One of my pet peeves has always been when a person begins a sentence with, “When I was your age…” But that was because I was 22, and I largely felt left out of that sort of conversation due to lacking life experience. In my juvenile ineptitude, I’d brashly proclaim things like, “I’ll never use […]
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Doubting Pokes
T. Boone Pickens OSU uber-booster T. Boone Pickens, who was not implicated, said he was “disappointed” in the magazine’s reporting, which details allegations of players and recruits receiving improper payments, academic misconduct, drug abuse and inappropriate sexual conduct between football recruits and members of OSU’s hostess program, Orange Pride. “Many of the sensational allegations go […]
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Head of the class
Credit: Brad Gregg With the recent release of the Princeton Review’s annual “Best of the West” list, Oklahoma Christian University, Oklahoma Baptist University and Oral Roberts University are designated as among the top colleges in the western United States, proving the schools offer more than Scripture-quoting professors and M.R.S degrees. Perhaps less surprising, The University […]
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Plane gain
credit: Jamey Jacob To label them as merely weather drones is almost insulting. “The term ‘drone’ has specific connotations,” said Jamey Jacob, professor at OSU’s School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. “There is a lot of potential for developing unmanned aircraft that could have positive effects on a lot of industries.” Still, in the wake […]
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Motor skills
Have You Tried Walking A Stillwater-based sculptor will detail the ever-changing relationship among humans, industry and environment through 10 pieces in an exhibition opening Friday at Mainsite Contemporary Art in downtown Norman. Matthew Boonstra, an artist and visiting sculpture professor at Oklahoma State University, put together Interruptions by selecting sculpture, installation and projection pieces that […]
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Attempting a reversal
Chad Smith, John Smith, Wayne Wells, Lee Roy Smith & Danny Hodge Credit: Mark Hancock While the U.S. has been at political odds with a number of these countries, wrestling has brought together representatives from across the world for a common goal: reinstating the sport as an Olympic event for the 2020 Summer Games.Two-time Olympic […]
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H2OMG!
Clay Pope Credit: Mark Hancock Oklahoma bears the scars of the Dust Bowl paradoxically, celebrating the courage and perseverance of those who lived through it and simultaneously obsessing about whether lingering impressions from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath sully the state’s image. But we’re all clear on one thing: The Dust Bowl remains in […]
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Loan rangers
OU campus Credit: Mark Hancock A big chunk of that, not surprisingly, is the tab for college loans. Since 2008, the study found that student loan debt has “increased by $303 billion, while other forms of debt fell a combined $1.6 trillion.” In the aftermath of the worst recession since the Great Depression, young college […]
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Green power
Credit: Brad Gregg “Purchasing green power helps our organization become more sustainable, while also sending a message to others across the U.S. that supporting clean sources of electricity is a sound business decision and an important choice in reducing climate risk,” said OSU President Burns Hargis. Of the power that OSU purchases from Oklahoma Gas […]
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Merv verve
Merv Johnson When it comes to broadcasting, Oklahoma Sooners play-by-play announcer Toby Rowland said this about Merv Johnson: “I’m glad he doesn’t follow the rules. Some of our best calls are when Merv is hollering things out while I’m talking. I love it. I think it’s awesome.” Not your typical guy with headphones and a […]