Friday, October 24, 2025
Canvas fails, OSU adapts Bryson Thadhani
SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR
Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a widespread outage Monday, taking down major apps and websites — including Canvas, Snapchat, Venmo, Reddit, College Board and more. At Oklahoma State, students were unable to access Canvas for assignments and class materials, while other apps tied to AWS crashed or stalled. “I opened Canvas and it just said the page was gone,” psychology and pre-med major Katherine Rouner said. “The widespread outage of Canvas led to distressed students and a halt on homework.” Not every student was upset, though. “Honestly, I was kind of excited,” Rouner said. Mechanical engineering student Isais Sanchez said the outage disrupted his coursework. “I tried logging into Canvas to get some homework and a pre-lab done, but it wouldn’t load,” Sanchez said. “I was a little frustrated because I had a lot of things due and was worried they wouldn’t be done on time.”
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Payton Little, The O’Colly
OSUPD partners with other agencies during large events including OSU Homecoming events. An on-campus shooting occured following a post-Homecoming game party off campus early Sunday.
Investigation continues for on-campus shooting shooting that injured three at Carreker Hall East. OSUPD Chief Beckner said Thursday that the A week of celebrations ended officers at OSUPD are having with the sound of multiple a meeting every morning and gunshots in a residence hall afternoon to see where they’re at parking lot. with the investigation. Although there are people of “It takes time,” Beckner said. interest in the investigation, there “Unfortunately, a lot of people have been no arrests for a Sunday Raynee Howell
CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
watch CSI and stuff and all of those things are solved in 60 minutes because it’s TV… I want to answer all the questions, but it’s like putting a puzzle together. You have to make sure that all the pieces are in the right place before you actually charge them.”
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Chance Marick, The O’Colly
Canvas, OSU’s learning platform, was down following a power loss to AWS’s cloud network.
The place it all began
Alumnus visits campus, shares wisdom with current students BY CALESON COON
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Courtesy Gandhi Kumar
Gandhi Kumar visited his alma mater to judge the MBA case competition.
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klahoma State from Seattle, Washington alumnus Gandhi the week of Oct. 8. Associate Kumar credits professor Matt Bowler invited OSU for paving him to assist in judging OSU’s the way for his 2025 MBA Case Competition. success. The annual Big 12 Case Kumar is back to where his Competition consists of MBA career and love story first began; students applying what they on campus at OSU. It’s his first have learned in the classroom time back since graduating to real-world settings through in December 2015 with a analyzing, researching and master’s in telecommunications generating business solutions in management. competition. Kumar traveled to Stillwater See ALUMNUS on page 6A
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