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Sooners to say ‘Je suis Charlie’ Students advocate for free speech in response to attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo PAGE JONES
for free speech in response to the attack on satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo earlier this month in Paris. A group of OU students will The event will take place at gather on Monday to advocate noon on the South Oval. At the
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event, students will write the Twitter hashtag #JeSuisCharlie, which translates to “I am Charlie” in English, onto pieces of paper. The students will write the Hashtag in their native languages, said Clara Mailhot, a French student studying abroad at OU. Students will take pictures with their hand-written signs. After
the pictures are taken, Mailhot will send the photos to French universities. Mailhot organized the event with fellow French exchange students Laura Tamarelle and Alexandre Xausa after the attack. The students planned the event to show support for France while also supporting freedom of
expression, Mailhot said. The attack took place on Jan. 7 when Muslim extremists attacked the Charlie Hebdo newspaper office. The attack killed 12 people, including two police officers and the newspaper’s editor. Extremists targeted the
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f you don’t commute to campus before 9 a.m., your chances of getting a morning spot in some of campus’s most popular lots and garages are slim. Of the seven facilities surveyed by OU Parking Services on their Twitter account, five are full, on average, by 9 a.m. Garages and lots
• Brooks-Monnett and Brooks-Jenkins lots: 9:30 a.m. • Lot near Bud Wilkinson Building: 9:45 a.m. • Lot near Boyd House on Campus Corner: 10 a.m. • Duck Pond lot: Parking Services rarely Tweets that this lot is full Some lots, such as the one south of Oklahoma Memorial Stadium near Huston Huffman Center, are not tracked by OU Parking Services. Average fill up time for those lots is unavailable. Alternatives to parking on campus: Cleveland Area Rapid Transport drives students to campus for free from the Lloyd Noble Center. A bus arrives at the center every five minutes. Anyone can park for free at Lloyd Noble Center.
The Asp Avenue Parking Facility and Elm Avenue Parking Facility, located near Oklahoma Memorial Stadium and Catlett Music Center, respectively, are almost exclusive to students who attend classes before 9 a.m. because otherwise they’re full, according to data from OU Parking Services Twitter account. The OU Parking Services Twitter account, which tweets updates on parking space availability, suggests those garages are full on average by 9 a.m. OU has seven parking lots designated for commuter use. These lots fill up at a slower rate than the garages, but on average are full by noon, according to OU Parking Services tweets. Lots and average fill up time
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• Lot near Sarkeys Energy Center: 8:45 a.m. • Asp Avenue Parking Facility: 9 a.m. • Elm Avenue Parking Facility: 9 a.m.
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To park on campus students must have a campus parking permit. Students who don’t live on campus must have a commuter parking permit.
Commuter parking permits currently start at $119.50, but will decrease to $95.50 on Jan. 15, said Vicky Holland, OU Parking Services spokesperson. Parking on campus without a permit is punishable by a $25 citation from the OU Police Department. The citation can be appealed. If it is not paid within 30 days, it will be charged to the student’s bursar account with an additional $5 fee. Page Jones page.c.jones-1@ou.edu
ON TWITTER Follow OU Parking Services @OUParking tweets updates about parking availability on campus in the following lots: • Bud Wilkinson Building (116 spots) • Duck Pond (847 spots) • Brooks-Monnett (243 spots) • Brooks-Jenkins (180 spots) • Sarkeys Energy Center (99 spots) • North of Boyd House (199 spots) • Huston Huffman Center (579 spots) • Elm Avenue (576 spots) • Asp Avenue (724 spots) Source: Vicky Holland, OU Parking Services spokesperson
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Starting this semester, The Daily will have an online section dedicated to articles translated into Spanish. The Enrollment and Financial Services office has given Student Media a grant to hire Arní Álvarez, a Spanish doctoral student, to translate the content, said Blayklee Buchanan, D ai l y e dt o r - i n - ARNÍ chief. ÁLVAREZ “Matt Hamilton is spearheading an effort across the university to better reach out to the Hispanic community and The Daily wants to get involved w i t h t h a t ,” s a i d Ni c k Jungman, Student Media director. Álvarez will choose stories he thinks will be especially of interest to the Hispanic community, Jungman said. “What it gives The D aily the oppor tunity to do is connect with Spanish-speaking families so those families know more comfortably and more wholly what’s going on at their kids’ university,” Buchanan said. However, the project is still evolving. As Álvarez decides what content to translate, he will look for ways to make the project relevant and useful, Jungman said. “Álvarez is going to have a lot of latitude to craft the job in ways that make sense to him,” Jungman said. “Besides just translating content for The Daily, we’re hoping that he’ll be doing outreach to the Spanish-speaking community.” Daisy Creager Daisy.C.Creager-1@ou.edu