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Thirsty? SGA wants to help SGA proposes additional filtered water refilling stations in buildings on campus KATE BERGUM
Campus Reporter @kateclaire_b
Student complaints about the quality and availability of drinking water on campus prompted the Undergraduate Student Congress to pass a resolution to add 10 water bottle refilling stations to campus. The stations will be located in the following classroom buildings across campus: the Fine Arts Center, Catlett Music Center, Gould Hall, Gaylord Hall, Dale Hall, Price Hall, Adams Hall, Devon Energy Hall, Sarkeys Energy Center and the Physical Sciences Center, according to the resolution. Connor Bourland, Problems and Projects chair, said he
and other students noticed the lack of water bottle refilling stations around campus. Bourland, drama junior, said he talked to his constituents in the College of Fine Arts, as well as students in the business and engineering colleges, who were concerned about the lack of water refilling stations. “As the Problems and Projects Committee chairman, I try to have my ear to the ground as often as possible to hear these concerns and desires so that congress can do something about them,” Bourland said in an email. Additionally, Bourland said allowing students to refill their own water bottles would improve sustainability on campus. “Most of our plastic water bottles on campus are used one time and then hopefully recycled,” Bourland said. “These
PASTA
Watch what you eat or Compliance will Self-reported violations require players to pay fine for over-eating JOE MUSSATTO
Assistant Sports Editor @joe_mussatto
The OU Compliance office outdid its duties when it self-reported a violation claiming three student-athletes put too much pasta on their plates, and Compliance officials said they will continute to report such violations. Compliance officers reported that players received food in excess of reasonable refreshments at a graduation ceremony in May, according to a document obtained by SEE PASTA PAGE 5
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GEOLOGY
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Geologists look at displays of well core samples at the Oklahoma Petroleum Information Center. Geologists study these samples that come from deep into the Earth’s crust.
Devon Energy funding rock core viewing area Room to allow further geological research KATE BERGUM
Campus Reporter @kateclaire_b
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evon Energy is funding a new well core viewing room inside the Oklahoma Geological Survey, headquartered at OU’s main campus in TONY RAGLE/THE DAILY Norman. The Survey’s new $302,000 room will be loRocks are lined up in th OPIC viewing room next to other samples taken from similar locations. The OPIC is cated in the Mewbourne College of Earth and scheduled to build additional facilities to further research funded by Devon Energy. Energy and will allow Devon Energy employees and researchers to view well cores. The well cores The cores are vertical samples of the rocks beneath the Earth’s surface. They provide are vertical information about rock patterns for people samples of the interested in what lies below the Earth’s surrocks beneath face, including oil companies looking to drill, said Randy Keller, director of the Oklahoma the Earth’s Geological Survey. surface. These The Survey’s core collection resembles Basically it’s like a provide infora library, Keller said. However, the shelves, tape recording of which are up to 20 feet high, hold rocks inmation about stead of books. what’s going on in rock patterns, Researchers look at the cores in the well the Earth’s system.” core viewing room, which holds long tables such as oil and bright lights, Keller said. GERILYN SOREGHAN, companies GEOLOGY PROFESSOR Despite the abundance of cores, schedullooking to drill. ing time to view the samples can be tricky.
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There is sometimes a three-week wait-list to view the cores, Keller said. Keller said Devon Energy, which constitutes roughly 25 percent of the collection’s business, does not always want to wait the weeks it would take to see a sample, Keller said. “They want it when they want it,” Keller said. Because of this, Devon Energy, the largest customer of the core collection, is paying for the new room. “They’re completely funding it, down to every last penny,” Keller said. Devon Energy is also willing to put forth the money to fund the construction of a new room inside an already existing room, Keller said. The new viewing room will be primarily used by Devon Energy, Keller said. This will decrease the wait time for the current viewing room, which may benefit researchers, the collection’s second most frequent users, Keller said. Keller said researchers from universities across the country frequently visit the well
Opinion: OU should focus whistle blowing on issues larger than over-excessive pasta consumption. (Page 3)
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