Monday, February 15, 2021
What’s the game plan? Maddison Farris A recent email from OSU messaging services has confirmed that classes will be held virtually on Monday. “Due to extreme winter weather conditions, Oklahoma State University’s Stillwater campus is moving to a virtual campus for Monday, Feb. 15 and Tuesday, Feb. 16.” said the email. It was also expressed that continued online class delivery is a strong possibility. It has also been confirmed that the campus will be closed, and faculty services will be distributed virtually. On-campus convenient stores and restaurants are ex-
pected to have limited hours and reduced operation time. Oklahoma State students have reported professors already either canceling or moving classes online. Whether to hold classes or not during this expectedly record-breaking snow is up to the individual professors. The past year has given Oklahoma State the ability to be a step ahead of bad weather, as they are able to almost seamlessly transfer to the online deliverance of many courses. “The flexibility of a virtual campus model will be the OSU standard protocol going forward for all inclement weather days,” said the newsletter. Students are encouraged to be diligent about checking their email, both school email and canvas email, to be updated on individual class plans.
Joshua Cleary Students are urged to stay off of Theta Pond as some areas of the ice may be thin and dangerous to walk or skate on.
Professors are urged to be communicative and responsive to students as classes are moved or canceled. If you are unable to join a zoom class or attend a virtual lecture due to a power outage or inadequate internet connection, do
your best to communicate this to your professors. The university has offered many tips for weathering this weather such as ensuring that your gas tank is as full as possible when driving, making sure to
drink warm beverages, making sure all areas of skin are covered if you must go outside and downloading the Rave Guardian app in case you are in need of help. news.ed@ocolly.com
Starting off strong
Ryan Breeden This one was never really in question from the beginning. Well, except for the fiveminute span when it was.
Oklahoma State took a commanding 35-19 lead into the half against conference cellar-dweller Kansas State, but then things got interesting. K-State went on a 16-0 run near the beginning of the second half to cut the Cowboy lead to four. But just as things were looking down, Cade Cunningham and company flipped a switch. “The run started from a
lack of continuing to be dialed in defensively,” coach Mike Boynton said. “We let our guard down on the defensive end, and they got the best shots in that 16-0 run. We started to get a little bit better execution offensively, and then we got some stops again, so that is what really led to it.” Cunningham hit a three, Kalib Boone had a dunk and Ferron Flavors Jr. hit his third three of the game to push the
lead back to 12 in the blink of an eye. OSU attempted 28 3-pointers today, a season high. They weren’t forced though, they were given. The Wildcats played a 2-3 zone with a big emphasis on inside defense, which left Cowboy guards open on the perimeter. “I feel like none of our See Starting on pg. 4
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What is herd immunity? Jennifer Rudd answers common questions on herd immunity By Dru Norton
What is your official title? “(Jennifer Rudd, DVM, PhD, DACVM) I am an assistant professor in the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology at the College of Veterinary Medicine. I am a licensed veterinarian, and my primary job is teaching infectious diseases to veterinary students and research, including research in pandemic influenza and COVID-19.”
What exactly is herd immunity? “It’s the threshold of protective immunity required in a population of people to greatly reduce the spread of a virus. Essentially, we need ways to prevent infected people from spreading that infection to others who will become sick when exposed. We build protective immunity in a population through both natural infections as well as vaccinations, however, vaccination is the ethical and safer way to achieve that threshold.”
How does it help prevent the spread of Covid-19? “Imagine 10 people in a room – let’s say one of those people is sick and whenever they cough or sneeze, they “shed” some virus around them. If the other nine people have no immune protection, then there is a high probability that several will get sick, especially with a virus that is so contagious! But if eight of those people have been vaccinated or previously infected and have immune protection, then the likelihood of the virus spreading is greatly reduced. Even with one fully vulnerable person in that room, the sick person may not even get around to talking to them. This is how these roadblocks to spread are created.”
Do you feel students should receive the Covid-19 vaccine when it eventually becomes available to them? “There are very few instances in which someone should not receive the vaccine. So absolutely – the vast majority of students should plan to receive the vaccine
Courtesy of Jennifer Rudd Licensed veterinarian and infectious disease educator, Jennifer Rudd has done and produced important research regarding influenza and COVID-19.
as soon as they’re eligible to do so, regardless of whether or not they’ve already had COVID-19 in the past. These vaccines are incredibly effective at preventing hospitalization and death from infection. They are science at its best and getting vaccinated when eligible is critical to putting this pandemic behind us.”
Do you feel confident the vaccine is safe for most people? “I do. These vaccines were developed in record time, but that was able to occur because the world funneled resources into these trials and used companies that have a strong record in vaccine design and production. The phases were streamlined to focus on a very specific question: Does vaccination prevent moderate to severe disease? It does this very well. These trials enrolled the same number of people as are in most vaccine trials. And the vast majority of adverse effects from vaccination occur within 6 weeks of the second dose. These trials carried 8 weeks past the second dose with remarkable safety. There is very
little concern for long-term effects because the mRNA in these vaccines is broken down very quickly as well as the proteins our bodies make from the mRNA. The ingredients are simple: mRNA (which is something we all have in our bodies already in some form), lipids (fats), salt, and sugars. Nothing crazy there. The chances of a severe reaction to a vaccine is roughly 10 per 1 million doses administered. In contrast, the chances of being hospitalized with COVID-19 is about 35-40,000 per 1 million cases. Your chance of dying from COVID-19 is about 15-20,000 per 1 million cases. Vaccination is hands down the safest and most ethical way to achieve herd immunity.”
With your background in disease research, do you notice anything different about Covid-19 from other diseases? “As a veterinarian, we see a lot of coronaviruses in many species. For the virus itself, there are a lot more similarities than differences. However, the rapid spread around the globe has been alarming. Our
public health mitigation efforts have vastly reduced our regular flu season, RSV, parainfluenza and so many other winter viruses. And yet, COVID-19 continued to rage through the last few months. What a contagious disease! Imagine if we had not been masking or distancing like we have – how much worse could it have been? We have got to take this seriously.”
How long do you predict it will take to get back to a “normal” way of life? “I’m not sure we should return to how things were before. We have hopefully learned so many lessons from this pandemic to help us prevent this in the future. But I do believe that over this summer we will steadily move towards a new normal that feels more sustainable. And I sincerely hope that this fall semester at OSU will allow for the return of interactive, inperson learning that so many of us know and love.” news.ed@ocolly.com
Lifestyle
Comedy Night Drew Lynch brings laughter OSU By Ellen Slater Everyone knows that laughter is the best medicine, but OSU’s Student Art Alliance and the Student Union Activities Board started planning comedian Drew Lynch’s night on campus months before they knew it would be one of the few events that would actually still happen during an ongoing pandemic. OSU’s Student Art Alliance and the Student Union Activities Board worked side-by-side to put on Comedy Night, where well-known comedian Drew Lynch performed for the OSU community. Lynch has traveled all around the country making people laugh. He got his start on the television series America’s Got Talent, where he got second place. The Student Union Activities Board Talent Director Megyn Lamoni, as well as other OSU students, have worked hard to make this event happen safely for all students. “We have brought comedians to campus before but none is as well known as
Drew Lynch so we were extremely excited to combine our resources to host a larger comedy event,” Lamoni said. When the pandemic hit, the students and faculty in charge of this event made sure that they would make it a priority to still happen. It was going to be inside, then turned into a drive-in movie style event, and then transitioned once again into an inside event. A large part of the audience tuned in online through live stream. According to Kayla Loper, the manager who advises the Students Arts Alliance, they had a goal of this being fun, funny and affordable. This was originally supposed to be one event of a series about accessibility, but it is one of the only ones that were still able to happen. “[Lynch] is known for his comedy about his stutter and his service animal, Stella,” Loper said. The comedian has over 2 million subscribers on Youtube, so if anyone could not make it to the event, his social media presence is definitely easy to find. Courtesy of @saa_okstate on Instagram
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Humans of OSU: Claire Reader
By Ellen Slater “Long story short, I fly planes and hope to continue flying planes till I am forced to retire. I am an aerospace administration operation with the professional pilot concentration. [I have not known that I wanted that be my field] for very long
actually. I first became interested in it probably about two years ago. I was in high school and did not know what I wanted to do. I knew that no matter what I decided to do I would make the best of it but there was nothing that really called out my name and I ended up going to lunch with a
get a little bit of an ego boost from that too. As of right now, women make up about 7% of the aviation industry, on the pilot side, I believe. So there is a big push right now to get more women involved in aviation, especially on the pilot side. I am really happy to be a part of that. There is an organization on campus called “Women in Aviation” and it is just one chapter of many. It is an International Organization and they
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focus a lot on empowering girls and providing them with resources and scholarships to become pilots and pursue careers in aviation. There are some really excellent resources that I have been exposed to since joining. It’s definitely a community that is needed.” Claire Reader, aerospace administration operation freshman. entertainment.ed@ocolly.com
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friend who was a little bit older than me and in-flight school, at a different school, and she was telling me about how much she loved it and it kind of lit the spark. She kept talking about it and I just had more and more questions, I hadn’t really been interested in something like this in a long time, so I took it as a good sign. She told me to go do a discovery flight and I did one and being in the pane as we took off I had never done anything like it and I was immediately hooked. My favorite part about being a pilot is still to this day taking off, there is no feeling like it. I also get pretty cool looks when I tell people that I am a pilot. They go, “Oh, that’s badass! That’s so cool that you are a girl pilot.” So, I
forced to retire.
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But despite having an offensive impact, the majority of his impact is felt on the defensive end. In the win against the Wildcats, Walker had only three steals, but deflected many other passes and clamped down Kansas State shooters. “I think it’s pretty evident when you look at the stat sheet,” coach Mike Boynton said. “He got six rebounds, three steals, 10 points, he made his free throw. He plays the same whether he starts and plays 40 minutes or he comes off the bench and plays 15. He’s just going to be a really, really good player. He brings great energy. He’s really, really focused on helping us defensively as much as possible, and I thought him and Avery Anderson III really set the tone for us today.”
threes were really forced,” Rondel Walker said. “All of them were pretty wide open. So we were just playing within our offense and playing at a high level today. That was the shots we took. So we’ll live with them.” Isaac Likekele did not play today because of his lingering foot injury, but the other guards stepped in and shouldered the load. Rondel Walker started in place of Likekele and he finished with 10 points, three steals and a flashy assist on a SC top-10 candidate alley-oop to Cunningham, who put K-State’s Rudi Williams on a poster. “I didn’t really care if he made or missed it, I was throwing it regardless,” Walker said. “I threw it up, and he made the play. I know it’s probably on Twitter somewhere.” Cunningham finished with 15, Williams had 10, eight of them consecutively midway through the first half. Walker also had 10, Avery Anderson III added eight and Flavors had nine. After the Cowboys countered the Wildcats’ run with one of their own, they pretty firmly held their lead the rest of the way, winning 67-60. This was the beginning of a crucial sevengame closing stretch for OSU, and it started off the right way. “We’ve got a seven-game series right now, and we’re 1-0,” Walker said. “That’s our focus the next couple days. Take care of business at home then we’ll go from there after that.”
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Stealing and dealing With junior point guard Isaac Likekele only available in an emergency capacity due to a foot injury, freshman spark plug Walker was tabbed as a starter for By Chris Becker Saturday’s matchup against Kansas State. With 6:21 left in the Walker made the most first half and with Oklaof the opportunity, scoring homa State trying to build 10 points to pair with those onto an eight-point lead, three steals. He also had six Rondel Walker played rebounds and a block in the cornerback and picked off a 67-60 OSU win. Mike McGuirl pass. “I just felt like it was Walker drove down the another day, there really court with fellow freshman was no difference,” Walker Cade Cunningham trailing said. “My job today was to him. As Walker neared the come in and get the spark Cowboys basket, a Kansas immediately and not off the State defender closed in on bench. I took it just as anhim, so he tossed it up to other day and just did what Cunningham, who put Kan- I could to help the team.” sas State’s Rudy Williams Walker has been a key on a poster for an and-one contributor to the Cowboys dunk. all season off of the bench. This was just one of Coming into the game, three steals Walker had in Walker was averaging 9.2 key moments for the Cowpoints and 24.6 minutes per boys in his first career start. game.
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An assisting system
By Sam Hutchens Nefertali Notoa received the pass while toeing the 3-point line with ample time to shoot. Although she had been shooting it well of late and finished the game shooting 50% from deep, the
freshman guard passed up the wide-open look. With the way the Cowgirls were playing, it was a great decision. Notoa pump faked and passed back to point guard Ja’Mee Asberry, who subsequently swung the ball to Micah Dennis. The Canadian sophomore then fed her teammate, Kassidy De Lapp, who had fought for good post position. De Lapp drew a pair of defenders and quickly funneled the ball to the player
whose selflessness had set everything up — Notoa. Notoa scored the basket, helping Oklahoma State commandeer an 81-66 win over Texas Tech on Saturday in Lubbock. The jumper made by Notoa was one of many scores set up by selfless OSU offense. The Cowgirls assisted on 19 of their 30 made baskets. They had 11 assists in the first half — two shy of OSU’s game total against Texas last time out. “It was a solid ballgame,”
coach Jim Littell said. “To shoot 50% from the floor, 55 (percent) from three and only turn the ball over nine times… solid, solid win. I’m proud of our group.” The two main contributors to OSU’s 19:9 assist-toturnover ratio were Asberry and sophomore guard Lauren Fields. The pair cooked up 13 combined assists and committed just one turnover on the day — a recipe any coach will take. Combining that with good defensive effort and 38 points made for an extremely effective duo. “They played both ends of the floor,” Littell said. “Lo did an outstanding job on the defensive end. Ja’Mee has played well all year. Her assist to turnover ratio has been great.” The selfless offensive mindset led to the Cowgirls scoring in the 80s for the fifth time this season. Their approach led to getting open shots consistently. Their efficient shooting went a long way toward closing out the long road trip with a win and making the 7-9 hour bus ride back home a little more enjoyable. “If you shoot 45% or above (from the field), you’ve had a good night,” Littell said. “But to go and do it on the road makes it a little bit more special.” sports.ed@ocolly.com
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LET THE PEOPLES PRAISE YOU, O GOD! Let the peoples praise you, O God; Let all the people praise you. Then the earth shall yield her increase; God, our own God, shall blessed us. God shall bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.” (Ps.67:5-7) Praise and thanksgiving are amazing actions when pertaining to God. It is so easy to think on the negative things of life; to dwell on the things that seem to be wrong in our personal life or in the world. The Bible continually points us to God and his ways, and encourages us to trust him and take him at his promises. We are even told to rejoice in our weaknesses that his power might be in our lives. (2 Co.12:9) This was the same challenge to those who walked with God before us, who trusted God and saw him work in so many ways. The
challenge is to trust God with all our hearts. I remember, years ago, that someone challenged me “Praise in faith at work.” Praise and thanksgiving are the practical ways of expressing our faith. An older minister shared some insight that seemed so simple at the time. I had asked him; “When you have a problem and you cannot figure out an answer or you have a question in the Bible and the solution seems to escape you, what do you do?” I was expecting some complicated answer. He said, “I shut my Bible, go to some quiet place and worship and praise the Lord.” In a church service, years ago, someone shared something that I have been reminded of many times. “You will come through a trial much faster if you will truly praise the Lord.”
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Daily Horoscope Nancy Black Tribune Content Agency Linda Black Horoscopes Today’s Birthday (02/15/21). Develop your personal passions this year. Steady, consistent action realizes dreams. Develop lucrative long-term plans. Community matters turn a corner this spring, setting the stage for summer fun and romance. Complete a renovation or relocation next winter, for joyful celebrations. Shine your light. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 9 — All systems go! An
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