The O'Colly, Thursday, May 9, 2024

Thursday, May 9, 2024

A small digital camera is a gift your senior will enjoy for years.

What to buy for your favorite graduating senior

Bella Casey News and Lifestyle Assistant Editor

Graduation is only days away. It’s almost time to celebrate the achievements of your friends, partner or family. Maybe you want to treat yourself to a graduation gift. Sometimes, buying the perfect gift can be more

challenging than it was to get your degree.

Stumped on what to get your favorite senior for graduation? Check out these graduation gifts your senior won’t receive from anyone else.

Buy an experience

A gift doesn’t have to come wrapped in fancy paper with a gift tag on it. Buy your senior an experience. Book a campsite, buy tickets to the zoo or plan a day trip to Beaver’s Bend or the Wichita Mountains. This is a

great way to make memories and spend time together.

Memory book

If you’re feeling sentimental, make a scrapbook or memory book of your senior’s favorite college memories. Tape photos to the inside of their favorite childhood book, or order a small scrapbook online and fill it with photos. This makes for a gift your senior can keep forever and display on their coffee table or in their room.

From East Kenya to Central Oklahoma Professor’s math skills lead him far from home

Alex Palmer II

O’Colly

Contributor

Math fuels Kelvin Njuki just as water fuels the Seven Forks Dams where he grew up in Kenya. A steady love for problem solving and a load of ambition brought Njuki more than 8,500 miles away from home chasing his dream.

“I had a friend there from my village who was doing his masters in math,” Njuki said. “He got the news that I did really well in my undergraduate, so he asked for my documents and went to apply for me.”

Before his time in Stillwater, Njuki grew up in a place with rich culture and food. Math

has been his favorite subject since elementary school.

Njuki is teaching Elementary Statistics at OSU as a part of his assistantship.

Prior to OSU, the key point of his academic and professional journey would take place back home in Kenya after completing his undergraduate studies.

Njuki had a friend who was from Kenya and doing his masters in math at Miami University of Ohio. He was impressed with Njuki’s academic success and applied him to Miami so he may continue his studies in statistics.

Upon arriving in Ohio, Njuki met professor Benedict Kongyir, who is a member of the department of statistics at OSU.

“I met Professor Njuki for the first time in Ohio when he and his friends came to visit a friend in Youngstown,” Kongyir

Some Oklahoma college students facing antisemitism on campuses

Jared Rosenblatt Staff Reporter

There’s a saying amongst the Jewish community, “never again.”

That saying was made following the Holocaust, where more than six million Jews were killed. The backdrop for the Holocaust was the rise in antisemitism and propaganda Hitler used to slander jews at every turn. What we are seeing today on college campuses may echo the past.

“It’s hard to walk around campus with our Star of David’s around our neck,” said Sophie Rubinowitz, a University of South Florida student. “I and a lot of other students have been terrorized by the amount of anti-Israel students we have on campus.”

Antisemitism was up 337% between the months of October to December 2023, compared to the year prior, according to the AntiDefamation League. This is following the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and the response by Israel, which led to the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas War.

Pew Research’s poll results showed that 18-29 year-olds view the Palestinian side more favorably than Israel, which contrasts heavily with the rest of the age groups.

Across college campuses in the U.S., students are protesting against Israel for their offensive response against Hamas and on the Gazan civilians. These protests have made some Jews feel unsafe due to rhetoric used. Sayings like “from the river to the sea” have been used as examples of dangerous rhetoric against Jews.

The argument made by the protestors is that the saying is not anti-Jew but anti-Israel.

said. “He is calm and respectful. He hardly talks much though, he is a gentleman I should say.”

Kongyir saw immense potential in Njuki, and after completing his masters at Miami University, Njuki applied for a PHD. in the department of statistics at OSU under his advice.

“Professor Njuki is hardworking,” Kongyir said. “He has very high ambitions and he works hard to achieve them.

Although Njuki would rather let his success do the talking for him, he believes himself to be realistic in his expectations and view of self.

Njuki said that his time at OSU has awoken him to the extremes a math field can reach.

“In my PHD I’ve done like four courses from the math department and they have really humbled me,” Njuki said.

Sarah Grisowold, an assistant professor of history at OSU, says it is hard to distinguish whether the saying is antisemitic or not.

“‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’ is a complicated situation dating back to the 1920s and 1930s of land being promised to two peoples; Arabs and Jews,” Griswold said. “But for Israelis and Jews, that can mean the idea of “from the river to the sea” can be the eradication of the State of Israel and Israel would cease to exist.”

There are varying forms of antisemitism. It could depend on rhetoric, meaning or calls of violence. There is not one form of antisemitism but a spectrum of it.

“It’s been very, very different in history,” said Alan Levenson, Schuster-

man Center Director for Judaic and Israel Studies at the University of Oklahoma.

“Jews have sometimes represented capitalist manipulators, you know, and on the other hand, they’ve also represented being Bolshievk or Communist.”

Levenson has never experienced something like this before.

“There’s never been anything like this on colleges and universities, never,” Levenson said. “There was certainly plenty of antisemitism in the 1920s and 1930s but, that was not something that was happening on college campuses but was happening in the neighborhood and in the workplace.”

The argument for or against the protests and whether or not they are antisemitic comes down to opinion and context.

“I have gotten my mezuzah taken down that I put outside my dorm room,” said Allison Perilman, a University of Oklahoma student.

A mezuzah is a piece of wood usually inscribed with jewish lettering or Torah verses that Jewish people put on their doorposts.

On Feb. 29, when Perilman was returning home from dinner, she noticed that her mezuzah was completely gone along with her command strip. Perilman alerted OUPD about the incident and OUPD told her they couldn’t do much about it as there were no witnesses.

“These things are all recorded and sent to the local FBI,” said Kasi Shelton, the Executive Director at OU Hillel. “We try to make sure that the students know the reporting procedure and I think a lot of them don’t know what to do or say to report things, so we’ve done trainings to help identify hate speech.”

Hillel International is the largest Jewish campus organization in the world and operates at 850 universities around the world. Hillel has a reporting procedure for when antisemitic events happen.

Carter Cagle was part of the Lambda Chi Alpha at OSU, when he started to face antisemitism in his own frat house.

“People would start drawing swastikas on things in my room,” Cagle said. “They would steal my mezuzah, my Stars of David, my tallit, like I would find them in trash cans or just in random places around the house.

Cagle is no longer part of the fraternity and is now president of OSU Hillel.

Some OSU athletes have also been harassed.

Oklahoma State wrestling showed it’s ready to win at all costs with hiring of

Braden Bush Sports Editor

Monday night, Oklahoma State announced the hiring of David Taylor as its wrestling program’s head coach, and Taylor has much of the pedigree of his tough-to-replace predecessor, John Smith.

Taylor, 33, takes over the Cowboys at the end of a decorated international career with no head coaching experience, just as Smith did when he became coach in 1991 at the age of 26. Smith is a two-time Olympic gold medalist. Taylor has one. Smith won six World Championships. Four for Taylor. Each are two-time NCAA champs. Smith is largely considered the greatest American wrestler of all time, and Taylor was the No. 1 pound-for-pound wrestler in the world leading up to his recent loss at the Olympic Team Trials.

Not many carry a resume that comes close to rivaling Smith’s. Taylor’s is right there.

But there’s one big difference: Taylor isn’t an OSU guy. And that’s OK. To get OSU back to the top and past the monopoly of Penn State, hiring the world’s best wrestler from the Nittany Lions’ backyard is the right move. And it shows OSU is serious about winning at all costs.

The OSU wrestling program began in 1916, and the likes of Smith, Ed Gallagher, Myron Roderick and Tommy Chesbro – OSU people – have led the program well. Taylor, OSU’s seventh coach, doesn’t fit that homegrown billing that the wrestling team and other OSU programs (see Mike Gundy with football, Josh Holliday for baseball and Eddie Sutton for men’s basketball) have utilized.

Coleman Scott left his post as head coach at North Carolina after eight seasons to join Smith’s OSU staff as associate head coach this season and was seen as the heir apparent to the post. He checked all the boxes. He was young (38), part of Smith’s last two NCAA team titles in 2005 and ’06, and he was an individual national champion in 2008. He won an Olympic bronze medal in 2012, then built up a coaching resume before returning to Stillwater and was named interim head coach after Smith’s retirement in April.

Scott was the logical next man up, and he does fit the classic OSU coaching lineage hire. Yet athletic director Chad Weiberg went a different direction.

That’s not to say Scott wasn’t deserving of the job or wouldn’t have done a great job. He took the Tar Heels to new levels of success and was a big part of the Cowboys’ turnaround season this year. And had Taylor not been available for the job, there’s a good chance Scott does get it.

But OSU was willing to go away from an OSU hire this time.

Known as the school that keeps it in the family and that produces head coaches for other programs, OSU hired a coach without Stillwater ties

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Olympic gold medalist David Taylor was hired as OSU’s wrestling coach on Monday.

and from one of its fiercest opponents. A splash hire that rocked the wrestling world and could help take some of the catalysts of success from Penn State – which has won 11 of the past 13 national championships – and bring it to Stillwater.

It’s an atypical hire for the Cowboys, but it was the right one.

Taylor has been on top of the world stage for the past decade, and current college

and high school wrestlers have watched him dominate the sport and be where they want to be. Come with Taylor to the nation’s most historic program and try to knock off his alma mater’s stranglehold, which he helped build? There are not many pitches better to recruits or transfers than that.

He was instrumental in the development of Penn State’s dynasty even after his college wrestling days. He stayed around Happy Valley

with his high school wrestling program, M2 Training Center, and he trained with the Nittany Lion Wrestling Club. And having an Olympic champ around to train with and learn from was a boost to recruiting.

The lack of coaching experience outside the club level shouldn’t create fear among Cowboys fans. Smith didn’t have it.

In many ways, their profiles as young coaches fresh off world dominance are simi-

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lar. Plus, great wrestlers seem to have a knack for being great coaches, such as Smith, Cael Sanderson at Penn State and Tom Brands at Iowa. There’s no guarantee it works, but OSU made the right move. It wants that 35th NCAA title after a school-record 18year drought. A shakeup was needed to do it. OSU wants to win. And it hired a winner just like it did with Smith 33 years ago.

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Kilfoyl named Big 12 Pitcher of the Year, 5 Cowgirls receive all-conference honors

Ashton Slaughter Assistant Sports Editor

Heading into the postseason, five Cowgirls received All-Big 12 honors on Thursday.

Lexi Kilfoyl, Karli Godwin, Caroline Wang, Ivy Rosenberry and Rosie Davis represented Oklahoma State in

all-conference honors.

Kilfoyl got a position award, as the Cowgirls’ ace was named the Big 12 Pitcher of the Year after posting a nationally-third-ranked 1.11 ERA and conference best totals in: ERA, wins (21) and shutouts (six).

Along with being named the conference’s best arm, she was a unanimous selection for the All-Big 12 First Team — her second-straight season receiving an all-conference distinction, along with

Wang (also unanimously selected) and Godwin. Wang, in her first season in the Big 12 after transferring from Liberty, leads OSU in batting average (.373), hits (60), home runs (17) and RBI (47). Godwin, in her freshman season, is second behind Wang in all of those categories and has started all 53 games. Along with being named to the All-Big 12 First Team, Godwin was also named to the All-Big 12 Freshman Team. Joining her on the All-Big

12 Freshman Team is Rosie Davis, who has started 52 games for OSU, has 48 hits and has brought in 30 runs on the season.

Lastly, Ivy Rosenberry, the senior pitcher, was named to the All-Big 12 Second Team. Despite fracturing her rib in the later part of the season, Rosenberry has pitched 100 total innings and is having a career-best season under new pitching coach Carrie Eberle. This is her first all-conference selection.

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Lexi Kilfoyl was named the Big 12 Pitcher of the Year on Thursday.

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OSU Cowgirl golf team earns runner-up in regionals, advances to NCAA Championship

Gina Foster Staff Reporter

The Cowgirl golf team earns runner-up in the NCAA regional and advances to the NCAA Championship.

A consistent performance from OSU has landed it its fourth consecutive tournament appearance, but first, the team had to make it past the par-72 Forest Akers Golf Course in Lansing, Michigan.

The eighth-seeded team needed to place at least fifth to proceed to the next tournament.

On Wednesday, the team posted a program record of 9-under 279 to land in second place at the East Lansing

Regional. This score is the Cowgirls’ best placement at a regional since 2007.

Maddison HinsonTolchard led the field for the Cowgirls and finished her final round on the podium in third place. She carded a steady eight pars to begin her day but added a handful of birdies in her round. Hinson-Tolchard’s 70, 70 and 68 led to her being one of four players to shoot under par in each round.

Freshman Marta Silchenko was another Cowgirl in the top 10 after carding a 71, 74 and a 5-under 67 in her final round, including a bogey-free back nine — tying for the day’s lowest score, Silchenko tied for seventh.

Thitaporn Saithip tied for 27th with rounds of 76, 72 and 73. With two birdies near the

end, she gave the final push the Cowgirls needed to make it onto the podium.

Ellie Bushnell was shortly behind Saithip as she tied for 31st after carding rounds of 74, 73 and 75. Bushnell also carded the lone eagle for the Cowgirls and a career fourth on the par-4, hole No. 5.

Angelica Pfefferkorn carded seven birdies in her final round, tying for the most on the day, and carded a 1-under 71 after shooting and 81 and 75 in the first two rounds. Her third-day effort moved her up nine places to tie for 50th.

The third-round boost from the Cowgirls included 21 birdies, whereas the team only carded 25 in the first two rounds combined.

Coach Greg Robertson said his team needed to find

ways to get the ball into the hole. According to their scorecards, they had the consistency he said was necessary to make it to the championship.

The Cowgirls will compete at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California, in the NCAA Championship from May 17-22.

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OSU freshman Marta Silchenko carding a 71, 74 and 5-under 67 in her final round.

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Moving kit

Some seniors may relocate after

graduation. It may not be as exciting as other gifts, but your senior will appreciate a package of the moving basics once they move to their new home. No one wants to spend money on cleaning or moving supplies for themself. Do your senior a favor and take care of some notso-fun shopping for them.

SINCE 1957,

Digital camera Handheld digital cameras are back, and they’re trendy. Buy your senior a small camera so they can capture memories forever during this new chapter of their life. You could buy them a small camera case or adorable camera strap to go with it.

Cowboy hat

Your senior will be a Cowboy forever. Buy them a gift card to customize an adorable cowboy hat or get one shaped. They can wear it out on the town or display it in their house as a decoration.

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The dead longhorn, found early on Dec. 1, had “F*** FH” carved into its left side and a cut exposing its intestines.

4 students sentenced to probation after longhorn incident

Kennedy Thomason News and Lifestyle editor

Four OSU students and fraternity members were ordered a deferred sentence on Friday after pleading guilty to leaving a dead longhorn on another fraternity’s lawn.

The students, Brody Shelby, Bennett Fady, Luke Ackerley and Andrew King, received the order from Judge of the District Court Michael Kulling after five months in the court system.

Each was placed on probation until April 15, 2025 and ordered to pay a $500

fine. The special rules and conditions of their probation include completing 200 hours of community service, a drug and alcohol assessment and writing a 1,000 word essay.

Probation and community service are considering sentencing, and therefore remain defendant’s permanent record, according to mdwlawfirm.com.

The order comes after the four students pled guilty to leaving a dead longhorn on the front lawn of the FarmHouse fraternity with “F*** FH” carved into its side on Dec. 1. The students are members of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity.

Two continuances were granted in their case, after the state filed an initial criminal misdemeanor on Dec. 28 for unlawful disposal of a carcass.

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‘Baby Reindeer’ is Netflix’s Most Deceptive Show

Michael Clark Staff Reporter

Review

If there’s one thing that’s been missing from today’s media, it’s honesty.

When you look into the true stories behind a TV show, they tend to be twisted, exaggerated or otherwise out of context from what really happened.

When I started Richard Gadd’s autobiographical miniseries ‘Baby Reindeer,’ I expected a grand embellishment of the truth. What I got was something a little too personal.

The basic premise of the story is that an aspiring comedian gives a random stranger an act of kindness, which soon spirals into a saga of stalking, trauma and so much more.

“Baby Reindeer” could have given us an exaggeration of the truth to make Richard Gadd look like a helpless, good-meaning victim through and through.

Instead, we get a brutally honest tale of how cycles of trauma and abuse can affect victims.

What starts off as a light, addictive story about a strange encounter with and even stranger woman slowly builds into something uncomfortably true.

There’s a lot of emotions and choices the characters make that hit way too close to home. I walked into ‘Baby Reindeer’ hoping to find something easy to spend a weekend on. I walked out feeling like I had been punched in the stomach.

Richard Gadd’s performance as Donny is one of the most realistic portrayals of trauma that I’ve seen in

a while. The way he copes with his issues, some seen up front and others pushed down until later on in the show, correlates with his confusing and self-destructive behavior perfectly. As much as we hate to admit it, some of the indulgent and poor decisions made by the characters is something anyone could sympathize with. These characters act illogically, and that’s what makes them feel human.

Each character in the show has a complex profile you can really reflect upon.

Martha, Donny’s stalker, is a character you will loathe, vaguely sympathize with and pity all at once.

Nava Mau delivers a great performance as Teri, a transgender woman with a wonderful amount of depth covering her identity and struggles. But at the core of “Baby Reindeer” is a story about how hurt people can end up hurting people in return. That survivors of trauma and abuse can either break or perpetuate the cycles of trauma they find themselves wrapped up in.

It’s hard to find a flaw in “Baby Reindeer” as it is easily one of the best shows of the year.

There are some ethical questions about whether it’s right to adapt such a personal story involving countless real people who suffered greatly, but as a piece of art in a vacuum, there is something truly beautiful about “Baby Reindeer.”

If you’re looking for a thoughtful, yet entertaining show that will stick with you long past the credits roll, “Baby Reindeer” is short, bittersweet watch to spend your afternoon on.

Just be sure you’re ready to confront a few uncomfortable truths and maybe get choked up along the way.

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Kenya . . .

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Even with future uncertainty Njuki works his assistantship, a paid appointment awarded annually to a qualified graduate student that requires part-time teaching, research or residence hall duties, with great care.

“My first impression was that it

was going to be a really tough class, but he was passionate about helping students make sure they understand the material,” said JAci McDaniel, a student. “I thought he was very considerate with the way he provides class content.”

Michael Jane’t, a student of Njuki’s, said Njuki was laid-back and shared the most student-teacher relationship he’s been a part of so far.

Not only has professor Njuki been helpful to his students, but he’s also been key to his co-workers as well.

“I have learned to keep records and organize things better while working with Professor Njuki,” Kongyir said. “He is more organized than me. I have also benefited from his reach knowledge of R programming, getting his ideas for debugging my R script from time to time,” said professor Kongyir.

McDaniel said it was no surprise to her to learn of how helpful professor Njuki is viewed as she has seen it firsthand. “My relationship with professor

Njuki is great,” McDaniel said. “He has no problem staying late after class if I need help with questions, and tries to explain it in a way that I understand.”

Despite his positive time here in Stillwater professor Njuki believes there is no place like home.

“I think the culture there (in Kenya), some of the beliefs we have, the food, those are some of the things I am really missing,” Njuki said.

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I REMEMBERED THE LORD!

“When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, Lord, and my prayer rose to you, to your holy temple.” (Jonah 2:7NIV)

This was one of the most hopeless situations found in the Bible. Jonah had been running from God. He had boarded a ship and a great storm came up on the sea. He admitted to the sailors that he was fleeing from God and he was the cause of the storm. The crew threw him overboard, and he had been swallowed by a large fish. What a mess! What a hopeless mess caused by his own disobedience. Maybe you can relate to Jonah?

Another translation reads; “When my heart fainted within me, I remembered the Lord.” There seem to be no way out. He was completely helpless, and he had caused the whole thing. When all hope was gone; when my heart was fainting; when my life was slipping away, I remembered the Lord.

Listen to me! God is ruler over hopeless situations. He is ruler over our self made problems. He is God no matter what the situation. I want you to remember the Lord. No matter how terrible your sins, the magnitude of your failure or the greatness of your difficulty, God is bigger. There is hope,for the hopeless, in Him.

“...the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.”(2:10) Everything turned around for Jonah when he remembered God, humbled himself and began praying. God has put these true stories in the Bible to encourage us all and give us hope. He wants us to come to him; admit our hopeless condition and call on him for help. Be serious about it, and look to the Lord. This is the time of his grace; his unmerited favor. Christ gave his life for the ungodly, the weak, the needy. So reach out to him, call on him and hold on to the Lord. See what he will do!

Kaytlyn Hayes

Prior to OSU, the key point of his academic and professional journey would take place back home in Kenya after completing his undergraduate studies.

Antisemitism . . .

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“They (people) text me and DM me telling me I need to stop the war and stop killing people, and I’m like, ‘Well, I’m not even in Israel,’” said Lior Garzon, a member of the OSU women’s basketball team.

Garzon is originally from Israel and wants people to know this about her homeland.

“I just want them to know and

realize, we are not new,” Garzon said.

“We’ve been here for long, and we have the right to fight for ourselves and defend ourselves and just have a county like every other.”

Garzon is transferring to Colorado next fall but said it was mostly basketball-related with the added bonus, Colorado has more of a Jewish studentbody than OSU does According to Hillel, OSU has a Jewish student population of 40 students. OSU’s Hillel is small, so it works in tandem with OU’s Hillel to host events. OU Hillel has been active since 1943, though OSU Hillel has been

around for three years and is slowly growing, which Shelton attributed to more Israelis coming to Stillwater.

“Part of it was, we had three student-athletes from Israel, and they started connecting with other Jewish students,” Shelton said.

Recently, Jews across the globe celebrated Passover, and because Stillwater does not have a temple, OSU Hillel made it accessible for students to travel to Norman to celebrate the holiday.

The issue of antisemitism and those facing it is difficult to address because free speech allows for negative

stereotypes to be said against Jewish people.

The U.S. Senate, led by Sen. Tim Scott, introduced a resolution condemning antisemitism on college campuses and if it passes, aims to defund public universities that “enable” violent antisemitism.

“I thought I would never have to live in a time where I’d have to be worrying about what my ancestors had to worry about,” Rubinowitz said. “It’s sad that I was wrong, and this is what me and a lot of other people are dealing and experiencing with on a daily basis.”

Lior Garzon, a member of OSU women’s basketball team, said she has received online messages telling her to stop the war in Israel, and stop killing people.

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Business Squares

Come check out the wide variety of elegant clothing at Formal Fantasy!

Located on 121 E. 9th Ave, Downtown Stillwater

The best selection of beer, wine and liquor that Stillwater has to offer! Perfect for all your game day needs, come to Brown’s Bottle Shop located on 128 N. Main

“The Original Hideaway, located on the corner of Knoblock and University. Serving quality pizza and more since 1957.”

Murphy’s Department Store

815 S Main, Downtown Open 10-6

Monday thru Saturday

Houses for rent

Cowboy Calendar

Thursday, May 9

Kids’ Night @ 11 a.m. - 11 p.m.

Location: Louie’s Grill & Bar

https://www.facebook.com/LouiesStillwater

Kids Night @ 5 - 9 p.m.

Location: Eskimo Joe’s

Admission: $1 w/ Buffy meals

KiKi’s Karaoke @ 7 - 9 p.m.

Location: EM Curators of Craft

https://curatorsofcraft.co/pages/weekly-events

College Night @ 8 p.m

Location: Tumbleweed DanceHall & Concert Arena

Admission: $8.00 Cover Charge and free entry for 21+

https://www.calffry.com

Songwriters Circle w/ Dylan Moss @ 7 - 9 p.m.

Location: Bad Brad’s Bar-B-Q

Drop & Draw @ 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Location: OSU Museum of Art

https://museum.okstate.edu

Karaoke & Beer Pong Tournament @ 9:30 p.m.

Location: The Union Beverage Co

Admission: Free Karaoke and Beer Pong but you must register by 9:30

Fiber Arts Group Thursdays @ 6 - 8:30 p.m.

Location: Prairie Arts Center

https://artscenter.okstate.edu

Troubadour Thursdays @ 7:30 p.m.

Location: Stillwater Community Center

https://www.sccfoundation.org/troubadour

Live Music Thursdays @ 7 p.m.

Location: Iron Monk Brewing Company

https://www.ironmonkbeer.com

Singo Thursday’s @ 8 p.m.

Location: Louie’s Grill & Bar

https://louiesgrillandbar.com/locations/stillwater/

Beyond the basic: Pain @ 7 - 8 p.m.

Location: Stillwater Chamber of Commerce

https://stillwaterchamber.org/

National Nurse Week: ‘Nurses Make the Difference’ w/ Nurses Light Up The Sky Campaign - All Week & Night

https://www.nursingworld.org/ana-enterprise/nurses-week/#toolkit

The Oklahoma Harness Horse Association @ 8 a.m.

Location: Payne County Expo Center

https://okharnesshorse.com/

Thumbs up Thursdays for Elementary Age Kids @ 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Location: Stillwater Public Library

https://stillwaterok.gov/168/Library

By Joe Rodini

Daily Horoscope

Nancy Black Tribune Content Agency

Linda Black Horoscopes

Today’s Birthday (05/09/24). Develop personal dreams and passions this year. Steady collaboration and teamwork can work miracles. Savor summer privacy for reflection with changes, before an exciting autumn party phase. Building health, energy and endurance this winter leads to a romantic springtime phase. Shine like a star.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is an 8 — Develop creative projects. Advance practical priorities, especially where stuck. Learn from elders and young people. Write, edit and express your ideas. Connect and share.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 9 — It’s moneymaking time. Disciplined efforts pay off. Do the homework to lay foundations for a successful venture. Good news comes from far away.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 9 — Take charge and push for the results you want. Make a choice or commitment. Confirm your intentions with your team. You can do it.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 6 — Consider a future worth creating. Imagine, dream and envision how you would love it to be. Craft long term plans. Rest and recharge.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — Teamwork propels a community effort to victory. Perform your part for shared gain. Actions taken now can have long-lasting benefits. Go for your goal.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — A professional challenge takes focus. An opportunity to realize an old dream tempts. Secure the ground already taken. Get support. The tide is in your favor.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is an 8 — Get out and explore new horizons. Long-distance travel delights. Or rediscover your own backyard. Study with a master. Get advice from someone with experience.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — Find and implement profitable solutions for a shared venture. Review budgets. Work out the financial details together. Figure out who will do what.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is an 8 — Collaborate with your partner to get farther. Distractions abound. Don’t be afraid if you don’t know how to do something. Work it out together.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — Practice to build capacities. Action gets results. As you gain strength, confidence and energy rises naturally. Prioritize mental, physical and emotional health. Nurture yourself.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 9 — Lose yourself in the pursuit of happiness. Practice your artistry. Avoid distractions and illusions. Discover unexpected fun or romance. Laugh with your people.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — Home and family take priority. Fill yours with love. Reduce noise, chaos and clutter. Invite people over and share some homecooked goodness together.