LILLITH MARTIN Editor Statesman goes Digital This year the Statesman decided to go purely digital, changing the way campus was delivered every month. The decision was made for information to easier to share with students at Eastern Oklahoma State College. It kept its once a month tradition by things from the previous month being posted…
MORGAN ARLEDGE Staff Writer Eastern Oklahoma State College’s Veterans Day ceremony happened on Veterans Day at the Student Center Ballroom. The ceremony started out with a Dr. Brandon Hendrix performing a song along with the pledge of allegiance and our national anthem. Dr. Dan Denny, Reverend and Distinguished Alumni, led everyone in prayer. The two…
LILLITH MARTIN, Editor Eastern Oklahoma State College’s Homecoming Week was held from November 4 through November 9. Many events were spread throughout the week with dress-up days, school events and opportunities for spirit stick points. Monday was the beginning of homecoming and started the day off with a pajama day and an Eastern scavenger hunt….
JALEAH TAYLOR, Assistant Editor The Lady Mountaineers displayed much of their mantra, “Ohana”, through the past season. Head coach, Justin McCain, includes the Hawaiian term representing a sense of community, family and relying on one another has helped connect the team to accomplish much of their goals. Though the season has come to an end,…
BRAEDEN RICHARDSON, Staff Writer E-gaming is a national phenomenon and is starting to enter every school. Eastern Oklahoma State College decided it wanted to join in on it. In the 2019 Fall semester, EOSC has been looking towards joining in eSports among other colleges and universities. Bryan Denny, Director of Student Life, and Paul Wills,…
MORGAN ARLEDGE, Staff Writer The Church of Christ Bible Chair is an Christain organization at Eastern Oklahoma State College. The Bible Chair is ran by John Kitchens. The building of the Bible Chair is off campus at 610 SW. 11th St., Wilburton, OK 74578. The Bible Chair has a lot of space for students to…
By JALEAH TAYLOR, Assistant Editor The National Voter Registration Day began on Sept. 24 when the Eastern Phi Theta Kappa chapter started its campaign with tables of food and drinks accompanying registration forms. The Voter Registration Contest engages all colleges in Oklahoma to encourage students to be involved in the voting process by registering and…
By LILLI MARTIN, Editor In September of 2019, Hurricane Dorian caused major damage to the Bahamas. Jaleah Taylor’s, a student and soccer player at Eastern Oklahoma State College, home is in the Bahamas along with her family. The Eastern Women’s Soccer Team decided to create a benefit to raise money for her family to help…
By MORGAN ARLEDGE, Staff Writer Eastern’s annual Library Expo took place Sept. 16-19 and had many activities for students to participate in throughout the week. The activities were educational and fun, but they also gave students the opportunity to play for door and freebie prizes. The library staff hosted the event, that had a home…
Larriann Livingston became the new Dean of Agriculture after the Spring 2019 semester.
BY MORGAN ARLEDGE, Staff Writer On Oct. 2, the library hosted a book club meeting with the theme of children’s book. Multiple books were presented in a fun and loving way, which showed why children and adults love certain kinds of books when growing up. Games based off certain books were played at the meeting…
By LILLI MARTIN, Editor The way readers will be receiving news from Eastern Oklahoma State College’s Statesman is changing. Instead of being printed once a month and put around campus, the paper will be published on the first Friday of each month to the Statesman’s website – statesman.eosc.edu. There also will be links posted for…
By JALEAH TAYLOR, Assistant Editor Former Eastern student, Wyatt Stanford, has been named a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in France. Stanford, Director of New Media and Marketing for Symbiotic Aquaponics, who is originally from Haileyville, attended Eastern Oklahoma State College to major in the field of Mass Communication. While at Eastern,…
By MORGAN ARLEDGE, Staff Writer “The Eastern Student Government Association and Student Services were happy to put on an ice cream social event on August 19. This event allows for clubs and organizations on campus to meet and greet new students and introduce them to the host of groups that make up our student government. Our student…
Editor’s Note: The news of the Department of Education’s findings broke after the Eastern Statesman’s deadline. The staff is already working on a story for the next issue. Eastern News Release Eastern Oklahoma State College has been asked to repay significant liabilities to the U.S. Department of Education (DoE) following a standard program review that…