Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Greenwood School of Music recognized by Billboard Magazine Lauren King Staff Reporter
ond time OSU received this recognition. The Michael and Anne Greenwood School of Music’s music industry program was featured in the October 2023 issue of Billboard magazine. OSU’s music industry program Billboard selected the top music busiwas recognized as a top music business ness schools by considering industry school by Billboard magazine— the sec- recommendations, alumni information
and details requested from each school. OSU was recognized in the magazine along with 41 other accredited schools, both national and international, including Abbey Road Institute, California Institute of the Arts and New York University. “It is truly incredible that Okla-
homa State University was named a top music business school for the second year in a row,” said Scott Hendricks, an OSU alumnus and executive vice president of A&R at Warner Music-Nashville. “The music business couldn’t exist without the infusion of bright minds coming from programs like this.” See Magazine on 5
Student Union Activities Board hosts OSU Arts Festival Raynee Howell Staff Reporter The third annual OSU Arts Festival took place last week, but under a new organization. The Student Union Activities Board hosted the festival for the first time this year. SUAB hosts many successful events on campus and the arts festival was no exception. Despite it being a windy day, which caused some events to be cancelled,
festivities continued outside in the Student Union Plaza. “We have paint-a-mug, painting coasters, repurposed paintings, painting pumpkins, polaroid photobooth and temporary tattoos,” Faith Appeldorn, arts festival director, said. “We also have boba going on right now and we have a caricature lady set up outside.” In previous years, the Student Arts Alliance, a student-led arts organization, hosted the event. SAA is no longer a club, so SUAB stepped in. See Festival on 7
Charley Van Newkirk Kimberly Howerton, better known as Mom Kim, is the house mom for Alpha Chi Omega, a sorority on campus.
Stationed to sorority house Charley Van Newkirk O’Colly Contributor
File Photo SUAB’s art festival’s Student Union Courtyard setup made it easy for students to stop in and checkout the handmade art after class.
event she was working on and had sandwiches and cookies left over. She figured the sandwiches would go to waste, and maybe the boys across the street at Pike, a fraternity on Retiring from the milicampus, would want them. The tary, Mom Kim never thought she would have a personnel full boys continued to talk to her as they enjoyed the food. of sorority girls. “I could tell they just “You know, I always have wanted to talk to a mom or just joked that the military prehave a mom figure being away pared me more for this job than from home,” Howerton said. anything,” Howerton said. “I thought, you know what, I Originally from Webwould really like that. Being a bers Falls, Kimberly Maloy Howerton, or Mom Kim, runs house mom, that sounds kinda a sorority house at OSU. After cool.” She applied and went retiring from the military in through the interview process November 2020, Howerton with three separate houses. She said it was time for something said she knew it was the right different. She was already a part of fit when she interviewed with AXO. From the girls, timing Oklahoma State University’s and the motto, she felt at home campus at the College of Arts with them. and Sciences Outreach when “I love their motto “Real she applied for the position Strong Women,” Howerton of Alpha Chi Omega’s house said. “And having been a mom. woman in a nontraditional Howerton finished an work position because of the
military, I think that motto really resonates with me.” Howerton said she is lucky to be in her position now. She said the girls are family to her now. “Last summer, while the girls were gone, I had them contact me when I was having surgery checking in on me, which was so nice of them,” Howerton said. She said as a house mom she believes it’s important to know all of the girls, and she is thankful they are patient with her when learning all of their names. The girls of AXO are thankful for her, too. Adelina Pizana, a sophomore in the house, said Howerton is wise beyond her years, and she loves listening to her stories. “I love just having someone to talk to about your problems because she’s like our mom away from home,” Pizana said. See Sorority on 6