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Political Focus: Voter purge across America

Political Focus: Voter purge across America

Patrick Sullivan, Web Editor October 24, 2018

Having the right to vote is something that we as Americans take pride in. Having a democracy where we can elect someone to be our voice is a privilege not all people have access to. However, in America,...

Political Focus: Legalization day — how our neighbors to the north made marijuana legal

Political Focus: Legalization day — how our neighbors to the north made marijuana legal

Ben Hume, Web Editor October 24, 2018

The entire country of Canada celebrated the national legalization of marijuana on Wednesday, Oct. 17, as the first major world economy and the second country behind Uruguay to do so. The drug had been...

Vogues 2nd Annual Forces of Fashion Conference in New York City

Vogue’s 2nd Annual Forces of Fashion Conference in New York City

Katarina Kovac, Campus Editor October 16, 2018

Vogue held its second annual Forces of Fashion event at Milk Studios in New York City on Thursday, Oct. 11. This year’s theme—Forces for Change—featured conversation between designers, editors and...

Meadow Brook Theatres production of Arsenic and Old Lace is brilliantly facetious

Meadow Brook Theatre’s production of “Arsenic and Old Lace” is brilliantly facetious

Jessica Leydet, Social Media Editor October 16, 2018

Warning: This review contains spoilers. On the crisp fall evening of Oct. 12, crowds gathered into Meadow Brook Theatre to see the production of “Arsenic and Old Lace.” The play by Joseph Kettering...

How your diet is affecting our environment

How your diet is affecting our environment

Taylor Crumley, Staff Reporter October 16, 2018

What if I told you that your diet impacts our environment? The things that you choose to eat can make a difference in the sustainability of our world. Climate change and pollution are the two biggest environmental...

POLITICAL FOCUS: United Nations commission warns climate will be unfixable by early as 2030

POLITICAL FOCUS: United Nations commission warns climate will be unfixable by early as 2030

Ben Hume, Web Editor October 16, 2018

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a damning report on the state of our global ecosystem on Monday, Oct. 8. For years, climate scientists have been warning the...

Lil Wayne releases highly anticipated fifth studio album

Lil Wayne releases highly anticipated fifth studio album

Jordan Jewell, Staff Reporter October 16, 2018

The self-proclaimed “greatest rapper alive,” Lil Wayne, released his fifth studio album, “Tha Carter V,” on Friday, Sept. 28. The album’s release was pushed back by Wayne several times throughout...

BRONCHO’s new album Bad Behavior

BRONCHO’s new album “Bad Behavior”

Kaley Barnhill, Staff Reporter October 16, 2018

BRONCHO released their latest album Bad Behavior on Friday, Oct. 12. The band is currently touring in North America. BRONCHO formed in 2010 in Norman, Okla. It is comprised of Ryan Lindsey on the vocals...

SATIRE: The three spookiest sights at OU

SATIRE: The three spookiest sights at OU

Michael Pearce, Editor-In-Chief October 16, 2018

The wind hurts my face, and these midterms hurt my brain. It can only be one time of the year. Spooky month. Oh yes, we are smack dab in the middle of the spookiest month of the year, and just like any...

“Bad Times at the El Royale” — a morbid mystery that’s a little messed up

“Bad Times at the El Royale” — a morbid mystery that’s a little messed up

Trevor Tyle, Editor-in-Chief October 10, 2018

If there’s one thing to take away from Drew Goddard’s new film, “Bad Times at the El Royale,” it’s that the fictional El Royale hotel is one place you do not want to visit. Set in 1969, the...

Twenty One Pilots release fifth album Trench

Twenty One Pilots release fifth album “Trench”

Kaley Barnhill, Staff Reporter October 10, 2018

Twenty One Pilots released their new album, "Trench," their first album since 2015, on Friday, Oct. 5. This is their fifth album. Twenty One Pilots, comprised of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun, is known...

Maty Noyes’ “Love Songs from a Lolita” delivers exactly what it promises

Maty Noyes’ “Love Songs from a Lolita” delivers exactly what it promises

Jordan Jewell, Staff Reporter October 10, 2018

Rising pop star Maty Noyes released her second EP, “Love Songs from Lolita,” in August, and it has already acquired her over 600,000 monthly Spotify listeners. Noyes has a distinct pop/dance sound,...

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