Credit: Brad Gregg At least that’s if you’re comparing it to IBM’s decision to help Germany’s Nazi government in the 1930s, White Star Line daring fate to sink the “unsinkable” Titanic and some jackasses’ decision to introduce New Coke. In other words: Context is everything. Pickens in 2005 donated $165 million to OSU to build […]
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Any way you slice it
You’ve heard of the New York strip steak and the Kansas City strip. Well, meet their younger, party-ready brother: the Vegas strip. That’s right, the crew at Oklahoma State University’s Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center have been hard at work in their meat labs, and their efforts — along with an outside […]
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T. Boone’s death wish
Forbes reported last week that the richer-than-rich Pickens was the mastermind behind an OSU fundraiser with the potential to net the athletic department up to $350 million, but it hit a little hitch: Nobody died. While the “Gift of a Lifetime” fundraiser sounds generic, it actually proved literal, as the OSU athletics department bought $10 […]
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No respect
While CFN can barely recall any details of the 21-0 affair (there was a basketball game between Grambling State and Alcorn State that was far more compelling), we’re pretty confident that OSU could’ve, y’know, at least, kicked a field goal against Alabama or something. Four voters saw fit to grant OSU — whose record is […]
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Wine studies
The event, which features 35 wineries and more than a dozen of Oklahoma’s best chefs, will be held on the Stillwater campus of OSU. Steve Ruby, a professor at OSU and the event’s coordinator, said this year’s theme is Cowboys & Gauchos. The emphasis will be on the similar cultures of Oklahoma and Argentina, particularly […]