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AMERICA’S GREATESTHomecoming the lifeblood of the OSU experience

‘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

‘Many have parades, but I don’t think anyone compares to the magnitude that

we do for our homecoming.’MELISSA PARKERSON, OSU Alumni Association’s

director of student programs

The first Walkaround was established in 1966.

80,000 people in attendance in recent years.

About 270 students are involved in the planning process.

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.

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 dis-played.

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

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

Oklahoma State’s home-coming 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 REUNIONEvents 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 or-ganizational administration,

OSU Homecoming serves as an annual family reunion.

Each year, Hines watches the homecoming parade with her family, which trav-els 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 denomi-nator, OSU is a common de-nominator. It’s a time where we can get together and have fun with both things.”

THE EXPERIENCEOSU homecoming is

a special experience that evokes feelings of nostal-gia 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, Homecom-ing has been a major part of the OSU experience. It is a


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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 Car-nival, 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 Home-coming Celebration.”

The OSU alumni as-sociation hosted the first official homecoming cel-ebration in 1920. In honor of homecoming, students began decorating the women’s dormitories, and in 1930, the first home-coming 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 ad-mire house decs instead of cramming the streets with their vehicles.

Today, Walkaround is the most popular home-coming 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, di-rector of student programs for the OSU Alumni As-sociation.

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

AMERICA’S GREATEST

Other schools like Uni-versity 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 celebra-tion, 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

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

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

Behind the ScenesWhile homecoming

serves as a proud reminder of steadfast tradition for alumni, the feat of organiz-ing and preparing for the celebration is not small.

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

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 com-mittees to manage the event.

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

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 home-coming for the right rea-sons,” 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 com-mittee has encouraged OSU alums to share their memorable experiences during their time at OSU.

He said alums have revealed all types of experi-ences from events like All Night Pomp to simply enjoying a walk around campus. Collins said meet-ing 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 commit-ted to making homecom-ing bigger and better each year and something that is really special for alumni.”

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‘IN A FLASH’

The biggest reason for Kevin Peterson’s success as a football player isn’t his blaz-ing speed, long arms, physi-cal 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 admit-tance, was overly worried about going to the NFL and struggled mightily. He See FLASH Page 6

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Kevin Peterson’s journey from Hurricane Rita refugee to OSU star

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 fifth-grader 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

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 Wag-oner, 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. Look-ing 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

when the Lake Charles sher-iff ’s department went door-to-door informing people of a mandatory evacuation.

Rita, Katrina’s sister in the most extreme Atlantic hur-ricane 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 Play-Station, then packed into the family’s Chrysler. A lasting regret: They might have been able to bring more.

“We planned on coming back,” Kimberly Peter-son 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 Peter-son had never driven on a long trip out of state before,


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Oklahoma State Uni-versity 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, tailgat-ing, and of course, the football game. Behind all of those activities is an in-credible workload — and an even greater amount of money.

“The OSU Alumni As-sociation spends approxi-mately $95,000 dollars annually on homecom-ing,” said Chase Carter, OSU Alumni Association Director of Communica-tions.

But that does not include the salary and bonuses for the

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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’ three-

bedroom house with the big

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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.

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 trau-ma. It led to him becoming one of the best cornerbacks in the Big 12.

MAKING OF A STARKevin 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 de-cided 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 persever-ance 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

made the decision to grow up. That meant helping his mother whenever he could, even if only by being respon-sible 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 Pe-terson’s athletic talents grew up, too.

Peterson started as a fresh-man 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 commit-ted 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 Cow-boys 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-on-one 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 inter-ception of the season.

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

“He’s the worrywart,” Kevin Peterson Sr. said. “He is the attention to detail man. You better believe he is


Building a winning dec takes more than tissue paper

“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 ulti-mate trophy come from the house decorations, or decs.

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

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ing, welding and construc-tion.

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 Photo-shop to split it into sec-tions. Then, the images run through software designed for stitching or crocheting.

The program assigns a symbol to each of the im-age’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. Pomp-ers work on these individu-ally.

Green said the hardest

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

“Thinking about some-thing 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 soror-ity 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

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.”

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Homecoming is a ‘waste of time’? Maybe that’s the point

It’s always noticeable when homecoming is get-ting near.

English professor Seth Wood sees it on his stu-dents’ 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 pomp-ing hours,” Wood said.

The anxiety becomes obvious as both home-

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coming and the second round of tests approach. Wood normally worries about his freshman stu-dents 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 10-12 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 complet-ed, 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 differ-ent pieces share a theme. This year’s theme is “The Experience.”

Students weave com-plexity 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 home-coming in the nation for a reason,” Geoghegan said.

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

“Eighty-thousand peo-ple came to homecoming last year, and not many of those people understand everything that goes into it,” said Will Kuykendall,


head homecoming direc-tor for Sigma Chi.

Decs can’t be the same. The OSU Alumni Asso-ciation 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 num-ber 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 al-lowed to begin putting the decs together until Sept. 1. This means that stu-dents 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 pomp-ing. 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 struc-tures that students build. Kuykendall, who mainly works on building the skeletal structure that sup-ports 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

there working.”Some students choose

to avoid homecoming altogether.

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

After the decs go on display and homecom-ing 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 stud-ied indigenous cultures that held ceremonies to celebrate waste. North-western Native Ameri-can 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 es-sentially a party in which

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 re-ally 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 build-ing 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, Ba-taille would suggest that

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

All else aside, home-coming is a unique tradi-tion that provides joy for many. But new perspec-tives about such a wide-spread 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.”

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LIBRARY SPEAKERBest-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.

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LOHMANN AWARDEDThe 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.).

The Honors College at Oklahoma

State University recently experienced a

record year for enrollment, which is one

of several positive indicators that Dr. Keith

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

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 Champaign-

Urbana and Harvard University, Garbutt

accepted a position at West Virginia

University in 1987. He became chair of the

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 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.

• 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 upper-division honors credit hours.

Dr. Keith Garbutt

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

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Homecoming & Hoops: What to watch for

O’COLLY FILE PHOTOOklahoma State’s Homecoming & Hoops starts Friday at 9 p.m.

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

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

The 2014-15 Oklahoma State men’s basketball team plays for the first time pub-licly 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 play-ers 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.

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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 chal-lenges.”

Along those lines, it seems some of the internal prob-lems 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

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 MIXThere 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 coachabil-ity,” Ford said.

Hickey is an athletic de-fender 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.”

MEET AND GREETHomecoming & Hoops

is also the best opportu-nity to look at some of the

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

Another interesting pros-pect is junior college transfer Anthony Allen. Allen is a 7-footer who averaged 6.2 blocks per game for Lamar State-Port Arthur in 2013-14.

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.

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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 Home-coming Endowment, with that number expected to rise significantly following this year’s celebration.

Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council have also contributed to the homecoming endow-ment.

Each passed a resolu-tion 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 opportu-nity to our alumni to say, ‘Look, this is how our students feel about home-coming, let’s see how you guys feel about homecom-ing,’ and continue to step up to the plate to make sure that it continues to be the celebration that it is today,” Batchelder said.

celebration, several years ago the Alumni Assocai-tion established a Home-coming Endowment to help alleviate the financial weight on both Greek living groups and the as-sociation itself.

The goal with that endowment is to raise $3,000,000 (yes, that’s six zeroes) toward home-coming. 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 signifi-cance of that is that the endowment agreement is written such that once the fund crossed the million-dollar 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 ex-penses for activities.

Each activity has a cer-tain 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 Omi-cron Pi.

Seven to eight thousand is a lot of money consid-ering the materials are

director of Student Pro-grams.

Because the OSU Alumni Association is a separate nonprofit from the university, it is not obligated to publish sala-ries; 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 As-sociation President and CEO.

“We budget to lose money on it every year. We know that it’s ex-tremely expensive.”

This is a given con-sidering 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 homecom-ing certainly has some return on investment, largely because of the celebration of alumni and the donations that it influences for the univer-sity. 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.

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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, some-times 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 Peter-son a locker room favorite. Entering this season, Peter-son was the lone returning starter in the secondary. He took it upon himself to become a leader, but not nec-essarily by becoming more vocal. Instead, Peterson has become a calming presence.

Safety Jordan Sterns found that out when he was anxious before mak-ing 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

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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 talk-ing, 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-go-lucky 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,” Kim-berly 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 oppos-ing quarterbacks won’t throw to his side, and Spencer might flip the conversation.

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

“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 grow-ing 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 Sep-tember 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 every-thing.

“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.”


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SOLUTION TO THURSDAY’S PUZZLE

Complete the gridso each row, column and 3-by-3 box(in bold borders)contains everydigit, 1 to 9. For strategies onhow to solveSudoku, visitwww.sudoku.org.uk

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

FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 24, 2014

ACROSS1 Critters who

worshiped C-3POas a god

6 Penicillinprecursor

11 Like Beethoven’sSecondSymphony

14 Museum piece15 Central Florida

city16 Wild West17 Latin for “big

idiot”?19 “Certainement!”20 Blotter letters21 Good, in Genoa22 Hides in the

closet?23 Latin for “holding

a grudge for along, long time”?

26 Classic pops29 Charles of old

mysteries30 Bustles31 Steam table fuel35 “Good”

cholesterolinitials

38 Latin for “fightingover parkingspots is notallowed”?

41 Adams of “TheMuppets”

42 Owl, at times43 Turkmenistan

neighbor44 Where change is

welcome46 “Choose taste”

sauce brand47 Latin for

“cheating onone’s timecard”?

53 Son ofAphrodite

54 Cell terminal55 Cry made with a

raised indexfinger

58 Torah holder59 Latin for “fish

trading”?62 Journalist William

Shirer’s almamater

63 Verve64 Hefty portion65 Shop door nos.66 Idée sources67 Salon and others

DOWN1 First name in wit2 Watery, as a drink3 One of Chekhov’s

“Three Sisters”4 Blood5 Takes a dive?6 Agreeable words7 Sch. originally

endowed by theStorrs brothers

8 __ luxury9 Viral ailment

10 Remote powersources

11 “See ya!”12 Pacific republic

near the equator13 Voltaire’s world-

view18 Joe with some

oomph22 Holiday buy23 Sapporo soup24 __ circle25 “High __”26 Family nickname27 Biblical kingdom

near the DeadSea

28 “Yikes!”31 Glaswegians,

e.g.32 Furthermore33 Tolkien creature

34 Series of turns:Abbr.

36 Snoozefest37 2014 Television

Academy Hall ofFame inductee

39 Biblical pronoun40 Gossip45 Vinyl spinners46 Go through47 Emulate Anne

Sullivan48 Flub

49 Gounod opera50 Form an alliance51 Extinct Mauritian

birds52 Econ. stat55 Blue hue56 Like curtains57 NASA go-aheads59 Friday is one:

Abbr.60 Prov. on the St.

Lawrence61 Electrical unit

Thursday’s Puzzle SolvedBy Bruce Haight 10/24/14

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