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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

So it’s going to be your first time…

We know you’re nervous, but relax. Take your time, and don’t make a hasty, last-minute decision. Make sure to pick the right person, and learn all you can about that person to make sure you’re compatible.

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Change in student tickets for the better

I love Oklahoma State University athletics. Sitting in the stands surrounded by fellow students cheering on our teams is one of the best parts about being an OSU student. This year OSU changed student ticketing, and made it easier to attend sporting events.

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Safety on campus often taken for granted

A fresh start to another school year is one of many things to look forward to, as energetic students flock campus grounds once again.

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Monday, August 25, 2008

Consumers help lower oil prices: that’s hot

I’m happy to announce that oil prices have collapsed from their $147.27 high from July 11. In the immortal words of Paris Hilton, “Energy crisis solved.” Well, maybe not.

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Letters to the editor

This past week more than 100 college presidents from universities across the country signed a petition urging Congress to consider lowering the legal drinking age from 21 to 18.

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Call us crazy, but we think it might work

Albert Einstein once said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. We know it’s cliché to start with a quote, but we think it’s appropriate this time.

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Bad news is overrated

Daily coverage of war, terrorism, energy crisis and global warming is turning newspapers and broadcast news into collectors of tragedies. The socially-conscious citizen of today requires a strong dose of courage and a good stomach to watch the news or read the paper in the morning and still be able to enjoy breakfast.

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Friday, August 22, 2008

Lowering drinking age, not bad idea

Doing doughnuts in a golf cart, dancing half-naked on top of a keg, making out with someone whose name you don’t remember the next morning. At one time or another, an O’Collegian Editorial Board member has gotten drunk and done one or more of those activities.

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America: Not as we

Americans love a good narrative. Yet, what they seem to love even more than that is an artfully constructed, though not necessarily true, fairy tale, a contemporary myth in which a young hero sets out on an impossible quest to prove his self-worth and carve his place in history. Contemporary American politics is [...]

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Airline security measures don’t make sense

“You realize you are a traitor to this country, right?” my friend asks the TSA Officer in Tulsa International Airport as we make our second trip through airport security that morning.

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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Hargis passes our board of inspection

A few months ago, during the OSU presidential search, The O’Collegian Editorial Board placed our own “want” ad for the position in this space. As far as we can tell, we would probably have hired OSU President Burns Hargis, too.

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U.S. women’s gymnastic team ‘good sports’

The U.S. is a competitive nation. If we aren’t competing against someone else, we are competing against ourselves. Each individual wants to be better than the other. Our athletes are some of our greatest heros, and we like to think our world-class athletes are better than the rest of the world.

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OSU’s orange might be the new green

The debate about using less, more, or alternative energy is not something new, but it seems to resurface every time gas jumps up a bit or whenever a national election is on the horizon.

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Monday, August 18, 2008

Dissecting the O’Colly Editorial Board

As much as it hurts to admit, The O’Collegian Editorial Board isn’t as secret, elusive or cool as Yale University’s famous Skull and Bones Society.

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Leaders pointing fingers on Georgia invasion

In a world of economy giants thirsty for oil, political decisions are unlikely to achieve any social benefit. In fact, innocent people end up paying the highest price of power conflicts.

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For the record: A letter from the editor

The first time I walked into The Daily O’Collegian newsroom, my heart was pounding.
I was an 18-year-old farm kid from southeast Oklahoma who wasn’t quite sure what journalists did.

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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Commissioner should face penalty

An appalling piece of literature was created by Brent Rinehart, an Oklahoma County Commissioner who is up for re-election and handed this out to members of the Oklahoma Republican party.
Is this what we want representing Oklahoma?

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It’s time for Inhofe’s time to come to a close

This year we have the opportunity to elect someone to replace Jim Inhofe. He’s one of our two U.S. Senators. You may have heard about his crazy, nonsensical rants in front of the Senate.

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Make the most of your college experiences

Knowing yourself, your desires and wishes is the key to developing as an independent and self-driven individual… at all stages of life, especially at college.

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Heath Ledger amazing in final role

I know there are real problems in the world and that this space could be better used to try inform those of you not just doing the sudoku and/or crossword of those problems, but all I can think about this week is “The Dark Knight.”

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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Don’t knock video games as entertainment

Video games: the vice of our generation. Subsequently, technology: the ultimate moneymaker. New systems are released every year, sometimes more than once a year, as competing companies must constantly put out the latest, top-of-the-line, cutting edge interactive entertainment.

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Open up Army funerals to public

Shortly after being hired as the public affairs director at Arlington National Cemetery, Gina Gray felt bothered by some new media limits on funeral services.

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A little less conversation, a little more action

The O’Collegian’s editorial board has found one of America’s biggest problems: Our love of complaining.

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Letters to the editor

Bob Darcy’s column “Stillwater: Ambiguous College Town” interested me because, even though I have read a great deal of SF/fantasy and action/adventure fiction, I was unfamiliar with Steven Gould’s 1992 novel “Jumper.”

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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

First amendment not limited to clothes

According to the Associated Press, the new police chief of Flint, Mich., is going to crack down on crack. Not the drug, but the kind that can be seen when young men wear their trousers too low on their hips.

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