Oklahoma tycoon Harold Hamm made headlines yet again — this time, he said fracking doesn’t cause earthquakes.
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Letters to the Editor: May 27, 2015
Puzzle predicament What’s up with the crossword puzzle? This is the second time in two weeks that you’ve printed the incorrect info. Last time, you printed the empty puzzle calling it the answers from the previous puzzle. This week (May 20, Oklahoma Gazette), you published the correct answers for the previous week, but you printed […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Looted lives
A House resolution aims to compel OU to research its museum artifacts to make sure the school is not in possession of any more stolen works.
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Letters to the Editor: April 1, 2015
Free speech Recently, late at night, the University of Oklahoma (OU) released a statement that conflated the SAE story with the Joe Mixon story and announced with a straight face that this was not a double standard. They took great pains to say that Mixon was kicked off the team for a year and also […]
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Chicken-Fried News: “Official” scam
You can all just calm down; Barry Switzer is not hanging out in Kiev, Ukraine, asking you for money.
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Commentary: Eliminating racism in Oklahoma
Two recent out-of-state visitors remarked to me that Oklahoma is a friendly state. They were incredulous that they heard no horns blaring in downtown traffic and motorists respected their turn signals and allowed them to easily change lanes. Oklahomans do pride themselves on hospitality, but the news about the University of Oklahoma fraternity’s racist song […]
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Letters to the Editor: March 25, 2015
‘Fat ass’ The reason I feel compelled to write about the SAE incident at OU is not about what was said by these young men or the actions taken by President Boren or the university. It’s about, for lack of a more artful phrase, ignorance. I’ve read several iterations of this argument, and I feel […]
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Commentary: Concerning the SAE video
I am a black woman who graduated from the University of Oklahoma and was in a predominantly white sorority. Shortly after news broke on recent events concerning the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, I was on the road and watched as the driver of another car started having a seizure while approaching a red light and […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Defensive advice
According to Tennessee Titans center Gabe Ikard, OU coach Bob Stoops has been giving players good advice about domestic violence for years.
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Chicken-Fried News: Twitter-iffic
The University of Oklahoma’s President David Boren finally joined Twitter — sort of.