Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Lights on Stillwater brings over 100 vendors to Boone Pickens Stadium Mallory Pool Staff Reporter OSU Student Government’s biggest programming and welcome event, Lights on Stillwater, returns Wednesday from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the north side of Boone Pickens Stadium. This annual event occurs on the first Wednesday of the semester and features over 100 vendors from campus organizations to local businesses to food trucks. The entrance fee is $1, a canned good or a menstrual product. The money and products that are raised will be donated to the Student Government Association’s Pete’s Pantry Network and the Red Pantry to support the campus and local community. Partners of the SGA will also benefit from the event such as Leadership & Campus Life and Our Daily Bread. McKenzie Woolley, a communications sciences and disorders major from Oklahoma City, is one of many transfer students that will attend. “As a transfer from OU, I feel like this is a great opportunity for people like myself to get equipped to campus,” Woolley said. “I think it’s not only a great opportunity to meet people, but it’s also an easy way to have access to all the organizations and witness involvement firsthand. A lot of people are super involved in high school and coming to college is a big transition. We always hear about how much campus has to offer, but without events like these it would be very hard to actually find a place to start.” Vendors will provide information and insight to attendees through free giveaways, promotional items and chat with them about ways to get involved with their organization. Woolley said she is excited to attend the event and meet new people while also exploring campus and learning new things about Stillwater. Lights on Stillwater has remained a popular campus event for years and the SGA is excited to put the event on for another year. For more information regarding Lights on Stillwater and the SGA, please visit sga.okstate.edu. news.ed@ocolly.com
Courtesy of DavisCordova11 on Twitter OSU men’s basketball coach Mike Boynton taking a first day of school picture with a student.
OSU coaches’ reasons for greeting and dancing with students
File photo Lights on Stillwater is an annual event hosted by SGA where vendors can set up booths outside Boone Pickens Stadium for students to view.
them, it comes somewhat easily. Monday at lunchtime, Boynton, OSU men’s basketball coach and Carmichael, OSU soccer coach, stood Ben Hutchens outside the Student Assistant Sports Union interacting Editor with students. The area bustled with Mike Boynton students enjoying and Colin Carmichael beautiful weather on weren’t always the first day of class comfortable standing and many walked in a busy public over to the coaches to area calling out to take pictures, shake strangers. hands or enlist help Now, after for a TikTok dance. around 40 years of coaching between See Coaches on page 5
“Conversations with Friends” book review Claire Hosterman Lifestyle Editor “Conversations with Friends”, by Sally Rooney, is a book about the complex and multidimensional relationships people make during adulthood. The book is from the perspective of Frances, a quiet girl studying poetry in Ireland. She spends most of her time with Bobbi, her best friend, but also her ex-lover. Together, they write and perform their poetry. At one of their performances, they meet Marissa, an established photographer, and her husband, Nick, an actor. These two couples form a friendship, and complicated relationships with each other ensue. This book touches on themes of self-confidence, self-esteem, sexuality and the complexity of love in relationships. Rooney is also the author of the popular novel, “Normal
People”, which follows the narrative of a girl’s perspective on her complicated relationship with a boy throughout their adolescence. Rooney’s protagonists seem to be characterized as introverted, young women who are insecure, especially in their relationships with men. The characters battle to become aware of their insecurities that feed their unhappiness. I found this book to be very relatable, as reading Frances’ thoughts about the people she loves and how those relationships affect her is something that I think many people in their late teens and early 20s can relate to. Many of us have been in situations where we like multiple people at one time, feel the repercussions of a lover’s manipulation and upset those who love us with our actions. At times this book could be a little too relatable, which caused me to put it down and take a break. The plot wasn’t as likable to me, compared to “Normal People”, though I think the writing was more raw and honest. I think Rooney does an excellent job at plainly describing the feelings of self-loathing, confusion and “Conversations with Friends” by Sally Rooney. impulsiveness that come along with some of the feelings I’ve had about my young relationships. It offered me comfort knowing that I wasn’t alone in own relationships and that other people can relate to those feelings.
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