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After 19 years, the Cowboys are ready to welcome an old foe back to Stillwater.

Oklahoma State (4-2, 2-1) takes on Texas Christian University on Saturday for the first time since 1993. Only this time, the Horned Frogs come into Boone Pickens Stadium as a Big 12 Conference member.

“This is a good team we’re playing,” coach Mike Gundy said. “They’ve had some success over the years, and they are well coached. This will be a good one.”

A challenge for the Cowboys will be overcoming the TCU defense. The Horned Frogs (5-2, 2-2) boast the top rushing defense in the Big 12, and Gundy said he recognizes how difficult things will get for his of-fense.

“They are giving up about 17.3 points per game if you take away overtime. Only 3 yards a rush,” Gun-

dy said. “They’ve had success based on speed and running to the ball.”

While the run game will be lim-ited, the largest hurdle for the Cow-boys will be deciding who will start at quarterback. J.W. Walsh is out for the remainder of the season with a leg injury, leaving Gundy to choose to play a recovered Wes Lunt or backup Clint Chelf.

Offensive coordinator Todd Monken said both Lunt and Chelf have taken reps with the first team offense this week and hopes to make a decision by Saturday. Monken said he is confident in both quarterbacks, especially after seeing them compete last spring.

“The margin wasn’t extreme be-tween (the quarterbacks). There wasn’t a cavernous gap,” Monken said. “A lot of times you go with the younger guys because they have such a gap where they can improve. I’m confident that we can win with either guy, just like I was confident when it was J.W Walsh.”

Offensive lineman Lane Taylor said he and his teammates will be

ready to protect whoever is playing at quarterback and don’t want to have a repeat of an injury.

“Every week we go out there and

we want to keep our quarterback clean, have no sacks and have good run blocking,” Taylor said. “We’ll definitely make sure to keep (Lunt)

clean. We don’t want him to get dinged up again.”

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Few things are harder to stop than a dual-threat quar-terback.

They keep defenses guess-ing with their unique ability gain yards on the ground and through the air.

The Big 12 sports a few, such as Collin Klein and the recently injured J.W. Walsh.

On Saturday, Oklahoma State faces a dual-threat quarterback in TCU’s Trev-one Boykin.

He has great speed and vision and uses it to exploit defenses.

“He can really run and he is very athletic,” OSU defen-sive coordinator Bill Young said. “When he pulls it down and has to run with it, you’re going to have to be there.”

Boykin is a redshirt fresh-man who took over at quar-terback for the Horned Frogs when starter Casey Pachall left the school to enter alco-hol rehab.

Despite the recent change of quarterbacks, Young and his staff have not seen an drastic change in TCU’s of-fensive philosophy.

“We have enough film on him,” Young said. “I don’t know if they have changed the offense at all (when Boykin took over). They have a better athlete at the quar-terback position now.”

When facing a young quarterback, defenses often put an emphasis on putting pressure on him to force him into mistakes.

Boykin’s running ability

makes it more challenging for defenses to do that.

“You want to pressure him but you also have to contain him,” linebacker Caleb Lavey said. “When you pressure him, you have to get him down and keep him from scrambling up field.”

Safety Daytawion Lowe said he believes it will take a team effort to stop Boykin.

“It’s going to come down to us playing assignment football,” Lowe said. “Us in the secondary have to stay in coverage and our defensive lineman have to get pressure on him and make him feel uncomfortable and tackle him when they have a chance to take him down.”

The Cowboys have to worry about Boykin running for positive yards as well as buying time in the backfield for his receivers to get open.

“You want to contain him, but anytime has the wheels he has and can run around in the backfield (while the receivers gets open) he can find somebody to throw to,” Lavey said. “Quarterbacks like this are always a chal-lenge.”

It may be easier said than done, but the key for the Cowboys will be not allow-ing Boykin to get in the open field, where he is best suited to tear defenses apart.

“Anytime we face a du-al-threat quarterback, we keep (his running ability) in mind,” Lewis said. “We feel like he is going to scramble and do what he likes to do.

“We can’t allow guys to run down the field freely.”

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TCU coach Gary Pat-terson has quite the unique habit when he gets nervous during games.

When a close finish is at hand, such as the Horned Frogs’ triple-overtime loss to Texas Tech last weekend, Patterson can be seen con-stantly bending over to tie his shoes, something the televi-sion broadcast said was his stress reliever.

“I had never really watched TCU play on TV (before last weekend), but I thought who-ever that equipment manager is has to get (Patterson) some shoe strings that stay tied,” Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said, jokingly.

Superstitions are not any-thing new in athletics, but each coach or player handles them differently. Oklahoma State linebacker Caleb Lavey has one of the more distinc-tive habits on the team.

“I constantly just pop my

knuckles,” Lavey said. “I have so many different ways I can pop them. It’s my go-to.”

Lavey said he will also talk to himself, muttering encour-agement while watching the offense from the sidelines.

Some players stay quiet when nervous, such as of-fensive lineman Lane Tay-lor. Other players said some teammates start talking more, such as linebacker Alex El-kins.

Defensive coordinator Bill Young said he use to skip the final step of stairs when he was a player, but putting a buckeye in his pocket is the only routine he uses now.

He has carried a buckeye since 1988, his first year as Ohio State defensive coordi-nator.

“They say it’s bad luck to be superstitious,” Young said.

Although Gundy doesn’t have a noticeable habit, such as tying his shoes, he said he likes to listen to coaches on his headset talk about strat-egy of the game.

Gundy may have an offen-

sive background, but he finds himself switching between the two coordinators often.

“I flip my switch on and off if I get tired of hearing (Todd) Monken cuss,” Gun-dy said. “I go to the other deal because Bill Young is just calm as all.”

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The end of last year’s golf sea-son saw Oklahoma State Uni-versity’s most impressive athletic streak come to a halt.

The men’s golf team failed to reach the NCAA Cham-pionship for the first time ever, breaking the streak of 65 straight appearances dating back to the team’s first season in 1947.

And while some may blame the inexperience of a young team, highlighted by the early exit of All-American Peter Ui-hlein, OSU coach Mike Mc-Graw allowed no excuses.

“The golf ball doesn’t know how old you are,” McGraw said. “The fact is we should have played better than we did. The kids worked hard, and I can’t fault them for their effort, it was there all year.”

The Cowboys are a more ex-perienced team this season.

Led by seniors Talor Gooch and Sean Einhaus, the team has a solid foundation with a quick-ly rising group of young talent competing for starting positions.

“The lineup is a little dif-ferent from last year because we can go a little deeper,” Mc-Graw said. “So, we will actually have more guys who are going

to be popping in and out of the lineup from the three spot to the seven.”

In addition to the seniors, there is a group of players Mc-Graw has already identified as improved.

“Patrick Winther and Ian Davis are already a little bit better than they were last year,” McGraw said. “Tanner Kester-son is playing better golf, and I think Kevin Doherty is playing well right now.

“That said, I think everyone is going to have to fight for a spot this year. It’s less comfortable for them but it will help us in the long run.”

McGraw said he knows there will always be adversity, but he wants his players to handle it like champions.

Shortly after the team’s dis-appointing finish in the spring, Doherty went to Arizona, where he won the Southwestern Ama-teur by three strokes.

That kind of secondary lead-ership is what the team lacked last year, for the entire regular season saw either Gooch or Einhaus lead the team after the final round in all but one tour-nament.

“That’s how I hope we are going to get better,” McGraw said. “Someone is going to step up, they have to. Otherwise, they will get left behind.”

OSU has competed in three events this season and has fin-ished eighth, second and ninth.

Its biggest challenge came last weekend in the U.S. Col-legiate, which boasted 13 of the top 30 teams in the country.

Gooch led all Cowboys once again with his second place

finish after leading the field through 71 holes.

The Cowboys travel to Dallas on Monday to play in the Royal Oaks Invitational for the last tournament of the fall portion of the 2012-13 season.

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OSU closes season in LubbockBy tiM ahrens

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The regular season is finally drawing to a close, and it has been somewhat of an irregular season for the Cowgirls. The team started the season as the Big 12 favorites and ranked No. 5 in the nation. Four loss-es later, the Cowgirls are out of the NSCAA Coaches Poll, seventh in the conference, and are by no means a guarantee to make the NCAA Tourna-ment.

A victory against Texas Tech could change that, though. Oklahoma State trav-els to Lubbock to play the Red Raiders on Friday at 7 p.m.

The Cowgirls (11-4-3, 1-3-3) defeated their last opponent, the Milwaukee Panthers, 3-1 on Sunday. The victory marked the end of a four-match winless streak for the Cowgirls, and coach Colin Carmichael said he believes it did a lot for the team’s morale.

“Winning just solves a lot of issues for us,” Carmichael said. “When you’re not win-ning you don’t feel as good, so it was really nice to earn that. You can tell that we’ve been playing really hard for the past two or three weeks, and it was nice to see it finally pay off. It was really good for our confidence.”

Despite the recent vic-tory, fans cannot help but feel concerned for the Cowgirls’ chances of making the NCAA Tournament. Oklahoma State is ranked No. 69 in the RPI and hasn’t earned any wins against teams ranked in the

top 50. Defeating Texas Tech, ranked No. 33, would almost solidify a spot in the tourna-ment for the Cowgirls.

Any other result would leave decisions to be made in the Big 12 Tournament, which begins on Wednesday.

Goalkeeper Adrianna Franch, however, said she doesn’t see many concerns surrounding the team and its chances of making the tour-nament. She’s focused on a single task: playing one game at a time.

“Winning against Milwau-

kee was good, as a win will boost anybody’s confidence,” Franch said. “We have to come in focused against Texas Tech this weekend, despite the tournaments being on ours and the coaches’ minds. We have to take it one game at a time and not think about the Big 12 or NCAA Tourna-ment. That’s how we’re going to have the best chance of

winning on Sunday.”The Cowgirls will take on

Texas Tech (13-4-1, 4-2-1), which is coming off a 3-1 road win against the Kansas Jay-hawks. The Red Raiders boast a record of 7-1 at home, and Carmichael said he is antici-pating a tough environment for the game.

“Texas Tech is a really good team. They play a 4-4-2 with a box midfield, which is a little different to play against,” Carmichael said. “We’ve defi-nitely been addressing that this week as we prepare, so hopefully that works. They’ve got a lot of good players, and we know their coaches pretty well, so we know what to ex-pect.”

Carmichael added that even though the Tech game will be difficult, he thinks his team has what it takes to come up with a win.

“They’ve been on the rise in the past four or five seasons, and they’ll probably make the NCAA Tournament this year,” he said. “We’re expecting it to be a really tough game, as it is their senior night and will be nationally televised. It’ll be a challenge, but we feel really good about our chances and where we are at.”

Franch had just one word for this weekend. It is clearly the thing on every players mind as they travel to Lub-bock this Sunday: “Win.”

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Presidential politics a popularity pageant

I want to talk to you about a place that few people in our country talk about.

It lies at the center of our history and geography, but most Americans have never been there.

Some say its glory days are long gone, swept away by the winds of change.

It is associated with oil, football, Native American her-itage and good ol’ small-town America.

It is the state, land and home that I love.

Oklahoma.Unfortunately, as the years

have passed, Oklahoma has been increasingly associated with not-so-positive things.

Things like poverty.Poor health.Inadequate public educa-

tion.Now you can add one more

thing to that list: an oppressive, irrational and inefficient crimi-nal justice system.

Don’t get me wrong, I love this state. I was born and raised near Tulsa, I’ve lived here for all 21 years of my life and I will have attended Oklahoma State University for six years by the time I’m finished with school.

I’m even a card-carrying member of the Cherokee Na-tion.

It doesn’t get much more

Oklahoman than that.But my love for this state is

not a prideful, arrogant kind of love that would cause me to overlook its shortcomings. Rather, my love for Oklahoma compels me to cry out when I see poverty and injustice among its people.

And believe me, there is poverty and injustice among Oklahoma’s people.

I was able to get in touch with Oklahoma state Rep. Cory Williams (D-Stillwater) and conduct a phone inter-view with him. I had intended on writing a column about the importance of local politics.

But the things that stood out to me the most in our conversation were his stinging criticisms of the Oklahoma criminal justice system, the

very system with which he is involved as an attorney.

For starters, I was alarmed at the conflicts of interest that seem to permeate the way the system is funded. The Okla-homa criminal justice system is funded by an array of fees, fines and costs associated with the carrying out of prosecutions.

This is something I noticed while observing the Darrell Williams trial, as I wondered how a recently registered sex offender was supposed to come up with $60,000 in court fees.

Cory said our legal system has become “predicated upon prosecution,” and this conflict of interest is highly responsible for our state being No. 1 in the nation in incarceration rates for women (and for being near the top in incarceration rates

for men).Our discussion of Darrell’s

sentencing led to another one of the problems of our criminal justice system: the sex offender registry.

Although Cory said he un-derstands the thinking behind the registry, he had serious doubts that it actually benefits Oklahomans.

“I’m not convinced we’re getting huge benefits out of the sex offender registry,” he said, citing the enormous cost of its maintenance.

Cory seemed most flustered when discussing the downward spiral that is often initiated by the sex offender system. When someone is convicted and la-beled a sex offender and enters the registry, his or her options for employment and residency

are severely limited. Cory said becoming a sex

offender means being “shunned to the outskirts of any munici-pality” and being labeled “not employable.”

What usually happens to people pushed into rural areas and unable to find employ-ment? They end up on public assistance.

We are disturbed by crime (and rightfully so) and elect leaders who say they will ad-dress it. But through our at-tempts to crack down on crime, we have marginalized and in-stitutionalized the perpetrators. This process of marginalization leads to the need for more and more public assistance, and more and more Oklahoma tax-payers picking up the tab.

Therein lies the greatest

irony of the situation. We’re paying for the public support of people who we’re trying to remove from society.

But what can we do?I found it extremely easy to

conduct this interview with Cory, and he is willing to meet with the people he represents — be they regular OSU stu-dents or Boone Pickens him-self.

Cory is passionate in his desire to represent and address the needs of his constituents, and he has been vocal about injustices and inefficiencies in the Oklahoma criminal justice system.

So reach out to him. Express to him the need for more rea-sonable justice to be admin-istered in this state. Support him in his efforts to clean and streamline our legal system.

But more than anything, don’t be too proud of Oklaho-ma to let it descend any further into injustice and poverty.

Evan Woodson is a history and

sociology senior. He is also a

football coach at Stillwater High School.

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EVAN WOODSON

What usually happens to people

pushed into rural areas and unable

to find employment? They end up

on public assistance.

Oklahoma’s criminal justice system lacks justice

People shouldn’t be allowed to vote, because they’re too stu-pid.

I’m not just talking about people with below average IQ’s. I am talking about nearly everyone in the country.

People get so caught up with the most trivial things in

life that they lose sight of what really matters.

Because of this, our culture has gotten to the point where we don’t elect the people who are actually the best candidates anymore.

Gone are the days where we elected the people who shared the most views with us. Now we just elect the people who have the best ability to whore themselves out to rich people as well as the ability to be elect-able.

As a result, this is what our country does. We whore our-selves out to the people who have the most value or money in the world.

Why do you think as a country we were more con-

cerned with the mystical war on terror in the oil haven of the world than we were with all of the genocide happening in Africa?

Oil is more valuable to us than people getting killed and child soldiers. We don’t genu-inely care about people any-more. We care about getting ahead of others and looking good doing it.

It is sickening to think that something so serious as a presi-dential election is essentially a

popularity contest that, in this election anyway, sees the cool kids blocking the other kids — who are probably smarter — from even getting a chance to run.

So how about that third party debate earlier this week? Nobody paid any attention to it because people have resigned themselves to settling for less. Americans have given up shooting for the stars and are now playing it safe.

Ideologically, when it comes

to economic issues, if you be-lieve the government shouldn’t be allowed to tell you how to spend your money, you should vote for Gov. Gary Johnson and not Gov. Mitt Romney.

But no, too many Americans are voting defensively and set-tling for less than they actually want because they’re worried a relatively obscure guy like Johnson will not succeed be-cause he hasn’t whored around as much, even though he sup-ports more of the ideas that Republicans claim to want.

It’s the same for Democrats too though.

People aren’t going to vote for somebody who stands for the traditional views of the party, like Jill Stein, because

they want somebody that will beat Romney, and they believe unless they change their views to steal some Republican vot-ers away from him, they will not get elected.

So now we’re stuck with two watered down candidates nobody is really excited about who aren’t really that much dif-ferent from each other.

If you really want America to change, vote for somebody who actually has the views you support, and not just the per-son you think has the potential to beat your ideological oppo-nent.

Bryan Wilson is an American studies senior.

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We don’t genuinely care about people anymore.

We care about getting ahead of others and looking good doing it.

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Physical evolution (Darwin-ism, if you wish) has progressed far beyond simple adaptation and "survival of the fittest" concepts.

Far more has been learned from the fossil record than some mythical "life tends to more complexity" arrow.

Among others, the state-ment that life tends to in-creasing complexity is open to discussion on the basis of the meaning of complexity if for no other reason.

It also shows a species-specific "ethnocentricity" that many of the best minds in the field all but reject.

With such oversimplistic columns such as these in our publications, it is no wonder we have so much difficulty with authentic science educa-tion in this country.

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Columns oversimplify evolutionRomney’s policies much worseFrom MelAnie PAge

Gov. Mitt Romney is very much the wrong choice for America — at least most of the America that I know (note: I do not know any re-ally rich people and/or CEOs of large corporations).

If you actually listen to what his proposed policies are and get away from the soundbites and delusions, his policies will hurt low and middle income families.

People complain that Pres. Barack Obama is a socialist, yet it is OK for Romney to propose a voucher system for Medicare, which would re-sult in wealthy people taking the money the government pays for Medicare and using and supplementing it to buy private insurance.

School vouchers take your tax money and give it to people to put their children in private schools — do you

really want to pay for other people’s children to go to private school?

While I agree we need to cut spending, let’s look first at cutting the breaks that go to big corporations before we cut the ones that go to hard-working families.

Companies and rich people argue that their taxes should not go up because they cre-ate jobs. This administration extended the Bush tax cuts over the last four years — so where are the jobs?

Did companies take that money and create the new jobs we need, or did they post record profits, huge CEO salaries and bonuses and large dividend payouts?

Did the jobs they did cre-ate stay in America or go to China or Brazil?

It is easy to criticize Obama’s record because he has been in the national spot-light the last four years.

Go and check out the ac-tual facts about Romney’s “accomplishments” in Mas-sachusetts and give them the same scrutiny.

Being the leader of this country is much more com-plicated than I am sure any of us appreciates.

Would we personally want to do things differently than any president? Likely.

But since I believe his-tory shows when you are only out for yourself and your bottom line that ulti-mately your country will col-lapse, Obama’s ideas come a lot closer to the mark than Romney’s.

Melanie Page is a professor of psychology, Riata Entrepreneurship

fellow and director of the OSU Institute

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The Justice For All organization made a controversial appearance this week on campus, displaying an anti-abortion exhibit that was established in 2000.

The organization is based in Wich-ita, Kan., and it travels to college cam-puses in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, Georgia and California to promote its message.

Justice For All’s mission is to create a dialogue about abortion on campus that invites students to join in the discussion. It is a place where all stu-dents can come together and respect-fully discuss the issue and share their opinions.

The organization trains staff and volunteers to ask questions to stu-dents about their current view on abortion to spawn discussion in order to find truth together so students can leave with an informed, well-reasoned stance on abortion.

Although the organization is founded on an anti-abortion platform and believes that life and human na-ture begin at conception, it claims to be respectful of all opinions and be-liefs.

Students typically react negatively to the organization and the graphic nature of the exhibit by voicing their

opinions on the “free speech” boards that the organization had set up.

One student said, “Get the f**k off my campus,” while another said, “Women have the right to choose what happens to their bodies! Pull your head out of your ass and realize that abortion will never be illegal.”

When asked how students typi-cally react to the display, the director of training, Stephen Wagner, said they get a wide range of responses.

“Some people are angered, some are astonished, some are saddened,

some are indifferent and others are willing to share,” He said.

Stephen left with a message talking about how what he and the organiza-tion care about most is equal rights.

“If we believe in the concept for men and women, whites and blacks, heterosexuals and homosexuals, then there must be something the same about all of us that demands that we treat each other equally, and I think it’s our human nature,” he said.

By sAlly Asher

General Assignment Reporter

The Board of Regents will meet in Muskogee today to discuss revenue bond refunds, salary changes, new de-grees and program modifications.

The Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechan-ical Colleges will meet in the Connors State College/Northeastern State University Muskogee Synar Center on Connors State College Muskogee West Campus, 2400 W. Shawnee

Ave., at 10 a.m. A lunch for the board of regents is

scheduled for noon in the Sunroom in the CSC/NSU Administration Building.

Board Chairman Andy Lester will open with a general report and recom-mendations for the board.

Oklahoma State University Presi-dent Burns Hargis has expressed interest in discussing state funding, future staffing, new construction and renovation and student recruiting, ac-cording to the regent meeting agenda.

The board will discuss approval of proposed new degrees and program

modifications, as well as approval to create a new instructional unit within the Spears School of Business at OSU.

In other business and financial matters, the board will discuss ap-proval of peace officer action, revenue bond refunding actions, lease agree-ment for office space, a memorandum of understanding with the United States Department of Agriculture re-lating to leasehold interest transfers and approval to enter into a purchase agreement for real property for OSU, according to the agenda.

Kayla Sanford/o’CollegianJustice For All set up a booth next to their display to let passers-by voice their opin-ions on the polarizing subject of abortion. The group will be back outside the student Union tomorrow.

Ciara dixon/o’Collegianregents Chairman Andy lester debates during a regents meeting in sep-tember.

emily nielSen/o’CollegianMichelle langford holds hands with Katy Caudle at the Miss OsU Pageant Thursday night. langford was crowned as Miss Oklahoma state.

State Education Board releases school grades

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Regents to discuss revenue, salaries

From sTAFF rePOrTs

The Oklahoma State Board of Education released their assessment of the state’s schools earlier this week.

The new system gives schools a grade based on the schools’ student achievement, overall student growth, bottom 25 percent growth and the

whole school’s performance. The new system also takes parent

involvement in the school into ac-count.

All schools in Stillwater and Per-kins received a “B” or higher in the grades released for this year.

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Miss oklahoMa state

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SANGRE RIDGE ES A

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Making the grade

Anti-abortion display causes unrest

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By TAryn sAndersOn

Arts and Sciences Reporter

High pitch screams and rounds of applause flooded the atmosphere of the Seretean Cen-ter on Thursday night.

Michelle Langford, a senior liberal arts student, was named Miss OSU 2013 and earned a $1,000 scholarship.

Eight contestants strutted their stuff last night at Miss OSU’s Scholarship Pageant 2013. The contest had women ages 17 to 26 at all OSU cam-puses compete for the title.

When Ally Akers, Miss OSU 2012, gave up her crown to the Langford, Akers had some heart-felt words to share with the audi-ence and potential future pageant winners.

“Whenever my best friend

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Miss OSU crowned, awarded scholarship

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By AlexA IvIns

Campus Recreation Reporter

Put on your running shoes and head out to the OSU cross-country course this week for the Pumpkin Run at 5:30 p.m. on Friday.

The Pumpkin Run is an annual event OSU holds before Halloween.

Participants can sign up individually or as teams to compete.

At the run, there is a cos-tume contest and the run-ners are encouraged to dress up in their Halloween cos-tumes for a chance to win a championship T-shirt.

The course is grass with wood chips, making for a soft surface, and also fea-tures several hills to en-hance the challenge.

Female runners will

compete in a 1-mile race, while the male runners will do a 2-mile race.

Anyone who is interested can either sign up online or the day of the meet. The cross-country course is on campus, north of married student housing.

The race is open to all students, faculty and staff.

Jason Linsenmeyer, Co-ordinator of Intramural Sports, said he hopes warm-er-than-average weather will bring a big crowd to the event.

“Last year we had 80 runners and hope that the excitement will continue again this year,” he said.

For more information, contact Jason at 405-744-7407 or email him at jason-jl@okstate.edu.

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Courtesy of zaCh grayWayne Coyne, lead singer of The Flaming lips, performs at a concert. The lips, who are from OKC, are playing a free show at the OKC Zoo Amphitheater tonight.

emily nielsen/o’CollegianFirst runner up Clara Gregory (right) stands with Aly Akers at the end of the competition.

emily nielsen/o’CollegianBailey sharpe, the second runner up, takes a picture with Akers, the Miss OsU 2012 winner.

The board to will also dis-cuss approval to grant utility easement to Oklahoma Gas and Electric, according to the agenda.

The board will discuss ap-proval to select a construction manager at risk to assist the university in design and con-struction of a new residence hall, according to the agenda.

Oklahoma Panhandle State University, Langston Univer-sity, Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College and Connors State College will also present their reports and requests.

The board will reserve 15 minutes for public comments and concerns at the end of the meeting.

The meeting is open to the public.

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“If that’s the case, then it’s hard to say that the unborn human does not have human nature. We should treat them equally to anyone else.”

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comes over and looks in my closet, she always comments on my wardrobe being completely full of orange,” Akers said. “That’s why when I was crowned Miss OSU that I couldn’t have been prouder. I have made so many wonderful memories and experiences that I will never for-get, it’s been a humbling experi-ence overall.”

The pageant was divided into five sections of judging. The night began off-stage with a 15-minute interview between the five judges and each contes-tant.

The rest of the events in-volved on-stage questions with Akers, physical fitness in swim-suit competition, evening wear and the talent competition. The talent competition was worth the most points in the scoring, and Michelle burned up the stage floor¬–literally.

With Langford’s fiery, tango-

inspired pointe ballet dance, she stole the show with her graceful leaps and her sharp, fierce fêtes. The crowd cheered profusely as she did one fête to the next with a gleaming smile on her face throughout the routine.

Her platform, “Get Active: Creating a Healthy Lifestyle,” promotes healthy physical and emotional ways of life. She ex-plained this in more depth to Akers during the on-stage ques-tion.

“Maintaining a level amount of stress in your life is a great habit to gain,” Langford said. “Also, going outside or getting some exercise is crucial in stay-ing healthy.”

Langford is a busy woman. Not only is she a liberal arts senior at Oklahoma State with the title of Miss OSU 2013, but Langford also works at Rhythm Alley Dance Studio in Perkins and is one of the newest mem-bers to the Thunder Girls team for the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Recognitions go to third run-ner up Charity Pennington, sec-ond runner up Bailey Sharp, and first runner up Clara Gregory.

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pageant: Michelle Langford won the title of Miss OSU 2013.

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research and help society.“Veterinarians have such a broad

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News from OSU Communications

OSU NASA project receives EmmyNASA Now, an online video series

for students, was honored with an Emmy Award from the Lower Great Lakes Chapter of the National Associa-tion of Television Arts and Sciences for production excellence in the category of Informational/Instructional: Program/Series, or Special in 2012. NASA Now is written, created and produced by a team of Oklahoma State University education and production specialists located at several NASA Centers.

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inception of the project in 2003. In addition to NASA Now, the Project provides middle school, high school and pre-service teachers access to 40 inquiry-based STEM lessons featuring NASA content, live STEM professional development web seminars, live video chats with NASA subject matter experts, and summer research and workshop experiences for teachers.

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From left, Cathy Graves and Dr. Steve Marks of OSU’s NASA Education Projects and College of Educa-tion Dean Pamela Sissi Carroll display the Emmy Award OSU received for NASA Now.

Tackling Diabetes

Veronique Lacombe, DVM, Ph.D., brought a long history of comparative medicine research with her when she joined OSU’s veterinary center as an associate professor in physiological sciences.

Since she was a veterinary student, Dr. Lacombe has had an interest in metabolism, the complex process the body uses to turn food into energy. Specifically, her fields of interest include skeletal and cardiac muscle energetics, glucose transport during diabetes, in-sulin resistance using small and large-animal mod-els, as well as cardiovascu-lar complica-tions during diabetes.

The main m iss ion of Lacombe and her team is researching mechanisms underlying diabetes, a complex disease for which there is no cure.

“Diabetes is an epidemic disease that affects more than 250 million people with almost 10 percent of the population affected in the U.S., and it is expected that the worldwide prevalence will rise to 450 million by

2030,” she says. “As a result, the disease imposes a

considerable medical and economic bur-den on societies. My lab is investigating the regulation of glucose transport in insulin-sensitive tissue. In other words, we are looking at how the glucose (i.e., sugar) in the bloodstream transfers to tissue. This process is the metabolic bottleneck for glucose utilization and fuel production. In addition, this process is altered in people who have diabetes because they have improper production and/or action of insulin, a

hormone that is necessary to make that transfer.”

While there is no drug to cure diabetes, human diabetes can be regu-lated and moni-tored to avoid complications.

L a c o m b e says glucose is one of the main sources of fuel for the body, and the uptake of glucose from the blood into the cell and its utilization by the cell to produce energy is similar across all species — human and animal.

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models in my lab, spanning from mice to horses. If we find mechanisms responsible for diabetes using these species, it could also have an impact on human health, a concept referred to as one health, one medicine. By transcending species boundaries to include the study of spontaneous and experimental models of human dis-ease, research in comparative medicine can lead to exciting discoveries that will benefit both people and animals.”

Lacombe firmly believes that vet-erinarians’ thorough training puts them in a unique position to improve

Dr. Veronique Lacombe (center) has put together a team to research the mecha-nisms underlying diabetes. Studying with her are (from left) senior zoology student Kaylynn Gruntmeier, senior animal science student Chelsie Clement, veterinary student Brittany Evans, and research associate Dr. Melody de Laat.

The VisualSonics Vevo 2100 micro-ultra-sound machine at the Center for Veterinary Health Sciences allows students and research-ers see into organs and systems of lab animals as small as mice and rabbits, is believed to be the only one of its kind in Oklahoma.

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