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CAC Chair candidate Chloe Tadlock receives the phone call announcing the election results Tuesday evening at O’Connell’s. Tadlock defeated candidate John Pham in the runoff election by a margin of 21 votes.

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“This (win) wasn’t me ... It was a 160 people who just worked their butts off.”

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hloe Tadlock beat opponent John Pham for the title of Campus Activites Council chair by just 21 votes Tuesday night.

It was almost a 50/50 race with Tadlock receiving 1,647 student votes and Pham receiving 1,626, according to election results.

Tadlock credits her success to those who helped her with the campaign.

“This (win) wasn’t me ... It was a 160 people

who just worked their butts off,” she said.

Though Pham lost the race, he said it was a good experience.

“I’ve learned a lot,” Pham said. “... really leading a team and inspiring people and inspiring a vision, being able to do that and having the opportunity to expand my leadership skills has been such an incredible experience but also just, feeling and knowing how much support there is at OU.” His campaign manager agrees.

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“... ] my leadership skills has been such an incredible experience but also just, feeling and knowing how much support there is at OU.” JOHN PHAM, CAC CHAIR CANDIDATE

President-elect to be commencement speaker Elizabeth Garrett, future president of Cornell, to visit OU JESSE POUND Staff Reporter @jesserpound

Jane Gar rett has a story about her daughter, Elizabeth.

After Elizabeth was named president-elect of Cornell University in New York, somebody told her she would have to learn to cheer for the Big Red now.

Elizabeth Garrett responded that she had been

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Elizabeth Garrett, an OU alumna who will b e C o r n e l l ELIZABETH University’s GARRETT first female president on July 1, will be OU’s commencement speaker next month, serving as a homecoming for one of the university’s most distinguished alumni, she said.

The Oklahoma City native

was appointed as president of Cornell in September.

She had been serving as provost and vice president of academic affairs at the University of Southern California, Garrett said.

Elizabeth Garrett, who graduated from OU in 1985, grew up in Oklahoma City as the daughter of two OU graduates. Her parents, Robert and Jane, graduated from OU in 1959, Jane Garrett said.

The younger Garrett went to Putnam City North High School, where she e xc e l l e d i n s c h o o l a n d

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extemporaneous speaking competitions, Jane Garrett said.

The Garretts took family excursions to OU for football games and other university events, and the daughter had no doubts about where she wanted to attend undergrad, Jane Garrett said.

“She was always a Sooner,” Jane Garrett said.

Garrett has other connections to OU, as well: she worked twice for David Boren when he was a senator, once through an internship as a Ewing fellow and once as budget and finance

counsel, Jane Garrett said.

“I think she was always extremely proud of having [Boren] as our senator,” Jane Garrett said.

Elizabeth Garrett said she learned to negotiate from Boren. Boren never postured and was very transparent about what his views about an issue were, she said.

Following her undergraduate study, Garrett chose to go to law school at the University of Virginia instead of Yale, her mother said.

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YouTube users can now view videos from their favorite creators three days early for a small monthly fee through a newly launched app.

Vessel, which became available to the public on March 24, charges users $2.99 a month for exclusive

first access to web videos.

According to the app’s website, co-founders Jason Ki l a r a n d R i c ha rd To m (Hulu’s founding CEO and a former senior Amazon executive, respectively) wanted to provide creators an easier way to build a sustainable business off their videos.

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According to a press release from OU, Garrett’s s u b s e q u e nt a ca d e m ic career has included a faculty position at the University of Chicago Law School and visiting professorships at University of Virginia Law School, Harvard Law School, Central European University in Budapest and Interdisciplinary Law School in Israel.

G i l l i a n Ha d f i e l d , a colleague of Elizabeth Garrett’s at USC and a longtime friend, said she has mixed feelings about Garrett’s departure, calling Garrett a skilled academician and administrator.

“It’s a huge loss for USC,” Hadfield said.

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The qualities that Garrett showed in that setting were indicative of the career she has had, Hadfield said.

“She was clearly a standout individual,” Hadfield said.

Garrett said that OU was influential in her career.

“I think what OU taught me more than anything else is confidence,” Elizabeth Garrett said.

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International business and economics senior Lilli Kiehl and psychology junior John Pham hug after they hear the CAC election result Tuesday night at Blu. John Pham thanked everyone for helping him run the Campus Activities Council chair.

TADLOCK: New CAC president explains feelings after win, future plans Continued from Page One “I think we ran a really wonderful campaign and I think that we did really great things,” said Lilli Kiehl, Pham’s campaign manager. “I think that even though we didn’t win, we impacted

this campus and we raised awareness for a lot of issues.”

Tadlock plans to continue to work with Pham in CAC. “It’s a conversation that John and I are going to have just to see where he envisions himself as a member of CAC, where he would work well with me, where he feels

comfortable and just making those efforts together,” she said.

One area Tadlock plans to tackle immediately is diversity on campus.

“We definitely have the eyes on us — there’s no doubt about it,” she said. “I think that the conversations

that have been started have been incredible conversations and I think that we need to keep them going we need to keep moving forward and make CAC more accessible.”

Tadlock’s campaign manager said she was nervous for a runoff election that

Sooners address Native roots Native students question origin of “boomer”, “sooner”

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Rance Wer yackwe became aware of his Comanche heritage and the history behind the words “boomer” and “sooner” in third grade.

It happened at his ele m e nt a r y s ch o o l w h i l e Weryackwe was outside for lunch with his classmates and others. Leaders of each class in his grade were allowed to choose a spot in the grass to eat their meals.

After an administrator gave the signal, he said, class leaders ran to a spot and stuck a stake in the ground to designate the location where their class would eat.

Weryackwe said even his third grade self thought it did not seem right.

“I remember that going on and thinking, ‘Why are we celebrating this?’” he said. “All the other kids were happy except me, and I didn’t really know why. I felt bad, and I had no idea why.”

The words “boomer” and “sooner” are terms that define those who participated in the Land Rush of 1889.

Sooners refer to people who prematurely rushed to acquire land in Oklahoma before they were legally allowed to, and boomers refer to those who believed that Native American land in the late 1800s should be deemed public. “[Boomer and sooner are] a celebration of a loss of culture and loss of land,” Weryackwe said. “We need to start talking about it more.”

The taking of land by the “boomers” and “sooners” diminished the land of Native Americans, Weryackwe said, and in turn worsened their quality of life.

“With the reduction of land base also comes a reduction of economy and culture,” he said, “which leads into spirituality and ways of worship. Land is tied to religion. Indians do identify with the loss of land with it.”

only lasted 9 hours, but she o v e r w h e l m e d b y t h i s campus.” is pleased with the results.

Tadlock is going to celebrate by hanging out with friends and catching up on Supriya Sridhar; Amber Friend supriyasridhar@ou.edu; ambermsleep, she said. friend@gmail.com “You know, it’s a very hu m b l i n g e x p e r i e n c e,” Ta d l o c k s a i d . “ I c a n ’ t even sum it up, but I’m

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“[Boomer and sooner are] a celebration of a loss of culture and loss of land.”

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The Jim Thorpe Multicultural Center used to be a designated center for Native Americans until the late 1990s when it transformed into a center for all minority cultures on campus, said Heather Shotton, Native American Studies professor.

“That really marked a shift in the function of the Jim Thorpe Center,” she said. “It became more widely used by the university, and it had a greater focus on diversity and multiculturalism.”

The old center was located where Zarrow Hall is today, but eventually, Shotton said, because of the center’s changing function and its inability to hold all of the parties who utilized it, it was demolished and moved

into its current location south of the dorms.

“Students used to be able to come in daily,” she said.

“Now they have to make an appointment to use it. There was definitely a shift in its function.”

Native students are often more successful in institutions that have centers designated specifically for them, Shotton said.

“We often see that their students are very successful, they do a better job of retaining those students and their graduation rates may tend to be a bit better when [the institutions] are able to support them in that way,” she said.

The overlooking of Native Americans’ feelings towards land and historical terms such as “boomer” and “sooner” could be both “societal and institutional,” Weryackwe said.

Weryackwe would not be opposed to changing “Boomer Sooner,” he said.

Weryackwe also wrote an opinion piece on the website, “Native News Online,” on the historical context of

these words in which he told the story of when his daughter asked him what the word “sooner” meant.

“When I answered her honestly she asked why so many Indians support a team that celebrates this history. I had to tell her that the situation was complicated, but [I was] very proud that she was already questioning this reality,” according to the article by Weryackwe.

Since that instance, his article said he now only buys OU apparel that does not have the words “boomer” or “sooner” on it. He said he thinks discussions should begin about the words and their historical meaning.

“I know it’s a sensitive term for me, and I think if we talked about it and made it sensitive in other people’s eyes, that would help,” he said. “I would be very diplomatic about it.”

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OU will host a symposium next week in honor of the 20th anniversary of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

The symposium, titled “ Ter ror, Trauma, Memory,” will feature four panels and four keynote addresses from speakers from around the globe, placing the bombing in a present-day context.

Hans E. Butzer, director of OU’s department of architecture, said OU faculty members collaborated to chose the symposium’s speakers and panel members. The speakers are experts on topics such as how traumatic events shape people’s actions and how people deal with acts of terrorism, he said.

Butzer, who designed the Oklahoma City National Memorial with his wife Torrey, said the

symposium aims to “create a forum for the exchange of ideas” and stressed the importance of historical perspective today.

“More and more of the Earth’s population is getting pulled in and is being forced to think a bit more about what events like this mean to them,” Butzer said. “[What they mean for] how they live their lives, how they view their own identity and sense of community.”

Butzer recommended that students attend this symposium to become more civically engaged and to observe how significant events shape a community. “[The symposium is] an example of how [the] more informed we are as Americans the more easily we can step forward and find a place that we can serve our communities,” Butzer said.

The symposium is free and open to the public and will have events throughout Monday and Tuesday. A full schedule of events is available online.

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hloe Tadlock and John Pham faced off Tuesday in a runoff election for Campus Activities Council chair. Tadlock was victorious with 50.3 percent of the vote. Check out photos from both candidates watch parties below:

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TOP: CAC Chair candidate Chloe Tadlock celebrates with friends and supporters after hearing the news of her election victory Tuesday evening at O’Connell’s Irish Pub and Grille. Tadlock defeated candidate John Pham in the runoff election by a margin of 21 votes.

ABOVE: CAC Chair candidate Chloe Tadlock celebrates with friends and supporters after hearing the news of her election victory Tuesday evening at O’Connell’s Irish Pub and Grille.

RIGHT: Psychology junior John Pham gets a call about Campus Activities Council chair election results Tuesday night at Blu Restaurant. Pham lost the election by 21 votes.

BOTTOM: John Pham and friends wait for the Campus Activities Council chair runoff election results Tuesday night at Blu Restaurant.

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Junior quarterback Baker Mayfield looks to pass the ball during the spring football game on April 12, 2014. Mayfield is competing with redshirt junior quarterback Trevor Knight for the starting quarterback slot in the fall.

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D e s p i t e ha i l i n g f ro m A u s t i n , Te x a s , B a k e r Mayfield grew up an Oklahoma fan, dreaming of hitting the gridiron dressed in crimson and cream.

However, as his career at Lake Travis High School unfolded, Mayfield flew under the radar. A three-star quarterback, he received scholarship offers from just three schools: Florida Atlantic, Rice and Washington State.

Instead of accepting a scholarship, he chose to walk on at Texas Tech. “[Oklahoma] is where my heart always wanted to go,” Mayfield said. “I wanted to go to TCU out of high

school, but that was just because OU never gave me a look and TCU did.

“I grew up an OU fan.

I used to come watch coach [Josh] Heupel play. I watched a lot of people, a lot of our strength coaches. I’ve been around the program since I was about four years old.”

When Mayfield chose to transfer from Texas Tech after his freshman year, the Sooners recruited him persistently. Now Mayfield has an opportunity to win the job he’s always dreamt of — Oklahoma’s starting quarterback.

T h e ro a d h a s n o t a l ways been easy, however. Because of conference transfer rules, Mayfield was forced to sit out the 2014 season. To add a second punch, he lost a year of eligibility as well.

“If it would have been just a redshirt year where

I wouldn’t have lost eligibility, I could have taken that as absolutely positive,” Mayfield said. “Another year of training, going against the defense. But instead, to lose that year, now I’m going into my junior year, eligibility-wise.”

There is hope he could retroactively get that year of eligibility back if the Big 12 follows the example of several other FBS conferences in changing its transfer rules.

“I’m looking at it positively, just like I was in the first NCAA appeal,” he said.

“They just made a thing about [how] you can possibly get the extra year of eligibility back after you transfer.”

M a y f i e l d ’s s o p h o more “season” was not a complete loss, however.

Running the scout team, he practiced against the first team defense and threw

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“I’ve always had the mindset that I can go play anywhere.

That’s how I play. I have a chip on my shoulder. I’m out to prove people wrong.”

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balls to wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham, one of the top prospects in the NFL Draft.

Additionally, the quarterback was front and center on the sidelines and during warm-ups before games.

Although he was not allowed to play, Mayfield said he was able to bond with teammates and integrate himself into the program.

“That was my way of trying to stay positive and be

in the game and not try to stay on the outside, whereas some guys on a redshirt year will stay outside, and you don’t feel apart of the team,” he said. “Now that I’m in the middle of it, I’ve been with the guys, and I’ve been around them for real long.”

Now, in the heat of a quarterback battle that likely could last until the first snap of the first game, Mayfield — a player often called “the offensive Eric Striker” for his energy and excitement in the locker room — held a stone-cold façade for reporters Monday.

“That’s the person you have to be sometimes,” he said.

Fellow quarterback and competitor Trevor Knight said Mayfield is energetic in the locker room but has the ability to button it up when he needs to.

“He has a presence about

him on the field, an energy about him on the field,” Knight said. “That’s a great quality to have as a quarterback. He’s one of the guys.

He’s around all the guys, and everybody likes him.

But there’s also times [that] when he needs to tone it down, he can tone it down.”

There is a very real chance Mayfield could be the next starting quarterback in Norman, completing what could be the toughest journey of his young life. “ I ’v e a l w a y s h a d t h e mindset that I can go play anywhere,” Mayfield said.

“That’s how I play. I have a chip on my shoulder. I’m out to prove people wrong.”

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An SEC foe will invade Marita Hynes Field today for a midweek non-conference clash.

Oklahoma softball (325, 6-0 Big 12) welcomes the Arkansas Razorbacks (1424, 0-12 SEC) for a one-game home outing before the Sooners return to conference action.

Arkansas was swept in their two most recent series and suffered a 10-2 loss to the Tulsa Golden Hurricane on March 31. However, senior Shelby Pendley says the Sooners won’t be distracted by their weekend road trip.

“They’re SEC. It’s a mustwin situation,” Pendley said. “We’re going to look at the game and focus on [Arkansas] before we focus on Texas this weekend. We’re taking that approach of focusing on the game at hand than looking too far ahead.”

While the Sooners won’t get a regular three-game series with the Razorbacks, Pendley believes the game will be advantageous moving forward to face an opponent in the middle of week rather than scrimmaging themselves before a tougher part of their schedule begins.

Oklahoma has dominated lately with series sweeps of

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Junior right-handed catcher Whitney Ellis prepares to hit the ball during the game against Iowa on March 16 at Marita Hines Field. The Sooners beat the Iowa team 9-0.

Texas Tech and Iowa State to begin Big 12 play and coach Patty Gasso believes the confidence of her 2015 club is extremely high.

“Offensively we’re on, defensively we’re on, but pitching-wise we just want to continue to get depth and have options out of the bullpen,” Gasso said.

“Paige Parker is throwing really well, and Shelby Pendley is starting to throw really well. It’s just the other three continuing to try to get quality innings and that’s where we’re at right now,” Gasso said.

Oklahoma will get the chance to make more improvements against a team that senior Lauren

Chamberlain has seen a lot since coming to Norman, Oklahoma.

Arkansas has struggled as of late, but Chamberlain says they’re a squad that always gives Oklahoma a good game.

“It’s always fun to play them,” Chamberlain said.

“They’re a tough team to beat. I think it’s awesome we get to bring them here, and it’s an awesome opportunity to get the ball rolling and get a good win going in to a big weekend.”

First pitch is set for 5 p.m.

CT at Oklahoma’s softball complex and can be seen on Fox Sports Southwest.

The Oklahoma baseball team has achieved a good-but-not-great start to its 2015 season. The Sooners have improved thanks to a pitching staff that is deeper and more consistent than a year ago.

However, it’s the offense that is holding this squad back.

“We’re going to be as offensive as anybody,” head coach Pete Hughes said at his team’s media day prior to the season.

For the most part, he’s been right. The Sooners have been holding steady at just over six runs per game, good enough for second in the Big 12.

It’s an offense that is capable of large outbursts — like 22 runs against UALR and 13 runs against Purdue. But it’s also prone to mind-boggling lows.

OU managed only two runs in two games against Baylor last month. The Sooners pushed across just one run against Oral Roberts, and the offense needed left-handed pitcher Jacob Evans to rescue them in the ninth this past weekend against Kansas.

It’s those kinds of performances that are

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Sophomore catcher Anthony Hermelyn hits the ball to center field during the game against Oklahoma State on April 1 at L. Dale Mitchell Park. The Sooners fell to the Cowboys 3-1.

responsible for OU’s low RPI ranking (81), and subsequently, putting the squad on the outside-looking-in of Baseball America’s projected field of 64.

“That’s just baseball,” Hughes said on more than one occasion this season.

That may be, but you don’t see many topflight teams that have their offense randomly come and go. But when it does, they almost always manage to win the game. (See TCU’s 4-3 extra-inning win over the Sooners two weeks ago).

TCU averages just .2 fewer runs per game than the Sooners, but TCU gets away with it because of a supremely talented pitching staff and its 1.97 ERA. Hughes also said that offense provides a “larger margin for error” at the media day back in February. But that margin simply hasn’t been enough yet for a pitching staff that, while improved, owns an ERA almost a full point higher than the Horned Frogs.

Looking ahead, it won’t get any easier for a Sooners’

squad that already possesses 12 losses. OU travels to Austin, Texas, to face the Longhorns before hosting Dallas Baptist next Tuesday.

While Dallas Baptist is a mid-major, the Patriots have the No. 1 RPI in the country.

The rest of Big 12 play won’t be any easier, with series against ranked teams like Oklahoma State and TCU still on the horizon.

But those are the types of matchups that OU will have to perform well in if Hughes and his team plans on making the trip 472 miles north to Omaha.

It’s possible that OU turned a corner this past weekend when it swept Kansas by scoring seven, six and eight runs in consecutive games — but time will tell.

“It’s easy to hit in this lineup,” junior outfielder Craig Aikin said after a win earlier this season.

It’s time to start proving it.

Already with 12 losses and the conference tournament right around the corner, OU is running out of time.

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And The Daily’s editorial board, like students across campus, is fed up. Instead of sitting by idly, the editorial board has created various viable solutions OU should adopt immediately to alleviate the parking inconveniences it’s causing for its students.

OU Parking Services announced last month it would commence lot closures while constructing a new garage.

Yes, it’s great OU is building a new garage, but it’s not great students will lose over 600 parking spots in the meantime. The reality of OU’s parking problem was visible to Sooners on Monday when construction contractors and OU Parking Services unceremoniously fenced off a portion of OU’s largest housing lot and posted signs proclaiming any cars remaining in the fenced area would be towed.

Bottom line — this is unacceptable. Rather than offer the students who’ve already paid for a yearlong permit any parking solutions, OU has taken away spots, threatened to tow and offered only the weak alternative that students park at the Lloyd Noble Center and take the free shuttle.

Don’t get us wrong, the Lloyd Noble shuttle is a great resource and a viable transportation option for students who would rather not pay for a parking permit. However, it is not a catchall solution for OU’s parking problem.

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the buses. OU Parking Services may increase the number of buses running the route, but when it takes 20 minutes to take a one mile shuttle, the solution is broken.

But instead of merely complaining, we’ve brainstormed a few solutions OU can use to lift the parking burden it has placed on its students. But first, we have a quick reminder for OU. Simply stated, OU is a business, and the students are its customers.

OU provides a service — an education — that students pay top dollar for, and as the consumers of that service, OU is beholden first to us, its students. Any good business listens to its customers and acts proactively to meet customer needs and wants. But when it comes to parking, OU seems to have lost sight of that. OU has inconvenienced its customers, the students, and should act expediently to correct the problem. Here are The Daily’s solutions on just how OU can do that: 1. Keep track of the number of permits issued and restrict permits in the fall.

We already know parking services plans to close 600 parking spots in the fall, and we already know parking services has no algorithm or system for limiting the number of permits it issues. Any student may buy a permit and then return it if they can’t find parking on campus. It’s not a great system to begin with, but it really won’t work when the number of spots is drastically reduced during

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It might not be popular, but OU must limit the number of permits it issues in the fall. Part of the frustration with on-campus parking is permits are too easy to come by, creating an inevitable bottleneck when too many permits are issued for too few spots. OU Parking Services could issue permits based on seniority or on a first-come, firstserved basis. We understand the majority of spots lost in the fall will be for housing students, and restricting permit issuances would limit the number of freshmen bringing their cars to campus without outright banning freshmen from having their vehicles, an impractical and unfair option.

2. Implement tiered permits until the parking spots are returned.

Currently, OU students choose between commuter, housing, priority, evening and single-day permits.

Each type of permit is a different price; however, OU doesn’t use a tiered system that designates which lots you have access to based on permit price. For example, parking services could give priority parking to people willing to pay more for permits, effectively reducing the number of permits to better align with the fewer spots that will be available.

That being said, we only advocate for tiered permits until the new garage is opened and on-campus parkers have access to more spots. We understand higher permit prices could price out lower income students, which is why we don’t support a permanent tiered parking permit policy. Bottom line, issuing tiered permits would be an effective way to limit permit purchases in the short run.

Our tiered permit proposal would likely only be in effect while the new garage is under construction, and we

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encourage any students who can’t buy a more expensive permit to purchase a permit with friends and carpool.

You can add multiple vehicles to a permit, so students could feasibly share the costs and benefits of a temporarily more expensive permit. In addition, we urge those who drive to campus to consider less popular parking permit options, like evening permits that are effective after 3 p.m.

3. Set up a carpool or bike share system and let apartment shuttles drop-off on campus again.

OU’s Student Government Association often encourages students to bike or carpool to class as part of its “Turn Up for Transit” events, and we agree students should explore transportation alternatives.

However, there isn’t currently an easy-touse system that allows OU students to see which of their peers would like to carpool to campus. It would likely be a long-term project, but we urge OU to experiment with designing a webpage or mobile app that allows Sooners to enter their class times and desired drive times and connect with posters who

have similar carpooling needs.

Furthermore, we urge OU to explore implementing a bike share program that would allow students to bike to and around campus without investing in a new set of wheels or the commitment of lugging around a bike every day. Students could pay a monthly fee to use the bike share program or enter payment into a kiosk before using a bike.

Bike share programs have been successfully implemented in cities nationwide and at public universities, including neighboring University of Central Oklahoma that provides a free “Bum-A-Bike” program that allows students, faculty or staff to borrow a bike for up to two weeks at a time and free of charge.

We’ve said it in the past, and we still believe OU could benefit students greatly by implementing a bike share program along the lines of UCO. Lastly, OU needs to repeal its illogical policy banning apartment shuttles from dropping off on campus. In January of this year, OU Parking Services suddenly decided Norman area apartment shuttles could no longer drop off students at the Duck Pond parking lot. Parking services

cited concerns over the weight of shuttles idling on the parking lot’s pavement, but we urge OU to offer apartment shuttles an alternative on-campus location to drop off students.

The apartment shuttles currently drop off students at the Lloyd Noble Center, where commuters must take a second shuttle to campus. The convoluted process is unfair to students who previously relied on their apartment complex’s shuttle service, and it only serves to further burden the Lloyd Noble shuttles. Offering the apartment shuttles a new location on-campus is a common sense solution to broaden transportation options for commuter students who live in off-campus apartments.

We’re committed to finding viable solutions to OU’s parking problems and will continue to bring you solutions until OU adopts a better policy toward parking.

We’re looking at existing parking systems at universities across the country and will offer exactly which few we think OU could replicate in a future editorial.

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