Friday, March 5, 2021
Director’s cut OSU transitioning from Holder to Weiberg as AD By Grant Ramirez Oklahoma State had a completely different feel before Mike Holder. There wasn’t a proper football stadium. Lewis Field was the home of OSU football. It had a battered set of stands on both sides of the turf and was a glorified high school stadium with bigger capacity. Cowgirl soccer played in front of one standard set of metal bleachers. The men’s and women’s tennis teams played at the Colvin Recreation Center, just like any other student. Over the last 16 years, the entire landscape of OSU athletics has changed. With t See Director’s on pg. 3A
Joshua Cleary OSU athletic director Mike Holder will become athletic director emeritus, pending approval from the board of regents.
Power in her movement Newly crowned Miss Black OSU looks forward to persuing platform
Sheyenne Mitchell-Brown
After months of work, she did it. Becka Cammon was crowned Miss Black Oklahoma State University of 2021 last Saturday. This was her first pageant and not something she had in mind until her roommate, Miss Black OSU 2020 Keona Tidwell, told her she should give it a shot. “I actually didn’t understand the point of [pageants],” Cammon said. “It was hard work, but it was fun in the end.” Winning was not a surprise for her, but surreal nonetheless, she said. As the pageant went on Cammon and second-place winner, Cayden Ward, were neck and neck, the first place position could go to either one of them. When the winners were announced, Cammon’s name was called first. Cammon was “trying not to pass out”-- her mind lost in the moment-- and she assumed she had lost since her name was called first. But she soon realized that was not the case. She had won the title of Miss
Becka Cammon is the 2021 winner of Miss Black OSU.
Black OSU. There to celebrate with her was her dad, stepmom, childhood best friend, and grade school counselor who
had been a mentor to Cammon. Her dad is the main inspiration for the platform she seeks to promote with her new title.
Alicia Young
Her platform: single parenthood in the Black community. Cammon is one of four children all raised by their father in Gar-
dena, California. The hardest part of being raised by a single parent, Cammon said, is the financial burden it can cause. Her dad did his best to give them the best childhood possible, and Cammon and her brothers got to participate in many extracurricular activities growing up. Those fond memories were not without a price tag, of course. Single-parent families are all too common in the Black community, Cammon said. And she wants to do her best to make a difference in people’s lives while also raising awareness. By Fall 2021, Cammon plans to have a series of events in motion to spread awareness and support for single-parent homes. To do this, Cammon wants to organize a panel full of members of single-parent families to have them explain what it’s like and to give advice. She also wants to put together a drive where people can donate common items that single-parent households need. Her goal is to shed new light on how people view single parenthood. “People make it See Power on pg. 4A