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Ollie Gordon II charged with criminal misdemeanor In a case filed Monday, Gordon will be heard in Judge Nathaniel Hales’ courtroom in Cleveland County. No further details are available at this time. A criminal misdemeanor carries the possibility of a $500 fine, a year in jail or both, according to tulsacriminalatKennedy Thomason torney.pro. Editor-in-Chief In a statement Monday afternoon, Gordon issued a public apology via social media apologizing for his actions. “I am deeply sorry for the actions that led to my arrest on June 30th,” Editor’s note: This story will conthe post read. “I sincerely apologize to tinue to be updated. my family, everyone in our program, including players, coach (Mike) Gundy, Ollie Gordon II has been charged the staff, Oklahoma State University with a criminal misdemeanor. and our fans. Regardless of the outcome This comes after Gordon, OSU’s of this pending investigation, I did not star running back, was arrested June 30 uphold the values I have for myself and on suspicion of DUI. A police officer the values of the OSU football program. pulled Gordon over for speeding and I am committed to learning and growswerving between lanes, then arrested ing from this mistake and I will work to him when Gordon confirmed he had earn back the trust of those who I have two open bottles of liquor in his car. disappointed.” The running back refused to submit to a field sobriety test twice, and was arrested for DUI Under 21 Years of Age, Transport Open Container of Alcohol, Fail to Maintain Single Line sports.ed@ocolly.com of Traffic and Speeding 16-20 mph.
Ethan Scott Ollie Gordon II was charged with a criminal misdemeanor Monday after being arrested on June 30.
Our Daily Bread introduces new program at Mobile Market Raynee Howell Staff Reporter
The Mobile Market hosted by Our Daily Bread returned to Yale on July 3 with fresh produce, groceries and an update to its alternative grocery program. Every first Wednesday of the month, the Mobile Market, an extension of the nonprofit Our Daily Bread in Stillwater, reaches Yale. All of the resources brought in are available for any Payne County resident at no cost. Morgan Andrews, Mobile Market coordinator and OSU graduate, said she has grown closer with the Yale community and volunteers upon each visit. “We don’t bring volunteers, everyone who volunteers is mostly from Yale United Methodist Church,” Andrews said. “Partnering with people they know makes us seem less like outsiders;
this is a partnership.” The needs of the community are important to Andrews. With the temperatures in the high 90’s, Andrews and her staff decided to move the market inside the church for safety reasons. The groceries were set up across a table with multiple options for the community to choose from. Fresh produce grown by OSU students was one of the most popular options. Cucumbers, onions, squash, corn, beans and tomatoes were among the fresh produce options for this particular market. “Our produce availability is dependent on the season and how much we have available,” Andrews said. “It’s kind of the last place it ends up because it goes out on the shopping floor in Stillwater, and when there’s extra, they let me take it for the markets.”
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Courtesy of OSU News Dr. Fala is also a certified flight instructor and teaches at the OSU Flight Center each semester.
CEAT researcher focuses on changing flight instructors’ lives (and schedules) Courtesy of OSU News You wake up at 5:45 a.m. to get to work right at 6:30. You jot down notes and start your first meeting at 7 a.m. You finish the meeting by 9, and by 9:30, you’re writing more notes before heading into another meeting at 10. You get a lunch break and repeat this process 2-3 more times until you can finally go home by 9 p.m. This can be a typical day for a certified flight instructor. Except notes are pre-flights, and
meetings are flights, or lessons, with students. By the next day, you may just have one flight due to bad weather. Then, that weather could last the remainder of the week and you don’t fly the rest of the time — only meeting half or less of your hours. Dr. Nicoletta Fala, an Oklahoma State University College of Engineering Architecture and Technology Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering assistant professor, is conducting research to address how having such an irregular and demanding schedule could cause fatigue and burnout
among flight instructors nationwide, resulting in safety and quality of training to be negatively impacted. Fala, a flight instructor herself, knows about fatigue on the job all too well. When she was a flight training student, she had an instructor fall asleep in the middle of a flight. “I was doing my instrument training, and I was flying with foggles on, which means I cannot see outside,” Fala said. “I can only see my instruments; the instructor is supposed to keep an eye out for other aircraft and obstacles. We were flying
for about 15 minutes, and he wasn’t saying anything. Air traffic control had asked me something, and I asked for his opinion before replying and received no response. I then looked over and realized he was asleep.” Fortunately, she was able to wake the instructor and land the plane safely. When given the opportunity to work on this research, she jumped on it. “When this opportunity came up, I said, ‘Yes, Raynee Howell
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Morgan Andrews (left) and a volunteer pack food for the Mobile Market, an extension of Stillwater’s Our Daily Bread.