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Homecoming came early for Oklahoma’s All-American Rejects. In a press conference last week at the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame and Museum, The All-American Rejects, which includes Stillwater natives Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler, spoke about home.

Last season, most of the media coverage the OSU football team received was from coach Mike Gundy’s infamous rant. For those who were more versed in college football, they might also remember the Cowboys for blowing a 21-point fourth quarter lead against the Texas Longhorns.

Opening the car door and pulling out chairs stopped when texting took over and actual dating was replaced with “talking.”

She remembers when he pulled on a pair of orange cowboy boots with pride. She remembers weaving through the Whitehurst bushes to tap on his office window for a morning chat. She remembers him singing “You are My Sunshine” to her mother every morning.

Obviously college students don’t need to look like executives every day because we walk all around campus, sit in classes, do homework, study for tests, party, sleep and somehow get up and do it again the next day.

For like the 20th time, Oliver Stone has put his career on the line for some ridiculous political ideal. His new George W. Bush biopic is set to open this week.

Within the last week, an industrialized nation was threatened with wholesale economic collapse.
The small country of Iceland had to nationalize its largest banks and sparked panics as its citizens sought to withdraw their deposits and rushed to fill up their cars fearing fuel shortages.

It’s halfway through football season and baseball is wrapping up, so you know what that means.
That’s right: basketball season is upon us.
Many OSU students know the thrill of cheering on our men’s basketball team, hearing the horn blow to signal the end of the game or even camping out in tents outside the Gallagher-Iba arena [...]

Roy Williams headed home to Texas on Tuesday in the NFL’s biggest trade before the deadline, giving the struggling Dallas Cowboys another proven receiver opposite Terrell Owens.

Zac Efron was attacked this weekend in London. Really. It wasn’t a mob of unruly teen girls either. The deranged fan, a middle-aged man, pushed through the crowd, past security guards, and grabbed Efron’s hair.

Stillwater TV-31 Auction is celebrating its first anniversary under new ownership this month. The popular local show, on cable channel three, airs four days a week and auctions a wide variety of items as viewers call and place bids.

From Staff Reports
Tonight’s SGA meeting will feature Steve Rogers from University Health Services and John Mowen from OSU Creativity.
Rogers will be at the meeting to inform the senators about the free flu shot clinic on Oct. 23. The clinic will be in the Student Union in the Starlight Terrace and will begin at 9 [...]

Fighting domestic violence with high heels and fashionable taste, the Stillwater Domestic Violence Center hosted a fashion show to raise awareness.

John McCain and Barack Obama won’t be the only ones debating Wednesday night. Students from both ends of the political spectrum will face off in an open forum debate which the Residential Hall Association will hold.

Generation Cowboy is a fluid concept. Students, faculty and alumni are the traditional target for OSU’s homecoming events and festivities. But Homecoming isn’t just for big kids.

An OSU student is tallying his losses after discovering his back door kicked in and a laptop computer missing from his house in the 700 block of Ninth Street after returning from fall break on Sunday.
Marketing senior Taylor Oshel said thieves took the $800 laptop, a $250 North Face ski coat and its removable fleece [...]

An OSU student is tallying his losses after discovering his back door kicked in and a laptop computer missing from his house in the 700 block of Ninth Street after returning from fall break on Sunday.
Marketing senior Taylor Oshel said thieves took the $800 laptop, a $250 North Face ski coat and its removable fleece [...]

Although word around campus among nonhonors students might be that the degree is a lot of extra work for nothing, students enrolled in the Honors College say it’s not that hard, and it’s worth the effort.
Honors students receive privileges that other students do not, and this is motivation enough for some students to join.
Eli Sluch, [...]

They were enrolled at OSU 42 years ago — before the days of computer software and nanopomp.
But the students of the 1960s could probably still relate to those working on this year’s homecoming festivities.
The OSU yearbook described the tradition in 1966.
“Homecoming was something … staying up all night to poke one more flower [...]

Jeff Campbell’s take on orange water around campus.