Friday, October 7, 2022
Brooks takes Stillwater, take two
Abby Cage Co-Editor-in-Chief
team. OSU has been working to reschedule this opportunity for students and has set Oct. 25 as the day Garth returns. While at school, Brooks was on the track and field team throwing javelin for OSU. Brooks started out his music career playing evening spots at Willies Saloon and Tumbleweed on his nights off as a bouncer at Tumbleweed. Brooks spent time at Willies saloon dreaming about being as big as artists like Don McLean who sings “American Pie” or Billy Joel who sings “Piano Man.” “You ended the night at Willie’s with ‘Piano Man’ or ‘You Never Even Called Me by My Name’ or ‘American Pie’ and you think, ‘man, how cool would it be to be associated with one of these kind of songs?’” Brooks told The O’Colly.
Garth Brooks has always wanted to return to Stillwater, and now he is. Starting on Stillwater’s famous strip in Willies Saloon, Garth Brooks proved he had outgrown the humble town in Oklahoma and went on to be a number one recording artist in country music after his graduation in 1984. Almost 40 years after his graduation, he is coming back to OSU for a rescheduling of a Q&A mentorship seminar with aspiring musicians. This seminar was originally scheduled for March of this year, but was canceled due to inclimate weather and travel dangers for Brooks and his See Garth on 5A
Karlie Boothe Staff shortages put the OSU Boren Veterinary Medical Hospital in a position to reduce its emergency hours and drop two departments.
Emergency shortage Vet hospital battles staffing issues, emergency services
Adam Engel Co-Editor-in-Chief
Courtesy of OSU Communications Garth Brooks is returning to Stillwater for a mentorship Q&A session at The McKnight Center about the music industry.
Calling all veterinarians. OSU needs you. Pet owners need you. At the Boren Veterinary Medical Hospital, employees can’t save a pet’s life in the middle of the night. It’s 24-hour emergency room, once a major marketing point, died.
Mike Schoonover, the interim director of OSU’s vet hospital, and his team are low on support. The numbers are simply not there. The all-day service reduced to 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. about a year ago, Schoonover said. “In order for us to make sure that we’re gonna be able to provide the best care that we can for the patients that we actually see, we came to the conclusion that to do that, we’re gonna have to limit the number of emergencies that we could see,” he said. The shortages caused the hospital to drop its oncology and small animal internal medicine depart-
ments. Potential employees aren’t interested. There’s a difference between a private practice vet and one at a teaching hospital. Vets at a teaching hospital must balance research and teaching duties while private practice vets don’t have extra obligations. A lot of vets jump from teaching hospitals in favor of other opportunities. “We have not cut any positions,” Schoonover said. “We are advertising for positions in all of
See Shortage on 7A
Hurricane Ian puts college life on hold Bella Casey Staff Reporter
Riddle campus, accommodated the arrival of out of state linemen by allowing them to park their trucks at the speedway. The parking lots and roads Hurricane Ian brought surrounding campus were subcollege life to a halt for students merged in knee-deep water, conacross Florida. fining Daytona residents to their Ian’s 150mph winds and homes or apartments. large rain totally destroyed homes, “I tried to get out but I powerlines and trees. Campuscouldn’t drive out, so I had to be wide power outages and flooded brave,” Turner said. “I put some lecture rooms forced colleges to boots on and walked the streets. At cancel class, and in some cases, one point I just put on swim trunks.” advise students to evacuate. Power outages and flooding For many students, this was pushed Embry-Riddle to cancel all their first face-to-face encounter classes starting Sept. 28 and resume with a hurricane. classes on Oct. 3. “It was a crazy experience Not all students were satisfied just walking outside and feeling the wind and seeing the wind with how late Embry-Riddle chose break the trees in front of my to hold class. eyes,” Malik Turner, a junior at “I’m gonna be honest with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Uniyou, Monday and Tuesday, students’ versity, said. minds were not at it.” Turner said. The hurricane left Embry“People were already leaving that Riddle campus and the city of Tuesday.” Daytona, Florida, in disarray. As an aeronautical university, Campus palm trees suffered from Embry-Riddle is responsible for the high winds and one-story buildings were at risk for flooding. evacuating more than just students. Campus buildings and dorms lost All Diamond DA-42 planes were power. flown to Georgia to avoid the hurThe Daytona Speedway, ricane. located half a mile from EmbrySee Ian on 5A
Courtesy of Tribune Hurricane Ian severely damaged the road leading to the Matlacha bridge to Pine Island, preventing thousands of residents from Pine Island in Florida from returning to their homes after evacuation.