Tag: Shawnee Oklahoma
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Uncanny Comic Expo
By Assistant News Editor, Caleb Brown The first ever Shawnee comic book convention is officially coming to town. The Uncanny Comic Book Expo will be located at the Fire Lake Arena. The convention will be held March 9th, beginning at 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Tickets for the event are $5 in advance and $7 […]
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General election voting excludes homeless
By Jonathan Soder, Features Editor It’s no secret that downtown Shawnee is a district fraught with contradictions. It’s a place for many students, of aesthetic and spiritual beauty. Every other Thursday night, students congregate together in the Ritz Theatre for an hour-long worship service. The amalgamated concrete-brick walls are also popular backdrops for impromptu photoshoots. […]
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Blue Zones Project continues to better Shawnee
Ashton Smith, Assistant Features Editor Blue Zones are areas in the world where people are known to live longer. An organization known as the Blue Zone Project is working towards increasing the Blue Zone areas all over the world, and part of that has started here in Shawnee, Okla. “The Blue Zones Project encourages changes […]
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Capstone project becomes community outreach
By Jonathan Soder, Features Editor Sometimes, in fact most of the time, classes stay on campus. Classrooms are on campus, professors have offices on campus and students do homework, though not exclusively, on campus. Naturally, campus is the epicenter for class life, but what about classes that are specifically focused on going out instead of […]
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City, campus works to help the homeless
By Mya Hudgins, Contributing Writer (Courtesy photo/The Bison) In 2015, writer Scott Keys wrote an article entitled “Welcome To Shawnee, Oklahoma: The Worst City In America To Be Homeless” for the website ThinkProgress. In it, he criticized the city for not developing additional shelters for the impoverished. He argued that without an overnight shelter available […]
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Snapshot of community, local art: Japanese garden mirrors sister city across the globe
By Jessa Chadwick, Assistant Arts Editor (Photos by Jonathan Soder/The Bison) “To promote peace through mutual respect, understanding and cooperation—one individual, one community at a time.” This is the mission statement of the program Sister Cities. As many know, the Japanese garden by the airport track is in honor of Shawnee, Okla.’s Sister City, Nikaho […]
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