Tuesday, August 19, 2014 by OU Daily

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COMMUTING

Parking permits: $274 by FY 2019 Two new parking garages to be built on campus over the next five years PAIGHTEN HARKINS Digital Managing Editor @PaightenHarkins

Two new 1,000-space parking garages will be built on OU’s campus over the next five years, funded in part through an average $18 per year parking permit cost increase for students. The new garages will be located on either side of Lindsey Street, but their exact location hasn’t yet been determined, said Vicky Holland, OU Parking and Transportation services spokesperson. The garages are being built to alleviate congested parking lots. To pay for the garages, which are estimated to cost $34

million, student, faculty and staff parking permit rates will increase incrementally, beginning this academic year and for the next four years. This year, student parking permit prices increased from $195 to $215 after staying stagnant for nine years. Prices will increase by 5 percent in fiscal year 2016, 10 percent in fiscal year 2017, 5 percent in fiscal year 2018 and end with a 5 percent increase in fiscal year 2019. The end price for student parking permits will be $274, Holland said. The average rate for student parking permits in the Big 12 is $248.80, according to a memo from Doug Myers, director of OU Parking and Transportation Services. Faculty and staff parking permit rates are $244 this year, an increase from $222 last year. By fiscal year 2019, faculty and staff permits will cost $311, according to the memo.

BY THE NUMBERS $274

Price of student parking permits in 2019

Average student parking permit increase per year

$215

$18

Current price of a student parking permit

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MIXON ARRAIGNMENT JOE MUSSATTO • SPORTS EDITOR

Freshman running back released on recognizance, due back in court Sept. 23

oe Mixon, dressed in a blue button-up and khaki pants, sat in the front of the room on his first day of college. But the setting was Judge St e v e St i c e’s C l e v e l a n d County courtroom instead of a professor’s classroom. T h e O k l a h o m a f re s h man running back trudged through a tunnel of photographers as he was arraigned at 1:30 p.m. Mixon was charged Friday with a misdemeanor count — acts resulting in gross injury. “He’d be in class if he didn’t have something else to do today,” Kevin Finlay, Mixon’s attorney, told the judge. The Oakley, California native allegedly assaulted Amelia Molitor, a fellow OU student, at Pickleman’s Gourmet Café in the early hours of July 25. After being struck by a “closed right fist,” Molitor suffered a fractured jaw, cheek bone, sinus and a fractured orbital bone which caused a hematoma on the left eye,

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according to the affidavit. No plea was entered at the arraignment, though both councils met privately with the judge prior to entering the courtroom. Mixon was required to go through the booking process but was released on recognizance without posting bail. After turning himself in willingly on Monday, the running back is considered a “no flight risk” and is free to resume daily activities until he is due in court at 9 a.m. on Sept. 23. He is to have no contact with Molitor or the state’s witnesses. Stice ordered that video of the altercation must not be released during the trial. No one outside the case is allowed to see it and neither party can hold “private viewings.” SEE COURT PAGE 6

Freshman running back Joe Mixon walks into court with his attorney Kevin Finlay after his arraignment at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Norman. Mixon was released on recognizance without posting bail and is due back in court at 9 a.m. Sept. 23.

PRINTING

Students can now print on-the-go Sooners will be given $5 print credit for kiosks MIKE BRESTOVANSKY Assistant News Editor @BrestovanskyM

Students desperate to print their essay 10 minutes before it’s due now have more options than a sprint to and from the library In a partnership with print provider WEPA , OU Information Technology has installed 11 cloud printing kiosks in 10 locations around campus. Students can log in via their Sooner ID and print any document saved to the WEPA cloud. OU students will be given a $5 WEATHER Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. High 98, low 74.

print credit for the WEPA kiosks, along with an additional $5 credit toward traditional printing stations. Printing costs per page will be the same as traditional printing costs. “Even on the first day of class, [the kiosks] have been very successful,” said Becky Grant, communications manager for OU IT. So far, the kiosk in Couch Center has been the most used, but Grant suspects the kiosk in Bizzell Memorial Library will be more successful throughout the semester. Before the end of the first day of school Monday, over 3,126 pages were printed through WEPA kiosks, Grant said. During the 2012-2013 semesters,

three cloud printing kiosks were placed around campus as a pilot program for the current WEPA initiative, Grant said. “We just used the $10 traditional printing credit before, which we think is the reason [the kiosks] didn’t take off before,” Grant said. Grant added there are currently no plans to allow students to transfer credit between accounts, but that they will consider it in the future. Students can access the WEPA cloud via a print app for smartphones and tablets by emailing their documents to print@wepanow. com or by visiting wepanow.com/ JIANG JIAXIN/THE DAILY webupload. For more information, Kevin Cochran, energy management junior, uses the new printing kiosk in the Bizzell visit wepa.ou.edu. Memorial LIbrary’s computer lab.

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