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Innovative professors create jobs MELISSA MORGAN The Oklahoma Daily

Students now have new job opportunities after two OU professors created an innovative company located right here in Oklahoma. After years of intensive projects and arduous fundamental research at Tinker Air Force Base, OU Industrial Engineering Professors Shiva Raman and Binil Starly unveiled SEAM Aero last year. The company employs a new, ground-breaking technology that uses a laser scanning arm to create three-dimensional computer designs

of obsolete aircraft parts that are still About 30 people total have alvery much needed to keep U.S. air- ONLINE AT ready been employed by SEAM crafts in flight. SEAM Aero stands for OUDAILY.COM Aero. Approximately a dozen OU Shape Engineering and Advanced students and seven OU faculty » Link: Visit Manufacturing. members are employed at the “We are introducing new technol- seamaero.com for Norman Economic Development more information Coalition’s Emerging Technology ogy to a new market,” Raman said. Even in the wake of the current on the company. Entrepreneurial center (eTec) loeconomic recession, SEAM Aero has cated near campus corner. the capability of developing an effiWorking alongside two outcient and economical method of recreating standing OU professors isn’t SEAM Aero’s missing aircraft parts while also producing only appealing factor, according to Rob jobs and generating money in Oklahoma. Boyles, industrial engineering senior. “My number one goal with SEAM Aero is to create jobs in Oklahoma,” Raman said. SEE GRANTS PAGE 2

UOSA president plans new direction DANIELA MCCORMICK The Oklahoma Daily

The Undergraduate Oklahoma Student Association president and vice president share a vision to create a positive relationship with OU students, and since their inauguration last spring, they’ve worked to reconnect with the students they represent. UOSA President Franz Zenteno said he spent the summer learning how the organization works. “For the past two years I’ve been involved in UOSA, but as a student body president, you are in charge of everything, and I’ve never had that chance before,” said Zenteno, international studies senior He said the first thing he did after being elected was met with the new leadership. “We all agreed on the importance knowing each other well because we’ll be working closely with each other,” Zenteno said. Zenteno said he came in strong with his platform and projects, but he knows that UOSA may be unaware of existing student needs. He said he wants to be close with the student body, and he thinks it’s healthy when students question UOSA. “I don’t think we have to be scared of that,” Zenteno said. “I think the better criticism we can get, the better we can be later. I think one of the mistakes that I saw in UOSA last year was whenever the student body was criticizing UOSA, UOSA closed its door.” Zenteno said the battle between student government and the student body should no longer happen. He said he no longer wants students to be disappointed in UOSA.

INVOLVEMENT Zenteno said both he and UOSA Vice President Cory Lloyd would like to attend

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UOSA President Franz Zenteno and Vice President Cory Lloyd recapped their summer agenda and talked about goals for the school year. Zenteno and Lloyd were elected in the UOSA runoff election in April. other student organizations’ meetings. He said so far he has attended freshman convocation and the International Student Umbrella organization’s first meeting. One of Zenteno’s first goals, he said, is to stop by the organizations he was able to talk to during the campaign last spring. “It’s time for us to go and say, ‘Hey guys, we’ve now got elected. What can we do for you?’” Lloyd said UOSA is not only working on UOSA-specific projects, but also working on tying UOSA goals with student organizations’ goals through feedback. Lloyd said UOSA will partner with other organizations to help improve student life and bring people together. Zenteno and L loyd said they’re also trying to update the student organization website, but they have encountered some difficulties due to an IT problem and they’re working with OU Information Technology to

make the website more userfriendly. “I think the most important thing we’re wanting to work right off the bat is to get that information up-to-date as soon as possible,” said Lloyd, advertising senior.

IMPROVING PARKING Zenteno and Lloyd said they have many projects in the works for OU’s parking and transit system. “The Sarkeys lot is now going to be swarmed with both faculty and students, not just a little bit of students and a majority of faculty,” Lloyd said. “They’ve revamped some other lots too. There have been a lot of shuttle additions, and we’re trying to work to increase the amount of signs that are placed in lots to better identify them.” Another goal of Zenteno and Lloyd is improving SAFEride

What UOSA has changed this summer: » Sarkeys Lot: Parking will now be split 50/50 between faculty and students. What projects UOSA will launch soon: » UOSA will create blog to update students on student government news » UOSA will fully update the official UOSA website and student organizations page. » Possibly UOSA will be create to SafeRide Vouchers which will allow students to call any Norman taxi service. » UOSA will increase supplies for the laptop rental service from 50 laptops to 100 laptops through sponsorships.

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Whether one is new to college or close to graduating, there is one event a student can count on the first week of fall semester with free food, music and movies: the Campus Activities Council’s Howdy Week. Serving to welcome students to OU, Howdy Week chair Ashley Zumwalt said Howdy Week is also a way for students to become acquainted with fellow students, while also enjoying free food and prizes and events. With CAC coordinating several student groups, petroleum engineering junior

Zumwalt said Howdy Week is a way for to help students ease their way back into a new school year. This year, food vendors such as In The Raw Sushi, La Baguette Pastries and Jimmy John’s Sandwiches will provide free food along the South Oval and this year’s featured entertainment is comedian Michael Palascak on Thursday and UPB Ben Kweller concert on Friday both at the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s east lawn. with Howdy Week being the first CAC event many students participate in, CAC Chair and public relations senior Valerie Hall said her big goal for this year with CAC is to help all those involved in CAC to

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take on a more leadership role within the organization. “Being a CAC event chair is unlike any other opportunity on campus,” Zumwalt said. “Personally, I have found that leading by example and allowing members of the executive committee to take ownership in the event to be the most essential things that a Chair could do.”

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OU-Texas tickets to go on sale Tuesday The most valued football tickets for Sooner fans go on sale much earlier than normal this year. Tickets for OU’s annual matchup with Texas at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas go on sale at 7 a.m. Tuesday on Soonersports.com. The right to attend the game and the related fanfare of the Texas State Fair is highly prized and difficult to acquire. Students seeking tickets have traditionally had to suffer an early morning rise, overloaded servers and — in the saddest cases — “sold out” messages. Because of how student season tickets are set up, freshmen are allowed to buy tickets to OU-Texas if the upperclassmen don’t snatch them all up. Don’t hold your breath. Last year’s supply of 4,200 tickets sold out in 30 minutes, two-and-a-half hours faster than 4,000 sold in 2008.

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Vaccinations mandatory to live in dorms Oklahoma colleges require certain immunizations from students KATHLEEN EVANS The Oklahoma Daily

The state of Oklahoma requires that students have certain immunizations before attending OU and other universities for the safety of themselves and others, and these immunizations become even more important when students live closely in small-spaced dormitories. “The safety and well-being of students is an utmost concern for OU Housing and Food Services,” Lauren Royston, Housing and Food Services spokesperson, said in an e-mail statement. “Many procedures are in place to help students settle safely into their new on-campus community.” The two required immunizations are against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) and hepatitis B, according to Oklahoma Statutes, title 70. This is applicable to all full- and part-time students at any Oklahoma college. Hepatitis B is a liver disease caused by a virus, which can lead to serious liver damage or even death, according to the Center for Disease Control.

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