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Abbie Hetherington, an osu cross-country athlete, hopes to inspire others with her story of coming out.

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English runner finds acceptance at oSU Davi d Mo or e staff reporter @ r u ndav id m oor e Abbie Hetherington anxiously hovered her finger over the navy blue Facebook “send message” button.

It was summer 2015.

She had finished her first year at Oklahoma State and was back home in Carlisle, England. A second year was not yet certain. The response to her Facebook message would heavily influence that decision.

After a year at OSU hiding her secret, Hetherington was about to reveal it. She is gay.

From England to Oklahoma Hetherington was set on running at OSU long before she suited up for the Cowgirls. She started running competitively at 9 years old. Her mother, Julie Hetherington, recalled when Abbie first mentioned OSU. “She had talked about it from when she was around 14 to 15,” Julie Hetherington said. “At the time, she knew Tom Farrell, who ran for OSU and Abbie’s club … (he) was the connection.”

Farrell, also from

Carlisle, competed for the Cowboys from 2010 to 2013 and encouraged Abbie to choose OSU. The coaches, facilities and culture of OSU blew Hetherington away when she visited Stillwater in February 2014. The team was what made her eager to run for the Cowgirls.

“I’ve never run with a group before,” Hetherington said. “Not many people where I’m from run, especially girls. I always used to run with men.”

She was enthralled with the group dynamic she saw on her visit to Stillwater.

But a question still lingered in the back of her mind.

“How would I tell people I’m gay?”

Feeling homesick Like most students, leaving home the first time for school was emotional not only for Abbie but also for her mother.

“After Abbie left for the airport, I think I cried for a full week,” Julie Hetherington said.

After 4,373 miles of travel, Hetherington prepared to settle into a strange place far from home.

“When I first saw people wearing cowboy boots and hats, I thought it was a joke,”

Hetherington said.

The joke quickly subsided as Hetherington found that adapting to Stillwater was more difficult than she thought. Homesickness was like a common cold, and Hetherington frequently found herself longing to return to England. She called her mother in tears seeking the cure of home.

Homesickness wasn’t the only symptom upsetting her.

Hetherington still couldn’t find the courage to tell her new teammates and friends that she is gay.

Kaylee Dodd, Hetherington’s teammate and close friend, lived two doors down from Hetherington and could tell something was eating at her.

“I knew she was struggling, but I wasn’t sure why,” Dodd said. “There were times she would get really upset and say that she just wanted to be by herself.”

Hetherington said she felt that not telling her teammates about her sexual orientation was the equivalent of lying to them. She said it was like leading a double life.

“Give it a chance” In the winter, tree branches become brittle, and ice can crack or shatter.

As the weather cooled

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Abbie Hetherington, a OSU athlete, came out as gay in the summer of 2015 after her freshman year.

and 2014 came to a close, Hetherington’s situation matched the fragile theme of winter.

She returned home to Carlisle for winter break, exhausted from a mentallydraining semester.

“After my first semester, I definitely did not want to come back,” Hetherington said.

Back home, Hetherington received a dose of “tough

love,” as her mother called it. One day during winter break, Julie Hetherington sat down with her daughter and told her the reality of her situation.

“You don’t have to go back, Abbie, but if you don’t then you will regret it,” Julie Hetherington told her. “You have got to give it a chance.”

Hetherington heeded her mother’s advice. The year changed to 2015, and

Hetherington reluctantly returned to Stillwater to finish her freshman year.

With the new year, racing transitioned from the crosscountry courses to the track.

In Hetherington’s indoor and outdoor seasons, she grew closer to her team and found success on the track.

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1,000-meter race, setting a personal best time of 2:49.19. When the outdoor season arrived, she continued her success and even won the 800-meter run at the Arkansas Twilight.

With new achievements and growing confidence, Hetherington’s desire to share her secret to her teammates grew. Her teammate and friend Molly Sughroue noticed Hetherington had something on her mind.

“I could tell during the year that she wanted to tell me something,” Sughroue said. “But I never urged her or forced her to feel like she had to.”

As freshman year finished and students went home for the summer, Hetherington decided it was time to tell one of her teammates.

The message One summer day in Carlisle, Hetherington built up the courage to send a Facebook message to Sughroue. This would mark the first time she revealed her sexual orientation to one of her new teammates. After plenty of thought and typing, she constructed a massive message, as she described it, to Sughroue.

Momentarily, her finger hung above the button that could possibly decide her future running for OSU. If her teammates didn’t accept her for her sexual orientation, she would not return to Stillwater. She anxiously waited for her teammate’s reply.

The nerves persisted.

England is six hours ahead of Central Time. Hetherington had to wait hours for a response, but she said it felt like ages.

Finally, she got a notification. It was a message from Sughroue.

“Abbie, I don’t care who you love,” Sughroue typed. “I

just want you to be happy, but also that’s fricking cool.”

In an article Hetherington wrote for Outsports, a website dedicated to athletes coming out, she said she felt liberated. She said she doesn’t think she will ever forget Sughroue’s response.

After two semesters of stress, fear and pent-up feelings, Hetherington finally found the courage to reveal her sexual orientation. Her teammate’s supportive and reassuring response gave her the strength to tell the rest of the team.

At the start of Hetherington’s sophomore year, as she started coming out to her teammates, their responses amazed her.

Hetherington said it was such a good feeling. When she told some of the older girls on the team, one cried because she was so happy for her.

Hetherington vividly remembered teammate Natalie Baker’s reaction.

“I told one of my teammates the night before we traveled for a meet,” Courtesy of osu athletics Hetherington said. “I Abbie Hetherington, an OSU cross-country runner, won the 2017 Big 12 title in the 1000-meter race two years after coming out as gay. hadn’t seen her much the night before, but in the session in Gallagher-Iba Someone had mentioned it was still trying to hide that the right people, they’re not morning on our way to the Arena, she said to Smith that to me while I was recruiting she is gay. Coming out has going to judge you.” airport, Natalie Baker was she is gay and had told her her. To me, that didn’t matter given her confidence in her Outsports, the website so emotional and just kept teammates. to me.” athletic career and outside it. where Hetherington shared hugging me.”

To her surprise, he already Today, almost anyone her story, has the motto knew.

“Courage is contagious” who knows Hetherington “Courage is contagious.”

All of her teammates He gave her a big hug.

Hetherington realized knows she is gay. She proudly Hetherington said she showed love and support.

“I already know, let’s get no one minded her sexual sports a rainbow emoji in her hopes anyone who is in a One of Hetherington’s back to work,” Smith said. orientation. She was still the Instagram bio. situation similar to what she biggest fears was that her “Why would I care, Hev?” same teammate, leader and “OSU is a really diverse experienced her freshman fellow runners would treat Hev is a nickname that friend in their eyes. place,” Hetherington said. her differently if everyone Hetherington’s high school Since coming out, “Everyone is from all over year has the courage to say knew she is gay. Dodd, friends and Smith call her.

Hetherington has found more the world, and although it’s in something.

Hetherington’s close friend, Smith recalled the day success in her athletic career. the ‘Bible Belt,’ people have “I’ve never heard any assured her this would not be Hetherington told him about In 2016, Hetherington and open-minded views.” negative reaction to me the case. her situation. the women’s cross-country Dodd said she is happy coming out,” Hetherington “Nothing is going to “She came up to me team won their first Big 12 Hetherington accepts herself said. “Sometimes, it’s the change,” Dodd said to anticipating a big nervous team title and placed seventh and feels the same way. people you don’t expect who Hetherington. “I would never conversation that we were at nationals. Hetherington “For her to come out are the most supportive.” see you any different.” going to have, this big claimed her first individual should prove that other Positive responses meaningful moment, but I Big 12 title after winning the people can,” Dodd said. “It David Moore is a like Dodd’s persuaded already knew,” Smith said. “I 1,000-meter race in the 2017 took her a while, but she sports media sophomore Hetherington to tell thought that she had known indoor season. was in a new place where from Denver. He can be her coach, Dave Smith. all along that I knew.

Hetherington said she she didn’t know anyone. She reached at davmoor@ Hetherington wrote in her “I do my research when doesn’t think she would be didn’t want people to judge article that after a core I’m recruiting someone. the athlete she is today if she her, but when you’re around okstate.edu.

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Review: ‘Halloween’ offers confusing tone, predictable scares J e t Turn er S taff Repo rter @ j boy_315 A monster of the past comes back to haunt his family in 2018’s “Halloween.”

After a bus crash on Halloween night sets the murderous Michael Myers (Nick Castle) loose, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is forced to come to her final confrontation with the masked murderer who has been haunting her for nearly 40 years.

Sadly, this sequel to 1978’s original “Halloween” fails to set itself apart from today’s stereotypical horror movie.

Predicable scares mixed with poor script writing

and almost no character development hinder the movie from capitalizing on great source material and an interesting story dynamic.

The tone of “Halloween” is confusing as well. It switches between horror and comedy so quickly and frequently that viewers have little time to be scared because they are laughing so much.

Although Myers is not presented in any type of comic light, it is hard to take the movie seriously because of these dramatic changes in tone.

What “Halloween” lacks in these departments is made up for with excellent camera work and fun action sequences. Director

David Gordon Green does a great job using the camera to capture the fear on the faces of Myers’ victims while keeping the suspense in the scene.

Choreographed action sequences also help add to the suspense of the movie and keep the tempo moving forward. The only thing that interrupts this pacing is the random comedy.

Curtis’ performance as Strode is the strongest presented in the film.

Although she suffers from the poor script writing, she is still able to present an engaging character that makes you wonder who the crazy one is: Strode or Myers? What also makes Strode an

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David Gordon Green’s “Halloween” was released Oct. 19. interesting character is her past. We finally get a look at how the characters in horror movies react to the violence, stress and grief that comes in the aftermath of these terrible events.

Although there are

drawbacks to this movie, fans of the original “Halloween” should still be pleased with the journey they take.

“Halloween” originals Curtis and Castle reprise their classic roles to bring

back the essence of the original movie. Director Green also weaves old Halloween style into the 2018 sequel “Halloween.”

This movie is a direct sequel to the 1978 original “Halloween” and doesn’t acknowledge the other sequels in any way.

Although “Halloween” fails in its delivery with a hindering script and tone confusion, it offers enough nostalgia to satisfy longtime fans of the “Halloween” franchise.

Jet Turner is a multimedia journalism sophomore from Van Buren, Arkansas. He can be reached at jetturn@okstate.edu.

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Preparing for Halloween can be stressful, especially as a party host. This list provides several ideas to make any party the party to remember.

1. Dry ice Dry ice provides an eerie fog that can be used in drinks or props. Put it in a punch bowl, cauldron or jack-o’-lantern to fill the air with a mysterious haze.

Because it is extremely cold, handle the ice with a protective layer. An oven mitt should work. For a denser fog, pour a little warm water on the dry ice.

2. Syringes Syringes are usually used for medical purposes, but on this night a host should mix up a cocktail of his or her choosing to fill the (safe, sanitary) syringes. Leave them by the punch to put an interesting twist on Halloween cocktails.

3. Cobwebs Fake cobwebs are super inexpensive and come in large quantities. Buy a bag of spiderwebs and spread them out across tables, picture frames and the front door for a spin on party decorations.

4. Test tubes Experiment with different drinks and put a funky colored drink in the test tubes as another way to enjoy a cocktail without using traditional cups.

5. Black lights Black lights provide just enough light for partygoers to see but keep the party dark enough to create that perfect

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6. Fake blood Splatter the fake blood on walls or dip a hand in it. Then press against mirrors or doors.

Try both to create a gory scene.

7. Crime scene tape Wrap crime scene tape around bushes, doors, trees and tables to lure any suspect back to the scene of the crime.

8. Halloween-themed candy Most people enjoy candy on Halloween, but it’s even more fun when it’s Halloween themed. Set out a bowl of Halloween-themed candy to provide something festive for friends to munch on.

9. Cauldron (use as punch bowl) Hosts can use a cauldron as a festive bowl to fill with punch, snacks or dry ice.

10. Colored light bulbs Most hardware stores and

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supermarkets offer colored light bulbs. For a Halloween party, grab orange or purple lights to display an array of Halloween colors.

11. Creepy picture Halloween stores often carry creepy pictures to hang up in October. Get a large one to use as a backdrop for photos with friends.

12. Props for pics People love to take photos with props. Get an assortment of hats, silly headbands and glasses. These props can include a witch’s hat, cat ears and other Halloween-related ideas.

13. Pumpkins Pumpkins are a fall classic and can set the tone. Paint or carve them to make them spooky or fun.

Remember to stay safe on Halloween and keep track of drinks and belongings.

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too old to trick-or-treat? SOME IDEAS Dav i d Mo or e S taff R epo rt er @ run david m oor e

Peering out your window on Halloween night, you see all of the young ghouls, skeletons, superheroes, cowboys and other trickor-treaters heading out on their annual excursion for sweets.

However, college students will not partake in the action: they are too old to trick-or-treat. But some of them are too young to go out to theme nights at the bars in Stillwater.

Instead of longing to be young again, here is a list of activities to fill the void of not trick-or-treating.

Activity No. 1: Scary Movie Marathon Bundle up under the blankets and, if necessary, hide under them because the spooky levels are about to get real with these scary movies.

In the spirit of Halloween, Netflix has a terrifying list of movies ready for viewing.

For old school horror fans, the 1984 film “Children of the Corn” is one of the top-rated scary movies of all time. If that isn’t scary enough, “The Conjuring” is also available on Netflix. Other movies to choose from include “The Babadook,” “The Shining,” “It Follows” and plenty more.

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So, grab a buddy, make some popcorn and be prepared for a frightful night.

Activity No. 2: Haunted House If the movies don’t provide enough of a scare, a haunted house might.

Some of the top haunted houses in Oklahoma include Guthrie Haunts in Guthrie and Lost Lakes Haunted Forest and The Sanctuary Haunted Attraction, both in Oklahoma City.

Gather a group of friends or go alone. Take on the challenge and try to make it through a haunted house this Halloween without screaming.

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Activity No. 3: Hand out candy The days of childhood are well in the past. It is now time to fill the second role in trick-or-treating: handing out the candy.

One of the best parts of Halloween for kids is going house to house and being greeted with smiles and sweets. As adults, it is time to hang up the trick-ortreating pillowcases and provide the children with the sweets.

Whatever happens this Halloween, make sure it is filled with scares, fun and irreplaceable memories.

David Moore is a sports media sophomore from Denver. He can be reached at davmoor@ okstate.edu.

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36 Chowderheads 37 Dudes-only 38 Spongy toy 41 Matte finish?

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43 Way out 44 Brief TV plug 45 Kidd stuff 47 Remote button 48 Complete, as a PDF contract

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50 Gives over (to) 51 Michelle Robinson’s married name 52 Gen. Assembly member 58 “Lower your voice!”

59 Country singer David Allan __ 60 Steal from PAGE 11

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