Monday, July 18, 2022

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Holliday selected as No. 1 pick by Baltimore Orioles, Campbell No. 37 by Cleveland Guardians in 2022 MLB Draft His stellar senior season earned him the accolade as the Gatorade Player of the Year in the state of Oklahoma.

Holliday, rated as the No. 5 overall recruit Daniel Allen in the 2023 class by Staff Reporter Perfect Game, signed his national letter of intent to The Stillwater, play college baseball at Oklahoma, MLB blood- Oklahoma State back in line lives on.

November 2021, being a Jackson Holliday, part of what was part of the son of former MLB a top 10 recruiting class great Matt Holliday, has for the Cowboys this past been selected by the Bal- year. While timore Orioles with the the circumstances No. 1 overall pick in the of him playing baseball 2022 MLB Draft. at the college level are Holliday recorded highly improbable, if he a .685 batting average at were to choose that path, Stillwater High School he would play under this past, along with 17 both his father Matt and home runs and 89 hits, his uncle and OSU head breaking the national re- coach Josh. cord for hits in a season for high school baseball. sports.ed@ocolly.com

Oklahoma State is on the board.

OSU sophomore pitcher Justin Campbell has been selected by the Cleveland Guardians with the No. 37 overall pick in the 2022 MLB Draft.

Campbell spent the past three seasons at Oklahoma State, originally coming in as a twoway prospect, but shifting to solely pitching this past season. He posted a 4.43 ERA on the mound during his first year at the college level in the shortened 2020 season.

However, Campbell took a drastic leap forward in 2021, posting a 2.57 ERA along with 102 strikeouts, earning him both first team All-Big 12 and first team All-American honors in his first full

season of college baseball. He continued his success into the 2022 season where he would follow with a 3.82 ERA this past year along with a Big 12 conference-leading 141 strikeouts.

Campbell came to OSU as part of a No. 5 ranked 2020 recruiting class for the Cowboys.

He was drafted by the Houston Astros in the 18th round of the 2019 MLB Draft, however, would ultimately decide to stay committed to OSU and play college baseball in Stillwater.

As a result of draft compensation picks, Campbell becomes the first Oklahoma State baseball player taken in the first round since Jason Hursh in 2013. sports.ed@ocolly.com

File Photo Scholaroo has released new data that shows the highest paying majors, many of which are STEM and business related.

Scholaroo releases highest paying college majors in 2022 Mallory Pool Staff Reporter

paying college majors currently, according to Scholaroo, with their median salary.

Scholaroo’s list goes on for another 15 majors and also lists entry level jobs that go with those majors and a description of said major.

All majors on the list have a median base salary of over $95,000.

For all the incoming freshmen that aren’t sure about a career field yet, this website may be a good place for you to get started. Oklahoma State University has great programs for most of these degree fields and the ones not listed here.

For more information regarding the list in its entirety and the entry level jobs that go with them, please visit scholaroo.com/highestpaying-majors/.

Scholaroo, a scholarship engine website, recently released the highest paying college majors in 2022 along with their corresponding median salaries. The top 35 highest-paying college majors are mostly STEM or business related with five of the top 10 being engineering degrees.

Now, while you should pick a job that makes you happy, picking a major that is going to give you both personal and professional satisfaction is important. Most people naturally want a high salary career and may pick their major based on current need in the job field.

Below is a list of the top 20 of the highest news.ed@ocolly.com 1. Petroleum Engineering ($187,300) 2. Computer & Information Sciences ($140,900) 3. Pharmacology & Toxicology ($138,700) 4. Chemical Engineering ($135,900) 5. Actuarial Science ($134,400) 6. Computer Engineering ($131,000) Branson Evans Jackson Holliday was drafted first overall in the MLB draft to the Baltimore Orioles.

Abby Cage Justin Campbell was drafted first round in the MLB draft to the Cleveland Guardians as No. 37 overall.

How Elton John plans to make ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ fit this fashion moment — the new musical opens soon in Chicago several Broadway musicals in the past — “Aida,” “The Lion King,” “Billy Elliot” — so he knows that they have to be wresPushing 76 years tled into fruition, require old, not that he looks much on-location tinkerremotely like it, Elton ing and revision, take John is finally coming off years to come together (or the road. not) and are, generally, a John’s epic, worldpain in the neck for somewide, farewell stadium one well past retirement tour (which includes a age who has been so busy goodbye Chicago stand on he couldn’t even make the Aug. 5 at Soldier Field) queen’s Platinum Jubilee became an even longer in person. goodbye due to the panBut when your demic and he’s said, many husband is co-producing times now, that he now a Broadway musical with wants now to be home the title “The Devil Wears with his kids. “I don’t Prada,” a musical based want to play live again,” on a movie where Meryl he says over a Zoom call, Streep, playing a thinly “because it means I would veiled version of fashion have to travel.” guru Anna Wintour, eats He’s also scored a dismissive underling

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played by Anne Hathaway, herself a thinly veiled version of the writer Lauren Weisberger, for breakfast before spitting her remains out for lunch, what’s a happily domesticated pop star gonna say?

“I almost immediately said yes,” John says, grinning. “’Music and fashion go hand in hand and it’s a great story.“ But “The Devil Wears Prada,” widely seen as an escapist fairy tale that went well with popcorn, comes from the halcyon early aughts, when the world was a different place.

Glossy fashion magazines like Vogue still had colossal influence, the fashion world not yet ca-

tering to instant influencers with iPhone 13s but to prestige publications with long lead times. Powerful editors still exhibited outsized power and a frisson of awe, even excitement, still attached itself to the scary, tyrannical, artistic boss. Interns and receptionists still huddled and swapped survival skills.

And, of course, the industry itself still trafficked in their consumers’ shrewdly nurtured aspirations when it came to body size and type, not anything approaching everyday reality.

And social consciousness? Wrong industry, darling. Move on downtown.

John nods at that history.

7. Nuclear Engineering ($129,400) 8. Electrical Engineering ($125,800) 9. Astronomy & Astrophysics ($125,400) 10. Applied Mathematics ($122,000) 11. Aerospace, Aeronautical, & Astronautical Engineering ($121,200) 12. Physics ($119,700) 13. Industrial Engineering ($117,400) 14. Economics ($115,700) 15. Pharmaceutical Sciences & Administration (115,700) 16. Materials Engineering ($115,200) 17. Civil Engineering ($109,000) 18. Mathematics ($108,700) 19. Construction Management ($108,000) 20. Finance ($105,200)

“We sat down and approached the fact that the movie was 20 years ago and a lot has changed.

Social media, #MeToo, Black Lives Matter. We thought, we just can’t put in this scenario from 20 years ago. We have to make it modern. We have to bring it up to date. And that appealed to me as well because I wanted to make the music modern.

And it’s a woman’s story.

So I said I’d like to have a woman as the lyric writer. ... I was sent three bril

-liant female lyricists and I picked Shaina Taub. It was a good choice. We’ve hit it off so well.”

John started, aptly enough, with a song called “I Mean Business” and then wrote some of the score in London, some of it in Toronto, some of it in Milan. Pretty much wherever he was on tour: “I just finished the last song last week, funnily enough,” he says.

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Continued from 1 There’s a song about Paris, a title number, a lot of up-tempo numbers in a variety of styles. “I’ve got very catholic tastes,” John says. “I can write all kinds of songs.”

Incontrovertibly. But if you exclude “Don’t Trust That Woman,” written in 1986 with a lyricist known as Cher, a number John’s own spouse and in-house critic, David Furnish, describes as “forgettable,” this collaboration with Taub actually is the first time one of the greatest pop songwriters in history has worked with a female lyricist. That’s especially notable, Furnish says, because John always has composed to preexisting lyrics.

“When I see the written word on a page, I’m off,” John says, agreeing with his husband. ::: But on the morning of June 24, the cast members of “The Devil Wears Prada,” which is being helmed by the former Steppenwolf Theatre artistic director Anna D. Shapiro, are in a less exuberant mood than their famous composer.

In a rehearsal room in midtown Manhattan, a group of artists are trying to carry on in the face of the just-announced Supreme Court decision to overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling and allow the states to set their own rules when it comes to abortion rights, or the lack thereof.

Taub, who created the musical “Suffs,” had been expected in the room that morning but she was nowhere to be seen. Too upset, someone says. Shapiro, shaking her head at the news, is trying to pull together a cast finding it difficult to focus on fashion or musicals or anything, really, but on a court hardly known for its fashion sense.

One of the stars, Javier Muñoz, formerly of “Hamilton,” starts speaking to everyone there. He says the morning reminds him of the time Vice President Mike Pence came to see “Hamilton” (Pence found himself addressed from the stage). “We didn’t have a choice,” Muñoz says. “We were full of rage and frustration. But I remember feeling that he was coming to my house.”

Muñoz starts to speak louder: “We need to tell this story of inclusivity and humanity,” he says, standing in the middle of the room, “we just need to be so goddamn excellent and right in their faces.”

There is applause. A few tears get wiped away and the rehearsal resumes.

The first scene to be rehearsed is the most famous in the movie. ::: Any fan of “The Devil Wears Prada,” which cost some $41 million to film in 2006 but grossed $326 million worldwide, can pretty much recite every word. The fearsome Miranda Priestly, deliciously encapsulated by Streep at her peak, finally has had enough of Hathaway’s annoying Andy

Courtesy Tribune News Service Taylor Iman Jones, left, and Beth Leavel star in “The Devil Wears Prada, The Musical” at the Nederlander Theatre on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, in Chicago.

Sachs, a mousy, doe-eyed intellectual snob who looks down on the world of fashion as so much frivolity and triviality. Priestly launches into an eloquent tirade that defends her profession, her employees and her own creative class, and that explains to Andy that the blue sweater she is wearing, and that she no doubt fished out of a clearance bin “in some tragic Casual Corner,” was first sent out into the universe by the very trendsetters surrounding her.

“You are wearing a sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room,” Priestly says in the movie, causing theaters full of people (who still saw movies in theaters back then) to cheer at most of the showings.

The monologue does for the fashion industry what the climax of the movie “Ratatouille” does for food critics. It concisely and deliciously explains the importance of what they do.

In the musical, which has a book credited to Kate Wetherhead, that monologue is now a musical number, replete with designers interjecting, kvetching and responding as a kind of high-toned Greek chorus, albeit removed to Madison Avenue.

But Beth Leavel, a much-loved Broadway star who says she is playing Miranda on her own terms (”apparently I have a very accessible inner bitch”) still takes down Taylor Iman Jones, who is playing the Hathaway role of Andy and who has been hanging onto this role through a series of pandemic delays and who said she feels both “lucky and special” to have the part.

The cast soon climbs its way into Act 2. It’s not unusual at Broadway rehearsals to use skeleton versions of the costumes the actors will be wearing, but the ones in play in “Devil Wears Prada” (designed by Arianne Phillips) are strikingly elaborate. That’s because everyone here clearly figured out that you couldn’t do

“Devil Wears Prada” as a show without real fashion and that, with all due respect to costume designers, real fashion and theatrical design are not the same thing.

There is caginess over letting on which fashion houses the show will be showcasing — single-barrel names come up (there is one in the title, after all) and are then retracted as fast as they are uttered — but it’s obvious that the clothes will have to look very good indeed, needing as they must to fulfill not just the dramatic imperative of the story, but also the vicarious desires of the target audience that loves and remembers the movie and expects to gawk at attire worthy of a runway, not the clearance bins at Nordstrom Rack. Leavel dryly remarks that when a costume costs $30,000, it behooves an actress, even the star, to be willing to hang it up.

The idea is that the choreography, too, needs to have one foot in the world of fashion shows, and hence the selection of James Alsop, an enigmatic L.A.-based choreographer whose work for Beyoncé and others has spanned worlds far beyond Broadway. “I want to do Broadway choreography that’s not Broadway choreography,” Alsop says, a tad mysteriously.

“Something fresh. Something new to Broadway.” ::: Although all producers always say to reporters that their shows are for everyone, the reality is that women between about age 30 and 60 are the most crucial sector of the Broadway demographic when it comes to actually buying tickets, even if they bring men and younger women along.

“The Devil Wears Prada” plans to knock ‘em out like they’re in Milan, or, at least, fashion week in Tribeca.

The show’s lead producer, Kevin McCollum, picked out this film from the 20th Century Fox library after he signed a

deal with the studio to comb through its backlist for a small number of projects that he thought “could sing.” Like many shows at this moment, the gestation of “Prada” has been profoundly interrupted by the pandemic and, as yet, the show does not have a confirmed Broadway theater, given all the comings and oft-unscheduled goings on the Rialto. Despite all the usual we’re-just-doingit-for-here pronouncements, though, rest assured that it’s going to New York next season, barring some unforeseen disaster.

McCollum says that “Prada” cost somewhere around $20 million, pretty typical for a large musical that needs upscale production values and it’s part of a busy schedule for the highly experienced producer (whose career first blew up with “Rent”) that is strikingly centered on Chicago. After “Prada” gets it legs, McCollum will move over to Navy Pier, where he is working on “The Notebook,” another premiering movie-to-musical project, this one in collaboration with Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Most producers struggle to manage one huge show; McCollum is coming out of the pandemic by shepherding two at once.

He’s taking a number of other risks. Although she has worked on Broadway several times (most famously with “August: Osage County”), Shapiro has never before helmed a major musical like “Prada.”

Clearly, she is having a good time, out of the crucible of the artistic directorship at a theater like Steppenwolf, which like some other ensemble theaters in Chicago has been beset by internal strife in the pandemic era. She is able instead to immerse herself in one highprofile show, the kind of project that, if it hits and sees multiple international companies, could make her wealthy and soughtafter.

WHEN IS LITTLE MUCH?

There is a short chorus that has encouraged me many times. “Little is much if God is in it. Labor not for wealth or fame. There’s a crown and you can win it. If you go in Jesus’ name.”

The woman, who poured the precious ointment on Jesus just before he was crucified, was criticized for “wasting” this expensive item. Yet, Jesus said everywhere the gospel is preached this woman’s action would be told. (Mk 14:3-9) Little things mean a lot as we are willing to serve the Lord. Paul mentions many in Romans 16 who helped him. The Good Samaritan stopped to help the man beaten and robbed.

(Lu.10:30-37) Paul writes as you have opportunity, do good to all men, especially to other believers.(Gal.6:10) When the poor widow dropped the two pennies, all that she had, into the temple offering. Jesus said she gave more the large offerings given. Her “large giving” was in relation to what she had. (Mk.12:41-44)

“I didn’t think there was anything new under the sun in a rehearsal room,” she says. “But look.” She also has a positive spin on the pandemic delay: “We’ve been able to go so much deeper, she says, because we have had so much more time.”

All that said, Shapiro also clearly has recalibrated her famously intense ambition. Like Elton John, she speaks now of slowing down some, of spending more time with her kids, of choosing projects based on the quality of the collaborators and the pleasure afforded, of having a life over a career. “All I want,” she says, waving off the pressure of working on such a boffo title, “is for this show to be really great. That’s all.”

“Some people would say I am Miranda,” Shapiro adds, dryly. “But I also once was an Andy. I am interested in how we bridge the gap between them.”

And there, as close as any other sentence, you have what the show is trying to bring to the table, its intended deviation from the movie.

John and Furnish both say that the farewell stand at Soldier Field was picked deliberately, coming as it does just two days before the opening of “Prada,” allowing John to come to Chicago early and maybe attend previews, maybe tinker with a few songs, should he have the inclination, or knock out another in his hotel room in the old-fashioned, out-of-towntryout tradition. One last time.

Or never say never.

McCollum says he already decided there would be no performance that Friday night. The cast all is going to Soldier Field to hear Elton John say goodbye.

——— “The Devil Wears Prada” runs July 19 to Aug. 21 at the Nederlander Theatre, 24 W. Randolph St.; 800-775-2000 and www.broadwayinchicago. com. entertainment.ed@ocolly.com

Many people may plan to give when they receive a great amount of money, but that large amount of money may never come. We may plan to give time or talent to a project when we have more time, but that perfect time arrangement may never happen. Again, the apostle Paul encourages us “as you have opportunity, do good to all men.”

We never know when a little gesture of kindness, with money, or helping in an area of service, spending a little time with a person, a word of encouragement, will be just the action that will be a great help to someone. These can be practical ways of living out the Lord’s challenge to love one another. This is the fulfilling of the many commandments in the Bible: loving people by word and action.

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Big 12 Media Days 2022 Notebook: Coaches most interesting comments No comments about the future of the storied in-state riDavis Cordova valry will allow speculation to Staff Reporter continue to build, but ultimately, it’s not Venables’ decision whether Bedlam continues after ARLINGTON, Texas – OU leaves the Big 12.

During day two of Big 12 MeVenables did mention dia Days, five coaches took the how important the game is to podium for questions. Here’s the state and gave his remarks each coach’s most interesting on the OSU team. comment.

“I am focused on winning Brent Venables, Oklathe state and it’s an incredibly homa: The State of Bedlam important game,” Venables On Wednesday, OSU said. “Regardless of how the coach Mike Gundy said: “The scores have been or the success future in Bedlam is a year or of one place or the other, it’s two left. That’s the future of important. From a foundational Bedlam, based on somebody standpoint, you have to have else’s decision.” some hate and heart for your On Thursday, OU coach rival. I have great respect for Brent Venables was asked Mike (Gundy) and the success, about Gundy’s remarks and they’ve obviously done a lot of how he felt about the rivalry things really well.” going forward once OU makes Joey McGuire, Texas the move to the SEC. Venables Tech: Three-Way Quarterwanted to only focus on the back Battle upcoming season.

Texas Tech has had “I’m not going to talk quarterback trouble since the about the move,” Venables said. departure of Patrick Mahomes.

“I don’t want to speculate on Heading into the 2022 season, the future, I’m just going to there is a “three-horse race in keep it on this season.” the quarterback competition,”

according to Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire.

“We have three guys that can go win football games,” McGuire said. “We have three guys that can extend plays with their feet. We have three guys that have exceptional arm talent.”

The three quarterbacks competing for the starting job include Tyler Shough, Donovan Smith and Jaden Morris.

In all of the past three seasons, the Red Raider quarterback room had two players pass for 1,000 yards or more.

But, with a new coach, comes new plans.

“I’ve told everybody in Lubbock and our fan base, we’re not going to rotate quarterbacks, but you’re going to see packages with possibly all three of them,” McGuire said.

Matt Campbell, Iowa State: Cy-Hawk Stability Every year, Iowa and Iowa State meet to continue the “Cy-Hawk rivalry,” a rivalry that has been played every year (excluding 2020) since 1977.

Although Iowa State coach

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Matt Campbell hasn’t hoisted the Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk trophy, he still knows how special the rivalry is to the small state of Iowa.

“I know just as an outsider coming in, you certainly know how special the rivalry is and the opportunity to play an in-state rival,” Campbell said.

“It’s been great for the state, the fan bases and the alumni so you certainly hope it continues.”

The Cy-Hawk rivalry is a great example and template that OU and OSU could use towards continuing Bedlam.

The Cy-Hawk rivalry has been played 68 times since 1894, all while the schools were in different conferences.

Maintaining a rivalry for so long is hard and Campbell was asked how it’s maintained, he says that it’s all to do with the administration.

“That’s a great question probably for our athletic department and the leadership in most schools,” Campbell said. “Those are decisions that come from our leadership, our presidents and our athletic directors.”

Sonny Dikes, TCU: Replacing a Legend Former TCU coach Gary Patterson is a legend in Fort Worth. 21 years at the helm awarded Patterson a statue outside Amon G. Carter Stadium, cementing his legacy. The same year, he was fired. Sonny Dikes, the new coach at TCU, knows he has big boots to fill.

“TCU is about winning championships,” Dikes said.

“There’s a high level of expectations. Obviously I knew that when I took the job. I appreciate that. I want to coach in this kind of environment where there has been that level of success and that level of expectations.”

Going into a job like this, brings a lot of accountability from fans, donors and alumni.

Dikes says he loves accountability.

“The thing I love really as much as anything else is just there’s accountability,” Dikes said. “Every Saturday,

you march your team out there and you take a test in front of 50,000 people week in and week out in front of a TV audience of over a million people, and you take that test, and there’s accountability associated with that. That’s what makes this business so fun and so challenging.”

Steve Sarkisian, Texas: Even Distribution Heading into his second year as the coach of Texas, Steve Sarkisian has a tough job on the offense. Spread the ball out.

The Texas offense has Big 12 preseason offensive player of the year, running back Bijan Robinson, while also having former five-star quarterback Quinn Ewers, first-team preseason all-Big 12 wide receiver Xavier Worthy, running back Roschon Johnson and tight end Jahleel Billingsley.

Sarkisian, former offensive coordinator at Alabama and USC, says he has experience handling these types of situations.

“There was a time I was coaching Reggie Bush and LenDale White in the same backfield with Matt Leinart at quarterback,” Sarkisian said.

“All those guys potentially could have won a Heisman Trophy, and two of them did. I was calling plays at Alabama when I had four first-round receivers all on the field at the same time.”

Texas has the potential to be one of the most explosive offenses in the country, Sarkisian says the Longhorns can be successful if the offense plays like a team.

“In the end, when you focus on the team aspect first and know that, hey, if the team does well, that means everybody is eating,” Sarkisian said.

“If we’re going to be a successful team, all of these offensive weapons that we have, they’ll all be really productive because we’re going to need all of them to be as successful a team as we can be.” sports.ed@ocolly.com

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News Report details ‘systemic failures,’ ‘egregious’ decisions in Uvalde shooting response Jamie Landers The Dallas Morning News For families in Uvalde, Sunday brought with it the weight of the most exhaustive account of their loved one’s final moments yet. In a long-awaited, 77-page report, a Texas House committee told them there is not one person to blame, but instead a long series of “systemic failures and egregious poor decision making” that allowed the deadliest school shooting in state history to unfold May 24.

The report, reviewed Sunday by The Dallas Morning News, is the second to examine the law enforcement response in the past two weeks. On July 6, a 26-page report by the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State University, commissioned by the Texas Department of Public Safety, detailed three missed opportunities to slow — or even stop — the gunman before he entered Robb Elementary school, killing 19 children and two teachers.

The three committee members — Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock; Rep. Joe Moody, D-El Paso; and former state Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman — first shared their findings during a private meeting with Uvalde residents Sunday. The committee said the goal was to create a comprehensive account the Legislature can use to craft policies in hopes of preventing future massacres.

They dedicated the document to the 21 people killed.

“The Committee issues this interim report now, believing the victims, their families, and the entire Uvalde community have already waited too long for answers and transparency,” the report says.

376 officers Law enforcement has been widely criticized for the response in Uvalde. Eighty minutes elapsed between the first call to 911 and police confronting the shooter, who fired

at least 142 rounds, according to a timeline from Texas Department of Public Safety director Steve McCraw.

In an uncoordinated effort that stretched over an hour, 376 officers responded. Of that, 149 were U.S. Border Patrol, 91 were state police, 25 were Uvalde police officers and 16 were Uvalde sheriff’s deputies.

Only five were Uvalde school district officers.

“These local officials were not the only ones expected to supply the leadership needed during this tragedy,” the report said. “Hundreds of responders from numerous law enforcement agencies — many of whom were better trained and better equipped than the school district police — quickly arrived on the scene.”

The remaining officers were made up of neighboring county law enforcement, U.S. Marshals and federal Drug Enforcement Administration officers.

Law enforcement officials across the state have agreed the decision to not confront the shooter sooner cost lives, with most placing the blame on Pete Arredondo, the school district police chief, who said afterward he didn’t believe he was in charge. Yet, as one of the first responding officers, Arrendondo prevented officers from entering the classrooms, even though children and teachers were still in danger.

In interviews conducted or obtained by the committee, police officers said they either assumed Arredondo was in command or did not know who was in charge, with some describing the scene as “chaos.”

Redirecting the blame thus far largely focused on Arrendondo, the report went on to note that no other agency attempted to take the lead, either, until Border Patrol agents decided they would breach the classroom without seeking permission from Arredondo.

“In this crisis, no responder seized the initiative to establish an incident command post,” the committee wrote.

“Despite an obvious atmosphere

of chaos, the ranking officers of other responding agencies did not approach the Uvalde CISD chief of police or anyone else perceived to be in command to point out the lack of and need for a command post, or to offer that specific assistance.”

Against orders, efforts still unsuccessful The report did note a few officers attempted to go against orders, but were either stopped or didn’t receive adequate support to follow through.

For instance, the report says Uvalde Police Department Lt. Javier Martinez attempted to confront the shooter after gunfire through the classroom door caused them to retreat to both ends of the hallway. As he started back up the hallway, no officers followed him, and he stopped. The report says multiple officers told the committee that they believed if others had followed his lead, he might

have made it to the classroom and engaged with the shooter.

The reports also says DPS Special Agent Luke Williams disregarded a request that he help secure the outside perimeter and instead went inside the school to help clear rooms. He found a student hiding in a boys bathroom stall with his legs up so he couldn’t be seen. The boy refused to come out until Williams proved he was a police officer, which he did by showing his badge beneath the door of the stall.

Every new revelation since May 24 has begged the question if more lives could have been saved. Sunday’s report said most of the 21 victims died quickly, torn apart or even decapitated by a weapon so powerful, one surviving teacher said he never heard a cry or a whimper as the gunfire rang out.

“Given the informa-

tion known about victims who survived through the time of the breach and who later died on the way to the hospital,” the committee wrote, “it is plausible that some victims could have survived if they had not had to wait 73 additional minutes for rescue.”

Complacency in school safety The report says Robb Elementary School had everything it needed to slow or stop an intruder, but found it too often took shortcuts, prioritizing convenience over safety.

Multiple witnesses said employees often left doors unlocked, even using rocks, wedges and magnets to prop them open, which the report said is due partially due to a shortage of keys.

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portal this offseason.

Turley started off strong in his sophomore campaign in 2022, however, struggled towards the latter portion of the season, finishing with Daniel Allen a .226 batting average, Staff Reporter along with eight home runs and 32 RBI’s this As the college base- past season. ball offseason continues, Turley began his Oklahoma State coach career at Yavapai Junior Josh Holliday and his College in Prescott, staff continue to hit the Arizona. During his first transfer portal hard, atseason of college basetempting to fill a bevy of ball, Turley batted .417, key pieces lost in 2022. hitting 22 home runs, On Friday evening, 69 RBI’s, and 35 extra Arizona sophomore first base hits. His 22 homers baseman Noah Turley ranked fifth in the nation announced his transfer amongst junior college to OSU. He becomes players in 2021. the third addition for sports.ed@ocolly.com the Cowboys out of the

File Photo Noah Turley, a transfer from Arizona, bolsters OSU’s pitching staff.

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Sanders' focus on leadership taking many forms Ben Hutchens Assistant Sports Editor

Mackenzie Janish Spencer Sanders, the Big 12 preseason quarterback of the year, made steps in his leadership roles.

making mistakes.

“There’s no point to get down on themselves, you know, they’re young,” Sanders said. “So, my objective right now is just kind of kind of just keeping a smile on their faces, you know, keeping them in the best mood so they can just play at the best of their abilities and you know, have a smile on their face and just have fun.”

The leadership Sanders demonstrates can be seen on the field, when last season against Kansas he threw a lead block on an end-around with a large lead. It can also be the fact that Presley knew Sanders wouldn’t have let him go to Arlington without a pair of boots on his feet.

“He has the ability to get players to rally around him because of the way that he plays,” Gundy said. “At times he can be vocal, and then at times he’s not vocal. But he’s a humble young man. He’s extremely competitive, and he’s tough. That gives him a chance to have success on every Saturday.”

Brennan Presley’s closet is mostly sweats and cotton T-shirts.

But Presley, junior Oklahoma State receiver, sat at a podium answering questions in jeans and cowboy boots.

Cowboy senior Brock Martin had the idea for each of the OSU players traveling to AT&T Stadium for Big 12 Media Days to don the western wear and it put Presley in a tight spot.

He borrowed boots and jeans from his brother, Braylin Presley.

“I told Spencer that and he was like, ‘Bro if you would have told me,’” Presley said.

“Like he was going to buy me a pair of jeans and give me some boots to wear today.”

It’s Sanders’ way of leadership. He is quiet to the point of shyness. Far more comfortable alone in a duck blind than in a room as the center of attention.

“You know, I’m not a talkative person,” Sanders said. “I’m not an outgoing... I don’t you know; I don’t reach a lot but I’ll do anything for you though.”

Sanders said his focus this offseason has been leadership. Sanders said, like all freshmen in their first college team camps, they are sports.ed@ocolly.com

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Coaches optimistic on future of Big 12 ture ensued and hope of resuscitation was slim.

Braden Bush Of the all Power Five Staff Reporter conferences, the Big 12 seemed destined to be the first to succumb to realignment.

ARLINGTON, Texas But as the Tracy Law– Bob Bowlsby sat at the Big rence song goes, “Time 12 Media Days introductory marches on.” Bowlsby managed press conference for the last to scoop up BYU, Cincinnati, time; this time alongside newly Houston and UCF in the fall, appointed conference commis- which patched the hole in the sioner Brett Yormark. sinking ship.

The symbolic change of The mood and optimism guard comes at a pivotal and at the 2022 edition of Big 12 unpredictable time in college Media Days sang a different athletics, and nobody relates tune than last July. to that more than Bowlsby. He “Bob’s leaving our leaderjoked about his claim made in ship ranks, and boy, the decithat very chair a year ago. That sion Bob made to move and not the conference was on the same stand pat, I think that’s pretty page and as unified as ever. powerful right now,” said Iowa “It was, I think, eight State coach Matt Campbell. “I days later that OU and Texas think where we are today as a announced they were going to conference, we’re in probably a the SEC,” Bowlsby said. “So lot better shape than we were a you can take my assessment of year ago at this time… I think calm waters for what they’re it’s probably positioning us in a worth.” great spot.”

The Big 12 was blindWith USC and UCLA’s sided by the announcement of blockbuster move to the Big impending departure of its two Ten announced on June 30, bell cows to greener pastures the Pac 12 has lost much of its on July 21, 2021, and left with luster. The ACC is locked into only eight teams remaining. a relatively slim grant of rights Panic over the conference’s fu- contract through 2036, and its

top teams (Florida State, Miami, Clemson, etc.) rest on SEC borders if the conference ever expanded further.

In just 12 months, the Big 12 went from the edge of dissipation to a pathway to the No. 3 conference behind the SEC and Big Ten. “We were very fortunate that four teams that we gathered to come into this league are all going to bring a lot to the league,” OSU coach Mike Gundy said. “…We gathered a couple time zones from the East Coast, we gathered one out in the Mountain Time Zone, and all the schools that jumped in have been tremendously successful in football. Recently.”

More reason for optimism about the Big 12’s future was Yormark. The former CEO of the Brooklyn Nets and co-CEO of Roc Nation brings a skillset that fits into in the conference’s mission of being proactive and intuitive.

The conference paid out $42.6 million to each school this fiscal year, a great figure, but one that will take a significant hit without the Red River schools. In college athletics’ money-oriented environment, a

leader who can be capitalistic with the new-look Big 12 is paramount. Staying relevant and competitive takes dollars.

“One thing is crystal clear: There is no higher priority than to best position the Big 12 for its upcoming multimedia rights negotiations,” Yormark said. “Everything we do must create momentum for these negotiations, as well as building the value of the Big 12 brand and business.”

The SEC needs no help selling its brand. Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Florida. Those brands sell themselves. Same for schools like Michigan and Ohio State in the Big Ten. The Big 12 has work to do and ground to make up.

Coaches and administrators showed confidence with the new head of the league, and they take solace in his business background – something different, but potentially even more needed than experience in the collegiate realm.

“I think that’s the world he lives in,” Gundy said. “And he knows that this in money driven, and essentially, that he’s willing to go coast to coast to financially support this confer-

ence and sell whatever it is that we need to sell so our schools can get good payouts.

“And the one thing that I liked about him that’s very similar to the president of Oklahoma State (Dr. Kayse Shrum) is they’re not scared.

They’re not scared to go out and take a chance, and they’re going to be aggressive. And I think that’s the way it has to be in college football, in my opinion.”

Sure, as Bowlsby put it, the waters still aren’t completely calm. Seismic shifts continue to change the conference landscape, and everyone is trying to find a place in it. But as the curtains close in Arlington, there’s a strong vibe of security and stability that didn’t exist a year ago.

“I don’t think there’s any question as this moves forward that the Big 12 Conference is in tremendous position,” Gundy said. “… I think that we have fantastic leadership. We’ve got the right people in place. I’m convinced that they’ll come up with a plan, and the Big 12 will be here to stay for a long time.” sports.ed@ocolly.com

Mackenzie Janish OSU coach Mike Gundy and new Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark are confident in conference’s future while navigating realignment.

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Connor Gray 405 Deli has replaced the old sandwich shop in the Kerr-Drummond dining hall, and features sandwiches and salads that are named after local streets in Stillwater.

Out with the old, in with the new

Kerr-Drummond dining new 405 Deli review Mallory Pool Staff Reporter 405 Deli, the new sandwich shop that replaced Which Wich in Kerr Drummond, did not disappoint.

I went and got a few menu items on Friday, the day they opened, and let’s just say the new restaurant greatly outshines the old.

405 Deli is cute and delicious in so many ways.

First, the local feel is heightened by the fact that all of the sandwiches and salads are named after streets and places in Stillwater. I got the Botanical Garden Salad with basil vinaigrette and an Airport sandwich, which was a Cuban style sandwich. Both were amazing, and it felt like I was at a local, healthy deli shop.

The other two types of salads included the Down-

town, an Italian chopped salad, and The Strip, a club salad. You can also get ranch or creamy Italian as your dressing choices. Other sandwiches include Hall of Fame, a smoked turkey jalapeno jack, the Washington, a smoked turkey avocado sandwich, Perkins, a roast beef ruben, Lakeview, a Sicilian style sandwich, University, a buffalo chicken ranch melt and so many more.

There are also two grilled cheese options, the Husband and the Knoblock.

All sandwich choices can be substituted for a different bread from Old School Bagel Café that includes Everything bagels, wheat and white hoagies, Texas toast, marble rye, asiago bagels, jalapeno cheddar bagels and jalapeno cornbread.

405 Deli is probably one of my top favorites on campus now, which is a big change from the old sand-

wich shop. Which Wich, which was known to give a few people a bad stomach ache, was never super high on my list, but I have a feeling 405 Deli will be a place I frequent for a quick bite on campus even without a meal plan.

Next time I go in, I think I might try the Main, a roasted chicken mozzarella sandwich. All sandwiches can include chips and a fountain drink or OSU bottled water. The good thing about 405 Deli is that the prices are pretty low for a good sandwich or salad. The Airport was only $7.25, and the Botanical Garden Salad was only $5.95. The prices ranged from only $5.55$9.95 for the sandwiches.

405 Deli’s summer hours are Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Hours are subject to change when the fall semester starts. entertainment.ed@ocolly.com

100-degree temperatures. In between him stands City Hall and the County Courthouse. Nearby is the local newspaper, The Uvalde News-Leader.

“I’m not going to let the hot sun stop me,” he said. “This is about holding officials responsible and I will not be distracted by the video,” Brown said, referring to a leaked video that shows how authorities behaved for some 77 minutes while the gunman remained inside a classroom. “I’m glad it’s out there to show what really happened. Just tell us the truth.”

Next to him were a handful of women, who defied the city and decorated trees with pictures of the victims, their names included.

Martin Garcia, 55, cried by one of those trees with a picture of the victims, including one of 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza.

‘She’s my niece,” he said.

“She was so gifted and so loving.”

“We need to really stand strong together and fight,” said Naomi Chapa, 33, an educator and aunt of two students who were at Robb Elementary School. Both were unhurt. “We can’t let them silence us.”

“They need to stop the Uvalde cover-up,” added Esmeralda Barrera. “All the agencies need to be held accountable, not just Pete Arredondo. He’s at the top of those responsible, but the state wants to use him as a scapegoat.

All those agencies are a disgrace.

They should resign because we have no trust in them.”

Overnight, Chapa returned to the square and lit battery-operated tea candles. Some parents showed up with crosses bearing names of their children. By Sunday morning, the crosses were still up.

Chapa said some residents and parents want the square to serve as a memorial over the school “because students and teachers bled out there. The soil is soaked in blood. It’s very difficult to stand there and be reminded of the failure of so many law enforcement, starting with Pete Arredondo.”

As for the report, Chapa pleaded for the committee to “just tell us the truth.”

“That’s all we want,” she said. “That’s where justice begins.”

“In fact, the school actually suggested circumventing the locks as a solution for the convenience of substitute teachers and others who lacked their own keys,” the report said. “Had school personnel locked the doors as the school’s policy required, that could have slowed his progress for a few precious minutes — long enough to receive alerts, hide children, and lock doors.”

The school is also enclosed by a 5-foot fence, which the gunman was able to scale, and has an emergency management alert system. But the committee found some faculty and staff did not initially take the lockdown seriously because they were desensitized to the alert system, which was often triggered by immigration-related police pursuits.

The alert system is supposed to operate by sending out warnings online to teachers and faculty, but the report said not all teachers received the alert about the gunman immediately due to a poor wireless internet signal and the fact many teachers didn’t have their phones or had them off at the moment they received it.

The report concluded Principal Mandy Gutierrez never attempted to communicate the lockdown over the school’s intercom system.

‘Just tell us the truth’ Gone are the flower arrangements, the balloons, television satellite trucks and crowds at Uvalde’s main square. All that’s left is the anger.

“I’m not pissed that the media put the video out. It’s what I saw in the video that pisses me off,” said Michael Brown, on the edge of the town’s square, holding a sign that read: “Prosecute Pete Arredondo.”

“It’s as though they want us to forget, but we’re not forgetting,” said Brown, a disabled father of four. His youngest was a student at Robb Elementary School at the time of the shooting. His son was in the cafeteria and not inside the classrooms the shooter targeted.

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