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Mechanical engineering freshman Tristan Brown waits for his clothes while doing laundry Friday afternoon. Records show OU profits from laundry costs and washing clothes costs more at OU than at OSU or UCO.

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A local activist discovered oil-contaminated soil Tuesday afternoon by an oil well near Lake Thunderbird.

Casey Holcomb, who periodically checks oil well sites in Norman, said he believed he found a leak in a well op-erated by Arrow Oil & Gas located near the intersection of Highway 9 and 84th Avenue at about noon Tuesday.

Inspectors from the City of Norman and the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, an agency that regulates cor-porations that provide public services in the state, as well as a pumper who loads oil from the well visited the site Wednesday morning and found gas venting from an open gauge on the casing of the well, according to the incident report from the commission.

Additionally, oil had spread 3 to 4 feet around the well-head and small amount was spotted beneath rods nearby, according to the report.

There was no sign of an active leak that needed to be taken care of at the site and no sign of waterway con-tamination from the oil, said Matt Skinner, Oklahoma Corporation Commission spokesperson.

An activist’s recent discovery of soil contamination leads to well repairs

ENVIRONMENT

Well leaks oil into soil near Norman lake

JUSTINE ALEXANDERNews Reporter@caffeinejustine

The Lunar Sooners will be on the roof of Nielsen Hall from 5 to 6:30 p.m. today to view a partial solar eclipse and hold an informal Q&A with OU astrophysics gradu-ate students.

The eclipse will last sev-eral hours from start to fin-ish, and your ability to see the partial eclipse depends on your location on the globe, said Mukremin Kilic,

ASTRONOMY

Lunar Sooners to host viewing of partial solar eclipseThe Lunar Sooners will

provide “eclipse glasses” with a solar filter to protect your eyes, Kilic said.

Looking at an eclipse with-out eye protection could re-sult in permanent damage to the retinas, Lunar Sooners treasurer Jenna Nugent said in an email.

Nugent said regular sun-glasses won’t do because they aren’t designed to block out harmful light from the sun.

The event is come-and-go, since the roof can only ac-commodate 20 people at a time, Barber said.

Moon-covered sun to be visible tonight

assistant professor in the OU Department of Physics and Astronomy.

“[The moon] will cover about half of the sun at the maximum,” Lunar Sooners president Sara Barber said.

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Astrophysics graduate students Sara Barber and Timothy Miller scope out the view on Nielsen Hall’s roof for viewing the partial eclipse early tonight. Lunar Sooner will be hosting a watch party and invite students to make their way to the top of Nielsen to watch the eclipse with them.

CAITLIN SCHACHTERNews Reporter

The Daily compared laundry costs between OU, Oklahoma State University and the University of Central Oklahoma to see who commands the highest cost for stu-dents doing laundry. OU had the highest cost at $1.50 per wash and $1.50 for 45-minute dry time.

Over the last three fiscal years, OU generated $315,261.76 in profit from students drying and washing their clothes. As of July 28, the university has generated $54,899.47 in profit for the fiscal year.

Last spring the OU Board of Regents approved a 4-per-cent increase for all campus residence halls and food ser-vices. This increase included a $30 laundry charge that would give students access to laundry facilities, according to Daily archives.

At UCO, students pay an average of $21.42 per year for

laundry costs, a price that fluctuates based on resident hall occupancy rate, said Adrienne Nobles, assistant vice pres-ident for university relations at UCO. Yearly payments of living at residences on campus are what UCO bases their laundry costs upon. Students at UCO do not pay for laun-dry per cycle due to the cost being factored into students’ tuition, Nobles said.

According to UCO’s 2014-15 view book, the estimated cost for a year of on-campus housing is $7,130 based on a student living in a double room.

Meanwhile, at OSU, undergraduate students do not have to pay for laundry costs.

None of the washers and dryers in student housing laun-dry rooms are coin-operated, said Brittney Rochell, com-munication specialist for OSU.

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A piece of oil rig equipment sits bolted into the ground. Reports of an oil spill in Norman are being investigated.

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GO AND DOPartial solar eclipse viewing and Q&AWhen: 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Where: Roof of Nielsen Hall

OCT. 23 & 24THURSDAY CAC Soonerthon Keep Glowing 5K — 7 p.m. at Oklahoma Memorial Union The Soonerthon 5K and 1 mile Fun Run will benefit Soonerthon, an event to raise money for the Children’s Hospital Foundation. Register at soonerthon.ou.edu.

FRIDAY Farsi Fridays — 2 p.m. in Kaufman Hall, Room 230

Sooners Got Talent — 7 to 9 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union The second annual talent show will feature singing, piano, beatboxing, dancing, poetry and more. The event is sponsored by Union Programming Board.

White Out Party — 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Sandro’s Pizza, 914 W. Main St. The Columbian Student Association is hosting a white out party. There will be a $10 cover, and you must be 18 to enter. It’s $5 to drink and you must be 21.

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However, Rochell said graduate students and fac-ulty living in the residence halls do have to pay a fee. The fees range from $1 to $1.25 per wash cycle, and $0.25 for 30 minutes of drying time. There are also super-capacity machines that can handle large loads of laundry for $4 per wash and $0.25 per 12 minutes of drying time.

H o u s i n g a n d Fo o d Services at OU recent-ly decided to allocate a $13-per-week laundry sti-pend to the Sooner Card of each student living in the dorms this year, said Amy Buchanan, spokeswom-an for Housing and Food Services . The current sys-tem allows credits for eight cycles preloaded to a stu-dent’s Sooner Card each week. Prior to this year, students were paying out of their own pockets for laundry.

Additionally, Buchanan said one extra dollar for drying credit is available in case students need it to add more drying time to ensure a larger laundry load is completely dry.

H o u s i n g a n d Fo o d S e r v i c e s c h o s e t h i s

LEAK: City of Norman investigating reportsContinued from page 1

CHRIS MICHIE/THE DAILY

An oil well in Norman, Oklahoma works in isolation. Reports of an oil spill in Norman have recently sur-faced and are being investigated.

The pumper said he will take away rods this week, remove the oil-stained soil and install a new valve on the casing of the well to re-lieve pressure, according to the report.

The commission takes every complaint it receives seriously, and this particular incident should be resolved fairly easily, Skinner said.

“ There’s no reason to think this can’t be quickly remediated and taken care of,” Skinner said.

Ho l c o m b a l e r t e d t h e O klahoma Corporation Commission of the contam-inated soil via email right after he discovered it, he said.

The commission received Holcomb’s email rough-ly after 4 p.m. Tuesday, Skinner said. The email was forwarded to an oil and gas inspector, Skinner said.

T h e C i t y o f N o r m a n sent its inspector to check the area of the complaint Wednesday morning, said Susan Connors, Norman’s planning director. Connors heard about a potential leak by word of mouth.

Norman has 165 oil and gas wells, which are checked at least once a year by one

inspector, Connors said. In addition to routine

checks, if there is a report-ed problem with one of the wells, the inspector checks it immediately, Connors said.

Holcomb said he checks on oil well sites regularly be-cause he is concerned about the well-site inspection pro-cess in Norman, he said.

Holcomb is particularly

worried about leaking oil wells because they can drain into drinking water sup-plies, he said.

“It’s an important pub-lic health issue and it’s also an environmental issue,” Holcomb said.

The contaminated soil at the site Holcomb checked Tuesday must be removed within 30 days, according

t o t h e re p o r t f ro m t h e commission.

The commission will con-duct a further inspection of the site at a later time, Skinner said.

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This event is free to the public and open to all ages, Nu g e nt s a i d v i a e ma i l . However, children need su-pervision at all times, Nugent said.

Unfortunately, the roof of Nielsen Hall is not current-ly wheelchair accessible, Nugent said.

Nugent said that they will have directional signs to guide viewers to the roof.

“Solar eclipses are fairly rare, it’ll happen maybe twice in a year,” Barber said.

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JUSTINE ALEXANDERNews Reporter @caffeinejustine

A p p ro x i m a t e l y 1 , 0 0 0 guests gathered Tuesday e v e n i n g i n O k l a h o m a Memorial Union to hear former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speak at the President’s Associates Dinner.

Gates discussed his time serving under eight pres-idents and serving as de-fense secretary under both former President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama from 2006 to 2011.

Gates said one of the U.S.’s greatest challenges is America’s “dysfunctional” political system.

“In this respect, I believe genuinely that our greatest challenge to national se-curity today lies in the two square miles encompassing the White House…” Gates said.

Gates’ candidness about American politics is one thing Bradley Stewart, health and exercise senior, liked about Gates. Stewart was in the military while Gates was Secretary of Defense and said he admired Gates’ com-mitment to protect soldiers and troops.

When asked what the most important thing he’s ever done while in govern-ment office, Gates said that it was easy, “… the things that save the lives of our men and women in uniform.”

Gates elaborated on other defense issues, commenting both positively and nega-tively on America’s handling of problems with the Middle East, Russia and China.

The Middle East“If we’ve learned one les-

son over the last decade … it is that our ability to shape events and outcomes in the Middle East is extraordinari-ly limited, and the actions we do take have extraor-dinary unintended conse-quences,” Gates said.

These limitations and un-intended consequences are why Obama’s goal to destroy ISIS is unrealistic, Gates said.

method of payment to en-sure that only students who live on campus can use on-campus laundry facilities, Buchanan said.

Students are charged the once-per-semester fee, Buchanan said. Any profit generated from laundry fa-cilities is routed directly back to upkeep and improvement efforts at the university.

“This means that not only the laundry facilities can benefit from these profits,” Buchanan said. “But also el-evators, sidewalks, commu-nity spaces in the residence halls and restaurants on campus can continue to be improved.”

Despite the price differ-ence, students think that O U ’s laundr y costs are reasonable.

Abby Krach, sophomore language arts education major, views the laundry costs as reasonable. “I’ve never even spent all of it in one week.”

Sehrish Shahabuddin, freshman elementary edu-cation major, thinks the $13 laundry stipend per week is more than enough money.

“I think that is way more than anyone needs.”

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ECLIPSE: Event free and open to public Continued from page 1

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Former Secretary of Defense speaks at OU president dinnerGates discusses U.S. politics and foreign affairs

A m o re re a l i s t i c g o a l would have been to call for degrading ISIS and trying to push it out of Iraq, Gates said.

Though Gates disagrees with Obama’s goal to destroy ISIS, he said he agreed with Obama’s lack of military in-volvement in the Middle East.

“We have to figure out the balance between demand-ing that others make their fair contribution to this fight but also looking out for our own interests.”

Russia and ChinaRussia was the focus of

Gates’ academic and pro-fessional life for several decades.

“Despite its muscle-flex-ing, Russia cannot really be considered a rising power except in comparison to its near collapse in the 1990s,” Gates said, citing an econ-omy smaller than Italy’s, a population free fall and main exports of fossil fuel and vodka.

S i m i l a r l y , Gat e s s a i d China is investing in its military, but the country’s steadily improving standard of living and job creation is not sustainable.

The U.S. has no funda-mental geostrategic rea-son to be enemies with China. However, Gates said, “If we treat China like an enemy, it will surely be-come one.”

The futureAs far as politics go,

Gates said the only way to address conflict is through compromise.

“My hope … is that the remaining adults in the two political parties will make the compromises necessary to begin to ad-dress the serious prob-lems that we face …” Gates said.

For Americans, Gates stressed the importance of long-term investment in the future through re-search and education.

“For most of American history, we had agreed as a society that educated cit-izens benefit the whole so-ciety … not just those who receive the education,” Gates said.

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Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and OU President David Boren answer questions at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Tuesday night. Gates discussed foreign policy among other sub-jects.

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BRADY VARDEMANSports Reporter @BradyVardeman

Practice at the Oklahoma soccer complex ran later than usual Tuesday, not sur-prising when you consider the team’s upcoming week-end games against Texas and West Virginia.

However, according to coach Matt Potter, the team simply began practice an hour late.

“Our practices at this time of year are usually shorter and more efficient,” he said. “We know who we are.”

With just three games left on the regular season schedule, Potter’s squad is gearing up to face arguably its toughest stretch of the season. Texas will pay a visit to John Crain Field Friday night before the Sooners travel to West Virginia to take on the Mountaineers.

The team’s reward should they make it through the weekend unscathed? A tus-sle with No. 14 Kansas on Halloween.

Potter said that this late in the season, the name of the game for practice is efficiency.

“There’s no need to be out here longer than we need to,” he said. “If it goes

well, we get out of here. If it doesn’t go well, then we need to stay a little longer.”

Having not won a game since Oct. 5, Oklahoma will square-off against Texas on Friday, hungry for a win.

“ I k n o w e v e r y o n e i s pump e d for the game,” freshman midfielder Lizzie Luallin said. “We’re pumped for ever y game though. Home games make things a lot more exciting though.”

According to her coach, however, it’s business as usual around the complex this week.

“With the whole Red River rivalr y, I’m sure people make something out of that,” Potter said. “We’ve been playing in these big games

all year and that’s what you have to do when you’re in [the Big 12]. “I don’t think there’s anything more than the pressure that you want to perform for your own fans.”

Texas (8-6-2) touts a po-tent offense that took a sea-son-high 29 shots last week-end against Arkansas-Little Rock. Freshman forward Olivia Brook leads the team with six goals on the year.

Oklahoma goalkeeper Kaitlyn Farhner said it is important that the defense practices well after giving up four goals last weekend.

“Every single day refer-ences how you play,” she said. “You can’t practice bad and expect to have a good game on Friday.”

After their battle with the Longhorns, Oklahoma will turn around and travel to Morgantown, West Virginia, roughly a 1,100 mile trip.

Potter said that while the logistics of the trip are out of the team’s control, the coaches have the respon-sibility to make it as wor-ry-free as possible for the athletes.

“We have the staff to do that, whether it be comfort on the trip or re-energizing our group,” he said.

Farhner said she is grate-ful for a non-conference schedule that prepared the team for long trips like this.

“ W e t r a v e l e d t o Nebraska and also went to [Texas] Tech and then Iowa State,” she said. “It shows that we can be prepared.”

For student athletes, long trips like this can be difficult when it comes to keeping up with classes. However, Luallin said she is not worried about that.

“It’s going to be tough, but we have all of the re-sources we need to take care of missing class,” she said. “We’ll be fine.”

Oklahoma and Texas face-off on Kick for a Cure night, at 7 p.m. Friday. The Sooners will return to action at noon on Sunday at West Virginia.

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Sophomore midfielder Shiloh Price and senior defender Molly Richey move the ball down the field while trying to keep it away from the oppo-nent during the game against Baylor on Oct 19 at John Craine Field. The Sooners fell to the Bears 2-1.

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Games have been played and the grades are in

Coming into the season, many tagged sophomore Trevor Knight as a Heisman Trophy candidate follow-ing his impressive win over Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. His first four games weren’t quite the Sugar Bowl per-formance, but he got the job done. But in his last three games, two of those coming in a losing effort, Knight has been somewhat off. Granted, expectations may have been too high after the Sugar Bowl win. But that’s the standard for Knight, and Oklahoma hasn’t seen the same quarterback since.

QUARTERBACK: B- RUNNING BACKS: B+ WIDE RECEIVERS: B

OFFENSIVE LINE: B- DEFENSIVE LINE: B-

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The question many asked before the season was ‘Which running back is going to emerge and become the guy?’ It seemed like it was going to be Joe Mixon, but clearly that didn’t happen. So it was between sophomores Keith Ford and Alex Ross and freshman Samaje Perine. For the first three games, Ford did an adequate job but later suffered a fractured foot against Tennessee. Two unproven running backs were left and Perine emerged. Since the injury, Perine has shredded defenses, including 242 yards against West Virginia.

Similar to the running backs, no one outside of Sterling Shepard had any significant playing time before the season. Halfway through, that is still evi-dent. Shepard has undoubtedly been the offensive MVP. The junior has 49 receptions, 911 yards and five touchdowns on the year and is third in the nation in receiving yards. Junior Durron Neal has progressed into a solid No. 2 option. Young guys like K.J. Young and Michiah Quick have given Knight other options as well. In addition, newly converted tight end Blake Bell has been a surprise on the receiving end of the football this year after spending most of last year as Oklahoma’s starting quarterback.

The offensive line lost two starters from a year ago but has filled those voids quite nicely. Junior Ty Darlington anchors the center spot formerly occupied by an All-American for the past few years. Veterans Daryl Williams, Tyrus Thompson and Adam Shead have all picked up where they left off last season. Nila Kasitati and Tyler Evans have split time at the right guard spot. As a whole, the offensive line has been good halfway through the season. The first few games, they did a great job opening holes for the running backs. Lately, they’ve had more trouble doing so as the run game has slowed down.

The Oklahoma defensive front fueled the night-mares of opposing quarterbacks through the first four games of the season, but since the loss against TCU, teams have done a more effective job of neutralizing its attack. TCU implemented a formation that put huge splits between its offensive linemen, and subsequent opponents have copied the formation and stymied the Sooners’ front line. The line’s ability to beat the large splits and get pressure on the mobile quarterbacks of the Big 12 will have a lot to do with OU’s success the rest of the season.

As the defensive line has struggled to break through and get consistent pressure on the opposing quar-terback, the linebacking corps has seen a dip in pro-duction as well. Junior Eric Striker and Senior Geneo Grissom continue to wreak havoc and Jordan Evans has played great in Frank Shannon’s absence. Junior Devante Bond has also come on strong as he has gained more playing time in the last two weeks. Depth continues to be a question at the position so it’s import-ant for the group to avoid injury if the Sooners want to keep their slim hopes for a Big 12 championship alive.

The Sooners rank second to last in the Big 12 in pass-ing defense, giving up 268 yards per game through the air. Sophomore Zack Sanchez leads the conference in interceptions with five, but the OU secondary contin-ues to be burned by big plays. Part of the issues in the secondary can be blamed on the Sooners’ inability to get to the quarterback. Opponents have had plenty of time to pick apart the struggling defensive backfield. In the Sooners’ two losses, OU’s offense has done its part, putting up at least 30 points in both games. The secondary will need to find its way in the second half of the season for the Sooners to have success.

The last four games have seen the special teams’ best and worst performances of the season. Against Texas, the game hinged on a kick return for a touchdown by Alex Ross, but a week later, Kansas State was helped to victory by two misses off the usually sure foot of senior kicker Michael Hunnicutt. Ross is electrifying on kick returns, and there is no reason to believe Hunnicutt won’t return to form in the coming weeks, but what had been the most consistent unit for the Sooners may no longer be a guarantee.

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LIFE & ARTS COLUMNIST Beginning this week, the lucky few who have managed to get their hands on an iPhone 6 or 6 Plus will have the opportunity to make many of their purchases through Apple’s new Apple Pay service. For those who don’t follow Apple announcements religiously, I’ll give you a rundown of what Apple Pay

is.

WHAT IS IT?Apple Pay is a system built into the iPhone that al-

lows users to store their Visa, American Express and MasterCard credit and debit card information with their device. They can then use that information to purchase things simply by tapping their phone on a store’s checkout terminal. The idea behind it is simplicity and convenience. If Apple has their way, carrying around a wallet full of credit cards will be a thing of the past. All a person would need is his or her phone.

HOW IS IT USED?Simply place your phone near the checkout termi-

nal and a list of credit cards will automatically appear on the screen. Select your preferred credit card and place your finger on the phone’s fingerprint scanner and, voila, the transaction is complete. Similarly, many apps like Uber and Panera Bread will allow you to pay for things simply by selecting the Apple Pay op-tion and scanning your finger.

Adding cards is simple, too. Simply take a picture of the card with the phone’s camera and the data is added. That’s all there is to it.

IS IT SECURE?Credit card information is stored on a special

chip in the user’s phone and nowhere else. Not even Apple’s servers have access to it. And when you buy something, instead of the credit card number being given out, a temporary transaction-specific number is generated. Further, if the phone is lost or stolen, the user can go to iCloud.com and can either remotely wipe it or put the phone into Lost Mode, making ev-erything completely inaccessible.

In other words, it is far safer and more secure than using plastic.

HOW DOES IT COMPARE?There are already several competing services, such

as Google Wallet and Softcard (formally ISIS) that allow people to pay with their phones. Both said ser-vices work in a similar fashion is Apple Pay, requiring users to store their credit card information and tap their phones during a transaction. They, however, require a few extra steps than Apple Pay does. Instead of simply giving users payment options when they are near a terminal, users have to navigate to the app and put in a pin number. Softcard also requires a special SIM card, which costs extra, and is limited to specific cellular providers. The services, however, are avail-able on many Android devices and iPhones running iOS 6 or newer, although iPhone users have to pay with a generated barcode rather than a tap on the ter-minal. Google Wallet also allows users to send money to other Google Wallet users, which is something Apple Pay currently cannot do. Security and privacy, however, are a bigger issue on other services as user credit card information and purchase data is stored on hackable external servers, and in Google Wallet’s case, analyzed by Google to tailor individualized ads to the users.

WHERE CAN IT BE USED?Initially, Apple Pay will be usable in over 220,000

locations, including Panera Bread, McDonald’s, Macy’s, Subway, Whole Foods, Walgreens and of course, Apple stores, with many more stores and re-tailers joining in the near future. Apple Pay will also be available in many apps, such as Target, Groupon and the Apple Store app. Apps, such as Starbucks and StubHub, are also on the way.

Thomas Bernstein is an advertising senior.PHOTO ILLISTRATION BY TONY RAGLE

Apple has made purchasing items even easier with the release of Apple Pay. Apple Pay became available with the iOS 8 update on October 20, 2014.

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Blues throwback playlist

With a recent musical revival due to artists such as Jack White and The Black Keys, blues music is as relevant today as it was a hundred years ago. To help trace the history of the genre and how we got from Robert Johnson to Jack White, here’s a list of some of the most in� uential blues tracks of all time.

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playlist online 1. B.B. King, “The Thrill is gone”

2. etta james, “tell mama”3. koko taylor, “if I can’t be first”4. T-Bone Walker, “Stormy Monday (Call it stormy monday”5. muddy waters, “mannish boy”6. Bessie smith, “nobody knows you when you’re down”7. willie mae “big mama” thornton, “hound dog”8. etta james, “i’d rather go blind”9. various artists, “st. louis blues”

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