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Leading people home Friday, November 19, 2021

OSU Student starts non-profit organization

Taelyn Brown

Oklahoma State Student Emalee Arthur started a nonprofit organization during her freshman year in college.

Taelyn Brown Staff Reporter

Emalee Arthur remembers the first time she stepped foot in Fonds Parisien, Haiti.

In 2014, she walked through the bright orphanage, a strong sense of joy and resilience left a lasting mark on the then 14-year-old.

Although in 2018, Arthur, who is now an applied sciences senior, was feeling nervous about her first semester of college. However, she was also eager because this is the summer she will get to reconnect with the children from the orphanage in Fonds Parisien.

When Arthur stood in that the same

building this time, though, she barely recognized it.

“My first time to Haiti I was 14, so that was the first time I had come across this orphanage,” Arthur said.

“All the kids at the time were doing super well, and there was a local missionary who was taking care of them and feeding them and the kids were healthy.”

She said when she returned in 2018, the missionaries left a couple of years after her first visit, and during her second visit there was no one to go in and help them.

Once she returned to the United States, started the process of creating Paths That Lead to Home, her nonprofit. Paths That Lead to

Home is a 501(c)(3) that rescues and empowers Haiti’s vulnerable, destitute and distressed children, according to its website.

“When I saw those kids, it’s just like you know that you have to help them, and I asked around,” Arthur said.

Arthur said she did not want to start something similar to an already existing program because then, she would be part of that organization.

However, she said there was not a lot of help in this part of the country where the orphanage is, so she decided take action The process was not short or easy. Arthur said she thought about the abandoned orphanage constantly. She made the decision to go back to Haiti

OSU’s religious exemption on vaccine regulation

Anna Pope News Editor Some religious exemption forms for the COVID-19 vaccine mandate are different at some universities.

Oklahoma State is enforcing the vaccine requirement where federally contracted employees must have their final dose of either Pfizer or Moderna, or one dose of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine by Jan. 4, 2022.

This mandate will apply to all

OSU employees in Stillwater, OSU-Tulsa and the Center for Health Sciences and the OSU extension.

It also applies to student employees on campus.

OSU employees who cannot comply with the requirement for medical or religious reasons, can fill out a form in the vaccine portal.

“The federal mandate does not require a specific religious exemption form. The form OSU is utilizing was developed in conjunction with the Office of Legal Counsel,” OSU officials said.

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in 2019 and said she sincerely hoped someone else had stepped in.

In her mind, someone needed to help those children, so Arthur stepped up. After all of the paperwork was finalized in 2019, they held a Christmas event for the children where they received clothing and gifts. In the first month of Paths That Lead to Home being official, Arthur began a child sponsorship program with 15 sponsors.

Today, there are 38 people who sponsor the children. Donations are also wired to the children’s home director every month for food, vitamins and more.

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Heritage................................................................... 3A Some students at Oklahoma State said Native American Heritage Month can be an opportunity to educate.

Branson Evans Gov. Kevin Stitt granted clemency to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Julius Jones sentence commuted Jaden Besteda Staff Reporter

Julius Jones’ execution was set for 4 p.m. and within hours of the execution, Gov. Kevin Stitt granted clemency to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Stitt announced the executive order 2021-25 commuting Jones’ sentence on the condition he will never again be eligible to apply for,

be considered for or receive any additional commutation, pardon or parole, according to the statement.

“After prayerful consideration and reviewing materials presented by all side of this case, I have determined to commute Julius Jones’ sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole,” Stitt said in a statement.

City......................................................................... 4A Stillwater City Council discussed putting the vote TIME projects on the ballot.

Brendan Abernathy.................................................5A A traveling musician stops in Stillwater.

Taylor Swift............................................................6A Taylor Swift recreated a version of her “Red” album.

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6 sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped kosher salt 3/4 c. half and half (or milk) 4 tbsp. butter 2 tbsp. maple syrup Freshly ground black pepper Fresh thyme leaves, for serving DIRECTIONS •Place potatoes in a large pot and cover with at least 2” of water. Season generously with salt. Bring to a boil and cook until potatoes are very tender, 15 to 25 minutes.

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•Mash potatoes and add half and half (or milk), butter, and maple syrup. Season with salt and pepper and garnish with thyme leaves.

Tribune News Service Barry Sanders returned to Stillwater to be inducted into the Ring of Honor, and witness his statue unveiling.

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(Ro.6:23 NIV) “...all have sinned...” (Ro.3:23) Everyone has sinned and the payoff is death; eternal separation from God; a lake of fire. No matter how you paint it, it is a terrible, eternal state of being. The Bible talks of those who “because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath.” (Ro.2:5 NIV) Those who, with a hard heart, resist and reject God’s help; only store up their terrible wages for the judgment day to come. It is so important to consider and act on God’s love gift.

The gift of God is eternal life. At the age of 12 years, my wife heard about God’s free gift of eternal life. In fact, the person sharing with a group of young people had a picture of a gift box with a big, colorful bow on top. God was offering her, that day, this gift, and she stepped out and received it. You see it is a gift. You can’t do enough to earn it, but you must receive it.

This gift is found in one place (person); in Jesus Christ. It is found nowhere else. You only access God through Christ. (Jn.14:6) You need to trust God’s word and turn to Christ, ask and receive his free gift of eternal life.

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Jones...

Continued from 1A Oklahoma’s pardon and parole board recommended clemency for Jones in a 3-1 vote on Nov. 1. The board in a 3-1 vote recommended Gov. Kevin Stitt to commute Jones’ sentence to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Jones has been on death row for the 1999 shooting of businessman and father Paul Howell who was killed during a carjacking in his parent’s driveway, and has maintained his innocence.

Jones’ case has picked up significant national attention of several news outlets and the news of commutation elicited reactions.

“Thank you, @GovStitt.

This is a complicated and difficult case with many different view of what happened and what the outcome should be, but choosing life is never the wrong decision,” Stillwater Mayor Will Joyce Tweeted.

Audra Hester, an OSU senior, said she had friends participate in the protest at the capital and thought the action would not matter.

“But when I saw that he was granted Clemency without parole, I realized that they did help even if they have more stuff to do,” Hester said.

This decision comes after the execution of John Grant, who was the first person to be put to death in Oklahoma since the botched executions of Clayton Lockett in 2014 and Chares Warner in 2015. Grant reportedly convulsed and vomited during his execution.

This marks the 5th time clemency has been granted in Oklahoma’s history. Brad Henry was the last Oklahoma governor to do so, he granted clemency three times to death row inmates. Before Stitt, over 100 executions were carried out in 24 years of combined office years for the three previous governors.

On Wednesday, Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 to recommend clemency to Bigler Jobe Stouffer II. The clemency recommendation is for life without the possibility of parole. The board did not raise questions of his innocence, however, the members who voted for the recommendations expressed concerns over the state’s execution protocols.

In the state, multiple high schools experienced student walkouts including; PC West, PC North, Star Spencer, Choctaw, Classen SAS and Harding Preparatory High School. The rallies, walkouts, and protests focused on stopping Jones’ execution.

Tyler Hays, an OSU student said he would have hoped for Jones to have a chance for parole, but a life is saved.

“I saw that he was granted Clemency and that’s really good,” Hays said.

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Thriving culture Some OSU students at the Center of Sovereign Nations encourage students come out and learn about the culture.

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Native American Heritage Month extinct,” Holzworth said. “Literally, like they’re something of the past.”

Other students at the center agree with Holzworth. Ethan Winn is another Native American student, and he tries to educate people through language.

“Gavin is Cherokee and I’m helping Mak Vandruff him learn Cherokee,” Winn said. “So it’s Staff Reporter getting others that weren’t as involved and making them feel welcomed and involved It is Native American Heritage in the culture as well.”

Month and some Native American There are multiple ways of students at Oklahoma State said it can be spreading Native American awareness, an opportunity to educate. according to the Sovereign Nation There are students from 19 tribal Center. Spreading the language, playing nations serving at the Oklahoma State stickball, weekly recaps and education of Center for Sovereign Nations, according sovereignty are some of the ways it tries to the Sovereign Nation Center website. to share culture with the community.

The center has been holding events during Another student at the center, Kayli the month to honor Native American Nail, said the best way for people who Heritage Month, including meetings, an are not as connected with the Native art exhibit, games and more.

American culture to show respect is to However, students at the Sovereign educate themselves.

Nation Center are hoping Native and “I think it’s really important for non-Native students will continue to Natives and non-Natives to understand spread knowledge and education. Gavin how each tribe operates, or how the tribe Holzworth, a senior at OSU, said it is all in your area works,” Nail said. about awareness.

Shawn Ray, another student at “A lot of people think Natives are the center, encourages people to come

out and learn about the culture. Ray said students do not have to be Native American to appreciate this culture.

Everyone is welcomed and Ray said they are happy to spread awareness to people who want to learn.

“If you want to know about us, we’re here,” Ray said. “We’re at the center. We are very focused on learning about our own culture, but we want to show other people that too.”

Native American Heritage Month is about connecting and learning about Native Americans, according to the Center for Sovereign Nations at OSU. All students at OSU who wish to learn about Native Americans can stop by the center. One student, Miko Brandon said Native Americans are out exploring their culture in public to show it is still alive. Brandon wants people to come in with an open heart and a willingness to learn.

“We’re still here,” Brandon said.

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Home and during the holiday Sierra Walter Staff Reporter

Willistean Bennett Some Oklahoma State students will not be going home during the break.

The end of the semester is approaching, and fall break is around the corner.

Some students from different corners of the country, and even the world, are making plans on traveling home for the holidays.

Vivienne Sander, an international student, is from Germany. She said although she cannot make the trip home to Germany for fall break, she will be visiting her “host family” for Thanksgiving and looks forward to flying home over winter break.

“Over the fall break, I will stay with my host family in Ringling,” Sander said. “My host family is from when I was a foreign exchange student in High School, and I am still very close to them. Over winter break, I am flying back home to Germany.”

Sander said it will take two flights that are 12

hours each when traveling home to Germany. She said regulations that have surfaced due to COVID-19 have made traveling in and out of the country more difficult.

“COVID-19 has somewhat altered my plans because I have to be vaccinated to fly to Europe. Once I am in Germany, I will have to get a QR code which I will have to have on me at all times when I leave my house,” Sander said.

She said visiting family in Germany can be difficult because flying out of the country is easier than reentering the country.

“The only reason I am allowed back right now is because I have a student visa,” Sander said. “For example, my parents are not allowed to fly into the USA because they don’t have a work or student visa. So it is always easier to fly home.”

Juan Castro is from Costa Rica and a senior.

Castro said he plans on staying in the U.S. over

break, but that concur with COVID-19 restrictions.

“Costa Rica has been really open about COVID restrictions,” Castro said.

Hailey Walters, student from Illinois, said she is planning on making the ten-hour drive home over fall break.

“I am excited to be home for hunting season and to spend time with my family,” Walters said.

Sander said she is also looking forward to spending time with her host family over fall break and family over winter break but is thankful for the opportunity to return to OSU to finish her studies.

“After my foreign exchange year (in high school), I had to go back home to finish high school but I knew that I wanted to come back and study in the U.S,” Sander said. “I talked to many different people, and everyone told me that OSU would be the best fit for me because it is like a big family.” news.ed@ocolly.com

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Decision TIME Stillwater City Council discusses voting dates for TIME Projects Teyte Holcomb Staff Reporter As talk of the TIME Projects in the City of Stillwater continue, the Stillwater City Council discussed putting the vote for these new facilities and tax increases on a ballot sometime in the near future.

Last Monday, the city council discussed issues from budget amendments to building vacancies throughout the city of Stillwater.

Along with these issues, the twohour meeting further discussed the future of Stillwater’s Together Investing Municipal Excellence (TIME) Projects.

TIME, aims to specifically impact residents in the Stillwater community. The mission of the TIME Projects is “to build a vibrant community for every resident through (their) efficient services, shared spaces and smart planning,” according to Speak Up Stillwater.

As these projects like a new fire station, animal shelter and road improvements gained traction, the city council is now discussing how and when these issues will be voted on. Along with the new construction of these buildings, the council discussed a newly introduced “vistor’s tax.”

This would change the current 4% tax on hotels, longterm rentals etc. to 7%. While the current tax has not been changed since 1984, this revised plan would put more money toward “visitor development amenities,” in effort

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One of the Stillwater’s TIME Projects is a no-kill animal shelter.

to help draw more visitors to the Stillwater area.

Caroline York, a sophomore at Oklahoma State, said she does not think there is a need for the increased tax.

“Increasing a visitor’s tax for the first time in 35 years doesn’t seem like it will really help in the long term,” York said. “I am more interested to see how the new projects like the fire station are being developed.”

Talks about when these issues will be voted on were also addressed. The council discussed two elections, Feb. 8, 2022, and April 5, 2022, as potential voting dates for these issues.

The council reached an agreement which would put the two tax increases on the February ballot, while the bond issue for new facilities across Stillwater would be voted on in April 2022.

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Along with voting dates for the TIME Projects, members of the council gave COVID-19 updates in the Stillwater community.

Stillwater city mayor, Will Joyce, discussed the potential concern for an increase in COVID-19 rates in the upcoming months.

“It’s starting to be flu season,” Joyce said. “If you haven’t gotten vaccinated, please consider doing that. Children’s vaccines are now available in the community and we hope everyone will take advantage of that.”

Though other issues were discussed during last Monday’s City Council meeting and the two voting dates have not been permanently set in stone, members of the council agreed these structural and tax issues in the community need to be addressed as soon as possible. news.ed@ocolly.com

Oklahoma State’s religious exemption form is made up of of checking points to affirm their beliefs, observances or practices and then a signature confirmation. Once a religious exemption request is submitted, university officials said the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity will be the deciding factor on religious and the medical exemptions.

Other universities such as the University of Oklahoma and Washington State University, have different exemption forms. OU requires individuals to provide a statement to give reasoning for requesting a religious exemption and an acknowledgement affirming the information to be true.

Employees at Oklahoma State who have submitted a religious or medical exemption may expect communication within five business days from the Office of Equal Opportunity, according to OSU’s FAQ list.

At the Nov. 9 faculty council meeting, Dr. Johnny Stephens, president of the OSU Center for Health Sciences said the university will using the policies in place. He said on Jan. 5, they will not be eliminating employment at that time. He said this is a point in time where they will work on additional education and corrective action plans.

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Rowdy Baribeau

Rowdy Baribeau

Rowdy Baribeau The veterans center was originally located on the edge of campus, but now the Student Union location is more centralized and more accessible area.

Rowdy Baribeau Staff Reporter

and love.”

Although Oliver took the initiative to get the university involved, Emerson Nowell began the bags for veterans Dr. Kayse Shrum, president project in 2018 with a small goal of of Oklahoma State, announced the getting ten bags for veterans. Nowell reopening of the Student Veterans and her family ended up with 1,500 Success Center located at room 061 in bags for veterans in 2018 going over the basement of the Student Union. their goal. In the same year, they raised In addition to the reopening enough donation bags to cover six of ceremony, OSU freshman, Emerson seven VA living centers in Oklahoma.

Nowell, a freshman, introduced a Over the past three years, Nowell and project geared toward giving back to her family received over 5,000 donation veterans. Ashlyn Oliver, a student and bags for veterans.

Gamma Phi Beta member, started the For Nowell, she has a special project. place in her heart for veteran soldiers “One day I emailed every head because of her lineage. coach and President Shrum,” Oliver “Both my grandpas are veterans, said. “I think within the week they were so I’ve always had a big appreciation all like ‘yeah, we’ll help.’ One way they for veterans,” Nowell said. “It means so incorporated us with the reopening of much to me now. Some of the veterans the veteran center was by having us go will show up at our house just to talk out and announce that OSU was taking and they call us all the time. My family on the challenge of doing 800 bags. and I really count them as family now.”

Earlier today I think there was 125 bags Nowell expressed her gratification delivered, so I think (the veterans) are to the university for allowing her to going to be overflowed with donations pursue this project here in Stillwater.

“I can’t begin to express how humbling it is as a freshman to have this university embrace a project that started in my home nearly four years ago,” Nowell said.

Shrum also has military roots in her family she takes pride in.

“My paternal grandparents were both in the Navy; my father was in the Navy, a Vietnam veteran,” said Shrum said. “So, supporting veterans is important to me because I know first hand, I guess from a personal perspective, the sacrifices they’ve made for our country and for people that they will never meet, so we can do things like this.”

The veterans center was originally located on the edge of campus, but now the Student Union is now at the Student Union. Shrum said she takes pride in the reopening of the success center and sees it as a benefit for veterans returning to get their degree.

“Just giving our student veterans a place where they can get resources, where they can find support and

really transition into academic life, where they may not feel comfortable, it’s very important,” Shrum said. “I think important to also our land-grant mission and providing access. I think it’s just a small thing that we can do here at the university.”

Shrum said she was also excited to work with students and their philanthropy project geared toward helping veterans.

“It’s not elaborate Christmas gifts, but it’s comfort things, pajamas, blankets, things that they may not have.

Just a little way to show that people care and appreciate the sacrifices that they’ve made,” Shrum said.

“It’s absolutely something I want to do and I want to help support students to be able to lead initiatives like this because that’s what Oklahoma State University and students experiences is about, is growing.”

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Students venture to break Bailey Sisk Staff Reporter

300 days a year

Karisa Sheely

Abernathy has stopped in Stillwater to share his music twice.

The story of one garage show at a time Ellen Slater Lifestyle Editor In a multi-coloredChristmas-light lit, wooden garage on University Circle, Brendan Abernathy strummed his acoustic guitar in front of dozens of college students.

Stillwater is the latest stop on his never-ending road trip.

The young musician travels 300 days a year doing what he loves most, performing music.

The beanie wearing, Volkswagenturned-home living singer and song-writer said that Stillwater is one of his favorite places in the world to stop and perform.

“Through mutual friends I got connected with some folks in Stillwater last spring and showed up to town knowing no one. That night in March started something special - my unexpected love for Stillwater,” Abernathy said.

“When I was deciding when to release my lead single for my next record, which is called Sober, I chose to do so when my concert in Stillwater was scheduled because I knew that while in town I would feel encouraged and loved by the friends and fans I’ve made here.”

When in Stillwater, the faith-driven musician performs at house shows filled with members of the Young Life College community. His exposure to the

“Sober” is Abernathy’s newest release. It came out this week.

organization here in Stillwater has led him to bring his talents to Young Life camps across the country.

“I believe in the ministry and its mission, especially its vision for how music can impact lives,” Abernathy said.

One of the OSU students that has grown to know Abernathy and visits to Stillwater- even giving him a place to stay for a night outside of his Volkswagen, is Jake Hill.

“No matter how many cities and college towns Brendan travels to, he will still remember almost everyone he meets by name,” Hill

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more time with family, which is a plus because I haven’t been home since I don’t have a car up Fall break and here,” Shuster said. “I’m Thanksgiving break have riding with my sister to combined as one this my house in Fort Worth, year to give students and Texas, and we have our faculty an entire week grandparents coming off for the holiday at down for Thanksgiving Oklahoma State. week. We also have a This is the first time big feast planned; all the in years the university kids are making different has closed for more than Thanksgiving foods. I three days during the have been assigned with week of Thanksgiving. the cookies. I’ll also Students are using their get to reconnect with week off to spend time all of my friends from with loved ones and relax high school that went to before finishing off the different colleges that semester.

I haven’t seen in a long Thanksgiving break time.” will be the first break Bedlam being students have received the Saturday after aside from Labor Day. Thanksgiving also cuts Harper Davis, a senior, the break short. The extra is looking forward to days off are allowing spending time with students attending family for the first time in the game to spend the past few months. extra time with family “I plan on going before traveling back to home and spending time Stillwater. with family,” Davis said.

“My plans for “I haven’t been able to see Thanksgiving break are them this semester, so it’ll to help my cousin cook be nice to catch up with dinner and play board everyone, eat good food games with my family,” and watch football. This said junior, Emily will be one of the first Rodriguez. “I’m glad years I’m involved in the we are getting the entire actual meal preparation week off so I can spend so I’m looking forward to time with everyone before learning all the recipes I head back to Stillwater and getting to make for Bedlam.” those memories with my As the OSU family grandmother and mom.” spends the upcoming The extended week with family, friends break is helpful for and relaxation, campus students who have no will remain still as dead transportation while at week and finals slowly school. Freshman, Sam approach.

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“He is one of the most down to earth people you will ever meet.”

Abernathy describes his music as good, swaggy, and a strong “Swiftian flare,” due to his main influence in his music are women.

While the singer is traveling full time to expand his fan base and share his music, his music can be streamed everywhereSpotify, Apple Music, Youtube, TikTok. It can all be found under Brendan Abernathy.

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Willistean Bennett Students plan for first week long Thanksgiving break.

Mr. and Ms. International are crowned related back to their countries, and even though they are showcasing their talents, the point is to give everyone an opportunity to see what different cultures are like. The students could show this by representing Mak Vandruff their country’s festivals, music, Staff Reporter food and other various pieces of culture. Nijihawan also said this Culture is highly gave everyone an opportunity to emphasized for some check out other people’s cultures. international students, and The rounds of the the Mr. and Ms. International event also served to show the pageant is a chance for them to community aspects of a different show that. country’s lifestyle. According Last Friday, students were to Tang, her favorite part of the invited to compete in a pageant pageant was the talent show. to recognize those from other “I did a traditional Chinese countries. They competed in dance for the audience,” Tang different events, like a talent said. show and a Q&A, to represent On the other hand, Nukala each of their countries. In said he enjoyed the Q&A section the end, there were only two because of one of the questions winners. he was asked. He said he was Shuqin Tang won Ms. happy to make the audience China and Viswanath Nukala laugh. won Mr. India.

This whole pageant was One of the lead organizers also a very good opportunity to of the event, Chhavi Nijhawan, encourage other international emphasized the importance of students as well, Nukala said. this event leading students to He said anyone could step recognize, express and learn outside their comfort zone if he about other people’s cultures. could, as an introvert.

“It’s how you explore other “If I inspire somebody, cultures,” Nijhawan said. “This is since I was inspired by so the most important opportunity many people, it is good help to for people who live in America to someone at least,” Nukala said. know what different cultures are “If I could be that inspiration, about.” that would be great.”

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Ms. China at Mr. and Ms. International.

Mr. and Ms. International were crowned this Friday.

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What Were You Wearing? Exhibition

Kiara Wood

What Were You Wearing started as an art exhibit at the University of Arkansas in 2013.

to expand on this to include anonymous student stories.

Q: Can you go into detail about what inspired this event?

A: We have been doing this, this is our fourth or fifth year and we Anna Pope have expanded a little bit past that, and we are able to use specifically News Editor the experiences of OSU students and share those anonymously. Kind of the Reader warning: The content of whole point of the program is to bring this piece discusses sexual assault. For awareness to the fact that sexual assault some readers, the topic of may cause cannot be implied and that clothing is discomfort. not a reason, nor does it justify sexual The “What Were You Wearing?” assault. exhibition displays the outfits some Q: How do you reach out to students were wearing when they were these students to get these programs? sexually assaulted.

A: What we do is we just allow Olivia Pindleton is the students to submit them anonymously, Coordinator of 1 is 2 Many at Oklahoma so we usually send out some social State and she said this exhibition media posts and then I think students started as an art exhibit and were able find it that way. But I also think because

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Continued from 1A Arthur said she does not plan to slow down her mission of helping children in Haiti any time soon.

However, she reminds herself to conquer one need at a time while focusing on the overall goal of Paths That Lead to Home.

Arthur said she and her team are working toward getting each child who comes into their care back on their feet. One of the main pillars of their organization is social reintegration. Those involved want these young people to grow up and have the opportunity to pursue college, attend a trade school, reconnect with family, live a healthy lifestyle and more. She said they want the children to be able to support themselves and be contributing members of the Haitian community.

“They’re very delayed in their education, in their social skills. A lot of them have a lot of trauma,” Arthur said.

Most of the children come from challenging situations. One child’s story specifically sticks out to Arthur when she thinks about the children’s home in Haiti.

“Some of them were just abandoned after the 2010 earthquake,” she said. “My sponsor child, his name is Sammy, and he was 2 when I first met him in 2014, and now he’s like 8 or 9. He was abandoned on the side of the road after the earthquake.”

Sammy’s story is one of the backgrounds from the children.

Despite the obstacles, Arthurs said helping them have a future that is full of hope and opportunity is Arthur’s

main priority.

“Right now, especially with COVID hitting — with any organization probably, I feel it’d be this way — donations are very hard to get in,” she said. “Paths That Lead to Home is 100% donation-based, so 100% of the money that we receive goes towards the kids. Things like our website and all of our marketing and things like that, I spend my own money on that so all the donations can go towards the kids.”

Arthur’s works at a local chiropractic clinic. She’s also working on finishing her senior year at OSU and applying to different chiropractic colleges. She said juggling the stress of life after graduation is a common occurrence for her as well.

However, Arthur noticed on several occasions how different her college experience has been compared to others since she started her nonprofit as a freshman.

“Juggling work and school and the organization as a whole has caused me to have to prioritize things and realize that I can only spend so much time on things,” Arthur explained.

“Time management has been huge…I am responsible for all 25 of the kids that we have, making sure that their needs are met, and that is a lot of pressure. I don’t think people realize that. I’ll post things on social media just on my own like, Facebook page or whatever, and I don’t think people realize the extent of what I’m having to do.”

Some college students are not worrying about a meeting they had with their accountant who made a small error on their nonprofit’s tax return, or the several steps needed to be taken with the IRS to fix the mistake.

Arthur loves what she does, though. When she thinks of the

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it’s a recurring event we always do it the week before Thanksgiving break. I think people just know to kind of look for it and so they can just go online and anonymously share if they desire to.

Q: What does it mean to you to be able to share people’s stories like this?

A: Oh, I think it’s so important.

I think we need to bring awareness to sexual assault and bring down those stereotypes that often accompany conversations of sexual assault. And we do need to let people know that their clothing is not an invitation, and there’s nothing you can do to imply consent. Consent can only be asked for and received, and mutual. Bringing awareness to that is really really important. I think something else I really like about the display is that it allows students to interact with the

Kiara Wood This event features anonymous Oklahoma State student’s stories and what they were wearing during their assault.

conversation in a way that they kind of get to control. They get to read and look at as many outfits and descriptions as they want and not have to participate in a conversation unless they choose to. news.ed@ocolly.com

OSU student, Emalee Arthur started the nonprofit Paths That Lead to Home.

orphanage in Haiti and how she’s actively helping it be restored, Arthur said she knows in her heart that she would never choose any other path for herself — no matter how busy it may be.

Although Arthur’s schedule may be different than her fellow students, it intrigues her to hear about their and what they do with their free time in comparison to her life outside of school. She does not have time to other things outside of her schoolwork and running the organization, but Arthur said she believes everyone prioritizes things in their lives differently.

She said one of life’s biggest, and often most complicated, tasks is figuring out what one’s priorities are for themselves. While some students go on weekend trips participate in other activities, Arthurs schedule looks different.

“The weekend is my time to clean up for the next week,” she said.

“I do a lot of my zoom calls for the organization on Sunday’s, and that’s

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my time to do all that stuff, and so again, that time management plays a lot into it. The kids our age are solely focused on school and then work and then they have all this free time, and I don’t see a lot of free time in my schedule…It’s interesting for me to see the priorities of other kids when I obviously have mine, but I’m like, ‘Wow I cannot believe you get to do that on Friday night,’ you know?”

Arthur’s college experience is unique. While some students may be dreaming about an internship in New York or a study abroad to Scotland, Arthur is in thought about the next time she will get to visit Fonds Parisien.

“I’ve been to Haiti multiple times,” Arthur explained. “I knew since the first time going to Haiti that Haiti would forever be somewhere I would go travel to and create friends and just go visit and contribute to.” news.ed@ocolly.com

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A new champion reigns Jaden Betesda Staff Reporter

FIFA.” Craig has big plans beyond college and hopes to take his major and do something impactful.

ESports has been rising for about “I wanted to be an electrical a decade now. engineer because my father was.” Craig Oklahoma State has done its best said. “It seemed like the easy path to to implement its hand in the cause. choose and it was really interesting. I The Colvin Recreation Center hope to make a positive impact in the held an ESports tournament for several world.” sports video games.

“Mostly on the environmental Nate Craig, an Oklahoma State side. I want to help with renewable freshman and electrical engineer major, resources and solar wind and other stuff has spent a lot of time to his studies, but like that. Hopefully by the end I can say he will also dominate in FIFA. that I did.”

Winning three straight games, Nate Craig has semesters of Nate ultimately took home the studying electrical engineering ahead of satisfaction of being the champion. him before he can officially take on that “I’m really into soccer. I watch a title, but for now, he feels confident he lot of soccer and play a lot of soccer,” could dominate most people in FIFA. Craig said. “I play some other games like Rocket League, Grand Theft Auto and Madden. Those are mainly the games I play but obviously I’m best at entertainment.ed@ocolly.com

Zachary Hunter Winning three straight games, Nate Craig won the FIFA tournament.

Courtesy of Tribune News Service Taylor Swift is rerecording all of her albums in order to gain ownership. Red (Taylor’s Version) was released this week.

Swift successfully rebrands a classic Jaden Betesda Staff Reporter

smash hit has a bassline that’s so much more distinct.

Swift is almost a decade older now since the original came out so Review naturally her voice is much stronger and has a more mature feel to it. It “Red” by Taylor Swift is honestly makes the album so much already an iconic album but after the better that way. The new sounds don’t rerecording of the 2008 album Fearless just refer to her screaming ‘hey” in the it was time for Taylor to do the same for background of a song. They come from “Red”. every second we hear Swift. Instead of The entire purpose of the being 22 she’s 31, so there’s a little bit rerecordings is for Swift to take the of magic that can be made when music songs and release versions she actually is being created with reflection. owns, while expanding on the music It is not just the reworking of and giving a fresh feel. songs on the original album, it also “Red” (Taylor’s Version) does just comes with six new songs. Most of that. them are good enough to account for When “Red” came out in 2012, a completely new album. “Run” ft. Ed it was Swift’s coming out party to Sheeran, “All Too Well (10 Minute so many different sounds. She was Version)”, and “I Bet You Think About experimenting with pop, EDM, rock, Me” are definitely stand outs. All folk and several other sounds. Almost combine the folky-pop sound that Swift like a tuneup to what was to come is so known for and display what she with her next two albums “1989” and does better than anyone else.

“Reputation.” This time around the All in all, “Red” (Taylor’s new version of the album does even Version) is supposed to be all the more experimenting and adds different same songs of the original but still strings, lines and background to every be a different album. I think she song. Some changes are of course accomplished that goal. There’s still minimal and some are more noticeable. four more albums to re-record so time For instance, “Girl at Home” the very will tell if she can pull that off time quiet folk song, is now an electronic after time. However, if she does, having pop song. “All Too Well (10 Minute 2 different versions of very good albums Version)” which is so much longer it’s is a feat that not many if anyone can technically a new song with completely ever say. entertainment.ed@ocolly.com new lyrics. “22” the title track and

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Stillwater coffee wars Holiday edition

Caribou Coffee Ho Ho Mint Mocha Cooler (Dark Chocolate) The Caribou Coffee location inside the student union offers three specialty holiday drinks: the Spicy Mocha, the Ho Ho Mint Mocha and the Fa La Latte. The Mint Mocha has proven to be the most popular of the three, and it can be served in hot, cold or cooler form with a dark, milk or white chocolate base. I ordered a cooler with dark chocolate. It’s a tad on the sweet side, but it has a perfect blend of espresso, chocolate and peppermint flavor in every sip. The presentation is also aesthetically pleasing, as the drink is topped with whipped cream, drizzles of chocolate syrup and crushed-up pieces of candy canes, complete with a special holiday-themed cup. Caribou has given students many of options to choose from this holiday season, but the Ho Ho Mint Mocha is the perfect drink for anyone looking for a relaxing, sweet treat to get into the holiday spirit.

Stephen Stumph Staff Reporter It is now the middle of November, and businesses around Stillwater have begun preparing for the holiday season. Perhaps the most festive locations have been coffee shops, as Caribou Coffee, Starbucks, Dutch Bros and many other businesses around the city have introduced their limited-edition holiday drink lines. These holiday drink menus come with a wide variety of flavors and options, with something for everyone to enjoy this holiday season.

Starbucks Irish Cream Cold Brew For those looking for a sweet holiday treat that is more coffee and less “coffee drink.” Starbucks’ Irish Cream Cold Brew is the way to go. One of Starbucks’ signature holiday drinks, the Irish Cream Cold Brew mixes Starbucks’ black coffee with Irish cream syrup, vanilla foam and sprinkled cocoa. When mixed properly, the drink is complemented with equal parts of vanilla, sweetness, and the rich coffee flavor that everyone enjoys. And for people who are not the biggest fans of cold drinks, the Irish Cream can also be served hot, making it the perfect warm and refreshing drink during the cold winter mornings.

Dutch Bros White Chocolate Iced Chai Latte (no whipped cream) Dutch Bros, this coffee shop has its origins on the west coast of the United States, broke ground and opened its location in Stillwater at the beginning of the semester. The location has a double drive-thru that is almost always packed, and for good reason: they offer a wide variety of drink selections that each have their own unique and delicious flavors. One of the featured holiday drinks that Dutch Bros offers its White Chocolate Chai Latte. I ordered mine iced and without whipped cream, and it was a unique flavor combination that turned out to be quite delicious. The white chocolate taste was distinct, and it was a nice compliment to the chai flavor that makes this drink a must-have for this holiday season.

Other notable mentions: Caramel Brulée Frappuccino from Starbucks and the peppermint mochas from Aspen and Balanced.

No matter where one goes to get their caffeine fix, it is sure that there are seasonal drinks available.

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Forever rallying Remembering Budke and Serna a decade after tragic plane crash

Living legend Malcolm (left) and Roman (right) Rodriguez helped forge the family legacy in Wagoner.

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Rodriguez’s legacy lives on in Wagoner beginning.

Rodriguez started playing football when he was in first grade, and from the beginning, he didn’t take defeat well. But it was that same competitiveness, which stuck with his mother, Shanna, to know Chris Becker he had what it took to be good.

Assistant Sports Editor “I remember his coach having to pull him up after a There’s no road sign tackle. If he got tackled, the signaling Wagoner as Malcolm coach would have to pull him up Rodrigez’s home. by the pads and throw him in the Yet. huddle because he’d be crying, he But his impact is still felt would take it pretty personally,” throughout the city.

Shanna said. “He’s always been Rodriguez, known as the competitive from the get go.” hard-hitting, teeth-shattering The competitiveness and linebacker for Oklahoma State, strive to win was fueled by being was carving out his legacy long the middle child. Having two other before he stepped foot onto OSU’s brothers only fueled the hunger to campus. be the best.

“His parents push him, and Having Roman to set an they don’t mind telling their kids example for him also elevated that they need to go harder and his journey and path to being the be better and be tougher. I think athlete he would become. a big part of what made him the “It’s survival of the fittest if character he is,” said coach Dale you’re not an only child,” Shanna Condict, Rodriguez’s high school said. “Roman really just set the coach. tone. Roman worked really hard as Surviving with his brothers well. He’s been very instrumental Being the middle child is in pushing Malcolm and Gabe.” never easy.

Malcolm then took it to Malcolm, the middle of three himself to pass on the favor to brothers with older brother Roman Gabe as an older brother, which and younger brother Gabe, had grit has spread his roots throughout and fight instilled in him from the Wagoner.

Building his legacy Malcolm was the second talented Rodriguez, behind Roman, to come into Wagoner High School, but Malcolm caught Condict’s eyes in middle school.

“When we first got him in the seventh grade, he was a solid player,” Condict said.

It was in 2014 when Condict saw Malcolm begin to take off, and it was all in order to help the team.

Malcolm, Roman and Condict’s son, Austin, were instrumental in rallying the team in the offseason in order to keep the train rolling with a young team.

What started as a group of 10 or 12 kids became 20 kids working in the gym preparing for the Wagoner season, with Malcolm taking big strides.

“I can remember Malcolm really starting to take off, physically improve, when he hit the weightroom hard, he was naturally pretty strong,” Condict said.

When Malcolm eventually got his chance, at quarterback, he took another stride forward and sparked an offense that needed something new.

of nervous,” DonohoePatman said. “We were like, is this a practice thing? Or something serious, for them to do this.”

The meeting was to Davis Cordova inform the team Budke Staff Reporter and Serna passed away in a plane crash during their Many team trip to Arkansas. On members didn’t know of Wednesday night, Littell the recruiting trip coach and OSU honored the 10Kurt Budke and assistant year anniversary of the coach Miranda Serna plane crash at Gallaghertook on the evening of Iba Arena in Stillwater.

Nov. 17, 2011.

“I was completely Lindsey Keller, shocked,” Keller said. a player on the 2011 “Most of us didn’t even Oklahoma State women’s know they were going basketball team, was one on a recruiting trip in of many who were out of general. We didn’t know the loop. they were traveling.”

The morning of Devastation took Nov. 18, then assistant over the Cowgirl locker coach Jim Littell was room. No direction for awakened by OSU police the next steps of the at 3:01 a.m. and called season. a team meeting shortly “Basketball seems after. Players were to take a backseat at that contacted and all had no point and you’re just kind idea what the meeting of worried about your was for. team and their families, Some players, like and just how things are Liz Donohoe-Patman, going to go from here,” were still asleep when Keller said. they were called to the The Cowgirls still gym. They eventually had a whole season ahead woke up to team of them. Only one game managers banging on was played before the their doors at 4 a.m. crash.

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File Photo Coach Jim Littell replaced Kurt Budke as OSU’s women basketball coach after Budke’s death.

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When eligibility expires on a college athlete

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Ben Hutchens Digital Editor For the first time in her life, Hannah Webb doesn’t know when she’ll next kick a soccer ball.

“It might be a while,” Webb said.

Webb has been kicking soccer balls for the past 18 years, but now faces the reality of the end of her soccer career. A difficult thought for the super senior, who played five years of college soccer, to fathom. Now, Webb begins a new career: life as a high school math teacher in Destin, Florida.

Although she didn’t have a lot of confidence about it, Webb had to watch the NCAA soccer postseason selection show. The Oklahoma State Cowgirls lost in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament, a win or two shy of

Hannah Webb’s college career is behind her and a career in the classroom awaits.

what they thought might get them on the bubble. She said it was difficult to watch.

“When they announced the final team, that made it official because we kind of knew that we weren’t getting in but, obviously, it wasn’t official until the selection

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show was over,” Webb said. “So, after that, it kind of hit me that I was like, ‘Wow, like I’m done with college soccer.’”

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OSU vying for title in Tallahassee

OSU’s men’s team is ranked No. 3 in the country.

of 30:24.86 in the 10k race.

The men’s team will enter the championship race ranked third in the country. The women’s team will enter its race ranked sixth in the country.

In order to take home the championship or any hardware at all both OSU teams are going to need their full slate of runners to be present and at their best.

The competition is stiff and the races will more than likely come down to depth.

Good times lead to Tallahassee, and maybe a national title.

Due to their stellar performance in the NCAA Midwest Regional Championship at the Ashton Cross-Country Course in Iowa City, Oklahoma State’s men and women cross country teams have made it to the national championships.

For the women, Taylor Roe took charge for the team and ran the 6k race with a time of 20:46.27. While on the men’s team Ryan Smeeton finished first for the Cowboys with a time See Title on 4B

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OSU’s offense hitting stride down final stretch games, albeit against marginal defenses in Kansas, West Virginia and TCU. The offense’s health continues to improve each week, allowing the unit to continue Dean Ruhl complimenting a stout defense.

Receivers Tay Martin, Jaden Sports Editor Bray, Blaine Green and others have missed games with lingering Blaine and Bryson Green are injuries, but with the wide receiver inseparable. group operating healthy now, OSU They sit next to each other has been able to run deeper at each on the plane. They share the same receiver spot. room. They stand next to each “Those guys have been other at practice. out there now for a number of “I’ve got a retired equestrian weeks and so you’re seeing some horse, and I have a miniature improvement in some chemistry horse,” coach Mike Gundy said. with them and (quarterback) “That miniature is just kind Spencer (Sanders),” Gundy said. of attached to wherever that Added to the recent large equestrian goes. Well, they’re the margins of victory, OSU’s same way.” underclassmen have had ample It would seem the only opportunity to contribute to the time the Green twins are not offense’s efficiency. intertwined is when one is on the The same success is seen football field. Even then, the two on the offensive line, who since freshmen wide receivers have put Boise State has played with the up similar stats through OSU’s five starters they’ve wanted. first 10 games.

Against TCU, left guard Josh Sills The Green twins, and was replaced by Tyrese Williams, numerous other underclassmen, and center Danny Godlevske was have become integral in the OSU replaced by Joe Michalski after (9-1, 6-1 Big 12) offense, which suffering undisclosed injuries. has hit its stride over the past “It is just having trust in few games. The Cowboys have one another,” offensive lineman averaged 47.3 points the past three Hunter Woodard said. “I knew that

Joe and Tyrese could step up and nothing is going to change.”

Sanders’ progression has also led to the meshing of offensive pieces. Gundy said he has improved in his decision-making, knowing when to throw a pass out of bounds on a busted play, or even taking a sack if necessary.

“He is making smart decisions,” Woodard said. “I think he worked really hard on this offseason, this spring and August.

No doubt it is showing up in the games.”

When those areas struggled earlier this season, the one constant was the running back room.

Jaylen Warren burst into the starting spot after a 218-yard performance against Boise State and has since rushed for 1,041 yards this season.

Running back Dominic Richardson said the depth at the position has helped keep everyone fresh, and be a consistent part of the offense when other aspects struggle.

“It helps save our backs,” Richardson said. “We have a big crew for the running backs, very healthy, very strong and very talented. It helps us a lot to have that many backs in the backfield to keep everyone fresh.” sports.ed@ocolly.com

Key matchup OSU vs. Texas Tech Daniel Allen Staff Reporter

Erik Ezukama vs. Jarrick Bernard-Converse

Texas Tech star wide receiver Erik Ezukama leads the Red Raiders with four touchdown receptions and 685 receiving yards this year.

OSU cornerback Jarrick Bernard-Converse has established himself as a corner, providing a key presence to an already highly talented Oklahoma State secondary.

If the Cowboys want to come out of Lubbock 10-1, they must slow down the Red Raider receiving core, starting with Ezukama. sports.ed@ocolly.com

3 players to watch OSU vs. Texas Tech Gabriel Trevino Staff Reporter

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Dominic Richardson - RB The backup running back is coming off one of his best statistical games of his OSU career. Richardson ran for 134 yards and two touchdowns, on just 12 attempts, for an absurd 11.2 yards per carry. Look for him to get consistent snaps playing behind Jaylen Warren.

Unique trend

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Oklahoma State’s offense is averaging 47.3 points per game over the past three games.

Cowboys draw opponents after best performances

Sam Hutchens Staff Reporter There is no better example than Kansas.

You would not have known it from the Jayhawks 52-point loss Oklahoma State, but Kansas was coming off its best game of the year when they arrived in Stillwater.

Sporting a 1-5 record on Oct. 23, the then-winless Jayhawks took Big 12 powerhouse Oklahoma to the wire. While the strong Kansas showing has been chalked up to a fluke — it would have been KU’s first win over OU since 1997 — there is a trend that has emerged.

OSU’s opponents are coming in hot.

It’s not just the Jayhawks.

Jaylen Warren has faced a string of opponents playing well.

The last five Cowboy opponents have played their best game the week before their game against OSU. Texas played OU to one score at the Cotton Bowl and Iowa State beat Kansas State.

Kansas had its aforementioned performance before coming to Stillwater and West Virginia beat a ranked Cyclone before hosting the Pokes.

Courtesy of Texas Tech Athletics

Donovan Smith - QB The former three-star prospect from Las Vegas, will make his second start at quarterback for the Red Raiders. The third-string true freshman completed almost 80% of his passes, totaled 372 yards of offense, and throwing three touchdowns in their victory over Iowa State.

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“Yes, it has been crazy… but like I said we just focus on us right now,” running back Dominic Richardson said. “Working what we need to get better on. Just seeing that, we don’t take notice.

The next opponent is going to be pretty strong. No matter what.

That’s the mindset.”

Rashod Owens - WR Texas Tech’s passing defense is the worst in the Big 12, and one of the bottom in the NCAA. After big games from wide receivers Tay Martin and Brennan Presley, Rashod Owens may not get as much attention from defenders, and get open.

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Quote of the week:

Legend...

Hunter Woodard on the what he remembers from Lubbock in 2019:

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“There were a lot of tortillas on the field. I think I saw some batteries too.”

A Texas Tech student-led movement to throw tortillas onto the field after the opening kickoff began in 1989.

3 storylines OSU vs. Texas Tech Ben Creider Staff Reporter

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Knowles knows Oklahoma State has rallied around defensive coordinator Jim Knowles progressively throughout the season, and with a high-octane offense in Texas Tech awaiting - winning with the defense is a top priority. The Red Raiders rank fourth in the conference in points (33.6 PPG) and third in the conference in total yards (440.6 YPG.)

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Lunacy in Lubbock The Cowboys are not the only team riding into Saturday with high spirits. The Red Raiders rumble into Saturday’s matchup fresh off of a 41-38 upset against Iowa State that ended in a crowd-storming last-second 62-yard field goal from Jonathan Garibay.

Freshman quarterback Donovan Smith made his first career start last week, tossed 322 yards in the air and 50 yards on the run.

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Conference-championship bid at stake for OSU The 9-1 Cowboys currently cherish a two-way tie with Oklahoma for first in the Big 12, garnering 6-1 conference records. OSU owns a tiebreaker over the third place Baylor Bears, who currently hold a 5-2 in-conference record. As a result, OSU’s ticket to Arlington could be punched as soon as Saturday with a win. sports.ed@ocolly.com

Number of the week:

274.4

Texas Tech’s passing yards per game. The number is second in the Big 12 and 27th in the country.

“We had a scrimmage, where things weren’t clicking offensively, and we put Malcolm in,” Condict said. “And then it just the light came on, you know, it was just something magic about how he handled himself and how he could handle pressure.”

Malcolm won the starting quarterback job for the opening game, as a sophomore. Then before long, he was playing both quarterback and outside linebacker. He wasn’t big when he was playing those positions his sophomore year, Condict said Malcolm was probably around 5-foot-8 in his season.

Despite the occasional struggle that season, Wagoner, led

by Malcolm, made a run, and won a state championship.

His junior year, Malcolm came back bigger, faster and stronger.

“He made a huge leap in, you know, his size, his strength, his speed, everything just dramatically changed from sophomore to junior year, and all of a sudden, he was 5-foot-11, 185 pounds, and extremely strong and a great tackler, and it just took off from there,” Condict said.

His talent and ability, especially as a tackler, was fueled from being a multi-sport athlete.

One of Malcolm’s other successful endeavors was as a state champion wrestler, which carried to the football field in the form of physicality.

“I think it’s extremely important when it comes to toughness, when it comes to understanding, you know, tackling, and how to use your leverage,” Condict said. “I’ve come to really love the sport of wrestling since I’ve been here. And just the discipline and the toughness that it creates.”

Malcolm Rodriguez moved to fifth all-time in school tackles last Saturday.

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lot of awards as a coach. My career has flourished, because of Malcolm Rodriguez. I feel that wholeheartedly. I feel like he’s the kind of player you could put on most of our teams and we’d probably win the state championship.”

Becoming a Cowboy Malcolm wasn’t highly recruited as a high school prospect, but that didn’t stop him.

He continued to work his way up, hoping for his shot.

Then OSU found him, and when they did, it didn’t take long for coach Mike Gundy to know he was their guy.

“When we found out about him and being a four-sport guy and all that and then watched him on tape, we offered him and tried to get him ASAP,” Gundy said.

It wasn’t just the athleticism of Malcolm that stood out to Gundy and the OSU staff, it was his high IQ and character levels, stemming from his work ethic and ability to play four sports.

“There’s not a lot of people running around that can be a multiple state champion wrestler, play shortstop in baseball to the level to get drafted, be a quarterback on a team that went 33-1 over his career without being very savvy (in the head),” Gundy said.

good,” Knowles said. “We work really well together. He’s almost like a son to me.”

Rodriguez, known as a strong tackler and a signature piece to OSU’s 2021 defense, moved into solo fifth all-time in OSU history in career tackles with a sack on TCU quarterback Chandler Morris last Saturday.

Malcolm now sits at 370 tackles.

“It’s an awesome feeling.

The guys before me just being up there with him just regulating stuff,” Malcolm said. “It’s hard to explain, I’m not a big take pride in that kind of guy. I just go out there and play football.”

The lowkey attitude is something which his parents have always instilled in their kids.

“To have a good attitude, be humble. If you lose, you don’t say much and if you win, you say less.

It makes you likeable,” Shanna said. “Your talents and your performance will do the talking for you.”

An everlasting legacy As you follow the white painted dog paw prints up to the Wagoner High School football facility, Malcolm’s legacy still reverberates through the lockers now. A locker room which includes his younger brother, Gabe, and players who never played with Malcolm, but they all know the history.

“He’s a role model around here. We all know to win our attitude and mindset needs to be like Malcolm’s. Everyone on this team looks up to him,” said Gabe Goodnight, a current Wagoner linebacker. “We all know him as a celebrity, and we’re happy for him and the success he is having.”

In a town of nearly 9,000, it’s not every day a player of Courtesy of Shanna Rodriguez Malcolm’s caliber comes through, Malcolm Rodriguez left everlasting legacy in his hometown. and the impact is felt throughout the city.

Malcolm’s junior year Malcolm eventually “He’s kind of defied the odds saw him, again, lead Wagoner committed to OSU, even though a little bit, I guess, the statistics,” to another state championship. he was constantly told he was too Shanna said. “Coming from a Then the Bulldogs did it again his small to be impactful from other small town, we don’t normally senior year. The most impressive teams, including Tulsa. put out a lot of big prospects like feat wasn’t the back-to-back state He never let it stop him. that. So by Malcolm coming out titles, rather it was the fact that “Every level they said, ‘Oh, and doing what he did, that has Rodriguez and the team didn’t lose he’s not big enough. He’s not this opened the avenue and increased a game those two years. When and that,’” Condict said. “I can tell the motivation for a lot of younger graduation rolled around, Malcolm you a list of colleges that wouldn’t kids.” had won his final 37 high school recruit him because he wasn’t big Back to that road sign, which football games. enough. Then he goes to OSU and his mom admits isn’t important to Wagoner went on, after does what he’s done there.” him, Condict said he’s sure some Malcolm had gone off to college, Malcolm, although primarily sort of recognition will eventually to increase their win streak to a on special teams, found a role take place, but for now, they are state record 48 straight wins. Even immediately at OSU. And just like watching their young star continue though Malcolm wasn’t playing in he did in high school, he found to make a name for himself doing the final 11 wins, Condict credits his starting role his sophomore what he loves.

Malcolm’s contributions to the year, but at safety. His junior “There’ll be some team as a major factor. Not only year, Malcolm moved back to recognition of some sort, I’m sure, to the streak but to his coaching linebacker and was a leader of the in the near future for Malcolm,” career.

Cowboy defense under defensive Condict said. “I guess we’re “I’m never gonna give coordinator Jim Knowles. probably still waiting because just one guy the credit. But our The two have built a long we think the best is still ahead of program wouldn’t be where it’s lasting relationship together over him.” at without Malcolm Rodriguez,” their time at OSU. Condict said. “ I’ve gotten a sports.ed@ocolly.com “He’s making me look

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Virginia, Texas, Texas game.

Tech and Kansas State Baylor however have been eliminated has an opportunity to from contention. The play spoiler to a second Wildcats, able to tie OSU Bedlam. If the Bears win and OU if they lose out, out and the Sooners lose Dean Ruhl lose tiebreakers to the against the Cowboys, Cowboys, Sooners and Baylor would pull even Sports Editor Cyclones. with OU, and own the For both Oklahoma tiebreaker between the Jared Casey was schools, tied for first two after defeating the the unlucky man on the place, the path is simple. Sooners 27-14 this past bottom of a dogpile.

Win, and you’re in. weekend.

He didn’t mind.

Staying on said path Iowa State He had just caught a won’t be simple. The mathematically remains two-point conversion, schools will play each in contention but requires resulting in a historic 57- other in the final week a bevy of losses. OSU 56 win for Kansas against of the season, the loser and Baylor would need Texas. potentially missing the to lose its remaining The Jayhawks’ cut for a title game. games, and the Cyclones upset eliminated UT The Cowboys, win out. This would give from competing for a Big 10-point favorites against Baylor four conference 12 title, and with two Texas Tech, have ample losses, and the Cowboys remaining conference opportunity to enter three, pulling ISU abreast games on each schools’ Bedlam with one loss, with OSU, the Cyclones schedule, the once murky and with an OU win holding the tiebreaker. paths to Arlington have against Iowa State this started to become clearer. weekend, would clinch Kansas, TCU, West an appearance in the title sports.ed@ocolly.com

Abby Cage The Cowboys can clinch a Big 12 title spot with a win over Texas Tech and Oklahoma beating Iowa State.

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Taylor Roe will lead the women’s side for OSU.

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go out there too hard or go too slow and put themselves in a position to lose. Our job is to pick those teams off and be in front of teams that may Continued from 1B be better than us but we ran a better race.”

The team culture at OSU has “On the men’s side I think significantly improved, and is one of Notre Dame is the best team right the main reasons they have elevated now simply because they’re so to the contending level. The Cowboys deep,” coach Dave Smith said. “They and Cowgirls hope to see that come have eight guys who are basically to fruition at the championships in interchangeable parts. We got some Florida. depth too, maybe we’re six or seven “We feed off each other. When deep instead of eight or nine. To our I see them I feed off them and when benefit, we also have some upfront they see me they feed off me,” power with (Ryan) Smeeton, (Alex) Rodriguez said. “Having that team Maier and Isai (Rodriguez).” culture builds you up. You train with The women’s team may not be this guy. You know you do everything at the national championship level with this guy. You practice with this quite yet but they finished No. 2 in guy. This is the type of team and the Midwest region, and sixth in the teammates you want to have.” nation, and hope for a podium spot.

The race, held this Saturday, “On the women’s side it’s a will be at Apalachee Regional Park completely different race,” Smith said. located in Tallahassee, Florida. The “The men are racing for the win and women’s race will take place first at when you do that it’s simple, keep 9:20 a.m., while the men’s team will up with the top teams. When you’re race very shortly after at 10:10 a.m. running to maximize your place like the women’s team is you’re probably not quite there to win yet.

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Cowgirls implement new style of play Calif Poncy Staff Reporter Jim Littell has preached collectivity.

Littell, Oklahoma State’s women’s basketball coach, tried to instill this principle in his team this past offseason.

With the losses of Natasha Mack and Ja’Mee Asberry, this year’s edition of Cowgirls does not have a star to fall back on when they need a tough bucket or a big-time block on the inside. However, with a roster of formidable role players, they’ll need to come together to find success.

“We’ve got to play a different way,” Littell said.

“We don’t have that shot blocker in the middle, so now when someone gets around you, you’ve got to step in and take a charge. Instead of having someone get 20 and someone get 18, you got to have five or six kids get 12-18 points, and that’s what makes coaching fun, finding a different way to win.”

Despite this emphasis, trying to play collectively has been shaky this season. The Cowgirls came out flat in a loss to Colorado in the season opener. Only two of the players in OSU’s rotation were able to reach double digits, with Lexy Keys having 16 and Lauren Fields scoring 17.

“We’ve got to have some players who have done it in the past step up and be aggressive,” Littell said.

“We cannot have complimentary players as starters this year, they’ve got to be a part of scoring points and getting rebounds.”

Against SMU, the team came out and executed coach Littell’s vision, with five players scoring over eight points against the Mustangs, leading to a 17-point victory on the road for the Cowgirls. OSU played cohesively on offense and defense, seeing a huge increase in the number of points scored from the first game to the second.

The cohesion on both sides of the ball is what can push this Cowgirls team to another level.

“I think some teams can say ‘we pride ourselves on offense’ or ‘we pride ourselves on defense’ I think this year we really have to pride ourselves on both sides,” Keys said. “I think our biggest thing right now on offense is transition. I think if we can get out and run the ball in transition, we will be really hard to stop, and like I said, we have to do it collectively on both sides of the ball.” sports.ed@ocolly.com

The Cowgirls are emphasizing playing as a unit after losing key pieces Natasha Mack and Ja’Mee Asberry.

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Forward improving 3-point shot Gabriel Trevino Staff Reporter Most athletes would love to double their stats.

Oklahoma State forward Keylan Boone has done just that. He has nearly doubled his scoring and 3-point shooting stats compared his past season.

Boone averaged 4 points throughout the 2020-21 season. In the first five games of this season, Boone is shooting over 46% from 3, and averaging 8 points per game.

This is a large leap from last season, where Boone shot 27% from behind the arc. He is also taking more attempts, as Boone is on pace to shoot nearly two times more 3’s than he did last year.

Boone seems more confident in his 3 point shot as well. In OSU’s victory against Prairie View A&M, Boone attempted five 3-point shots, including catch-and-shoot 3’s as well as pulling up from behind the arc. Boone attempted more than five three’s in only two games last season.

Last season’s 3-point shooting percentage was of concern for Boone, but believes he found a reason for his improvement.

“I know the good ones to pull,” Boone said. “Every now and then we’ll have a heat check. But I’m playing it smart right now. Last year I was not in the gym as much, now I’m working. I know the ones I’m supposed to shoot because the work is adding up to it.”

Last season, Boone’s highest scoring output was in the final game of OSU’s season, when he scored 13 points against Oregon State in the NCAA Tournament. Boone only scored double digits in three games of the Cowboys’ games this past season.

He already has two games of 10 or more points in five games, like when

Courtesy of John Seals Hockey president Jacob Thompson (left) and forward John Seals (right) competed together for the OKC Ice Hawks earlier this year.

Second chances

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OSU forward Keylan Boone is shooting 46% from beyond the arc this season.

he scored 11 points in 8 minutes vs UMass-Lowell.

Boone said he believes his change in mindset during the offseason will propel him forward this season.

“Last year I thought one dimensionally about scoring,” Boone said.

“Now I’m just focused on playing hard and helping the team. Everything else will add on itself. I fell in love with playing hard, and I found my rhythm.” sports.ed@ocolly.com

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Continued from 1B The Cowgirls still had a whole season ahead of them. Only one game was played before the crash.

Littell was appointed as interim head coach, and received help from two former Cowboy head coaches, Travis Ford and Eddie Sutton.

“Coach Sutton had told me on his experience of ‘Remember the Ten’ and that, ‘You need to get them (the players) active as quickly as possible. Get them back on the floor.’” Littell said. “Travis Ford was here at the time and there was no one more gracious than he and his wife.

He had our team over to their house, he rented the bowling alley for both programs. He was just very, very good at helping us try to get the kids’ minds elsewhere.”

It was difficult for Littell, who had to coach basketball directly after the event.

The Cowgirls strung together seven straight wins by a margin of 28 points with wins over Missouri State, Indiana and Mississippi State.

The team would finish seventh in the Big 12, and compile a 16-11 record. With a loss to Missouri in the first round of the Big 12 tournament,

the NCAA Tournament was in doubt.

The team received a bid to play in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament and would go on to win six games in a row, winning the WNIT Championship.

“We were playing for them,” Keller said. “It made us that much closer, it made us play better as a team and it gave us something bigger than ourselves to really dedicate our efforts toward.”

Donohoe-Patman, who averaged 14.5 points a game as a freshman, complemented Littell on his coaching efforts from the 2011 season.

“Littell handled that year phenomenally,” Donohoe-Patman said. “I, to this day, just commend him for how he handled that and how he put himself to the side and really focused on us.”

Littell and Budke were best friends, and their relationship has dated back to the mid 1980s. Littell even coached Budke’s wife, Shelley, during his time in Kansas. Budke was his best man at his wedding.

Littell continues to honor the legacy of Budke and Serna by taking his team to the memorial outside of Gallagher-Iba Arena and speaking about how they changed the Cowgirl basketball program forever.

OSU PG N’Yah Boyd transferred from North Texas and is new to this setting, but after Monday’s

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visit to the memorial, she found her perspective on two coaches she has never met.

“I feel like the people had a big impact on the school as well as coach Littell with the way he was explaining about what they did for the community,” Boyd said.

One thing Keller remembers about Budke is that he, ‘always had that orange jacket.’

That orange jacket is how many Cowgirl fans remember him. It was his most memorable gesture he would do for the yearly home game against rival Oklahoma.

The two coaches had an impact on every person they coached and that didn’t stop with DonohoePatman.

“I still think of them and how they’ve kind of impacted my life,” Donohoe-Patman said.

Littell believes Budke’s biggest legacy will be he was a man of God, a great husband and a great dad.

“This is part of our history and this is part of the fabric of who we are,” Littell said. “Serna was a tireless worker, a people person and how loyal she was to coach Budke.

For coach Budke, our players enjoyed playing for him and he was a big competitor and winner.”

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element out there.”

Seals is a native of Michigan.

His whole family resides in the state.

His cousins played hockey at the collegiate level in Michigan. His twin brother plays for the Michigan Tech club hockey team, and while the Cowboys and Huskies both reside in the same league (ACHA), they play in different divisions.

As the farthest north member of the team, Seals’ accent sticks out. The same with his slang, which often draws ridicule from a team whose roster is 90% from Texas.

“I don’t know them off-hand, I guess I say some funny stuff around them,” Seals said. “They never pronounce the (name of) the county I’m from (correctly).”

Thompson, and coach Dylan Pacheco, purposefully mispronounce Kalamazoo County as “Kangaroo” or “Kazoo” to rile Seals up.

“Sometime people from Kangaroo County, it is hard to understand them,” Pacheco said.

“You can definitely tell he has got that northern hockey slang.”

Oklahoma has been different from Michigan for Seals.

Football is boastfully the prominent sport in Oklahoma, compared to hockey in Michigan. But for Seals, now an Oklahoma resident, he has no plans of returning to Michigan after graduation.

“I pretty much came down here because I wanted to live in Oklahoma,” Seals said. “I don’t really plan on going back up, except just to visit my family.”

For Seals, he wants to help grow the sport he has loved since childhood.

“The biggest impact is I want this program to last,” Seals said. “I want people to actually know OSU as having a good hockey program.”

John Seals thought he would never touch the ice again.

After concluding his senior year at Portage Central High School in Portage, Michigan, Seals figured he had played his final hockey game.

He had not received any collegiate offers. He had been accepted to Oklahoma State, declared his major for aerospace engineering and packed his belongings to make the 13-hour drive to Stillwater. On a whim, he brought his hockey gear.

“I just only planned on playing pick-up games for fun over winter with old friends from high school,” Seals said.

Packing the gear was a smart move. Prior to the start of the 2021 fall semester, Seals saw a post on the OSU Barstool Instagram page informing him the OSU hockey club would be holding open tryouts.

Seals had been given a second chance. He attended the practices, made the team and was named an assistant captain.

Mere months after club president Jacob Thompson reconstructed the once-defunct OSU hockey club, the Cowboys will host Baylor at Arctic Edge Arena in Edmond on Friday, the first game the club will play in more than two decades.

“Everyone is excited they get to play hockey again,” Thompson said.

Seals is no different. He has taken hockey seriously from a young age, his matured skills after years of sculpting has caught the attention of the coaching staff.

“He is the best one out there,” assistant coach Regen Rudzki said. “He can skate through anyone on the team. I would say he is pretty quiet on the ice, but he definitely is on his sports.ed@ocolly.com

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A clear starter at 141 and 149 pounds has yet to be found.

dropped to 141 pounds and, once again, another man’s injury was Gfeller’s key to starting.

He was OSU’s 141-pound representative at the 2021 Big 12 Championships and finished eighth with 1-2 record.

Adam Engel Now, in his redshirt senior Staff Reporter year, Gfeller fended off two highly touted true freshman John Smith is not sure in Travis Mastrogiovanni and what to make of Kaden Gfeller, Victor Voinovich, along with Oklahoma State wrestling’s Joey Sanchez in the ranking 149-pound starter. matches leading up to OSU’s He was literally perfect in opener at Stanford. At this point, high school at Heritage Hall in Gfeller controls his future as Oklahoma City. 133-0 record. a starter. Any major slip-up Four Oklahoma state titles. along the way could yield to the In college, Gfeller was emergence of a freshman debut. the 2019 Big 12 149-pound “Gfeller, we saw him at champion after taking over in 141 last year and he seemed to January for Boo Lewallen, who be having a problem making that sustained a season ending left at Stanford,” Smith said. “I don’t shoulder dislocation. know. I think he’s trying to make But between those me old.” periods of excellence, Smith And that’s the same has witnessed uncharacteristic situation for Hone. struggles.

The seemingly temporary “It was like, ‘Who are status of Hone and Gfeller you?’ You know, almost like resulted in more ranking he was Houdini,” Smith said. matches Wednesday afternoon.

“How’d you do this? How’d you “We’re gonna keep look so good and then look so hammering away at those bad? It was just kind of odd. weights,” Smith said. “Those are Really caught me off guard like good weights and not that we’re you know, ‘What happened?’” disappointed with anyone, we After a 15-6 thrashing just want to make sure that we from No. 8 Jaden Abas of keep everybody honest.”

Stanford, Gfeller and No. 6 During Wednesday OSU battle No. 11 Minnesota afternoon’s 141 and 149-pound Saturday night in Minneapolis. ranking matches, a dehydrated Gfeller, much like Dusty and cramping version of Hone Hone, OSU’s starting 141 was outscored by freshman pounder, has had previous Carter Young 17-3 in two success as a backup filling in for ranking bouts. starters sidelined with season Gfeller defeated Sanchez ending injuries. and Voinovich to become the With Lewallen healthy only undefeated 149-pounder at the past two seasons, Gfeller Wednesday’s ranking matches.

The dilemma Smith is faced with now is heightened with concerns of consistency.

“Until I’m seeing some real consistency and behavior about how they’re handling weight and doing things like that, we’re gonna just keep ranking,” Smith said. “Just rank every week before the dual meets.”

If Smith starts Young, his redshirt would be pulled and any future defeat in ranking matches could result in a lost season.

“I want to see freshmen really trying to separate the score from anyone that they’re competing against and if I don’t see that, I’m probably not going to bring him out yet,” Smith said.

That score separation is exactly what Young exhibited to his team Wednesday afternoon.

Smith plans on bringing a slew of wrestlers at 141 and 149 to Minneapolis. Hone and Young for 141 along with Gfeller, Sanchez and Voinovich for 149 pounds.

In an ordinary situation, Young’s ranking match victories over Hone would be enough to warrant a change in starting responsibilities. But with Smith’s history of redshirting freshmen in competitive weight classes, the risk of Young losing his redshirt will only be known with time.

“These are two of the weights that we feel like if we’re going to have some sort of really good season, these are two of the weights that we gotta be scoring in,” Smith said. sports.ed@ocolly.com

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Abby Cage The Cowboys have slowed the momentum of opposing teams.

five years at OSU. She goes from a sisterhood of soccer to the near isolation of Destin, Florida. Webb said she is looking forward to joining her longtime boyfriend in Florida. He is the only person she knows in the state.

“I mean, I like adventures. I like trying new things. So that’s just kind of how I see that as an adventure,” Webb said.

The job teaching algebra to high schoolers came on a whim, when Webb randomly applied after seeing an opening.

But her passion for teaching did not. Webb worked as a student teacher last spring, teaching the same class full time at Yale High School.

It is because of this passion for teaching, Webb said she is comfortable taking a step back from soccer.

The first phone call with the Destin school administration did not go by without Webb being jokingly asked if she was interested in coaching the high school team.

“I love teaching math,” Webb said. “That is what I love to teach. And right now, I don’t really have a desire to coach but who knows once I step away from the game, I might kind of still feel that desire to be a part of it and maybe in a couple years I’ll start coaching but for right now, I think I’m going to be good with math.”

Webb said maybe she will join her husband in an indoor soccer league one day. She already googled her high school’s soccer schedule and plans to support the team.

But for now, she is content with not knowing the next time she will send a 450-gram sphere of polyurethane flying through the air.

Webb is done with what she has lived and breathed her entire life. Her life structured around the next game, lifting weights and studying film is no more.

She is a forwardthinker who said she plans 10 years in advance, so she was thinking about the end before she reached it.

Webb said she was cognizant of each team meal and bus ride that could be her last. She savored those moments but did not ever consider them too heavily because her plan was to win and have another bus ride next week.

“I knew that those were going to be such special times in my life, and that I couldn’t waste those,” Webb said, “Which is weird to think about now; that those were the last times but you know, just what it is.”

The way college soccer is structured, graduating seniors are not required to attend team lifts or practices. Coaches prefer training with their freshman and incoming transfers than with seniors who wo not be around for the following fall season.

Webb’s last day in the OSU soccer facility will be for a team meeting next week, where she will turn in her Polar watch and heartrate monitor that belong to the team. But it will not be the material things that are most difficult to say goodbye to.

Webb said over the last couple of weeks she has spent one-on-one time with teammates over lunch, coffee or walks to say how much she appreciates them.

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Webb accepted the teaching job on a whim.

practice well, but they’re still young people. They’re 19, 20, 21. They need to be motivated, mentally charged.”

Continued from 2B OSU is 4-1 over the stretch, winning every game by multiple possessions mixed around a loss to Fittingly, the Cowboys next Iowa State. opponent is riding a similar high.

Opponents putting others on Texas Tech defeated ISU 41-38 for watch with sparkling performances its second non-Kansas conference have helped the Cowboys in victory. preparation.

Coach Mike Gundy said the “It does for sure,” Richardson trend could help his team stay said. “Seeing that, it gives us fire. focused in weekly preparations.

Like, ‘We need to get ready for the “Oh it could be,” Gundy next opponent now.’” said. “With players, there’s so Gundy considers the fire much going on and there’s so much Richardson speaks of a necessary information out there with phones ingredient to his team’s success. and technology. Maybe they see and The Cowboys are ranked play well and say “OK, I need to No. 9 in the country, but they are

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not like a past Gundy team that experienced great success.

This Cowboy team relies on stringing together good weeks of focused practice to maintain the momentum of teams gearing up to play them.

“I’ve said this from week one,” Gundy said. “We’re not a good enough football team to not practice well all week long and beat somebody on Saturday. Period. So I’ve told them that. When Brandon Weeden was here and that team, I didn’t tell them that because we were a good enough team. We could not play well and still win.”

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Picking winners (and losers) Record: 43-23 Last week: 2-4 Spread: 34-32 Last week: 1-5

Dean Ruhl Record: 35-31 Last week: 3-3 Spread: 37-29 Last week: 3-3

Sudeep Tumma Ben Hutchens Sam Hutchens Record: 39-27 Last week: 2-4

Record: 38-28 Last week: 3-3

Record: 40-20 Last week: 2-4

Spread: 32-34 Last week: 3-3

Spread: 31-35 Last week: 4-2

Spread: 30-36 Last week: 3-3

OSU vs TTU OSU -10.5

OSU 27-13

OSU 37-24

OSU 40-10

OSU 27-10

OSU 28-10

ISU vs OU OU -4.5

ou 33-24

ISU 28-27

OU 30-27

OU 35-28

OU 34-30

SMU vs CINCY CINCY -11.5

CINCY 41-24

SMU 38-31

CINCY 33-30

CINCY 41-24

CINCY 36-17

WVU 27-24

UT 17-14

WVU 20-14

WVU 24-17

UT 21-17

UT vs WVU WVU -2.5

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I think Knowles is more than deserving of the award already, but a win against Oklahoma would make it almost impossible not to give it to him.

Knowles has meticulously constructed this OSU defense over the past two years into a national juggernaut, and it is time to recognize him. This unit has been the one consistent piece of OSU’s team this season, and the Cowboys only have Knowles to thank for it.

Should Jim Knowles win the Broyles Award?

Gabriel Trevino MSU vs OHST OHST -19.5

OHST 34-21

OHST 41-31

OHST 42-14

OHST 34-30

MSU 41-40

WAKE vs CLEM CLEM -4.5

WAKE 35-28

CLEM 56-50

CLEM 35-28

WAKE 48-40

CLEM 34-27

There are many candidates whose resume’s are just as good as Knowles’.

Ohio State’s offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson is leading the No. 1 ranked offense in the country, which is averaging over 550-yards per game.

Georgia’s defensive coordinators, Dan Lanning, plus Ashton and Billy Slaughter have the second best defense in the nation, for the top ranked team playing in the SEC. There are many more candidates who I did not mention who have chances at the award, so it is still too early to crown Knowles.

Point / Counterpoint

Chris Becker