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The first Walkaround was established in 1966.

Homecoming the lifeblood of the OSU experience Kaelynn Knoernschild @kaelynn_k

80,000 people in attendance in recent years.

About 270 students are involved in the planning process.

Take a walk down Hester Street. You’ll see the painted road — loyalty and faith manifested.

Head out to the Walkaround. Slide your way through the crowd to see massive tissue paper murals — the Greek community’s devotion intricately displayed.

Get to the game. Scream until your throat stings.

Then take a step back.

Draw a deep breath. You might just feel something — a chill down your spine, a warmth in your heart.

It’s more than a temporary

feeling or lasting emotion.

It’s the execution of a grand idea: There’s no place like home.

Oklahoma State’s homecoming celebration didn’t earn its title — America’s Greatest — for the house decs, the orange fountain or the parade.

It earned it with the people, the pride and the passion.

FAMILY REUNION Events and customs that span generations continue to draw alumni, students and community members together to share memorable experiences.

For Rena Hines, an OSU alumna who graduated in 1988 with her degree in organizational administration,

‘Many have parades, but I don’t think anyone compares to the magnitude that we do for our homecoming.’

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OSU Homecoming serves as an annual family reunion.

Each year, Hines watches the homecoming parade with her family, which travels across the region to be a part of a tradition that began about 15 years ago.

“We realized there were a lot of family members coming to Stillwater,” Hines said. “We would see them on Main Street, we would gather with trucks backed up so we could all sit and watch the homecoming parade.

One year we said, ‘Let’s start having breakfast after the parade.’”

Ever since, the Hines family has claimed a spot between Ninth and 10th streetS. After the parade, the group of about 60 relatives heads to the Hines’ home for

a buffet-style brunch.

“I think it’s special because everyone comes together,” she said. “Other than family being our common denominator, OSU is a common denominator. It’s a time where we can get together and have fun with both things.”

THE EXPERIENCE OSU homecoming is a special experience that evokes feelings of nostalgia for alumni and allows current students to make unforgettable memories.

“Homecoming is a part of every OSU graduate’s life, no matter when they attended OSU,” university President Burns Hargis said. “For more than 90 years, Homecoming has been a major part of the OSU experience. It is a

In 2000, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education awarded its Gold Seal of Excellence to OSU for its homecoming celebration.

The award signified OSU’s homecoming as “America’s Greatest Homecoming Celebration” — a brand that the Alumni Association has incorporated into its homecoming promotion.

‘I love seeing that many alums, all different ages, all different backgrounds, from all over the country, coming together in a love for OSU.’ KYNDALL LEWIS, Campus Life executive

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grand and unique event thanks to the hard work of our students and the OSU Alumni Association. The size and scope of OSU’s weeklong celebration make it America’s Greatest Homecoming.”

The celebration stems from the Harvest Carnival, which launched in 1913. The event included a parade through downtown, a carnival and a football game. Over the years, the Harvest Carnival morphed into what is now known as “America’s Greatest Homecoming Celebration.”

The OSU alumni association hosted the first official homecoming celebration in 1920. In honor of homecoming, students began decorating the women’s dormitories, and in 1930, the first homecoming parade was held.

It extended for more than a mile.

Large parade floats were popular up until the mid 1960s when Walkaround was born.

The first Walkaround was in 1966. Visitors chose to “walk around” and admire house decs instead of cramming the streets with their vehicles.

Today, Walkaround is the most popular homecoming event at OSU.

More than 80,000 people have attended in recent years.

“It’s open streets, (so) there’s not a limit to how many people can come,” said Melisa Parkerson, director of student programs for the OSU Alumni Association.

“No matter your age, there is probably something for you to enjoy about it,” she said.

Gold Seal of Excellence to OSU for its homecoming celebration. The award signified OSU’s homecoming as “America’s Greatest Homecoming Celebration” — a brand that the Alumni Association has incorporated into its homecoming promotion.

“It’s not comparable to anywhere else; you can’t find homecoming like ours,” Parkerson said.

goes into it if you’re on the side of planning it.”

Each year about 270 students are involved in the planning process. They separate into three committees to manage the event.

Taylor Collins, steering executive director and construction management senior, said he spends about 20 hours a week on average preparing.

AMERICA’S GREATEST Other schools like University of Missouri and the University of Illinois share the same homecoming traditions as OSU. Mizzou’s homecoming encompasses many of the same events, like a large parade and house decs.

In addition, the Greek community performs skits, which accompany their house decs to entertain visitors.

“Many universities do a homecoming celebration, some of them even do house decorations kind of like ours,” Parkerson said. “... But I don’t think anyone compares to the magnitude that we do for our homecoming.”

In 2000, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education awarded its

Various student organizations make Homecoming signs.

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Behind the Scenes While homecoming serves as a proud reminder of steadfast tradition for alumni, the feat of organizing and preparing for the celebration is not small.

“It’s a learning experience for a lot of students,” Parkerson said. “A lot of people don’t realize the time management and project management that

He said his job can be tough if he fails to remind himself why he embraced the responsibility in the first place.

“My goal this year has been to be a part of homecoming for the right reasons,” Collins said. “In that, we’re here for our alumni, and what really makes homecoming happen is our students and how much

work they put into it. That’s where my mindset has been this year.”

With this year’s theme for homecoming being The Experience, Collins said the homecoming committee has encouraged OSU alums to share their memorable experiences during their time at OSU. He said alums have revealed all types of experiences from events like All Night Pomp to simply enjoying a walk around campus. Collins said meeting alums and hearing their stories has been the most rewarding experience since he began serving on the homecoming committee.

“This experience has grown to be home for me,” Collins said. “I think over the years, I’ve just been fortunate to be a part of something like this — something so much greater than myself.”

‘SO WORTH IT’ Kara Laster, a senior and steering public outreach executive, has bled orange since she was a child.

“I’ve grown up a really strong OSU fan,” Laster said. “Both my parents went to school here, so I’ve always had a love for the Cowboys. I remember coming to Walkaround

sometimes as a kid…but I didn’t really understand what was going on.

“Then as a freshman in college ... it was so cool to really see all that went into homecoming from the Greek perspective.”

Laster has served two years on the homecoming committee for Pi Beta Phi and said that it has been one of the best experiences during her time at OSU. “It’s been one of the most time-consuming things I’ve done in college so far, but it’s been so fun and so worth it,” Laster said.

She said she attributes the success of OSU’s trademark tradition to the university’s loyal fans.

“It’s always been an important part of OSU’s identity,” she said. “I just think that the loyalty that OSU fans possess is above and beyond other schools and so because we are so loyal, we are super committed to making homecoming bigger and better each year and something that is really special for alumni.” news@ocolly.com This is an abridged version. For the full story, visit ocolly. com/news

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Kevin Peterson is OSU’s only returning starter in the secondary.

The biggest reason for Kevin Peterson’s success as a football player isn’t his blazing speed, long arms, physical play style or competitive fire.

The reason Peterson — a junior and Oklahoma State’s top cornerback — seems to get better and better each game is rooted in his upbringing. As a person, he learned young that nothing is guaranteed. As an athlete, he’s seen what can happen when the future becomes more important than the present.

Peterson was OSU’s third corner as a freshman in 2012, when Cowboy junior Justin Gilbert was supposed to be a first-round pick.

Gilbert, by his own admittance, was overly worried about going to the NFL and struggled mightily. He

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had to return for his senior season. Then, refocused, Gilbert was a finalist for the Thorpe Award and went No. 8 overall to the Cleveland Browns.

“I use Justin as an example all the time,” Peterson said earlier this year. “So I know to stay hungry, stay humble.

It can all go away in a flash — or you can make your name in a flash.”

It can all go away in a flash…

On the field, Peterson saw it through Gilbert. Long before, he lived it.

‘IT WAS UNREAL’ When Hurricane Katrina rocked New Orleans on Aug. 28, 2005, there wasn’t so much as a cloud 200 miles away in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

The way Peterson, a fifthgrader at the time, knew of the destruction was from seeing the tragedy unfold on the news. Despite being so close, the fear felt far away.

That changed days later

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when the Lake Charles sheriff ’s department went doorto-door informing people of a mandatory evacuation.

Rita, Katrina’s sister in the most extreme Atlantic hurricane season on record, was barreling down the way, 175 mph winds and all. Kimberly Peterson sat down Kevin and his older brother, Tristan, and calmly told them what was happening.

They grabbed all they could: important papers, clothes, pictures and a PlayStation, then packed into the family’s Chrysler. A lasting regret: They might have been able to bring more.

“We planned on coming back,” Kimberly Peterson said. “We planned on coming back. But it didn’t happen.”

Kimberly Peterson and Tristan sat in front while Kevin was in charge of the family’s schnauzer, Buddy, in the back.

Because Kimberly Peterson had never driven on a long trip out of state before,

the kids had no choice but to help navigate. Peterson’s father, Kevin Peterson Sr., always drove. But this time there was a problem: Kevin Peterson Sr. was more than a month into working an extended construction job for his company in Kentucky.

On the way out of Lake Charles, cars stretched across the horizon. What normally would have been a nine- or 10-hour drive to Kimberly’s parents’ house in Wagoner, Oklahoma, turned into closer to 15. Peterson said it probably took three hours to get out of Lake Charles.

“I was young at the time,” Peterson said. “I really didn’t think anything of it. Looking back, it’s more scary.”

When the Petersons arrived in Wagoner, they awaited Kevin Peterson Sr., who flew in the day after Rita hit Lake Charles. He hadn’t seen his family in at least six weeks. After the traumatic move, Peterson See FLASH Page 6

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Painting the town orange takes a LOT of green Stetson Payne @OColly Oklahoma State University Homecoming is a celebration unlike any other in both scale and cost.

Not only is it just an expensive affair, it’s one of the most expensive student-led celebrations in the entire country.

As participants in the celebration, most only see the Harvest Carnival, the Walkaround on Greek

Row, house decs, tailgating, and of course, the football game. Behind all of those activities is an incredible workload — and an even greater amount of money.

“The OSU Alumni Association spends approximately $95,000 dollars annually on homecoming,” said Chase Carter, OSU Alumni Association Director of Communications.

But that does not include the salary and bonuses for the

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80,000 people expected to attend OSU’s homecoming

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Flash: peterson seems to improve each game because of his upbringing.

From Page 4 remembers it more as five months. He calls seeing his father again the best day of his life.

“I didn’t want him to leave again,” Peterson said. “He’s the rock of our family.”

More than a week later, Kevin Peterson Sr. headed down to see whether the house in Lake Charles was unscathed. His parents, who also lived in Lake Charles, had been lucky.

He wasn’t.

The Petersons’ threebedroom house with the big

fence in a quiet old military neighborhood was all but obliterated.

“It was unreal,” Kevin Peterson Sr. said. “In the neighborhood, you could tell the direction that the wind was blowing by looking at the houses. The house we lived in, the front half of the house, the roof was ripped off. The neighbor in front of me, it was the back part of his house that ripped off.

“His porch was in my front yard.”

Peterson’s trampoline ended up almost two blocks away in a tree. The Petersons’ big-screen TV had 1 ½ feet of water in it. Because of the rain and pressure, the blades on the living room ceiling fan drooped straight to the ground. The house was filled with mold.

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Once a hurricane refugee, Peterson is now a star at corner.

Peterson only saw it in pictures.

“It was crazy,” he said. “It was crazier to think about if we hadn’t evacuated.”

In that short time, Peterson’s life was changed forever, giving way to a ripple effect that started with trauma. It led to him becoming one of the best cornerbacks in the Big 12.

MAKING OF A STAR Kevin Peterson Sr. spent a combined 11 years in the Marine Reserves and active duty in the Army. Kimberly Peterson grew up an Army brat. Together, they decided they would raise their children to be cut from a different cloth.

“Everybody’s a hero when there’s no bullets flying,” Kevin Peterson Sr. said.

“When the bullets start flying in is when you find out what you’re made of. My kids have always responded.

They always have.”

Although no war hero, Peterson can provide plenty of examples of that perseverance his parents instilled in him.

The most significant?

When Peterson’s parents were stressed to the core, living in an apartment in Wagoner until the family could find a home and gets back on its feet, Peterson

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made the decision to grow up. That meant helping his mother whenever he could, even if only by being responsible beyond his years.

Peterson helped the family around the house more than ever and made it a point to stay out of trouble and keep his grades up. He would even cook dinner, usually something containing bacon, to take a load off the family.

“Whenever that happens, you have to take more of a maturity role,” Peterson said.

“You can’t have time to be a little kid anymore.”

It wasn’t long before Peterson’s athletic talents grew up, too.

Peterson started as a freshman for the varsity team at Wagoner High School. He went on to do enough to earn offers from Missouri, Arizona, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, among others.

Initially, Peterson was torn between OU and OSU. He had become an OSU fan and liked the atmosphere, but the Cowboys were stacked at corner with Gilbert, Broderick Brown and Devin Hedgepeth appearing to have a stranglehold on the position for years to come.

Peterson expected a call from OSU coaches that would let him know whether he would have an offer the

same day he took his official visit to OU. He never got a call, and because he had grown to like OU defensive backs coach Willie Martinez and defensive coordinator Brent Venables, he committed to the Sooners.

That changed the next week when Venables took the defensive coordinator job at Clemson, and Martinez resigned and later joined the staff at Auburn.

Suddenly, Peterson was backtracking. He went on an official visit to OSU shortly after, where a talk with Cowboys coach Mike Gundy altered his mindset. Turns out OU heavily recruited Gundy in the ’80s. He, too, nearly became a Sooner.

Instead, he went to OSU, became the Big Eight’s all-time leading passer and returned to become the most successful football coach in school history.

“Kevin, on his one-onone with Coach Gundy, hit it off better than anything,” Kevin Peterson Sr. said.

“Kevin was in the midst of the same storm.”

Gundy again convinced Peterson to come to OSU, but the Cowboys might have never offered if Hedgepeth, then a promising sophomore, had not torn his Achilles four games into the 2011 season, then reinjured it

while getting out of bed in December.

Peterson decided to flip his commitment.

When Hedgepeth injured his Achilles for a third time two games into the 2012 season, Peterson was thrown into notable playing time as a freshman.

Again, the result of a few small events drastically changing the course of a life.

CLEARING THE STORM Three years later, Kevin Peterson scans the field on a Thursday night game against Texas Tech. In apparent zone coverage, Peterson studied Tech quarterback Davis Webb’s eyes and broke inside, jumping to assist linebacker Josh Furman in breaking up a short curl to receiver Jakeem Grant.

Furman stepped in and deflected the ball with his right hand. The ball popped right into Peterson’s arms as he closed in, his first interception of the season.

It wasn’t one of the flashiest plays of Peterson’s career, but it was one defined by his attention to detail.

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Building a winning dec takes more than tissue paper Zach Baden @ZachBaden “America’s Greatest Homecoming” isn’t just a celebration; it’s a prestigious competition.

At least it is for Greek Life pairings, residence halls and student organizations.

Students fight for the sweepstakes trophy, which requires winning various competitions.

For fraternity and sorority pairings, the largest chunk of the points toward the ultimate trophy come from the house decorations, or decs.

Putting a dec together requires a group of students with numerous talents. It combines creative and artistic elements with engineer-

ing, welding and construction.

Madi Green, a member of Chi Omega and graphic design junior, uses the skills she learns in class.

She is one of two design directors. She creates the dec’s design and uses Photoshop to split it into sections. Then, the images run through software designed for stitching or crocheting.

The program assigns a symbol to each of the image’s pixels.

The symbol represents a color for a pomp, the small squares of tissue paper placed in chicken wire.

The symbols are printed out in large grids and divided into smaller sections. Pompers work on these individually.

Green said the hardest

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part of the design process is remembering what she creates on the computer has to be able to become a reality outside.

“Thinking about something that big and in 3-D that has parts of it that are moving was interesting,” she said.

Green, a Stillwater native, said she has wanted to be a homecoming director since she joined the sorority.

“My grandpa used to always bring me to Walkaround,” Green said, “… Making one of those great things is what I wanted to do.”

Chi Omega seems to be the place to do it. The sorority has recently emerged as a perennial power. It achieved three straight first-place finishes from 2010-2012,

splitting in 2011 with Kappa Alpha Theta and Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

Green said winning takes a commitment from everyone.

“We (at Chi Omega) have that desire, so we make it happen — just a fighter spirit,” she said. “When new people come in, they know that this is something we care about … So, it creates a culture in the house.”

This year, Chi Omega is paired with the last year’s champion, Phi Gamma Delta.

Hann, another Chi O homecoming director, also served in 2013. She said she wants to improve on the chapter’s eighth-place finish — the only time they haven’t won in her college career.

Win or lose, Hann sees

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Phi Gamma Delta members hang pomps on the dec Thursday.

her time as a director as a worthwhile experience.

“Yeah, you want to do well and create a legacy,” Hann said. “But what I’ve learned is that you just have to have fun with it. The whole thing about being a pairing is getting to know people. This

year, I just wanted to meet a lot of people and have fun.” news@ocolly.com This is an abridged version. For the full story, visit ocolly. com/news

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Homecoming is a ‘waste of time’? Maybe that’s the point Will Tracy @OColly It’s always noticeable when homecoming is getting near.

English professor Seth Wood sees it on his students’ faces.

“He’s a freshman, and he’s trying to deal with this onslaught of his first ever college midterm season while also dealing with X-amount of pomping hours,” Wood said.

The anxiety becomes obvious as both home-

coming and the second round of tests approach.

Wood normally worries about his freshman students while they acclimate to the rigors of college studies. But he ends up worrying the most for the ones neglecting their studies to work on their house decorations.

Most Greek students are required to pomp 1012 hours per week. While pomping, students use a pencil to stuff colored squares of tissue paper into sheets of chicken wire. Sections are stitched together to create house decorations, or decs. By

the time a dec is completed, a single student might spend a total of 80-96 hours pomping.

“The part I dislike the most is pomping,” said Chloe Geoghegan, a junior and member of Alpha Chi Omega.

“I think the amount of time you spend on it is necessary. (But) it’s easy to put pomping to the side because you have to do school.”

Students design and construct decs wholly on their own. The different pieces share a theme.

This year’s theme is “The Experience.”

Students weave complexity into their decs by adding moving parts, three-dimensional props and complicated picture designs.

On the day before homecoming, tens of thousands of people show up to admire the brightly colored decs. Families pose for photos, professors observe their students’ accomplishments and those who built the decs are finally able to step back and appreciate what they’ve done.

“It’s the greatest homecoming in the nation for a reason,” Geoghegan said.

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Lane Murphy, a Sigma Chi, takes part in All-Night Pomp.

To those not directly involved in the process, it often comes as a surprise that fraternities and sororities begin planning six months before assembly.

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head homecoming director for Sigma Chi. Decs can’t be the same.

The OSU Alumni Association randomly assigns numbers that determine the order in which plans will be considered.

If there are similarities between two designs, the pair with the lesser number must revise its plans and resubmit them during the summer.

The art could depict anything from Pistol Pete firing his gun to a duck going wild near Theta Pond.

This year, fraternities and sororities weren’t allowed to begin putting the decs together until Sept.

1. This means that students have less than eight weeks to fully assemble the decs.

Geoghegan said time management is key to keeping the stress at bay when it comes to pomping. Spending 12 hours each week stuffing tissue paper into sheets of chicken wire might sound like a lot. But if students plan ahead, they can do two hours a day and have a day off, she said.

Once the pomping is finished, the sheets are hung on the metal structures that students build.

Kuykendall, who mainly works on building the skeletal structure that supports the screens, spends as much as 20 hours each week welding, cutting and building.

“It clearly affects school work a lot,” Kuykendall said. “Any time I have free time, I need to be out

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there working.”

Some students choose to avoid homecoming altogether.

“I’m glad I’m not a part of homecoming because it seems stressful,” psychology junior Chelsie Downie said. “It seems like they make it more important than it really is.”

After the decs go on display and homecoming ends, participants have a single week to tear everything down. After several laborious months, students must watch as the artwork that they’ve helped create is thrown in the trash. Months of hard work culminating in the final product being thrown away serves as a disappointment to many.

But Wood provided an interesting perspective:

“We think of waste as stigmatized as bad, and on the other hand we can’t deny that we have this urge to waste,” he said.

“But it’s not ceremonial waste. It’s secretive, and we try to hide it.”

Wood is referring to an idea promoted by Georges Bataille, who was born in 1897 and studied anthropology, literature, philosophy, economics and sociology. Bataille studied indigenous cultures that held ceremonies to celebrate waste. Northwestern Native American tribes would spend months and even years creating decorative vases and other pieces of art.

The tribe would then hold a ceremony called “potlatch.” Potlatch is essentially a party in which

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members celebrate and give gifts. If all goes well, the villagers end the night by destroying the objects that they spent so much time creating.

“This, in my mind, is what homecoming is really all about,” Wood said.

“It’s ceremonial waste.

The whole point is to waste the time, and the money, and the energy, and the peace of mind and your sanity.”

Similarly to cultures that celebrate potlatch, homecoming at OSU is characterized by spending countless hours building a unique piece of art, only to tear it down the day after it’s finished. But rather than thinking of the decomposing pomps as purposeless waste, Bataille would suggest that

we celebrate the waste like our own version of potlatch. If we were to view homecoming in this way, then all of the spent time would carry more purpose.

All else aside, homecoming is a unique tradition that provides joy for many. But new perspectives about such a widespread tradition might prove to be stimulating for some.

“Maybe that would make it even better if we all knew and consciously acknowledged that it was about the waste,” Wood said. “Why not just embrace it? Why does its wastefulness have to be stigmatized?

“It is wasteful, but maybe that’s the point.” news@ocolly.com

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• The Honors College degree is the highest academic distinction undergraduates can earn, requiring a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 at graduation and a minimum of 39 honors credit hours completed.

Garbutt, the first dean of the college, plans to build upon.

“The Honors College at OSU is recognized as one of the strongest in the country and taking over from its former director, Dr. Robert Spurrier, to serve as the first dean of the college is a great honor,” said Garbutt, who arrived in April.

“The college’s newly published annual report shows its strength with the highest number of honors degrees ever earned at OSU.” The report’s statistics also indicate an all-time record high enrollment of 1,338 “active participant” students from six undergraduate colleges at OSU. The honors students come from 149 Oklahoma cities and towns, as well as 31 other states and 12 countries outside the U.S. A recent survey of the college’s 502 incoming freshman found that more than 90 percent indicated their selection to the Honors College was a factor in choosing to attend OSU. “I'm looking forward to the challenges of developing an exciting intellectual program while ensuring the individual support that the students receive from the Honors College both in and outside the classroom,” said Garbutt. “A good honors education goes beyond the traditional classroom with experiences both on-campus and off that challenge and motivate, including more study abroad options and expanded

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experiential learning opportunities with professors in cutting-edge research or through internships in government and industry. We want students who graduate from the Honors College to be both deeply educated in their discipline and broadly educated across disciplines, so they have the skills to be the leaders of their professions, the state and the nation.”

Garbutt received his bachelor’s degree with honors and a doctorate in botany from the University of Wales in the United Kingdom. Following postdoctoral work at the University of Illinois ChampaignUrbana and Harvard University, Garbutt accepted a position at West Virginia University in 1987. He became chair of the

Dr. Keith Garbutt WVU Department of Biology in 1993 and director of the honors program in 2000.

In 2006, WVU established an honors college and named Garbutt its first dean.

Garbutt has written and presented on issues such as the impact of merit aid on socioeconomic diversity, support for first-generation students and student leadership. He also serves as the chair of the National Collegiate Honors Council Science and Mathematics Committee.

• The departmental college awards require the completion of a senior honors thesis or creative component, a cumulative 3.5 grade point average and the completion of 12 upperdivision honors credit hours.

A complete list of OSU Honors College students and photos of students with President Burns Hargis or Provost & Senior Vice President Gary Sandefur taken at the Honors College annual fall ice cream social can be found at http://okla.st/2014honors.

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LIBRARY SPEAKER Best-selling author Scott Turow will headline the annual H. Louise and H.E. “Ed” Cobb Speaker Series on Nov. 14 at Oklahoma State University. The Cobb series is the largest fundraising event for the Friends of the OSU Library and includes a dinner, lecture and book signing. Turow is best known for his legal thrillers and is the author of nine best-selling works of fiction including his first novel “Presumed Innocent,” which was the basis of the 1990 Harrison Ford movie by the same name. Tickets are on sale now, but seating is limited. Individual tickets are $100, and half the cost is a tax-deductible gift to the Friends of the OSU Library. Sponsorship opportunities are available.

Call 405-744-7273 or visit www.library.okstate.edu/friends to purchase tickets.

The National Science Foundation has awarded OSU a five-year grant totaling $3.4 million to further opportunities for undergraduate minority students to prepare for graduate school.

Associate vice president of Institutional Diversity and associate professor of political science Dr. Jason F. Kirksey is the principal investigator for the Oklahoma Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (OK-LSAMP). The alliance is a consortium of 11 universities that work together to develop programs aimed at increasing minority student involvement in higher education and other career goals. The OK-LSAMP program is housed in the OSU Division of Institutional Diversity. The NSF grant will provide undergraduate minority students with opportunities to conduct research with faculty mentors, attend conferences, and prepare for graduate school. The current award is for the fifth phase of a program that works to increase the number of underrepresented minority students earning degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

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LOHMANN AWARDED The College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology at Oklahoma State University awarded three alumni with Lohmann Medals, the college’s highest honor, on Saturday, Oct. 11, in the ConocoPhillips Alumni Center. The Melvin R. Lohmann Medal was established in 1991 to recognize graduates of the OSU College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology who have made outstanding contributions to the profession or education of engineers, architects or technologists. The medal is named after Dr. Melvin R. Lohmann, former dean (1955-1977), who led the college to national prominence.

This year’s Lohmann Medal recipients are Alan Brunacini (‘60 Fire Protection Technology), L. Decker Dawson (‘41 Civil Engineering) and Johann Demmel (‘85 Industrial Engineering and Management, M.S.).

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Homecoming & Hoops: What to watch for Cody Stavenhagen @CodyStavenhagen

This time, there are no expectations, no national rankings, no hordes of NBA scouts.

Instead, a senior Le’Bryan Nash leads a scrappy collection of supporters hoping to prove people wrong.

The 2014-15 Oklahoma State men’s basketball team plays for the first time publicly Friday night at 9 p.m. in Gallagher-Iba — and if you think there’s nothing interesting happening at this year’s Homecoming & Hoops, chances are you’re wrong.

NO PRESSURE, NO PROBLEM Marcus Smart and Markel Brown are gone, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be any energy on the court.

A common idea players expressed at Monday’s season-opneing media day was that with the pressure lowered, this team is more focused on playing from the heart. That just might produce better results.

“It’s been fun to coach

them,” OSU coach Travis Ford said. “We haven’t had to coach effort. We have not had to coach egos. We have not had to coach anything like that. Everybody seems eager to get better. They seem eager to accept challenges.”

Along those lines, it seems some of the internal problems that plagued last year’s team are gone.

“This is pretty much a whole new team, and we’ve bonded as quickly as I’ve ever seen a team bond,” center Michael Cobbins said. “... If things aren’t right off the court, then they won’t be right on the court.”

COBBINS’ RETURN IS CRUCIAL When Cobbins ruptured his left Achilles tendon on Dec. 31, Ford knew it was catastrophic for the entire team.

But he might not have fully understood it until he saw a healthy Cobbins back on the court this fall.

“After the very first day of practice, at the very end of the day, I turned to everybody and said, ‘I knew when we lost him, but now I understand why,’” Ford said.

“Michael Cobbins brings

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such a presence, a leadership, an understanding of how we want things done and an understanding of how to play the game.

“He’s looked tremendous.”

HICKEY IN THE MIX There are new faces across the board this season, but none have generated a buzz quite like Anthony Hickey, a three-year starter at LSU who transferred to OSU this summer under the NCAA’s “run-off ” eligibility waiver.

Hickey looks to be on track to succeeding Smart as OSU’s starting point guard, and OSU guard Phil Forte said Hickey was OSU’s hardest-working player this offseason.

“More than anything I’ve liked this far is his coachability,” Ford said.

Hickey is an athletic defender with quick hands and a solid blend of passing and deep shooting ability.

“I’m up for the challenge this year of entering the Big 12,” Hickey said. “I’m glad that I landed in Stillwater. I’d rather be no place else.”

Cowboys’ other promising newcomers. Keep an eye out for guard Jeff Newberry, a well-rounded junior college transfer who is also competing for time at point guard.

Another interesting prospect is junior college transfer Anthony Allen. Allen is a 7-footer who averaged 6.2 blocks per game for Lamar State-Port Arthur in 201314.

The Cowboys will also break in new recruits Joe Burton, Tyree Griffin, Tavarius Shine and Mitch Solomon.

OSU opens its season Nov. 8 with a scrimmage against Missouri Western at 2 p.m. in Gallagher-Iba Arena. sports@ocolly.com

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OSU’S ALL-TIME DEFENSE, SPECIAL TEAMS Bob Fenimore, CB

The “Blond Bomber” was the first All-American in school history. He led the Aggies to wins in the Sugar Bowl and the Cotton Bowl. Fenimore earned All-America honors in 1944 and 1945.

His 18 career interceptions has yet to be eclipsed nearly 70 years later.Also a halfback, he led the nation in total offense in 1944.

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Cost: it takes a lot of money to put on a homecoming celebration for 80,000 people.

From Page 5 director of Student Programs.

Because the OSU Alumni Association is a separate nonprofit from the university, it is not obligated to publish salaries; it also doesn’t include OSU Physical Plant costs, which the university forgives.

But the budget planners’ projection is surprising.

“Homecoming is a loss-leader for us at the association,” said Chris Batchelder, Alumni Association President and CEO. “We budget to lose money on it every year.

We know that it’s extremely expensive.”

This is a given considering the money put forward. Even though the bottom line might reflect a program in the red, the real outcome is less concrete.

The cost of homecoming certainly has some return on investment, largely because of the celebration of alumni and the donations that it influences for the university. The entire purpose of the association during homecoming is to present to alumni. “…It’s almost infinite, there’s just no telling the pride that our alumni carry around,” Batchelder said.

As a result of the incredible overhead of the

celebration, several years ago the Alumni Assocaition established a Homecoming Endowment to help alleviate the financial weight on both Greek living groups and the association itself.

The goal with that endowment is to raise $3,000,000 (yes, that’s six zeroes) toward homecoming. It would return approximately 5 percent annually to be distributed back to the living groups and partially offset the Alumni Association’s costs.

“Right now that endowment is just over $1,000,000 — the significance of that is that the endowment agreement is written such that once the fund crossed the milliondollar mark, we can begin making a distribution back to the living groups.”

Batchelder said.

That means this year, Greek Life will recieve a larger financial aid package from the Alumni Association in the form of $45,000, rather than the original $20,000 in 2013 before the endowment crossed the million-dollar mark.

That’s a big deal for Greek Life, given its expenses for activities.

Each activity has a certain cap for how much can be spent (and donated) per Greek pair.

For instance, the front decs are limited to an $11,000 budget.

“Pomping alone costs seven to eight thousand dollars,” said Emma Ward, a member of Alpha Omicron Pi. Seven to eight thousand is a lot of money considering the materials are

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purchased at cost, opposed to retail markup. That includes chicken wire and non-flammable tissue paper.

Furthermore, even donations are marked against a total cost; 10 percent of any donation to the dec competition is marked against the $11,000 total.

Across the board, a total of $1.1 million has been donated to the Homecoming Endowment, with that number expected to rise significantly following this year’s celebration.

Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council have also contributed to the homecoming endowment.

Each passed a resolution to raise dues among members by $5 per person for 10 years, which equates to $250,000 for the endowment.

“They know that a portion of that money is going to go directly back into their houses to be able to help offset their expenses,” Batchelder said.

“We couldn’t be happier about the way this worked out.”

The commitment by Greek Life toward the endowment is also seen as a further gesture towards alumni.

“We’re excited about leveraging that opportunity to our alumni to say, ‘Look, this is how our students feel about homecoming, let’s see how you guys feel about homecoming,’ and continue to step up to the plate to make sure that it continues to be the celebration that it is today,” Batchelder said. news@ocolly.com O’COLLY WEEKEND EDITION

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Flash: kevin peterson flipped his commitment from oklahoma to osu.

From Page 6 not going to miss one iota of a detail. Whether it’s going out to the movies or eating dinner or if it was that evacuation from Louisiana, he has a big thing about details.”

Peterson is known for being meticulous in the film room, so much that redshirt freshman Tre Flowers made it a point to spend time with Peterson during Flowers’ first season at OSU. “He always used to text me and tell me to come up and watch film,” Flowers said. “I learned a lot of things from him. Sitting there for about an hour a day, sometimes you lose track of time sitting there watching film with him. I think it helps a lot. He’s one of the best corners in the nation in my opinion.”

That leads into another intangible that makes Peterson a locker room favorite.

Entering this season, Peterson was the lone returning starter in the secondary.

He took it upon himself to become a leader, but not necessarily by becoming more vocal. Instead, Peterson has become a calming presence.

Safety Jordan Sterns found that out when he was anxious before making his first career start in OSU’s season-opener against Florida State.

“He came up to me and just said, ‘Be calm. This is football,’” Sterns said. ‘He did a good job keeping me calm. Now there’s nothing to it. I can calm down other

people because I feel like I’ve done it a million times already.”

That leadership style goes hand-in-hand with Peterson’s personality. He’s relaxed, friendly and often quiet. But when he gets talking, his lips can move at light speed.

“KP’s just cool with everybody,” linebacker Ryan Simmons said. “You can’t really explain him except for being cool. He’s a happy-golucky type of guy.”

Beyond that, Peterson’s experience shaped him to the point he constantly has a heart for others, such as the time he helped a classmate pay for a trip to the state capitol. Peterson helped with the fundraiser, then begged his parents to buy several of the classmates’ bracelets to help with the cause.

“I think he knows that nothing is promised,” Kimberly Peterson said. “You can have things today, and they’ll be gone tomorrow.”

MOMENTS THAT SHAPE US Ask Oklahoma State defensive coordinator Glenn Spencer where Peterson ranks among the likes of former OSU stars such as Gilbert — like one reporter did a few weeks ago — and there likely won’t be an answer.

Spencer, strictly out of principle, refuses to hand out free praise during the season.

Too much can happen in a week.

Ask if the reason Peterson doesn’t have gaudy stats is because he is so good opposing quarterbacks won’t throw to his side, and Spencer might flip the conversation.

“What happens when the ball is thrown Kevin Peterson’s way?” Spencer asks.

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“It ends up on the turf,” the reporter said.

Spencer nods.

“Maybe do some relevant stats,” he said.

That’s Spencer’s version of a compliment to Peterson.

But Peterson, Spencer said, is one play away from being a goat. One mistake away from his reputation diminishing.

So then ask Spencer about Peterson’s off-field influence, about how his background shaped him, and he gets a rare glimmer in his eye.

“I want him to tell that story,” Spencer said. “But it would be safe to say that we’re all chiseled by our backgrounds, right? Every experience we have growing up, every time we get hit in the mouth, every time we have failures or have to overcome some things, that shapes the person we are.

“I’d say right now Kevin Peterson is on track to be a great father and a great husband.”

That, more than anything, defines Kevin Peterson. It’s not about where he ranks on a list or how many tackles or interceptions he has.

It’s about how on a September day in Lake Charles, he had everything taken away. It’s about how a move to small-town Oklahoma, a meeting in a coach’s office and a timely deflection here or there can change everything.

“He’s seen us go through a lot of hard times,” Kevin Peterson Sr. said. “The things he sees and the things he takes to heart, he sees them and he applies them to later things in life. He uses it for motivation, he uses it for influence, he uses it for direction.” sports@ocolly.com O’COLLY WEEKEND EDITION

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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- A sense of humor can be incredibly sexy. Use your secret charms to advance your project.

Long-term goals seem suddenly achievable. Contribute leadership at work and at home. Nurture yourself with good food and creature comforts.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- You’re even smarter than usual, and your hunch proves true. Teach your philosophy through humor. Get an early start for extra productivity. Recharge and energize with peaceful meditation and exercise. Leap forward in realizing a vision.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Celebrate with your team. Everything you need can be found through social connections and networking. Play with the most talented friends you can find.

Share your resources, and pay generosity forward. It comes back to you.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 9 -- Take the opportunity to realize a career goal or vision. Ride the wave before it passes by.

Show you know your stuff. Take authority in an area of your passion.

Discussing philosophy can be sexy. Someone gets persuaded.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Finish an old job so you can take off on a new adventure. Act on a fantasy. Allow yourself to get persuaded to go beyond what’s considered “reasonable”. Find an answer in a dream. Reveal your feelings.

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

ACROSS 1 Critters who worshiped C-3PO as a god 6 Penicillin precursor 11 Like Beethoven’s Second Symphony 14 Museum piece 15 Central Florida city 16 Wild West 17 Latin for “big idiot”?

19 “Certainement!”

20 Blotter letters 21 Good, in Genoa 22 Hides in the closet?

23 Latin for “holding a grudge for a long, long time”?

26 Classic pops 29 Charles of old mysteries 30 Bustles 31 Steam table fuel 35 “Good” cholesterol initials 38 Latin for “fighting over parking spots is not allowed”?

41 Adams of “The Muppets” 42 Owl, at times 43 Turkmenistan neighbor 44 Where change is welcome 46 “Choose taste” sauce brand 47 Latin for “cheating on one’s timecard”?

53 Son of Aphrodite 54 Cell terminal 55 Cry made with a raised index finger 58 Torah holder 59 Latin for “fish trading”?

62 Journalist William Shirer’s alma mater 63 Verve 64 Hefty portion 65 Shop door nos.

66 Idée sources 67 Salon and others

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DOWN 1 First name in wit 2 Watery, as a drink 3 One of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” 4 Blood 5 Takes a dive?

6 Agreeable words 7 Sch. originally endowed by the Storrs brothers 8 __ luxury 9 Viral ailment 10 Remote power sources 11 “See ya!”

12 Pacific republic near the equator 13 Voltaire’s worldview 18 Joe with some oomph 22 Holiday buy 23 Sapporo soup 24 __ circle 25 “High __” 26 Family nickname 27 Biblical kingdom near the Dead Sea 28 “Yikes!”

31 Glaswegians, e.g.

32 Furthermore 33 Tolkien creature

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34 Series of turns: Abbr.

36 Snoozefest 37 2014 Television Academy Hall of Fame inductee 39 Biblical pronoun 40 Gossip 45 Vinyl spinners 46 Go through 47 Emulate Anne Sullivan 48 Flub

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49 Gounod opera 50 Form an alliance 51 Extinct Mauritian birds 52 Econ. stat 55 Blue hue 56 Like curtains 57 NASA go-aheads 59 Friday is one: Abbr.

60 Prov. on the St. Lawrence 61 Electrical unit O’COLLY WEEKEND EDITION

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