Former OSU President David Schmidley has accepted a postion at the University of New Mexico.

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A 19-year-old OSU student is heading out for basic training before being deployed in Iraq.

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Oklahoma State steps out of Big 12 play to face its final nonconference opponent on the schedule when Central Arkansas visits Cowgirl Stadium on Wednesday at 5 p.m.

IRVING, Texas — Oklahoma State junior first baseman Rebel Ridling was named the Big 12 Conference Player of the Week for the first time in his career.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Eddie Sutton’s third bid for induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame ended like the first two, with the former Oklahoma State coach on the outside looking in.

For Jeremy Nethon, the quiet leadership he displays on the football field is the same he uses with his 20-month-old son.

The Stillwater City Commission voted in favor of designating $20,000 from the city budget to go toward improvements in the downtown area Monday.

“Already our staff have been setting up booths at the Stillwater County Fair and the State Capitol to raise money for the many projects set forth by Downtown Stillwater,” said Andy Kincaid, Downtown Stillwater Unlimited director.

Kincaid said these projects include Crazy Days, Lights Over Stillwater, the Payne County Fair, Oklahoma City State Fair and the Parade of Lights.

“The funds received from the city will go toward training and staff salaries,” Kincaid said.

Question:

Why doesn’t the O’Colly run two crossword

puzzles on Mondays anymore?

Answer:

The answers to Fridays’ crossword puzzles are a mystery to O’Collegian readers. At one time, answers to Fridays’ puzzles were posted every Monday, but no one seemed interested in reading them, said Lori Raford, business office manager at the O’Collegian.

Every week Radford downloads crossword puzzles from King Features, which provides Sunday through Saturday puzzles.

The answers to Friday’s puzzle are with Saturday’s puzzle, she said.

If Radford ran Friday’s answers on Monday, she would also have to run Saturday’s puzzle along with Monday’s puzzle.

The format of each puzzle makes splitting Friday’s answers from the puzzle and attaching it to Monday’s difficult and would take more time than it is worth, Radford said.

As a graduating senior, I am outraged because nobody warned me.

Nobody warned me, warned us, that we’d hit the last semester and panic, realizing that unlike weeks leading up to high school graduation, this last month at OSU leaves us feeling flighty, alone and unprepared.

Dear Mr. Al Gore,

As an environmental management student and a budding environmental activist, I would like to follow your example.

Your politics inspire me and your environmental activism emboldens me. I recently got hold of your “Inconvenient Truth,” which I really enjoyed. I have attended a few environmental and geographical classes in which we sought to define and understand the topic of global warming.

I have no doubt that this is the area in which you will be best remembered. I say this with the understanding that you began your mission several decades ago and politics served to grease your efforts.

I want to emulate you upon return to my native Kenya. I need advice on whether to begin with politics or activism. I am confident that my educational pursuits are the cornerstone of where I anticipate going socio-politically.

We live in a world of excessive communication and information.

Thanks to the Internet, we can instantly access facts and information about pretty much anything.

Unfortunately, there’s one subject on which several women lack information and communication.

Next fall, the library will open its Digital Repository.

This is a great opportunity for students to see what their fellow students and professors they may never have are up to regarding research.

Instead of having to dig through shelf after shelf of articles and entries, students will be able to find a bevy of information at the click of a button.

This is a great resource tool for those graduate students who spend night and day researching in their respective fields.

Hopefully, this will cut back on all the time they’ll have to spend in the library looking for information.

But don’t just think it’s a tool reserved only for graduate students or professors.

Undergraduates will also have access to this trove of OSU knowledge, which will be a great help for research papers.

April is an exciting month for two OSU students who will appear on national television.

This fall, OSU faculty and staff will no longer be left out of the loop with the library’s Digital Repository.

The race is on for seat No. 2 of the Stillwater City Commission today with incumbent Tom Williams running against Drew Taylor.

Taylor, a civil engineering junior, said he is a part-time student at Tulsa Community College and works for Good Natured Family Firms out of Kansas City.

Students in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering are building a high profile aircraft that could benefit occupations from firefighting to space exploration.

In the works since 2002, Dr. Jamey Jacob, an associate professor in MAE, and his team of students have been designing, and are now building, the first aircraft of its kind. The innovative inflatable wing technology enables the aircraft to be used for Mars exploration and possibly much more.

Advancement in aerospace industry of this magnitude will be recognized globally. The use of the inflatable wing technology is not restricted to space exploration.

“The inflatable wing is like a flotation device so you can use it to save people too,” said Ben Loh, an aerospace graduate student and chief engineer for the project.

Loh used the Asian tsunami disaster of 2004 as an example where this aircraft could have been sent out to rescue people who were flushed into the sea.

“It’s inflatable and can be deployed at any time,” Loh said.