On May 4, graduating seniors will spend their last moments as college students not only listening to Dr. Rutland, but also to Student Response Speaker, Sierra Koelling.

The selection process for the Student Response Speaker started with submissions from multiple speakers, and then narrowed it down to a group of six finalists.

“After that we had to memorize our speeches, and the following week we presented them in front of a board,” Koelling said.

Faculty and staff haven’t received training on how to handle the event of an intruder in the past three or four years, a recent study by the Oracle showed.

There have been at least 13 college shootings so far in 2013, according to the Huffington Post, with lock downs occurring every week.

Tragic events such as the massacres at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007 and Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012, remind schools across the country to reevaluate their safety procedures.

According to Director of Public Safety and Security Jerry Isaacs, there are plans in the fall to update safety procedures in the case of an intruder.

If you’re on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, the pink equal sign overset on a red square is a familiar image.

Instigating hope and anger alike, the Supreme Court is in the process of deciding the results of the two same-sex marriage cases heard last week, and almost everyone has something to say about it.

Whether you’re for or against the fight for equality, chances are good you can log onto Facebook and see your Great Aunt Clara arguing with Cousin Will about these landmark decisions. But what does it all mean for the Christian community?

“… Where my light is seen dim, and my voice is heard small…”

These words are the end to a call that started it all. Oral Roberts University is founded on a call to go after God-sized dreams in “every man’s world.”

ORU alumnus Nate Dies is the video production coordinator for the Oklahoma City Thunder. For Dies, Oral Roberts’ “every man’s world” has become his work in one of the largest entertainment industries on the planet: The National Basketball Association.