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Vending machine prices max out Costs will not increase again until 2018 when OU’s contract expires JESSE POUND News Reporter @jesserpound
Prices in vending machines rose recently, but don’t expect it to happen again in the near future. OU’s agreement with Coca-Cola and Great Plains CocaCola, the local distributing service in charge of vending machines, includes scheduled price increases. Prices increased on Aug. 1, but won’t increase again until after July 2018,
when the contract expires. Last year, a 12-ounce bottle of Powerade cost $1.15 at a campus vending machine. This year the same drink costs $1.25. Twenty ounce bottles of carbonated drinks increased from $1.35 to $1.50, according to the contract. Most of the prices increased by 10 or 15 cents, and none of the price increases surpassed 25 cents. The items that increased by 25 cents were cold food and 16-ounce cans of energy drinks, according to the contract. The agreement between OU and Coca-Cola and Great Plains Coca-Cola began in August 2008. The recent increase is the last one in the contract, which runs through July 2018, according to the contract. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY BLAYKLEE BUCHANAN
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AROUND THE WORLD TO OU See the full profiles online at OUDaily.com
Emil Sietins Latvia
Deepak Abraham India
Magdalena Gea Vidovic
Ben O’Kane
Croatia
Australia
Four international students discuss their lives in the U.S. KATE BERGUM ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR @KATECLAIRE_B
Emil Sietins Latvia University College freshman In his home country … Once students choose their majors, they must stick with them, which forces students to decide what they want to do with their entire lives immediately after high school, Sietins said. He came to OU because … OU’s liberal arts programs and scholarships for international students appealed to him. He also liked that the university allowed students to change their majors over the course of their college experience. It took some time for Sietins to adjust to … • Size of the campus: Sietins said he went from a school with about 200 students to a school with 20,000. “The huge community just overwhelms me sometimes,” he said. • Warmth of the people: In Latvia, Sietins said, people aren’t as friendly or polite. If you were walking down the street and someone smiled at you, you would think there’s something wrong with that person, he said. • Hot weather: Sietins said in Latvia, his family is experiencing fall-like weather. “I had never experienced such a warmth in my whole life,” he said.
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Magdalena Gea Vidovic Croatia Economics junior
Ben O’Kane Australia Business junior
In her home country … In his home country … Vidovic is from the Croatia-Bosnia area, O’Kane’s home university, the University where wounds from the bloody conflict that of Wollongong, heavily encourages stuoccurred in the 1990s still have not healed. dents to study abroad. “I think that’s why the university does it, because it’s great She came to OU because … motivation to achieve something better,” OU has a strong emphasis on internation- O’Kane said. al students and studies. Vidovic said it was nice to feel that other He came to OU because … students were aware of international stuO’Kane had the option of studying in dents like her, and it was nice to feel sup- California, but he said he found Oklahoma ported as she explored a new country. more appealing. “I wanted something a bit more true America,” O’Kane said, “So It took some time for Vidovic to adjust to … I thought, you know, I’m going inland to • Food: Vidovic said in Croatia, people Oklahoma.” do not eat sweet meats. Food such as sweet and sour chicken shocked her when she first It took some time for O’Kane to adjust to … came here, Magdalena said. She couldn’t eat • Driving on the right: Used to driving on for her first two weeks at OU. the left side of the road and walking on the • Clothing: Vidovic said when she arrived left side of paths, O’Kane said walking on in the airport in Oklahoma, the first thing campus took some adjusting. “It took me she noticed were the cowboy boots and hats, about two days to figure out I’ve got to walk and she thought people only wore those on the right because I just kept running into clothes in movies. people,” he said. • Standard measurements: Magdalena • City size: O’Kane said all the American said she is still adjusting to America’s mea- exchange students at the University of surement system after two years in the U.S. Wollongong said Oklahoma was in the middle of nowhere. “The middle of nowhere in Australia is so much more remote,” he said.
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Deepak Abraham India Industrial and systems engineering graduate student In his home country … After completing his undergraduate degree in his native country, Abraham worked as an aircraft maintenance consultant and was sent all over the world on business trips that lasted one to two months. He came to OU because … Abraham said the U.S. has some of the best engineering technology in the world, which makes it a prime place to improve himself as an engineer. He also said the U.S. seemed to be a good place to expand his view of the world and learn about new cultures. It took some time for Abraham to adjust to … • Eating schedules: In India, meals are much more structured, Abraham said. In America, he sees people eating constantly. “You eat when you walk. You eat when you study,” Abraham said. • Transportation: In India, people rely on public transportation, Abraham said. “Here it’s just opposite. You don’t have public transport and everybody has cars,” he said.
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