The OU Board of Regents will consider increasing residential housing prices, formalizing changes in general education requirements to include a First-Year Experience diversity class and appointing new university leadership during
The OU Gender + Equality Center will host their third annual Lavender Graduation, an event that honors graduating LGBTQ+ students, on May 7.
Quan Phan, LGBTQ+ Programs coordinator for the GEC, said Lavender Graduation is a cultural celebration for LGBTQ+ students.
âLavender Graduation celebrates students of all races and ethnicities in order to acknowledge their achievements and contributions to the university as students who survived the college experience,â Phan said in an email to the Daily. âThis celebration of the culmination of a studentâs undergraduate career is important to honor in the context of their identity.â
Phan said Lavender Graduation recognizes students with their chosen names and  correct pronouns in order to celebrate who they are.
Editorâs note: This story contains mentions of sexual assault.Â
Despite facing a rape allegation that camp leaders were aware of, an OU student was hired to work at Camp Crimson â a situation one national expert said administrators had limited options in preventing due to privacy laws and Title IX regulations.Â
Courtney Foster, Norman Womenâs Resource Center assistant director, said a freshman orientation setting can be particularly vulnerable for students entering college for the first time, and involving someone even accused of rape can be dangerous due to the nature of the crime. Though the camp has recently been reformatted, she said the extended mentor-mentee relationships between staffers and campers it still boasts add increased risks.
This evening in the Oklahoma Memorial Unionâs Meacham Auditorium, the Asian American Student Association will crown the winners of its 30th Annual Mr. and Miss Asian OU Scholarship Pageant.
What would typically be a festive night to showcase and celebrate the universityâs diverse Asian community has been underscored by months of hate and fear unlike anything the United States has seen in recent years.Â
As hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have risen 149 percent between 2019 and 2020, participants in this yearâs pageant said they are aware of the newfound significance the title holds, should they win. Some were even inspired to participate by the adversity their community faces.
The OU Student Alumni Board is holding an in-person Graduation Gear-Up event for seniors from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. March 9-12 in the Oklahoma Memorial Union’s Molly Shi Boren