The O’Collegian

So it begins.
The campus tobacco ban took effect Tuesday. The logic behind the ban has yet to take effect.

Why can’t state legislatures go back to wasting our time and money arguing over what the official state woodwind instrument should be?

I don’t smoke.
I don’t like the smell of cigarette smoke and think that it is very difficult to mask a smoker’s breath and stale clothing.

Dear Editor,
The O’Colly’s board has really embarrassed itself, whether it knows it or not. You got a fundamental element wrong in your editorial, “Stillwater silences streetside picketers,” on Wednesday, June 25.
It was Payne County Commissioners, not the city of Stillwater, that took what you view as a “hard stance in the opposite direction” [...]

Voltaire once said, “I may not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”

Tragedy struck Tokyo’s Akihabara district on Sunday, June 8 when a man drove truck into a crowd of shoppers, then got out and stabbed 17 people, leaving seven dead.

I want to meet the brilliant person who claimed school was about education.

Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church are nothing more than attention-seekers who mount these “protests” in order to get into the news. As far as they’re concerned, any media mention of them counts as a victory.

Eddie Sutton Court is getting a facelift, and fans can help decide the fate of the design—or so we think.

Comic book fans have to be excited about the future of their favorite superheroes. Marvel Entertainment, the face behind all of the comic books, has broken free and created its own production company.

Having been part of the funeral procession for Maj. Scott Hagerty this past weekend, it truly warmed my heart to see the thousands of residents from Stillwater and other towns turn out to line Seventh Street, Main Street and Perkins Road. They stood nearly shoulder-to-shoulder, holding U.S. flags, holding a hand over their hearts or saluting, or bearing homemade signs supporting the troops and Hagerty’s family.

Voting is an inalienable right granted by the constitution. Voting can also be an obligation for citizens in order to feel like they have a say in the government. But, voting is also bull.

I think it would be better to elect a president who isn’t an atheist. In making my arguments, I will refer to believers in God, but will include everyone who believes in a higher power.

President Bush consults with Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell when making major decisions. Bush and Caldwell were introduced at the 2000 Republican National Convention and developed a relationship, according to a Religious News Service. Caldwell calls Bush “Brother President.”

Never in our lives did we think that gasoline prices would be so ridiculously high.

Boone Pickens made headlines nationwide with his most recent donation to OSU of $100 million. While we shouldn’t grovel at his feet, we can all be thankful for the opportunity to improve the university.

I don’t think T. Boone Pickens will ever run out of money. It seems every year T. Boone comes out and sets another record with some kind of massive donation to Oklahoma State. T. Boone’s most recent donation, a $100 million donation to academics, is the largest single gift to an Oklahoma university.

Democrats across the world holding their breath waiting to see who will be the nominee for president can finally take a breath. After six long months and many contests, Barack Obama has gained enough delegates to receive the nomination over Hillary Clinton.

If you haven’t pre-ordered your sexbot, you’d better get in line. David Levy, artificial intelligence expert, predicts that sex robots will be available by the year 2050 and will be in every home or apartment in the world.

I do not want to write this column. I am not entirely sure why.

Ray Charles once said, “Even though I’m not Jewish.. Israel is one of the few causes I feel good about supporting.”

I’ve written many business and economics-related columns this semester, which isn’t that surprising considering I’m a part of the respected Spear’s School of Business.

When journalists tell stories, their perspectives filter reality.

At OSU, we are lucky to have so many international students because it exposes us to other ways of thinking and other approaches to life.

On Nov. 15, the governor and an assortment of state offi cials climbed aboard the Centennial Express, compliments of BNSF Railway Co., and made the roughly 30-mile trip by rail to Guthrie.