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With the Iowa caucuses under their collective belts and the New Hampshire primaries the only thing standing between presidential hopefuls and “Super Tuesday” glory, the primary races are becoming competitive.

It can be uncomfortable when you are in a car with your friends and everyone else isn’t wearing a seat belt while you are struggling to find or untangle yours.

When Oklahoma State’s new president, Burns Hargis, entered the O’Collegian offices Tuesday to meet with the Editorial Board, few of us knew what to think about the man who would soon be at the helm of the university.

Over the past eight months, Hollywood has been active in the baby-making game.

Dustin Bale has a New Year’s resolution.

Mr. Hargis, as you may or may not be aware, OSU recently received a very poor grade for sustainability. What are your thoughts on a recycle program that has campuswide recycling for items such as plastics, all papers and aluminum cans? Do you support this idea?
— Wes Haddox, SGA recycling vice chairman

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Could you please address your plans to deal with a crisis in the cost of family health benefits at OSU?
— Thad Leffingwell, psychology professor

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What do you plan to do or do you plan to raise staff salaries significantly?
— Sarah Sloan, senior unit assistant, Office of Engineering Research

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As an example, the University of Oklahoma has the money and the contacts to invite national and world leaders to campus. Seems to me Oklahoma State University students, faculty and staff are missing out. How will you rectify this problem?
— Richard W. Hawkins, programming analyst, Institutional Research and Information Management

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How are you going to work to avoid tuition increases?
— The Daily O’Collegian

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How important is research at OSU, as far as you’re concerned?
— The Daily O’Collegian

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What would you say to people who may question whether you are qualified to run a research university?
— The Daily O’Collegian

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How long do you plan to serve as president?
— The Daily O’Collegian

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How do you see relations between OSU and Stillwater and how do you think relations can be improved?
— The Daily O’Collegian

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Future OSU president Burns Hargis answers questions from The Daily O’Collegian staff members.

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Future OSU president Burns Hargis answers questions from The Daily O’Collegian staff members.

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Future OSU president Burns Hargis answered questions from The Daily O’Collegian staff members.

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Future OSU President Burns Hargis shared his commitment to fundraising and revealed his sense of the humor in a roundtable with The Daily O’Collegian editorial board Tuesday afternoon.

While OSU students took it easy over the holiday break, there was certainly no shortage of action within the Cowboy football program.

National economic factors may hit closer to home for graduating seniors this May.

Oklahoma State’s women’s basketball team will open Big 12 Conference play on the road when it faces a tough Kansas squad.

The Student Government Association Senate will be looking to build on actions from this past semester and also generate new initiatives for the semester tonight in its first meeting of 2008.

OSU needs to raise faculty salaries while hiring more faculty and spending more on research, the vice president of research and technology transfer said in a presentation to the Faculty Council on Tuesday.