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Professional writing freshman Haley Ward smiles while participating in the 2017 Big Event on Saturday. This was the 18th annual The Big Event for OU.

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Group gives outdoor classroom a face-lift during Big Event

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o r m a n ’s T r u m a n Elementary School and Truman Primary School share an “outdoor classroom,” meant to provide a hands-on learning environment for kindergarteners through fifth graders. But dense brush, lewd graffiti and broken bottles have been a barrier to realizing its full potential.

As part of OU’s 18th annual The Big Event, sorority sisters from Delta Gamma picked up shears and saws in an effort to help restore it.

“We used to use it for science and outdoor activities a lot more frequently, but it gets overgrown,” Truman Elementary Principal Robye Jackson said.

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The Delta Gamma sisters spent hours raking leaves and clearing branches, readying the site, and childproofing it as much as nature allows. One of the sisters, Mikella Stanton, said she felt particularly invested in the project, both as an elementary education junior and as a lifelong Norman resident.

The Big Event puts OU students out into less familiar territory, she said, showing them that Norman is more than just the university, O’Connell’s Irish Pub & Grille and the stadium.

“I’m from Norman, so I know a lot about this area, but I know a lot of people who aren’t from here have never been in this area before,”

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Biology sophmore Sabrina Vinh and biochemistry sophomore Sabrina Ton clear out an area around Truman Elementary. Delta Gamma was assigned to the elementary school and cleared branches for Big Event.

OU issues emergency alerts for welfare check University to consider future use of alerts for comparable situations STAFF REPORTS

The Norman Police Department took an individual into custody Friday after responding to a call for a welfare check on a suicidal individual at The Commons on Oak Tree apartments.

OU sent three emergenc y alerts to inform its community of the off-campus situation. The first two alerts were updates regarding the situation, and the third was an all-clear alert at 7:48

p.m. Friday. No injuries were reported.

The notices were issued after recent criticism regarding the university’s use of its emergency alert system. OU did not send an alert on March 22, when a student attacked an off-campus fraternity house before shooting and killing himself.

OU said it would review its emergency response procedures after the incident, saying it would consider issuing an all clear alert akin to the one issued Friday.

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Stanton said. “So they come over here and see what it’s like, what outside of campus looks like.”

“Kids love to be outside. They’re really going to enjoy this spring.”

ROBYE JACKSON, TRUMAN ELEMENTARY PRINCIPAL The Delta Gamma sisters were few of the almost 6,000 students who participated in this year’s The Big Event, which had about 300 more participants than last year. The participants gathered on the North Oval, clustered in their respective sororities, fraternities, clubs or organizations, and dispersed after brief remarks from the stage, rushing to job sites from Norman to Yukon for a day of service.

“I honestly love community service; this is my favorite event of the year,” said Sarah Reynolds, elementary education sophomore, who claimed that, for her, even Bedlam can’t top The Big Event.

Aside from the Delta Gamma

sisters, other groups of college students bagged trash at Lake Thunderbird and the Lloyd Noble Center or some spent the day applying fresh paint or passing out fliers for environmental awareness. There are worse ways to spend a day than tagging along with friends on a mission to better Norman, Stanton said.

Students are often transient, coming and going — but mostly going. Norman is a temporary home for most students. Standing outside of Truman, where she may one day teach, Stanton said it’s good some are willing to give back before they go.

With warmer weather on the way, Truman teachers and staff are already planning new lessons and activities, Jackson said, hopeful that with Delta Gamma’s help, the outdoor classroom will again become the space it was always supposed to be.

“I don’t think we could move forward with the lessons as well if it wasn’t being cleaned. Kids love to be outside,” Jackson said. “They’re really going to enjoy this spring.”

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BIG EVENT

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6000 approximate number of participants in the 2017 Big Event

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how many job sites around the Norman and Oklahoma City areas

300

more participants (approximately) participated in the 2017 Big Event than the 2016 Big Event

18

number of years The Big Event has happened at OU Source: Daily archives and Big Event staff

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Monday, April 3, 2017 • Catlett Music Center

Schedule of Events 9:30 a.m. Introduction Welcome, Shane Hampton | Director, OU Institute for Quality Communities Opening Remarks, Dean Hans E. Butzer | OU College of Architecture Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall, Catlett Music Center

10 a.m. Session One: Making Places Moderated by Charles Warnken | Associate Dean and Director, OU Division of Regional & City Planning “The Story of Placemaking,” Fred Kent | Founder and President, Project for Public Spaces “Placemaking: Ideas to Action,” Susan Silberberg | Founder, CivicMoxie Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall, Catlett Music Center

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1:45 p.m. Session Two: Making Communities Moderated by Mia Kile | Director, OU Division of Interior Design “Renew Australia,” Marcus Westbury | Founder, Renew Australia “A New Dallas,” Patrick Kennedy | Founder, A New Dallas Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall, Catlett Music Center

3 p.m. Session Three: Making Change Moderated by Stephanie Pilat | Director, OU Division of Architecture “Design for the Just City,” Toni Griffin | Founder, Urban Planning and Design for the American City “Tactical Urbanism,” Mike Lydon | Principal, Street Plans Collaborative Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall, Catlett Music Center

4:30 p.m. Session Four: Making Great Streets Moderated by Leehu Loon | Director, OU Division of Landscape Architecture “Making Great Streets,” Victor Dover | Principal, Dover, Kohl & Partners Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall, Catlett Music Center

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Class orchestrates record Gaylord students gain experience during Rokerthon ANNA BAUMAN @annabauman2

A creative media production class had originally planned to take a comprehensive midterm on March 27, but something more important came up.

Instead of taking the exam, approximately 20 students in Client-Based Production met at 3:30 a.m. inside the Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium to coordinate and run the Guinness World Records-breaking Rokerthon, said Victoria Fouke, creative media production sophomore.

As a class project, the students decided to apply to host Rokerthon on behalf of OU, and the university was later selected as one of five schools to host famous weatherman Al Roker and NBC’s TODAY show, Fouke said.

During Rokerthon, more than 770 people converged in the stadium and made it possible for OU to break two Guinness World Records for largest human images of a cloud and a lightning bolt.

To apply, the students in the class wrote a proposal and produced a one-minute audition video. Creative media production senior Sierra Sanders, who acted as executive producer of the video, said they brought together various student groups and sports teams to be featured in the video.

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Al Roker looks around the stadium in between interviews and commercial breaks Monday. Roker kicked off his five-stop Rokerthon 3 tour at OU.

“We had less than a week to produce our audition videos, so that was stressful, but for me as a producer it was really exciting to be able to pull seven shoots together in a couple of days,” Sanders said. “We submitted a really amazing high-quality audition video with our original proposal, which really got the TODAY show’s attention.”

Fouke said the class’s original proposal was to break the record for the most interviews conducted in two minutes, but it changed to an interactive weather map upon NBC’s request to make it more achievable on live television. However, officials from Guinness World

Records preferred the university break an already existing world record, which led to the finalized plan to create human weather images, Fouke said.

“We wanted to incorporate our student body and also incorporate the weather because Al (Roker) is a weatherman,” Fouke said.

“We figured that would be the fastest way to get him to OU, to actually be doing what he loves to do, not just what we like to do.”

The students found out OU was selected as a Rokerthon destination the week before spring break, Sanders said. After that, they got to work.

“Over spring break, the

few of us that were here met up, and we started kicking into high gear and really getting solid plans made,” Sanders said.

Sanders said students in the class communicated with NBC, as well as many departments and individuals across campus, such as the President’s Office, the Office of Public Affairs, the Athletics Department, Facilities Management, Risk Management, the Student Government Association and others.

“My class spearheaded Rokerthon, but, really, we couldn’t have done it without every single department at OU,” Sanders said.

Fouke said the experience

was an incredible learning opportunity for her future career as a producer. ClientBased Production is a class in the OU Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication intended to prepare students to work in the corporate and client field of media and video production.

“I never imagined that in Client-Based Production, we would be working alongside, texting, emailing, calling producers from New York,” Fouke said. “It’s so cool. It’s so surreal that, as a sophomore, that’s what I’m doing.”

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Giving Day garners $179,257 total Funds raised will help future teachers pay for tests, more HANNAH PIKE @h_pike_

OU’s first-ever Giving Day allowed the university to raise scholarship funds for 18 of OU’s colleges and two programs, some of which will aid education majors in becoming teachers.

The funds raised by the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education on Giving Day went to its Future Teacher Certification Fund, which helps education students pay costs related to teacher certification and is distributed on basis of need, said Melanie Schneider, director of communications for the College of Education.

Education students have to pay several hundreds of dollars on subject area tests and more to become certified teachers before they can even start teaching, she said.

The College of Education estimates the fees are $329 per student, Schneider said.

Jay Snyder, social studies education senior, said he thinks it would be beneficial to have these tests paid for and would relieve a lot of stress for seniors.

“Senior year, you have a lot to deal (with),” Snyder said. “You’re student-teaching on top of taking the tests, on top of having to pay for the tests, on top of doing assignments for the end of the year.”

Since the College of Education raised more than $6,000 in the Giving Day campaign, double the donations it expected, about 20 students will be able to have all of their fees covered, Schneider said. “ L a s t y e a r, w h e n t h e Thousands Strong platform originally started, we did a fundraiser for this same promotion, and I think we had 30 days, and we raised just over $2,000,” Schneider said.

“So we were unsure in only a 24-hour period how much

we could raise.”

Overall, the Feb. 28 Giving Day raised $179,257. The money raised by each college must go to its students, but each college chooses how to distribute the funds.

Jill Hughes, executive director of development for the OU Gallogly College of Engineering, said the funds the college raised — more than $28,000 — will go toward Gallogly’s unrestricted scholarship fund. The money raised will be distributed to undergraduate students, incoming freshmen and graduate students in 2017, she said.

“We really enjoyed being a par t of this university-wide initiative, and we were so honored and thankful that more than 264 donors made gifts in support of the Gallogly College of Engineering,” Hughes said.

Hughes said she liked that the event was something students and alumni could participate in together.

“For us, Giving Day was a great opportunity to kind of show the impact that philanthropy has on the university as a whole.”

DANE RIGGS, MEWBOURNE COLLEGE OF EARTH AND ENERGY DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

“Our students were excited about OU Giving Day. I think our donors — both existing donors and new donors that we’ve never talked to before — were really excited about this initiative,” Hughes said.

D a n e R i g g s, d i re c t o r of development for the Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy, said the college is fortunate to have generous alumni and corporate partners, so Giving Day was just a 24-hour push to get its community behind the idea of supporting scholarships.

“For us, Giving Day was a great opportunity to kind

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OU promoted Giving Day by decorating campus with red ribbons starting Feb. 21. The Feb. 28 Giving Day raised $179,257. A creative media production class planned the record-breaking event.

of show the impact that philanthropy has on the university as a whole,” Riggs said.

Mewbourne is split into two schools : the Mewb ourne S cho ol of Petroleum and Geological Engineering and the ConocoPhillips School of Geology and Geophysics, so the money raised will be split between the two schools and distributed through student scholarships, Riggs said.

Riggs said Giving Day was a great opportunity to get students involved in the financial support of the college — more than 70 of the college’s students contributed to the fundraising campaign, he said.

“While of course raising the money was really important for the College of Earth and Energy, we also wanted to kind of showcase the impact of philanthropy for our students,” he said. “So a big push for us ... was encouraging students to get involved in the day. ... We are very, very proud of the fact that we had so many students who, you know, realized the importance of philanthropy and wanted to support the cause.”

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Internet privacy regulations at risk with new congressional resolution

A resolution repealing internet privacy regulations that prevented internet providers from selling user data was passed in the U.S. Congress and is on its way to the desk of the president.

If passed, Senate Joint Resolution 34 would overturn a Federal Communications Commission regulation preventing internet providers from selling consumer data such as browsing history without customer permission.

The bill passed the Senate on March 23 and the House of Representatives on March 28. Both of Oklahoma’s senators and all five congressmen voted in favor of the resolution, according to the Senate and House websites.

Qi Cheng, OU computer science professor, said students should be concerned about this resolution if they want their internet privacy protected.

Cheng specializes in cryptography, which in the field of computer science, involves mathematical theory and deciphering computational algorithms.

“It’s not just AT&T or Cox — companies like Google can collect your data and sell it,” Cheng said. “There is a market for this type of information.”

Cheng said these companies can take users’ browsing data from multiple companies and use it to tailor advertisements to their interests.

“These companies can look at the different things that you like based on the data that they can purchase,” Cheng said.

Cheng said there are steps that can be taken to protect users’ privacy from their internet providers while online.

“If you want to keep your browsing data private, you can use a service called an anonymizer to make your internet data untraceable. Most of these services are free to use,” Cheng said.

Cheng said these services can be downloaded from the internet.

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Students struggle to find jobs

Seniors keep their hopes high as low oil prices continue ANNA BAUMAN @annabauman2

Before walking into each Rock Properties test, Blake Saylor made sure to know the one vital piece of information that was on every exam: the price of oil.

For the petroleum engineering senior and his classmates, though, the price means more than points on a test. Ultimately, it determines their ability to gain employment post-graduation in an industry driven by the fluctuating value of this commodity. “You don’t think you’re going to be sitting there looking at the price of oil every day and that it’s going to be what you’re excited about or bummed out about, but it does become a huge part of your life,� Saylor said.

When he switched his major to petroleum engineering in August 2015, Saylor had no way of knowing that the crude price of oil per barrel, then relatively stable around $50 USD/bbl, would drop below $30 USD/ bbl just six months later.

This decrease is part of a larger cyclic trend in the industry of oil and gas, which goes through ups and downs as the commodity value changes. The industry is now beginning to rebound after nearly three years of falling oil prices.

After the price of crude oil ranged between roughly $80 USD/bbl and $100 USD/bbl from 2012 to 2014, the price plummeted in May 2014 to around $50 USD/bbl. It bottomed out in January 2016 at just below $30 USD/bbl, but it has since seen a slow climb to where it currently stands near $50 USD/bbl.

Trends in the industry are reflected by lower enrollment numbers in the Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering, said Chandra Rai, the school’s director. “When people were hearing that industry is booming, lot of jobs, very highly paid jobs, people were just driven,� Rai said. “And now when they’re hearing that the industry is suffering because of the low commodity price, people are choosing other

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Christopher Shea, petroleum engineering senior, talks about changing majors. Shea accepted a full-time job with Helmerich & Payne Inc. post-graduation.

fields.�

During times of hardship in the industry, graduating seniors also face unfavorable job placement rates.

With a rapidly approaching May graduation date, Saylor has yet to land the petroleum engineering job he expected to when he chose the major. “If you’re doing oil and gas, it’s kind of like, OK, do you get lucky and get out at the height of things when everyone has a job?� Saylor said. “Or do you get out whenever things are kind of down in the dumps and it’s just kind of weathering the cycle?�

“This is not something which has come for the first time. And it’s not going to be for the last time. That’s the nature of business when your students work in an industry which is commodity, price-driven.�

CHANDRA RAI, MEWBOURNE SCHOOL OF PETROLEUM AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING DIRECTOR

The school surveyed 90 of its graduating seniors in a recent poll, and 44.44 percent of those seniors reported having a job lined up post-graduation. In spring 2016, 29 percent of graduating seniors polled reported that they found immediate employment post-graduation, a significant drop from

the 65 percent who reported graduating with a job lined up in spring 2015.

After a fruitless job search in the field of petroleum engineering, Saylor has begun applying for data science and analytics jobs, which would allow him to use the same quantitative skills he learned as an engineering student. “It’s kind of a bummer graduating and not having a job, but at the same time, it’s kind of encouraging to see there are other opportunities outside of just doing oil and gas,� Saylor said.

This slump in the industry is nothing new. Rai said he has experienced the industry endure at least five ups and downs since 1980. “This is not something which has come for the first time,� Rai said. “And it’s not going to be for the last time.

That’s the nature of business when your students work in an industry which is commodity, price-driven.�

Despite low job placement rates and enrollment numbers, the school continues to teach and advise students on how best to handle the circumstances, Rai said. “The only thing we can do is advise the student (the) best possible way we know how to find a job — in terms of interview skills, in terms of how to look for jobs, where to look for jobs,� Rai said.

While many struggle to find jobs in the difficult market, there are still those who have been able to find employment. Christopher Shea, petroleum engineering senior, accepted a full-time job with drilling company

Helmerich & Payne Inc. post-graduation, but he said the process was not as easy as it had been in years past. “It used to be that you show up to the career fair with your resume and you hand it to a couple people and you get an interview and you get a job,�

Shea said. “And it is not that way anymore. I’ve probably put in as much time in the job search and in the internship search as I have for any of the hardest classes I’ve had any semester.�

Shea said the price of oil collapsed shortly after he started his freshman year as a petroleum engineering student, but he decided to stick with it because he knew it would eventually bounce back. “As long as you weather through it, there’s always an upturn somewhere,�

Shea said. “Nobody’s really hanging onto a sinking ship or anything; it comes back every time.�

Shea said there are signs that the industry is rebounding now, such as increased drilling, land acquisition for oil sites and higher drilling rig counts. “We hit the lowest of the low last year, so there’s been a slow but steady climb up from there,� Shea said.

Rai also said he thinks the industry is making a comeback, which will benefit younger and incoming students. “For anyone who is still junior, I think the prospect of jobs and everything getting out will be far better than what it is today,� Rai said. “For freshmen, I think it will

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be very, very good, because I think industry will come back — it is already showing signs of coming back.�

And despite his own lack of employment, Saylor said he and others in his position remain optimistic about the future and other opportunities outside of the industry. “You kind of sign up for it whenever you get into the major,� Saylor said. “You

know it’s ultimately going to be an industry that you’re not in control of ... so it’s kind of like a roller coaster ride. You just sign up for it, and you’re in it through the ups and downs and just get to hold on through the entire thing and see how it goes.�

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Pitcher throws curveball Sooners lose

lineman, gain new receiver

Former OU pitcher part of Rockies’ starting lineup SPENSER DAVIS @Davis_Spenser

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — Four years removed from starring as Oklahoma’s ace en route to an NCAA Super Regional, Jon Gray is in a similar situation with the Colorado Rockies.

Gray, the No. 3 overall pick by the Rockies in the 2013 MLB Draft, is coming off an impressive rookie season in which he posted a 4.61 ERA and 185 strikeouts in 168 innings while playing home games at the hitter-friendly Coors Field.

Now with Chad Bettis out while he battles testicular cancer and Jorge De La Rosa moving to Arizona, the door is open for Gray to become Colorado’s top arm — he was named the Rockies’ Opening Day starter on Thursday, something he never achieved at OU. “I think he made great leaps last year,” new Rockies manager Bud Black said.

“Now is he gonna make as big a leap next year? You don’t know. You hope so, but he has to continue to do the things that make him successful and, with his talent, he’ll be fine.”

So far this spring, Gray has excelled thanks to a new addition to his repertoire: the curveball. He’s used it extensively all spring, most notably when the Rockies scrimmaged a loaded Puerto Rico squad on March 9.

Gray shut down the likes of Carlos Correa, Francisco Lindor, Carlos Beltran and Yadier Molina as he faced the

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Former OU pitcher Jon Gray will be the Colorado Rockies’ Opening Day starter. Gray was the No. 3 pick in the 2013 MLB Draft.

minimum in three innings of work.

Gray didn’t have — or need — the curveball to dominate the Big 12 in 2013. He posted a 1.64 ERA to go with four complete games and 147 strikeouts in his draft year — but it’s made him much more effective at the Major League level.

“I think he finished the season strong. We’re just looking forward to him continuing to prove it.”

BUD BLACK, COLORADO ROCKIES MANAGER

“It’s making me happy,” he said. “It’s been a pitch that’s usually there every single day, and it’s just going to make everything else better.”

Gray will use the curveball with his power fastball, deceiving change-up and elite

slider to try to complete his chief goal: to be a more consistent pitcher in 2017.

“I just want to see a consistent player,” he said. “I don’t want to see a guy that can go out and do seven innings, no runs and then the next time it’s four innings, five runs. I don’t want to be that guy. I think consistency is something I’m really attacking.”

Black also praised Gray but conceded that his consistency moving forward would be his biggest key to success.

“I think he finished the season strong,” Black said.

“We’re just looking forward to him continuing to prove it. He still has something he needs to work on as far as his consistency and stuff.”

While the curveball is the pitch expected to move him to the next level of MLB starters, Gray’s fastball — which averages out at 96 mph — has always captured the attention of scouts and fans.

“I play catch with him now,

and, even when you know it’s coming, it’s still tough to catch,” said teammate Jeff Hoffman, who is competing for a role in the starting rotation. “Just his ability to pitch powerfully and locate at the same time; it’s a tough combination to deal with for hitters.”

At just 25 years old, Gray is poised for a big year of growth.

“I’m just hoping to go into this year and be a pitcher that, when they take the field, guys behind me know they have a good shot at winning,” Gray said.

Spenser Davis is a writer for OU Covers Baseball, a journalism project covering spring training by OU Gaylord College of Jo u r n a l i s m a n d Ma s s Communication. Davis is also the sports editor for the OU Daily.

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Local taco truck tastes success

El Taco Loco brings authentic culture, food to Norman MARY SMITH @marysmitty21

Nomadic writer, consultant and mom Sunny Cooper waits eagerly with her 12-year-old son and dog in her car in a Shell station’s gravel parking lot. There is not much to look at. To most people, the lot Cooper is parked on is just a gas station off Highway 9 with a nursery behind it, but it’s the shiny metal taco truck parked just on the edge that makes this particular lot so special.

Cooper, who consistently travels from Oklahoma to California, makes a point to stop by this unlikely location every time she’s in town. “ We eat at a l o t o f taco trucks from here to California, and this is one of the best by far,” Cooper said.

El Taco Loco is Norman’s hidden gem and attracts people from the area, thanks to the taco truck’s quick service and dedication to authentic Mexican food. The family behind the service makes El Taco Loco special.

For the past six years, owner Laura Martinez and her husband have made the business a family affair.

No one in Martinez’s family has ever owned a business, but after working in the restaurant industry full-time she and her husband were tired of working for others and wanted to work for themselves. So they came up with a plan, Martinez said.

“One day my husband came up to me and said, ‘Let’s go make something new for Norman.’ ... And we came up with the idea for a taco stand because they were very popular in

A woman orders food from El Taco Loco on Tuesday. The food truck has provided Norman with authentic Mexican food since 2011.

Mexico,” she said.

Ma r t i n ez ha s ma d e a point to serve good tacos and use recipes that her family and most families in Mexico use, she said. Her tacos, for example, consist of fresh vegetables and meats on small corn tortillas with black beans rather than flour tortillas with refried beans.

Martinez’s parents came to the United States from Mexico in search of better opportunities. Her sister Dulce has loved seeing Martinez’s use of their culture to bring success to the family, she said.

“I’m glad this business has brought more benefits than not,” she said. “I feel like it’s also helped spread Mexican culture here in Norman.”

After purchasing a truck and facing some difficulties with acquiring permits from the City of Norman, The Greenhouse Inc., where Martinez’s husband worked, agreed to let the family keep

their truck in its parking lot, Dulce said.

At first the Martinez family’s only customers were friends. The truck’s location next to the highway and lack of other food trucks to compete for business in Norman soon made its fare more popular, Dulce said. Now the name El Taco Loco has gained some recognition around town.

Martinez and her husband couldn’t do it on their own, she said. Since they first opened up shop in 2011, they have received help from her immediate and extended family.

“We have a lot of family — eight sisters and five brothers and a lot of cousins — so everybody helps,” Martinez said.

Thanks to El Taco Loco’s success, Martinez and her family have been able to sustain themselves and no longer live check-to-check.

They have even been able

to financially assist her husband’s and her own extended family, according to Dulce.

“I want to give something for my sons and daughters, and that brings my family — everybody — together to make something .”

LAURA MARTINEZ, EL TACO LOCO OWNER

Throughout the first few years, Martinez and her sister would start prepping at 6 a.m. and would leave at 1 a.m. or 2 a.m. the next day after the rest of the work was done, Martinez said. Dulce and some of her other siblings would take over the afternoon shift and have since taken on the bulk of the work, along with their

cousins, creating closer bonds between both immediate and extended family, Dulce said.

One of the cousins who often works with Dulce, Daisy Deloera, travels from Stillwater, Oklahoma, two days a week so she can not only have a chance to work but see her family as well, Deloera said.

“We were close before I started working here, but once I started working (me and Dulce) became closer,” Deloera said. “They say it’s not a good idea because you know something could go wrong and it could affect the whole family ... but it’s never been a problem. ... I like it better than having to go somewhere totally new and having to meet new people and stuff.”

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the different families’ lives, Deloera said.

“To me family’s really important,” she said.

Having this business in the family has changed its dynamics, too. For example, Dulce feels that working at El Taco Loco throughout middle school and high school has given her a sense of independence and has helped her afford items ranging from everyday necessities like food and clothes to the tuition and fees she’ll need to pay when she attends OU next year.

At the end of the day, Martinez wants to make sure she gives something back to Norman and her family.

“I want to give something for my sons and daughters, and that brings my family — everybody — together to make something,” Martinez said.

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If you’re looking for something sweet to snack on, a new ice cream shop all about creating custom ice cream sandwiches on Campus Corner will hit the spot.

The Baked Bear, the new store, had its grand opening Saturday, said Er in Patton, executive director of Campus Corner.

The shop is located at the end of Campus Corner across the street from Hur t ’s D onuts and t w o stores down from the former CVS.

The restaurant even features a cookie warmer that allows customers to get their sandwiches warmed without melting the ice cream.

Baked Bear features a unique ice cream flavor, Bear Batter, and a cookie flavor of the month. This month’s cookie is salted caramel.

Patton said she is excited for the new addition on Campus Corner.

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