was such a major change University. Banner supwith students about the for all the users in the ports more than 52,000 us- system — for the employhealth insurance error through the Graduate Col- ers across nine campuses. ees, faculty and staff, and The OSU/A&M System the students who use it for lege by email throughout was the last institution in the semester. their own self service. It the nation to stop using the was a major change.”

Students who the error affected were retroactively SCT Plus system. HightHightower said during ower said the technology enrolled in the program winter break functional in the old system was from Aug. 1. and technical departments The Board of Regents limiting, and the vendor will be working together to

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prioritize, test and implement new releases for all applications including human resources and payroll, finance, financial aid, accounts receivable, admissions, and student registration.

Classes will reconvene Jan. 17, allowing an extra week to ensure there is ample time to post grades from the fall semester and process transcript requests.

The Registrar’s Office requested an extra week in 2015 as a precaution. Students will not be affected and will be able to view grades once posted.

There will also be updates to other software that may have been compromised during the switch to Banner.

Banner comes with a single sign-in for the web portal, but the mobile phone registration will be released during spring.

Degree Works, an online degree tracking system, and a Student Educational Planner have no release date yet.

OSU IT declined to be interviewed in person or over the phone and responded through email.

Christie Tapp is a multimedia journalism senior from Yukon. She can be reached at cltapp@ okstate.edu.

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When Oklahoma State plays in the Alamo Bowl against Colorado on Dec. 29, the joy of playing in a bowl game won’t be its only reward.

Each school that plays in a bowl game earns a sum of money for its conference in the form of a bowl payout.

The revenue is then split among the schools in the conference. When the Cowboys accepted an invitation to play the Buffaloes in San Antonio, they earned the Big 12 $3.825 million, according to statisticbrain.com.

Additionally, conferences that have contracts with the

Rose, Orange or Sugar bowls earn an extra $51 million from the College Football Playoff. For each bowl-eligible school that reaches the NCAA Academic Progress Rate goal, the conference earns another $300,000.

OSU reached the APR goal.

Six teams from the Big 12 were bowl eligible, and based on where they landed, the conference will earn $70.6 million from bowl payouts in 2016. Assuming the revenue is shared evenly, each team will stand to make a little more than $7 million.

The Big 12 sent seven teams to bowl games last season, including Oklahoma to

the College Football Playoff.

Each team that makes the playoff receives $6 million for its conference, and the Big 12 brought in $76.9 million last year.

The Cowboys will play Colorado for the first time since 2009. OSU won the game 31-28. The Buffaloes left the conference in June 2010 to join the Pac-12.

Kickoff is set for 8 p.m.

Chandler Vessels is a sports media senior from Moore. He can be reached at sports.ed@ocolly.com.

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All of Adacia Chambers’ defense motions were denied Tuesday at the Payne County Courthouse, according to court records.

Payne County District Judge Stephen Kistler denied Chambers’ motion to move her second-degree murder trial, along with motions to suppress several law enforcement testimonies and prohibiting the victims’ families from showing emotion in the courtroom.

Chambers reportedly crashed a silver Hyundai Elantra into a crowd at the end

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Adacia Chambers is charged with four counts of murder in the second degree and 42 counts of assault and battery.

of the 2015 Sea of Orange Homecoming Parade in Stillwater, killing four people and injuring dozens. She is charged with four counts of murder in the second degree and 42 counts of assault and battery by means of force likely to produce death.

Tony Coleman, Chambers’ attorney, filed eight motions Oct. 8 against the state.

Chambers’ jury trial will be at 9 a.m Jan. 10.

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Damien Chazelle’s sophomore feature “La La Land,” while largely setting the world of popular criticism on fire, has seen extensive pushback from the likes of Film Twitter and other sources. This criticism, though, loses sight of the film’s true purpose.

The questions burdening Chazelle’s biggest critics are sociopolitical, largely centered on the film’s lack of any sort of commentary on contemporary identity politics. For instance, why is the film so in love with the history of jazz while focusing on a cutesy white couple? And why does the film portray modern Los Angeles in such a flattering light when the real City of Angels has seen its fair share of socioeconomic demons as of late?

I think these would be legitimate points of contention if Chazelle, a young white man, were examining the relationships between jazz and Hollywood, privileged Caucasian urbanites and impoverished African-Americans or even midcentury and contemporary Los Angeles.

Those issues, though, are far from his purview, and had it been otherwise, I think the up-and-coming filmmaker would have been opening a much worse can of worms.

“La La Land” is instead the work of a born romanticist whose thematic concerns are mostly the joys of light, color and passion. It is

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“La La Land” is director Damien Chazelle’s second movie after 2014’s “Whiplash,” which was nominated for Best Picture.

as self-aware as Tarantino’s most difficult works, but it is less concerned with the cynical joys of genre history than it is with the manner in which film images can naturally connote love and, moreover, reckon with its inherent difficulties.

That love is personified through Emma Stone’s character, Mia, while those difficulties are brought to bear

by Ryan Gosling’s character, Sebastian. Mia is inherently self-sacrificing and selfdeprecating, but Sebastian is unfailingly proud to a degree that isolates and limits him.

At first, Chazelle judges neither of them, but when they begin to fall in love, “La La Land” clearly takes Mia’s side, giving her the space to fashion her own professional future in whatever way she sees fit.

This is a step that paradoxically reflects and subverts the tenets of Hollywood classicism to which the film is so clearly indebted. Golden Age dramas, musical or otherwise, would similarly reject any ambiguity as to who is in the

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right, but they would rarely side with the woman in any substantial way. (If you do not wish to take my word on that, just watch any classical film noir or anything Hitchcock ever made.)

In the end, Chazelle’s candy-coated daydream has one clear philosophical stance, one that does not weigh down its narrative but nevertheless renders it progressive in its gender politics. Women will make and take their own paths, and their power of choice stands above all else. That notion is, finally, filtered into a more thoroughly romantic idea — that the past can be meaningful even if it does not hijack your emotional present. A lifetime of love can exist within the limits of a tender song.

Skyler Osburn is an English junior with an emphasis in screen studies from Enid. He can be reached at skylewo@ okstate.edu.

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