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He sat about 30 feet to the left of where he was a year ago.

Last November, he quietly sat in the front row as friends, colleagues, and past and pres-ent players offered kind words about his father, Kurt Budke, who had just passed away in a plane accident on a scouting trip.

This time, Alex Budke sat on the sideline, on the bench, wearing an orange uniform.

Oklahoma State was host-ing Ottawa for exhibition play, and the Cowboys were blowing the team from Kansas out late in the game. Coach Travis Ford had been rotating in just about every player on his roster, and with a few minutes left in the game, he finally got to the end of the bench. There sat Budke, ready to go in as soon as Ford gave the word.

Finally, his time came. He stepped onto the court and was greeted with a standing ovation from the Gallagher-Iba faith-ful.

“He’s been wonderful,” Ford said. “He’s been a little bit be-hind because he wasn’t in Spain with us, but other than that he’s

helped us.”Budke finished scoreless on

four shots in five minutes of playing time, but it didn’t mat-ter what his stat line was. That’s where he wanted to be.

It all started when Budke decided to come to Oklahoma State after playing junior col-lege basketball last season at St. Gregory’s in Shawnee, an NAIA program.

Ford, who was very close with Budke’s father before his passing, heard about Alex com-ing to Stillwater and wanted to get in touch with him.

“Once I heard he was com-ing back to school here, I just heard a rumor that he might want to play basketball,” Ford said. “He came up, and I told him I’d love to have him, but that this is kind of what it en-tails, and that I only want him to do it if he was going to enjoy this role.

“He was 100 percent and said he just wanted to be a part of the team.”

The relationship has good for both sides as Budke has been a valuable body for OSU’s practices with injuries accumu-lating.

Outside of that, Budke looks happy in warm ups, but he’d never say it.

The sophomore mostly keeps to himself, and respect-fully declined an interview for this story. Even around the team, Budke hardly ever says a word.

“He’s one of the quietest guys I’ve ever been around,” laughed sophomore Le’Bryan Nash. “He’ll work really hard in practice and never say a word, so you never know what he’s thinking.”

Even his coach hasn’t gotten much out of his new walk-on player, but knows that he can’t be that way all the time.

“He’s a very, very quiet guy, and I worry about him all the time because of it,” Ford joked. “But the players assure me he’s not that quiet around them. We can’t get much out of him, but wow is he a hard worker.”

It’s not likely Budke will see too much playing time throughout this year, but it’s not likely it matters much to him.

After everything the sopho-more has been through in the past year, he’s on the Oklahoma State basketball team being coached by one of his father’s good friends.

At the end of the day, that’s likely all that matters.

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The last time Cooper Bas-sett met with his parents on the field of Boone Pickens Stadium, they had rushed on with thousands of Oklahoma State fans celebrating a victo-ry against Oklahoma and the school’s first Big 12 Champi-onship.

The memory of Bedlam is one Bassett said is his most memorable moment of an eventful five years at OSU, his favorite school growing up.

Bassett’s parents will rejoin him on the field again before Saturday’s kickoff against Tex-as Tech. He will be among the 20 honored on senior day, his final home game as a player.

“I don’t want to get too emotional before the game be-cause I want to focus on Texas Tech, but once the whistles blown and the game is over I’m definitely going to take my time getting back to the locker room and just soak in all the fans,” Bassett said.

Times at OSU have changed since Bassett ar-rived on campus in 2008. The team would run onto the field from the east end zone, not the west, during his first sea-son. He played tight end until 2010, when Dana Holgorsen was hired and changed to an offense formation without need of Bassett’s position.

Bassett was wary of a move to the offensive line, a posi-tion he thought he would be moved to, but luckily for him Bill Young had joined the de-fensive coaching staff. Young lobbied for Bassett to switch

to defensive end, a position Young said he thought was Bassett’s best natural position.

“When I coached at Kan-sas, we were one of the first people to offer him, and we were recruiting him to be a defensive end there,” Young said. “I was really excited when the offense decided to move him to defense because we were shorthanded (at de-fensive end).”

A Tuttle native, Bassett has started five games this season. He has one career touchdown from his tight end days, a 19 yard score against Baylor in 2009.

Stats cannot measure his biggest contribution, though, his leadership.

“He is one of the sharpest young me I’ve ever coach,” Young said. “It’s overused (phrase), he is a coach on the field, but Cooper is a coach on the field. He is setting the front and telling players to do this, do that.

“Our players really respect him because not only does he know what he is doing but he goes out and does it.”

It may be senior day, but don’t expect Bassett to be away from OSU for long, though. If he had the option to return to Stillwater after his profession-al career, however long that might be, he said he would move back in a heartbeat.

“If they want me here, ask me to come back to coach or if anything like that would hap-pen, I would jump at the op-portunity,” Bassett said. “This isn’t just a place I ended up living for the past five years. This is has been a place that I’ve loved since a little kid. I’ve

made it my home.“Growing up as a kid, if I

had one wish it would be to play here. Not only have I had the chance to be here, I’ve played here and contributed. Every win I’ve gotten I don’t only get to experience it as a player but I get to enjoy it as a fan.”

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When OSU President Burns Hargis stepped up to the podium the morning of Nov. 18, he had already been up for about seven hours consoling the Budke family.

He and his wife, Ann, had been in Oklahoma City and had woken at 3 a.m. to the news. They drove straight to Stillwater to see Shel-ley Budke and her children.

Everyone at the press confer-ence that morning already knew what had happened.

Women’s basketball coaches Kurt Budke and Miranda Serna and OSU alumni Olin and Paula Branstetter had been killed in a plane crash the night before.

Hargis wasn’t there to present any new facts. His job was to as-sure everyone OSU was going to get through this.

“I just wanted to convey that OSU is a family, and we’re go-ing to take care of each other and

support the families of those who lost as much as we could,” Hargis said.

Barely a minute into speak-ing with the press, Hargis had to pause to hold back his tears.

Everything had happened so sud-denly, and despite his best efforts, his emotions were getting the best of him.

“It’s our worst nightmare,” he told the eerily silent room full of

reporters. It was the beginning to what

Hargis said was the longest day of his life.

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Saturday marks the one-year an-niversary of a single plane crash that affected thousands on the OSU campus.

Two members of the OSU fam-ily, women’s basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna, were killed that day. One year later, students are able to look back

and recall just how they felt that day.Whether they heard the news

through word of mouth, text, news or Facebook, the common reaction was shock.

“How does this happen to us twice?” Jarod Cole, a senior animal science major, said, referring back to the crash that took 10 from the men’s basketball team in 2001.

Most agreed that the mood on campus that day was somber.

“I didn’t see many people smiling

that day,” Gina Noble, a professor in the school of Media and Strategic Communications, said. “We all had heavy hearts that day.”

Matt Fletcher, a university infor-mation coordinator, had a different experience than most. He described the day as hectic, dealing with con-stant calls from the media.

“The day was a blur,” he said. “You learn in this field (communications) to disconnect yourself and just get your job done. I honestly don’t re-

member much of what happened that day. I do remember getting in my car after the day was over, shut-ting the door and just losing it. It had been bottled up all day…”

Jordan Shultz, a sophomore on the women’s basketball team, re-called getting called into the locker room around 3:45 a.m., where an-other coach informed the team of what had happened.

“Nobody went to class that day,” Shultz said. “Everyone was in

shock.”The support of each other and the

rest of the OSU community is what helped the team get through.

“As tragic as it was, it brought us together,” she said. “We devoted the rest of the season to him, and while we made mistakes, we did win the WNIT Championship. We were able to play for him and end the sea-son on a positive note.”

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This morning: Four wreaths will be lit at Chi-O clock. 8 a.m.-5p.m.: A banner will be available to be signed in the Gallagher-Iba Memorial Lobby.Saturday at 2:30 p.m.: The OSU football team will wear decals on the helmets for the four.Saturday at 4:10 p.m.: The time of the crash. Library bells will toll.Sunday at 2 p.m.: Free women’s basketball game. Stickers for the four will be handed out.

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Oklahoma State University is working to implement a new em-ployee travel policy, OSU Director of Communications Gary Shutt said Thursday afternoon.

The university formed a task force to evaluate travel procedures fol-lowing last year’s fatal plane crash in Perryville, Ark., which resulted in the deaths of women’s basketball coach Kurt Budke, assistant coach Miranda Serna, pilot Olin Branstet-ter and his wife Paula.

The task force is reviewing a po-tential new policy internally and anticipates presenting it to the Okla-homa A&M Board of Regents at its next meeting in Langston on Nov. 30, Shutt said.

The task force included university representatives, a regent member, alumni and external aviation experts, he said.

The proposed policy would de-tail aircraft and pilot requirements, which will apply to employee travel.

The team travel guidelines at the time of the accident did not apply to coaches’ travel without student-athletes, Shutt said. Those rules al-

lowed coaches to travel at their own discretion, which included travel for recruitment.

The policy, created in April 2002 and last updated in July 2007, says noncommercial aircraft are accept-able for travel by coaches and ath-letic department staff, by personal election. However, all aircraft stu-dent-athletes use must have two or more turbine engines, according to the policy. Student-athletes are also not allowed to fly on noncommercial aircraft unless three or fewer athletes are needed for official department business.

Branstetter, 82, was flying a Piper

PA-28 Cherokee fixed wing single-engine aircraft, which was certified as airworthy in 1964, at the time of the crash, according to the Fed-eral Aviation Administration aircraft registry.

Although the accident happened last year, the National Transportation Safety Board has not sent the univer-sity its final report detailing the cause of the crash, Shutt said. Investigator-in-charge Jason Aguilera and NTSB spokesman Terry Williams released a preliminary report Nov. 23, but it has not been updated since.

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A piece of Gary Blair’s heart will always remain in Stillwater.

In the early morning hours of Nov. 18, 2011, Oklahoma State received a phone call that brought grief and haunting memories back to Gallagher-Iba Arena. Women’s basketball head coach Kurt Budke and as-sistant Miranda Serna were fly-ing with Cowboy alumni Olin and Paula Branstetter on a re-cruiting trip to Arkansas when their plane crashed, killing all on board.

Texas A&M women’s bas-ketball head coach Gary Blair vividly remembers getting the phone call with the news, and from that moment on, his life was changed forever.

“When Kurt went down, and Miranda, it wasn’t only Oklahoma State that was hurt. It was college athletics,” Blair said. “Each of us puts ourselves in harm’s way many times, and we have to start reflecting back and start thinking of the things that could happen to each one of us.”

Blair and Budke’s paths first crossed in 2005, when Budke was named the head coach at OSU. Blair remembers how things were back then, when he coached what he said was the worst team in the league the year before, and the Cowgirls were in the same shoes as his Aggies when Budke took over.

It was those program simi-larities and frustrations be-tween OSU and Texas A&M that sparked a lasting friendship between Blair and Budke.

“We used to hold each oth-er’s hands on the journey that both of us had to go through,” Blair said. “Both of us started part of our career at Louisiana Tech, so both of us working un-der coach (Leon) Barmore, we had been trained right.”

After those initial years, both the Aggies and Cowgirls started to excel. A&M would go on to have seven consecutive seasons with 20 or more wins

and a national title, and OSU would have four 20 or more win seasons, three WNIT ap-pearances and three NCAA runs including a Sweet 16 birth in the NCAA tournament.

But through it all, Budke and Blair remained close friends, with the same topic coming up every time the two spoke.

“He was so proud of his kids. When we would be on a re-cruiting trip, he would be there and he would talk about his son playing and his daughter and everything like that,” Blair said. “And it was just so refresh-ing because too many times as coaches, we put our families second. We say that they’re first, but too many times our family comes second.

“There’s too many ballgames that you miss or too many grad-uations or too many first dates that you need to be there as a dad and you’re not there, and your spouse has to handle all that,” Blair said, crediting the way Budke’s widow, Shelley, has handled herself and her family and saying how special she is.

Blair always looked forward to seeing Budke and getting to catch up with each other’s

lives and families. Whenever the Aggies made the trip to Stillwater, Blair would sneak away from his team’s dinner at Joeseppi’s and walk next door to Mexico Joe’s just so he could be waited on by Budke’s daughter, Sara.

When recalling the moment he heard about the crash, Blair’s face had a look of patriarchal strength that one would expect from a father of two with two grandchildren. The look in his eyes, however, betrayed the fa-çade and showed the pain and hurt from losing one of his best friends.

Blair attended the memorial service in Gallagher-Iba Arena and was joined by the Univer-sity of Oklahoma’s Sherri Coale and Baylor’s Kim Mulkey in showing support for fallen members of the basketball community. Blair remembered how difficult it was to fight the grief he was feeling, but after then-interim coach Jim Lit-tell made his speech, he knew the Cowgirls would be in good hands.

“Oklahoma State could not have made it through (last) sea-son if Jim Littell had not been

there,” Blair said. “It takes a strong, strong person to be able to do what he did. His speech at the memorial was unbelievable. There’s no way I could have done that.”

Blair said the events of that crash eerily mirrored those from 2001, when a plane car-rying ten members of the OSU men’s basketball team crashed in Colorado, killing all on board.

He admired the way the Stillwater and Oklahoma State communities were able to fight through both tragedies.

“I don’t know how you go through that two times in a 12-year period. I mean, it affects so many different people,” Blair said. “You live with that the rest of your life. Jim held them to-gether.

“Littell was the perfect fit because Kurt and him were best friends, in each other’s wed-dings, and they know exactly what they each would have done if it would have happened to the other.”

When Blair thinks about Budke, he’ll think about Shel-ley, the powerful wife and mother who held the broken

pieces of her family’s life to-gether through unimaginable tragedy.

He’ll think of Sara, Alex and Brett, the three children whom Budke talked about so fondly and frequently.

He’ll think about Stillwater and all those meals at Mexico Joe’s.

Lastly, he’ll think about Gallagher-Iba Arena, where the fans loudly cheer for the Cowgirls during the game and welcome his Aggies after.

It was the place Blair earned his first college win as a head coach and where he could look at the other end of the scor-ers table and see Kurt Budke, a man he adored and admired, with that warm familiar smile on his face coaching a team that he loved with all his heart.

“He was my best friend in the coaching ranks in the Big 12 because we could talk so openly and honestly just about life and our families. I was doing a com-muter marriage, which I still am, and he was trying to build a program,” Blair said. “Well, he built that program.”

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I wanted to sleep until noon. I woke up at 8 a.m.

The night before was Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, and I was the editor-in-chief of The Daily O’Collegian. We had just sent the PDFs of Friday’s newspaper to the printer. It was a long week toward the end of the semester, and we all needed a break.

But as I slept in early the next morning, I heard a faint knock at my bedroom door

and muffled voices. It was photo editor KT King. He walked in and told me the news: Cowgirl basketball coach Kurt Budke and at least one assistant coach were killed in a plane crash in Ar-kansas.

Most students could hear the news and go back to sleep. That wasn’t the case for staffers at the O’Colly. Half-dreaming and confused, I stumbled out of bed. I jumped in my truck and sped to the basement of the Paul Miller building.

After posting the first news story of the crash on our website, I picked up my phone and got to work. I was the first to tell some report-ers the news. Others made their way into the newsroom before I had the chance. New information rolled in and we did our best to keep the com-

munity informed.I’ve never been more proud

of the O’Colly staff. Our Monday edition dedicated to the tragedy symbolizes the collective passion shared by a select few student journalists at OSU.

It was emotional for the en-tire staff – especially for those who knew Budke person-ally. There are few situations in life that combine work and heartbreak. I was able to maintain my composure for that 12-hour work day until I received a phone call. It was a reporter from The New York Daily News. She asked me

about the mood on campus. Then she asked me what kind of person Budke was.

I broke down. In that mo-ment, I couldn’t find the words.

I’m telling you my story because it’s important to me. I don’t want to forget Nov. 18, 2011, I want to remember it forever with a heavy heart. When I think about that day, I want to call the most impor-tant people in my life and tell them how much they mean to me.

But this editorial shouldn’t be about me. It shouldn’t be about the efforts of The

Daily O’Collegian staff. This is about honoring four who were taken too soon from hundreds, maybe thousands, of collective people whose lives were better because of Kurt Budke, Miranda Serna, Olin and Paula Branstetter’s presence.

I won’t pretend like coach Budke and I were extremely close. I covered a handful of Cowgirl basketball games and stopped by a few practices during my first semester at OSU.

But I can’t help but look back fondly on the short conversations we shared. I can’t help but think about the members of the OSU ath-letics family that were still devastated by the 2001 plane crash. It’s not fair that this happened twice to same town. There are no words that can mend the hearts of the people

who called Budke a coach, a father, a husband or just a friend.

It’s difficult to find the ex-act words that sum up what made Budke special. So I’ll let him do the taking.

On March 28, 2005, Bud-ke held his first press confer-ence in Gallagher-Iba Arena. His words ran across the front page of the O’Colly on Mon-day after the crash.

“Today is a new beginning,” Budke said. “It’s going to be a roller coaster ride for a while. I invite you to jump onboard with us because we’re going to build something special.”

I hope Saturday is a re-minder for you to approach life with the same attitude. It would make Kurt proud.

Never forget. Honor the four.

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courtesy of the batalliongary Blair, texas a&M’s womens basketball coach, knew kurt Budke since 2005.

A&M coach had bond with Budke

anyone and everyone look-ing for information. There were also funerals and memo-rials to help plan. Anything to keep the mind occupied.

“It’s just trying to busy yourself with things that need to be decided,” Hargis said. “That was probably somewhat helpful in dealing with the tragedy.”

But there’s no easy way to deal with something so un-expected. Especially consid-ering this was the so similar to what had happened a little more than 10 years before when 10 members of the OSU community were killed in a plane crash in Colorado.

“A lot of people were ask-ing, ‘How could this happen again?’” Hargis said. “Those are questions no one can an-swer.”

As the day wore on, Hargis said he had moments in pri-vate where he would be over-come with emotion. Memo-ries would pass through his head and the realities of what OSU had lost would flow into his mind.

“It is just such a horrible, premature loss to lose these two you, vibrant and very tal-ented people,” Hargis said. “The Branstetters were two great, enthusiastic supporters of OSU. They were two of the nicest people you’ve ever met. It seems so unnecessary. You just hate it.”

The day ended, and Hargis and OSU have begun the slow process of moving forward. The women’s basketball team played through the rest of its season and won a WNIT championship. And Hargis gives credit to the Budkes for helping OSU move on.

“Shelley and the kids have been so wonderful through all this,” he said. “They, in a way, have supported all of us.”

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Hargis: OSU’s president reflects on the day of the crash.

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There are no words that can mend the hearts of the people who called Budke a coach, a

father, a husband or just a friend.

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OSU diversity efforts receive national honor

Apblett named Fellow for his scholarship and service

Dr. Allen Apblett was recently named a Fellow of the American Ce-ramic Society in recognition of his broad and productive scholarship in ceramic science and technology, as well as outstanding service to the society. Apblett, a professor of chemistry at Oklahoma State Uni-versity, formally received the honor at the Material Science and Technol-ogy 2012 conference in Pittsburgh.

“I am deeply honored to be named a Fellow of the American Ce-ramic Society because it recognizes my success in tackling challenging and interesting chemical problems and using them as a vehicle for the education of the future leaders in my profession,” said Apblett. “In receiving this award, I am joining an impressive group of people whose

impact not just on science and engi-neering but also on the world.”

Apblett’s research targets several problems that are faced by indus-try and society today, and includes three key accomplishments: De-velopment of methods for the safe

storage of nuclear waste and heavy metals within non-leachable ceramic waste forms. Unique, innovative ways to produce high technology ceramics for use in electronics, medi-

security, pollution prevention and remediation, and catalysis. And the “one-pot” conversion of minerals to useful polymers that may one day replace petroleum-derived polymers as the world’s supply of oil dwindles.

Apblett has been at OSU since 1997 and was recently promoted to professor. He has published over 105

and received several awards, includ-ing the ACS Environmental Division

a member of Project Kaleidoscope’s Faculty for the 21st Century and OSU’s College of Arts and Science Junior Faculty Excellence in Research Award. He is also a Riata Fellow and this year’s OSU Sigma Xi lecturer.

To read more about Apblett and his research and accomplishments go to news.okstate.edu.

News from OSU Communications

Saturday, Nov. 17, marks the one-year anniversary of the plane crash that took the lives of Oklahoma State University’s Head Women’s Bas-ketball Coach Kurt Budke, Assistant Coach Miranda Serna and OSU

alumni Olin and Paula Branstetter.“It is a period in OSU’s history that should and will never be

forgotten,” said OSU President Burns Hargis. “We continue to mourn the loss of these four individuals who were dear to our hearts and touched so many lives. Our thoughts are with their families and friends.”

The memorial lobby in the southwest corner of Gallagher-Iba Arena will be open to the public today from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

addition, a “Remember the 4” banner will be available Friday and Sunday for people to sign.

To honor their memory and pay tribute to their families, the OSU football team will wear “4” stickers on their helmets during the OSU/Texas Tech game and prior to kick-off at 2:30 p.m. there will be a moment of silence during which pictures of Budke, Serna and the Branstetters will be shown on the video boards in Boone

Pickens Stadium. “4” stickers will be handed out to those that attend the OSU Cowgirl

.m.p 2 rof tes si ffo-pit ,yadnuS no emag llabteksab etatS rebeW .svAdmission to that game is free in honor of the 4. Prior to the game, a private reception is planned for friends and family members.

Earlier this week, four wreaths on the Chi-O clock in the Student Union Plaza were lit. The orange wreaths represent Budke, Serna and the Brandstetters lives and will remain illuminated throughout the holiday season.

Events to mark one-year anniversary of plane crash

George Wicks, president of the American Ceramic Society, awards a plaque to Dr. Allen Apblett formally recognizing Apblett as a Fellow in the society.

“Fanfare of Lights”It’s time to light up the campus and spread holiday spirit with the annual Fanfare of Lights. The festivi-ties begin on Nov. 27 at 7 p.m. in front of Edmond Low Library. Bundle up and join local musicians, the OSU Chamber Choir, the OSU Bass Ensemble and OSU’s First Cowgirl Ann Hargis for carols, cookies and cocoa as campus is lit up with Ameri-ca’s Brightest Orange.

Community Thanksgiving Enjoy this Thanksgiving holiday with a great meal and sense of community right here in Stillwater. Trinity Lutheran Church, Unseen Angels, United Way and Valley Outreach will provide a down-home Thanksgiving dinner for 200 people at Trinity Lutheran Church at noon on Thursday, Nov. 22. All are welcome! Be sure to reserve your spot by calling 651-439-7400.

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On Campus...

B Y D E B RA S CHLEGEL

“Diversity equals innovation. It promotes excellence, creativity and awareness. Diversity is a part of Okla-homa State’s DNA,” said Dr. Jason Kirksey, associate vice president of Institutional Diversity at OSU.

put those words into action by creating diversity initiatives and programs to help grow diversity on our campus.

month when it was named among the winners of the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award for 2012 from the magazine Insight into Diversity. HEED winners are selected from universities nationwide which show a high level of success in diversity and inclusion among their students, faculty and administrators.

Kirksey submitted OSU as an ap- .tsuguA ni kcab drawa eht rof tnacilp

“It included our enrollment numbers, information about our diversity pro-grams and how our university initia-tives promote diversity,” he said.

The numbers illustrate how OSU has become more diverse over the past three years. In the fall of 2009, the number of African American, Asian American, La-tino/Hispanic, Native American students and stu-dents of two or more ethnicities was 2,960. That number nearly doubled this fall with 4,691 undergraduate students of diverse ethnicities enrolled at OSU.

From 2009 to 2012, there has been

a 276 percent increase in the number of African Ameri-can, Asian American, Latino/Hispanic, Native American and those of two or more ethnici-ties in the freshmen class, a 152 percent increase in graduate students and a 58 percent increase in undergraduate students.

“These num-bers help change our perception and impact our environment,” said Kirksey, who credits President Burns Har-gis for his advocacy in setting the tone for our campus about the importance of diversity. “We are fortunate to have a president who plays such a lead roll in the diversity initiatives and programs hap-pening here at OSU.”

“We are honored to be recog-nized for our commitment to diversity and pleased to be among those who

are leading the way in creating diverse and inclusive cam-puses,” said Presi-dent Hargis.

“A more d i-verse population is important in the classroom,” said Kirksey. “Recogniz-ing diversity and

broadening perspectives helps with critical thinking and the improvement of quality of life.”

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