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“So what is all the construction for?”

By BRANDON HAVENS Staff Reporter Oklahoma State University’s most iconic building has a new look. Scaffolding around the Edmon Low Library bell tower was recently added for maintenance work to be completed over the summer.

The library tower is just one small project amid a booming construction period for OSU. There are currently six construction sites on campus, contributing to more than $100 million in total construction costs. The new Spears School of Business building, Human Sciences addition, University Commons, Atherton Hotel, Student Union parking garage and the Veterinary Hospital Academic Center addition are all under construction of some degree.

The University Commons, north of Hall of Fame Avenue, is set to replace the 48-year-old KerrDrummond Residence Hall. With its construction ending this August, the 1,300-room residence hall will become the new hub for students living on campus. The university spent $65 million on the new living area and plans to build a dining option nearby.

The new Spears School of Business is a $75 million project incorporating 145,000 square feet of new facilities. The new building is set to open in 2018, but a three-year construction site seems like a hindrance to that area of campus.

Dean for the Spears School of Business, Ken Eastman, said that after work on Morrill Avenue,

This rendering of the new Spears School of Business building projects a whole new look to the east side of campus.

just south of the current business building, is finished, the area around the site will be easier to navigate.

“The next three years of construction will create some challenges for us as the new building will go up just to the north of our existing building,” Eastman said. “I am confident that OSU Long Range Planning and Manhattan Construction will do all they can to minimize the disruption.”

In the meantime, Morrill Avenue will be closed until repairs are finished.

On the other side of campus, the College of Human Sciences is in the middle of construction for its 76,700 square foot addition. The new wing is set to open in the fall of 2016. The new building will stand where a staff parking lot

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The new University Commons is slated to open in the fall of 2015.

was previously, creating questions about the already limited parking situation on campus.

Staci Gravette, a junior at OSU, sees the need for the new facilities but is frustrated with the university’s

current amount of parking spaces.

“I think the new buildings on campus will be great, but I don’t see new parking lots being built to alleviate the parking congestion.”

The Student Union is also

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getting an upgrade. The Atherton Hotel, connected to the Union, is under complete renovation, along with the adjacent Student Union parking garage. The garage is being renovated to make way for an addi-

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tion to the Atherton, which will include a relocated lobby and additional outside garden seating for the Rancher’s Club.

An estimated $35 million from the university is being divided among the completion of the Atherton renovations, parking garage, and a new wing for the Veterinary Medical Hospital Academic Center.

This boom in construction goes hand-in-hand with recent strides by the university to maintain and grow OSU’s reputation as an elite state university.

In December of 2014, OSU’s “Branding Success” campaign, which aimed to raise $1 billion, was completed successfully with over $1.2 billion raised.

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Construction: Over $100 million is being spent to enhance osu’s facilities across campus.

From Page 2 Many of the new facilities being constructed received funds from the campaign, including the new business building, Human Sciences addition and the recently completed Michael and Ann Greenwood Tennis Center.

President Burns Hargis said these changes are important for the future of OSU. “I have often said that facilities don’t transform things, people do,” Hargis said, “but faculty and students need proper facilities to succeed.”

The university has also announced plans for a 600-space parking garage, a new $37 million baseball stadium and a new $60 million performing arts center that the Oklahoma State family has to look forward to in the coming years. news@ocolly.com

The upcoming expansion to the Human Sciences building will add 76,700 square feet in the new wing.

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Cowgirl shines on international turf

By MARK TRAVIS Staff Contributor For most students, final exams are one last hurdle before it’s time to take off on a summer vacation, settle down for an important internship or even just get back home for some of momma’s cooking.

For Oklahoma State sophomore Courtney Dike, however, final exams wouldn’t be the last stop before some much deserved time off. Instead, packing up her bags and bidding farewell to Stillwater for the summer meant it was time for her to work harder than ever before.

Why? Because the chance to cement her name in soccer lore by suiting up in a World Cup had presented itself. Dike traded her swimsuit for a pair of cleats and booked a flight to Abuja, Nigeria, for the biggest challenge of her soccer career.

It all started last June on an otherwise innocuous summer afternoon at the Dike household. Courtney Dike sat in her living room, enjoying a condensed summer break before it was time to get back to Stillwater for summer school and offseason training with her Cowgirl teammates.

But Courtney’s summer plans changed in an instant.

Soon after checking a notification on her phone, Courtney would cancel her summer classes, her offseason workouts would be relocated from Stillwater to Nigeria and her life would change forever.

“It was a random email just out of the blue,” Dike

Courtney Dike (17) dribbles by Missouri State players Erin Stewart (5) and Alix Opfer (2) in a 2013 matchup.

says.

This wasn’t like a college application letter where you send in your form and expect to get a reply either way. Dike didn’t know if she would ever hear from the Nigerian Football Federation. As a dual-citizen of the United States and Nigeria, it is up to Dike to decide which nation to represent as a footballer, and after placing some calls and sending off some tape, she was merely waiting for

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an opportunity to present itself.

And that’s exactly what found its way into Dike’s inbox on that unspectacular summer afternoon: An opportunity.

Dike had received a message inviting her to camp with Nigeria’s Under-20 Women’s National Team, otherwise known as the Falconets. With a strong performance in camp, Dike could secure a spot on the roster for the 2014 FIFA

U-20 Women’s World Cup, which took place in Canada last August.

“It was signed by the secretary of FIFA,” Dike said of the formal invitation. “So it is pretty special to me.”

It’s not often that trying out for one’s national team involves going to a land that they’d consider foreign, but that was the case for Dike.

As someone who grew up in Edmond, Oklahoma, a massive uptick in the quality of her competition

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wasn’t the only thing she was dealing with in Nigeria.

She was also going through a bit of a culture shock.

“It was just a different setting,” Dike said. “I was a foreigner when I went up there. It was a different perspective for me, and I learned a lot from it.”

Although she would have listened if the United States Soccer Federation came calling, once she had gone through the camp, it was immediately obvious to

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Dike that competing for Nigeria just felt right.

“Looking back, I’m so happy that I got the opportunity to represent Nigeria,” Dike said. “I was exposed more to my culture and exposed to things that my parents had explained to me when I was a kid. I actually got to experience that for myself when I got up there.”

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Dike: “It was something I’ll never forget.”

From Page 4 Within a month, Dike had gone from her couch to earning the title of Falconet.

“I got to play with some of the best players that I have ever seen,” Dike said. “It was a dream come true to play for the national team. It’s what every player wants to do. That’s their goal at the end of their career, and I still can’t believe it really happened.”

Dike’s selection wasn’t just a token one, either. She played in all six matches for Nigeria on their run to a second-place finish, scoring two goals for the Falconets.

One of which was the single fastest goal in tournament history, scored 18 seconds into Nigeria’s group stage match against the Korean Republic.

Dike spent last summer getting familiar with a culture that was previously obscure to her. And as it turns out, she wasn’t the only one that enjoyed her time with the

Nigerian National Team.

This past February, Dike received another invitation from the Nigerian Football Federation, this one inviting her to training camp in Abuja to compete for a spot on the senior national team for the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Following her impressive debut performance for the Falconets last summer at FIFA’s U-20 Women’s World Cup, Dike had earned the attention and the respect of the senior national team, and she’s even a quasi-celebrity in her adopted homeland of Nigeria. In May there was a headline in the country’s top newspaper about her arriving in the nation’s capital to begin training, and she was even nominated for the award given to the country’s top female footballer of the year.

But Dike’s precious World Cup spot wasn’t sealed the moment she arrived in Abuja; she still had to survive two rounds of cuts, the final one came once the team arrived in Canada.

Fully aware there was a chance she’d end up being a spectator after the final roster was submitted, Dike trained as harder than ever and found her way into the World Cup just over a year after she was first invited to be a Nigerian international.

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Courtney Dike outruns Florida State’s Isabella Schmid.

“Just saying that is crazy,” Dike said. “Who would have thought this would happen two years ago? I didn’t even know that I would make the U-20 team, so to say that I played in the World Cup, it’s just unbelievable.”

Dike said that simply arriving in Canada with the team and being greeted by a group of loud and vivacious Nigerian supporters was enough to make her think she was dreaming.

“From the first day when we got to Winnipeg and got off the plane, I thought to myself ‘Is this real?’” Dike said.

Just being on the roster for a World Cup would mark the most significant achievement of many soccer players’ lives, especially for someone like Dike who is still two

years away from graduating college. But Dike was an active participant during the group stage, playing in two of the Falconets’ three matches before they were eliminated. Dike was subbed in 84 minutes into Nigeria’s 2-0 defeat against Australia when the moment came that

Dike will remember for the rest of her life.

In a twist of fate that would be too good to believe even in Hollywood, Dike woke up the morning of Nigeria’s match against the United States and saw her name in the Starting XI. “Just getting to be on the same field as some of the best players in the world was surreal,” Dike said. “To be able to shake their hands before the game. It was something I’ll never forget.”

So there Dike was, standing at the center of the pitch while both the American and Nigerian national anthems played, filled with pride for both of her countries as she took the field for the biggest game of her life.

The United States would prevail 1-0 and advance to the knockout rounds, but not after a tough fight with a Nigerian team that showed a

ton of spirit during its World Cup appearance.

After two summers and two World Cups (one at the junior level and one at the senior level), it’s safe to say that Dike has immersed herself in Nigerian football culture.

And while this is likely only the beginning of a long and fruitful international career for Dike, she knows that the next step in her footballing journey is to bring her international experience to Stillwater and to put together a resume with the Cowgirls that rivals her accolades with Nigeria.

“This is a great start for me,” Dike said of her burgeoning soccer career. “This has been such a great experience, and I am really looking forward to taking what I’ve learned with Nigeria to OSU.” news@ocolly.com

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Co-Editor-in-Chief Stillwater has well-established pizza restaurants that have been staples to the community for years, like The Hideaway. Recently, Stillwater has gained two new pizza eateries, Pie Five Pizza Company and Marco’s Pizza. As a longtime Stillwater resident, I really enjoy getting new restaurants, especially when it comes to pizza. I went and tried both, so here are my thoughts on the newest pizzerias in town.

When it comes to how they operate, Pie Five is easily comparable to Subway as you order the pizza as you move down a line to the register. It’s located off of Perkins Road, and is attached to another new restaurant, Noodles & Company.

As I walked into Pie Five, I was welcomed with a list of ingredients to create my own personalized pizza. The options ranged from a crust selection, to sauces, to the toppings of the pizza itself. I felt like a mad scientist creating a pizza that fit exactly what I wanted.

However, there were also a variety of menu options I could choose from that wouldn’t require any thought to put the pizza together. These could be used to create your own variations of those pizzas.

The options are endless at Pie Five, which allow for creativity in constructing a pizza.

If you choose to create your own pizza or order a pizza from the menu, it’s the same price. That’s a rarity in restaurants today and I really enjoyed the option of making my own pizza without it

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Trust me, it tastes as good as it looks.

costing more. The pizzas are individually sized, so putting whatever you want on it doesn’t affect anyone else.

Pie Five doesn’t only offer pizza, though. They offer side salads that are made fresh and served in a pizza crust bowl. Again, there’s freedom to choose what you want on the salad or the choice to pick from salads on the menu.

My experience was very positive at Pie Five and I will continue to eat there.

Marco’s Pizza was another positive experience for me as well.

Marco’s is a more traditional pizzeria. However, there isn’t an option to eat at the restaurant and I’m perfectly OK with that. I ordered my pizza online, which was easy, efficient and friendly to use.

There are four size options at Marco’s: Small, medium, large and extra large. There are three crust options for sizes small through large; thin, original and thick crust.

I ordered with two other friends and we decided on the “Meat Supremo,” which is an all-meat pizza, with original crust. There were other options on the menu for pizza and, of course, a build your own pizza option.

I also got a deal online that

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included cheesy bread with the pizza. It brought the total to about $18, which isn’t bad for pizza. We ordered a large and that was plenty for three people.

I went and picked up the pizza from Marco’s on 523 W. 6th Ave, which is close to Wendy’s. The outside of the store is nice and new, but the inside is even better. The inside is redone so it has a different feel than walking into a Pizza Hut or Domino’s.

My experience inside Marco’s was great, and getting the pizza was simple.

Now, let’s talk about the pizza quality itself.

Normally, the pizza can be greasy and unappealing to eat, however, opening the box made me even hungrier.

The all-meat pizza was hot and fresh, the bacon was crispy and the crust was especially good.

I enjoyed the cheesy bread as well because it was more than just melted cheese and bread. Marco’s adds Parmesan and Roma seasonings to the top, giving it extra flavor.

Overall, both Pie Five and Marco’s Pizza are great new options for pizza eateries in Stillwater. I would highly suggest both to anyone who is a pizza enthusiast. digital.ed@ocolly.com PAGE 8