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Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield gets tackled by a Texas defender in the Cotton Bowl on Oct. 10, 2015. The underdog Longhorns upset OU 24-17.
RED RIVER SHUTDOWN Longhorns stun Sooners in Cotton Bowl, spoil Oklahoma’s undefeated start to season JOE BUETTNER | @JOE_BUETTNER ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
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ALLAS – A second half 14point deficit wasn’t unfamiliar territory for Oklahoma. The No. 10 Sooners stared at a week two loss in Knoxville, Tennessee, before mounting a spirited comeback, but the same result didn’t materialize for coach Bob Stoops’ group in Dallas. Junior quar terback Baker
Mayfield’s introduction to the Red River Showdown ended with a seven-point upset loss to a downtrodden Longhorn team. He was nearly magical again in OU’s fifth outing of the season, however. OU offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley drew up a play-action pass on second down and goal with a
little over five minutes left in the third quarter. Sophomore Samaje Perine stalled one Texas defender while Mayfield rolled out to his right and pinpointed a perfect pass to sophomore fullback Dimitri Flowers in the end zone. SEE SHOWDOWN PAGE 6
Tuition freeze possible with Celebrations abound Boren’s penny tax initiative to welcome holiday Polls show the idea is favored by voters from both parties PAGE JONES
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OU President David Boren said that if his recently announced penny tax initiative passes in November 2016, he could have the funds to freeze tuition rates. Boren’s penny tax would raise approximately $615 million specifically for Oklahoma education in one year. Of that sum, higher education in Oklahoma would receive $125 million, while the majority of the revenue would be put towards K-12 teacher salary raises. This money would contribute enough funds to OU to freeze tuition and fees from increasing, Boren said. “I would say we would freeze them for at least a couple of years, maybe longer depending upon how the budget impact is,” Boren said, “But I would say that I could foresee us freezing tuition and fees for at least two years.” Boren said his group, Oklahoma’s Children — Our Future, will file the initiative with the Oklahoma State Supreme Court in late October. Though Boren said he could use his position as university president in hopes of garnering student support for the initiative, he will file the initiative as a private citizen. B o r e n ’s p e n n y t a x i n i t i a tive would add a one cent tax to
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amended reflects a more welcoming environment on campus. The signing will launch the day’s events by solidifying the endorsement of the student body for this holiday, Byron said in the release. BRIANNA SIMS News Reporter “SGA is really excited about the @briannana18 signing ceremony and about the S t u d e n t G o v e r n m e n t day’s activities in general. This will Association is preparing to cel- be a really great learning opportuebrate the inaugural Indigenous nity for the students, and I know Peoples’ Day on Oct. 12, with the Native American students are native students sharing their excited to share their culture with their communiculture with the ty,” Byron said. larger university The events community. SGA President “In light of Boren’s w i l l c o n t i n u e throughout the A l e x By ro n a n proclamation of day around camnounced that the official celebration Indigenous Peoples’ pus, becoming a collaborative will be today, after Day on Oct. 5, a effort with differthe Indigenous Peoples’ Day reso- lot of departments ent departments lution is signed. wanted to show their and the Native comThe event is insupport, including American munities on our tended to create contributing their campus, Byron discussion between students own events or their said. “In light of about the history of Columbus Day, own way to promote B o r e n ’s p r o c Byron said in an the discussion of l a m a t i o n o f Indigenous email announcenative cultures.” Peoples’ Day on ment about the Oct. 5, a lot of deevent. ALEX BYRON, partments wantThe event beSGA PRESIDENT ed to show their gins with a signing support, includof the resolution at 9 a.m. in the South Oval’s Unity ing contributing their own events or their own way to promote the Garden, Byron said. The legislation will be signed discussion of native cultures,” today due to Undergraduate Byron said. Student Congress’ amending the language of the resolution to better reflect the aspirations Brianna Sims Brianna.M.Sims-1@ou.edu of the authors of the resolution, Indigenize OU. The language
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Oklahoma’s existing sales tax through a change to the state constitution. All the revenue from the tax would go directly to education funding, and none would go toward administrative spending. “Polling data demonstrates that a large majority of likely voters in both parties favor a sales tax,” Boren said. The initiative is planned to be bipartisan with elements that both parties can support, Boren said. After the initiative is filed with the courts, they have 90 days to determine whether it’s legal or not. If the courts declare the initiative legal, Boren said they have to get 135,000 signatures. However, he wants even more signatures than that. “But to be safe, we’re going to try to get 200,000 because people can come in for a month and try to
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knock signatures off… So you want to try to have some extra signatures,” Boren said. Boren said the general election ballot is the best chance the tax will have to pass. As far as the rest of the $615.5 million goes, $378 million will be dedicated to raise teacher salaries, $50 million would go to locally controlled reforms, $50 million would go to early childhood programs and $12.5 million would go to the vocational and technical school systems. Andrew Clark contributed to this report. Page Jones page.c.jones-1@ou.edu
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