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The Female Experience: Understanding the Life of a Woman Who Works as a “Sugar Baby”
Rain broke on sidewalk. The heat escaping concrete, cast the gentle smell one associates with summer showers, inoffensive, indescribable, and timeless. Sitting inside Elemental Cafe, I watched rain and people... Read More →
The Female Experience: Lindsey Busby Combined Medicine, Science for her Career
Lindsey Busby is a graduate student at a private college working on completing her masters degree in science to become a Nurse Practitioner. This title puts her scope of practice... Read More →
The Female Experience: Women and Technology Don’t Always Mix
We are a mediated culture where mass media and technology have a direct effect on our actions, thoughts, and values. Technology plays a large role in creating social norms because... Read More →
The Female Experience: Women Still Fighting For Equality In America’s Political Systems
Women are still a minority. In 2018, 107 women — 78 Democrats, 29 Republicans — held seats in the United States House and Senate, comprising only about 20 percent of... Read More →
The Female Experience: Despite A Federal Law, the Pay Gap Continues for America’s Working Mothers
In 1963, then-President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law. The law’s goal was to eliminate the wage discrepancy between men and women. In that year, women... Read More →
Art Festival Brings More Life to OKC
First Photo: Many admire Artists Tim Kenney’s work, as bright colors shine off the canvases. Second photo: Paintings and artwork aren’t the only pieces of fine art, audiences were found at... Read More →
Teachers Push for Increase in Education Funding
Monday, thousands of school teachers, students and others gathered around the Oklahoma State Capitol building to call to attention the poor funding public schools have received. Teachers from across Oklahoma... Read More →
Engineering Club Builds Garden for PTSD Victims, Veterans
OCCC Engineering Club Director Colby Warden said the club recently partnered with Envision Success to rebuild a community garden in Norman for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. Colby said the... Read More →
Cancer: The Immortal Killer
Cancer is a thief. You know all those preconceived notions that one day cancer will just be a word people read in a history book? Well those people are... Read More →
The Female Experience: An Open Letter to My Rapist
November 28, 2018 0 388A NOTE FROM THE ADVISOR OF THE PIONEER: This letter is real. It was written by Amber Jones, an OCCC student who was raped. Because most newspapers don’t identify the... Read More →