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Sports

9 November 2015

Golden Hurricane defeat Knights for fifth win

photos by Greg Diskin

Left to right: freshman running back Ramadi Warren scores during the fourth quarter of the 45–30 win over UCF. Warren had 163 yards and three touchdowns in the win. Senior safety Michael Mudoh runs back an interception that sealed the win for the Golden Hurricane. The 86-yard return was the second largest return in school history.

Football has won back-to-back conference games and now sits one win shy of being bowl eligible for the first time since 2012.

Wade Crawford Sports Writer The Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team is now one win away from bowl eligibility, as they beat the winless UCF Knights, 45–30.

Tulsa’s Ramadi Warren rushed for 163 yards and three touchdowns. The passing game was nearly shut down after the first quarter, in which Dane Evans passed to Connor Floyd for two touchdowns. Evans finished with 150 passing yards, 72 of those

to Floyd. For the second straight game, Tulsa scored a touchdown on an interception return—this time Michael Mudoh’s return of 86 yards was the second longest return in school history.

On the UCF side, freshman wide receiver Tre’Quan Smith had an impressive day, with 131 yards and a touchdown. Junior quarterback Justin Holman passed for 293 yards and two touchdowns.

After the opening UCF drive ended in a punt, Tulsa took to the air for the first score of the game. Evans completed a 36-yard pass to Connor Floyd on third down to give Tulsa an early 7–0 lead. UCF got their only points of the half on a field goal, with the help of a first down gained by UCF’s Tristan Payton forcing a fumble on cornerback Darrell Williams’ interception. Evans found

Floyd again to end the quarter, with a 12yard pass that made it a 14–3 lead.

Tulsa’s next score was on the back of Ramadi Warren, as he ran for three of the drive’s five plays, for 59 yards. The final score of the half was Redford Jones’s 28yard field goal, making it a 24–3 lead at half.

However, the Knights made a surge in the third quarter, scoring 17 points, more points than they had scored in the third quarter at all this whole season. After a Dane Evans interception, UCF’s Taj McGowan cut the lead to 14 with a touchdown run. After Wright knocked in another field goal, Holman found Tre’Quan Smith for 11 yards and another UCF touchdown. The unanswered points made the score 24–20 after three.

Tulsa got back on the board in the fourth, with another Ramadi Warren run. UCF an-

swered with another field goal by Wright.

After UCF bobbled a punt that was recovered by Tulsa, Ramadi Warren ran in for yet another touchdown. Tulsa sealed the victory with Mudoh’s interception return.

However, the Knights didn’t go down without a fight, as Holman made his second touchdown pass of the game to wide receiver Justin Franks.

The win makes Tulsa one win away from bowl eligibility, with games against Cincinnati, Navy and Tulane remaining. The combined record of these opponents is 13–10.

Additionally, two of these games are on the road.

As Tulsa visits Cincinnati next week, UCF hosts East Carolina and South Florida, still searching for their first win of the season.

Men’s basketball looking for conference title

photos by Greg Diskin

Left to right: senior Rashad Ray drives to the hoop in Saturday’s exhibition match against Haskell Indian Nation. The Golden Hurricane won the game 87–62. Freshman Sterling Taplin takes the ball up the court. Taplin is one of two freshman for Tulsa this season and had a strong first game, scoring 12 points in his Golden Hurricane debut.

The men’s team kicked off the preseason on Saturday, so we take a look at their upcoming season, which the Golden Hurricane have high expectations for.

Matt Rechtien Sports Editor Last season, the first under Head Coach Frank Haith and the American Athletic Conference, the Golden Hurricane finished second in the conference but had to settle for a berth to the NIT instead of a second straight season going to the “Big Dance” in March.

This season, Tulsa is led by a large class of nine seniors who all have that postseason experience from the last two seasons. James Woodard and Shaquille Harrison, TU’s top scorers in 2014–2015, will anchor the backcourt.

They were both named to all-conference teams last season and everything seems to point that they will do so. Marquel Curtis, Rashad Ray and Nick Wood round out the guards.

Rashad Smith, Brandon Swannegan, D’Andre Wright and Emmanuel Ezechininso will work the post for the Golden Hurricane this season.

These nine seniors are looking for their second conference title in three years, having won the Conference USA Tournament in Tulsa’s final year.

“At the end of the day, being part of that transition from Conference USA to the American, that’s a pretty nice legacy to have. But wouldn’t it be neat for those guys to finish off with a championship in The

American, as they did in Conference USA.” “That would be something those guys would all be able to talk to their kids and grandkids about.”

Tulsa is also returning junior TK Edogi, and will have Corey Haith available to play after he redshirted last season. Joining the team this year are two transfer students, Pat Birt and Junior Etou, and two freshman, Kajon Brown and Sterling Taplin.

Haith is looking forward to utilizing these new additions to the roster, using them as rotational guys.

“The reason those guys will be rotational guys is because they help us in an area that we were not great at last year, and that’s shooting the basketball.”

The Golden Hurricane are using the nonconference schedule to help prepare for a tough conference schedule in the second half of the season.

Tulsa will host Wichita State (currently ranked 10) in the second game of the season before taking on Oregon State and Oklahoma State on the road. Then over Thanksgiving they will play in the Paradise Jam against the likes of Florida State, Ohio and South Carolina.

And Haith talked about how Tulsa is not the only team in the American that improved from last season.

“You’re talking about, from SMU, who returns basically everybody and the Player of the Year in Nic Moore, to UConn, to Cincinnati, who returns everybody from an NCAA Tournament team. I think Houston will make a huge jump from where they were last year, based on their recruiting.

Temple is going to be very good.”

“Even the teams that people think, based on what they were last year, East Carolina,

Central Florida, Tulane—they all got better because they got older. It’s going to be a very competitive league. I said this last year: “Our league was good, it was just young. A year older, I think you’ll see this league get 5–6 teams in the NCAA Tournament.”

Tulsa played their first game of the season on Saturday, beating Haskell Indian Nation 87–62 in an exhibition match. Woodard led TU with 20 points and 9 rebounds. Taplin (12), Ezechinonso (10) and Birt (10) all scored double-digit points for the Golden Hurricane as well.

“You just want to give your guys the first chance to play in front of folks. It was about what I expected. It was a good experience

for us to get through it and get this game in, and we have to get better from it,” Haith said after the game.

“All-in-all, I just want to see us get this game out of the way, learn from it and get ourselves ready to play on Tuesday.”

Tulsa hosts Rogers State on Tuesday at 7 p.m. to close out their exhibition games, before hosting Central Arkansas on Saturday to open up the regular season.

Tulsa was picked to finish fourth in the AAC this season, but were in a similar situation last season before taking the conference by storm. This season they will look to do the same.

Women’s soccer falls to Cincinnati in quarterfinal, ending the season

The women’s soccer team fell to the Cincinnati Bearcats 0–2 in the quarterfinals of the AAC tournament.

Joseph Edmunds Sports Writer

Cincinnati midfielder Danielle Rotherman opened the scoring in the 28th minute, as she received a pass through the middle of the Tulsa defense and used a cutback move to give herself an opening for a shot.

At the beginning of the second half, Jaycie Brown widened the lead for Cincinnati with a nice strike from the top of the box to put the Bearcats up 2–0.

That was the final goal of the game, and the No. 4 seeded Bearcats will move on in

the tournament, as the Golden Hurricane’s season closes. The game was the final collegiate game for nine of Tulsa’s seniors.

After the game, coach Kyle Cussen had some comments about the seniors, saying, “We knew all season that this was a special group and a special year, and it was.

We are disappointed the season is over because we have such a special group of kids.”

“For the nine seniors ending their career, this group has been special and they have helped change this program since they were freshmen. All nine of them contributed at some point throughout their career. I was especially proud of the seven of them that got to be here this week and the fact that they got to end it on the field together.”

Sports

9 November 2015

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Taking back the crown, Royals win Men’s soccer The longest sport season of the year has come to a close, with last year’s runner-up taking the crown this season.

Justin Guglielmetti Student Writer

in the Royals’ future a fall from grace.

Too much of their success, it seemed, had been based on something called “cluster luck” (the arbitrary happenstance in which a team manages to group an uncharacteristic amount of its hits in close succession, thus helping to make up for statistical offensive deficiencies) as well as a historically dominant bullpen that seemed bound to regress.

Instead, the Royals defied all the odds and kept on winning at a prodigious rate— their 96 wins paced the American League—even while not looking very much at all like a typical contending team.

A team that walked fewer times than any other in the majors, ran the bases at a belowaverage rate and whose starters compiled a higher ERA than all but those of three other American League teams does not sound like one that would have a achieved a great deal of success.

And yet the Royals fit those descriptors in 2015, offsetting their obvious weaknesses with power-hitting improvements across

in on a title and acquiring some big names, even those who might be considered “rentals,” likely only spending the remainder of that season with the team before testing the waters of free agency.

Small market teams like the Royals often avoid such blockbuster moves because it requires mortgaging the future of the team, giving up known assets in prospects for a very brief elevated chance of improvement.

Large market free agency destinations like New York or Los Angeles can survive this depletion of the farm system by signing the top free agents, but for teams that play in what aren’t exactly “destination cities,” acquiring a big name on an expiring deal is an all or nothing venture.

It was exactly this that made the midseason trade for former Reds ace Johnny Cueto so daring, and for a while it looked like a miscalculated risk; Cueto was one of the worst and most inconsistent starters in the American League after the trade.

But in the end, the talented Cueto was

Down 2–0 in the top of the ninth inning of Game 5 against the New York Mets and their dominant ace, Matt Harvey, it appeared that the Kansas City Royals would have to return to their home ballpark to try to secure their first World Series crown in 30 years.

At least, it would have seemed likely for perhaps any other team besides the Royals, who at that point had achieved a whopping seven of their ten postseason victories in come-from-behind fashion.

Fittingly, the win that clinched it all was no different. A leadoff walk and steal

by Lorenzo Cain sent the tying run to the plate in Eric Hosmer, who proceeded to drive in Cain with a double. Hosmer later moved over to third base and scored off a soft grounder to third base, daring Mets first baseman Lucas Duda to gun him down at home after completing the putout.

Duda wasn’t up to the challenge, delivering the throw home late and wide, and allowing the Royals to tie the game. The game remained in a deadlock until the 14th, when Kansas City blew it open with five runs off Addison Reed and sent dominant reliever Wade Davis to close out the Mets.

Davis made short work of his opposition, blowing a 95 mph fastball on the inside corner past shortstop Wilmer Flores to give the Royals their eighth comeback win of the playoffs and, more importantly, the World Series title.

It was a season defined by the most cliché of narratives for the Kansas City Royals: grit, determination and special attention to oft-neglected aspects of baseball like defense and contact hitting were all amongst the most popular talking points about them.

After an improbable run from the Wild Card game to Game Seven of the World Series in 2014, most pundits who favor an analytical approach to their predictions saw

the board, the continued dominance of their bullpen, impeccable defensive play at every position on the diamond and a historically low strikeout rate relative to league.

Baseball is not a sport that can be thoroughly strategized before taking place; there are too many moving parts and unforeseen factors that can emerge over the course of the game. With that said, the Royals used what they had and stuck to a general formula, which of course succeeded with flying colors: make it through five or six innings by keeping the score close, then employing the bullpen to lock down the opponent’s bats and trusting in the offense’s impeccable contact ability to make things happen simply by virtue of putting balls in play.

Also key in Kansas City’s run to the championship was their uncharacteristic activity at the trade deadline, opting to go all

able to come through and contribute in a big way with a dominant Game 2 victory that maintained the Royals’ home field advantage and—if you believe in such intangibles—set the tone for the rest of the series. Super utility man Ben Zobrist, acquired from the Athletics, was also one of Kansas City’s best players in the stretch run.

It wasn’t too long ago that a mention of the World Series to Royals fans would conjure up nothing but images of Madison Bumgarner cutting through their lineup like a buzz saw. Now they get to see their boys lifting the Commissioner’s Trophy sky-high and letting the champagne flow. The Royals have come a long way in defying the odds and getting right back to the same place (and then some!) from the year before. Give them the glory people. They deserve every bit of it.

A university attached to an athletic department – the deceit of modern intercollegiate athletics We all know the hyphenate “student-athlete” with its blissfully wistful connotations of young men and women who spend their days listening to lectures or pouring over books and then, in their spare time, engaging in various sports in the name of the university or college they attend. What most of us don’t realize is that “student-athlete” is a term devised by the NCAA to disguise a billion dollar business enterprise operated at the expense of athletes whose lives theycontrol for the duration of their college careers.

It is a fiction—one that a senior advisor to NCAA president Mark Emmert called an “exploitation” embodying the “great hypocrisy of intercollegiate athletics.”

On one hand, the NCAA contends, in filings before one court, that its principal mission is to maintain intercollegiate athletics as “an integral part of the educational program” and topromote the academic wellbeing of the athlete. The NCAA likewise insists that it is dedicated to the athletes’ education first and foremost—that “at its heart, the NCAA is an education entity.” As recently reported, conference commissioners are “bemoaning a rule they say doesn’t fit the NCAA’s educational values” and object to students having the ability to transfer because the NCAA has “raised” them

and “educated” them.

Before a different court, however, the NCAA claimed that it has no responsibility to safeguard “the academic integrity of the courses offered” at its member institutions.

It further declared that it has no role in ensuring “the quality of the education studentathletes receive at member institutions or [in] protect[ing] student-athletes from the independent, voluntary acts of those institutions or their employees.” The NCAA emphasized that it is far “removed from students’ day-to-day academic experience.”

Most emphatically, it contended it has no “direct relationship with student-athletes in the academic realm.”

The truth is that the so called studentathletes are in reality what Bear Bryant confessed they were decades ago—“athletestudents.” When pressed, even NCAA conferences now admit as much. In a recent report by the Big Ten Conference, it was noted that the Association is not “living up” to its commitment to educate studentathletes. In an official paper circulated to “important leader[s], thinker[s], voice[s] or influencer[s] who have the ability to impact the direction in which intercollegiate athletics evolves at this critical moment in [its] existence,” the Big Ten describes this failure as a “national” problem of “systemic” proportion. Although the report found that FBS football and Division I men’s basketball “stand alone” in terms of both generating more revenue and receiving more resources, they are not severable “from the fabric of intercollegiate athletics” as a whole. If those two sports are not healthy, the report concludes, “then the [entire] collegiate model is

not healthy.”

Without question, academics have been subordinated to and threatened by athletics—a result driven both by the direction of athletic force and the complicity of the education community. The “athlete side,” the Report finds, vastly outweighs the “student side.” The Big Ten report urged that reforms were necessary to “change the current trajectory” in intercollegiate athletics and reverse the “imbalance.” It is critical, the Big Ten report declares, that athletes “not [be] shortchanged.” Educational camouflage, it concludes, is educational “exploitation,” and if the educational value of the athlete’s experience cannot be defended, then the intercollegiate model is “indefensible.”

Elite college sports is a product of a “profitable industrial complex.” The leading architect of the NCAA and its first executive director, Walter Byers characterized the NCAA as “an economic camouflage for monopoly practice,” diverting money and value from those who create it to those who control it. Likewise, civil rights historian and noted journalist Taylor Branch wrote that while college athletes are not slaves, they perform in a system in which “corporations and universities enrich themselves on the backs of uncompensated young men.”

The present system is broken and unsustainable. Until athletes have meaningful rights and a meaningful voice in the balanced operation and benefits of the enterprise, college athletics—however popular— will be haunted by “the unmistakable whiff of the plantation.”

Monday

“It wasn’t too long ago that a mention of the World Series would conjure up nothing but images of Madison Bumgarner cutting through their lineup like a buzzsaw”

Tuesday

Wednesday

Friday

Volleyball vs. Houston 1:00 p.m.

Men’s

Men’s Tennis No Events @ National Indoors (EXH) 7:00 p.m.

Basketball vs.

Men’s Tennis @ ITF Futures Rogers State

The men’s soccer team will advance to the next round of the American Conference against top-seeded SMU tournament after beating UCF in penalty kicks on Saturday night.

Joseph Edmunds Sports Writer

The Golden Hurricane men’s team advances to the semifinal round of the American Athletic Conference tournament with a penalty-kick victory against UCF. The game was very even throughout, as each team had quality, threatening attacking possession.

Barry Hadji opened the scoring for the Knights half an hour in, as he played through the Tulsa defensive line and successfully dribbled around goalkeeper Jake McGuire to pass the ball into the open net.

Shortly after halftime, Lesley Nchanji equalized for the Golden Hurricane. Cole Poppen sent a cross into the box that found Juan Sanchez, who headed it closer to the center of the box, where Nchanji was there to head in the goal.

The tied score didn’t last long. Only a minute later, Hadji again broke through the Golden Hurricane back line for another breakaway goal.

From this point on, Tulsa played very aggressively on offense, as their season was on the line. They created many opportunities, including multiple shots that hit the frame of the goal.

In the 80th minute, they earned a corner.

Zach Jackson sent the ball into the box, and Michael Mitrik was there to put home the goal.

Regulation ended at 2–2, and the teams headed into sudden death overtime. The overtime periods saw a lot of attacking play, but neither team could convert any of their chances to take the victory. After the overtime periods ended, a penalty kick followed, because the result of the match couldn’t be a tie since the game was a tournament game.

The shootout couldn’t have started much better for Tulsa, as the Knights missed their first shot high over the crossbar, and McGuire saved the second shot. Zack Stavrou, Ray Saari, Geoffrey Dee and Cole Poppen all scored their penalty kicks, and the Golden Hurricane won the shootout 4–2 to advance in the tournament.

Their next opponent is the No. 1 seed in the tournament, SMU. They play on Friday, November 13 in Tampa, Florida.

Hurricane Recap Rowing Hosts Fall Invitational The rowing team hosted SMU and Kansas this weekend in their final event of the fall season. They took first place in four of the six events.

Volleyball Splits Road Trip Volleyball fell to Cincinnati and beat Memphis on the road this weekend. Erica Bohannon moved into third all-time for kills at Tulsa over the weekend.

Women’s Basketball Wins Big In their final exhibition game of the season the women’s basketball team dominated Southeastern Oklahoma 92–50 with four different players scoring double-digits.

: Nov. 9 – 15

Michael D. Hausfeld

Thursday

wins in PK’s, will play SMU in semi’s

Women’s Basketball vs.

Kansas State 7:00 p.m.

Cross Country @ NCAA Midwest Regional

Saturday

Football @ Cincinnati 11:00 a.m.

Men’s Basketball vs.

Central Arkansas 7:00 p.m.

Men’s Soccer vs. SMU American Semifinal Men’s Tennis Men’s Tennis @ National Indoors

@ National Indoors

Sunday

Volleyball vs. Tulane 1:30 p.m.

Men’s Soccer @ American Championship (if advanced) Men’s Tennis @ National Indoors

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9 November 2015

The Gatesway Foundation: Community caregivers

The Broken Arrow-based nonprofit organization is dedicated to assisting disabled persons in obtaining appropriate education, work and housing, but it must find inventive ways to achieve their mission in the face of legislative difficulties.

Sara Douglas Student Writer

The Gatesway Foundation strives “to encourage independence and provide opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities that will enable them to live and work in the community and improve their quality of life.” However, barriers to the fulfillment of this objective are plentiful.

In the late ‘90s, legislature removed intellectually disabled individuals from institutions that were suspected of mistreatment and negligence. These people were mostly moved into private care facilities. This was generally recognized by parents, educators, caretakers, and policymakers as a step in the right direction, not only ethically but also because community-based care is more cost-effective.

With the removal of government-operated care facilities came an increased demand for supportive services for intellectually and developmentally challenged individuals. Because the sheer amount of available housing and employment opportunities for the disabled dropped after government funds were cut, huge waitlists have formed for these services.

Parents of disabled adults can be strapped with immense medical costs and the stress of having to provide for a grown child who likely has few job prospects (without assistance from organizations like Gatesway) for years. When government benefits are not in place, waitlists for community care may filled with thousands of potential recipients who have been waiting for nearly a decade to be considered.

Providing living and career opportunities to all individuals who are in need is still a difficult task even when tackled by various organizations. The Gatesway Foundation serves close to 400 people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, and other non-profit and for-profit groups in the Tulsa area serve similar numbers.

Because not enough resources from government waivers are allocated to offering full-time communal living Gatesway has had to establish intermediate care facilities.

“These are a place for people who can no longer live with their family and are awaiting services to open up in the community where they can live in a smaller home-like environment,” the group said.

For school-aged children with disabilities, the problem isn’t in finding them somewhere to have permanent and secure housing; it arises in attempting to get the education they personally require to be successful. Parents can receive state dollars to go towards public school tuition for kids who need special education programs, but in recent years this budget has seen cuts.

Gatesway also faces difficulties in finding jobs for disabled teens who weren’t able to complete their schooling. Their efforts in lobbying for more disability funding from

Recipients of Gatesway’s services attend the annual Balloon Festival fundraiser alongside family, friends and the public.

photo by Sara Douglass

Gatesway Foundation Community Efforts for Disabled Individuals:

-Provides living options throughout the Tulsa area: -community residential options -group homes -intermediate care facilities -adult day care services -Provides work opportunities in conjunction with local businesses: -community work crews such as lawn care and document destruction -individual placement in workplaces -transitional programs and vocational training centers.

-Recruits assistants to help in the program’s continued success: -volunteers can be adult day center “friends” -perform clerical work -be entertainers -assist at special events -provide groundskeeping and maintenance support -work at the vocational training center

the state have seen little success. Although, what they do accomplish with their budget as a non-profit is notable in terms of the support they’re able to provide for fully-fledged adults.

An additional challenge facing disabled children is that a scholarship for students with disabilities that, until this year, has been accepted at private schools is now being challenged on its constitutionality at the Oklahoma Supreme Court. The argument against the scholarship’s continuation is that some parents who receive it on behalf

of their children elect to send their child to religious private schools using the scholarship, and taxpayer money should not support religious institutions.

If the voucher is ruled unconstitutional many disabled students would lose the only state funding they have for personalized education, even though the majority of the funds currently go to non-religiously affiliated schools. Public schools are often not conducive to the success of disabled students, so forcing non-wealthy parents to make their handicapped children attend

public schools could be detrimental to the children’s future prospects.

While the Gatesway Foundation does have to fight the tide against legislation that limits the ability of disabled persons to successfully integrate into educational and professional realms, the foundation manages to stay afloat. They rely on fundraisers like the Gatesway Balloon Festival each September to fund their activities, along with donations.

Impact Tulsa releases damning report on TPS The advocacy group released a report on Nov 4 highlighting some very serious problems in Tulsa Public Schools.

Caitlin Woods Satire Editor The newest education report from Impact Tulsa, a local advocacy group headed by Kathy Taylor and the Schusterman Foundation, hit the town on Wednesday night.

The report gave an in-depth analysis of academics in the Tulsa area and included speeches from local figures like TPS superintendent Deborah Gist, Jeff Dunn of Mill Creek Lumber and Jonah Edelman, an education advocate and the son of Civil Rights activist Marian Wright Edelman.

The report broke down Oklahoma’s, and more specifically Tulsa’s, failing grades into several sections. These sections included kindergarten preparedness, third grade reading levels and eighth grade algebra enrollment.

John Tapogna, president of economics consulting group EcoNorthwest, presented his and Impact Tulsa’s assessment of prekindergarten enrollment compared to academic success later in school.

The group found that last year there were over 40 percent fewer economically disadvantaged students enrolled in a pre-kindergarten program than privileged students.

59 percent of incoming kindergarteners were literate. Of these, 74 percent were

graphic by Elias Brinkman

white, 37 percent Hispanic and 44 percent African-American. Third-graders of white and non-economically disadvantaged backgrounds scored over 200 points higher than black, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students in the same year on the Lexile framework, which gages on-level literacy.

The problem is not only in minority and lower-income households. While white students and those from higher-income families do have higher enrollment numbers in upper-level courses in eighth-grade, over half of students in Tulsa are still enrolled in pre-algebra. 32 percent of white students are enrolled in algebra, compared to 18 percent of students of color and 36 percent of

low-income students. The problem disproportionately affects those from more disadvantaged backgrounds.

In 2014 the Tulsa area had an 82 percent overall high school graduation rate, which is close to the national average. However, by spring 2015 fewer than half of those students were enrolled in a 4-year degree program, and only 42 percent of 2013’s graduates were still enrolled in college by 2015.

This issue affects everyone. Jonah Edelman, CEO of the education advocacy group Stand for Children, prompted Tulsans to stand up for local education.

The problem, he said, goes much farther than early education, and the solution re-

quires a lot of “sweat equity.”

Schools in Oklahoma suffer from a severe lack of funding. This means a shortage of money to hire teachers, and low pay for those they do hire. According to Oklahoma Watch, a nonprofit analysis group, the starting salary for Tulsa teachers is 32,900 dollars a year, compared to a 33,950 dollar national average. Edelman and Impact Tulsa propose a one cent sales tax raise for next year’s ballot, which would, in theory, allow for a 5,000 dollar raise for Tulsa area teachers.

Jeff Dunn, president of Mill Creek Lumber and chair-elect on the Tulsa Regional Chamber’s Board of Directors, spoke to local businesses’ interest in bettering education. Currently Dunn is looking to fund a Teacher Education scholarship, which would fund scholarships for students granted they teach for the same amount of years they received the scholarship.

The best thing for students to do is to “get involved” in education programs, Dunn said. There are several tutoring and mentor programs for students to help younger kids, including the Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance, where students can tutor children in math and science, and Reading Partners, a program that focuses on improving students’ reading level.

To volunteer with the Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance’s math and science mentorship programs, call 918-863-8700 or email info@tulsastem.org. To get involved with Reading Partners, sign up to volunteer at www.readingpartners.org/volunteer.

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Countdown to world catastrophe The doomsday clock is at three minutes until midnight as old and new threats of global catastrophe continue to endanger humanity.

Nathan Gibbons Student Writer It is three minutes to midnight on the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic clock face meant to represent how close humanity is to global catastrophe. It was moved up in January of this year due to “unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals.” The Clock had not been moved this close to midnight, or doomsday, since 1984. courtesy Wikimedia Commons A group of scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project created the Clock for A replica of the Fat Man that killed between 40,000 and 80,000 people in Nagasaki. the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists “to reflect Scientists argue that the world may be a full although it is not too late, environmental basic changes in the level of continuous five to fifteen degrees warmer by the end problems are quickly approaching a point of danger in which mankind lives,” co-founder of the century if greenhouse gases are not no return.

Eugene Rabinowitch stated. decreased in the near future.

Another threat to humanity is the number Researchers meet twice a year to discuss If this occurs, the Earth’s surface would of nuclear warheads. While these have been whether or not the clock should be moved. be radically different than it is now. Yet even greatly decreased since the Cold War era, Since the end of the Cold War, the Clock today global warming affects lives through more states now possess nuclear arsenals. has been moved closer to doomsday flooding, stronger storms, drought and other Many allies hold nuclear weaponry, and virtually every meeting thanks to threats to changes. countries not belonging to the Nuclear humanity’s survival.

“Greenhouse gas emission rates are now Nonproliferation Treaty continue to amass Recently, environmental problems such 50 percent higher than they were in 1990,” nuclear warheads. India has increased as global warming have been revealed to says Sivan Kartha, a member of the Bulletin. its nuclear power since the 1960s and has the world and addressed by the Bulletin. The Bulletin and other scientists argue that, around 110 nuclear warheads. Pakistan

Sammie Hottel Student Writer President Obama rejects Keystone XL Pipeline Project President Obama announced the White House’s decision to reject the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline project on Friday. The project has long been a point of political contention, with many environmentalists and liberal activists strongly opposing it. The pipeline would have carried 800,000 barrels per day of carbon heavy petroleum from Canada to the Gulf Coast. Secretary of State John Kerry concluded that the pipeline was not in the nation’s interests, and the president stated in his announcement that “The pipeline would not make a meaningful long-term contribution to our economy.”

The decision came just ahead of the upcoming United Nations summit on climate change in Paris this December. During the summit, the White House hopes to promote the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions and other policies preventative of climate change.

China, Taiwan leaders meet for first time since 1949 Taiwanese President Ma Ying Jeou and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet for a summit in Singapore on Saturday. Leaders of the two nations have not met since 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek and his one million nationalist followers fled to Taiwan, consolidating the Communist Party in China. Despite the historic significance of the meeting, little is known about its purpose. Taiwan’s incumbent party, the Kuomintang (KMT), has sought a summit with Beijing for over two years. The KMT, often regarded as being friendlier toward the mainland, is currently trailing in polls for an upcoming election, and some see the summit as a political maneuver to influence the election. According to press reports, President Xi will address Taiwan’s leader Ma as “President,” a gesture that could signify steps towards a greater legitimization of Taiwan’s government.

Anonymous stages “Million Mask March” worldwide Hundreds of thousands of masked demonstrators stood in the streets of over 600 cities worldwide in a protest known as the “Million Mask March.” Protesters raged over a variety of issues including censorship, war, poverty and corruption. Demonstrations occurred all over the world, including outside the White House. Nine protesters were arrested in Denver, and three police officers were injured in London after fireworks were thrown into a patrol car.

Protesters wore Guy Fawkes masks in honor of the fifth of November, the date the famous revolutionary was captured. In a promotional video for the event, anonymous organizers stated that the march was meant to declare to “various governments” that the “free flow of information” could not be stopped.

German government tightens refugee policy Germany tightened its asylum rules for incoming Syrian refugees on Friday as more migrants continue to stream into the country. According to Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, the changes allow Syrian refugees subsidiary protection for a limited time, but do not allow asylum seekers to have full refugee status, which would grant them three full years and the right to bring their families. Under the changes, migrants with subsidiary protection will not be allowed to bring their families for the first two years.

The minister explained the decision, stating “Other countries in such situations already only give limited protection; that is what we will do with the Syrians now.”

Over 758,000 migrants have entered Germany since January, and these changes, along with recent legislation cutting cash benefits for asylum seekers, indicate Germany’s shift toward limiting migrant influx.

Brazilian dam bursts in iron ore mine Two dams collapsed in a Brazilian iron ore mine on Thursday, killing two people and injuring at least thirty others. The mine’s chief executive officer speculated that the collapse may have been caused by a tremor but stated that it was too early to determine the exact cause. The disaster’s official death toll is currently two, but that number is likely to rise as firefighters continue to search for victims missing under mud and debris.

Television footage showed the village of Bento Rodrigues devastated by the massive flooding. The floods reached as far as fifty miles away, tearing rooftops and sweeping away cars along the way. After a state of emergency was declared, hundreds of families evacuated the area, escaping to higher ground.

has nearly the same amount and may have enough fissile material for 200 warheads by 2020. North Korea has been only partially successful in testing any warheads, but still pursues a nuclear arsenal.

There is also the threat of non-state actors, mostly terrorists, procuring a nuclear weapon. The notion that a state would willingly give terrorists a nuclear weapon to use against rival states is disputed.

Deterrence, which does not apply to terrorists, does apply to their sponsor states and experts say attributing the bomb to its mother state is likely. Still, many argue that terrorists could receive nuclear warheads through theft or corruption in poorly defended states.

The Clock first appeared on the cover of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947, when the nuclear age was beginning. It was featured on every cover until the Bulletin went completely digital and the Clock was moved to the site, where it can be found now. The Clock’s hand has been moved, not counting its original time, twenty one times. Despite major tension between the United States and the USSR, nuclear arsenal treaties and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union temporarily loosened the fear of nuclear armageddon. Treaties like the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty helped the Clock reach its highest point ever, and a redesign was needed to allow it to reach seventeen minutes till midnight in 1991.

Friday, November 13 at 6:00pm to 9:00pm Student Union, The Great Hall Fall International Bazaar Come and enjoy an evening of multicultural food, music, dancing, and traditions as members of TU’s diverse international population share their cultures.

Saturday, November 14 at 12:00pm to 11:59am Rayzor Hall, Lobby ACM Hack-a-thon 24-hour programming competition Hosted by ACM. No experience necessary.

Saturday, November 14 at 12:00pm to 5:00pm Zarrow Center for Art & Education Drawing Fundamentals with Nancy Harkins Learn tips to make drawing easier from a professional artist in this fun one day class.

This class covers basic drawing skills and how to see more accurately. Students will learn how to break down a subject into manageable pieces. Line angle, shape, positioning and linear perspective will be demonstrated.

Class fee includes a sketch pad, eraser and drawing pencils for students. All supplies furnished. Contact cindy-williams@utulsa.edu for details.

Saturday, November 14 at 7:00pm Tyrrell Hall, Ellen G. Adelson Auditorium NPR’s Piano Puzzler Bruce Adolphe Lecture Can music get laughs without using any words (and with no wrong notes)? Definitely, says Bruce Adolphe, composer and National Public Radio’s Piano Puzzler, who regularly tickles the ivories and funny bones across the nation. Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven were superb musical comedians, and Adolphe will reveal the secrets of classical wit, plus he will take you through some of his own comedic compositional conundrums, including piano puzzlers and more. If you want to know how Mozart’s music is like ordering take-out, be there!

Tough Turkey in the Big City, a Tulsa Symphony Family Concert featuring Adolphe, will be held in the Lorton Performance Center on Nov. 15.

For more information visit humanities.utulsa.edu.

Sunday, November 15 at 3:00pm Lorton Performance Center, Gussman Concert Hall Tough Turkey in the Big City “Tough Turkey in the Big City” is a Tulsa Symphony Family Concert featuring Bruce Adolphe from NPR’s The Piano Puzzler.

Follow the comic blunders of Tom Turkey as he leaves the farm to try his luck in the big city — a tussle at the Turkey Club, a romance with a Park Avenue pigeon and a mix-up at the Thanksgiving Day Parade!

This witty performance for the whole family will be followed by a book signing of Adolphe’s “The Mind’s Ear.” Monday, November 16 at 11:00am to 1:00pm Student Union, Great Hall First Steps to Studying Abroad Drop by to hear stories from Orientation Leaders and get information from professors about studying abroad.

This come-and-go event is for first and second year students who are just thinking about the possibility of studying abroad.

Pick up a free box lunch!

Tuesday, November 17 at 7:00pm to 9:00pm Student Union, Great Hall Sexual Identity and the Christian Faith A lecture by Dr. Rosaria Butterfield on sexual identity and the Christian faith.

Join in for a conversation and Q&A surrounding the issue of sexuality, sexual identity and intersection of these issues with the Christian faith.

Butterfield is the author of Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert and Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Ientity and Union with Christ.

Presented by: Reformed University Fellowship, ChiAlpha Campus Ministries, Baptist Collegiate Minstries, and Wesley Foundation.

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Sexual Identity and the Christian Faith: Two open letters On Nov 17, several campus church groups will be hosting Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, a former professor of English and Women’s Studies at Syracuse University.

Butterfield is the author of “The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor’s Journey into the Christian Faith,” which details her conversion to Presbyterian Christianity in 1999 and subsequent lifestyle changes. Those changes included leaving her lesbian partner, quitting her job and becoming a stay-at-home mother. Butterfield is a controversial and polarizing figure, mainly due to her stance against homosexuality and her beliefs about sex and gender. The Collegian has received two open letters, one in support of the event and one against. Here we have reproduced them both in full.

To the Hosts of Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The students of United Campus Ministry, the Society for Gender Equality, HeadStrong, Earth Matters, and Pride at TU want to state publicly that we are outraged that several ministries from the university will be hosting Rosaria Champagne Butterfield on November 17th.

Mrs. Butterfield speaks openly not only about her conversion to Christianity, but also her conversion from lesbianism to straightness.

Mrs. Butterfield believes that being gay or transgender is fundamentally opposed to being Christian.

Inviting someone to speak about orientation as a spiritual or psychological weakness actively creates a hostile environment for all LGBTQ+ students.

Many of the students who are concerned about this speaker’s presence on our campus identify as both Christian and LGBTQ+, and we believe that by hosting Mrs. Butterfield, these campus ministries are trying to silence our voices and invalidate our identities.

Just because Butterfield does not openly condemn LGBTQ+ people, does not mean that the things she says are loving.

The absence of explicit condemnation is not love, and in this case serves to hide the subtle message that there is something

wrong with being LGBTQ+.

While we celebrate our country’s right to religious freedom, major medical, scientific, and governmental bodies have identified conversion therapy as an unethical, and potentially harmful practice that may increase risk for depression and suicide.

Any discussion or promotion of such practices, or suggestion that sexual orientation is not immutable is discrimination and a threat.

As students gathered to begin crafting this letter, certain themes arose again and again – anger, fear, and shame.

The students who felt outraged enough to attend the letter writing session represented lots of different groups; there were students from a number of racial and ethnic backgrounds, of varying sexual orientations and gender identities, and consisted of both religious and secular students.

We were all able to gather around the table at the Little Blue House in solidarity.

Regardless of our backgrounds, when one student is oppressed we are all oppressed.

We are a community that fights for each other and we will not sit back in silence while discrimination and prejudice run rampant on our campus.

We will not allow our community to be

harassed without responding. We will not accept hate speech on our campus without condemnation. We will not allow our loving community to be hurt by this woman’s supposed wisdom. We will not be broken by your hate.

As a community, we do not understand why campus ministries would choose to focus on the conversion of LGBTQ+ students.

It is certainly acceptable for a campus ministry to choose to focus on whatever they think is important; however, we believe it is an egregious misuse of Jesus’ name to choose to be complicit in oppression, rather than working to address tangible human suffering.

We believe that the role of ministry should be to use our power, energy, drive, and resources to promote love, equality, and safety for all students and our surrounding community.

Let this be an open invitation to all campus ministries to talk about the systematic murder of people of color; to create dialogue to discuss the more than 20 transgender people murdered since January of this year; to show concern for the fact that Oklahoma leads the world in incarcerating women, and that an immense number of Oklahoma children go hungry.

As long as students on TU’s campus feel unsafe, United Campus Ministry will be here to support them.

We will be here, fighting for equity and justice, fostering student growth, and creating safety until we have a truly inclusive and kind campus.

We invite every other ministry on this campus to join in our mission, and to help make TU a safe place for all students - regardless of racial or ethnic background, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, ability, or religion.

We want to be certain that every student on this campus knows that we will still be here, whether or not other ministries choose to join us, fighting for our kind and loving community.

We will not be broken. Our community is stronger than your hate.

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To the TU Community, Reformed University Fellowship (RUF), Baptist Collegiate Ministries (BCM), Chi Alpha (XA), and the TU Wesley Foundation, all registered student groups here at TU, have invited Dr. Rosaria Butterfield to come to campus to give both a Lecture and Q&A session on the topic of “Sexual Identity and the Christian Faith” on the evening of Tuesday, November 17 from 7-9 pm in the Great Hall (A) in the Union for this event.

From many personal conversations and from the recent “UCM Open Letter to Campus Ministries” addressed to the Hosts of (Dr.) Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, we understand that there is both outrage and confusion over why we would choose to bring this particular speaker to speak on this particular topic at this particular time.

Our purpose in bringing Dr. Butterfield to campus for this evening lecture offering and Q&A session is to explore the rationale

and phenomenon of having one’s sexual identity (wherever that may lie across any of the available spectrums) be one of the primary if not the primary means by which they choose to identify themselves, publicly or otherwise.

As a now-professing Christian and one who devoted years of academic research to these topics, Dr. Butterfield will address this topic from a biblical, personal, and academic perspective.

Her personal spiritual journey (namely, her conversion from unbelief in God/Jesus to belief in God/Jesus and her many subsequent life changes which followed including but not limited to her sexuality) will have particular relevance for the topics being addressed.

After hearing from a number of individuals, we understand there is a concern that Dr. Butterfield would come onto campus as an

advocate of Reparative Conversion Therapy (a course of psychological treatment wherein the goal would be for the subject to “convert” from homosexual desires/orientation to heterosexual desires/orientation).

Dr. Butterfield is not an advocate of conversion therapy. In fact, she explicitly distances herself from this course of therapy, as numerous articles and recorded lectures indicate.

Our intention in bringing Dr. Butterfield to campus is in no way an attempt to make the campus a hostile or “un-safe” place for anyone to hold personal views and live lives as they desire.

Though we are certain some would disagree, through listening to various presentations and reading her published materials, we have not found Dr. Butterfield to be unkind or uncharitable in her demeanor or presentation, nor is she careless in her engage-

ment on these very difficult, often-personal issues. We would never intentionally bring someone to campus who promotes a message of hate or bigotry.

We love TU and its students. Our hope is that this event would promote the concept of the University as being the marketplace of ideas, a true pluralistic society in which all ideas (even contentious ones) are presented and considered and even debated with respect and charity, of course. World history testifies to the truth that ideas matter.

With that in view, it makes sense for Christians to engage in important topics and present the Biblical worldview as a viable way to live and even flourish in the world.

Please consider this an invitation to join us for the lecture and Q&A session.

We hope it is of great service to our university community and that many would benefit from the dialogue.

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End-of-life-care burdens families The costs to support someone’s last ten years of life, or less, often outweigh total health expenditures made up to that point. Family members must bear heavy financial loads, even after death has occurred. Changes in philosophy and practices are necessary.

Sara Douglas Student Writer As parents grow older, it is traditional for their children to care for them by providing resources to maintain their health. However, many ailments that afflict the elderly are costly to treat and result in exorbitant medical bills.

Rather than providing care that aims to enhance patients’ lives as they near the end of their life, healthcare teams often opt for expensive treatment plans that will only marginally extend, but likely not improve, their patients’ lives.

Hospitals are often flooded with patients who don’t have much wrong with them except for agederived issues, but these patients find themselves in hospitals on a more regular basis than the general healthy, young population. Their family members typically pay for their stay because they are able to work and have savings and insurance.

Also, regular illnesses that would usually be easy to treat for younger people tend to become exacerbated and require more ex-

tensive treatment in elderly patients.

Unfortunately, devoting a significant portion of one’s income to elderly parents does not bode well when attempting to plan for future events such as sending children to college or one’s own retirement.

The situation is worsened when insurance providers and healthcare companies seek payment from families with an inability to pay.

This can result in family members taking out large loans on the behalf of their elderly relation who has no real prospects of paying off the loan themselves.

Even worse, due to the high demand for end-of-life care, a market of “cheap” care has arisen— families who can’t afford high-end care may inadvertently select a negligent or perhaps abusive “care” provider because the cost is significantly less. In Oklahoma alone, more than 15,000 cases of suspected elder abuse were investigated last year; those were only the reported situations.

If family members elect to undertake aggressive treatment in the hopes of curing their elderly loved one of whatever is ailing them, it may be very expensive, and may prolong their lives slightly, but overall will probably not improve their quality of life past that point.

The Medicare system puts a quarter of its funds towards endof-life treatments that ultimately don’t merit that large of a portion; extending but not enhancing patients’ lives should not comprise

Palliative care is an alternative to invasive medical treatments and stays in cold, unfriendly hospital rooms.

The human race has forever had an obsession with size and spectacle. Our ancestors marveled at the giants that nature provided, looking in awe at the height of the Redwoods or the towering peaks of mountains rising into the heavens.

In the modern age, we have tried to emulate such marvels in the best ways we can, with designs for monuments, buildings and towers testing the limits of our ingenuity and grandeur. Fans of such artificial behemoths will soon have a new sight to behold: the tallest statue in the world.

India’s Statue of Unity, currently under construction and set to be completed in 2018, will be a whopping 597 feet tall, or for better context, nearly twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty. It will shat-

ter the previous record for world’s tallest statue, which is currently held by the Spring Temple Buddha in Henan, China at a “mere” 420 feet.

Contrary to its generic title, the statue will not display some anthropomorphized representation of the concept of unity but rather a man whose visage means as much for the Indian people. Vallabhbhai Patel was an Indian social leader in the early to middle 20th century and a key figure in the movement to gain independence from Great Britain.

Patel’s name is not recognized as much in the West as that of his contemporary, Mohandas Gandhi, but within the country he is revered as one of its founding fathers; indeed, he served as India’s

such a large part of our health system.

It’s common for tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills to accumulate during the last five or so years of someone’s life. Usually these are in excess of that person’s financial assets, and they may actually be assessed for procedures that cause more harm than provide care.

Also, these bills typically don’t disappear after the individual passes away, so family and other people who would otherwise be

inheriting the deceased’s assets end up becoming responsible for the repayment of medical debts.

Especially when it comes to terminal illnesses, palliative care is often the better route to take when given months or weeks to live; it provides comfort during one’s final days rather than further invasive and harsh medical treatments.

However, medical facilities and the overall healthcare system push to extend lives rather than improve them, so a change in philosophy is really what needs to happen.

Systematic denial of death results in financial exploitation of families by the medical system.

If both families and doctors would acknowledge that it’s better to pursue palliative care options instead of intense treatments that are likely to reduce the patient’s quality of life in their last months or weeks, then we would see fewer skyrocketing out-of-pocket costs being assessed to elderly individuals and their families.

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Controversy surrounds Indian monument

Though the construction of the tallest statue in the world fails to benefit India in all the ways it was expected to, the project can still be considered a source of national pride.

Justin Guglielmetti Student Writer

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Vallabhbhai Patel was a key actor in the Indian independence movement. The Statue of Unity intends to honor him as such.

The official logo for the Statue of Unity project.

first Prime Minister from 1948 until his death two years later.

Such a tremendous undertaking should be a source of pride for the Indian government and its people, but the project has unfortunately come under a great deal of scrutiny.

For one, there is concern among political pundits within India that the statue’s chief minister, Narendra Modi, is co-opting a symbol of national pride (and, well, unity) by turning Patel’s image into a symbol for his own controversial political party, the Bharatiya Party.

Such a divisive and partisan maneuver runs counter to everything Patel tried to achieve during his lifetime.

There is also a more concrete logistical problem concerning the actual construction of the statue.

In addition to its ethereal purpose as a bastion of hope and togetherness, part of the rationale for the Statue of Unity was the idea that it would be a stimulant for India’s economy through tourism, as well as through the jobs that would be created in the statue’s production and assembly.

But while the former revenue stream will almost certainly come to fruition in the years to come, the latter has already proved to be nothing more than a pipe dream and selling point to the Indian people.

“Made in India” remains one of the project’s taglines but there is mounting evidence that little of the effort involved in building the statue will have anything to do with the Indian people. In a situation that is not unfamiliar to readers in

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the United States, India has seen its jobs outsourced, in this case to China, from which the Larsen & Toubro construction company is procuring some 25,000 pieces of bronze and thousands of contracted workers.

At this point, with the design completed, the money changed hands and the construction begun, it is an unfortunate reality that India will have to resort to foreign labor to achieve what should be a symbol of national pride. And yes, it also looks like the short-term gains to the country’s economy will be minimal at best (and with the exorbitant price tag for the statue taken into account, even this might be optimistic).

Nevertheless, I don’t think third-party observers or the people of India itself should look at this situation as a blow to Indian pride.

No matter where it is actually created, it can still serve as an icon for the country in which it resides; just look at the Statue of Liberty, known around the globe as a symbol of American freedom and prosperity…and built in France.

True, France was an ally rather than a rival and made the statue as a gift, but it wasn’t even designed by an American. The Statue of Unity is at the very least a creative product of India itself.

Using Chinese workers and parts was simply what made the most financial sense, and sometimes, in our ceaseless quest to create ever more wondrous giants, those types of sacrifices have to be made.

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Kendall Hall bathrooms in disrepair

The state of Kendall Hall—particularly the bathrooms—is abysmal.

Funding should go towards repairing and improving facilities we already have.

James Terrell Student Writer This school is amazing. Being a nationally ranked university, one would think we’d take pride in our surroundings. For the most part we do, with new buildings like Hardesty and an amazing football field.

Given our university’s standing, it shouldn’t be too much to ask

that when there is a concern over something needing to be fixed, something is actually done about it.

Take the Kendall Hall bathrooms. To say the place is a mess would be an understatement.

The walls literally have holes punched through them and stall doors are broken. Instead of a lock, one of the stalls has a screw instead. “Racists make me horny” and other graphic texts are etched into the walls, and that’s only the main level bathrooms.

Downstairs, the water pressure is virtually nonexistent and the sinks drip.

The entire environment is a shit show, both figuratively and literally, and the sad thing is, this isn’t a new concern. Alumni, students and teachers alike have acknowledged the very obvious problem at hand for years, but the bathrooms stay in the same condition.

It seems the university doesn’t take time to renovate and repair.

We spend more than a million dol-

lars on a fancy fountain, and yet there isn’t any room in the budget to fix things that we already have?

Chris Jett, a junior, said he feels, “that with the recent increase in tuition, which has affected all of the students in one way or another, we should all be feeling the benefits. From Kendall to Hardesty.”

He isn’t wrong.

With the amount of money being asked of students for tuition and housing (above 50,000 dollars per year) one would think simple repairs could be fit in.

Maybe it’s the lack of interest in fine arts, but with a consistently losing football team that gets plastered everywhere, one would think the arts should get representation too.

And this isn’t me saying the fine arts should be a replacement to the pedestal football sits on. But simple things like a repair here and there are not only wanted, they’re needed, and that shouldn’t be deemed ridiculous.

Pictured are examples of the disrepair in the Kendall Hall bathrooms. Top: Water damage and cracked tiles underneath the urinals. Middle right: A broken lock fixed haphazardly with a screw. Bottom right: An example of the rampant graffitti in the bathrooms. This particular sample reads “TU SUCKS.” Bottom left: A hole in the bathroom wall, filled with trash and debris.

photos by James Terrell

Processed meat deemed carcinogenic, should be labeled

Processed meats should be treated with the same amount of caution as other carcinogens.

Natalie Wood Student Writer A recent study by the World Health Organization suggests that a high intake of red meat could possibly cause colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer or pancreatic cancer. Other findings showed the high risk of a carcinogenic effect on those who consume large amounts of red meat. Similarly, processed meat was found to be “carcinogenic to humans” based on “sufficient evidence” that the intake of processed meats is a direct cause of colorectal cancer.

Red meat is defined by the World Health Organization as “all types of mammalian muscle meat,

such as veal, beef, pork, lamb, mutton, horse and goat.”

Processed meat is defined as “meat that has been transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking or other processes to enhance flavor or improve preservation. Most processed meats contain pork or beef, but may also contain other red meats, poultry, offal or meat-by-products such as blood. Examples of processed meats include hot dogs, ham, sausages, corned beef and beef jerky, as well as canned meats and meatbased preparations and sauces.”

While these findings indicate that people should try to avoid red and processed meat, it is not recommended to completely cut red meat in particular from one’s diet. However, the warnings given against processed meat raise a few flags and pose several questions.

Processed meat is generally the cheapest and easiest meat for the public to access, but the projected damaging effects may result in different packaging with warning labels to inform those buying it of its potential harm. This suggestion has been met with a great amount of pushback from the corporations that it would affect.

However, a large problem with these findings is that untreated

meat is generally quite expensive compared to processed meats, with the availability being relatively low as well. Ideally, these findings would convince the public to consume less processed meat, increasing the demand for more untreated and natural options, resulting in a gradual lowering in cost for those

options. Warning labels could potentially increase the public’s awareness of the dangers of red and processed meat, resulting in a gradual push for healthier meat options.

Whether or not warning labels do become a required part of meat packaging, steps should be taken

to inform the public of the potential dangers of the consumption of red and processed meat. The recently discovered carcinogenic effect of these kinds of meat should be treated with the same level of severity as cigarettes, alcohol and other carcinogens that the public are widely warned about avoiding.

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In the near future, it’s possible that beef and other red or processed meats may come with a warning label.

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Daylight Saving Time

in our lives?

Though Daylight Saving Time seems to have a minimal effect on our daily lives, we should reconsider its use as it may cause more problems than it’s worth.

Linh Phan Student Writer

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Turn your clock back one hour!

Daylight Saving Time (DST) is over!

Daylight Saving Time happens every year. You may not notice it if you don’t have a mechanic clock or watch because your smartphone automatically changes on its own.

DST occurs annually. It’s a practice of setting the clock an hour forward in the spring and back again in autumn, lasts through the summer months, therefore it’s also called summer time in the UK. This practice is usually applied in temperate or polar countries, where in the summer, the day starts earlier than in the winter by a few hours. It has the practical purpose of saving light energy, making the most of it by beginning work early in the day and sleeping early at night.

In the US and Canada, it lasts from the second Sunday of March to the first Sunday of November.

And it’s just ended last Sunday, November 1.

Ancient civilizations did not fix their schedules to the clock like we do now. Instead they adjusted daily routines according to daylight.

Daylight time was always divided into twelve hours regardless of daylight length, so that each hour would be longer in the summer.

During his time to France as an American envoy, Benjamin Franklin anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians could economize on candles by waking up early and making use of sunlight. He’s also known to have said: “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” However, despite com-

mon misconceptions, Franklin didn’t propose DST. Modern DST was first proposed

by George Hudson in 1895, a New Zealand entomologist (one who studies insects).

DST was first used by Germany during WWI, followed by Britain and France. The US officially applied DST in 1966.

However, most of the state of Arizona stopped observing DST. DST doesn’t affect UTC or any time zones. Places switch to different time zones during their DST period and switch back after that.

Meanwhile, places that don’t use DST keep their own fixed time zone. There are also parts of the world that tested DST for a while and stopped, for many different reasons.

Now that we have an idea of what DST is, is it necessary? For sure it was invented for a reason: to save daylight, so straightforward in its name. However, side effects are something that can’t be avoided.

I’ve never experienced or even heard of DST before I came to the U.S. Knowing about it is pretty interesting. To me, seeing the sun still up at 7 o’clock in the summer is super strange. And DST helps explain that because the real time would be only 6 pm.

Sometimes it feels complicated to know if you have to turn your clock forward or backward.

There’s a saying “spring forward, fall backward” which I found interesting.

The best thing about DST to me is when you set your clock back to normal in autumn, you get one extra hour to sleep. That’s definitely the best feeling ever! Waking up you think that it’s supposed to be 8 am, and your phone shows 7 am!

However, in spring, it’d be the other way, and you lose one hour to rest. Personally, I don’t think it has any bad effects on my routine or biological clock though.

With DST, people get up when there’s sunlight and go to bed when it’s over, which is naturally

compatible. We make the most of daylight, which helps enforce many working activities and everything flows more efficiently.

But this works only in theory.

In fact, there have been many protests on the use of DST. The protest group We Don’t Need Daylight Saving Time claims that “it has no purpose in this age,” and points out that “14 countries have stopped using it since 21st century.”

Countries close to the equator doesn’t have that much of a difference between day and night time.

Therefore, DST won’t make any significant change the in hours which humans are exposed to sunlight.

Sources from several journals pointed out the bad sides of DST for causing more energy use instead of cutting it. Evidence from a National Bureau of Economic Research experiment suggested that: “Our main finding is that—contrary to the policy’s intent—DST increases residential electricity demand.”

The research contends that “Changing the clocks an hour ahead for daylight saving time doesn’t just cost us sleep—it might also be costing the American economy as much as $434 million.”

These results are according to the new index, which is developed by Chmura Economics & Analytics, based on several past researches published in New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of Applied Psychology.

Furthermore, studies also prove that DST causes a rise in heart attacks, depression and suicide rates.

An article in Sleep and Biological Rhythms, volume 6, states that “large disruptions of chronobiological rhythms are documented as destabilizing individuals with bipolar disorder.”

Though Daylight Saving Time continues to be a part of the United States’ yearly routine, it’s worth questioning whether the practice is worth its costs.

Many wonder whether DST’s attempt to save time is a worthwhile pursuit.

BDSM has positive psychological effects

Those who participate in BDSM in a consensual and healthy way experience myriad positive psychological effects.

Tara Grigson Student Writer About a month ago I went to a BDSM dungeon for the Collegian, and I hated it. But I also loved it— the actions I witnessed made me very uncomfortable, but the idea that some folks engage in loving, mutually satisfactory relationships is beautiful to me.

After that article was published, I thought it might be helpful to share some information about why BDSM is actually really great for people (who are into it). BDSM has myriad psychological effects—and when done properly (CONSENT, CONSENT, CONSENT) all of those effects are good.

Approximately one-third of Americans are into some form of BDSM—this is according to a 2005 survey by Durex (a company that makes condoms). Australian

researchers conducted a study in 2008 that surveyed 20,000 Australians. They found that BDSM was not linked to any sexual difficulties and, perhaps more importantly, that men who engaged in consensual BDSM actually scored lower on a scale of psychological distress than did men who did not engage in BDSM. In one study, researchers surveyed hundreds of folks who engaged in BDSM and hundreds of folks who did not. The people who reported engaging in BDSM tended to score higher on mental health assessment surveys than folks who did not.

Folks who participate in BDSM tend to be more open and extroverted, less neurotic and anxious, and far lower in rejection sensitivity, which refers to bad feelings caused by being rejected by another person.

This increased psychological health is primarily linked to people who engage in BDSM being more in tune with their sexual desires— which, researchers believe, makes them happier in their relationships.

People who have good, healthy sex lives tend to have higher selfesteem and greater levels of empathy. This is because these people are better at listening and communicating with their partners about their sexual needs and desires.

Basically, folks who engage in BDSM regularly are overall more psychologically healthy than folks who do not. The fact that they tend to have higher levels of pro-social attributes suggests that, on aver-

age, folks who engage in BDSM are also better community members than folks who do not, overall BDSM requires openness, honesty, empathy and connection—

which, regardless of how we feel about these sexual practices, ought to indicate to us the inherent beauty of consensual human relationships. Whether or not we

are interested in participating in BDSM, we ought to be able to see the beauty in consensual, productive and loving human connection.

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“twenty-one plus” Custom cocktail creations and accompanying critiques presented

by TU’s own mixologist.

Sara Douglas Student Writer New Vogue 2 oz. bourbon 1 oz. dark rum ½ oz. triple sec ½ oz. simple syrup dash of bitters orange twist Mix bourbon, rum, triple sec and syrup in cocktail shaker.

Add bitters and fill with ice, then shake hard for 30 seconds.

Strain into glass filled with ice; garnish with orange twist.

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5 parking garages that you NEED to see before you die.

Adam Lux Student Writer

Drink this if: an adaptation of the Old Fashioned sounds up your alley. The traditionally bourbon-only cocktail, made famous by Mad Men’s Don Draper, benefits from the addition of a full-bodied dark rum (I used Gosling’s Black Seal) that lends a complex caramel component while retaining the liquor’s sharpness.

Using simple syrup—a one-to-one ratio of sugar dissolved in water—in place of a sugar cube serves to yield a less potentially gritty drink. Triple sec enhances the orange flavor that is typically only contributed by the bitters and orange peel’s oil.

Make sure to use a smooth wheated bourbon instead of a spicier rye whiskey (I chose W.L. Weller Special Reserve).

This drink is intended to be sipped rather than thrown back; it will mellow as the ice melts and result in changing flavor notes that should be savored.

5) That one garage you saw your Uncle Rocco in really late at night that one time. You were pretty sure he was dealing drugs. You really wish he hadn’t waved at you. Now every Christmas he gives you a knowing, threatening look over the dinner table.

4) The garage at that company your rich friend works for. It’s large, imposing and filled with cars that cost more than your house. This place makes you feel insignificant.

3) Your garage. Yes your own garage. It has way too much junk in it that you’re not willing to throw away. Maybe it’s because that your stuff never leaves you. When everyone else realizes how

much of a jerk you are, they leave. But things always stay. Things are always there for you.

2) The really sketchy parking garage where you lost your virginity. Remember them? God, they were awful. So was that garage. It smelled like pee and the light right over where you were parked kept flickering and you keep getting scared thinking it was the police. And that weird thing they wanted to do. That was the worst Super Bowl night ever.

1) You fill in the blank

Two TU alumni featured in Burning City Orchestra’s newest album

New York City based group Burning City Orchestra was founded by TU alum Noam Faingold, fourth from the left.

Burning City Orchestra, an orchestral rock group with two TU Alumni, released their first incredibly distinctive album.

Savanna Deweese Student Writer I did not entirely know what I was getting into when I heard this band claimed to be “orchestral rock.” So when the first track opened with latin sounding instrumentation, heavy symbols and then an intense, chipper violin, I was even more lost than before.

I had no expectations when I started listening to this album, and in a way that paid off. The first track threw me with its almost too aggressive string arrangement, but by the second and third tracks I was pleasantly surprised to hear them tone down the harsh strings and amp up the vocals.

The second track on the album stands out from the rest of the songs. It is fully driven by slow, melodic strings which directs the listener’s attention to the captivating lyrics

and Noam Faingold’s deep, but gentle voice.

The best parts of this album are almost always lyrical.

The composition of the strings in this album are nice and pleasing but at times feel very forgettable and at other times are very aggressive.

The parts of this album that stick out are

same album, let alone the same band.

This is not necessarily a bad thing; each track is distinctively its own.

The opening song titled “Madame” is driven by the heavy, choppy instrumentation.

The second track, “Allinmymind” focuses much less on the instrumentation and

“Throughout the record, each track has something that differentiates it from the others”

moving moments lyrically and most of the time the music only works to mirror that, not to add anything new or unique.

If I hadn’t sat down with the intention to write a review on this album I probably wouldn’t know these songs came from the

much more on powerful vocals and singsongy lyrics.

The third track, “Inspiration Hits Like an Atomic Bomb” is a sweet love song that combines commanding strings and a bouncy melody with catchy lyrics.

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Throughout the record, each track has something that differentiates it from the others. Although this disrupts the flow it showcases the band’s potential for adaptability and growth in developing their sound.

Something that is fairly unique to this band is that they are making orchestral music a little more accessible to the masses with rock and jazz influences.

The vibe of this album is not overwhelmingly orchestral at all; it doesn’t feel anything like the Transiberian Orchestra and they will probably be able to pull a wider audience because of that overlapping of genres and style.

If the idea of orchestral rock with slight jazz influences does not interest you, listen to this album for gems of pick-up lines you can try on the cutie you’ve been eyeing in your accounting class all semester.

Next class try telling him/her that “your goodness turns me on,” or “I don’t believe in God but you remind me of salvation,” and when you’re on your first date remember to thank the TU Alumni of Burning City Orchestra for their lyrical ingenuity.

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Chvrches concert conquers the Cain’s

Chvrches and opening act Mansioniar delivered a wonderful performance at Cain’s Ballroom.

Aaron Abraham Student Writer

Chvrches returned to Tulsa last Monday to deliver a wonderful performance at Cain’s Ballroom.

Mansionair, a trio from Sydney, Australia, gave the audience an entertaining opening before the main act.

Mansionair’s sound was built from the drums up. Each song they performed heavily featured drums, with the next layer being electronic and guitar.

Overall, it made for a nice combination of rock and synth-pop.

Their songs ranged from calm and meandering, teasing a drop or change of pace that never came, to beats that had the crowd (or at least the people right in front of me) dancing along.

ergy was sky high.

She was running from side to side on stage and hopping on the front speakers so that, as she explained, the people in the back would be able to see her clearly.

In between her lyrical responsibilities, Lauren danced and threw her hair about, maintaining a highenergy stage presence.

The band did a good job of bouncing between their two albums, never staying too long with either one.

When the band began “Tether,” the crowd was ecstatic. It provided a nice change of pace from the speed of the previous songs, allowing the crowd a moment to catch their breath and simply sway along, albeit with the knowledge that halfway through the song things were going to pick right back up.

Lauren’s band mates, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty, did a wonderful job delivering their fervent background lyrics during “Science/Visions.”

The transition from intro to first

Chvrches played the Cain’s Ballroom on October 26, to the excitement of many fans.

song from their first album that finds Martin and Lauren switching roles.

“In between her lyrical responsibilities, Lauren danced and threw her hair about, maintaining a high energy presence” After a long wait, Chvrches finally came on stage to much applause from the crowd.

From the moment the intro of “Never Ending Circles” began, lead singer Lauren Mayberry’s en-

verse of “Playing Dead” was accompanied with dazzling lights that brought the crowd back to their energetic dance-along state.

Thankfully, Chvrches elected to perform “Under the Tide,” a

Martin did a phenomenal job with lead vocals. Similar to Lauren, he was bouncing all around the stage, gesticulating wildly along with the lyrics.

It was evident how much energy

and emotion Martin was putting into each and every verse.

Chvrches continued with “Bury it,” “Recover” and “Leave a Trace.” They closed out their performance with “Clearest Blue,” a clean and vibrant song whose buildup leaves the listener in suspense before delivering a satisfying change in beat.

After minutes of applause, the band obliged and reentered the stage. They performed one surprising selection, followed by one that everyone expected and hoped for.

The first was “Afterglow,” a slow, piercing song with Lauren’s high voice as the focal point with a mere handful of synthesizer notes

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accompanying it.

It was unexpected because of how starkly contrasting this song is from the rest of the relentlessly upbeat, head-bopping songs of the second album.

“Afterglow” was such a great choice: it served as a calming comedown from the constant peaks of the rest of the show, giving the crowd a parachute trip down instead of a straight free-fall from the high energy of the concert.

Right when the crowd was lulled, the trio pulled out “The Mother We Share,” the song that put them on the map, throwing everyone right back into an energetic frenzy to close out the night.

Pray for Rain met with appreciation for its upbeat sound and thoughtful lyrics Pure Bathing Culture’s latest album has an interesting duality of bright melody and gloomy lyrics, making listeners come back for more.

Savanna Deweese Student Writer If you’re the type of person who likes late night drives to nowhere in particular, the smooth consolance of soft vocals and sweet beats throughout your cram sessions, or impressing your main-

their second full length album, Pray For Rain this October. This album, similar to their debut album, seems to just float through the air with their gentle soundscape and dreamy vocals.

The interesting thing about this album is that, although the music is full of chirping synths and bright melodies, lyrically it is cold and distant. This juxtaposition is not anything new to indie pop music, but Pure Bathing Culture’s Sarah Versprille and Daniel Hindman are able to make this approach their own.

They achieve their unique sound partly due to the hazy, echoing vo-

of the Malaysia Airline flight 370.

This album is distinct from their previous releases because, overall, it seems much more thought out and polished than Moon Tides was or even their first EP. Pure Bathing Culture is one of those bands that can be characterized as anything from lo-fi R&B to 80s yacht rock. Many critics liken Pure Bathing Culture’s sound to Fleetwood Mac, The Cure and The Smiths but, ultimately, their musical ingenuity and soft spoken but powerful lyrics let them stand out to listeners everywhere.

Weird overlapping genres aside,

“This album is distinct from their previous releases because, overall, it seems much more thought out and polished” stream-brainwashed friends with “real music”, then Pure Bathing Culture’s new album Pray For Rain was made just for you.

Pure Bathing Culture is an American indie pop band from Portland Oregon and they released

cals that characterize the gloomy lyrics. This is seen in the very first track “The Tower,” where musically there is a snappy upbeat tempo you might hear in the background at a beachfront bar, but the lyrics are about the disappearance

Pure Bathing Culture seems to have borrowed only the best elements of 80s disco for this album, distinctly in the combination of

groovy bass lines and simple drum beats. This effect is seen most prominently in the tracks “Pray For Rain,” “I Trace Your Symbol” and “She Shakes.” Coincidentally, these tracks are the ones that stand out the most on this album.

One downfall of this record feeling so polished and complete in comparison to Moon Tides, is that the tracks tend to blend together.

The songs are distinct but only in very small ways. This makes the record flow well as a whole, but feel monotonous in places.

If you want to experience this

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Pray for Rain was released October 23.

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album the right way, listen to it all the way through two separate times. First, focus on the mellow disco, hazy but bright vocals, and the sweet, simple bounce of the music. Then focus on the lyrics, their images and their existential implications in relation to your imminent move towards oblivion.

After that, you will have undergone a unique sort of indie dream pop spiritual experience that you can only get from Pure Bathing Culture’s album Pray For Rain.

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May 2016 Graduates

Nominate the high school teacher who inspired you TU undergraduates who will graduate in May 2016 may nominate the high school teacher who inspired them. The winning teachers will be recognized during the May commencement ceremony. Only high school teachers throughout the United States are eligible. n Nominations are due by 5:00 p.m., December 14, 2015. n Selected teachers will receive a $2,000 award and their high schools will receive $1,000. n Students whose nominated teachers are selected will receive $500. n For more information including the nomination criteria, go to the Student Affairs website: www. utulsa.edu/student-affairs/inspirational-teacher

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n Graduating seniors should send nominations to the dean’s office of their college via e-mail as follows: — Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences: Stephanie-Boulden@utulsa.edu — Collins College of Business: Tami-Barrett@utulsa.edu — College of Engineering & Natural Sciences: Dottie-Smith@utulsa.edu — College of Health Sciences: Laurie@utulsa.edu

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State-Run media Performing “missile tests” over California.

Roommates becoming like bored married couple

Graphic by Elias Brinkman

The relationship of roommates Josephine Tobey and Brenna McKernan is on the rocks.

Two formerly close roommates are having trouble keeping the flame alive.

Sarah Noonan Hasn’t spoken to her roommate all year.

The formerly blossoming roommate relationship of Josephine Tobey and Brenna McKernan is currently on the rocks. “When she comes home, she just goes straight to her computer, sits down, and stays there for the rest of the night.

No ‘Hi, Josephine.’ No ‘How was your day, Josephine?’ It’s like I

don’t even exist,” grumbled freshman English major Tobey, referring to her roommate, Brenna McKernan.

Their relationship began as well as any freshman roommate relationship can. Tobey and McKernan were paired through the housing lottery, and have since gotten along extremely well.

“We did everything together,” says Tobey. “Orientation was a blast, and even though we made different friends, we were still an unstoppable duo. We vowed to be friends forever, and I knew I had found my best friend in college already,” Tobey trailed off, look-

ing at her feet with a distraught expression on her face. She continued, “I never thought it would come to this.”

Tobey took a second to compose herself before explaining the unfortunate and unexpected turn her relationship with her roommate had taken.

“It started out fairly subtle,” she said. “I would talk to her about my day, and she would pretend that she couldn’t hear me through her headphones. At first, I assumed that she actually couldn’t hear me.

But one day, I noticed the headphones weren’t even plugged in.”

“Then there was the avoiding.

student with whom it is assumed they will form a bond.

The State-Run Media spoke with one student, freshman John Piazza, who just said goodbye to his Tulsa Timer.

“Yeah, that kid was a lot of fun,” Piazza told reporters. “He seemed to really be interested in TU, and he was real popular with my friends.”

When asked the name of his Tulsa Timer, Piazza shifted his gaze, finally shrugging and saying, “I have no clue.”

Piazza’s Tulsa Time shadow reportedly introduced himself when

they first met, but after that it “just never came up.”

“I felt kind of bad forgetting his name,” said Piazza, “But it would have been awkward asking him to repeat it, so I just went the whole weekend avoiding any situation where I would need it.”

Piazza reportedly got away with calling his Tulsa Timer things like, “You,” “Man,” and “Dude,” and the high school senior never seemed to notice he was never once addressed by name.

I invite her to get dinner with me every once in awhile, and she’s always too busy. We used to get dinner every Tuesday and Friday.

It was tradition. Now I don’t know what to think. We just don’t go out anymore.”

When the State-Run Media reached out to McKernan on her and Tobey’s dissolving relationship, she stated that the main issues were with her roommate’s artwork.

“She brings all this horrible artwork over,” said McKernan, “and a couple of times it’s crossed over onto my side of the room.”

“I’m an interesting person,”

defended Tobey. “I have eclectic tastes in artwork. I found a beautiful wood carving, and I immediately thought of Brenna and her affinity for carving wood. I bought it and hung it over her bed, thinking she’d love it, but then she just wouldn’t talk to me. She didn’t see the beauty in it like I did.”

While McKernan appears to have no desire to patch things up with her roommate, Tobey says she has high hopes their relationship will defrost after they’ve both been gone a week for Thanksgiving break.

Student goes entire weekend not Student attacked for singing Christmas knowing Tulsa Timer’s name carols too early A TU student went the entire weekend hosting a high school student and never learning his name.

Caitlin Woods Calls everyone “hey you.”

The university opened up for high school students last weekend in a biannual event called “Tulsa Time.” During this event high school students, called “Tulsa Timers,” shadow a current TU

Do you hate everyone and everything?

Does nothing bring you joy but to tear others down?

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Roommate attacks student for being too festive before November is over.