OCU is hosting a tent at Open Streets again this year and students are invited to attend or volunteer.
Construction begins on soccer teams’ locker rooms
The locker rooms are under construction at the southeast corner of Stars Field near the current visitors’ bleachers. The two-story building will contain 48 lockers.
Religious snake-handling play set to perform
The next show on campus illustrates unsophisticated people dealing with an emotional crisis. Holy Ghosts follows a cult of Pentecostal snake handlers.
SAC to host Big Event in Boat House District
The Student Activities Council announced this year’s Big Event will be hosted in the Boat House district.
Play set in courtroom to be performed at law school
TheatreOCU presents “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.” The play takes place in a space between Heaven and Hell with no set time.
Broadway star, alumna to perform at theater fundraiser
Alumna and Tony Award-winning Broadway star Kelli O’Hara will perform at a fundraiser hosted by OCU for the Meyers Theater for Young Audiences.
Bilingual opera tells story of magical romance fairy tale
A beautiful princess is trapped by a powerful ruler, a brave prince along with his goofy sidekick take on a great journey and a wicked queen tries to lure the hero into evil in the Bass School of Music’s next opera, The Magic Flute.
Student Senate votes to redistribute seats
Student Senate passed a vote to redistribute the seats of student senators last week.
Coproduction adapts dystopian novel to stage
TheatreOCU presents “The Giver,” based off of the book by Lois Lowry, will use sets and costumes in black and white to represent a colorless world.
Library staff to host after-hours game night for students
The Dulaney-Browne Library will open its doors after hours for students to use the space to play games with their friends.
New show replaces traditional holiday performances
This holiday season the School of Theater will not perform one of its traditional Christmas plays but a new show instead. In past years the school preformed A Christmas Carol or It’s a Wonderful Life, but this year they are scheduled to perform The Man who came to Dinner. “We have done Christmas Carol and…
Students to showcase knowledge through poster contest
Students have the opportunity to showcase knowledge and a chance to win cash prizes at the annual undergraduate research poster contest. The contest is open to all undergraduate students, and entries can cover any topic. The work must be original and completed during the current academic year, in class or individually. Students can submit a…
Film school undergoes renovations
Renovations are underway in the School of Moving Image Arts’s new location. The film school grew out of its old location and recently began revamping its new home in Dawson-Loeffler Science and Mathematics Center. The program was housed in the Children’s Theater. The film school will continue to use the Children’s Theater for storage and…
Two Bible studies offered
Two students recently began leading weekly Bible studies on campus. Joey Simpson and Melaina Riley, religion sophomores, are each leading student Bible studies once a week. The student led Bible study groups are new this year. Previous Wesley Center directors led Bible studies, but the Rev. Rodney Newman, director of religious life, said he hopes…
Honors students want to customize new space
The Honors Program is asking Honors students to submit ideas to paint their new space. The Honors Program moved into their new space in the first floor of the Gold Star Memorial Building at the beginning of August, after the School of Law moved to downtown Oklahoma City. The Honors Program previously did not have…
SGA renegotiates budget with law association
Student Government Association is renegotiating the financial relationship between them and the law school’s Student Bar Association. SGA received a budget cut this year, but allocated more money to Student Bar Association than in previous years. SGA passed its budget for the fall semester as $74,143 and allocated $32,576 to SBA. The budget for SGA…
Chapel goes ‘on the road’
Officials are experimenting with new locations for Chapel this semester and going “on the road” to give students a change of scenery. The location of the service will vary by week this semester, but typically Chapel is at 1 p.m. every Thursday in Bishop W. Angie Smith Chapel. Chapel will be hosted twice this month…
Former U.S. Ambassador answers questions on campus
A former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Egypt will be hosting a talk and Q&A on Sept. 1 about foreign policy and relations with the Middle East. Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer is currently a professor of Middle East Policies and studies at Princeton University. He served for four years as the U.S. ambassador to Egypt and…
Phi Mu moves into new home, completes Panhellenic Quadrangle
The OCU chapter of Phi Mu moved into their new meeting house during the summer, right in time for recruitment. The house is located in the building previously occupied by the Student Health Center, completing the Panhellenic Quadrangle alongside the existing three sorority houses. The chapter previously used the Cokesbury Court Clubhouse as a meeting…
Alternative gift market begins
Students of the Wimberly School of Religion have organized a way to give a gift that gives back with the alternative gift market this holiday season. Students can make a donation to Methodist charities, including Project Transformation, which provides kids with homework help and literacy instruction and the opportunity to support various charities around the world.
Autobiographical comedy ‘The Marriage of Bette and Boo’ opens
The theater school will perform their third Stage II of this semester, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, in two weeks. The show runs Nov. 20-23 in the Black Box Theater. Tickets are $5.
