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Get the most of your meal plan Use The Daily’s cost-benefit analysis to determine which plan works best for you DANA BRANHAM News Reporter @danabranham
Students unsatisfied with their current meal plans will be able to choose a different option from Sept. 2 to 12. These meal plans, which cost $2,052 per semester, are required for all freshmen who live in the dorms and drastically fluctuate in value depending on how they are used. There are five options for freshman meal plans based around different ratios of meal exchanges to meal points. Exchanges can be redeemed at restaurants around campus at a flat value of $7.50. Meal points are deducted from the plan at a value equal to that of “real” money.
However, when used at Couch Restaurants during lunch or dinner, meal exchanges are worth $12, which allows a meal plan’s value to exceed its cost. For example, one option for a meal plan consists of 15 exchanges and no points at all. If a student used all 15 of their exchanges at Couch Restaurants during lunch and dinner, for all 17 weeks of the semester, their meal plan would be worth $3,060, over $1,000 more than what it cost. Despite being more cost efficient, the 15 meals option is the least popular one so far, said Amy Buchanan, assistant communications director for Housing and Food. The other meal plan options, along with their values at peak efficiency, can be seen in graphs on page two. Students can change their meal plans at the OU Housing & Food website. SEE MEALS PAGE 2
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History junior Samanntha Phillips and elementary education sophomore Bethany Mulanax have dinner at Cate Center.
ACADEMICS
Need graduate credit? Get the details here Undergraduates can apply for grad credit if they meet these criteria ROSA MIRANDA News Reporter
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Journalism senior Courtney Boggs stands outside Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Boggs recently won a title from World’s Perfect Athlete.
Lady Sooner crowned ‘perfect’
Many undergraduate students have until Friday to petition for any graduate classes they are taking to count as graduate credit. To qualify for graduate credit, the student must: • Submit an application for courses taken during junior or senior years before the first two weeks of the course • Have a 3.0 overall GPA • Have a 3.0 OU GPA • Must ultimately earn an A, B or S in the class If a student does not petition for the course to count as graduate credit, they will receive undergraduate credit for the course, said Brandy Gunter, academic counselor of graduate students. Students who meet all the requirements and complete the paperwork are all approved, Gunter said. Gunter recommends that undergraduates interested in applying for graduate credit meet with their undergraduate adviser and department members in the area from which they plan to take graduate classes before completing the application. Typically the undergraduates who apply for graduate credit are those who are: • In an accelerated dual-degree program • Completing bachelor’s and master’s degrees simultaneously For more information visit the graduate college’s website. Rosa Miranda ochita_miranda@hotmail.com
DAISY CREAGER NEWS REPORTER
Journalism senior Courtney Boggs is blueeyed, blonde and as of this June, perfect.
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World’s Perfect Athlete crowned Boggs America’s Perfect model for girls in her gym, as well as around the nation,” Cheerleader Miss 2014 in June. Boggs will LeForce said. hold the title until June 2015, when she will As part of the pageant she created a campresent the crown to the new winner. paign to encourage young girls to live a The World’s Perfect Athlete Competition healthy and active lifestyle. LeForce said was designed by Laura Pucker, America’s the pageant also let Boggs shine and grow. Perfect Woman 2012, to give athletes a “I’ve coached her, and she’s always had place to compete and gain confidence. the ability to do what she is doing, but it Though Boggs began competitive gymhas given her more confidence, as well nastics when she was 6 years old and comI’m not what most as giving her voice a platform to speak petitive cheerleading in middle school, she about something she is passionate about,” people would had no experience with pageants before LeForce said. consider to be a entering the competition. Boggs said winning the competition “I am not a typical build,” Boggs said. meant more to her than cheerleading and pageant girl.” “I’m not what most people would consider pageantry. to be a pageant girl. I was a gymnast, so I’ve “I get to work with young girls and help COURTNEY BOGGS, AMERICA’S PERFECT always been a bit stockier, and now that I them to believe in themselves,” Boggs said. CHEERLEADER MISS 2014 cheer and do CrossFit, I’m still pretty bulky Although she has always been athletfor a girl.” ic, Boggs said she struggled with her body After her former cheer coach Jeff LeForce image for a while in high school. advised her to compete, Boggs won the state competition “I went through a phase after I quit gymnastics where I in January and went on to win the national competition. had an identity crisis,” Boggs said. “I felt like she had positive energy and was a good role
SAFETY
Shooter training requests stay steady Even with this year’s shooting scare, there are no more requests than usual CAITLIN SCHACHTER News Reporter
Despite January’s Gould Hall shooting scare, OU Police Department said requests for active shooter training events haven’t risen. When the police department holds active shooter training demonstrations for on campus groups, the officers show a video and tell attendees what to do during an actual shooting, said Major Bruce Chan, spokesperson for OUPD. Since the shooting scare in January when the campus was put on lockdown after construction equipment backfired outside of Gould Hall, Chan said the number of training requests haven’t increased or decreased.
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