Becoming an Iron Man
Community member Shandy Sells swims laps in OCCC’s Aquatic Center on April 8. “I’m here training for an upcoming Iron Man event,” Sells said. “It’s a long-course triathlon. I like
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Community member Shandy Sells swims laps in OCCC’s Aquatic Center on April 8. “I’m here training for an upcoming Iron Man event,” Sells said. “It’s a long-course triathlon. I like
Read MorePublic Relations major Sarah Zuber said she enjoys how life in America is more relaxed than in her home city of Gondelsheim, Germany.
“There it’s more rushed, but here it’s more relaxed and I can take a couple-hour break,” she said.
Since arriving at OCCC in January 2014, Zuber said, she has discovered she really likes the professors and overall environment on campus.
“The teachers and all the offices really care about you.,” she said.“It’s not like that in Germany.
“There they just kind of leave you alone.
“I feel like the classes here are easy and it’s really fun to go to class.”
Before she started attending OCCC, Zuber spent a semester at the University of Oklahoma.
While there, she took an English as a Second Language course to help with her English communication.
Read MoreAt around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, the school’s notification system was activated indicating a possible tornado near OCCC.
Many people headed toward safer areas in the college.
However, some hid quietly in classrooms after the wrong notification was sent to some areas of the college, indicating a gunman on campus.
Such alarms originate at the campus police department.
Read MoreFear and confusion.
That’s how two students described their feelings on March 25 when a shooter-on-campus alarm was erroneously issued instead of a tornado warning alarm that should have gone out in all buildings.
Students in Professor Gwin Faulconer-Lippert’s advertising class hunkered down in room 1D4 in the Arts and Humanities area and took cover after the alarm came across digital feeds across the campus, including one located right outside the classroom door.
Public Relations major Lisa Lasater was one of those students.
Read MoreMarijuana and drug paraphernalia were discovered by campus police who were investigating reports of a dog in distress in parking lot B Monday, March 30.
According to the report, Officer Gordon Nelson was dispatched “in regard to a dog, possibly in distress, inside a blue Ford Taurus,” that day.
Nelson reported all four windows of the car were partially open and the dog did not appear to be in distress. It was ascertained that the vehicle did not belong to an OCCC student.
Read MoreYou haven’t realized it yet, but that stiff, white dress shirt (forever creased from being folded up in some plastic sack and sold with a cheaply made tie), doesn’t exactly make you look like Don Draper. Think more along the lines of deranged, old-timey ice cream man or stressed-out cubicle jockey.
And pastel colored polo shirts, collars popped or unpopped, are a symbol of slavery to the whims of mall-window mannequins. It doesn’t matter how many you wear on top of one another. You’re being tricked into clearing out warehouses of stuff dudes on yachts grew tired of in the early ’80s. Polo shirts make you look like the bad guys in the “Revenge of the Nerds” movies.
And your T-shirts are comfy but unless they’re brand new, they’re sloppy. Are you really going to try to conduct yourself seriously with some wrinkled, faded sweatshop product draped over you? It’s got the Captain America shield on it for Pete’s sake.
Read MoreThe day was April 1, also known as April Fool’s day. It was in the middle of the week, on a Wednesday. Not only were everyone’s spirits low on this fateful hump day, but we had to deal with dumb pranks all day.
The office was tense, silent, and filled with the uneasiness that comes on such high-strung days. We each scrolled through Facebook to look at everyone’s fake relationship statuses, because that’s how people prank nowadays.
Read MoreIt’s officially spring in Oklahoma, meaning the weather is more unpredictable than ever. Some people like to live on the edge and have no idea what the weather is supposed to do. Some people learn about the weather on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, and some people monitor the weather at all times, attempting to stay as informed as possible.
While I don’t hover over the television, the radio, or my phone to get news, I do like to be informed. Luckily for me, I don’t have to worry about the weather because I get notifications from my News9 Weather App.
Read MoreIt’s hard to believe M. Night Shyamalan was once considered one of the best filmmakers around.
His style of suspense convinced many that he could be the next Steven Spielberg or Alfred Hitchcock.
Unfortunately, as the quality of Shyamalan’s films began to decrease, so did his reputation.
Today if you decide to watch a new Shyamalan film it will more than likely not be entertaining.
Read MoreUsually reviews are done of movies, music and purchasable goods, and not so much about arbitrary things that may have no relevance to most readers. Today I will review another such thing: reviews themselves.
Now before you say, “Clayton, why are you reviewing reviews? That seems pointless.” The answer is very simple. Reviews themselves are pointless, but also very fun.
I’ll start with the latter. Why are they fun? Because being opinionated is fun.
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