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Board to consider walkway proposal Scholars Walk construction on today’s meeting agenda

Students soak up caffeine’s effects

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The OU Board of Regents will discuss plans to convert Van Vleet Oval into a walkway today. The regents are having their monthly meeting at 2:30 p.m. in the Scholars Room of Oklahoma Memorial Union. OU’s submitted items include the reconstruction of the right side of the South Oval into the Scholars Walk from north of Lindsey Street to tie into the Brooks Pedestrian Mall, according to the agenda. The project design would designate Asp Avenue be constructed into a two-

Studies find chronic coffee drinking comes with both positive, negative side effects

A study in Pharmacology in Biochemistry and Behavior found through experimenting on rats that chronic coffee intake actually played an important role in maintaining cogPAiGHtEN HArKiNs Staff Reporter nitive functioning despite the standard he benefits of coffee are age-associated decline. Another study controversial, but with in the same journal stated that caflate-night finals study feine affects and improves a person’s sessions looming, many arousal, concentration and subjective students will rely on a mood in ways similar to amphetamines. midnight cup of coffee. The study also stated that repeatSome say the beverage is good for one’s ed use of the beverage, more specifihealth, yet others make claims saying cally consuming caffeine, diminished the drink will stunt growth, cause stom- the effects of the drug, and that withdrawach ulcers and even cancer. als from the drug can cause “it‘s not a good headaches, fatigue, anxiety Fortunately, for students’ study habits, real truth lies idea to approach and can decrease performe before i‘ve somewhere in between. mance of cognitive tasks. Margaret Pool , assistant had my coffee.” In the animals studied, the director of clinical services withdrawals can cause sleep ALLEN DAVIS, of OU Health Services, said disruption. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE coffee can improve alertness FRESHMAN WHO DRINKS Allen Davis , University THREE TO FOUR CUPS temporarily, and when comCollege freshman, said he OF COFFEE A DAY pared with non-coffee drinks about three to four drinkers, coffee drinkers are less cups of coffee a day — some in the mornlikely to have type 2 diabetes and ing and some in the evening — and said he feels irritable and tired when he Parkinson’s disease. Pool said too much caffeine, a main doesn’t drink those cups. ingredient in coffee, can cause anxiety “It‘s not a good idea to approach me beand the jitters, but most people can con- fore I‘ve had my coffee,” Davis said with a sume about 300mg of it — what amounts cup of coffee in hand. to about two to four cups of coffee — withsee COFFEE paGe 3 out any problems.

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Students fill trolley with gifts Program collects toys for children up to 12 years old ViCtoriA GArtEN Campus Reporter

Santa Claus entered Bizzell Memorial Library on Wednesday in his usual jovial manor, wishing students a merry Christmas while picking up boxes of toys for children in need. Cleveland Area Rapid Transit dispatcher and Santa for-a-day Roy Bendure collected toys across campus for the “Fill the Trolley” program at OU. The toys go to the Norman Christmas Store, which distributes the gifts to local families in need. This year, the program has more than 900 children to provide gifts for with the help of OU students and staff, said Vicky Holland, OU Parking and Transportation spokeswoman. OU Parking and Transportation Services started the Fill the Trolley program in 1986 and collaborates with the Cleveland County Christmas store to deliver the toys to children in the Cleveland County area. The program collects toys for children from birth to 12 years old, Holland said. “‘Fill the Trolley’ has been extremely see CART paGe 2

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The United States spends $40 billion on coffee each year. Here are statistics about Americans’ who crave the caffeine consumption. Source: Harvard School of Public Health

54%

Americans who drink coffee every day

$1.4

Average price of a cup of coffee in the U.S.

3.1

Cups of coffee drank each day per person

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New York Times now scarce on campus Free papers provided only in Gaylord Hall PAiGHtEN HArKiNs Staff Reporter

The only way for students to pick up a free copy of The New York Times now on campus is stopping by Gaylord Hall and picking one off the rack. However, this has not always

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been the case. At one point on campus, three colleges provided the newspaper to students free of charge: the College of International Studies, the Honors College and the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, which still does so today. The New York Times contacted the Honors College about buying a subscription, said Rich

Hamerla, associate dean of the Honors College. The college thought it over for a semester or two until the idea was mentioned in one of the college-sponsored informal reading groups, Hamerla said. The college petitioned the idea, and the students were interested, so they green-lighted the idea and subscribed. The cost was $1,875 per semester, and the

Performers dance in classic Christmas ballet

The only 100-percent way to know your HIV status is to get tested. (Page 4)

sPoRts dual-sport athlete narrows focus at ou Freshman chose hoops over swimming to play for Sherri Coale. (Page 5)

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lIfe & aRts

Pick ’em contest down to final week

students face aIds with ou chapter

Competitors have one more shot to bring home title. (oudaily.com)

Organization offers more awareness of epidemic to Sooner country. (Page 8)

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Cast members perform a scene from “The Nutcracker” during dress rehearsal Tuesday night in the Rupel Jones Theatre. The classic holiday ballet opens Friday in the Fine Arts Center’s theater. (Page 7)

college was delivered 25 copies of the paper a day. The New York Times currently offers weekday-only home delivery subscriptions for $3.70 per week. Initially, the college couldn’t keep them in the rack, and they were gone every day, but interest in the paper dropped off from see NYT paGe 3

The Daily’s open record requests Requested document and purpose

Date requested

aggregate grade data for all courses in Price College’s entrepreneurship program — These documents were requested to better understand the GPAs of particular courses.

Monday

Men’s basketball ticket sales data from 2007 to 2011 — These documents were requested to evaluate tickets sales in the last ﬁve years.

Monday

all emails produced by or submitted to the advisory Committee on tobacco Policy — These emails were requested to better understand how the committee’s email address is being used by the community and the committee.

Nov. 17

all documents produced or submitted to the advisory Committee on tobacco Policy — These documents were requested to better understand the workings of the tobacco committee.

Nov. 15