"On that list of goals I wanted to achieve, one of them was to graduate early and another one was to get out of college with as little debt as possible," Brown said. "So, when I realized it was possible to do both, I figured, ‘Why Not?’—Russell Westbrook style.”
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Working to encourage students to practice mental health, especially concerning academic stress caused by upcoming final exams, U!Learn, a subset of Oklahoma Christian University’s U!Shine organization, hosted the lecture, “Adventures in Grit” Nov. 4.
To strengthen relationships between predominantly Caucasian and predominantly African American church congregations, the United in Christ organization held their cross-congregational event, Unity in Love, Dec. 3 in Oklahoma Christian University’s McIntosh Conservatory.
“To me, the campus just keeps getting better and better,” Jones said. “OC has a lot of great traditions we do that builds a legacy of carrying on what others have done before us. Last year, Dr. Harold Fletcher passed away. He always came to Cocoa and Carols and Kent Adams followed in his footsteps, and I’m hoping to follow in footsteps before me.”
To celebrate the beginning of the holiday season, Oklahoma Christian University held its annual Lighting of the Commons last night, Nov. 28, complete with fireworks, hot cocoa, a visit from Santa Claus and a Christmas market.
“I feel like OC tries to offer people outside of OC to come together to enjoy either different songs of different cultures or even different states, so I think that’s pretty cool,” Kern said. “I like that OC tries to bring in people outside of college students, like what we do for Cocoa and Carols in the commons. We’re bringing people of the community together.”
To help people encounter God in the wonders of creation and be the ministry of Jesus to visitors, coworkers and people passing through, A Christian Ministry in the National Parks is a nonprofit, inter-denominational ministry, which sends ministry teams into national parks every summer.
The women of Gamma Rho became back-to-back homecoming champions, after placing first in the overall club standings on Nov. 4.