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Relationships define the life of new OSU coach Chand l er Ves se ls Sta ff R eporte r @ C h a nd l erVe sse ls

Mike Boynton often wonders what life would have been like with a brother.

Most boys would after growing up in a house with four sisters. He often left early in the afternoon and stayed until late evening at the Brooklyn parks to play basketball and escape the girls.

For Boynton, though, the wonder is deeper than mere fantasizing.

When he was 5, Boynton was excited to meet his brother. He remembers his parents being excited, too. When they came home, though, they did so without a baby and with looks of devastation on their faces. Boynton’s brother had respiratory issues and died at birth.

It’s why today, he takes nothing for granted.

Not his various opportunities as an assistant coach. Not his receiving the Oklahoma State basketball coaching job at 35.

Certainly not the many

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people who have helped him along the way.

When Boynton stood in front of boosters and media members for his introductory press conference last month, he paused. He started to think about the people in his life and about his hometown of Brooklyn.

He felt it coming but was powerless to stop it. Tears began to fall as he sipped a bottle of water until he regained his composure.

At the time, Boynton said he wasn’t sure where that came from.

Later, it became clear to him.

“You can’t get to this point in your life without a number of people helping you,” Boynton said. “I think that’s what happened.

“Now, my responsibility is to do the job well enough that they’re proud of it.”

The love

Boynton sits in his office a couple of weeks after it was announced he would be the new Cowboys coach.

There aren’t any pictures or many personal belongings yet. The desk is covered with files. He

has only been using it for a couple of days. After his introductory press conference, he immediately hit the recruiting trail.

Once things settle down, he will decorate the office with help from his wife, Jenny.

The two met in Columbia, South Carolina, during Boynton’s tenure as an assistant coach. Jenny was the new dietitian on staff and was introducing herself to members of the various teams.

Afterward, Boynton felt the need to introduce himself to her again.

“So, you’re a dietitian?” he asked. “You like food?

You wanna go out to lunch one day?”

Jenny said Boynton followed up with an email suggesting they get ice cream, and they decided to meet at Chick-Fil-A. During the meal, Boynton had to excuse himself to take a phone call about a recruit. It was a glimpse into the life the couple would lead in the future.

“It’s kind of been our life since day one,” Jenny said. “Basketball, phone

calls and recruiting. It was Chick-Fil-A, and we still go to Chick-Fil-A. Not much has changed on that front.”

They married in 2011 in Saint Lucia. Both recall their happiest memory as their honeymoon when they took a boat tour and got a glimpse of the Pitons. Jenny has been with Boynton for a good chunk of his coaching career.

She was there when the staff was fired from South Carolina and Boynton had to look for a new job. He took an assistant job at Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches, Texas, under Brad Underwood.

He was part of a staff that orchestrated the most successful three-year stretch in the school’s history.

The Lumberjacks won 89 games and went to the tournament each year.

When Underwood left after the 2015-16 season to become the coach at OSU, Boynton interviewed for the job at Stephen F. Austin. Given his history with the program, he figured he would be the easy choice to hire.

“You could not convince me, considering the circumstances, (that I wouldn’t get the job),” Boynton said.

The Lumberjacks hired Kyle Keller.

Boynton was “devastated,” but he didn’t have much time to grieve. He needed to find a new job.

He decided to follow Underwood to OSU as an assistant. The success continued. But, after a 20-win season and NCAA Tournament berth, Underwood bolted for Illinois leaving Boynton and the rest of the team in shock.

“You think you have an opportunity to really build on what you did this year,” Boynton said. “Add a couple of pieces and maybe adjust a couple of things. When it happened, yeah, everybody was kind of taken aback and trying to figure out, ‘OK, what does this mean now?’”

After the shock subsided, Boynton saw opportunity.

Again, he found himself interviewing to become a head coach. He had a

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good feeling as he left his interview with Athletic Director Mike Holder but didn’t know what to make of it after last year. He didn’t want to get overconfident.

Boynton interviewed on a Thursday, and Friday morning Holder called him in for a second interview. That afternoon, Holder called him in again, this time with President Burns Hargis accompanying him. He offered Boynton the job.

Boynton was so excited he almost forgot to call his wife. Jenny was trying to keep herself busy by cleaning the house when she started to receive several calls of congratulation. By the time Boynton called, she had already received about six calls from others. She was still just as excited to hear it from him.

She has watched as his fervent work ethic has paid off. From what she has seen, he has only started working harder since accepting the job.

“For me, I’ve always had the belief in him that he could do it,” Jenny said. “I jokingly said after he interviewed, ‘Well did they call the rest of them off?’ I’ve always thought that he could

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handle it, was ready for the opportunity and would thrive in doing it.

The coaches and the city

If Bob Leckie knew he was going to be running late to practice, he wasn’t worried.

Leckie, then the coach at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, could trust Boynton to handle things.

He ran a small business, and this arrangement happened on several occasions.

“He was the coach on the floor type of guy,” Leckie said. “I would speak to him, and he would relay things to his teammates. He was a no-nonsense type of guy all the time. He worked on his game and made sure others worked at it, as well.”

Boynton credits his competitiveness to growing up in New York. It is a state rich in sports history, and he grew up in an era that delivered plenty of greatness. He is a huge Yankees fan and watched them win the World Series. He was also a Knicks fan and admired the tough play of Charles Oakley and John Starks. He also grew up on Big East basketball, watching teams such as Georgetown, St. John’s and Seton Hall.

But sports aren’t the only competitive aspect of the city.

“You’ve gotta have a different mindset in terms of wanting to win at whatever it is that you do,” Boynton said. “You’ve got to be competitive as a driver up there or you just don’t drive. Don’t get behind the wheel of a car if you’re gonna be passive.”

He said the perception of Brooklyn as a rough city is true but believes all cities have that part of them to some degree.

He knew many kids who didn’t have fathers. He was extremely grateful that his father, who worked as a stock broker for Charles Schwab, was always there and still is. The city taught him toughness. It’s something he carried with him as a college player for South Carolina and something he hopes will carry over in his coaching style.

“You get knocked around a little bit and you learn how to pick yourself up and fight, or you go find a different hobby,” Boynton said. “I chose to fight and continue to learn how to compete and win, and it’s taken me this far.”

When Boynton was a freshman in high school, he

got his first C. His mother went to Kenny Pretlow, an assistant coach for Boynton who had known him since Boynton was a 5-foot-11 9 year old. Boynton started as a center in his playing days but never grew and eventually switched to point guard.

His mother said if the Cs became a trend, she wouldn’t let Boynton continue to play basketball.

Pretlow relayed the message to Boynton, who never got a grade lower than 80 the rest of high school.

He eventually went to college and continues to carry the lesson his parents taught him: Work hard, and watch it pay off.

The brother

After regaining his composure at the press conference, Boynton said it was the first time Jenny saw him cry.

But Jenny has seen him cry once before. For his 30th birthday she wanted to do something special. She spent the months before contacting his friends, family members and coaches and asked them to write down their favorite memory of Boynton. On his birthday, she presented him with “30 years of 30 memories.”

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When he got to the final memory, his mother’s, Boynton started to cry.

It’s telling his only known displays of emotion have been when thinking about his relationships. People are important to him.

Boynton has so many friends and family, when he received the job he didn’t have time to call them all.

He merely told his dad, whom he calls “the megaphone in the family,” who quickly spread the news.

But even with so many strong relationships, he can’t help but wonder about the one he almost had.

“I always looked forward to having a brother, and I still think about it to this day, what my life would have been like if I actually was able to grow up with him,” he said. “It’s something that consciously I try not to focus on, but subconsciously it really affected the way I think about people and the preciousness of life because he literally never got a chance to come home.

I carry that with me every day.”

On a recent trip to campus, Boynton bumped into forward Cameron McGriff and a student manager. On his way back to the office, he

began again to think about life. He was responsible, in some way, for the lives of those people. He thought about what a privilege, but also the huge duty this job entails.

His mind again trailed to his brother and the fragility of life. The person who was in his life for the shortest amount of time is perhaps the one who taught him the most important lesson.

“You don’t take life for granted,” Boynton said.

“You understand that every day is truly a gift. You want to take advantage of the opportunities that you have to be a positive impact on other people that you’re around.

I’m fortunate that now I’m the leader here in a program that gets to impact the lives of 17- to 22-year-old guys every single day. Knowing I’m truly responsible for a lot of people. The things that we do as a staff will help mold the way they think about life. Just understanding that has really, really put things in perspective.”

Chandler Vessels is a sports media senior from Moore. He can be reached at chandler.vessels@ okstate.edu.

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Policies and practices of the Student Government Association Senate violated the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act, according to experts.

The statute applies to public bodies in the state.

SGA is subject to the Open Meeting Act’s requirements, according to a 1979 attorney general’s opinion.

The SGA Senate voted to elect multiple positions for next year at its final meeting of the semester April 26.

Although senate elections in the past have been conducted with roll call votes, Senate Chairman Bradley Burt chose to use secret bal-

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Bradley Burt, SGA’s senate chairman, authorized a secretballot vote for two elections at the April 26 senate meeting.

lots for two of the elections.

Senators elected Sen. Brooke Bastie as the next senate chairwoman and Sen. Marcus Heald as vice chairman

using secret ballots.

Burt said he felt the secret ballots were necessary because of the number of senators who decline to cast a

public vote.

“In the past, we’ve received a lot of abstentions when we go through a roll call vote,” Burt said. “A lot of senators, for example, they have two friends who are candidates, and they can’t choose one. Sometimes one candidate is their friend and they don’t think that person is qualified, but they don’t want to vote against their friend.”

The Open Meeting Act, though, mandates “in all meetings of public bodies, the vote of each member must be publicly cast and recorded.”

Burt said the senate would compensate for the secret-ballot vote by publicly posting the votes in the meet-

ing minutes. However, the minutes, which were posted on SGA’s website April 28, do not include the record of senators’ votes.

That copy of the minutes is not finalized and will not be until the first meeting of next semester, Burt said. SGA’s bylaws require minutes be posted following the final edit the SGA Senate secretary makes. The bylaws provide no timeframe requirement for posting minutes. “(The votes) were still publicly cast and recorded because they will be showed to the public the same as any other vote count,” Burt said.

Joey Senat, OSU journalism professor and chairman of Freedom of Information

Oklahoma, said this delay in releasing voting records violates the Open Meeting Act, as well.

“To wait three or four months for voting records, that is not what is anticipated and expected of officials under the Open Meeting Act,” Senat said. “Not wanting to offend people is not a sufficient reason to violate the Open Meeting Act. “Everybody who serves is responsible for abiding by the (act). Each one of them can be held criminally liable for violating the act if they participate in that violation.”

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After eight months of daily flights to Stillwater Regional Airport, American Airlines has exceeded company expectations and more than doubled the City’s passenger projections. But the round trips to and from Dallas face a crucial test June 4 with the loss of two popular flight times.

Oklahoma State University and City of Stillwater officials voiced concern about American Airlines moving flight departures into the afternoon, saying the changes could cause faculty and residents to return to flying out of airports in nearby cities to reach their destinations earlier in the day.

City and university officials “vigorously” negotiated with American to ensure the schedule would return to its normal twicedaily schedule Aug. 22, said Joe Weaver, OSU vice president for administration and finance.

Until June 4, planes leave Stillwater at 7 a.m. and 2:36 p.m. and arrive at 2 p.m. and 9:40 p.m.

OSU, City officials and American all will watch closely to see how passengers react to the summer shift to later departure and arrival times.

“We were concerned about faculty trying to get to another location,” Weaver said. “If they leave at noon or in the afternoon, it doesn’t put them FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017

heck? Why can’t I get this early morning flight?’”

McNickle said. “Airlines change their schedules all the time, but obviously this is a new business to us.”

American Airlines hadn’t responded to an O’Colly request for comment on the schedule change as of press time.

McNickle said American Airlines told the City it changed the schedule because of the plane’s overkurt steiss/O’COLLY File Photo night stay in Stillwater.

Although American Airlines flights into Stillwater Regional Airport have been “They indicated that doing better than expected, the airport will lose two busy flight times on June 4. the problem was because the plane remained here into their destination until industry folks relied on we had a passenger lookovernight, the problem getting out early and get11 o’clock, midnight at ing at a flight in June and wherever they’re heading. ting to their destination.” called us asking, ‘What the was getting routine mainStillwater City Manager “They might opt, inNorman McNickle said stead of taking these later flights, to go back to flying the City initially projected only 10,000 passengers for out of Oklahoma City or the first year because of Wichita or Tulsa in order concern about the flights’ to get to their destination initial popularity, but the sooner. We were really airport passed 20,000 concerned about losing that early morning flight.” passengers in only four months.

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“But they’ve obviously overcome those issues, and we’ll get the service back Aug. 22.”

Not only has the service beat passenger expectations, but it has also provided direct and indirect benefits to OSU. Previously, faculty and staff traveled to nearby cities to fly, and Weaver said the university paid for the additional travel time on top of parking and the flights themselves.

Those costs amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars, Weaver said.

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from the meeting. Turner said the ballots will be compiled into a spreadsheet as an official voting record and anyone will be able to contact her for a copy.

The senate keeps voting records in an Excel spreadsheet of every motion it votes on with the exception of motions passed by unanimous consent or if the senate motions to vote by show of hands, Burt said.

“In that case, we have the count, but we don’t have the record of how each senator moves,” he said. “If the senators choose to do that, then they have the right to do so through (parliamentary procedure).”

This policy, though, is also a violation of the Open Meeting Act. In the 2014 Oklahoma Attorney General Opinion Book, which the office of former Attorney General Scott Pruitt published, Senior Assistant Attorney General Sandra D. Rinehart said minute entries such as “motion carried” or “motion passed 3-2” are not sufficient to comply with the act’s requirement that votes be “publicly cast and recorded” unless the minutes also include a record of members’ attendance.

Minutes from previous SGA meetings, which the senate already approved and published on SGA’s website, do not include attendance records or individual voting records for each senator.

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Bradley Burt (left), senate chairman, and Molly Turner, senate secretary, sit at an SGA Senate meeting April 26.

tion at the beginning of the semester in which they learn about the Open Meeting Act. New senators are sworn in every week, though, making it difficult to keep all senators up to speed on the law, he said.

“We tried as best we could to educate the new senators along the way,” Burt said. “Technically that’s in compliance with our bylaws, but I definitely agree that it’s not the best course of action, which is why the newly elected chair and vice chair are trying to come up with a new way.”

The senate passed a bill at last week’s meeting to make the new senator orientation a three-week program. Heald, who co-wrote the bill with Sen. Mattie Betts, said the second week of the orientation will include a briefing on the Open Meeting Act. Betts said she wanted

to give future senators a better experience than she had after being sworn in to the senate in January.

She said she was not able to attend senator training.

“There was a piece of paper that I was given, but most of it was just training yourself,” she said. “I don’t remember (the Open Meeting Act) being mentioned in that paper specifically, but I know it was discussed some in senate, so that’s where I learned about it.”

Sen. Will Coots, who was also sworn in to the senate in January, said the training provided for new senators was a onepage document on senate basics that did not include any mention of the Open Meeting Act.

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Olivia Riddle is a multimedia journalism freshman from Fort Worth, Texas. She can be reached at oriddle@okstate.edu.

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“Flying out of Stillwater allows you to avoid that per diem expense,” Weaver said. “The expenses of reimbursing the faculty member for his or her car, plus we gain back those five hours of commute time.

“I’m just hearing from the faculty and staff how much easier it is to fly out of Stillwater instead of going to fight the good fight you know, driving to Oklahoma City, driving back late to Stillwater. It’s just been so much easier on them.”

Beyond a financial perspective, Weaver

a m e r i ca n a i rli nes said he thinks OSU will soon reap the benefits from the airport in the form of out-of-state students from Texas and surrounding areas who could have a shorter travel time to Stillwater.

He said he expects the service to start drawing more out-of-state and international students to OSU because of the airport’s accessibility.

“Think about those students in Texas that now their parents can hop up here in nothing flat, 45 minutes,” Weaver said. “They can be up on their son or daughter’s campus for a weekend or for a day,

which before would take a 10-hour driving commitment, and they just don’t come.

“It’s been a great recruiting opportunity for us to go into Texas and say, ‘We’ve got this airline service now.

We’ve really shortened the distance from where you live to where you go to school.’ And we haven’t really even seen the dividends of that yet.”

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55 Flush, in Tijuana 56 Try to strike 58 Beamed 61 It doesn’t add up ... except as a hint to 17-, 25-, 37- and 49Across 63 Muse of memory 64 Hightail it 65 Limo destination 66 Accord, for one 67 A or B, for the record 68 Figs. that are never intentionally reused DOWN 1 Do quite well 2 Destructive algal bloom

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3 Writing a “Dear John” letter, say 4 Lose focus, with “out” 5 It requires a 24-Across 6 Hood of folklore 7 Eclair filling 8 Egyptian sky god 9 Quiet 10 Feminine article in Italy 11 Haul 12 Sitcom character who dated baseball’s Keith Hernandez 13 Insert neighbor, on PCs 18 Wrinkly hybrid 22 Beatle for two years 26 DC-to-AC electronic device 27 “Scoooooooore!”

28 Without a sound 30 Baffler 34 Ending for many schools 35 Fundraising sch. group 36 Franciscan leader?

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38 Milwaukee schoolteacher who went on to lead Israel 39 Typically fivearmed marine invertebrates 42 Go whole hog on Thanksgiving 43 Beats 44 Biblical collection 45 Track runner

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By Nancy Black Tribune Content Agency Today’s Birthday (05/05/17). Your health and energy rise this year. Set the stage this spring for a summer shift in your industry or profession, before domestic flowering. Your partnership thrives over a year beginning this autumn. A two-year adventure phase builds momentum, beginning this winter. Let your heart lead.

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 -- Maintain your physical practices. Balance work and play with rest and good food. Choose stability over illusion. Avoid risky business. Follow your heart.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Expect the unexpected, especially regarding romance. Keep your sense of humor when reality interrupts a flimsy fantasy. Laughter is the best aphrodisiac. Create a long-lasting memory.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 5 -- Focus on home and family. Inspiration comes from afar. Finish up what you’ve begun. Incorporate water elements. Wash and clean.

Ensure a steady flow.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Writing, illustration and musical expression flows naturally. Capture your ideas for later revision and polishing. Edit and publish.

Advance on simple, practical goals.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Watch out for unexpected expenses. Don’t fall for a trick. Resist temptation to overspend on impractical stuff. Keep contributing to savings, even just a little.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Consider a new style. Put energy toward a personal project. Keep things simple; elaborations can stop the momentum. Practical actions reap long-term benefit.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 5 -- It’s easy to get lost in a fantasy. Keep practical priorities and let the rest go. Favor substance over symbolism. Go for the real deal.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- A disagreement about priorities could stall a group effort. Take note of everyone’s considerations. Solicit solutions, and vote on them. It’s worth taking time for consensus.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Keep practicing your moves. Water may be involved. Care for your physical health and well-being. Time in nature restores your spirit.

Balance efforts with relaxation.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Travel and long-distance connections are favored. There’s no need to waste time or money, or to step on anyone. Use what you already had.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -- Take a strategic overview of financial circumstances. First, figure out what really matters. Adjust to changes. Work together to grow your family’s nest egg.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Go for love, beauty, romance and creativity. Reality clashes with fantasy.

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Crime Notes: Stillwater Junior High student arrested for marijuana possession Ke lsy Sc hlotthaue r Cr i m e R eporte r @ K _ Sc hlot t

Marijuana in a shoe A Stillwater Junior High student was arrested April 25 on charges of possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia.

About noon, an administrator told the school resource officer that students had reported a male student came out of the north boys’ bathroom and “smelled like weed,” according to police reports.

The administrator reviewed video surveillance footage and located the student.

The school resource officer searched the student and told him he should give up “anything” he had, according to police reports.

The student reportedly revealed a homemade metal pipe and pulled a clear plastic bag of marijuana out of his right shoe.

The school resource officer arrested the student and transported him to the Stillwater City Jail.

He was later released to his parents.

Animal cruelty citation issued A Stillwater man was cited for animal cruelty April 25 after reportedly leaving two dogs in his FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017

parked car at 1520 N. Boomer Road.

About 6 p.m., Stillwater police found two dogs in a vehicle parked on the west side of the Progress405 apartments pool area.

The caller reported the dogs had been in the vehicle for a couple of hours.

It was 82 degrees outside, dispatch reported, and all of the car windows were rolled down about 4 inches, according to police reports.

The owner of the vehicle, Russell Dean Chapman, 20, said he was visiting a friend and had “only been there 15 minutes,” according to police reports.

Chapman reportedly told police there was a water bottle in the car for his dogs. When police asked him if his dogs could drink out of the water bottle, he said no.

Police issued Chapman a citation because the temperature was above 79 degrees, according to police reports.

Art project has unintended consequences An Oklahoma State University student was cited April 30 for discharging an air pistol inside city limits in the 2400 block of West Ninth Avenue.

About 6 p.m., dispatch told officers “two subjects were in the middle of the road (facing west) shooting what appeared to be a bb gun at a target that was placed on a table,” according to police reports.

Police witnessed a woman, Paige Ann Bohlen, 21, fire a shot at what appeared to be a glass vase. After she handed the gun to the man she was with, officers approached them.

Police told the man to toss the gun in the grass, and he complied. He said it was a pellet pistol, according to police reports.

The pair reportedly said they did not know it is illegal to discharge an air gun inside city limits.

They said they were “working on an art project for school and were videoing the vase in slow motion as it was shot,” according to police reports.

After explaining the issues of discharging an air pistol inside city limits and shooting glass on a public roadway, the officer cited Bohlen, according to police reports.

Kelsy Schlotthauer is a multimedia journalism sophomore from Edmond.

She can be reached at kelsyas@okstate.edu.

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