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Integrity Council proposes revision Council plans to revise Code; make enforcement less punitive DHARA SHETH The Oklahoma Daily
The Integrity Council asked faculty representatives on Monday to support revisions to OU’s Academic Misconduct Code that would help students and faculty work together in academic-misconduct cases. The changes include switching to a more stu- ONLINE AT dent-run system, OUDAILY.COM simplifying the ĂĹĽ Link: View the code, making the current Academic document more Misconduct Code accessible to students and adding provisions regarding the Internet and other technologies. OU’s prestige is linked to the integrity of its academics, Integrity Council Chairwoman Elizabeth Miracle said. Academic misconduct, which includes fraud, plagiarism, cheating and other forms of using someone
Invisible Children to visit campus Ugandan scholarship recipients, staff will share experiences of warfare during stop on national tour EMILY HOPKINS The Oklahoma Daily
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simwe Proscovia was given a new future when she was 14 years old. Through Invisible Children, a non-profit organization seeking peace in Uganda, Proscovia was chosen to be a part of the Legacy Scholarship Program because of her level of vulnerability and academic potential. She was mentored, given supplies and provided with an education that otherwise would have been out of reach. “I was so happy about it. I knew I could have a future and my dreams would come true,� Proscovia said. The Ugandan native, now 19, was raised by her grandmother. As a child, Proscovia’s father was killed in the brutal rebel warfare that has been raging in the northern area of the country since the early 1980s. The recent graduate of Gulu Secondary School is now on the road. As part of Invisible Children’s Face-to-Face tour, she and four interns are traveling across North America. The group will meet with students today, to share their stories and show how Invisible Children is rebuild educational programs in a region ravaged by violence. “For me, and I think for all of us, it’s an opportunity to do something that’s bigger than ourselves. It’s an opportunity to serve,� roadie Steve Robison said. The fall 2010 Face-to-Face Tour is Invisible Children’s eleventh to date and the second ever to include scholarship students and employees from the non-profit’s Ugandan staff. Each stop features a screening of one of the organization’s nine documentaries and the opportunity to talk to individuals with both
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Top row: Lorna Peace, Jenna Ingrassia and Megan Duhon; and bottom row: Steve Robinson, Bryce Mittelstadt and Asimwe Proscovia stand in front of their van Sunday in Oklahoma City. These people are on the Invisible Children Face-to-Face tour, speaking at venues across the country to raise awareness of the struggles that Ugandan children face during the civil war in northern Uganda.
More information Invisible Children is a humanitarian movement highlighting the Ugandan war and the children who are affected by its violence. Three film students founded the organization in 2003 with a documentary about Ugandan children who are recruited by armies that fight within the country. Invisible Children establishes schools, work
opportunities and scholarships to reinvigorate the economy and promote infrastructural improvement in Ugandan society. The Face-to-Face Tour allows young Ugandans who have benefitted from Invisible Children’s scholarship support the chance to share their stories with North Americans who are involved in the Invisible Children awareness movement.
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‘Indian Grass’ structure built on Main Street roundabout to reflect central Oklahoma 16 ton-piece chosen from 62 submitted proposals; funded by private donations TREVOR SHOFNER The Oklahoma Daily
After a two-year process for the first project by the Norman Public Arts Board, a three-story structure was celebrated by the board Friday. T h e p i e c e, c a l l e d “ In d i a n Grass,� is located in the middle of the roundabout at the intersection of Main Street, Acres Street and Carter Avenue. “Public art provides many things to a community including a sense of a community, encouraging and reflecting the comMARK MORELAND/THE DAILY munity. It’s free and accessible “Indian Grass� a statue located in to the public and it also shows a east Norman was constructed by Juan thriving arts community, which and Patricia Navarrete. Norman definitely has,� said
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Larry Walker, Public Arts Board chairman. “Indian Grass,� which weighs in at 16 tons of steel and towers over the roundabout at 29 1/2 feet, was commissioned to Juan and Patricia Navarrete of Taos, N.M. The couple was selected by the board from 62 submitted proposals across the world. “The issues involved were the size and the scope of the piece, meaning the scale in relation to the surroundings. It also had to be a piece that could be observed while driving past. The proposals were to be reflective of central Oklahoma,� Walker said. The funds were raised by 320 private donations from all over the city for the Public Arts Board and the Norman Arts Council. Those wishing to further public art in the city can make a donation along with their monthly
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[Art] is free and accessible to the public and it also shows a thriving arts community, which Norman definitely has.� — LARRY WALKER, PUBLIC ARTS BOARD CHAIRMAN utility bill or direct donations to the Art and Public Places fund, in care of the Arts Council. “I think it’s a really cool piece. I got to watch the piece be constructed, and it really brings personality to the area without seeming too out of place,� said Terran Loveless, Norman resident. The Norman Public Arts Board was established by the city in 2007.
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Union wing closed until further notice Thursday’s fire in the Oklahoma Memorial Union ConocoPhillips Student Leadership Wing still affects many in the leadership center. Brett Stidham, a UOSA congressman, said the first floor of the Student Leadership Wing is closed so the carpet can be replaced and damages can be assessed. Stidham said Congress was better off than most organizations, because it will share the upstairs UOSA Budget office and will continue meetings in their temporary home. Other organizations are struggling to find a place to put their belongings. Emily Payne, UOSA public relations representative and public relations senior, said the most difficult obstacle is that most files are in boxes. But since most information that can be transferred through the Internet, she is not worried that work will be put on hold. — Sydney McFerron/The Daily
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