Oklahoma City Community College Student Newspaper
With some TV shows, the appeal is obvious.
What keeps us coming back each episode is our favorite actors, a gripping drama, romance, mystery, or maybe the way it makes us laugh every time we watch.
“Longmire,” based on the “Walt Longmire Mysteries” by Craig Johnson, at first seems to provide none of these obvious reasons to keep watching.
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Let me start this review by stating one thing: I have a love-hate relationship with Zyrtec allergy medication.
Springtime is the season of Satan’s pollens and other dusty particles — and when my life transforms into an actual never-ending sneezing hell.
With the sneezing, sniffling, not breathing, headaches, still not breathing, fogginess, taking allergy medication is almost a necessity for me to be even somewhat functional. But, in spite of the miracle pills, there’s always repercussions.
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To the editor:
The Child Abuse Prevention Action Committee invites every community to take action for children by participating in their seventh annual “Build a Blue Ribbon Tree for Kids” campaign.
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Oklahoma ranks 48th nationwide for the number of adults suffering with mental illness and access to care. Substance Abuse Commissioner Terri White said the only state with a higher proportion of mentally ill people is Utah and the only state with more serious mental illness is West Virginia.
Twenty-two percent Of Oklahomans have a mental illness, 5.24 percent have a serious mental illness such as major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder, and 70 percent of all mentally ill people in Oklahoma go untreated.
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Facebook is a place where people go to connect with others, share pictures, brag about accomplishments, make their political and religious feelings known and, often, go off on rants about others, including employers.
Some local businesses said they check social media when hiring.
Local advertising and media agency Ackerman McQueen is one.
Employee Sheena Karami said although her department does not require checking social media sites, she checks them out of curiosity. Karami works in the Vice President Office of the Chief Operating Officer.
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An audience of more than 900 people came to the Visual and Performing Arts Center Theater Feb. 6 to see a company of Sufi Muslim performers known as the Whirling Dervishes of Rumi.
In the audience was Steve McLinn of Edmond, who described himself as an artist and a musician. He said the Whirling Dervishes of Rumi were great the last time he attended their performance at another Oklahoma City area college, so he wanted to see them again.
McLinn said he felt a connection with the dervishes because it was a great mystical performance coming “from the heart.”
“That’s the path, and that’s the way to spin out of self,” McLinn said. The goal is to reach the Absolute Divine and thus purity.
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The Engineering Club is a professional club that helps build networks in the engineering community as well as helping students transfer to other engineering programs at other universities, said club President Anthony Norton.
“Our number-one purpose is to build networks within the engineering community back to the campus [to get] outside companies interested in the OCCC engineering program, and to get our members exposed to what goes on locally in an engineering aspect.”
Club members and mechanical engineer majors Matt Feisal and Barry Bosnyak said the club has been beneficial to them.
“It has helped me in terms of building networks to be able to use outside of here once I move on to [the University of Oklahoma] … ,” Feisal said. “Also to help for getting a job once I graduate. It’s giving me contacts in the field.”
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OCCC’s Recreation and Fitness department’s current focus is getting students into the gym through activities such as intramural sports, said Sports Assistant Matthew Wright.
“We’re going to really try to get the intramurals going after spring break, having three or four options every week for students to participate in,” Wright said.
Earlier this semester, he said, basketball practices tied up the gym almost every weeknight. Since that sport has ended, Wright said he plans to offer more sports.
“I’m planning for a couple more sports to add after spring break,” he said.
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The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has partnered with OCCC to host the 59th annual National Swimming and Diving Championship on campus in the Aquatic Center.
The event runs from March 4 through March 7, and OCCC is looking for volunteers for the event, including: door attendants, ticket takers, heat sheet and program sales, and hospitality.
“The eyes of the entire nation are on OCCC during this event,” said Recreation and Fitness Secretary Laura Swain
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With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, most Americans are now required to maintain health care coverage.
This will be the first year that Americans who are able to afford health care but have chosen not to purchase it will be penalized with government fines under what’s referred to as the “individual mandate.”
In a recent poll of 220 OCCC students, 31 percent said they have no healthcare insurance.
“I have four kids and it’s just too expensive,” said Allied health major Tania Lebron.
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