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RESIDENCE HALLS

Access denied: Housing & Food Student’s resident said photos may violate contract status renewed, Student invites media into room to photograph possible bug infestation

allowing media into his hall to take photos, but the claims were found baseless according to the Housing & Food Living Guide and Terms and Conditions. The guide and terms and condiAJINUR SETIWALDI Campus Reporter tions do not contain any text that prohibits the media from reporting or taking pictures in the facility or the bedEditor’s Note: Steven Zoeller worked as rooms of residents. an opinion columnest for the OU Daily In the only mention of privacy in from Fall 2010 to Fall 2012 the guide, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 is cited, An OU student was told he violated which grants students the right to prihis housing agreement Thursday after vacy of records, both academic and

disciplinary. According to the guide, entry to a room is authorized by the permission of the resident. OU Housing & Food employees refused to let Daily managing editor Kyle Margerum and night editor Blayklee Buchanan take photos in the Cate Center Hume House after the resident, journalism sophomore Steven Zoeller, reported a bed bug infestation and invited the reporters into his room. SEE PHOTOS PAGE 3

TRANSPORTATION

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Construction workers level the ground to prepare for the new bus transit, located just north of the Duck Pond parking lot.

Bus station to be transferred CART station to move, make room for new Walk ATIBA WILLIAMS Campus Reporter

A new bus transfer station, which will be completed by Spring Break, will get city route buses off campus and clear space for the new Scholar’s Walk. The new station, called the Brooks Street Transfer Station, will accommodate the Norman city bus routes that Cleveland Area Rapid Transit service runs, according to Vicky Holland, OU Parking and Transit Marketing Specialist. The current bus route, which loops up the Van Vleet Oval and down Asp Avenue, would be in the way of a paved walking and biking path known as the Scholar’s Walk, which is already under construction. “It’s become impossible to be

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there anymore”, Holland said. During President David Boren’s term as president OU has become an increasingly pedestrian campus, meaning the campus has become friendlier to walkers and bikers, OU Press Secretary Michael Nash said. The Scholar’s Walk, is the third in a series of walkways at OU, following the Michael F. Price Walk on the west side of the South Oval, and the Roy T. Oliver Walk, which is north of Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, Nash said. Before the May 28 transfer station opening, new bus routes will have to be planned and drivers will have to be trained to accommodate the station, Holland said. “But we’re looking forward to it,” Holland said. The campus routes, which include the Apartment Loop and the research shuttles, will not move to the transfer station. Instead,

they will drop students off near the greenhouses on Asp Ave. at another station called the Campus Depo, Holland said. Not all students agree with the move, however. Psychology junior Michael Knapp, a veteran who suffers from congestive heart failure, would have to walk an extra block every day because of the move, he said. “I don’t think they’re thinking about the disabled,” Knapp said. The project meets accessibility standards, meaning it meets all codes for individuals who are disabled, Nash said. Atiba Williams chikechild@gmail.com

plans to pursue master’s degree

Approximately 25 students at OU are undocumented immigrants CEDAR FLOYD

Campus Reporter

The weeks of waiting were getting to her. Like many seniors, Jazmin Madrigal, a human relations senior, didn’t know where she was going after graduation or whether she would be able to get a job using her degree. However, unlike most, Madrigal was not watching her mailbox for internship acceptances or job opportunities; she was waiting for a letter from the government that had the potential to change her life completely. Madrigal was waiting for her letter of acceptance to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provides certain undocument- J A Z M I N ed immigrants who arrived in the U.S. MADRIGAL before age 16 with a two-year work permit, according to the Immigration Equality website. For Madrigal, who received her acceptance letter in January of this year, it means she’ll be able to apply for a bilingual teacher’s aid position in OKC public schools and, eventually, pursue a master’s in school counseling at the University of Central Oklahoma, she said. For now, she can relax and not have to fear deportation. “I just knew I was going to get my degree and have it not be useful here in Oklahoma where I’ve grown up. It was very sad,” Madrigal said. “I didn’t know where I was going, like most seniors, maybe, but three times worse.” “I didn’t know When Madrigal was where I was going, 9 years old, her parents like most seniors, brought her to the United maybe, but three States in search of a better future, she said. Despite times worse.” b e i n g b o r n i n M e x i c o, Madrigal considers the U.S. JAZMIN MADRIGAL, HUMAN RELATIONS SENIOR to be her home, a home she could be forced to leave if her Deferred Action status isn’t renewed in two years. “It would be much easier on me than on some of my friends because I remember [Mexico]—sometimes they don’t remember or don’t even know the language. I would be able to accommodate that, but I feel like Oklahoma is my home.” There are approximately 25 students at OU who are undocumented, a reality made possible by the fact that Oklahoma public universities do not require students to provide their social security numbers, Madrigal said. Furthermore, anyone who attended an Oklahoma high school pays in-state tuition, a boon for undocumented students who cannot receive financial aid, including loans, of any kind, Madrigal said. SEE DREAM PAGE 2

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Cate housing officials did not want us taking photos in dorm Opinion: Our efforts to investigate bedbugs in Cate were impeded. (Page 4)

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