Friday, March 18, 2022
Lincoln Tapp became the youngest person to complete the North American Super Slam, the challenge took him across North America including British Columbia, Canada.
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OSU student makes waves in hunting world immediately, he simply thought it was something his dad would find interesting. ‘That’s cool, I can’t believe people have done that,’ Tapp thought his dad might say. But, Jim’s answer was anything but typical. By the end of dinner Tapp and his dad started marking the calendar with plans to complete the daunting Chris Becker task. Editor-in-Chief “At that time I don’t know if I even thought about the possibility of doing it. I brought it up to A 9-year-old Lincoln Tapp sat in front of the him and we started researching it and kind of half TV at his Luther, Oklahoma ranch — as many kids jokingly, I think he said, ‘Well we have white tailed do. deer here at home, let’s start there,’” Tapp said. “It However, instead of a cartoon or a movie, Tapp was a moment I’ll never forget.” watched “Tom Miranda’s World Class Bow Hunting.” The North American Super Slam is a hunting After finishing the show, Tapp was intrigued. challenge where one successfully hunts the 29 bigAbout a year came and went. gest game animals in North America. The rules state During dinner, at their kitchen table one day, the hunter can pursue the animals with any legal Tapp sat near his father, Jim, and told him something weapon, which includes muzzleloaders, rifles and that was on his mind, The North American Super bows. It’s a daunting task which only 174 world-class Slam. Tapp didn’t expect his dad to buy in hunters have accomplished.
Tapp never found himself excelling in sports, it wasn’t his thing. He found hunting — his wheelhouse, his mental escape. A couple of years prior to that life-changing conversation with his father, Lincoln’s parents decided to homeschool him, something he credits to his development in life. The goal itself resonated with Tapp, it was a way to gain self confidence and a hunting resume, but more so to prove to himself his capabilities. “I was very young in my hunting career, if you will, and I wanted something I could prove myself in, have stock in and have self confidence in,” Tapp said. “I think that’s why the Super Slam goal appealed to me so much. That’s not saying I thought I could for sure accomplish it, in fact I didn’t. I didn’t have the confidence in myself to think I could do it. See Hunting on 6A
Spring break travel is back, and so are high prices Hugo Martin Los Angeles Times As COVID-19 cases drop, mask protocols ease and more Americans venture out to beaches, theme parks and other tourist destinations, travel is bouncing back to levels not seen since the pandemic took hold, industry experts say. The bad news: Airfares and gasoline prices are also reaching highs not seen in years. Eric Oh, a freelance writer from Thousand Oaks, is already feeling the pinch. He’s paying about $600 for a roundtrip flight to Orlando,
Florida, to visit Universal Orlando, SeaWorld and other theme parks — about $200 more than he paid a few months ago for a similar flight. “It both surprised me and made me a little upset,” Oh said of the increase. Jay Johnson, president of Coastline Travel Group in Garden Grove, called prices “shocking.” “I’m seeing hotel rates at over $1,000 a night for rooms that were less than $300 in 2019, and people are paying it,” he said. “Spring break is definitely back,” Johnson said, adding that he suspects travelers are
willing to pay a premium because they are so desperate to vacation again. Nearly 40% of Americans are planning to travel during spring break, up from the 29% who said they were traveling for spring break 2021, according to a survey commissioned by the vacation rental company Vacasa. The home rental business Vrbo has also reported a nearly 50% increase in demand for vacation homes this spring, compared with spring of 2021.
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Karlie Boothe Winners of the talent show were awarded a plaque with their name and the place they earned.
Students show skills at talent show Kendall Mcghee Staff Reporter
their phone camera lights and sang along with the participants. The winners of the event were awarded a plaque with their name and From singing to playing the ac- place they earned. The rankings were cordion, the Student Union Activities from first to third place, and a crowd Board annual talent show’s particifavorite award. pants show off their talent from all Claudia Dodd, a microbiology angles. and molecular genetics major, won the In the Student Union Theater, crowd favorite award with her rendistudents from all over campus attend- tion of ABBA’s “Thank You for the ed and cheered on the participants. Music.” Dodd’s strong vocals won the The crowd that came to the con- crowd, and they erupted in applause cert was involved and social. At some when she won. points, students in the crowd flashed See Talent on 5A
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