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Top events coming up at SWOSU
• The Gentlemen of Hip-Hop Pan-orama Event, Feb. 2, 7:30 pm, Fine Arts Center
• Jazz Festival, Feb. 9-10TOPS FOUR PLAYERS SIGNING DAY LADY BULLDOGS
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SWOSU SnapshotSWOSU students and faculties celebrated the Lunar New Year party on January. 27 at the BCM. The event was
hosted by Assistant Professor Jack Li and his wife. Photos by Harry Le
By Evan James EdlerStaff Reporter
Despite the trend of smaller enrollment fig-ures amongst Oklahoma’s universities in the spring, SWOSU’s figures have gone up this semester.
SWOSU Registrar Shamus Moore reported that as of January 20, 2017, SWOSU is up 2.5% in headcount, 3.2% in full time equivalents, and 3.1% in total credit hours.
Moore added that SWOSU’s largest increases in enrollment are in the number of graduate students and in those enrolled in classes on SWOSU’s Sayre campus.
By Breanna NeerStaff Reporter
Southwestern will host its annual Jazz Festival on Feb. 9 and 10.
“We’re on our 47th year. This was started by Dr. Terry Segress in 1970,” said Dr. Richard Tirk, associate profes-sor in the Department of Music.
Many big jazz stars have come to play on the stage. This year trombone player Bill Watrous, as well as the Stockden Helbing trio will play at the festival.
“Mr. Watrous has been one of the top jazz trombon-ists since the 60s,” Tirk said.
On Thursday, Feb. 9, Watrous and the Helbing trio will perform a free concert at 7 p.m. in the Berrong Recital Hall.
Jazz Festival to bring top talent to campus
Enrollment up for spring semester
Beutler responds to immigration banBy Amber BachiochiCo-Editor
On Monday, January 27, SWOSU President Randy Beutler released a statement regarding the Trump admin-istration’s recent immigration ban. The ban, issued last Friday, bars entry to the United States by people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, and Somalia—all of which are Muslim-majority countries—for 90 days. The executive order also indefinitely bans Syrian refu-gees from entering the U.S. and halts the resettlement of refugees from other countries for 120 days.
University presidents Burns Hargis and David Boren, of Oklahoma State and the University of Oklahoma, respectively, recently released statements as well.
Beutler’s statement reads as follows:“To the Students, Faculty and Staff of SWOSU:Over the weekend there has been much discussion
about the recent presidential executive orders concern-ing immigration. As you may know, SWOSU embraces a commitment to welcoming a diverse population of fac-ulty and students to carry out its important educational mission. Please know that we are concerned about these recent developments and are closely monitoring the situ-ation.
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Festival from page 1
SWOSU to host Glow Prom for Special Olympics participants
NEWS
On Feb. 10 about 15 to 20 middle school and high school bands will come to play starting at 9 a.m. for 30 minutes. Each band will perform in front of well-known jazz adjudicators, who will then make comments and rat-ings. These band include: Bethany, Clinton, Cordell, Del City, Midwest City, Oklahoma Christian, Sulfur, Verdi-gris and Yukon high schools and middle schools. The students can also receive free master classes given by the adjudicators.
Also on Feb. 10 there will be two separate concerts at 1 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center. At the
concert, Watrous and the Helbing Trio will play with the SWOSU jazz band. Student tickets are $3, senior citizen tickets are $5, and general admission is $10.
Tirk said the main point of the jazz festival is to bring in well-known jazz adjudicators and jazz artists, as well as alumni.
“Hosting a festival like this for 47 years is pretty unique in any part of the country,” Tirk said.
The jazz festival has been made possible because the SWOSU jazz program is supported by the Oklahoma Arts Council, as well as the city of Weatherford.
SWOSU SnapshotAn advanced orientation meeting for SWOSU international students was hosted by Dean of Students and
SWOSU faculty members in January 24 and January 25. Photos by Harry Le
By Delmi MenendezStaff Reporter
The Student Council for Exceptional Children and Kappa Delta Pi will host a state-wide Glow Prom on March 7 from 6 to 9 p.m in the Pioneer Cellular Event Center. Glow Prom is for students in grades 7-12, adults, para-professionals and coaches who participate in Special Olympics.
Glow Prom was designed to provide support and create more community awareness.
“Planning Glow Prom is really exciting, because I get to have the opportunity to help students with dis-abilities experience what it feels like to go to a prom,” said Daisy Oropeza, a Special Education Major from Sentinel.
“Many students with disabilities don’t have the chance to enjoy prom night. This seemed like a fun event because prom is a life experience that every stu-dent should have the opportunity to go to,” she said.
Suggested dress for the night is school-appropriate attire. Registrations are now being accepted and can be completed at swosu.formstack.com/forms/glow_prom_spring_2017. Students are welcome to volun-teer; for more information, call (580) 774-3197.
The Southwestern is the student newspaper of Southwestern Oklahoma State University. It is published every Wednesday during the fall and spring semesters, except during holidays and finals week. Students in the editing class serve as section editors, and students in the news gathering and reporting class serve as writers. The editorial board meets every Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. in the journalism lab, Campbell 211.The Southwestern encourages comments from the student body, faculty, and administration in the form of letters to the editor. All letters must include a name for consideration; however, the name may be withheld upon request. The opinions expressed within signed editorials are the opinions of the writ-ers; the opinions expressed in unsigned, boxed editorials are the opinion of the staff. Neither is necessarily the opinion of the university administration, staff or faculty.
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Spring 2017
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The Southwestern February 1, 2017 • Page 3NEWS
Wednesday, February 01, 2017All Day Bacchus Network Education MonthAll Day Room and Board Late Fee8:00 AM - 9:00 AM IPPE Pharmacy Informa-
tion Meeting10:00 AM - 3:00 PM Yearbook Pictures11:00 AM - 1:30 PM St. Eugene Catholic Church
College Lunch12:50 PM - 5:00 PM ACT Residual Exam12:50 PM - 1:50 PM SWOSU Flute Association
Business Meeting1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Football National Signing
Day Press Conference6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Kappa Kappa Psi Business
Meeting6:00 PM - 11:30 PM Residence Life at the OKC
Thunder Game6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Tau Beta Sigma Business
Meeting7:00 PM - 11:59 PM Kappa Kappa Psi Formal7:30 PM - 10:00 PM DND Club Group 3
Thursday, February 02, 20174:00 PM - 6:30 PM H.O.P.E Meeting5:30 PM Women’s Basketball @ Southern
Arkansas University6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Student Government Meet-
ing6:00 PM - 7:30 PM SWOSU Rugby Meetings/
Weights7:30 PM Men’s Basketball @ Southern Ar-
kansas University7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Panorama Event - The
Gentlemen of Hip-Hop8:00 PM - 10:00 PM FC College Circle8:00 PM - 10:00 PM SISA Meeting
Friday, February 03, 2017Softball at Southeastern Regional InvitationalAll Day Administrative Drop DateAll Day Washita Valley Basketball Confer-
ence Tournament8:30 AM - 2:00 PM TOEFL
Saturday, February 04, 2017Softball at Southeastern Regional InvitationalAll Day Washita Valley Basketball Confer-
ence Tournament12:00 PM Baseball at Oklahoma Panhandle
State University (DH)1:00 PM Women’s Basketball @ University of
Arkansas-Monticello3:00 PM Men’s Basketball @ University of
Arkansas at Monticello
Sunday, February 05, 2017Softball at Southeastern Regional Invitational6:00 PM - 11:00 PM Sigma Sigma Chi Meeting7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Phi Delta Theta Chapter
meeting7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Sigma Alpha Iota Colony
Business Meetings9:00 PM - 11:00 PM TKE meeting10:00 PM - 11:59 PM Phi Mu Alpha Weekly
Review
Monday, February 06, 2017All Day Residence Hall’s Reapplication
Period8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Exec Council Meeting10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Admin Council Meeting1:00 PM - 3:00 PM ITS Department Meeting1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Moore-Norman Tech Tour6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Wildland Fire Meeting9:00 PM - 11:00 PM Phi Mu Alpha MC Meeting9:00 PM - 11:00 PM Zeta Phi Weekly Meeting
Tuesday, February 07, 2017All Day Residence Hall’s Reapplication PeriodAll Day Withdrawal Refund- 2nd 4 week courses7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Athletic Council Meeting5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CAB Meeting6:00 PM - 7:30 PM SWOSU Rugby Meetings/
Weights7:00 PM - 11:00 PM DND Club Group 1
Upcoming Events
Crossword (courtesy of mirroreyes.com)
By Brent WilliamsStaff Reporter
The residence halls have a number of upcoming events for the spring semester.
Roberto Barrio, a resident advi-sor at Neff Hall, is arranging a Valentine’s Day event for residents in the dorms.
“Pretzels, bananas, strawberries and graham crackers,” are some of the items Roberto said would be available to be covered in melted chocolate.
“If we can get a fountain, we
will get one, otherwise our original idea was just to melt chocolate,” he said.
A water pong tournament is also being planned but a date has yet to be announced.
Barrio said a Super Bowl party is scheduled Feb. 5 at 5:30 in Neff Hall for whoever wants to attend.
These are just a few of the up-coming events put on by ResLife.
“Every dorm does a lot, two for each RA for every dorm, so there are about 100 events throughout the semester,” Barrio said.
By T.J. ComstockStaff Reporter
Tough parking is to be expected with the upcom-ing high school athletics events being held on campus.
SWOSU will host the Washita Valley Conference Challenge on Friday, Feb. 3 and Saturday, Feb. 4. Four games will be played on each of those days.
From Thursday, Feb. 23 to Saturday, Feb. 25, SWOSU will host the Class B Area State Champion-ships.
From Thursday, March 2 to Saturday, March 4, the Class 4A Area Tournament will take place at the Pioneer Cellular Event Center.
In addition to hosting these tournaments, SWOSU
is also the temporary home of Weatherford High School basketball games, which are being played in the Rankin-Williams Field House.
“The high school reached out to us because their floor is busted up due to water damage,” Pioneer Cel-lular Event Center Director Nate Downs said.
When asked how these events affect SWOSU, Athletic Director Todd Thurman said, “These tourna-ments bring a lot of people to Weatherford and a lot of people to the SWOSU campus, which is really great.”
For additional information about any of these events, contact Athletic Director Todd Thurman at 774-3701 or PCEC Director Nate Downs at 774-3700.
Campus hosts high school games, tournaments
Resident advisors plan hall events for spring
At SWOSU, we understand and ap-preciate the role that diversity plays in our educational and cultural lives. We embrace that opportunity. We believe that EVERYONE has value and that the future of this institution can be no better than the future of all of our students and faculty.
For students and faculty at SWOSU who happen to be foreign-born, please know that we are closely examining the situation and will continue to do so. If you have any questions or concerns related to this, please feel free to contact Dr. Randy Beckloff, Dean Cindy Dougherty or myself.
Randy L. BeutlerPresidentSouthwestern Oklahoma State
University”Beckloff, International Student
Affairs Coordinator at Southwestern, said he was pleased to see Beutler’s statement.
“At this time,” he said, “we don’t know of anyone associated with Southwestern who would be affected.”
According to the SWOSU fact book, the number of international students enrolled at SWOSU has more than doubled in just three years: last semester there were 245 compared with 116 in the fall of 2013.
Immigration from page 1
Crossword (courtesy of mirroreyes.com)
Shelly J. Stockton has been named Chair of the Department of Pharmaceuti-cal Sciences in the SWOSU College of Pharmacy in Weatherford.
Stockton is a professor in the Depart-ment of Pharmaceutical Sciences and has been a faculty member at SWOSU since 1996. She teaches pharmaceutics, phar-macy calculations and pharmaceutical care lab to first-semester pharmacy students. She recently co-authored a textbook entitled Pharmaceutical Calculations and authors the bimonthly Calculations column for the International Journal of
Pharmaceutical Compounding. Stockton received her B.S. in pharmacy
in 1990 and Ph.D. in pharmaceutics in 1996 from the University of Oklahoma.
She is a member of the American Pharmacists Association, Oklahoma Phar-macists Association, American Associa-tion of Colleges of Pharmacy and Kappa Epsilon Pharmaceutical Fraternity.
Stockton enjoys family time with her husband, Travis, and two sons, Noah and A.J. She is an active member of Victory Baptist Church and serves as the chil-dren’s ministry director.
Stockton named chair of pharmaceutical sciences
The SouthwesternPage 4 • February 1, 2017
FEATURES
By Monica PosasStaff Reporter
With these cold winter months upon
us, our beds may look more welcoming and staying active may feel more challeng-ing.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. Shae Pfenning is a freshman from
Hobart majoring in Health Science. Pfen-ning believes staying fit and active during the winter season is all about mind over matter.
“The hardest part is getting to the gym, but once you’re there you can do it,” Pfenning said.
Pfenning enjoys the SWOSU Wellness Center where she engages in cardio work-outs, yoga, and weight lifting.
The Wellness Center is free for all students and staff. Along with the weight room, track, and 30-foot rock wall, the
center’s staff members offer classes in abs, toning, and yoga.
Their hours are Monday through Thursday from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Fri-day from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Weekends hours are Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Other local gyms in town are Mack’s 24/7 Gym and SWOL Sport Performance Gym.
A local gym is not the only option for staying active during the winter months.
At-home workouts are a convenient way of staying fit, all while not having to step a foot out into the cold air.
Many at-home workouts require no equipment and can be done with just your body weight. Pfenning’s favorite workouts when staying home are pushups, squats, and lunges.
“You just have to get up, and do it,” Pfenning said.
By Brylee VandiverStaff Reporter
If you have never been to Sid’s Diner in El Reno, then you have never tasted one of the best burgers in Oklahoma, maybe even in the United States.
Sid’s is located at 300 S Choctaw Ave. in El Reno, and they are famous for their fried onion burgers.
Adam Richman from the series Man v. Food and Andrew Zimmern from the series Bizarre Foods have even stopped by the small town diner to give it a try.
Richman said the fried onion burger is “a one-pound sandwich so delicious, you’ll weep.”
He also referred to the burger as “the bomb diggity.”
The menu includes items like their famous fried onion burgers, hot dogs, fries, and milkshakes. My usual order is a cheeseburger with ketchup and mayo, and my personal favorite is a chili and cheese coney with slaw.
They also have a delicious breakfast with items such as pancakes, eggs, bacon, ham, sausage, and more.
Sid’s has the best burger and coney that I have ever had. I would much rather eat there than at many of the surrounding restaurants.
People drive from all over to stop by Sids Diner for a fried onion burger and a coney, so the next time you’re out and about, I recommend you give it a try.
You won’t regret it.
M. Night Shyamalan is back, and this time he’s better than ever with his new movie Split. Split is a classic M. Night Shyamalan movie, bringing you back to The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.
Split stars James McAvoy as Kevin, a man who suffers from dissociative identity disorder. Kevin has 23 alterna-tive identities and a 24th in the making. Some of his identities include Patricia, a proper English woman; Hedwig, a curi-ous 9-year-old boy; Barry, a fashionista; and Dennis, a man who suffers from severe obsessive compulsive disor-der. James McAvoy brings all of these characters to life in such an incredibly entertaining way.
The film starts with Dennis, who, taking control of Kevin, kidnaps three girls. While you wonder what his plan is for them throughout the movie, you see Kevin’s different personalities take control and interact with the girls. A nice comedic relief for the suspenseful movie is Hedwig and his dance moves to his favorite rapper, Kanye West.
Split is filled with tons of twists and lots of suspense. M. Night Shyamalan chose the perfect film for a comeback. It’s definitely one of his best.
--Amber Trogdon Staff Reporter
By Kathy MartinezStaff Reporter
Several SWOSU students have strong opinions on where to dine in town.
Weatherford has many options—from a sit-down diner to quick grab-and-go restaurants.
Hibachi Buffet and Grill, located at 1231 E Main St, is a favorite stop of many students. They offer a large all-you-can-eat selection of dishes for a cheap price, perfect for college students.
“I enjoy eating at Hibachi Buffet and visit there often,” Kelton Bright, a Health Information Management major from Weatherford said. “It’s inexpensive and they have a variety of delicious Chinese dishes.”
Another student likes Mexican food offered by El Patio.
“El Patio is my favorite. I love the white queso there,” Abigail Carter, an English Major from Sulphur said. “It’s not cheap though, but worth it.”
El Patio, located at 310 North Wash-ington Street, is a Mexican grill restaurant and cantina that’s perfect for your date night or get-together with friends.
Another student likes a healthier op-tion.
“New Creation Nutrition is an easy way to get healthy and they are very friendly there,” said Nathan McGraw.
New Creation Nutrition is a new store, located at 1053 N Washington Ave, that offers healthy protein and fruit smoothies.
Local eateries cater to student tastes, budget
Staying fit in winter takes dedication; isn’t impossible
El Reno’s Sid’s has “best burger”
Movie Review
Split
Photo courtesy Victor Valley News
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The Southwestern February 1, 2017 • Page 5SPORTS
By Ethan LesleyStaff Reporter
The FutsalOK league is a youth futsal league that takes place here in the Wellness Center.
“Futsal improves skills with the ball much faster than regular soccer or indoor soccer,” Wellness Center Direc-tor Scott Miller said.
The league features youth teams from Weatherford, Clinton, Elk City, Cordell, and other teams from the sur-rounding area.
“It is helping build the popularity of futsal and soc-cer in Western Oklahoma, and many parents have said they’ve seen good improvement in their kids since the start of the season to now,” Miller said.
The ball used in futsal is much smaller and heavier than a regular soccer ball. This keeps the ball on the ground, which helps young kids learn ball control and finesse skills faster than they would practicing with just a regular soccer ball.
There are two divisions in the league: an under-10 division and an under-14 division.
“This is the first year of the league and with 15 teams in it this year, we plan on brining this league back and will hopefully expand and bring more families to South-western for this league,” Miller said.
The season started on Dec. 3 and lasts until Feb. 11 with a trophy for first place.
“Futsal is a good start for younger kids in soccer,” Miller said. “It helps them learn ball control and certain skills that might take longer when they start on a tradi-tional soccer field.”
SWOSU Women’s Basketball defeated Arkansas Tech 90-79 on Saturday in the NCAA Division II Showcase aired on the American Sports Network. The win com-pletes the regular-regular sweep over Arkansas Tech, the first time the Lady Dawgs have done so in the Great American Conference’s short history dating back to 2012.
SWOSU jumped out to a 13-point lead by the end of the first quarter after holding the Golden Suns to just 16% shooting (3-for-19) while forcing ATU to commit six turnovers through the first 10 minutes of play. The Lady Bulldogs extended that lead to 19 at 43-24 by halftime by shooting 42% in the second quarter behind Hayden Priddy and Hailey Tucker’s scor-ing, netting a combined 18 points combined.
Trailing big out of the locker room, Arkansas Tech came out fir-ing in the third quarter and reduced their deficit to single-digits by the end of the frame at 62-54 by putting up 30 points and holding SWOSU to a quarter-low 19.
Tyra Aska opened the final quarter with a physical drive to the lane, laying it off the glass to push the lead back to double-digits where the margin would stay for nearly the entire final 10 minutes. The Golden Suns attempted to get many runs going in attempts shift momentum, but SWOSU answered with their highest scoring quarter of the game by shooting 9-for-17 (53%) and de-flating any comeback by ATU. The Dawgs would lead by as many as 15, and ended the game in front by 11.
Bulldog sophomore standouts Priddy and Tucker led the way
offensively, each collecting double-doubles by posting double-digit points and rebounds. Priddy scored a career-high 29 points, grabbed 10 boards, dished out five assists and collected one steal. Her 29 points also tied Tyra Aska for the highest scoring game by a Bulldog this sea-son. Tucker ended with 17 points, a game-high 14 rebounds, two assists and a steal to her credit. Aska con-tributed 14 points and five assists followed by Whitney Dunn with 12 points and five rebounds.
The Lady Bulldogs dominated on the glass, outrebounding Tech 46-36 including 12 offensive rebounds that led to 17 second-chance points. SWOSU ended at exactly 45% in field goal percent-age, good enough for their fourth-highest shooting percentage this season.
“I’m so proud of my team,” Head Coach Kelsi Musick said
about her team’s performance. “Our youth has been a blessing and curse all season, and this week it sure was a blessing. We stuck to our defensive game plan and our energy and effort was great on both sides of the court. The crowd and atmo-sphere in the Pioneer Cellular Event Center was phenomenal today! This was a great week for Bulldog Basketball!”
SWOSU (12-6, 8-4 GAC) will now hit the road for the next three games including a two-game stretch in Arkansas next week. The Lady Bulldogs play Southern Arkan-sas next Thursday (Feb. 2) and Arkansas-Monticello two days later on Saturday (Feb. 4). The following week SWOSU will travel down I40 to face Southern Nazarene before finally returning to Weatherford where they will play six of their final seven games inside the Pioneer Cellular Event Center.
Lady Bulldogs win televised game
WEATHERFORD, Okla. – The second-largest crowd to view a SWOSU Basketball game at the Pio-neer Cellular Event Center was on hand Saturday as the Bulldogs faced Arkansas Tech on the nationally-televised NCAA Division II Basket-ball Showcase.
SWOSU built a lead as high as 19 points in the first half, but the Won-der Boys came charging back, hitting eight three-pointers in the second half en route to a 98-87 victory over the Bulldogs.
The Bulldogs shot 54.5% (18-33) in the first half, knocking down 7-of-14 (50%) three-pointers to take a 10-point advantage of 49-39 into the locker room. Arkansas Tech hit SWOSU with a burst out of the locker room, using a 13-5 run to make it a two-point game at 54-52 less than four minutes into the second half. The Bulldogs continued to fend off the Wonder Boys for the
next few minutes before ATU took their first lead of the game with a pair of free throws at the 9:33 mark.
After giving up the lead, the
Bulldogs went cold over the next two minutes while Arkansas Tech’s Grant Prusator hit three consecutive three-point attempts to quickly make it a 10-point game in the Wonder Boys favor at 76-66 with 8:01 to play. That left SWOSU playing catchup the rest of the game and the Dawgs got within four points on two occasions but they were unable to close the gap any further.
“There are certain games where you don’t look at the scoreboard and you think that both teams deserved to win,” SWOSU Head Coach Bob Battisti said following the game. “Our guys played well and they did everything they needed to win, but Arkansas Tech just made more plays than us in the second half. I liked
our balance offensively, it was good to get four players scoring in double figures and I thought Markeise Champion was solid again while Devin Pugh and Nick Shoemaker kept making big shots that gave us a chance to win.”
Markeise Champion led the Bulldogs in scoring once again with 24 points and seven rebounds while Devin Pugh also chipped in 20 points and three rebounds before fouling out. Nick Shoemaker knocked down four three-pointers and totaled 16 points and Collin Jennings had a balanced evening with 11 points, four rebounds and four assists. Dominique Lubin led SWOSU with nine rebounds.
SWOSU (5-13, 2-10 GAC) now heads to Arkansas for the final time this season and they will face South-ern Arkansas on Thursday (Feb. 2) before taking on Arkansas-Monticel-lo next Saturday (Feb. 4).
WEATHERFORD, Okla. – SWOSU Football Coach Dan Cocannouer will announce the Bulldogs 2017 recruiting class National Signing Day, next Wednesday, February 1, with an afternoon press conference.
The first Wednesday in February is referred to as Na-tional Signing Day, which is the first day that prospective high school student-athletes can sign a binding National Letter of Intent (NLI) to play college football.
Members of the media are invited to meet with Co-cannouer at 1:30 pm next Wednesday in the Legacy Bank Media Room, located on the ground floor of the Pioneer Cellular Event Center. The full list of signees will be revealed at that time and Coach Cocannouer will accept questions from the media about the recruiting class. The press conference will be broadcast live while video will also be posted after its conclusion at SWOSUAthletics.com.
SWOSU Football finished 5-6 in 2016, winning five of their last seven games to help overcome an 0-4 start to the season. During the 2016 campaign, Cocannouer moved into fourth place in career wins at SWOSU with 34 and he enters the 2017 season – his ninth at SWOSU – five wins shy of third place on all-time wins list.
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Follow-ing the fall portion of 2016-17 season of competition in the Great American Conference, the league office an-nounced that 349 student-athletes achieved Academic All-Conference hon-ors in the sports of football, volleyball, men’s and women’s soccer and men’s and women’s cross country.
SWOSU’s fall athletic programs placed 29 individuals on the Academic All-Conference list, an improvement of six more Bulldog student-athletes than last year’s 23 that made the list. Thir-teen student-athletes were named from football, seven from volleyball, six from soccer and three from cross country.
“Division II emphasizes the balance
of academic and athletic pursuits,” GAC Commissioner Will Prewitt said. “I congratulate all of these student-athletes for excelling in the classroom while competing and practicing hard on the field of play.”
For student-athletes to be recognized on the Academic All-Conference team, they must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing (true freshmen and redshirt freshmen are not eligible) and must have completed at least one full academic year at the nominating institution. In addition, their grade-point average must be a minimum of 3.30 based on the 4.0 system. The GPA shall be cumulative for the athlete’s entire collegiate career.
29 SWOSU athletes make academic all-conference
Football team to unveil signing class on Feb. 1
Wellness Center hosts indoor soccer league
SWOSU football coach Dan Cocannouer will announce the football recruiting class on Feb. 1.
Hayden Priddy led the Lady Bulldogs to a televised win over Arkansas Tech on Saturday.
Bulldogs lose lead late against Arkansas Tech
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RA of the Month- JanuaryCongratulations to Paige Ketch for being selected as RA of the month for
January. She is from Mustang, Oklahoma. She is currently a senior and is ma-joring in Elementary Education. Paige became a RA so she could be there for residents and share her love of SWOSU to others. Paige’s favorite moment as an RA is move in day because even though there tends to be a lot of chaos,
everyone is so excited and happy to be there. This is Paige’s first year as a RA and she will be greatly missed next fall. She is so much fun to be around and her smile is contagious. If you ever stop by Stewart Hall, be sure to tell Paige
Ketch, congratulations and thank her for all of her hard work.
Hometown: Douglas, Oklahoma Classification: Freshman Major: Special Education Building: Oklahoma Hall
Why did you choose SWOSU?
I chose SWOSU because of the small campus.
Why did you choose your major?
I chose my major because I want to provide opportunities for students.
What are your hobbies?
I like to paint.
What do you want to do when you graduate?
I would like to get my master’s degree in special education and become a teacher somewhere in a city.
Who’s been a major influence in your life?
My mom because she pushes me to be super awesome.
What is your favorite SWOSU moment?
When I got to start my education classes this semester.
Resident SpotlightKaitlyn Bowling
Resident Spotlight
Hometown: Minco, Ok
Classification: Freshman
Major: Parks & Wildlife Law Enforcement
Building: Jefferson Hall
Why did you choose your major?
I love being outdoors.
What are your hobbies?
My main hobbies are hunting and fishing.
What do you want to do when you graduate?
I want to become a game warden.
What’s your favorite movie quote?
GET SOME! - Rick Vice, Division 3 Football’s Finest
Resident Spotlight Hunter Jones
ResLIFE HappeningsFebruary
What When WhereResidence Life @ the OKC Thunder Game February 1st
6:30pm
Oklahoma City
Super Bowl Watch Party February 5th
5:30pm
Jefferson Hall
Super Bowl Watch Party February 5th
5pm
Neff Hall Lobby &
Black Kettle Hall LobbyCall of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered
TournamentFebruary 7th
7pm
Neff Hall Lobby
Sex Talks and Blow Pops February 7th
8pm
Oklahoma Hall Lobby
Chocolate Bar February 9th
7pm
Stewart Hall Lobby
“B” Movie Night February 9th
7pm
Neff Hall Lobby
Valentine’s Day Party February 13th
7:30pm
Oklahoma Hall Lobby
Valentine’s Day Event February 14th
7pm
Neff Hall Lobby
Fibbage Tournament February 15th
6pm
Black Kettle Hall Lobby
Casino Night February 16th
7:00pm
Jefferson Hall Lobby
Hall Party February 23rd
9pm
Stewart Hall Lobby
Oscar Watch Party February 26th
7:30pm
Stewart Hall Lobby
Party at Neff! Calling all residents to Neff Hall on February 5th to watch the Super Bowl! This year’s Super Bowl LI is between the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons. Each team brings an offensive explo-sion to the game with Tom Brady and Matt Ryan. The event will start at 5pm with residents guessing the final score of the game. The resi-dent who guessed the final score right or the closet will win a prize. Of course there will be food and drinks for you too! Hope to see you Super Bowl Sunday!!
