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Dominic Barone, principal of Madison Elementary, sits in his office Nov. 6. OU has bought several residences near the school, which has a diverse student body.

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UNCERTAIN FUTURE Long shaped by OU, Madison Elementary is seeing its neighborhood change as the university prepares to expand

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n c e a yea r, Ma d i s o n Elementar y School’s gymnasium is filled with dancing students, cultural displays and traditional food.

Madison hosts a multicultural fair to educate students and celebrate cultures of the world — some of which are represented at the school.

“At the beginning of the year, we make a list of all the students we have and where they’re from and then we give each grade a culture to study,” said Mary Neff, a teacher at Madison for the last 28 years.

“So there are a lot of students who are able to dress in their traditional outfits and it’s just really really nice.”

Since the 1950s, the school has been home to students from all over the world, brought to central Oklahoma by the the local university.

Nestled between two neighborhoods a few blocks southeast of OU’s campus, the school serves a large population of students whose parents are affiliated with the university in some way, either as faculty, staff or students.

The neighborhoods closest to Madison consist of rental properties and owner-occupied homes,

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A feature the majority of these residences share is that they are cheap, which has been integral in allowing students with families to live near the university and for their children to go to school at Madison.

With OU so close and slowly coming closer, it is unknown what Madison might look like in the next 10 to 20 years, said Dominic Barone, principal of the school.

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OU is collecting residences surrounding Madison as they go up for sale and has acquired roughly 10 properties so far in the neighborhood east of Headington Hall, which itself was once land that housed a small retail center and several single-family residences before being bought and torn down by OU, university press secretary Matt Epting said in an email.

Nick Hathaway, OU’s executive vice president and vice president of administration and finance, said the university could see continued expansion in its future, even after the addition of the Residential Colleges and the Cross Neighborhood, located towards the east and the south of campus, that will open in fall 2018.

“It’s expected that the university might need room for expansion … And specifically in that neighborhood, that is something that is not a mystery to anyone that that is an area we see as a potential expansion zone,” Hathaway said. “So

we’ve been acquiring property there very passively over the last 15 years or so.”

These houses are sometimes used as rental homes for faculty or graduate students with families, Hathaway said.

“It makes me kind of sad to think that that’s where we housed international students or that it was known that way. We want the experience for all students to be better.”

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The neighborhood, formally known as Hardie-Rucker, was once home to an extension of OU housing, a grouping of apartments called Parkview, Epting said. These apartments housed a large population of OU’s international students and students with families, but were torn down in 2006 and those living there were relocated to the Kraettli apartments, Epting said.

The demolition came after the apartments were no longer useful to the university and no longer met the standard of living that OU promotes, Hathaway said.

“It makes me kind of sad to think that that’s where we housed international students or that it was known that way,” Hathaway said.

“We want the experience for all students to be better.”

While the lower standard of living at Parkview posed some concerns, these apartments were cheaper, allowing student parents to pay for tuition and raise a family with less worry, Neff said.

“A lot of our families are looking for rentals or things that are really cheap because everything else is just too expensive,” Neff said.

“These are students, they’ve got tuition payments and they just can’t afford these things.”

These apartments were removed and the students moved to nicer, more expensive university housing more than a decade ago. Today, roughly 79 percent of Madison’s student population qualifies for free or reduced lunches, Barone said. In 2015, 53.7 percent of students in the NPS district qualified for free or reduced lunches, according to National Center for Education Statistics data.

The issue of cost in the international community and for students with families is something that hasn’t gone unnoticed by OU, though, Hathaway said.

“I think paying for housing is one component of paying for the OU experience,” Hathaway said.

“But we need to make sure that, in that exchange of funds where they are paying tuition and fees and housing, that we’re able to provide them a housing experience that makes them satisfied, and that’s something we’ll have to monitor going forward to make sure that we haven’t put international students in a situation where they feel that they can’t afford something or that they are limited

to a certain number of choices.”

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Madison is one of 17 elementary schools in the Norman Public School district, and with roughly 400 students, it is one of the smaller ones, Barone said.

The school’s attendance boundary extends from just west of Jenkins Avenue and east towards the railroad tracks, with Lindsey Street as the north border and the land south of Highway 9 as the southern border. This area gives the school only a few residential neighborhoods to draw from, even with NPS’ open transfer policy.

The school has a mobile population, Barone said, with kids moving in and out of the area because their parents are international students at OU or their housing situations forced them to move.

This international population brings diversity to the school, he said, with roughly 15 percent of students speaking a second language and up to 13 different languages being spoken at the school in total.

The majority of students who attend the school are low-income, which qualifies Madison as a Title I school, allowing it to receive extra funds for things like tutors and teaching specialists, Barone said.

“We’re just trying to level the playing field in terms of funding for those kiddos that are coming and that are in need, some from environments or homes where they see MADISON Page 3

Baker Mayfield leaves Owen Field on top Fans show appreciation for senior quarterback in his final home game KELLI STACY @AstacyKelli

The thunderous applause of Sooner Nation will never leave the quarterback’s mind.

It was more than excitement in seeing their Heisman frontrunner take the field Saturday in the

second drive of the Sooners’ game against West Virginia, more than saying goodbye to the player who so often in his career carried the Sooners on his back, more than appreciation for the passionate style of play that became the defining characteristic of the team in the Mayfield era.

After arguably the most difficult and trying week of Mayfield’s career at OU, the fans were showing their love.

A week prior, Mayfield did something that embarrassed not only himself, but the Sooner Nation he grew up dreaming of playing for.

Mayfield faced the Kansas sideline and grabbed his crotch while yelling obscenities at his opponents.

Provoked or not, the cameras caught it all.

Mayfield faced heavy criticism for the next week, questioning everything from whether he was a worthy Heisman candidate to if

he might turn into the next Johnny Manziel. His punishment, coach Lincoln Riley swiftly decided, was that he wouldn’t be a captain or start for the Sooners’ game against West Virginia — the first game he didn’t start at Oklahoma. He held an emotional press conference, apologizing for his actions and promising he would play his best against the Mountaineers.

Throughout the week, what seemed to upset Mayfield most

was the belief he had disappointed others, so when he entered the game Saturday there was a potential apprehension about how he’d be greeted by the 86,117 Sooner fans in attendance.

So, for perhaps the first time since arriving at Oklahoma, Mayfield was ner vous when he walked onto Owen Field on

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Cole reflects on unique district Congressman taught at OU before political career NICK HAZELRIGG @nickhazelrigg

Seven-term congressman Tom Cole originally planned to be an historian, but a promise he made to his mother decades ago reeled him into the world of Oklahoma politics.

While Cole was pursuing a promising career in academia at the University of Oklahoma in the 1970s, his mother, Helen TeAta Cole, was about to make a second run for the state legislature after a disappointing loss.

Her son believed in her, and promised to run her campaign if she chose to run again.

“My mother and I were extraordinarily close,” Cole said. “Most Sundays we’d have dinner together — just listening to her talk about politics and discuss the players, I wondered what it was like to really hold an office.”

That wonder would turn into reality after his mother’s victory in 1978. Cole would go on to run several campaigns, and in 1988, he found himself running and winning the seat he helped his mother win in the state legislature.

Since then, Cole, a staunch conser vative, has been sent to the U.S. Congress seven times by the voters of Oklahoma’s fourth congressional district — one of the state’s most liberal areas, which contains OU and Norman.

Cindy Rosenthal, former Norman mayor and director of OU’s Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, has worked with Cole many times over the years. Rosenthal said she believed Cole’s efforts to be bipartisan helped him get re-elected in the district.

“The district itself — it’s hard to say to what extent it’s a swing district,” Rosenthal said. “Clearly just the evidence that Congressman Cole has not drawn a really strong opponent, from his own party or in the Democratic Party, says a lot about how people respect the job that he’s doing for the district.”

COMPETITOR AND LISTENER Cole, who studied history at Grinnell College, Yale and OU and participated in a Fulbright fellowship at the University of London, said he enjoyed the time he spent teaching European history at OU and interacting with students, and if politics hadn’t intervened he likely would have pursued a career as an historian.

“It was a great experience teaching at OU. Look, this is a fabulous school, and I’d grown up around it,” Cole said. “At the first football game I ever went to, Bud Wilkinson was still coaching. It was a very comfortable place for me to be. I loved the teaching, I love the students.”

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Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole drinks a cup of coffee while sitting in his office for an interview Oct. 16. The Republican taught history at OU before moving to politics.

However, Cole’s love of history and competition lead him to pursue a career in politics instead.

“It kind of reminded me — when I was in high school, I played football. And politics is kind of an adult team sport,” Cole said. “A watch party is a lot like a locker room after a game. There’s been a common endeavor, you’ve fought and you’ve struggled. You’ve won or lost — you’ve bonded. But I like the game of it, the strategy of it, the execution of it, and the fact that there was a definitive score.”

And Cole has seen some particularly good scores over the years. Cole won his first congressional election with 53 percent of the vote, but in the six elections following his first, has not once garnered less than 60 percent of the vote. Cole said much of his electoral success was because of his ability to reach groups not previously targeted by Republican candidates.

“You try to be open and look for places you can work together and recognize that good ideas come from both ends and the entire width of the political spectrum — they’re not limited to one party. It’s not like what one group thinks is always right and what another group thinks is always wrong,” Cole said. “You try to pick the good ideas and the things that bring people together rather than tear them apart.”

Cole, a member of the

Chickasaw Nation, said his Native heritage has helped him better communicate with the Native American community in the district — something Cole said Republicans often fail to do. Cole said he is also consistently endorsed by the American Federation of Government Employees, a union historically more supportive of liberal candidates.

“You just try and be a very serious and very good representative,” Cole said. “And you don’t limit yourself with going to talk to constituencies that are aligned with you.

You try to represent the interests of all your voters. But I am a conservative. There are certainly places that I would disagree with people to the left of me, fair enough.”

Rosenthal said despite Cole’s disagreements with his constituents, he has never shied away from addressing the concerns of the citizens in his district.

“Because the district has some diverse communities and communities with different political profiles, he has always been someone who thinks about the community rather than the partisan makeup of a community,” Rosenthal said. “I’ve always appreciated that.”

At a Norman town hall in August, Cole faced an angry crowd of constituents after he voted yes on the American Health Care Act, the Republican party’s attempt to repeal the Affordable Care

Act. Cole stayed at the town hall for five hours and answered every question.

“Norman and the university community within it is very sophisticated. Even though people may or may not agree with me on specific issues, I don’t think they’re usually upset in the manner in which I talk about issues or confront them,” Cole said. “You make yourself available, you explain your point of view, you listen to their concerns, and certainly you find areas that you can work together on.”

R E L AT I O N S H I P W I T H STUDENTS Yaseen Shurbaji, industrial systems and engineering sophomore and recently elected SGA president, interned in Tom Cole’s Washington D.C. office and said that although many of Cole’s stances clash with the views of many OU students, Shurbaji said his time in Cole’s office taught him a lot.

“He explains things very simply,” Shurbaji said. “There are concepts in Washington that are very hard to grasp — like entitlement reform, for example. He does a good job of breaking things down, and that probably goes back to the fact that he was a teacher.”

Shurbaji said Cole greatly enjoys making the effort to teach student interns during their time in his office. He holds a time to speak with the interns for an hour daily and gives each a book at the end of the summer.

“He is definitely very wise,” Shurbaji said. “He reads more than anybody I know and is always trying to learn something new.”

Despite this, activists in the OU community have protested several policies Cole has supported under President Donald Trump’s administration.

Cole expressed support for Trump’s immigration ban that some OU students protested. Cole also said Trump made “the right call” in a statement after Trump announced he would rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an action students also protested.

In spite of these disagreements, Rosenthal said Cole has helped secure vital funding for the university and has always tried to support OU. “He was always a champion for some of the important federal money that came to the university. He’s always been a champion for those kinds of issues,” Rosenthal said. “He is obviously a graduate, and I’ve appreciated personally his willingness to be available and speak to students and be on campus and field questions. He gets tough questions, and it’s not always from supporters that show up to these meetings, but I also think that’s part of the reason why Tom is well respected.”

Cole said he doesn’t think the political climate has been any more chaotic during the Trump administration than

it was in the past — it’s simply a different side of the political spectrum agitated now.

Tough questions at town halls aren’t new for him, Cole said, and they haven’t dissuaded him. It appears the love of the race will continue for Cole in 2018, as he said he plans to run for re-election, despite The Tulsa World placing him on the shortlist to replace OU President David Boren.

“To be honest with you, I sort of — like most people — thought, ‘Isn’t there just some way David Boren could just live forever?’ I think he’s done an unbelievable job,” Cole said.

Cole said he has not been involved in any discussions about replacing Boren, and right now he’s focused on yet another congressional campaign.

“There’s an old saying in politics: Everybody knows someone doesn’t like them, only politicians like to count,” Cole said. “You’re going to get that count every two years, and fair enough. But you can be courteous and professional to everybody.”

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Graduate students fret over latest tax plan New bill will stamp out tax credits for tuition waivers NICK HAZELRIGG @nickhazelrigg

A new tax plan passed b y t h e U. S. Ho u s e o f Re p re s e nt at i ve s w ou l d eliminate tuition tax credits for graduate students working at universities, placing strains on graduate students at OU. The bill, a centerpiece of the Republican platform during this legislative

session, will cause graduate students to pay taxes on tuition waived by their university, increasing the costs of their studies.

Carrie Pavlowsky, chair of OU’s Graduate Student Senate, said graduate students from low socioeconomic backgrounds will be hit the hardest.

“If the House bill were to become law, I think you would see less graduate students from backgrounds from lower income communities because of the increase in how much they have to pay,” Pavlowsky said.

“It may go up a couple thousand dollars.”

Pavlowsky, who is a Ph.D. student in the Geography and Environmental Sustainability Department, said this bill would make being a graduate student tougher for those who do not have the economic stability to pay, hurting the diversity of graduate programs at OU and across the U.S. Although the tax plan has been passed by the House, the Senate is still haggling over its version of the bill, which does not include the elimination of these

tax credits. Despite this, Pavlowsky said students are still concerned about the bill becoming law.

“People are really nervous about it. I think people aren’t as worried because they’re not sure they’re going to make it to the final cut, since the Senate bill hasn’t included this change,” Pavlowsky said. “But everyone is very nervous about it. It is the difference between having to stay in graduate school and having to leave.”

Pavlowsky also feared this change in the tax code would negatively affect the United

States’ position as a leader in research on the world stage, due to the contributions graduate students provide at research universities.

“You’ll see general research output diminish nationwide,” Pavlowsky said. “I think the U.S. has one of the most robust research communities in the world and this is making that less viable. Across the board if there are less graduate students, there’s less research.”

Despite the effects this bill would have on the U.S. research community and graduate students nationwide,

Pavlowsky said communities in Oklahoma benefiting from research could be negatively impacted.

“I don’t know how many of the House of Representatives have gone through graduate school and know how tuition waivers work and why they’re so important,” Pavlowsky said.

“I know grad students get a lot of flak, but the reality is we do a lot of work or research that affects communities directly.”

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Mental health services in crisis State legislature still lacks solution to budget cuts

“That will carry the agency into the spring, but will still involve cuts to vital treatment services if a funding solution is not found,” Dismukes said in the press release.

With a lack of funding for

treatment agencies, there will be pressure put on agencies like the Norman Police Department and Norman Regional Hospital to provide help for displaced mental health patients, Dismukes

said.

Cindy Carter, Norman Regional behavioral medicine unit manager, said many mental health patients may turn to the ER in crisis situations. Although the hospital will have the resources to temporarily take care of the patients, it will no longer be able to provide them the long-term care that they need, Carter said.

“We are a hospital, we are going to take care of them, we are going to get them out of that acute crisis, but we are going to have to discharge them,” Carter said. “Taking away the ability that we have as providers to send them to the appropriate services will make us feel helpless.”

Carter said 40 percent of the patients in her unit use state-funded outpatient services in order to continue treatment after they are discharged.

“For a lot of people, those are the only services that are going to be available to them — they really have no other options,” Carter said. “I feel like we are setting them up for failure. They come to us, they’re very brave, they’re vulnerable and they’re scared — a lot of times by their own

the classroom,” Barone said.

Being located close to campus has its benefits, Neff said.

Volunteers flood into the school, helping put on carnivals and reading to students who need more one-on one time, she said.

Tami Althoff, a writer for the marketing department in OU’s College of Professional and Continuing Studies and parent of two children who attend Madison, said her kids have truly enjoyed getting to spend time around college students and participate in events like Madison’s multicultural fair.

“The fair is one of their favorite events,” Althoff said.

“Each grade learns about a different country, and then they set up booths and there is food and dancing, and it’s really great for these kids to be exposed to all of these different cultures.”

The school is also able to take advantage of the university as a progressive hub of ideas, Barone said, providing access to new techniques and methods in teaching. But even though there are benefits, being this close to an expanding university and its impact on affordable housing

has been difficult, Barone said.

“It has been difficult for our families, as far as finding a place,” Barone said. “We want consistent experiences for our kids because the more consistent their housing is, the stronger they’ll be here.

If a child is worried about where they’re living, they’re not going to be focused on learning the ABCs.” While it may not happen soon, the thought that the original neighborhoods surrounding Madison will someday be torn down is a sad one, Althoff said.

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Agencies across Norman are awaiting the potential ripple effects of budget cuts to the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services as the legislature struggles to find a solution.

Earlier in October, the department faced a $75 million deficit from the overturned cigarette tax, which caused the department to announce that it would have to eliminate all state-funded outpatient services statewide.

After a Nov. 17 decision by Gov. Mary Fallin to veto most of House Bill 1019, the funding gap has been reduced to $21.5 million.

Jeff Dismukes, the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services public information director, said in a press release that this new development will temporarily provide for the department, but a more permanent solution is needed if it is to avoid cuts.

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may not have as much as some of the other students have,” Barone said.

There are still some students who come from more substantial means, since the school’s attendance boundaries stretch out towards Highway 9 where there is newer, more expensive housing, Barone said.

“We have a big mix here, as far as the different backgrounds the kids bring into

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A crowd gathers outside of the Oklahoma State Capitol March 4. Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services are stuggling to find a solutions to the decrease in mental health funding.

disease process.”

Ultimately, Carter said she is worried the patients will revert back into the distressed state they arrived at the hospital in, leading to suicides and a greater death toll.

“My personal worry is just that there is going to be an increase in loss of life,” Carter said. “I feel like the patients will go right back into crisis mode.”

With an increase in crisis situations among displaced mental health patients, Norman Police Department community outreach coordinator Lt. Cary Bryant said he expects to see a greater implementation of the NPD’s Crisis Intervention Team, which includes officers trained in mental health issues.

“I think it’s going to cause a greater need for CIT and a greater emphasis on our CIT officers in the field because as we deal with more mental health consumers with more complex problems then that training that a CIT officer brings will definitely help with the situation,” Bryant said.

Despite increased need for such officers, Bryant said the program, which is sponsored by the Oklahoma

D e p a r t m e n t o f Me n t a l Health and Substance Abuse Services, may face cutbacks.

“If the mental health cuts go into effect, then that will take away our ability to train CIT officers,” Bryant said. “We train a lot of CIT officers all over the state under a federal grant that could have some issues if the cuts go into effect.”

The agency currently has 23 assigned CIT officers, Bryant said. While all officers receive eight hours of training in mental health areas, CIT officers complete 40 hours of training, Bryant said.

Bryant said he and the police department plan to provide the highest level of service they can with what they have and will be in constant contact with mental health providers until a solution is found.

“You don’t get into this job without having a desire to help,” Bryant said. “Does it concern me personally?

Absolutely, it concerns me personally, but we are still going to move forward, and hopefully the folks up on 23rd street can find a solution.”

“These neighborhoods have always contributed to Madison, so to have it gone someday is sad,” Althoff said. “My husband lived on McKinley and went to Madison when he was younger, so that traditional landscape and how people filter into the area and the school would be lost.”

The future of the school looks good for now, Barone said, adding that he believes Madison and other schools like it help bring together the surrounding areas.

“I can’t imagine uprooting a school like this,” Barone

said. “We are a pretty big piece of the fabric that makes Norman Norman. The city is unique because our schools reflect the communities they are nestled into and that speaks to the spirit of our community – a community of haves and have nots, a community that is international – there are a lot of wonderful things about this school.”

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You Are Invited!

Student, Faculty and Staff of All Beliefs and Perspectives Are Invited to

OU’s Annual Holiday Lights 5 p.m.

Tuesday, November 28 DAVID A. BURR PARK

South of S.J. Sarkeys Complex and East of Couch Center

Seasonal Remarks

By OU President David L. Boren Enjoy Holiday Music, Hot Chocolate, Hot Apple Cider, Santa and Elves! Oh, and Lots of Lights!

For accommodations, please contact the office of Special Events at 325-3784.

The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. www.ou.edu/eoo

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Winter Wonderland

Now that Thanksgiving has ended, it’s time for winter festivities to begin! From light shows to ice skating, Oklahoma will soon turn into a winter wonderland. Pack up your car and head around the state to take part in these winter activities.

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STASH HOLIDAY MARKET

STASH in Norman will host a holiday market Dec. 3. Artisans from all over the state will be in attendance. A wide range of handmade items — from jewelry to pottery to wood crafts — will be available, giving you the opportunity to find the perfect holiday gift.

FESTIVE FRIDAY: SANTA PAWS IN THE DOG PARK

Who says the holidays are just for humans? Head out to Oklahoma City’s Myriad Botanical Gardens Dec. 8 to get a Christmas card photo taken with your furry friend. Paw print stockings and photos with Santa will also be available. Advance registration is required.

MAIN STREET PARADE

Main Street will feature a parade filled with floats, bands and, of course, Santa at 5 p.m. Dec. 9. The parade will stretch all the way down Main Street beginning at Pickard Avenue. Awards will be presented in categories including best overall entry, most unique entry and best use of theme.

DEVON ICE RINK

Located near the Myriad Botanical Gardens, the Devon outdoor ice skating rink is the perfect place for a holiday season activity. Surrounded by strings of lights to create a winter wonderland atmosphere, the rink will be open until Jan. 28. Tickets to skate range from $13 with skate rental to $8 without skate rental.

DEVON ENERGY CENTER

For the perfect Instagram picture, head to the Devon Energy Center. There is a giant Christmas ornament display outside, along with decorations inside the building.

CHICKASHA FESTIVAL OF LIGHT

Enjoy the illuminating decorations at the Chickasha Festival of Light until Dec. 31. Located in Shannon Springs Park, the festival features four miles of lights, including light shows with holiday songs and carriage rides.

Sooner Dairy over the years CLASSIFIEDS Local restaurant’s reach transcends several generations

Main Street, empty farmland surrounded the restaurant. “City limits used to be at Berry Road,� McHughes remembers. “Across the street there was a pasture, cattle grazing over there. We were basically out in the country.�

Today, rather than farmland, stores and fast food franchises surround the restaurant. Neighbors have changed, but its customers have not.

The cash-only local restaurant has been serving some of the same people for over half a century. “Our customers are very good to us,� McHughes said. “We’re really grateful for our customers.�

Joy Sullivan is one of those customers, and she’s been coming to Sooner Dairy Lunch once or twice a week after moving to the area in the 1980s. “One of my friends, she’s Norman born and bred, and she’s been coming to them

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In the front window of Sooner Dairy Lunch, an old menu in bright red cursive reads “Sandwiches,� and features hamburgers for 25 cents, hot dogs for 20 cents and ham for 35 cents, among other items. The menu serves as a piece of nostalgia from the the burger joint’s opening in 1954.

The prices have since changed — a hamburger now sells for $2.49 — but little else has.

Sooner Dairy Lunch was considered to be outside of Norman when it first opened at its current location at 1820 W. Main St., according to Randy McHughes, operator and co-owner of the restaurant. Instead of the buzz of

SOONER DAIRY LUNCH

Sooner Dairy Lunch is open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

More information about the restaurant can be found on soonerdairylunch.com.

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Sooner Dairy Lunch located on Main Street Nov. 26. This restaurant opened in 1954 and continues to attract customers.

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ever since they opened, so she’s the one who got me started,� Sullivan said.

Part of Sooner Dairy Lunch’s lasting appeal is the importance of family on both sides of the counter. The McHughes family has run the restaurant since it first opened.

Just as several generations of the McHughes family have been serving food at Sooner Dairy Lunch, several generations of customers have eaten it. “A lot of them say they came here when they were kids, and they’re bringing their kids here, and now their kids’ kids are coming here,� McHughes said.

A group of students from Norman North High School said they come to the

restaurant during their lunch break about once a week, and family tradition is one reason why. “My dad probably brought me here first,� said Greyson Williams. “It was really good, and, now that you have to pay by yourself, it’s really cheap.�

When McHughes hears customers rave about his food, he doesn’t know how to respond. “Well, I mean, I don’t — � he trails off, and a grin grows across his face. “We just let the customers say what they want to say. We try to put out good quality beef, and we do try to keep everything fresh. I think it’s a good burger.�

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Saturday. He had been sure of himself when he walked on at Texas Tech, and even more sure of himself when he walked on at Oklahoma shortly after the Sooners had beat Alabama in the Sugar Bowl behind the arm of Trevor Knight. In both instances, he knew what he could do, and he was determined to prove it.

“The first steps on the field kind of made all (the emotions) go away, realizing you have the support of (the fans) and you can settle in,” said Mayfield, who quickly returned to form once entering the game, going 14of-17 for 281 yards and three touchdowns, leading the Sooners to a 59-31 win over the Mountaineers.

“It’s more of a relieving feeling to me knowing they’re always going to have my back and it’s OK for me to grow and learn and move on.

If I’m progressing and becoming a better man in front of their eyes, it’s something I’m proud of.”

His coach, who had been emotional upon announcing Mayfield’s punishment earlier in the week, echoed that sentiment.

“I was proud of him,” Riley said. “I thought he held it in check because he was definitely emotional before, and I know a lot of thoughts were certainly running through his head, so for him to play the way he did considering

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Sophomore running back Rodney Anderson celebrates the first touchdown of the game against West Virginia Nov. 25.

multi-rushing touchdown game of the season Saturday.

His first came against TCU when he ran for two touchdowns and caught two touchdowns, again all in the first half.

“He fought through all the adversity early in his career,” coach Lincoln Riley said. “He’s kind of just hung in there. He didn’t pout like a lot of people would when things didn’t go his way earlier in the season and those other guys played a little bit

more. And then when he got his opportunities — kind of starting with the Texas game — he made plays, gained confidence, and we gained confidence in him and he’s just continually gotten better and better.”

With all the credit being given to him for the athletic plays he’s made lately, Anderson said the blocking his offensive line has done has been important in his success.

The O-line isn’t the

only group blocking for Anderson when he breaks out for a big run, though.

Anderson picked up a block from freshman wide receiver CeeDee Lamb during his second touchdown run against the Mountaineers that helped him make it into the end zone.

“My receivers are just as good of blockers because every time I get in the open field I can always find a receiver to run off of,” Anderson said. “They’re

always giving 100 percent.”

The success Anderson has found has been an important part of the Sooners’ offense as he has become a go-to not only in the ground game, but also as a target for senior quarterback Baker Mayfield.

“I just try to do my best,” Anderson said. “That’s all I can do.”

all the circumstances is and he’s seemingly learned why the guy’s the best.” not to risk that.

When he announced he ... was returning for his senior season, Mayfield said Three quarters later, when it was because he wanted a Mayfield walked off the field national championship. By after taking his final snap on playing smarter, more than Owen Field, fans erupted the Heisman or any other again. This time, they were individual accolade, that’s cheering not only Mayfield’s what he’s poised to potenperformance, but his career tially bring back to bring to and, perhaps, the legacy he Sooner Nation in January. will leave.

“It means the world to In h i s s e n i o r s ea s o n , me,” Mayfield said of going Mayfield became the most in for what he knew would complete version of himself. be his final snap in Norman.

The characteristic chip on “ I ’ v e s a i d I ’ v e a l w a y s his shoulder and fiery atti- dreamed of playing here, so tude became more concen- the moment it settled in for trated as the senior learned me was when coach Riley how to channel them into told me, ‘You’re going to take success. the first play right here, then This ability to channel be ready to come out.’ It kind his emotions into explosive of settled in there and made plays has led Mayfield to it tough.” the top spot in the Heisman ... race. So far this season, he’s recorded 4,097 passing yards Moments after OU defor 37 touchdowns and is so far in the lead for college feated West Virginia 59-31, football’s top individual Mayfield walked around honor that Bovada, a betting Owen Field with his hand site, has taken down their extended, trying to high-five every fan he could reach in Heisman Trophy odds.

Mayfield has always been one final lap around the staa playmaker, capable of ex- dium. Fans lined the bottom tending plays with his feet of the stands, but this time while still remaining the it was Mayfield who was most accurate passer in the thanking them.

It was his dream to one FBS. This season, though, Mayfield has become more day put on the Sooners’ logo calculated. He’s trained and lead the team onto the himself to ignore his former field. Watching this scene instinct to immediately es- on Saturday, it was possible cape the pocket, having faith to think Mayfield didn’t just in his receivers to get open, get to live his dream — he exbut also showing a certain ceeded it.

Mayfield will likely go level of responsibility and down as the greatest quarawareness.

He knows he’s ke y to terback in Sooners’ hisOklahoma’s title chances, tory, breaking numerous

program records. In just three years, he has recorded 11,762 passing yards and 113 passing touchdowns.

He’s poised to become OU’s sixth Heisman winner and still isn’t done playing.

In fact, Mayfield said Saturday, reminding everyone of his final goal, “The good thing is we have three more games.”

The senior has done more than just win games for the Sooners. He gave Oklahoma a fighting chance in every game they’ve played the past three years. He reignited a passion for OU football that flickered after an 8-5 season in 2014. He brought an energy and liveliness to the field that hadn’t been seen by an Oklahoma player since Brian Bosworth. The most polarizing figure in college

football gave the Sooners a constant spotlight. And in a season of highs and lows — beating Ohio State and then losing to Iowa State — Oklahoma is now firmly in the running for its eighth national title.

When it was all over, the on-field interviews and victory lap, Mayfield paused in the southwest tunnel, taking it all in one last time. He soaked up the atmosphere and then walked inside, one step closer to fulfilling his dream of winning a national title with the Sooners.

As he went, he mouthed two words to the crowd again and again.

“Thank you, thank you, thank you.”

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TRAE YOUNG MEETS EXPECTATIONS

The brightest spot on the Oklahoma roster was freshman guard Trae Young. He gets a lot of attention for being coach Lon Kruger’s first five-star recruit, but it’s for good reason.

Young finished PK80 with 43 points against Oregon, the most since Buddy Hield’s 46 points against Kansas in 2016 and the fourth-most by an Oklahoma freshman in history.

The guard led all scorers with 104 points during the tournament, an average of 34.7 points per game. As of Nov. 25, he is tied for third in the nation for assists per game and tied at eighth in scoring.

The freshman led the team in assists over the weekend with 20, leading to performances such as senior forward Khadeem Lattin’s two double-doubles — 10 points, 10 rebounds against Arkansas and 19 points, 16 rebounds against Portland.

FINISHING STRONG

Part of the Sooners’ struggles last season was due to the inability to perform down the stretch.

This issue started to rear its ugly head once more, particularly in their loss to Arkansas on Thursday. The Razorbacks held a lead for most of the contest. Despite Oklahoma clawing back to cut the lead to two points with 1:30 left and putting itself in position to tie or take a lead, it couldn’t hold on.

Saturday, when the Sooners faced Portland, this was less of an issue but still prevalent. At one point, they led by 20 points, but halfway through the second, the Pilots had cut the lead to five. When they took on

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Embattled with injuries in the last two seasons and seeing hardly any playing time in the beginning of the season, sophomore running back Rodney Anderson ended the 2017 regular season on a high note.

He show e d his talent again in Oklahoma’s (111, 8-1 Big 12) 59-31 victory over West Virginia (7-5, 5-4 Big 12) where he scored four touchdowns in the first half and ran for a total of 118 yards on 13 attempts.

He has seemingly outdone himself every week with his playmaking ability, running for 833 yards over the last seven game stretch after recording just 34 yards in the first five games to start the season.

“When things get down you can’t get down with them,” Anderson said. “I just try to keep my eyes on the prize and just keep going forward and keep doing the best I can do for the team.”

Whether it is busting out long runs or making dives into the end zone, Anderson’s athleticism has helped the Sooners find success. He recorded his second

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Oregon, the Sooners had a lead much of the game, and nearly allowed a comeback before experiencing a much-needed burst of energy.

Oregon, but more than the Sooners would have liked.

They were also unable to stay consistent from outside the arc, shooting an average of 29.3 percent.

CLEANING UP BEHIND THE ARC

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The Sooners gave up 29 threes over the course of the weekend and didn’t make quite as many as they would’ve hoped.

Oklahoma tied its season-high of 12 shots from deep allowed against Portland, a large part of the reason the Pilots were able to cut what was a 20-point lead to five in the second half.

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Oklahoma right guard Dru Samia lay on the 12-yard line, grabbing the face mask of West Virginia’s Adam Shuler II. Shuler pressed Samia into Owen Field, not letting him move an inch. As the officials rushed to break it up, Samia launched his fist, taking a swing at Shuler.

Ejected. Oklahoma Memorial Stadium rained down with boos.

“It’s a heated game,” coach Lincoln Riley told ESPN at halftime. “It has been for many years. (There’s) a lot riding on this game for both teams, so that’s part of it.

That’s great Big 12 football right there.”

For the second week in a row, then-No. 4 Oklahoma (11-1, 8-1 Big 12) found itself in a dog fight, this time against West Virginia (7-5, 5-4 Big 12). And once again, this only fueled the Sooners’ fire, as they went on to rout the Mountaineers 59-31.

“It was heated, no doubt,” Riley said. “(The referees) talked to both teams, talked to both sidelines, and I thought we did a decent job of managing it.”

Samia’s ejection only seemed to make Oklahoma play harder, sparking a 24-0 run before halftime. Two plays after the ejection, the Sooners would find the end zone for the fourth time, and senior quarterback Baker Mayfield sprinted down the sidelines waving his arms ferociously, attempting to pump up the angered crowd.

“West Virginia is always chippy,” Mayfield said.

“Having our fans get even

louder and they’re booing, they’re getting into it, and that’s the stuff that makes college football fun.”

The Sooners “feed” off teams that try to get under their skin.

“I think our team feeds off a little bit of scrappiness,” junior tight end Mark Andrews said. “At the same time, we have to be able to have some more composure at times.”

West Virginia isn’t the first team that has tried to get under the Sooners’ skin, and it won’t be the last. Despite Samia’s ejection, Oklahoma was composed Saturday night, but also didn’t back down from a fight.

“You get tested in different ways, and when you’ve had the success we’ve had here, you’re going to get tested,” Riley said. “You’ve got to be the bigger man. You’ve got to be the more poised group.

We were better on that today as a whole, but obviously

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Senior quarterback Baker Mayfield high-fives Coach Lincoln Riley Nov. 25.

some things we have to do better.”

From Kansas not shaking their hands to West Virginia playing in a chippy fashion, the Sooners know they’re

going to get everybody’s best the bull’s-eye on our back.” shot, and they’re ready for the challenge.

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Junior tight end Mark Andrews and senior wide receiver Jordan Smallwood celebrate a touchdown Nov. 25.

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Sophomore quarterback Kyler Murray looks down the field for an open teammate during the fourth quarter of the game against West Virginia. Saturday was Murray’s first start at Oklahoma.

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