As the end of my final semester at The University of Tulsa creeps up, I am realizing how truly odd it is to be writing a farewell letter for The Collegian. For three years, I resisted the peer pressure to join the student newspaper, if only for the sake of the joke. Well everybody, they finally got to me. They
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Thursday Evening’s News Roundup: April 18, 2024
For the first time, Tulsa’s proposed annual operating budget has broken $1 billion. The state attorney general is warning people about phone scammers impersonating his office. Lawmakers in the Oklahoma House are preserving the state’s process for selecting state-level justices… at least for now. The NBA Playoffs start Sunday for the Oklahoma City Thunder.
A long-overdue, heartfelt thank you to TU alumni and students
What follows is an inexcusably belated expression of gratitude to TU students and alumni for their actions during a relatively recent, deeply regrettable episode in the history of this institution. Recent and momentous though the event may have been, some context is required for anyone who arrived on campus after 2020. In April 2019, TU administrators unveiled an academic strategy,
The Weekly Yak
In this week’s April Fool’s edition of The Weekly Yak, I just want to say the most foolish app update is the one that gave people the option to remove the anonymity of an anonymous app. Why do people have usernames, and why are some of them so creative? It’s dumb. When I returned to Yik Yak I was asked