Tuesday, March 5, 2024
OSU Red Pantry celebrates menstrual accessibility week Hayden Alexander Staff Reporter It’s Menstrual Accessibility Week at OSU, and the OSU Red Pantry will be all over campus this week, providing products and educational resources to students. The Red Pantry is a free service for students to use. Senior Cassidy Wisneski said the pantry focuses on providing free menstrual and hygiene products on campus. “We’re tabling in order to raise awareness just for people to learn that menstrual products are a need for students,” Wisneski said. The pantry’s goal is to ensure students feel comfortable talking about and accessing the products the pantry provides. “These are things that everyone needs to feel comfortable, Wisneski said. “We’re all here in college, and it’s hard for everyone, and it’s even harder if you’re not in the same economic status as someone else.” The pantry is also working to normalize the topic of menstrual and other hygiene products campus-wide. Sophomore Serenity Baldwin hopes students will be able to learn more about themselves and dive into the topic. See Pantry on 8
File Photo The Red Pantry is a free service for students to use. Senior Cassidy Wisneski said the pantry focuses on providing free menstrual and hygiene products on campus.
6th Avenue to expand, ODOT improve high-volume roadway can cause problems with Emma Haley O’Colly Contributor trying to turn left.”
Courtesy of Chandler Trantham and The 2024 Varsity Revue show will take place Wednesday through Saturday.
Varsity Revue 2024 to take the stage Alli Themer Staff Reporter
The first Greek show of the semester is on deck.
The annual Varsity Revue show will take place Wednesday through Saturday at the Seretean Center for the Performing Arts. Varsity Revue is a competition that consists of fraternity and sorority chapters pairing together to perform Broadway-style acts. Varsity Revue began in 1929
to raise money for OSU band uniforms. Since 2015, the show has raised funds for United Way of Payne County and its nonprofit partner agencies. Last year’s show raised a record-breaking amount of $60,000. See Revue on 7
Small said ODOT is concerned with widening Sixth Avenue to allow safe left-hand The renovation turns, as well as to of Sixth Avenue will avoid traffic backups address decades worth for people who are in of accidents and traffic front when traffic is backups in Stillwater. particularly busy. Sixth On Feb. 22, the Avenue is a four-lane FY25 pavement manroadway that f lows agement program through town and has a was sent to Stillwater substantial amount of City Council for apsidewalks, businesses proval. This plan maps or residential developout which streets and ments on either side. pavements need reconThe widening struction in the city by process will have to ranking their quality, occur on both sides of particularly Sixth Avthe road, which could enue. On the west side require an additional of Stillwater, the Oklatask of getting the homa Department of right of way from those Transportation plans to landowners. Small said begin improvement on the relocation of power Sixth Avenue and Westlines and utilities such ern Road, stretching to as water, sewer or prithe Perkins intersection vate will be the most on the east side. time consuming. A Stillwater engi“It’s a very comneering manager, Travis plicated situation that Small, said there are takes several years to complaints about the work through,” Small danger and inefficiency said. “It becomes very of Sixth Avenue. challenging as you try “We get some to negotiate. . . and then concerns with respect to try to coordinate with the walkability,” Small each utility company said. “Also, the congesand make sure they’re tion, when you have out of the way.” a four-lane roadway through an urban area and as we are in this particular location, it See ODOT on 6