Friday, July 11, 2025
Raynee Howell The operator of the Instagram account @findthecashokstate hides $20 bills, like the ones pictured, at points around OSU and Stillwater, then posts short videos guiding money hunters to the prize.
Money Hungry Cash hunts bring campus together with hidden $20 drops
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nonymity is part of the fun for the person behind Oklahoma State’s unofficial money tree: surprise cash hunts around campus. The Instagram page that runs the game doesn’t list a name, and its creator asked not to be named in this story. The mystery
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is intentional, helping build what the money man refers to as an “exclusively college” vibe designed for students. “It’s fun to run around with friends and try to see who can get there first,” he said. “Even people who show up a little late think it’s funny because you meet other students who saw the video at the same time.”
SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR Here’s how it works: The page posts a short video clue showing where a $20 bill is hidden somewhere around Stillwater. Students race to find it. The first to arrive keeps the cash. The idea started after the account’s founder saw others hiding cash to be found in bigger cities. “I saw the pages in big cities
doing this,” he said. “I felt that college campuses have such cool cultures and atmospheres.” He said OSU was an ideal fit. “Oklahoma State has such a unique atmosphere inside the college bubble,” he said. “It’s just a fun thing to do, kind of exclusively for the college town.”
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OSU student gets eliminated from ‘Love Island USA’ days before finale RAYNEE HOWELL
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Erin Williams One of the pottery instructors, Kimberly Bryant, at a previous open house at the Prairie Arts Center.
Connections through clay
Most contestants on ‘Love Island USA’ leave the Villa with nothing but a suitcase in hand. Taylor Williams, Oklahoma State veterinary medicine student, walked out with his connection’s hand in his. In the first couple elimination of the season, Williams and Clarke Carraway received the fewest votes for favorite couple, which ultimately sent them home. Yet it wasn’t a complete surprise after last Thursday’s episode when
the islanders played a game titled “Hate to Burst Your Bubble.” It revealed Carraway and Williams were considered the least genuine and least trustworthy by viewers, most likely due to Williams ending things with his previous connection the episode before. Williams was one of the vulnerable islanders in a mass island dumping in that same episode. Williams and Carraway were one of two strong connections at risk, the other being TJ Palma and Iris Kendall.
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Prairie Art Center creates friendships a new place. It’s very therapeutic and humbling — and it’s helped me meet so many great people.” Jennifer Catoe didn’t expect a life Under the guidance of local change when she signed up for a ceramic artists, students at Prairie painting class at Prairie Arts Center Arts Center learn how to center clay, after moving to Stillwater from North pull walls and throw basic forms in a Carolina. But when she stumbled into four-week beginner wheel throwing pottery — first through a beginner course. For $135, students receive all wheel throwing class, then open materials, including a 10-pound bag studio — she found not just a new of clay, tools, glazes and in-studio hobby, but a community. firing. Classes run Monday evenings “I have no talent in painting at all,” from 6 to 9 p.m., July 7-28. Catoe said, laughing. “But pottery has been a really big help moving to See CLAY on page 3 MJ NYAMDAVAA STAFF REPORTER
Courtesy PeacockTV Taylor Williams and Clarke Carraway (right) wait to hear the results of the first couple elimination on season 7 of ‘Love Island USA’.