Author: Alaina Burris

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Geoff Poston: Inductee for Kansas State Hall of Fame

Photo by Bruna Pacheco For more than 30 years, Geoff Poston has been bowling. Poston has been involved as, not only a competitor in leagues, tournaments and professionally, but as a coach as well. He’s been instructing athletes for more than 15 years. “I started out about 20 years ago […]

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International Driving Tips

Photo by Florence Sesham Americans are weird. We use an entirely different (and more complicated) metric system than the rest of the world, we write our dates backwards—with the month first instead of the day, and we refrigerate our eggs. Other countries don’t do that. However, one of the most […]

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Off-Campus Living

Photo by Bruna Pacheco Ottawa University has expanded its enrollment in recent years and on-campus housing has become increasingly crowded. Ottawa students have even been forced to take up residence in hotels away from the campus. Living off-campus on your own as a student provides a luxury and peace of […]

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Mid-College Crisis

Photo by Nicole Pierick Congratulations. You just enrolled in classes for your senior year. Where did the last two and a half years go? You thought graduating early would be a great idea, that you would be able to start your life and enter the “real world.” Suddenly, you start […]

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State-by-State Weather Update

Photo from https://pixabay.com For students from Kansas, it’s nothing new to wake up in 30-degree temperature, put on sweats and hoodies, then come out of class at two o’clock, greeted by 75-degree weather. It is just a part of what most people would call the “bipolar Kansas weather.” However, for those […]

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Challenge Accepted: NaNoWriMo Begins

Photo by Alaina Burris Have you ever dreamed of being a writer? Have you ever written short stories? Stories without an ending? Do you know what to do with any of the stories that you’ve written? Are you not really a writer at all but are up for a challenge? […]

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Mid-Semester Sport Report

Photo from https://www.ottawa.edu/ou/athletics/ We are halfway through the semester, already getting our midterm grades and feeling like we’re nearing the finish line. Campus is full of students grinding it out from the very beginning of the semester to now, balancing both schoolwork and their athletic season. All our fall season sports […]

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Food for Thought: Food Pantries at OU

Photo from https://pixabay.com/en/canned-food-cans-supermarket-food-570114/ World Food Day is celebrated worldwide on October 16 in honor of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1945. This day was celebrated on campus by the Diversity Activities Board, with the theme “Our Actions are our Future.” On October 16, […]

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Profile of the Week: Polina Tsymbalova

Photo by Bruna Pacheco “Coach Polina was a great addition to our tennis program here at OU,” says Nicole Robbins, OU tennis player. “Personally, she has been instrumental in my successes during the fall season in singles and doubles. Without her advice, I would not have been able to win […]