Oklahoma City Community College Student Newspaper
To the Editor:
Storm season in Oklahoma is here, and now is the time to prepare for the worst.
First, make sure you have sufficient homeowners insurance. Standard homeowners insurance policies cover damage caused by tornadoes to the structure of the building and its contents.
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Every day when I come into the college, I always see at least five individuals with the 44- to 64-ounce Big Gulp soda. Every day I see more and more reasons why we need to limit the amount of sugar-filled drinks that are consumed on a daily basis.
One-third of America is obese, according to cdc.gov. I’m not talking about an extra layer of warmth for the chilly nights. Obesity is a health hazard. It can kill you. Of course there are many other things that can kill, but obesity can be controlled, and it starts with filling up the cup of death.
Those killer cups of liquid sugar are adding more numbers to the obesity rates, but hsph.harvard.edu has research posted on the effects just one can of soda a day can have. Those risks include a 26 percent chance increase of type 2 diabetes, 20 percent higher chance of a heart attack or dying from a heart attack, and a 75 percent increase in gout.
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Jerry Steward, Executive Vice President, was announced as the new OCCC president in a special Board of Regents meeting held Friday, April 10.
Steward will take over as president July 2.
All but one regent, Helen Camey, voted yes for Steward to become president.
During the search process, Camey maintained the college should conduct an external search as well as an internal one. She said that is what prompted her “no” vote.
“The vote that I cast today was not against Dr. Steward in any way, shape, form or fashion,” she said. “It was against the process … .
“I am very proud and glad that he is the new president.”
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The Gamers Guild plays a game of “Cards Against Humanity” on March 30 in a college union room. History major and Gamers Guild President Jared Scales said the group will
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Over the weekend I had time to watch one of my favorite movies directed by Martin Scorsese.
No, I did not watch “Goodfellas” or “After Hours,” though they are both excellent.
Instead I decided to watch the historical adventure family drama “Hugo.”
The film stars Asa Butterfield as Hugo Cabret, a young orphan living a secretive life in the walls of an early 20th century Paris railway station where he maintains the station’s clocks.
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For most Mac owners, GarageBand is a cute little program to record music on. When I first bought my MacBook Pro, I thought this program was incredible. To think there was a way to finally record my horrible cover songs and share it with the world was amazing.
My 17-year-old self happily played sensitive acoustic guitar and slapped some reverb on it, and called it good. I have several forgotten audio files to prove it, but now things have changed.
Ever since I downloaded Logic Pro X, my life has gotten significantly better. The program made me realize how many different ways you can distort, flang, echo and reverse echo until you make a catastrophic acid trip condensed into an mp3 file.
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OCCC Nursing student Marissa Patterson said she was inspired by the doctors who gave up their day off to offer free medical services at a clinic March 28. She was one of several OCCC students who provided community service that day.
“I saw the physicians at the health fair use their gifts and their training to freely give people health care, and praying with them,” she said.
Patterson said, seeing the generosity of others was one of the best things she got out of her experience participating at the fair.
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