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The Union Programming Board co-sponsors an event to let students play the new game Skate 3 and get free stuff. Photo by Michael Acker



Steven Lee is a grad student at the University of Oklahoma and a EA Sports Representative to the university. Photo by Michael Acker



Steven shows the crowd how to play the game as people start to crowd around with the promise of free stuff. Photo by Michael Acker

A Night Out with Religion

A Night Out with Religion

By Michael Acker

Friday night Religious Studies club meets to discuss upcoming events and gain new members for the school year.

Every year the Religious Studies club meets to discuss upcoming events like the open forum in the Oklahoma Memorial Union for religious communities, parent career night, and the annual holiday party.

Professor Tom Boyd, founder of the Religious Studies program at the University of Oklahoma, discusses why these meetings are important for students.

“I think the students don’t have the opportunity to do this very often,” said Professor Tom Boyd. “When they’re given it they find it a useful thing to do, they enjoy it, and they learn things from it.”

New students come to the first club meeting every year for different reasons.

“Professor Boyd invited me tonight,” said Andrew Scott, junior Religious Studies major. “I’m trying to get out to try to know the religious community and the university.”

Grant Rose, freshman Religious Studies major, discusses why he is interested in the Religious Studies program.

“I definitely wanted to dig into this,” said Grant Rose. “I’ve been a part of a church growing up and branch out and learn what I can about world religions and world view.”

The Religious Studies program is looking forward to a new semester by starting with a career night for parents of Religious Studies majors to discuss jobs after college on Nov. 15.

Photo: Professor Tom Boyd's Home.

Students meet to discuss upcoming events for Religious Studies club.

Freshman Expectations

Freshman Expectations

By Michael Acker

Freshman join the University of Oklahoma in 2010 with new expectations on how college life will go.

More than 3,750 students joined the University of Oklahoma in the fall of 2010, according to the New Sooner Convocation speech. With all the new students joining the campus each of them have different expectations as how college life will be.

“It’s really gone beyond my expectations and how the professors really get to know the students,” said Spencer Hanes, freshman aerospace engineering major. “I have generations of family that have gone here before me and they told me that OU was going to be this big bureaucracy with people not being very nice and not being helpful to students.”

Even with each student having a different expectation the university keeps bringing in more students each year. Students want to get involved in activities on campus to meet their expectations.

“I rushed Delta Gamma,” said Amanda Mitchell freshman chemistry major. “I am loving it so far.”

The new freshman will carry these expectations through college and continue to fill them while new students bring new expectations to the University of Oklahoma.