Oklahoma City Community College Student Newspaper
Gyptian is a reggae, hip-hop and R&B artist who has been singing for years but is just beginning to gain ground in America.
Since he was born in Jamaica, it is only fitting that Gyptian sings reggae music — or is it?
Even though many of his songs, such as “Hold Yuh” and “Mama Bawl,” have hip-hop/R&B undertones, Gyptian stays close to his reggae roots with songs like “True Confessions.”
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English Professor Bertha Wise was recently selected as one of 50 professors from across the nation to attend a workshop to learn about the Ponca, Pawnee and Omaha Native American tribes.
Wise attended National Endowment for the Humanities, a grant funded workshop for community college faculty June 20 through 25 at Central Community College in Columbus, Neb.
She was selected as one of 50 from 98 applicants from across the nation. Wise said the group of 50 was then divided into two groups of 24 and 26.
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Graduating business students on a tight budget won’t have to scour the sales racks at the local mall to find professional dress for interviews.
Some students will be able to select free clothing from the Business Clothes Closet starting this fall, said Lisa Adkins, Administrative Office Technology professor.
Located in the Business Department, the closet will be available at the start of the school year, Adkins, who directs the program, said.
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An OCCC student from India will team up with an Iowa State University engineering professor to tour the most prominent colleges of India, speaking to students, teachers and government officials.
Akash Patel is a promising young motivational speaker from Nasik, India, according to an article in the Ames Tribune.
Patel said he recently transferred from Iowa State University to OCCC.
He will accompany Carolyn Heising, an Iowa State engineering professor and nuclear scientist who worked as a federal engineer under the Clinton administration.
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Nursing students who don’t speak English as their first language are getting support this fall in the form of recommendations from a college task force.
The Nursing Student Success Task Force has been working since 2009 to design programs to assist nursing students who aren’t being successful, said Lydia Rucker, task force chair and Communications Lab assistant.
Rucker said the group has recommended workshops to teach students how to break down nursing textbooks and how to study.
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If you’re like me, you’ve noticed that there is not a lot to be excited about in the network’s summer lineups.
Your favorite shows are on hiatus or, worse yet, cancelled. The cancellation of “Party Down” on the Starz network is a particularly egregious travesty that recently happened in the television world. Shows such as AMC’s “Breaking Bad” are not returning until 2011.
So what are we left with? A never-ending cavalcade of mindless reality shows all lurching their way toward a new bottom.
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Students who are looking for healthier food choices or those who are diabetic, on gluten-free diets or vegan may soon find more options in the cafeteria, said Carson’s Catering and Food Concepts General Manager Corrine Aguilar.
Aguilar said she plans to expand the healthy choices offered in the College Union to include meals and foods which are more health and diet centered.
“I have already made a small version of the new menu that will be available soon,” she said. “(I) will have it blown up to a more noticeable size in the cafeteria.”
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Today is the last day for students and faculty members to purchase discounted tickets for the 2010-2011 Cultural Arts Series.
Season tickets are 50 percent off until the end of today, said Scott Tigert, Cultural Programs assistant.
In addition, Tigert said, six- and four-ticket packages are also available for lesser discounts.
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Team Edward or Team Jacob? Wherever your allegiance lies, there is plenty to go around in “Eclipse.”
The film is the third of Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” saga, a series of books-turned-movies centered on Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), a human teenager who is torn between vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and werewolf Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner).
In “Eclipse,” the story takes a dark turn when a series of grisly killings is believed to be the work of newborn vampires: newly-changed monsters whose desire for blood is uncontrollable and insatiable.
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