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COLUMN: Student reflects on time with journalism trailblazer Helen Thomas

June 10, 2010 | 7 comments

The woman who has been called a bigot, an anti-Semite, a racist and a “liberal loon” more times in recent days than I care to think about was the topic of a phone call with my grandfather Monday night. READ MORE

CART plans expansion, looks to service community

January 28, 2010 | 0 comments

The year was 1980, and a familiar beast terrorized the OU campus. The Oklahoma Daily that year dubbed it the “Parking Menace, a beast that plagues students and administrators alike.” The beast prompted the creation of Cleveland Area Rapid Transit. READ MORE

'Gendercide' discussion focuses on women

November 11, 2009 | 0 comments

Tens of thousands of women are traumatized by war every year, and their stories are largely ignored, panelists told an audience Wednesday night in Meacham Auditorium. READ MORE

OU students help with project to clean up Tar Creek area

October 12, 2009 | 0 comments

COMMERCE — The water here is toxic. READ MORE

Student's death five years ago still resonates on campus

September 30, 2009 | 3 comments

The memory is fading from the OU campus. READ MORE

Q&A with OU alcohol prevention coordinator

September 30, 2009 | 0 comments

Below is The Oklahoma Daily's Hailey Branson's Q&A with Goddard alcohol counselor, Jennifer Crenshaw. READ MORE

Oklahoma schools opt to go green

September 21, 2009 | 0 comments

The number of colleges and universities across the country committing to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through a national pledge has more than doubled since OU agreed to do so more than two years ago. READ MORE

Small fire breaks out in Chemistry Building closet

September 9, 2009 | 0 comments

Dozens of students and faculty were displaced Tuesday morning as firefighters put out a small fire in the Chemistry Building on the southwest side of the North Oval. READ MORE

Chemistry Building fire damage unknown

September 8, 2009 | 0 comments

Dozens of students and faculty were displaced Tuesday morning as firefighters put out a small fire in the Chemistry Building on the southwest side of the North Oval. READ MORE

Inhofe’s earmarks outnumber rest of Oklahoma delegation’s

March 13, 2009 | 4 comments

There’s a $91.6 million difference between Oklahoma Republican Sens. Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn. READ MORE

COLUMN: Student gets chills at Obama’s inaugural address

January 20, 2009 | 0 comments

It was evident everywhere and in every form in Washington, D.C. that the inauguration of President Barack Obama Tuesday moved and inspired many in this country in ways that can’t be numbered or even fully understood. READ MORE

COLUMN: Oklahoma heartbreak

November 25, 2008 | 45 comments

I locked myself in my bedroom and cried the first time I read the memo. It was January 2008. Two weeks before, I had sent a text message to a former high school teacher that read simply, “Oh no. I may be turning liberal.” READ MORE

COLUMN: Being called an idiot can be OK

November 10, 2008 | 1 comment

As the opinion editor of The Daily, I have been called an idiot and incompetent more times this semester than ever before in my life. READ MORE

THIRD HEISMAN STATUE UNVEILED

September 3, 2007 | 0 comments

Billy Sims stared up at a larger-than-life bronze replica of him Saturday and shook his head. READ MORE

ISLAMIC SCHOLAR: FREEDOM OF SPEECH REQUIRES RESPONSIBILITY, SENSITIVITY

March 29, 2007 | 0 comments

An Islamic scholar said in a speech Thursday night that freedom should never be viewed as an absolute value. Imam Zaid Shakir, lecturer at the Zaytuna Institute, addressed a crowd at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History four months after a controversial Tulsa World cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed sparked an OU debate between cartoonist Doug Marlette and students. READ MORE

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