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Monday, January 31, 2005 (169 reads)

Make the OSU fight song your cellular phone ring tone. Check out these great links to find one that is right for your phone. http://www.splashmobile.com/index.php"Splashmobile" (Search “Oklahoma State University fightsong”) http://www1.sprintpcs.com/explore/showcase/Showcase.jsp?scTopic=ringers88"Sprint" http://www.cingular.com/media/ringtones_graphics"Cingular" (Search “Ride ‘em Cowboy”) http://www.t-mobile.com/services/tones/overview.asp"T-Mobile" http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/index.htm"Motorola" http://www.uscc.com/uscellular/SilverStream/Pages/ringtones_home.html"US Cellular" http://www.mobile.banananetwork.com/realtonelist.asp?lt=4&AuthorID=11918"Banana Network"

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Monday, January 31, 2005 (132 reads)

Have you ever wondered how far the OSU alumni network reaches? Joan Chadwick Hubbard found an answer to this question while traveling from her home in Texas to the Czech Republic in December 2004. While waiting for a tour bus in Prague, Joan (BS ’68, MS ’83, Ed.D. ’85) struck up a conversation with a young lady from Korea. It didn’t take very long for these two people to determine they had something in common: Oklahoma State University. Kyungwon (Kay) Baik attended OSU for one year (1999-2000) as an exchange student in English Education. To make this chance meeting even more amazing, Kay lived in Wentz Hall, as did Joan during her undergraduate years. Kay graduated from the Ewha Women’s University and is currently an Assistant Manager for Merrill Lynch in Seoul. After retiring from the University System of Georgia, Joan is serving as an Executive Lecturer in the Department of Management at the University of North Texas in Denton. This picture shows Kay and Joan doing the “O” and “S” sign in front of the castle in Cesky Krumlov.

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Monday, January 31, 2005 (102 reads)

Help benefit the American Cancer Society’s Coaches vs. Cancer campaign by purchasing your own orange silicone wristbands (similar to the Lance Armstrong LiveStrong bands). The bands express the three basic philosophies practiced by Coach Sutton and the Cowboys – Defense-Dedication-Discipline. Bands in adult and youth sizes cost $5 and are available at the http://www.orangeconnection.com"Orange Connection Alumni Store", Student Store, DuPree’s, Bates Brothers and during men’s and women’s basketball games at the Coaches vs. Cancer table in Gallagher Iba Arena. Created in 1993 by the http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp?level=0"American Cancer Society" and the http://nabc.ocsn.com/"National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC)", the http://www.cancer.org/docroot/GI/gi_4.asp?sitearea=GI&level=1"Coaches vs. Cancer" program exists to leverage the strength, community leadership and celebrity of our country's basketball coaches to fight cancer. The program raises awareness to the cancer problem and in turn, reduces cancer risk through education programs while raising funds for American Cancer Society research, advocacy, education and patient services programs.

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Monday, January 31, 2005 (109 reads)

Prior to the “Big Monday” Bedlam match-up on Feb. 7, the Student Athlete-Advisory Committee is hosting a fundraising dinner to benefit Special Olympics. The dinner will be held from 5:30-7:00 p.m., and the game begins at 8:00 p.m. By purchasing a ticket to the “Bedlam Buffet” you will get the chance to meet Special Olympics athletes as well as OSU student-athletes. There will also be a silent auction containing sports memorabilia, and there will be opportunities for photographs and autographs. The dinner is priced at $25 for adults and $12 for children 10 and under. All proceeds go to the Oklahoma Special Olympics. Tickets are limited. Reservations can be made by calling (405) 744-3067 or (405) 744-3159. RSVPs will not be taken after Wednesday, Feb. 2. GO POKES!!

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Research Boosting Academics and Economics
Saturday, January 29, 2005 (106 reads)

Dr. Stephen McKeever, OSU's Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer, says research on sensors and sensor technology is boosting OSU's national academic reputation and building the state's economy. McKeever spoke to the OSU/A&M Board of Regents during their meeting at Connors State College in Warner recently. McKeever said OSU is building a national reputation in sensor research. He said OSU now has the highest concentration of biosafety labs in Oklahoma, with eight new biosafety level 3 labs scheduled to "go hot" this year to support chemical and biological sensor research. You can read more at http://www2.okstate.edu/pio/research_econ.html

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Wellness Center Program Gets Grant
Friday, January 28, 2005 (188 reads)

The Oklahoma AgrAbility Project, housed at the Seretean Wellness Center, and the Oklahoma Assistive Technology Program have been awarded a $10,000 Quality of Life Grant from the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation. The grant will be used to establish an ongoing fund to provide low-cost assistive technology to Oklahoma farmers, ranchers and their family members who are impacted by disability issues and who lack the services and resources needed to obtain adaptive or assistive devices.

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OSU ROTC at the Top
Friday, January 28, 2005 (119 reads)

The U.S. Army Cadet Command has named OSU's ROTC program among the top 15 percent of all nationwide ROTC programs. OSU also was recognized as best medium-sized school in its Brigade and best overall school in the Brigade of 22 schools of any size in Illinois, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. According to the U.S. Army Cadet Command, the rankings were based on a variety of categories, including the performance of OSU's ROTC cadets at leadership camp, their grades, discipline, physical fitness, program retention and standing on the Cadet Command National Order of Merit List. You can read more and see a photo of our cadets at http://www2.okstate.edu/pio/osu_rotc.html

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Grad Program Receives Gift
Thursday, January 27, 2005 (104 reads)

Public Service Company of Oklahoma recently donated $3,000 to OSU's Environmental Science Graduate Program (ESGP). Director Will Focht says the gift will support the program's efforts by providing travel funding for students to present research findings at professional conferences and other student activities. The mission of the program is to train tomorrow's environmental professionals. Enrollment currently is 98, which includes 60 doctoral and 38 master's students. Founded in 1977, the ESGP is the first interdisciplinary program established at OSU and is among the oldest and largest interdisciplinary environmental programs in the nation.

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Wristbands Benefit Coaches vs. Cancer
Thursday, January 27, 2005 (141 reads)

Orange silicone wristbands (similar to the Lance Armstrong LiveStrong bands) are now available, and proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society's Coaches vs. Cancer campaign. The bands express the three basic philosophies practiced by Coach Sutton and the Cowboys – Defense-Dedication-Discipline. Bands in adult and youth sizes cost $5 and are available at the Student Store, DuPree's, Bates Brothers and during men's and women's basketball games at the Coaches vs. Cancer table in Gallagher Iba Arena.

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College of Education Receives Grant
Thursday, January 27, 2005 (110 reads)

OSU's College of Education has received a third-year, No Child Left Behind grant of $183,804 from the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to help Oklahoma students improve geometry scores. Professors will work with teachers from several partnering public school systems, including Shawnee, Cushing and Oklahoma City. The college also received a similar grant of $148,441 to help improve Oklahoma students' knowledge of algebra.

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Tuesday, January 25, 2005 (97 reads)

Deconstruction of the Willham complex began on Jan. 24, 2005. The wrecking ball hit the north tower at 10:00 a.m., after a brief ceremony with OSU President David Schmidley, Residence Hall Director Bob Huss and Residence Halls Association President Kyle Jones. The towers are being torn down after almost 40 years of service to make way for suite-style housing. JPI, the construction company in charge of demolition, is projected to finish within six weeks. To learn more, go to the http://www.reslife.okstate.edu/"Residential Life Web site". There you can log onto a http://www.reslife.okstate.edu/htm/03housing/willhamCam.htm"web camera" to view the process, and you can also purchase the commemorative http://www.chrisuniversityspirit.com/widot.html"t-shirt". Portions of each purchase go to the Residential Life Leader/Scholar Scholarship Fund.

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Monday, January 24, 2005 (101 reads)

With Valentine’s Day coming up, it is the season to express your love, not only for your significant other, but also for OSU. As an OSUAA member benefit, you can post class notes about your times at OSU. There is a specific section called http://www.orangeconnection.org/cgi-any/notes2.dll/filefill?bid=&nfid=&a=&category=Love:+OSU-Style&fromyear=&toyear="Love OSU Style", where couples who met at OSU can post stories and view other cowboy couples’ stories as well. To view class notes stories or post your own http://www.orangeconnection.org/cgi-any/notes2.dll/filefill?bid=&nfid=&a=&category=&fromyear=&toyear="click here".

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Monday, January 24, 2005 (86 reads)

The Kamm Leadership House, located in Kamm Hall, is a group of residents gathered into one community who wish to improve their service, leadership, and citizenship skills. In the first full year as an active affinity living group, the Leadership House had 40 participants, 3 of which did not live in the complex. It was established in the fall of 2002, and successfully began in the fall of 2003. The Kamm Leadership House works with several organizations throughout the year to raise money for and support different philanthropies within the community. These events include Habitat for Humanity’s Shack-a-Thon, Into the Streets, The Big Event, and the Humane Society of Stillwater, to name a few. The first project this group of students tackled was Light the Night, a fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. In 5 days, they hoped to raise $250, but by day 5 they had increased their goal daily, and raised $1300. The group also came to the aid of a local family who had lost a baby girl after several surgeries, which were not covered by insurance. Members camped out in November for one week, hoping to raise money and awareness for the family. OSU faculty, staff, and students donated $1250 in pocket change to help the family This year, the group continued to fundraise for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society by selling O-State bears. They also camped out on Library Lawn for 3 days asking for spare change. Members, Chelsea Thompson, Ken Dail, and Kyle Nagy dedicated more than 50 hours a piece in that time. The group set a goal of $2,500 and once again exceeded their goal by raising $5,269. If you would like to find more information about the Kamm Leadership House or their philanthropies http://www.reslife.okstate.edu/klh/"click here".

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Monday, January 24, 2005 (103 reads)

The university will not have a formal memorial service to mark the fourth anniversary of the OSU plane crash on Jan. 27; however, the memorial lobby at Gallagher-Iba Arena will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for those who want to stop by for some personal reflection and remembrance. At 6:37 p.m., the OSU Library bells will toll ten times. For more information about the memorials in Colorado or in Stillwater, or about the OSU family members on the plane visit the http://www.okstate.com/fls/200/memorial/index.htm"OSU Basketball Memorial" Web site. We will never forget.

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Alumni Association Seeks Nominations for Top Seniors
Friday, January 21, 2005 (108 reads)

The OSU Alumni Association is seeking nominations for the Outstanding Seniors 2005 awards. Eligible students will graduate in Dec. 2004, May 2005 or summer of 2005. Nomination forms are available for students to pick up at 212 Student Union or 060 Student Union, the Campus Life Office. Anyone may nominate a graduating senior for this honor. Criteria are scholarship, leadership and service to campus and/or community. Faculty and staff may e-mail Anne Scott at scottea@okstate.edu with student names and e-mail or mailing addresses, and Anne will forward an application to the nominated students. Completed applications are due in the Alumni Office by March 1, 2005.

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Wrestlers on National TV
Friday, January 21, 2005 (105 reads)

Cowboy Wrestlers will be on national television Feb.10, 2005 when College Sports TV broadcasts their match at Nebraska. The event begins at 7 p.m.

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Vote on the NCAA Wrestling Team
Friday, January 21, 2005 (93 reads)

You can vote for wrestlers who will comprise the NCAA 75th Anniversary Team that will be honored at the 2005 NCAA Championships in St. Louis. Five Cowboys are on the list for ightweight team honors. They are: Rex Perry, Dwayne Keller, Yojiro Uetake, John Smith and Myron Roderick. You can vote by going to http://209.183.221.16/performance/results/nwcasurvey.aspx

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Coretta Scott King Coming to OSU Campus
Friday, January 21, 2005 (93 reads)

The OSU SGA Speaker's Board will host Coretta Scott King Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. in the Wes Watkins Center. The appearance by Mrs. King is the major event scheduled during Martin Luther King Week, in cooperation with the Afro-Am student organization and Multicultural Student Center. The Speaker's Board is appointed by the SGA president, with the approval of the Senate. This year's chair is Melanie Marks, Yukon nutritional sciences junior.

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Retired OSU Scientist Honored
Friday, January 21, 2005 (117 reads)

Retired OSU Professor Robert Totusek was the former head of OSU’s Animal Science department and worked hard to help Oklahoma’s cattle industry. His friends and admirers in that industry will meet Sunday at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum to kick-off a $1 million fund-raising effort to create an endowment in his honor. The endowment will help recruit other highly qualified animal scientists to OSU and support the award-winning OSU Cattle Judging Team.

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Friday, January 21, 2005 (114 reads)

Willham complex is being torn down after almost 40 years of service. The first strike of the wrecking ball hit the north tower at 10:00 a.m. on Jan. 24, 2005. To learn more, go to the http://www.reslife.okstate.edu"Residential Life Web site". There you can log onto a http://www.reslife.okstate.edu/htm/03housing/willhamCam.htm"web camera" to view the process, and you can also purchase the commemorative http://www.chrisuniversityspirit.com/widot.html"t-shirt" or a personalized http://www.reslife.okstate.edu/htm/apps/brick%20order%20form.pdf"engraved brick". Portions of each purchase go to the Residential Life Leader/Scholar Scholarship Fund.

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Tuesday, January 18, 2005 (105 reads)

The Cowboys for Higher Education Annual Meeting (CFHE) was held, Saturday, January 15, 2005 at the Wes Watkins Center. The OSU Alumni Association sponsors Cowboys for Higher Education, an OSU legislative advocacy group giving OSU an active voice within the Oklahoma Legislature, which makes important decisions every year concerning what resources are available to OSU. Created in 1995, Cowboys for Higher Education members have been instrumental in OSU's success at the legislative level, including the establishment of OSU-Tulsa, increased appropriations for higher education, and approval of tuition and fee increases that provide necessary funds for the future The meeting agenda included a presentation of legislative priorities by President David Schmidly and an outlook for the upcoming session by Senator Mike Morgan. Thirteen new members of Capitol Cowboys were recognized. Capitol Cowboys is a group of Oklahoma legislators that attended or gradated from Oklahoma State University. If you would like to help support higher education in Oklahoma, please become involved with Cowboys for Higher Education. By becoming a member of CFHE, you can make a difference in OSU’s future. Volunteer to work with members of the legislature on key issues that affect OSU. Help by attending meetings, making phone calls or writing letters, and by recruiting fellow alumni and friends. For more information on how to become involved contact Larry Shell at lgslamb@okstate.edu.

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Tuesday, January 18, 2005 (131 reads)

Fans from across the country cheered as the Cowboys beat Iowa State Saturday. The win was literally one for the record books. It marked the 768th career win for men’s basketball Head Coach Eddie Sutton. This moved him up the all-time winning list past his former coach and mentor Henry Iba. After the game, Coach Sutton was honored with a special trophy and the announcement that the court would be named “Eddie Sutton Court” in his honor. Check out more at http://www.okstate.com"www.okstate.com" and http://www.ocolly.com"www.ocolly.com".

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Tuesday, January 18, 2005 (116 reads)

There is only so much you can fit into a backpack for a strenuous climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. That didn’t stop Dr. Raja Basu, Oklahoma State University-Tulsa Vice President for Academic Affairs, from adding an OSU flag to his list of necessities. Spending his holiday break doing something many people only dream about, Basu trekked to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro and kept a promise he’d made to OSU President and System CEO David Schmidly. Basu said that when Schmidly learned of his planned Dec.19 trip, he encouraged the climber to take an OSU flag and plant it atop the mountain. Basu couldn’t resist the challenge. “When President Schmidly suggested planting the OSU flag at the top, I joked that I didn’t think they‘d let me leave it there,” Basu said with a laugh. Rising 19,340 feet above the African plain, Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the most massive extinct volcanoes in the world.

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Tuesday, January 18, 2005 (111 reads)

For many students and alumni, the cost of attending college can leave them with numerous loans. Keeping track of and paying all of them can at times be chaotic. Loan consolidation is an option to help manage that education debt. With interest rates at the lowest point in years, and the government looking to change its policies, consolidating your student loans in order to reduce loan debt and lock in a low, fixed interest rate is something to be heavily considered. Each year many students receive a new loan with a differing, variable interest rate. Consolidating all of these loans would put all of them into one payment with a fixed rate, making payments more convenient. For students who wish to consolidate while still in school, Direct Loans will work with them. For alumni that have student loans to pay off, they can consolidate using http://www.consolidation.nelnet.net/default.asp?bid=OSUALUM"Nelnet", a corporate partner with the OSUAA, as well as several other companies. It’s important to look at the different options with these companies and ensure that consolidating will not cause you to lose any benefits that come with your loans. Most companies are very up front in letting you know if you will lose benefits, however; if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. For more information concerning loan consolidations visit http://www.okstate.edu/finaid/"OSU Scholarship and Financial Aid".

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Sons Pay Tribute to Father
Friday, January 14, 2005 (131 reads)

Two brothers who wanted to honor their late father have given OSU gifts totaling $50,000 to endow a President's Distinguished Scholarship for an animal science major. The OSU Foundation announced the gifts Thursday. The President's Distinguished Scholarship (PDS), one of OSU's most prestigious, is a four-year $2,200 per year scholarship that pays for tuition, room, board and books. Ronnie and Bruce Bankston gave the gifts to honor their dad, Bobby G. Bankston, who rose from a meager farming background in Holdenville, Okla. to become president of VME, Inc. The senior Bankston was a 1953 dairy production graduate and a member of the award-winning Dairy Cattle Judging Team. His sons credit the success their father earned in life to the education he received at OSU.

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KOSU is Expanding
Friday, January 14, 2005 (116 reads)

KOSU Radio has announced an expansion of service into northeastern Oklahoma, with a second broadcast facility. KOSN 107.5, (formerly KGND) a 100,000-watt commercial station, will be converted to a noncommercial public radio station and begin broadcasting KOSU programming on or about Feb. 1. Due to expansion and other plans, KOSU's signal will soon be heard from northeast of Joplin, Missouri to Lawton. For the time being, the new station will be owned by Public Radio Capital (PRC), a non-profit entity established to assist non-commercial station expansion, and will be financed by tax-exempt bonds. Once the bonds are paid, ownership will transfer to KOSU/OSU. Established in 2001, the mission of PRC of Denver is to broaden the reach of public radio to millions of listeners in America.

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Higher Education Bond Issue
Friday, January 14, 2005 (105 reads)

Gov. Brad Henry says the Higher Education Bond Issue should be the Legislature's top priority. The $500 million bond issue would be paid with proceeds from the Oklahoma Lottery. University and college presidents who joined Henry for a press conference Thursday say record enrollments, outdated and overcrowded classrooms and laboratories and the need to improve research facilities to boost the state's ability to compete globally are good reasons to support the first statewide higher education bond issue since 1992. Henry said the bond proposal will have an economic impact of almost $740 million and create about 4,000 construction jobs statewide. You can find more at http://www.governor.state.ok.us/

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Homecoming 2005 Announced
Friday, January 14, 2005 (90 reads)

Come home for Homecoming 2005. The festivities will take place Oct. 28-29 2005 and the Cowboys will face-off against the Texas Longhorns. Keep checking this web page for the latest information.

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National Magazine Honors OSU Alumnus
Thursday, January 13, 2005 (96 reads)

Black Enterprise magazine has named OSU graduate Sam Combs as one of the 75 Most Powerful African Americans in corporate America. Combs graduated from OSU in 1980 with an industrial engineering degree. He is president and chief operating officer of Oklahoma Natural Gas.

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Cowboys and Sooners Honored for Combined Efforts
Thursday, January 13, 2005 (95 reads)

The Oklahoma Mesonet, a state-of-the-art network of environmental monitoring stations that is an OSU-OU partnership, has won a special award from the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the nation's leading professional society for those in the atmospheric and related sciences. At a national meeting in San Diego, the Mesonet system will be recognized "for serving Oklahoma and the meteorological community by providing high-quality data and information products used to protect lives, reduce costs, facilitate cutting-edge research, and educate the next generation." Dr. Ron Elliott, head of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering at OSU, Dr. Renee McPherson, acting director of the Oklahoma Climatological Survey OCS), and Dr. Ken Crawford, former OCS director and now director of the National Weather Service Integrated Surface Observing Systems, will accept the award on behalf of the Oklahoma Mesonet steering committee and employees. You can read more at about this story at http://www2.okstate.edu/pio/mesonet.html and about the Mesonet at http://www.mesonet.org/

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