Monday, April 10, 2023
OSU drops series finale vs TCU with 8th inning pitching implosion
Daniel Allen Staff Reporter
FORT WORTH, Texas — Evan O’Toole subtly kicked the dirt on the pitcher’s mound when he noticed Rob Walton depart the dugout and approach him. Out came reliever Isaac Stebens from the bullpen – who held a Big 12 conference-low 1.57 ERA up to that point. Tie ballgame, a runner on first
base and no outs for the Horned Frogs. It was a familiar situation for OSU’s reliable, go-to righty. One week prior, he had escaped a basesloaded no out jam in an eventual series-clinching win vs Texas. Two days ago, he maneuvered his way out of one with runners on the corners scenario in Thursday’s series opener with TCU.
“I thought, ‘we got this’,” said center fielder Zach Ehrhard. “I was looking forward to going back to the dugout and getting something going in the ninth (inning).” Instead, the polar opposite occurred in OSU’s 12-5 loss to TCU on Saturday. See 8th Inning on 2
‘We say gay’ Bills targeting LGBTQ+ community have some South Florida families worried Grethel Aguila Miami Herald
drag queens and banning discussions about gender identity instead of real issues like gun violence. Though Denis-Carr MIAMI — When may leave Florida, he Richard Denis-Carr plans to stay vocal about thinks about the direction Florida is headed, he the state’s future. “We’re not going considers packing up and anywhere,” he said. “We moving his family out of fought AIDS. We fought the state. for marriage. And we’re Denis-Carr, who going to fight for this.” lives in Pembroke Pines, Rob Collins and worries that Gov. Ron Erin Lewis, both 39, aim DeSantis’ presidential to raise their daughter ambitions have stirred 8-year-old Teya to be an up hate against the LGally to the LGBTQ+ comBTQ+ community. He fears for the future of his munity. That’s why they 10-month-old son, Zach- take her to events like the ary, who he’s raising with Easter egg hunt at Pride Park in Miami Beach. husband Joseph Denis“We wanted to make Carr. sure that our daughter “People like Ron DeSantis and people like knows that even though the legislators ... are doing some people aren’t supit because it excites their portive of gay rights, that base, and it gets their base we are,” Lewis said. “We to vote for them,” he said. say gay.” Some parents, Recent measures Collins said, don’t talk taken by the Florida to their children about Legislature, Denis-Carr sexuality. He said he and said, are going to send Lewis do because she’s a lot of kids “back into the closet,” leaving them going to learn about it eventually and they want to struggle with their sexual orientation like he her to approach the topic with love and acceptance. once did. He said lawmakers are focused on See Bills on 6
Courtesy of OSU OSU President Kayse Shrum speaks during a news conference in which U.S. Secretary of Labor Jennifer Granholm announced the creation of the Great Plains Center of Excellence at OSU.
U.S. Secretary of Energy, Second Gentleman announce formation of Great Plains Center of Excellence at OSU
Bella Casey Staff Reporter
Courtesy of Tribune News Service Cecile Houry with her daughter Lila Houry, at the Easter Family Picnic celebration, part of the Miami Beach Pride Festival at Pride Park, on Saturday, April 8, 2023.
Two members of the U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration made a stop in Stillwater Friday morning. U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff announced OSU’s creation of the Great Plains Center of Excellence during a news conference in the Endeavor Lab. It is one of five
universities selected to host Centers of Excellence for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Industrial Assessment Center program. The program will be part of OSU’s College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology. Granholm explained the funding for the centers is possible because of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. “This initiative, which is all about investing in America, is one piece of a grand strategy for us as a country to be able to get back the manufacturing jobs that we have lost over the past couple of decades,” Granholm said. “And this is something that I know Democrats and Republicans
can agree on — the importance of bringing back manufacturing in this country.” OSU’s Great Plains Center of Excellence will receive nearly $7 million of the $18.7 million in funding awarded to the selected universities to enhance and expand the Industrial Assessment Center program. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, these centers “serve as regional hubs that collaborate and coordinate with government, nonprofit, labor, and industry actors to train clean energy workers and support SMMs in their respective regions.” See Center on 5