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OUPD baffled at citation drop No campus citations have been given since Sept. 4 ARIANNA PICKARD campus Reporter
OUPD issued zero nontraffic citations from the beginning of September to mid-October, a fact that the department finds hard to explain. In the two weeks leading up to the drop, the department issued 19 non-traffic citations ranging from public intoxication to interference with a public officer, according to documents requested by The Daily. While OU Police Department spokesman Lt. Bruce Chan said he cannot explain precisely the reason for the gap, he said the number of arrests might have
affected the number of observed citations. Citations are not recorded when arrests are made, Chan said. Public intoxication represented 14 of the 19 citations given out before Sept. 4, and most of these occurred on the weekends, according to the police reports. None have been given from Sept. 4 to Oct.18. Other non-traffic citations given this semester include petit larceny, outraging public decency and curfew for persons under 18 years of age, according to police records. The Norman Municipal Court processes approximately 5,000 non-traffic offenses per year, according to the city of Norman’s website. The maximum penalty in Municipal Court for a nontraffic violation is $750 and/
BY THe NUmBeRs OUPD citations Non-traffic citations given between Aug. 22 and Sept. 3:
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publication intoxication
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age
interference with public officer curfew for persons under 18 years of
petit larceny interference with public officer
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non-traffic citations
outraging public decency
or 60 days in jail. OUPD has not given any citations for tobacco use on campus so far, Chan said. “We’ve only issued warnings, and we’ve only issued maybe four or five of them since July,” Chan said. The warnings mostly
Source: OUPD
consist of a verbal explanation of the university’s new tobacco policy, so they won’t have to be cited in the future, Chan said. Arianna Pickard arianna.j.pickard-1@ou.edu
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Culture to come to life the Henderson-Tolson Cultural Center to serve their salsa and take donations. Tuesday A dinner and date night will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Henderson-Tolson Cultural Center. Wednesday From 4 to 6 p.m., there will be a trip to TG Farms to navigate the see HASA PAGe 2
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New ownership, same old Greek House Original owners moving to Greece JARRETT LANGFORD campus Reporter
A Campus Corner staple is seeing some changes after its owners
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decided to move back to Greece. Greek House, which has been on the corner of Boyd Street and Jenkins Avenue for more than 30 years, is now under new ownership after it’s former owners, Angelo and Helen Dimas decided to retire and return to their
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home country of Greece earlier this month. The Campus Corner classic is now owned by the Tajbakhsh family, friends of the Dimas’. “My father became friends with Angelo around the time he decided to retire,” Nima
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$10.4 million given for diabetes research Second grant given within five years JAKE MORGAN
kappa kappa Gamma and Sigma Phi epsilon students carve pumpkins during the Hispanic American Student Association Pumpkin Carving event Thursday, outside the kappa kappa Gamma house.
year, said Evodio Estrada, the association’s secretary. The group is pledging to be more involved on campus and to host JARRETT LANGFORD events that would benefit its memcampus Reporter bers by teaching them about their OU will get a taste of Hispanic culture, Estrada said. culture next week as aguas frescas, free food, salsa and a mariachi band Monday finds its way to campus. There will be a homemade The Hispanic American Student salsa sale and competition to benAssociation will spread awareness efit the group’s philanthropy. of Hispanic culture and traditions Various groups across campus will during the week and throughout the come together from 1 to 4 p.m. in
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Tajbakhsh said. While the ownership may have changed, the restaurant will remain largely the same, Tajbakhsh said. “Everything is going to be the
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The university was given a multimillion-dollar grant tor further research on a disease affecting 10.1 percent of adults in Oklahoma. The National Institutes of Health has given a $10.8 million grant to OU ’s Harold Hamm Diabetes Center to fund a research and mentoring program for another five years, President Boren announced Thursday. This is the second grant the diabetes center has received from the Centers for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) to support a program that pairs promising young researchers with experienced research scientists in the field of diabetes, said Tim Lyons, Harold Hamm Diabetes Center director. The center received its first five-year grant of $10.5 million for the program in 2006. With the addition of this grant, OU has received over $30 million in research grants from the NIH in the past 30 days, Boren said. Other grants include a grant of about $10 million to the Peggy and Charles Stephenson Caner Center and another grant to a protein research facility. “No other public university in America can say they’ve received these kinds of grants in just one 30-day period,” Boren said. The current grant will fund four different projects
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each led by junior investigators under the guidance of older researchers, said Theresa Green, media specialist at OU Health Sciences Center. “This award may help us bring the young minds in that can be mentored from senior folks here,” said Harold Hamm, CEO of Continental Resources and major donor of the center. “It’s a bold move to say ‘We’re going to go for a cure.’” Finding a cure will take team effort over multiple generations, and during the its first five years, the program mentored five junior scientists who now conduct independent research on diabetes, said Jian-xing Ma, a leader in diabetes research. Ma will lead the implementation of the grant during the next five years. Diabetes affects 8.3 percent of the US population, according to the Centers of Disease Control. “It’s costing all of us in everything we do,” Hamm said. Boren, who has Type II diabetes, said OU has received over 100 million dollars in research grants for diabetes research since 2002. “The work of this center is pressing forward to finding a cure for diabetes, and we’re gaining momentum every single day,” Boren said. 10.1 percent of adults in Oklahoma have diabetes, according to the Kaiser Foundation’s state health facts. This is higher than the 6.2 percent national standard. Jake Morgan jakemorgan@ou.edu;
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