Oklahoma City Community College Student Newspaper
It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke — but the mission was totally serious.
A business major, a nursing major, a science major and two public relations majors took a tour of the University of Central Oklahoma earlier this semester.
The students hoped to learn whether UCO was the university where they wanted to transfer after leaving OCCC.
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I don’t get frustrated easily. For me to lose my cool, it takes a long series of failures. If I mess up a job interview, I’m calm, but if I fail at the exact same menial task literally dozens of times in a row, I understand how some people will chainsaw a stranger’s car in half.
“Duet” is an app designed for frustration. It will have people grinding their teeth until they spit powder. It is more discouraging than trying to walk a tightrope on ice skates.
“Duet” is an extremely simple and minimalistic game. Two balls, one red and one blue, sit at the bottom of the screen waiting for the player to rotate them right and left to dodge the obstacles flying at them from the top of the screen.
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The sun is finally starting to shine. The smell of freshly cut grass is in the air. Birds are singing the spring songs.
It is finally that time of year and my son is finally that age to begin my family ritual of being immersed in baseball.
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If you’ve lived in Oklahoma for more than a week, it’s not difficult to grasp the craziness of the weather here.
People from many other places claim the weather where they are from is the most unpredictable in the entire world. Frankly, experience makes me disagree.
I have fond memories of these times. At a camp in the summer of 2008, I remember it being sunny all day, then suddenly becoming cloudy and raining torrentially for about 45 minutes, and then becoming clear and sunny again. In fact, people at that camp from other states were bewildered by what had happened. I was not.
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To the editor:
I’m an OCCC journalism graduate with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. I now work for Oklahoma Watch. I want to tell you about an event you might be interested in attending — a public forum on Thursday, April 16, on the challenges of low-income neighborhoods in south Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma Watch is a non-profit news organization located at OU’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Those two organizations are sponsoring the event. The question-and-answer forum with local leaders will focus on the needs and concerns of south Oklahoma City communities and is tied to a mobile-video news project “Talk With Us: Poverty in Oklahoma City Neighborhoods.”
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I’ve always been a huge fan of reality television. I grew up watching “Jon & Kate Plus Eight,” “Little People Big World,” “Cake Boss” and “19 Kids and Counting.” I still watch these shows and have added “Duck Dynasty” to my list. It seems like every week some star of a reality show is on every social media outlet for something they said, something they posted, or even what they think.
Most recently, Phil Robertson, patriarch of “Duck Dynasty,” made a speech at a prayer breakfast about atheists.
Of course, this sparked a major controversy and involved everyone who has a Facebook page. This isn’t the first time the Robertsons or stars of reality television shows have been ridiculed for having conservative beliefs.
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To pay tribute to the solemn occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Murrah Building bombing, OCCC’s three choirs will be performing Mozart’s Requiem, said choral music program Director Ron Staton.
The concert will take place at 7 p.m. April 19, 20 years after 168 people lost their lives to an act of domestic terrorism in Oklahoma City.
The performance will take place in the Visual and Performing Arts Center. Tickets are free.
“The definition of a requiem is a mass for the dead,” Staton said. “So the whole idea is to honor the lives lost in the bombing.”
Learning the complex pieces is a challenge to vocalists.
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OCCC police recently made one arrest and solved a recent campus mystery, according to reports from the campus police department.
An OCCC student was arrested on campus after running a stop sign on Keels Boulevard. It’s reported that Malcolm Rshad Lewis was found to be driving with a suspended license when stopped by Officer Zachary Andrews.
A call from Andrews to the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Lewis had previously been cited for driving while his license was suspended and that he had “an extensive traffic record,” resulting in a warrant for his arrest out of Oklahoma City.
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With the recent events producing racial tension on college campuses, The Leadership Council held a meeting to get a feel for OCCC’s take on race relations.
The Leadership Council is comprised of a representative from each of the clubs on campus, plus at-large members through application.
Guest speaker Myron Pope, vice president of Student Affairs at University of Central Oklahoma, asked attending students, faculty and campus club representatives questions to gauge the level of racism on campus.
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One of OCCC’s most popular intramural sports, flag football, is making a return to the intramural lineup for the spring semester, said Intramural Sports Assistant Matthew Wright.
Not on the original spring sports roster, Wright said the new sport was added after spring break, along with weekly basketball tournaments, as a way to finish the semester of intramural sports in a strong way.
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