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OU tuition continues to climb

OU Board of Regents approves 7 percent hike TANNER OSBORNE @tannerosbear

OU President David Boren recommended a 7 percent tuition increase for resident and non-resident students on Tuesday morning.

The decision comes in the wake of the university receiving roughly $20 million less in state appropriations than it did a year ago.

“The most critical budget crisis in history of OU ... will require a 7 percent increase in tuition and fees this year,” Boren said.

This is the biggest tuition increase OU has approved since 2008 and the third

largest hike in the last 10 years.

Boren said OU faces a 17 percent budget deficit. He also said students will cover roughly 35 percent of the school’s budget while state appropriations will front just 12 percent in 2017.

The OU Board of Regents a p p rov e d t h e d e c i s i o n Tuesday morning.

Boren also said OU is operating with $160 million less than it did in 2008 despite having more students. He said he submitted the increase “with regret” but that his hand was forced by the deficit.

However, a tuition increase was not the only item on the agenda at OU’s regents meeting. The first item on the agenda for OU’s portion of the Board of Regents meeting set the budget for the 2017 fiscal

year and was approved by the board.

OU’s operating budget called for $2 billion dollars in funding, $941 million of which would go to the Norman campus and $1.1 billion of which would go to the OU Health Sciences Center.

The Norman campus received a $20.3 million, or 15.95 percent, decrease in state appropriations, and the OUHSC campus received a $14.4 million, or 15.95 percent, decrease in state appropriations.

The budget funds faculty pay and promotions as well as “modest” increases for academic areas and projects on both the Norman campus and the OUHSC. Additionally, it funds “distinguished professorships and campus technology license

and maintenance agreement preparation of construction inflationary increases.” documents for the Bizzell Memorial Library, more specifically the Lower Level 2 “The most critical Neustadt Wing Renovation budget crisis in project. history of OU ... will Boren asked in his proposals that the board recognize require a 7 percent that the university may incur increase in tuition certain costs prior to getting and fees this year.” a receipt of bond proceeds; however, those proceeds DAVID BOREN would be utilized to reimOU PRESIDENT burse such costs.

Boren also proposed that the board approve an inT h e O U - T u l s a crease of funds for the renSchusterman Center received ovations being made to the a $1.26 thousand, or 15.95 Gaylord Family-Oklahoma percent, decrease in state ap- Memorial Stadium Project. propriations. Its budget also The approval hiked the cost allows for modest increases up from $120 million to $122 million; however, those costs in academic areas.

Boren also proposed that were already accounted for the board approve proj- and are not cause for addiect designs and authorize tional spending as they come

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from a contingency fund.

Lastly, two different areas on the Norman campus submitted requests for name changes.

The School of Community Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine on the OUTulsa campus requested that their name be changed to the Department of Family and Community Medicine to make “more apparent the work faculty and staff within these departments are doing to provide local and regional care for communities.”

The School of Art and Art History requested its name be changed to the School of Visual Arts so that its title can “more fully represent the academic focus of the School.”

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HISTORY OF OU TUITION INCREASES FISCAL YEAR

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OU President David Boren speaks about OU’s budget in the Beard Lounge on April 19. Boren approved a 7 percent tuition hike on Tuesday, the largest for OU since 2008.

RESIDENT % INCREASE

2017

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2015

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RESIDENT COST NONRESIDENT COST PER CREDIT HOUR PER CREDIT HOUR

$153.22

$477.43

4.8

$143.20

$446.20

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$137.60

$425.80

2014

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$131.90

$406.30

2013

3

5

$131.90

$387.90

2012

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5

$128.30

$365.10

2011

4.5

4.5

$122.60

$347.70

2010

0

0

$117.90

$332.70

2009

9.92

9.67

$117.90

$332.70

2008

8.5

9.95

$108.70

$303.80 Source: OU Board of Regents meeting minutes

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Sooner coaches receive raises

OU Board of Regents approve raises, extensions DEREK PETERSON @DrPetey15

The OU Board of Regents approved raises for several OU coaches across a l l s p o r t s o n Tu e s d a y morning.

Football coach Bob Stoops’ contract was extended through 2021 while assistant coaches Lincoln Riley and Mike Stoops were extended through 2018.

Riley and Mike Stoops both received raises to nearly $900,000 per year.

Riley made $500,000 in 2015 while Stoops made $850,000.

OU assistant coaches Cale Gundy, Tim Kish, Jay Boulware and Kerry Cooks each received $25,000 raises. Offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh received a $40,000 per year raise.

Wide receivers coach Dennis Simmons received a raise of $37,000.

Riley, the recipient of the 2015 Broyles Award for the nation’s best assistant coach, was No. 79 in salary for assistants last season according to USA Today’s database.

Barring any other raises, Riley will be the Big 12’s highest-paid offensive coordinator next season.

Elsewhere, women’s basketball coach Sherri Coale was given an extension of her contract through the 2021 season. Pam DeCosta, an assistant on Coale’s staff, received an $8,000 raise — from $125,000 to $133,000 annually — as well as an extension through 2017.

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Lincoln Riley received a raise to nearly $900,000 per year on Tuesday morning.

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Coach Patty Gasso celebrates after winning a national championship. Gasso, along with several other OU coaches, received a raise Tuesday.

and Chad Thrailkill also received extensions through 2017 and $3,000 raises.

Men’s basketball coach Lon Kruger also received an extension through 2021 and a $50,000 raise. One of

Kruger’s assistants, Chris Crutchfield, was extended through 2017 and given a near $25,000 raise. Mike Shepard, the director of operations for men’s basketball, received a raise

from $115,000 to $140,000 annually.

S o f t b a l l c o a c h Pa t t y Gasso, received an extens i o n t h ro u g h 2 0 2 1 a n d a $5,000 raise after winning the program’s third

national championship. JT Gasso, an assistant coach and Gasso’s son, received a raise from $76,400 to $83,400 annually. Melyssa Lombardi, another assistant coach on Gasso’s staff, also received a $7,000 raise.

Mark Williams and KJ Kindler, the men’s and w o m e n ’s g y m n a s t i c s coaches, each received extensions through 2022 and $5,000 raises. Tom Haley, an assistant coach on Kindler’s staff, received a $10,000 raise.

Men’s golf coach Ryan Hybl was extended through the 2021 season and rec e i ve d a $ 1 0 , 0 0 0 ra i s e.

Leeanne Crain, coach of women’s rowing, was also extended through 2020 and received a $10,000 raise.

Finally, Jerry Schmidt,

the director of sport enhancement and strength and conditioning, received a $25,000 raise and an extension through 2017.

The raises were announced just minutes after Boren approved a 7 percent tuition increase, the largest for the university since 2008.

However, Boren says the athletic department is effectively one of the university’s biggest donors, giving more than $26 million to the school in the last five years.

Derek Peterson

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On pointe: dancers showcase vitality NOOR EEMAAN • @NOOREEMAANJ

Students in OU’s SummerWind dance camp attend a pointe class. The SummerWind final performance will be on June 25 at 1 p.m. in Holmberg Hall.

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or the past week a leotard-clad crowd of teens and preteens has traipsed from one end of campus to the other, always in a group with their hair pulled tightly back into high ballerina buns, and always escorted by a slightly older dancer.

These 40 students, aged 11-17, are part of this year’s SummerWind Youth Ballet class. SummerWind is a summer camp hosted by the OU School of Dance. Students spend two weeks living in the dorms with their counselors and immersing themselves in dance. They take classes ranging from ballet technique to flamenco and attend lectures on nutrition and

dance history, all in preparation for a final performance on the stage in Holmberg Hall on June 25.

For dancers in the SummerWind program, however, spending two weeks of the summer thinking, breathing and living dance is nothing out of the ordinary. Lauren Rigney, 14, has been dancing for ten years and plans to apply to OU in order to pursue ballet. For her, SummerWind is a way to learn what she loves alongside instructors who were in her pointe shoes not too long ago.

“It’s nice to have someone you can relate to more,” Rigney said about working with counselors that recently

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graduated from OU’s dance program. “ They understand your pain when you’re dancing ... It is nice to have a younger teacher to like laugh and have fun with but also be able to get to work and be able to get some stuff done.”

One of those “younge r t e a c h e r s” i s K e l s e y Schwenker, a 2010 OU graduate who just wrapped up her sixth season dancing with Ballet Nebraska.

Schwenker has worked with SummerWind for the past 8 years and the last 5 as lead chaperone.

“Lead chaperone is basically like head den mother,” Schwenker said. “When I first was a counselor I just went to all the classes, and in that way

you’re more of like a friend to them. Then I was lead chaperone, and these last three years I’ve started teaching as well. That’s fun too because when you’re in class with them, you’ll see things that you want to tell them, but you don’t want to step on the teacher’s toes or anything. So, when you’re in front of the room as well as taking classes with them, you really get to impart your knowledge to them.”

Schwenker herself had similar experiences as a dance student and works to emulate those relationships with the younger dancers. “I remember going to summer programs and my counselors were close to my age,”

Schwenker said. “I think it’s more comforting to have someone like there where you can be kind of like a sister or a friend to them.”

That kind of dedication from teachers and counselors is what inspired Sarah Bowdoin, an OU ballet performance major who graduated in May, to return to her alma mater so soon after graduation.

“I had such a good time at SummerWind back in high school, and I wanted to see what it would be like on the other side of things and just get a chance to inspire a new generation of little dancers,” Bowdoin said about returning to SummerWind as a counselor. “The last time I

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did it, it was all about learning, and it was a new environment and a new atmosphere.

I think its great to be able to see the kids in the position that I was in however many years ago and just see them learning new things from new teachers and getting excited about things that I got excited about back then, and its just great to see such eager younger dancers.”

The counselors’ efforts seem to be paying off for at least one young dancer. “It’s just the air that everyone gives off is just really welcoming, like family,” Rigney said.

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Taco shop expands to Norman Torchy’s Tacos new in Norman, is received well MADISON ALBERTSON @Madisonnmaee

A Texas taco hot spot recently opened up in Norman, Oklahoma, and it is drawing crowds.

Hundreds showed up to the restaurant’s pre-opening party on Monday night, where they gave away free tacos and up to two drinks per person.

L o cat e d at 2 0 5 0 2 4 t h Av e N W i n No r m a n , To rc h y ’s Ta c o s i s a f a mous taco chain that has b e e n t h r i v i n g i n Te x a s s i n c e 2 0 0 6 . Wi t h m o re than 12 locations in Texas and Colorado, Torchy’s Tacos’ first Oklahoma location opened at 7 a.m. on Tuesday in Norman.

Michael Rypka teamed up with Bill Roberts to develop the idea as well as the name “Torchy’s” and their now-famous gourmet NOOR EEMAAN/THE DAILY street tacos.

“The idea for the menu is The new Torchy’s Tacos on 24th Avenue has a line spilling out the door and wrapping around the building on Monday evening. The new taco shop is the first Torchy’s in Oklahoma. really to bring really unique “We really believe in what combinations from a wide of cuisine and put them in products daily, according doors which open to the we do and we really want to exterior patio. variety from culinary styles a tortilla,” Brittany Platt, to Platt.

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Madison Albertson business out of a food mralbertson@ou.edu taco chains and similar place to bring your friends, The expansion to truck. style restaurants. “It boils t o b r i n g y o u r f a m i l y … Norman was a decision • On June 20, 2016, down to our product. Our They’re really comfortable, m a d e b a s e d o n d e m o Torchy’s opened it’s first food is very, very unique. and they’re casual but very graphic and proximity to Oklahoma location in It’s very hard to pin down, upbeat and fun and bright,” corporate operations. Platt Norman. it’s not traditional Mexican Platt said. explained that Norman For more information food … We kinda elevate C h r i s O s b o r n e , t h e was a logical choice both and related content • The restaurant sells a t h i ng s a l i tt l e b i t m o re general manager of the because Torchy’s has done about Torchy’s Tacos, variety of unique tacos. when it comes to tacos.”

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Camp Crimson in OU history

OU Student Affairs introduces first Camp Crimson DECEMBER 7, 1995

In the first few busy days of school, many new freshmen find that they are strangers in a strange world, even if they went through activities for New Sooner Orientation.

In light of this, OU Student Affairs will sponsor Camp Crimson in summer of 1996 to immerse new students in the culture of their university.

The camp will consist of four three-day, two-night sessions, beginning June 17 and ending June 28, said Patrick Huang, graduate student coordinator of Camp Crimson.

“We want students to understand what it is to be an

OU student,” he said.

The camp will focus on four elements of OU life — traditions, scholarship, service and wellness.

“Traditions include activities and events at OU,” Huang said. “Scholarship, being the new primary reason to attend college, will help new students find out about learning opportunities.

“Service will focus on the enrichment of students’ lives in the Norman and OU communities, and wellness includes health and feelings of new students.”

Huang said each camp session will do one part of a large community service project.

“We hope to have each session participate in one aspect of building a house for Habitat for Humanity,” he said.

Becky Reed, assistant

The first week of Camp Crimson 2015 begins its opening session. Camp Crimson starts this week.

director of student development, said the primary goal of the camp is to develop a relationship with new students at OU early on.

“We want freshmen to make a connection prior to moving in in the fall — a connection with peers, faculty, staff and the campus,” she said.

Reed said attending Camp Crimson will make moving in this fall much easier for new freshmen.

“It acclimates students to the campus,” she said. “It will help in the transition progress because once you’ve established friendships in a relaxed environment, it will make it that much easier to move in.”

Huang said Camp Crimson will not replace the usual New Sooner Orientation which takes place the four

According to ok.gov, the UCR Program receives data from more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies, with the 2012 report offering the most recent information of crime statistics in the US. Oklahoma is the 14th most violent crime state in the nation. Oklahoma accounts for 406 violent crimes per 100,000 people, according to Law Street Media.

The number of reported index crimes continues to decrease, with a drop from 14.3 percent from 2006 to 2015. The number of violent crimes has increased 3.7 percent compared to the 2014 total, but it decreased 7.3 percent overall.

Law enforcement in

Oklahoma is aware of the issue and is looking at data from the months that have the highest reported crime.

In the months of June and July, law enforcement saw a spike in violent crimes as well as index crimes.

O k l a h o ma e x p e r i e n c e s more rapes and assaults than the typical state. In other states, robberies and larceny are higher.

The University of Oklahoma in Norman has not experienced the same violent crime jump. There have been no accounts of murder on campus grounds.

According to the Sooner Safety and Fire Report 2015, OU experiences two types of crime: one defined as

out to if necessary.

Maj. Br uce Chan, the p u b l i c i n f o r mat i o n o fficer of the OU Police Department, commented on how campus law enforcement prepares for and handles violent crime.

“OUPD certainly hopes violence doesn’t happen on our campus. Our community and Norman PD keeps in contact with us if any threats occur. We do our best to train officers on how to handle crisis,” said Chan. The OUPD is open 24/7, year-round to ensure the safety of anyone on university grounds.

Chan said the OUPD is aware of rising violence rates in the U.S. and is prepared to train and take

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days before school starts in the fall.

The camp will cost $125 for new students. The cost includes a room, six meals total and a t-shirt. The deadline for registration is June 1.

A meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m. today in the Union Business Office to recruit people to help finish the planning for the project and work as counselors.

“We’re working up a budget to see that summer counselors get paid for their work,” Huang said. “There will be a training session for counselors — any student who is interested in welcoming freshmen into the campus community family.”

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Violent crime rates increase across state

Crime rates remain dormant at OU, OUPD prepared CHANDLER KIDD @ChanAnnKidd

Violent crime rates have increased 3.7 percent overall in the state of Oklahoma during the year of 2015.

Murders were at their highest rates for a 10year period, increasing by 16.4 percent from 2006.

However, robberies have decreased for the seventh year in a row along with assaults, reaching a new low in 2015, according to a report by the Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

crime against persons and the other as crime against property. Crimes against p e rs o n s a re d e f i n e d a s rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults. The university primarily experiences property crimes.

In the past five years, OU has not experienced any hate crimes. Only one aggravated assault occurred on campus in 2014.

The university typically receives accounts of crime involving alcohol, drugs and sexual assault. In an effort to combat the last of these crimes, the Sooner Safety and Fire Report 2015 gives female students information regarding how to protect themselves as well as programs they can reach

increased measures to provide safety for students and faculty at OU. The Sooner Safety and Fire Report 2015 gives advice to students so they might better protect themselves on campus. It enc o u ra g e s aw a re n e s s o f one’s surroundings at all times, participation in a buddy system instead of walking alone, and, if the student feels threatened, immediate entrance of the nearest open building.

For more tips and information on crime at OU, visit the Sooner Safety and Fire Report 2015.

Chandler Kidd

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