Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023

Thursday, February 23, 2023

Smith recaps Iowa loss in weekly radio show

step up and we just found a way to win which has definitely played a part in our scores and our ability to get to 14-3 with our record on the year.”

you doing?’ What were they thinking? To give everyone in every class. I don’t think it benefits anyone really. It hurt us a couple of times last year.

OSU coach John Smith held his weekly radio show, recapping a 1-1 weekend for the Cowboys which featured a win vs Oklahoma and a loss to Iowa. Here are some of the main points from what Smith said.

Opening statement:

“We dominated the way we should have with the first one and just got our butts kicked on the second, plain and simple. We had a lot of guys

On Victor Voinovich’s upset win vs Mitch Moore: “You like to see win, you do. You like to see him come back and win. If you remember, this was a match that Victor went into overtime with Mitch Moore and Victor was in position to win and score in that one and take the match and he just got out scrambled at the end. The guy did a little flip between his legs and Victor just wasn’t ready for it. He had a good match this time.”

On the additional year of eligibility:

“You know, you look back on that and what they did and just think, ‘what are

If you have a (program) that has someone coming back for a sixth year of eligibility and you don’t have anyone, there’s a real disadvantage there. It’s just so irresponsible from a standpoint that people got to wrestle that season and going and wrestling in the NCAA championship and then giving everyone an additional year, it’s just real irresponsible and it should have only been done for the spring sports. Those wrestlers had the whole season and we literally came had one week before the NCAA championships.”

On Wyatt Sheets’ loss to Gerrit Nijenhuis: “I swear, Wyatt was in

Cowboys place at No. 30 after an undefeated weekend in Tennessee

The Cowboys left Tennessee with a ranked win, two comebacks and a new ranking on the ITA rankings.

OSU went to Tennessee last weekend to face No. 21 Middle Tennessee on Friday and Vanderbilt on Sunday. In both matches, the Cowboys overcame deficits to win both matches on last court comebacks.

Against No. 21 Middle Tennessee, the Cowboys came back from down 2-3 to win 4-3, winning their first ranked match of the season.

Against Vanderbilt two days later, the Cowboys came back from down 1-3 to win 4-3 capping off an undefeated weekend. The win against No. 21 Middle Tennessee is the Cowboys first ranked win of the season. The wins last weekend has raised the team up to No. 30 on the ITA Collegiate Tennis Ranking. Coach Dustin Taylor has high expectations for the team, and isn’t yet satisfied with the team’s ranking. “Our standard is really high,” Taylor said. “Are we where we think we should be? Not yet. Are we celebrating that we’re now 30 in the country, and we beat 21

and now 25 in the country at their place? No, but you got to celebrate those small accomplishments as you climb the ranks. That’s something when I took this job, I looked back at my career and said, wow, I haven’t really celebrated too much and I’ve been a part of a lot of cool things, and it was just what’s next?”

On Sunday against Vanderbilt it came down to Alex Garcia on the last court to secure the victory. Garcia won his match in a tiebreaker in the third set, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (6). This was Garcia’s first singles win since his return from an injury suffered in October.

“Yeah, Alex played at two for us last year,” Taylor said. “He played some big time matches. A couple of big time matches just came down to him. So to see him continue to put himself on the line, continue to own that moment and for him to be rewarded with it was pretty special. Hopefully he draws a lot of confidence from that and wants those moments moving forward. And it kind of gets rid of the demons of the past a little bit. We have a lot of belief in Alex Garcia, and we’re just happy to see him back on the court.”

a position to end up wining that. He gave up a takedown and a four-point near fall to end the first period, it was 6-0. Wyatt ended up kicking it in, his conditioning kicked in. He ended up giving up a reversal. But he makes is 8-6 with 15 to 20 seconds left in the match and so, he we felt really good about where he was at. He just didn’t make some common sense decisions. He’s cutting him and standing there right next to him and the kid, Nijenhuis kind of just grabs ahold of the leg and just kind of just was buying time. You can’t give up 20 seconds of him holding onto your leg.

“Wyatt could have won that match.”

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Ukrainian history expert visits OSU

Stephanie Landaverde Staff Reporter

Johannes Remy, an expert on Ukrainian and Russian history, visited OSU on Feb. 21.

Jason Lavery, an occupation regents professor in the history department, organized the visit.

Lavery said he organized Remy’s visit because Ukraine is an important topic in world affairs and its history is not well known.

“A lot of the current conflict has long historical roots,” Lavery said. “So I thought it would be good to bring an expert like Dr. Remy.”

Remy has published three books centered on eastern Europe. His first was a doctoral dissertation focused on nationalism in eastern Europe and how this relates to Russia. His third, titled “Brothers or Enemies: The Ukrainian National Movement in Russia from the 1840s to the1870s” has won two awards.

“History of

Ukraine”, his second book, was the focus of Tuesday’s talk. The book covers the entirety of Ukrainian history. It was originally written in Finnish and because of its popularity in Finland, now has a second edition. This edition was published months after Russia attacked Ukraine and includes comments about these events, making it an extremely up to date account of Ukranian history.

Remy began his lecture of Ukrainian history in the 14th century. At this time, what is now more than half of northern Ukraine was part of Lithuania and later Poland. Crimea is now Southern Ukraine. The Ukrainian language formed in the 16th century. Royal power was substantial, but a king could not enact new laws or introduce taxes without the consent of parliament. Members of parliament were elected and after 1569, even the king had to be elected.

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Courtesy of Andy Hamilton/FloWrestling John Smith and the Cowboys haven’t won at Iowa since 2012.

Branson Evans

Alex Garcia secured the win for OSU against Vanderbilt on Sunday with a third set tiebreaker.

Jaiden Daughty Johannes Remy visited OSU and talked about Ukrainian and Russian history

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Takeaways: OSU no-hits California Baptist

stopped a bouncing ball while on his knees. By the time he threw out CBU’s Josh Paino he was sitting on the dirt.

Ben Hutchens Staff Reporter

Two days ago, OSU’s game against Arkansas was cut short because its pitchers were overmatched.

Less than 48 hours after OSU’s 18-1 mercy-rule loss, the Cowboys pitching staff is making sure another team knows what it feels like to be overmatched. Five OSU pitchers combined to throw a no-hitter against Cal Baptist in OSU’s 2-0 win Tuesday.

It OSU’s first no-hitter since Justin Campbell did it against the Kansas Jayhawks in 2021. It is the first combined no-hitter since 1993.

“Janzen’s start was fantastic,” OSU coach Josh Holliday said.

“Isaac (Stebens), Drew (Blake) and Evan (O’Toole) pitched beautifully in matchup situations out of the bullpen. Nolan (McLean) closed it.”

Keisel, a BYU transfer, carried most of the load as the starter, pitching 5.1 innings. He said the first couple innings weren’t his sharpest, but pitching coach Rob Walton kept him mentally engaged and he was happy with his first start as a Cowboy.

It was an impressive bounce back from a rough first three games where the Cowboys gave up 32 runs.

“This weekend we kind of struggled throwing strikes a little bit and so best thing was just coming out and throwing strikes and getting ahead on hitters and when you get ahead, obviously you get positive results,” Keisel said.

Infield defense gives pitchers the headline

Aidan Meola, OSU third baseman, won’t be credited with a no-hitter, but he contributed to it.

Meola wiped away two CBU base hits with defensive plays at third base. In the third inning, Meola scrambled to the right and

In the ninth inning, Meola charged a bouncing ball and made a barehand throw for the second out.

Keisel said he felt comfortable on the mound, largely because he knew if he didn’t make a pitch, his defense would pick him up.

“It’s easy knowing if the ball gets hit to that side of the field there’s a really good chance that play is going to be made,” Keisel said.

Without Meola’s defense, there wouldn’t be a no-hitter to talk about.

“Aiden made some fantastic plays at third,” Holliday said. “His two defensive plays rang out. The diving play, the throw from his rear, that was a big out. And then the barehand play the ball they chopped and charged that was a big out. That’s how no-hitters are made. You got to pitch great, and we did, and you got to make a play here and there which we did and the result was pretty awesome.”

Mendham beats shift for critical runs

OSU first baseman David Mendham said it’s all mental.

When he sees opponents apply a shift, like CBU did putting three players on the right side of second base, it is easy to lose focus.

“It kind of takes you away from your game sometimes, but I’ve been playing the game long enough I’m kind of used to it now,” Mendham said.

When Mendham was down to his final strike in the eighth inning, CBU removed the shift, playing more mind games mixed with analytics. Mendham did something guaranteed to beat any shift. Hit it over their head.

Mendham delivered a tworun home run to left field for the game’s only runs.

“It felt really good,” Mendham said. “Two strikes I was trying to put a ball in play somewhere up the middle and they gave me a pitch to hit, and I hit it.”

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Andy Crown

OSU pitcher Janzen Keisel, a BYU transfer, led the Cowboys to a combined no-hitter in his first start. It is the first nohitter since Justin Campbell did it in 2021 and first combined no-hitter since 1993.

All photos by Chase Davis and Andy Crown

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On Travis Wittlake’s win vs Keegan Moore:

“Travis was the aggressor. I thought Travis did a nice job of just putting the hammer down on him after trailing 3-2 at one point. Keegan Moore, he didn’t call the timeout the official called the timeout.”

“Nice win by Travis and I thought he picked up a nice win, a 7-4 decision. He got down because of a penalty and an escape by (Keegan) and then picked it up and didn’t look back.”

On Konner Doucet:

“Think about he’s wrestled the No. 1 guy, the No. 2 guy and I think No. 3 guy. He hasn’t given up a major decision. Although he’s not showing us a lot of offense, he’s doing enough. Plus, he’s picked up 15 wins. If you would have told me Konner Doucet at this point in the season would be 15-7, I would have said, ‘I’ll take it’.”

On the blowout loss to Iowa:

“I think as a team we tried. Would have liked to win it. But toe-to-toe condition wise, we were as good or as better shape as (Iowa). But we were trying too much. The effort was there but the will and drive wasn’t. There was too much trying. There were situations where you have to will yourself to the takedown and we just didn’t see that on Sunday.”

On Reece Witcraft’s pin loss to Spencer Lee:

“Reece actually did a duck-under, and it wasn’t a situation where he just didn’t do anything. He got attacked in kind of a headlock situation but kind of reversed and got his shoulders buried in the match and he got pinned.”

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Monday night, OSU wrestling coach John Smith recapped the Cowboys’ blowout loss to Iowa.

Giving students a voice: Presidential election coming up for SGA

Bella Casey Staff Reporter

Student Government Association presidential and vice-presidential candidates to face off in a debate.

SGA presidential and vice-presidential candidates will go head-to-head in a debate at 7 p.m. in the Student Union Theatre on March 3 and the two teams hope to lead the charge for change at OSU.

As current President Riley Pritzlaff and Vice-President Maddie Dunn end their term of leadership with SGA, two new pairs of pokes are competing for their positions. The debate is an opportunity for candidates to explain and defend their intentions for the student body.

For presidential candidate Austin Dedmon and his vice-presidential candidate Olivia Kopang, their mission is simple: unite the Cowboys. The three pillars behind Dedmon and Kopang’s platform are awareness, understanding and action.

Dedmon plans to strengthen the relationship between SGA and the student body and address the issues students face while on campus. A strong relationship between SGA and students promotes communication between the two parties and allows SGA to identify the pressing issues students face on campus.

“I think that student government has done a great job trying to address student concerns over the last couple of years, especially since I’ve been here,” Dedmon said. “But we can always do more, we can always strive to improve that process and make it more accessible for students to voice their concerns and to feel like they have an open space to kind of talk to us.”

Dedmon, a sophomore marketing communications major, and Kopang, a sophomore strategic communications major, have always been leaders.

Dedmon was student body president during his senior year of high school and was actively involved in the leadership organization FCCLA. Kopang worked her way through the ranks of her high school student council until she was the president of it. Both Dedmon and Kopang have previous involvement with SGA.

Unlike their opponents, presidential candidate Ashley Peterson and

vice-presidential candidate Hilary

Albrecht are new to SGA. The two view this as an opportunity to shed light on issues SGA overlooked in the past.

“I’m coming in as an outsider, but I think it’s honestly my greatest strength because I come in with fresh ideas and true student background and connections,” Peterson said.

If elected, Peterson and Albrecht want to bridge the communication and awareness gap between SGA and students. They plan on reaching out to students and other campus organizations to address the concerns and hopes they have for life on campus.

Peterson and Albrecht have specific intentions for OSU outside of building a connection between students and SGA. The two want to target the everyday hassle of campus parking and plan on advocating for more student

parking spots and providing students with the option to pay off parking tickets through food or hygiene product donations. Other goals include gameday benefits for students and requesting OSU cover the cost of online homework and exam platforms.

Peterson and Albrecht are new to SGA, but they are not new to leadership. Both were involved in leadership organizations in high school and continued to lead once in college. Peterson found herself protesting at the Oklahoma State Capitol in high school and part of Spear’s leadership fellowship in college. The two juniors met at a TLX leadership conference and have remained connected ever since.

“I have always had a passion for leadership, and not even just leadership, but just connecting with people

and solving problems and working with people who care about an issue to solve that problem and utilizing everyone’s strengths to solve the problem,” Peterson said.

Peterson is a marketing major, and Albrecht is an agribusiness major, but they view their differing majors as an opportunity to represent a variety of students on a personal level. Peterson said that between the two of them, they have connections across campus. Watching the two teams debate will allow students to familiarize themselves with the different candidates and their plans for the student body. Voting begins March 7 at 8 a.m. and ends March 8 at 5 p.m.

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Austin Dedmon, the presidential candidate for SGA, and Olivia Kopang, the vice-president candidate.

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“The decision was made by shouting,” Remy said. “So the arrangement hardly matches our standards of democracy.”

Remy said women at this time theoretically had equal rights politically. This political and social system

reiterates the freeness of the country and makes it distinct from most other European countries, which had strong royal power.

“The local democracy was especially perceived as antithetical to Russia,” Remy said.

Remy went through the rest of Ukrainian history leading up to current times and its relationship with surrounding European countries. He discussed different elements of Ukraine’s history that impact its present state,

such as the factors that influenced its estrangement with Poland, the abolition of Cossack autonomy and the suppression of Ukrainian literature in the Russian empire.

Abigail Lavery, a freshman zoology student, attended the lecture after the opportunity was presented in her class. Lavery said she learned about how current events relate to numerous factors, such as religion, and how Ukraine’s historical culture is still present.

“He was talking about the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) and how people still think that they weren’t really part of the Holocaust,” Lavery said. “But those kinds of people are the ones that continue anti semitic views. I thought that was interesting.”

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OSU students learn about Ukrainian history during a guest lecture Tuesday night at the OSU Social Sciences and Humanities Building.

‘Stumbling in circles:’ ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania’ review

Michael Clark Staff Reporter

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

When you fool me 39 times across an entire cinematic universe, whose fault is it? This is the question I asked myself on the long, dreary drive home from seeing “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.”

Should I blame Kevin Fiege for dangling this metaphorical carrot over my head, or should I blame myself for falling for it every time? Like Lucy and Charlie Brown, he’s held the football out in front of me with promises of redefining the Marvel Cinematic

Universe. Foolishly, I engage with this twisted game and end up flat on my back.

Unfortunately, “Quantumania” is another unfulfilled promise in the multiverse saga, a saga full of unfulfilled promises. It strives to usher in a new era of the MCU, and bring about a new antagonist that makes the likes of Thanos run for his money.

The only person who’s running for their money is Jonathan Majors cashing in his check after singlehandedly carrying this film on his back.

The biggest compliment I can give this film is Majors’s strong performance as Kang, The Conqueror. He’s a genuinely scary villain, but his role in the film is wasted.

Most of the 125-minute runtime

is wasted with repetitive action scenes, hit-or-miss quips, and wildly redundant dialogue.

The added insult to injury is that not a single character develops in an interesting way throughout the movie. No one learned a lesson, there are no meaningful themes and the MCU as a whole is in the exact same place as it started.

This would all be fine if the film was at least fun, but it hardly brings any creativity or magic to the screen outside of a few standout moments. The film chugs along and hardly has a point. Thanos wiped out half of the galaxy as his debut and Kang debuts with countless defeats. The movie is truly nothing.

Does it deserve such harsh words if it’s perfectly mediocre? Maybe not,

but after 30+ movies of the same plot beats, the same quips and the same action, it gets hard to appreciate this tired formula. The potential of this movie lingers in every scene and the possibility of what could have been truly stung. All in all, if this is where the MCU is headed, I want off the board. The multiverse saga of the Marvel Cinematic Universe was the perfect opportunity to get weird with it. Take some risks, make audiences gasp, and really tell an exciting and worthy story. “Quantumania,” proves that the MCU will likely just stumble around in circles until the end of time.

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Jonathan Majors as Kang The Conqueror in Marvel Studios’ “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.” (Jay Maidment/Marvel/TNS)

Let’s be F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

Taylor Carroll Staff Reporter

F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Club brings students together.

Zach Rycroft and Madison Dixon, who have been together since July 2020, founded OSU’s F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Club.

Rycroft, a junior applied exercise science preprofessional major, watched “Friends” growing up with his family. He also watched it with Dixon, a junior general business pre-law major, before they made it into a club.

“I’ve watched it as long as I can remember,” Rycroft said. “It’s kind of a comfort show.”

The meetings start off with a PowerPoint of the club and fundamental information, along with an activity of some sort. This consists of a BuzzFeed quiz asking which Friends characters said what or trivia card games.

After that, the club watches one to two different “Friends” episodes depending on what the members want to do. There is no chronological order the episodes are playing in. They are played based on current events or any random episode the members want to watch.

The founders’ goal is to get people’s minds off the stress of college and watch something fun together.

It is promoted as a comeand-go situation with a positive environment and members are allowed to do homework or only watch the show.

“We wanted to kind of create an environment where people can have sched-

uled time during their week to relax and forget about school,” Rycroft said. “Make F.R.I.E.N.D.S. that type of thing.”

The club sets up a Zoom meeting so people can watch it through Canvas if they are not able to watch it in person. The club is starting out and welcoming new members to join. The founders chose the show because many people watch it. Attendance is low, but there is a GroupMe to keep members who are interested.

“We have an Instagram account and stuff like that to try to get the word out about it,” Dixon said. “But it’s kind of hard to start a club. People don’t show up to it.”

Kaitlin Hinrikus, a senior speech pathology major, serves as the treasurer of the club. She started coming to meetings as a member in the beginning of last semester before being voted into her role. She started watching the show when she was 10 years old.

“My parents didn’t know I was watching it and I recorded on Nick and watched it.” Hitnrikus said. “When I moved to college, I got the DVD set, and I watch it every night.”

The founders had the idea to be a club in the middle of spring in 2022 and started the paperwork for it around that time. Their official first meeting was Oct. 8, 2022, and the group has had a weekly meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Student Union ever since. The club has made new flyers to advertise the meetings around campus to help gain new members.

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The club’s goal is to get people’s minds off the stress of college and watch something fun together.

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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Applications for both Summer Semester 2023 and Fall Semester 2023 Editor-in-Chief of The O’Colly will be accepted from now thru Friday, March 3, 2023.

Applications are now available in the Paul Miller Journalism and Broadcasting Building, room 106. Applicants must return their completed applications to room 106 no later than 4:30 p.m. Friday, March 3, 2023.

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Daily Horoscope

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Linda Black Horoscopes

Today’s Birthday (02/23/23). Profits abound this year. Organize and implement plans with steady routines. Invent an inspiring vision this spring, before redirecting summer explorations to align with it. Resources surge into shared accounts next autumn, before challenging winter news requires diplomacy. Conserve and share an extraordinary harvest.

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 a 9 — Pursue personal passions. Use your power and confidence for good. Disciplined actions advance your priorities. Savor your favorite activities, views and people. Love is contagious. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — Rest and recharge. Love and nature feed your spirit. Savor sacred rituals. Take extra care of yourself. Take care of everyone else later.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is an 8 — Community efforts propelled by love can take off. Build on solid foundations. Share what you’re learning. Connect and engage with friends for growth.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is an 8 — Take charge for the professional results you want. You have the wind at your back. Your good work reflects you well. Make a powerful pitch.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — Investigate a fascinating subject. Explore new cultures, flavors and philosophies. Develop a creative idea into a compelling case. Make exciting connections. Write your discoveries.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is an 8 — Contribute to shared accounts to build financial strength. Luck follows efforts motivated by heart. Grow and save resources for the ones you love.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 9 — Stay receptive to your partner. You’re on the same wavelength. There’s freedom in commitment. Invent possibilities and go for them. Have fun together.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 9 — Get your heart pumping and clear your mind. Disciplined physical practices build strength and energy. Put love into your work and demand rises.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is an 8 — Have a good time. Reconnect with friends and family. Share your heart and luck plays along. Creative ideas flower. Invent a romantic possibility.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — Realize a domestic dream. Put your heart into home and family. Your efforts produce satisfying results. Tend your garden. Nurture your roots and shoots.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Pour your heart onto the page. Express and create. Connect and network to grow. Create works of passion and beauty. Share your story.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 9 — Generate and maintain positive cash flow. Pay bills before buying treats. Disciplined efforts pay off. Put love into your work and demand rises.

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Solution to Wednesday’s puzzle

52 Many a pop-top 54 Reading while propped up by pillows, say 55 Stood up 56 Tat that can be misread as WOW 57 “Maude” star Arthur 59 “Kenan & __”: late’90s Nickelodeon show 60 Congeal, as glue

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk

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