We are always reminded of race. When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, he had to know moments like these were inevitable. Recently, former President Jimmy Carter cited race as a reason Obama is criticized so hard. “When a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin […]

How people choose to represent themselves is a choice for each individual. In becoming part of something larger than yourself, you automatically become a symbol of the bigger whole. It’s important to remember this in the decisions you make throughout your life. Coming to Ottawa University, each student made the […]

I remember seeing Boys Like Girls as an opening band in early 2007. Having just released their first album, they seemed to be nervous as they tried to make jokes in between their set. At the time, it was months before their single ‘The Great Escape’ would hit airwaves. Their […]

Music is in the air for OUTheatre. With a total of six presentations, the Godspell cast will perform more in the week than groups have before in the past. Godspell is a musical based on parables from the Gospel of Matthew. There are traditional hymns set to current music. Megan […]

The first day I stepped on campus here at Ottawa University I realized how difficult it was going to be to find a parking spot every single day and night, with very limited parking around both Bennett and Brown. It is like a 12 round fight on Friday Night Fights, […]

It is 9:49 in the morning and I’m looking for a water bottle and Pop Tart. I grab them, and then head out the door to drive to my first class of the day. Arriving, I didn’t know I’d have to leave two hours early in order to just park […]

When school first started I had many doubts and questions about my faith in God. My doubts would only grow when I was enrolled into a gospels class the first week of school. The class rose my eye brows as to where there really a God or not. I have […]

We’re all familiar with the idea that phones can be tapped. We’ve all heard stories that ‘Big Brother’ is listening. As technology advances, it’s become even scarier to answer our phones. We’ve opened ourselves up to potential harm. Sites like www.mobile-spy.com provide spy software for any phone at a small […]

A woman walked into my house Thursday morning. Through the unlocked, but closed, back door. She stood in my back room, at the door to my kitchen, knocked on a window, and as I approached her, she waved, asking, “Is this three-twenty-one?” “No,” I told her, in a voice I […]

Ottawa University’s an­nual student yearbook The Ottawan is one of many of the college yearbooks undergoing changes this year. While the majority of col­lege yearbooks in Kansas have gone out of print and into an exclusively digital realm, The Ottawan re­mained one of the state’s last yearbooks made avail­able in […]