Four years ago in Beijing, Andretti Bain became the first ORU Olympic medalist in any sport, winning a silver medal in the 4x400m relay. This year, ORU could potentially have four current students and three alumni competing at the games scheduled to take place July 27 to Aug. 12 in London.

Despite recurring thunderstorms throughout the afternoon April 7, students participated in the annual ORU Spring Outreach.

Put together by the Missions and Outreach department, more than 150 students visited the Tulsa Dream Center in North Tulsa and 100 visited the South Tulsa Community House to reach out to the respective communities.

“The main goal was color your city and just to go out and show people the love of Christ,” said Aaron Quinn, one of the outreach coordinators. “It was pouring, but there was still a large number of people there, and they all crammed into the gym enjoying the events.”

Spring came, and the ORU missionaries went. All across the nation, ORU Missions sent out 10 teams with a total of 134 missionaries during Spring Break. Although this was a chance for most students to relax, these teams took this opportunity to reach out to people all across America, and even some islands. These are the teams that just arrived back.

Around 3 p.m. on March 2, Joe Edens walked by Hava Java while running an errand for the admissions office during College Weekend.

As he briefly glanced at the television, something caught his eye.

On the TV in the GC coffee shop, Edens saw the name “Marysville, Indiana” flash across the screen. The next words made his stomach lurch: tornado outbreak.