Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Holiday Happenings:
What winter break means to Cowboy tennis schedule begins; for tennis players, it’s a brief respite in what amounts to an allyear competitive PJ Tikalsky season. the Staff Reporter springWhile includes week-in-week-out Cowboy team matches, tennis players conference play, Alessio Basile and and a potential Tyler Zink spent NCAA tournatheir winter break ment bid, Cowone simple way. boy and Cowgirl Recharging tennis players still the batteries. compete at the Many highest level alstudent athletes’ most year-round. batteries get a The fall season full semester to often includes recharge before players entering their competitive intercollegiate,
national or international tournaments to improve their individual rankings across the various different systems that permeate the sport on an amateur and professional level. Only during the winter break does the flow of matches slow for both the college teams and individual players; that seasonal pause is time they definitely don’t take for granted. See Holiday on page 3
Karlie Boothe Recent OSU graduate Tré Smith provided the keynote speech during OSU’s Martin Luther King Jr. Unity March on Monday afternoon.
Hundreds march for King Jr. at OSU grandmother, Jewel Washington. Ones of a life he doesn’t know. “’Every day, I had to pick 250 pounds of cotton before I could go back home,’” Smith Adam Engel said. “This is hard for Editor-in-Chief me and most people to understand because we simply have not had to Tré Smith’s eyes face this type of situwatered as he glanced ation.” at his notes and a This was life crowd of hundreds who for Black Americans stared at him. before the Civil Rights He recalled movement and integrastories told from his tion.
Smith’s retrospective speech informed a modern audience. Hundreds of OSU students and faculty marched through campus in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday. His lifelong efforts for racial equality inspired generations and those in Stillwater. “Being a Black student at a predominantly white university institution, it means a lot for them to ac-
knowledge a Black man who wanted equality for all races,” junior Chauntal Dudley said. She serves as president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated, a historically Black sorority. University offices were closed Monday because of the holiday. The support for King Jr. still showed. Courtesy of OSU Athletics
See March on page 6
Cowboy Freshman Alessio Basile during a singles match on Saturday afternoon.
California bracing for one final round of storms, officials assess damage Taryn Luna Los Angeles Times
system begins Wednesday. By Thursday, all of California should experience a respite from the rain, meteorologists said. That’s when state and loSACRAMENTO, Calif. cal officials will begin to assess — Another moderate storm is longer-term rebuilding efforts in expected to hit California on areas heavily damaged by the Sunday evening and continue storms. into Monday, bringing more rain The Biden administraalong the coast and inland valtion on Saturday approved Gov. leys and up to 2 feet of snow in Gavin Newsom’s request for a the mountain regions of Northpresidential disaster declaration ern California. to support the state’s response to But meteorologists say flooding, mudslides and landthere’s good news on the horislides in California, where 41 zon. The series of storms that counties are under emergency has ravaged the state — flooding declarations. communities, forcing evacuaBrian Ferguson, a spokestions, shutting down major high- person for the Governor’s Office ways and leading to at least 19 of Emergency Services, said deaths — should end this week. the state continues to monitor “It looks like a dry period the Monterey Peninsula and the that we haven’t seen since the Salinas River, where a flood day after Christmas when this warning remains in effect near all started,” said Eric Kurth, a the town of Spreckels. meteorologist with the National Concerns that river floodWeather Service in Sacramento. ing could cut off communities, The dry spell is expected such as Monterey and Carmel, to begin in Southern California on the peninsula have abated, on Tuesday, after up to an inch though the state is still closely of rain falls overnight Sunday watching water levels on the and continues with scattered river. showers on Monday. Newsom visited local first Rain is similarly expected responders and the California in the North Coast, Sacramento National Guard on Friday in Robyn Beck/Courtesy of Tribune News Service region, San Francisco Bay Area Santa Barbara. and Central Coast Sunday and This aerial view shows two cars sitting in a large sinkhole that opened during a day of relentless rain, on Jan. 10 in the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles. California has been slammed by storms in recent weeks. Monday before a much lighter See Storms on page 4