“All of us were standing backstage, holding hands with our eyes closed. When they called my name, I just stood there in disbelief.”

ORU 2011 health and physical science graduate Dominique Barnett, then took the stage to join the 2012-13 Oklahoma City Thunder Girl dance team.

“I remember standing on stage, looking out into the crowd and thinking I am literally on this team,” Barnett said. “It was scary and everything I wanted at the same time.”

She competed with 200 other young women during a week-long process of interviews along with jazz, hip-hop, “pom” and free-style routines.

On April 2, Tulsa residents filled the Mabee Center and experienced the nation’s history through the eyes and ears of a man who has witnessed half a century’s worth firsthand.

From being knee-deep in the rubble of Ground Zero to reporting from the streets of the civil rights movement and serving as NBC’s White House correspondent during the Watergate scandal, Tom Brokaw has found some stories worth telling.

The man who has been with NBC since 1966 refers to himself as a “main-street journalist.” He took the stage as part of a speaker circuit put on by the Tulsa Business Forum and Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business.

The Ooceeh-Green campaign name has been carried through conversations on campus, posters on the dorm walls and social media sites over the past few of weeks in preparation for the announcement of the 2013-2014 SA President and Vice President. During chapel on Wednesday, Ooceeh Afame and Tyler Green were named just that.

As their campaign advertised and as discussed at the candidate forum, it is no secret that the Ooceeh-Green platform was adamant about focusing on scholarships.

“Using that office of SA to pull in some other students who have stories like me, we are going to walk together and get more of the stories out to donors,” Afame said. “We will reach a wider variety of donors; we expect in return (many) more donations coming in than we have right now and all of that will go toward scholarships.”

Something that is close to his heart, Afame expresses his own appreciation for scholarships.

“I wouldn’t have been here without scholarships,” Afame said. “And I know what it means to have someone who wants to go to school and doesn’t have money. Every sacrifice I could make to make sure that we have more money coming into our scholarship (program), I will.”

If a trash chute isn’t clogged up, a student’s bundle of trash should hit the basement in a couple of seconds. However, it takes 12 hours for that trash to be taken out every day.

Students don’t typically think about what happens when they do a clean sweep of their dorm room.