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TAKING ATTENDANCE HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL GO TO CLASS IN SYLLABUS WEEK?

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MOST STUDENTS GO TO CLASS FOR SYLLABUS WEEK Pay ton Wei dm a n NEWS EDITOR @ Payto n Weidm an

Summer break is over and it’s time for the easiest week of the semester: syllabus week.

Students call it syllabus week at Oklahoma State University, and it refers to the casual nature of school winding back up. Most professors spend the first day of class going over their syllabus with students, sometimes without a lecture or other class work.

A syllabus is a student’s guide to what to expect from the classes they are taking. The syllabus includes the professor’s name, contact information, a description of what the class is and the professor’s expectations from students.

James Pappas is an associate professor and head of the Department of Management at OSU. Pappas said that he thinks the most important week of the semester is the first.

“I think actually we probably get the highest attendance the first couple of weeks,” Pappas said.

A recent O’Colly Twitter poll asked students if they attended all, some or none of their classes in syllabus week. Of 660 respondents, 73 percent said they attend all classes, 15 percent said they went to some and 12 percent said none.

“Yeah,” Jim Borgerding, a freshman from Marysville, Kansas, who said he will be attending class during syllabus MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017

week.

Pappas encouraged all students to come to syllabus week because it’s more than only going over the syllabus.

“It’s the only time in the semester where students sit in class, learn about what the course is about,” Pappas said. “But also, it’s a time where people prioritize and set goals for themselves.”

Savannah Titus, a political science senior from Stillwater said she agrees with Pappas.

“It sets bad habits if you start skipping the first week,” Titus said.

Pappas said he thinks attendance is at its highest during syllabus week, but that over the course of the semester fatigue sets in and students start missing more and more.

“It’s a long semester; 16 weeks and a lot of stuff happens,” Pappas said.“You’ve got other classes and it’s hard to keep students coming.”

A 2016 USA Today College poll found that about 40 percent of students said they skipped class to do classwork for a different class and about 27 percent said they skipped class because they overslept.

Although professors go over their syllabus during the first week, some professors put their syllabus on Brightspace before the semester starts.

“What we’re trying to do is get across that reading the syllabus before class is an amazing thing to do, but a very small minority do it,” Pappas said.

Professors want

students to go to class because students learn more from the professor about the course then by only reading the syllabus.

Pappas said he sometimes thinks he doesn’t want to have the syllabus online.

“I’ll get questions before the class starts that I don’t want to answer in email,” Pappas said.

“There’s also a whole bunch of things that are not in the syllabus that get touched on or maybe just clarified in class.”

Pappas said he thinks students go to class during the first week because they are excited to be on campus. Students aren’t the only ones excited, though.

“I mean we (professors) get excited,” Pappas said. “Oh my gosh, everyone’s here, the seats are full.”

Pappas’ advice for students during the first week is to go to class.

“You don’t need to do anything, nothing’s due the first week so just come to class,” Pappas said.

Payton Weidman is a multimedia journalism senior from Grand Saline, Texas. She can be reached at news.ed@ocolly.com.

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Partial solar eclipse to cross Stillwater Sam H o lzsch u h S taff R epo rter @ h o ltzue

A partial solar eclipse will treat Oklahoma State University students on Monday afternoon during the first day of fall classes.

Stillwater is projected to experience about 90 percent of a total eclipse, which will go from Oregon to South Carolina, peaking at 1:06 p.m. The partial eclipse in Stillwater will start about 11:37 a.m. and end about 2:35 p.m.

Monday will mark the first time the path of a total eclipse crosses the American Pacific coast and the American Atlantic coast since June 8, 1918, when a total eclipse crossed central Oklahoma. The closest

the path of the upcoming eclipse’s totality will come to Stillwater is about 300 miles north in Atchison, Kansas.

Dr. Peter Schull of OSU’s Human Sciences Mendenhall Observatory spoke of the unique characteristics of this eclipse.

He said the next eclipses viewable in America will take place in 2024 and 2045.

“It’s a matter of, you have to be where the shadow is, and that’s a small area,” Schull said.

“So basically, you want to be as close to the center line of the totality as you can.”

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon appears to conceal the sun from Earth. The sun, Earth and

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Monday will mark the first total solar ecclipse since June 8, 1918.

moon become linear for a few moments, making about 60 to 70 miles of Earth dark.

Schull said animals in the affected area will begin

their dusk routines during the eclipse, and temperatures will drop slightly as if night were arriving.

From Earth, spectators will see a corona of the

sun, which is a ring of light. The ring will show bursts of flames called prominences, and the moon will appear as a dark circle in the center.

An American state last experienced a total eclipse in 1991 when a path crossed only Hawaii. The contiguous states last saw a total eclipse in February 26, 1979. Eclipse totality will likely last about 150 seconds, but curiosity should not overcome safety.

Schull said not to look at the eclipse with the naked eye. Edmon Low Library and Stillwater Public Library will have free eclipse glasses. Also, spectators can use devices such as phone cameras to see the eclipse without harming

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JESUS IS ALIVE AND WELL! Jesus truly did rise bodily from the dead! This was hard for those eleven disciples (apostles) to believe. Luke 24 tells of his appearance to these men.

“They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost.” They were very troubled, and doubts were filling their minds, but Jesus said, look at my hands and feet. Go ahead and touch me!

The Bible tells us they still did not believe because of joy and amazement Many of us have been in similar situations when something so wonderful happens; yet. we think or say “I can’t believe this is happening.” Jesus continues to confirm his resurrection; “Do you have anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish and he ate it.

their eyes.

Students and locals will likely flood the streets and outdoor areas to see the eclipse.

“You say, ‘Holy cow,’ because it’s amazing to see these things with the naked eye and no funny tricks, you know?” Schull said. “And that lasts for two minutes and 40 seconds if you’re lucky.”

NASA advises everyone to be cautious on the road and stay aware of the environment.

Sam Holzschuh is a multimedia journalism senior from Aledo, Texas.

He can be reached at sam. holzschuh@okstate.edu.

He was not just a spirit, but he is alive and real!

This changed everything!. Jesus had conquered death itself. He is real and alive. They went everywhere telling others. Those who would turn to Christ and put their trust in him could have this new life and a promise of a new eternal body. These men, who were so frightened and discouraged, now would go into all the world telling of God’s love and his gift to all who would come to Christ. They were so convinced they were willing to die in the process of carrying this message everywhere.

Maybe you’re a doubter! Sounds too good to be true. That same Jesus who ministered to these early doubting, discouraged followers, will do the same for you. He knows how to make himself real to you. Humble yourself and ask for his help. One man said, “Lord, I believe help my unbelief.” Whosoever calls on the name of the Lord shall find the real life!

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B ID DAY

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Solidifying sisterhood: OSU students welcome new sorority members on Bid Day H allie Hart As sT. n ews editor @Ha RT_HAL L IE_

As the sound of upbeat dance music drifted across Library Lawn, a sea of exuberant young women rushed through the grass and past Theta Pond to celebrate at various houses.

Every year at Oklahoma State University, this is the moment many college students anticipate as they spend days collectively known as Rush Week visiting sorority houses.

This year’s Rush Week events came to a peak at 11:30 a.m. Saturday during Bid Day, the day when prospective sorority members discover if they have been asked to join one of OSU’s 13 sororities.

On Library Lawn, women of each sorority cheered and recited their chants as they held up ornately decorated signs that invited new members into their sisterhoods. The students then dashed to their respective sorority houses, where they posed for photographs and hugged their new “sisters.”

Ellen Skonezny, a returning member of Kappa Alpha Theta, mingled with fellow students outside her sorority house for the last Bid Day festivities before her graduation.

“I’m so excited because it’s my senior MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017

year, and it’s the last pledge class I’ll get to know really,” Skonezny said.

A balloon archway and black and gold flowers in the formation of Kappa Alpha Theta’s letters provided a welcoming environment for ecstatic first-year Thetas.

Riley Stewart, one of these new Theta members, followed in her mother’s footsteps but at a rival university.

Stewart, a freshman from Mustang, Oklahoma, said her mother joined Theta at the University of Oklahoma, but Stewart’s parents are happy with her decision to become a Cowgirl.

“They love it, honestly,” Stewart said.

“My dad will say that he doesn’t, but he loves it so much. He’s just proud of me.”

Stewart said she appreciates Theta’s principles and the qualities its kite symbol represents: faith, love and hope.

Women of each sorority proudly represented their organization’s unique colors and attire, and a variety of songs added to the jubilant atmosphere.

At the Chi Omega house, Shania Twain’s “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” played as the women of Chi O gladly accepted about 50 new members who wore shirts and headbands in the sorority’s signature hues: cardinal red and

straw.

For Addison Southers, a new Chi O member from Dallas, the decision to go Greek wasn’t a tough one.

“I had always wanted to join one just to have a sisterhood to go to,” Southers said.

Rush Week lived up to its name: students dashed from house to house and started events at 7:15 a.m. on the last day, but Southers didn’t mind.

“It’s so amazing, and I wouldn’t change it for the world,” she said.

“Rush Week was so worth it.”

Allison Smola, who sported blue lipstick and a shirt that displayed the letters of Kappa Kappa Gamma, the sorority she joined, said she relished opportunities to meet fellow OSU students during Rush Week.

“You wake up every morning, you get ready and you’re eager to just have conversations with people and share life with everyone,” she said. “It’s the coolest thing because you meet people from all over, and in the end, you’re just making so many connections, so many relations. You’re friends with everyone by the end of it.”

Hallie Hart is a sports media sophomore from Chandler. She can be reached at hallie.hart@ okstate.edu

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(Left to right) Gamma Phi Beta sisters Caroline Morrison, Paige Menezes, and Audrey Montgomery celebrate bid day 2017.

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Members of the Alpha Chi Omega sororoty celebrate bid day 2017.

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Members of Pi Beta Phi celebrating bid day 2017.

Bid day 2017 participants gather on the library lawn.

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Several sisters of Gamma Phi Beta celebrate in front of their house.

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Oklahoma State’s Julia Lenhardt passes to Claire Gantzer after possessing the corner kick during Sunday’s match against UMKC. Lenhardt scored a goal in the win.

Cowgirls physicalLY outclass UMKC ZACH HAKE LIFESTYLE EDITOR @zach_Hake Every loose ball, challenge and header seemed to go in the Cowgirls’ favor.

During the Oklahoma State Soccer team’s 4-1 rousing of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Roos on Sunday, the Cowgirls dominated from the first whistle.

The Cowgirls finished with 17 shots and eight corner kicks, while the Roos finished with only six shots and three corner kicks.

Temperatures peaked at 97 degrees at Cowgirl Soccer Complex but the sweltering conditions did not detour the red-hot Cowgirls from scoring four goals in the first half of play.

OSU (2-0) scored twice off corner kicks thanks to the height advantages of Julia Lenhardt and Coumba Sow. Lenhardt and Sow, listed at 5 feet 9 inches and 6 feet, reMONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2017

spectively, are two of the tallest Cowgirls on this year’s team.

Lenhardt leaped over several UMCK defenders and made solid contact with a well-placed ball from Anna Beffer, who fought for a loose ball and was awarded the corner kick after ricocheting the ball off UMKC’s Olivia Hodison.

“In the past we’ve been kind of a small team,” Beffer said.

“Now we have a lot of tall kids and we have kids that do well in the air and that showed today.

I think that will definitely be a weapon. In the past, we’ve kind of shied away because it’s hard to compete with girls that are 6-foot, but we’ve learned to deal with and those players have attributes that will help us in the future.”

Beffer finished with two assists, including a perfect pass to Marlo Zoller, who sent a bender past UMKC’s Anna Lillig and scored her first goal of the season in the 21st minute.

Sow one-upped Lenhardt,

scoring her first career goal at OSU and giving the Cowgirls a commanding 3-0 lead after blasting a high header into the back of the net off a Jaci Jones corner kick.

Along with scoring off and defending set pieces, Carmichael has made physicality a point of emphasis with the team, challenging players to embrace contact and fight for second chances.

“Going back six, seven years ago, our teams were known for being very physical,” Carmichael said. “We’ve lost that a little bit over the last few years and I feel like our teams have gotten pushed around a little bit.

This year’s group is hard. Right from the first day of preseason, they’ve competed.”

Zach Hake is a multimedia journalism sophomore from The Woodlands, Texas. He can be reached at entertainment.ed@ocolly.com

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