Oklahoma City Community College Student Newspaper
All students, regardless of current career prospects, are encouraged to attend the Greater Grads Career Fair from noon to 4 p.m. March 5 at the Cox Convention Center, located at 1 Myriad Gardens in Oklahoma City, said Graduation, Employment and Transfer Director Jill Lindblad.
“OCCC will be providing transportation to and from the event, she said.
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Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela drew praise for their courage and perseverance in the face of the world’s most difficult challenges in a Feb. 18 speech celebrating Black History Month.
Political science Professor Sharon Vaughan said these three men of color used principles of nonviolence to fight for freedom in their white-dominated countries. She spoke in the College Union to an audience of about 40.
“We should read Gandhi’s writings, Dr. King’s writings, and Nelson Mandela’s writings,” she said. “We should know about their personal journeys, because they have so much to teach us.”
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Many taxpayers can expect to see some changes this year when they file taxes — mainly related to healthcare insurance and student expenses, said Accounting Professor Tamala Zolicoffer.
“There are four situations you can be in,” she said.
The first, she said, is a person who had full coverage all year.
“Second, [those who] are exempt — and there are about 10 different exemptions.”
Those include being a member of a tribe, having an income below a certain level, or being on Medicaid, Zolicoffer said.
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“Peaky Blinders” opens in Birmingham, England, in 1919, and centers around the Shelby family and their gang, the Peaky Blinders.
Arthur, played by Paul Anderson, is the war-scarred oldest brother and head of the family. But, it is the middle brother Tommy who viewers quickly discover is really in charge.
Season one centers around Tommy’s dilemma about what to do with a secret stash of stolen guns that could raise the small Irish gang’s fortunes or cause its ruin at the hands the IRA, a rival gang, or the British government itself — all of whom want to recover the guns.
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Going to school at OCCC allows me to be on the south side of Oklahoma City on a regular basis.
In fact, I’m probably here more than I am in my hometown.
With that being said, I get hungry just about every four hours which makes me look more closely at my eating options in the area.
I have a taste for quality, but for a reasonable price. I can’t afford to eat at a sit-in restaurant for lunch every day, or any day for that matter.
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The screen of my smartphone is like a littered graveyard. Countless unused icons stand as the headstones of all the passing fancy apps that I tried and abandoned. Few apps have been able to hold my interest for long.
Then I came upon Overdrive, the one beacon of light upon a smartphone of darkness. It’s the one thing about my phone I’ve found that’s as useful as the ability to send GIFs of Alf playing a keyboard in response to every text message I receive.
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Boredom makes folks do funny things. Some drink, some take up interior decorating and some will actually read books for entertainment. There are a few other things to do, but not many.
This is how I wound up at Turner Falls Park.
February is normally a strange time to go hiking, but not in Oklahoma.
I decided I had to take advantage of the 74-degree weekend and go outside. Unfortunately, I was not the only one with this brilliant idea.
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If you consider yourself to be somebody with taste or any appreciation for the arts, go see “Birdman.”
The film hits hard and fast, blowing the throttle open immediately and burning the clutch to ash by the end.
Recommended to me by my least favorite roommate, I was nervous but in great need of a visit to the cinema, where I wouldn’t feel guilty about not studying over a weekend.
And oh was I nervous when I discovered the movie was about a washed-up actor putting on a play.
I’ve wasted $7. My gut sank.
I’ve wasted $7 on a movie surely decrying postmodernism, and espousing theater and the triumph of the human spirit.
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To the Editor:
As an animal advocate, I’m happy to see a new trend in the state — the Trap-Neuter-Return program for feral cats.
The program, already being used by Oklahoma City Animal Shelter and Midwest City Animal Welfare, operates on the premise that euthanizing feral cats, protected under the state’s anti-cruelty laws, serves no good purpose.
“Animal control’s endless, cruel cycle is extremely costly to taxpayers,” according to a handout from MCAW.
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Not too long ago a customer at an Applebee’s refused to leave his waiter a reasonable tip because he felt the employee did not deserve the money.
The customer wrote on the receipt, “I give God 10 percent, why do you get 18?” and left the waiter no tip.
While I do not know the circumstances of what happened or how well the waiter did his job, I still believe even if the waiter’s service wasn’t satisfactory, he should have at least received a 10 percent tip.
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