Monday, April 8, 2019

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Payne County Pride Hundreds gathered in Stillwater on Saturday to celebrate the inaugural Payne County Pride Festival.

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Inaugural Pride Festival unites Payne County M egan Hays , N ews Ed ito r , @o c olly

The word “first” has several connotations associated with it.

There is the feeling of accomplishment, a sense of importance and new, exciting experiences.

Those and many other firsts came together at Payne County’s first Pride Festival on Saturday.

“We are celebrating Payne County Pride today, so we are really excited about bringing Payne County together, especially for Stillwater people,” said Kristy Self, a committee member of the Payne County Pride Association. “I was born and raised here, so it is

really exciting for me personally, especially getting a chance to share it with our youth. I’m a [Gay Straight Alliance] sponsor and my kids are excited, and for many of them, this will be their very first pride.”

Andre Durham, the director and founder of the Payne County Pride Association, said he wanted people of all ages and backgrounds to feel included in this pride festival. With a short parade, a picnic and parties designed for a range of age groups, Durham ensured everyone could feel welcomed.

“We’re also a very family friendly pride, the parade and the picnics are family friendly,” Durham said. “We

have a youth party, we have an under 21 party so that we can make sure that people don’t feel excluded because they’re too young or they’re too wholesome or they’re this or that.

So with that, I look forward to being at a family-friendly pride festival because not all of them are.”

For the past nine months, Durham and his team worked to put on this festival.

The organization became a federal nonprofit, canvassed across Northern Oklahoma from Kingfisher to Pawhuska to get the word out about the pride festival and worked with community members for sponsorships.

All of that work was

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Participants march down Main Street in Stillwater during the Payne County Pride Festival on Saturday.

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“Be st rong and ver y cou rageous. Be caref ul to obey all the law my ser vant Moses gave you...that you may be successf ul wherever you go...medit ate on it...so that you may be caref ul to do ever y thi ng i n it. T hen you will be prosperous and successf ul.”Josh.1:7-8 N I V ) T he second impor t ant t r uth for Joshua and us! As we read the New Test ament, we u nderst and that i n Ch r ist we have been set f ree f rom the out ward r ules and reg ulations of the Mosaic law. However, there is real t r uth here! I n choosi ng to wal k i n God’s plan for ou r lives; it is impor t ant to make ou rselves available to God i n a practical way. I have fou nd spendi ng time with God i n readi ng the Bible, with prayer and than ksgivi ng, helps me to st ay i n God’s will with a proper at tit ude. Frequent, i ntentional times with God (early mor ni ng seems the best), keeps us on the r ight t rack.

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COver S to ry to make sure people like Leo Boatman, president of Stillwater High School’s Gay Straight Alliance, could have the best experience at their first pride.

“I think it is really exciting that Stillwater and Payne County finally have a chance to show our pride, especially since this is our first time walking. I want to make sure there as much people as possible,” Boatman said.

“I’m so excited honestly, I’ve been waiting for this for a really long time and I’m really glad to be one of the first in something.”

Experiencing their first pride was not just something the younger people of Stillwater experienced.

Lynette and Kaye Waller,

the first married female couple in Payne County, got to celebrate their first pride together.

“To be able to walk down the street holding hands, in a place for the last 18 years we haven’t been able to do that,” Kaye said. “It’s great. We feel like real people.”

Lynette, who grew up in Stillwater, said she has been able to see how much the community around her has changed to Courtesy of Payne County Pride Association be more accepting of her Participants in the Payne County Pride Festival join for a and people like her. picnic Saturday in Stillwater.

“It is exciting to see knew who I was and my say courageous or stupid.” this in Payne County and father was a professional Durham said he was Stillwater,” Lynette said. in this town.

People prepared for backlash “I grew up in Stillwater would say to me, ‘You against the idea of the and then I left for 20 must be really courageous pride festival. years and then I came to come back to Stillwater What he wasn’t expectback.... It was scary at first cause everybody with a woman,’ and I’d ing, he said, was the actu-

ality of people’s attitudes.

“What’s been really fun is that we haven’t gotten any negativity at all, well no one has said don’t do this,” Durham said. “No one’s standing against us, no one is trying to stop us. We’ve had a lot of positivity, but the number one response I get is ‘It’s about time.’ Which is funny because I have only been here since 2015 and the folks who’ve been saying that have spent the last 30, 40, 50, 60 years in Stillwater.”

Saturday was Payne County’s first pride festival, but Durham said it definitely won’t be the last.

“Our theme this year is ignite your flame, and it has multiple meanings for

us,” Durham said. “Ignite your flame as in this is the inaugural event, so we’re lighting the flame of pride here in Payne County, but it is a torch and torches are meant to be passed off. So we really want to help inspire other towns to have their own pride festivals. Ponca City, Drumright, Guthrie, Pawhuska, these are all towns with sizable populations but don’t have pride festivals. So it would be really cool to help those towns start to have those.”

Megan Hays is a chemistry sophomore from Bartlesville. She can be reached at news.ed@ocolly. com.

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Mister and Miss Asian

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Mister and Miss Asian 2019 crowned, promote diverse Asian culture at OSU M egan Hays , N ews Ed ito r , @o c olly

Kenji Moua spent most of Saturday night being referred to as contestant number two.

As the Mister and Miss Asian Oklahoma State University scholarship pageant had Moua and his fellow contestants line up on the stage for the overall result, he impatiently waited for the judge’s decision.

“I was just really nervous, really stressed,” Moua said. “I didn’t know what was going to happen and what the turnout was going to be.”

The MCs for the night finally announced Moua and Sara Karki, a finance and marketing junior. They were crowned Mister and Miss Asian OSU. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Miss Asian OSU pageant. Vanessa Wong, the president of the Asian American Student Association, said with that milestone comes a lot of pressure to live up to expectations.

“It feels really good, but it puts a huge pressure on us because it is a huge milestone,” Wong said, “Ten years is not something really small, it is something to be proud of so we really wanted to make this a great event, so we put in so much hard work and effort.”

The pageant allowed participants to showcase their culture in a series of segments, ranging from a talent portion to dressing in traditional wear and answering extemporaneous questions focused on issues related to Asian-Americans.

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are judged based on their performances in those categories.

Nikole Vargas, Miss Asian OSU at the University of Oklahoma, was one of the five judges. Vargas said she agreed to be a judge to support the community.

“I was asked to come and support by being a judge and of course I said yes to help the Asian-American community, not only in my university but at universities across Oklahoma,” Vargas said.

As a contestant herself last year, Vargas said it was nice to have a different perspective from the other judges.

“It is kind of funny how you see both sides, you see both sides of the story and I realize all the hard work, the blood, sweat and tears they put into this pageant,” Vargas said. “I think I look for confidence. I think that’s half the battle when you present yourself. The other biggest thing was the issues facing our Asian-American community... Do they know about them? How do they approach those situations and issues? As a royalty, you have to be the face of the community. Can you speak on behalf of the community and can you be a voice?”

To showcase her talent, Karki performed a mashup of different styles of South Asian dances. Her demonstration of skill impressed the judges enough for her to earn the Best Talent Award in the competition.

“It is an amazing feeling because… I don’t think a lot of people from South Asian cultures, South Asian countries, don’t really know a lot about

this pageant,” Karki said. “I am very happy to represent Nepal and AASA.” With the crowning of Mister and Miss Asian OSU, the reign of last year’s winners comes to an end. Although that reign doesn’t officially end until sometime in June, Courtney Brendal, a physiology sophomore and Miss Asian OSU 2018, said she still feels she has accomplished a lot since earning the title.

“When I fondly look back in the summer at the end of my reign, it’s kinda bittersweet,” Brendal said. “It’s been really crazy trying to make sure all of the pageant planning and making sure all my platforms have been represented properly on campus, but overall I’ve had the most incredible leadership experience and overall personal growth experience.”

Mister and Miss Asian OSU exposed and educated the audience on a wide range of Asian cultures. Moua said showcasing and promoting the importance of culture was his platform and what he credits his win to.

“I feel that we’re all the same, but we’re all different in our own way, and I feel that promoting diversity all across the world is very important because we get to learn new ideas, new thoughts, new ways to do things,” Moua said. “The importance of my platform was to express how embracing your culture is very importance to one’s life.”

Megan Hays is a chemistry sophomore from Bartlesville. She can be reached at news.ed@ocolly. com.

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OSU baseball: Cowboys drop finale, series against West Virginia Wa d e Haug en , C o py Chief, @wad e_hau gen

With the bases loaded, two outs and a full count, the Oklahoma State baseball team needed a strike.

Logan Gragg reared back and threw. He missed wide and walked TJ Lake, bringing the go-ahead run across the plate for West Virginia. The Mountaineers went on to defeat the Cowboys 4-2 Sunday afternoon at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium.

The Cowboys (19-11 overall, 6-3 Big 12) led 2-1 before West Virginia claimed the lead in the eighth inning. Paul McIntosh had the lone hit of the inning for the Mountain-

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eers, who took advantage of three walks to score twice.

Coach Josh Holliday said although the eighth inning was when West Virginia (19-12, 4-5) took the lead, that wasn’t the deciding factor. He said innings two through seven, the game was sitting there waiting to be taken, and his team didn’t capitalize.

“The game is played from the first pitch on, beginning to Adam Luther/O’Colly end,” Holliday said. “All the OSU pitcher Brett Standlee pitches vs. West Virginia. pitches that are available to be one-run lead, you’re asking for From then on, Kade Strowd won from start to finish are a the other team to make a run shut them down. He pitched part of the final cumulation of at you and certainly they did.

7 1/3 innings, striking out 10 who wins. We point to those That’s baseball.” batters. He threw 128 pitches. things cause that’s when the Colin Simpson launched OSU came up short, but actual number occurred, but it wasn’t because of starting the moments in time over nine a two-run home run over the left field fence in the second pitching. Brett Standlee made innings to win the game were plentiful… If you sit on a inning for the Cowboys’ runs. his fourth start and pitched six

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innings. He gave up one run on four hits, striking out five.

Standlee said early in the game nothing was working for him, but as the game progressed, he talked to OSU Pitching Coach Rob Walton and made adjustments. OSU’s bullpen pitched a lot this weekend, so Standlee said he knew he needed to pitch deep into the game.

“You always want to go out and go as long as you can as a starter,” Standlee said. “I just kept trying, pitch by pitch, to go as long as I could.

“I did some positive things today, so I’ll carry that into next week.”

The Cowboys were without two starters on Sunday. Carson McCusker was out with

a virus, while Bryce Carter continues to deal with concussion symptoms after taking a foul ball to his catcher’s mask against TCU. Holliday said he doesn’t know when either player will return, but hopes it is soon.

“It is part of the season, part of the challenge,” Holliday said. “Every team has injuries, as we all know, no matter what sport it is. We just have to be strong enough to get through it until we get everyone back. Excuses don’t really get you where you’re trying to go.”

Wade Haugen is a sports media junior from Weatherford. He can be reached at wade.haugen@ okstate.edu.

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