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OCCC students, faculty and staff are being encouraged by the Wellness Taskforce to embrace the challenge of competing in the Tour de Route 66 Wellness Competition in celebration of the Tour de France.
Tour de Route 66, an event to promote a healthier campus, is July 3 through Aug. 13.
Participants may sign up through July 2. Registration, free of charge, can be completed by sending an e-mail to tourwithme@occc.edu.
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A sex offender viewing inappropriate content on a Keith Leftwich Memorial Library computer and a car accident between campus visitors kept OCCC security officers busy this past week.
Officer Jeffrey Porter was dispatched to the library at 3:50 p.m. June 14 after Safety and Security received a call regarding an individual allegedly viewing what looked like pornographic content on the computers.
Officers Austin Plackemeier and Brandon Wheeler accompanied Porter to the library and met with Dana Tuley-Williams, systems librarian.
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A 26-year-old nursing major has found herself grateful to OCCC after a challenging start and originally not wanting to come to Oklahoma.
Lyubov Popovych, whose first name means “love” in Ukrainian language, said she at first resisted moving to the U.S. for school, but has found the experience exciting and rewarding.
Popovych said her English professor and friends at her university in Ukraine inspired her to come to the States to pursue her studies in nursing.
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The Rolling Stones has recently re-released their 1972 masterpiece “Exile on Main Street.” The reissue of the classic album is a triumphant romp which is guaranteed to put the rock and the roll into any occasion.
Improving on this masterpiece is a hard task, but somehow the new version seems to be even more raw and irreverent than the original.
The reissue offers 10 additional tracks to the already abundant 18 original tracks. Adding 10 additional tracks to this classic album may seem like adding extra brush strokes to the Mona Lisa for some fans.
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Almost 25 years after the end of the hit TV series of the same name, “The A-team” makes the leap to the silver screen.
Filled with laughs, machine guns and a lot of explosions, this 117-minute PG-13 homage to the classic 1980s show is a must see for the whole family.
Directed by Joe Carnahan, the movie opens with a bit of the team’s history and how it got together.
Then the story moves quickly into the base plot of the old show.
The team members are set up to take the fall for a crime, escape prison, and sets out to right the wrong and clear their names.
The team consists of tactical genius Hannibal Smith (Liam Neeson), clinically insane pilot H.M. “Howling Mad” Murdoch (Sharlto Copley), strong man and mechanic Bosco “B.A.” Baracus (Quinton “Rampage” Jones) and con man and womanizer Templeton “Face” Peck (Bradley Cooper).
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Change is coming to OCCC this fall and spring as many projects are scheduled to get under way, said President Paul Sechrist.
Those include a groundbreaking for a theater at the Visual and Performing Arts Center, Capitol Hill Center renovations and various other campuswide renovations and improvements.
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Since the recession hit, state economies have been tightening down. There have been layoffs and budget cuts, and still there isn’t enough money.
For the second year in a row, OCCC is not giving its valuable teaching staff raises, and tuition prices are going up. But it seems that politicians can still find the money for favors and political ploys.
House Bill 748 was originally designed to restructure the struggling Oklahoma County Medical Examiner’s office.
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“Red Dead Redemption” is the latest massive adventure game from Rockstar games, the makers of the “Grand Theft Auto” series.
If any game deserves a bandwagon of cheering fans, it’s this one. Simply put, “Red Dead Redemption” is awesomeness incarnate.
The main storyline follows the reformed gunslinger John Marston whose family has been incarcerated by a government agency as leverage to force him to hunt down the leader of his former gang.
But that is far from all the story has to offer.
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The latest Anita Blake novel, “Bullet,” combines a fluid writing style with non-stop action. Packed with sex, violence and magic, Anita’s latest adventure is the perfect summer read.
Released June 1 in hardcover format, “Bullet” is 356 pages long. The novel can be found at most major booksellers, such as Barnes & Noble.
Retail price is $26.95, but the book can be purchased for less on Amazon.com or at Walmart.
Continuing the story begun in the last book, “Skin Trade,” Anita and her master Jean-Claude begin taking steps to defend the American vampires against the old European council, whose members have seemingly gone insane.
The book moves swiftly, tying up loose ends from the previous 18 books, and setting up the series for a new set of stories and twists.
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Oklahoma City citizens recently celebrated a little-known holiday with a big impact.
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is a celebration of African American history held every year in June.
The holiday originated in 1865 when, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery, the news made it to Texas on or around June 19.
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