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The Ag Ambassadors work to promote OSU and Agriculture to prospective students.

The club asked SGA for $650 to attend an Ag Ambassador conference.

The conference will give the members the opportunity to learn from others’ experiences and share thier own.

SGA granted co-sponsorship to the club with unanimous consent.

The American Institue of Architecture asked SGA for $1,500 to attend a conference.

The club would like to send 20 members, and they need help paying for registration, hotel rooms, transportation and workshops.

SGA granted co-sponsroship to the club with unanimous consent.

The Non-Traditional Student Organization has been part of OSU for 35 years, and they have about 150 members.

The club asked SGA for $1,500 to attend a nationally recognized conference.

The money would go to registration and hotel expenses.

SGA granted co-sponsorship to the organization with unanimous consent.

SGA granted recognized status to the Medieval Studies group.

The purpose of the group is to study and recreate the arts, skills and Western martial arts, according to the Senate Agenda.

The group will be awarded all of the rights and privileges given to recognized groups.

The OSU Polo Club has been around since 2001.

Some of the club’s horses were injured in barbed wire and are in need of medical treatment.

All of the horses involved with the Polo Club were donated and are older horses so they are prone to health problems.

The club is asking for $1,500 from SGA to treat the horses and pay for new fencing for the horses. 

SGA granted co-sponsorship to the OSU Polo Club with majority rule.

Kari Alldredge from Univeristy Admissions asked senate for help in recruiting prospective students.

Over the past few years, OSU has experienced a decline in enrollment.

The decline in enrollment at OSU occurred for a variety of reasons.

Many colleges throughout Oklahoma are experiencing the same problem.

Alldredge said she would like OSU students to share their college experience with prospective students from thier own community.

Talking with a student leader could make a huge impact with prospective students, Alldredge said.

With all the talk around campus and around the world lately about eco friendliness, I suppose I should have something to say about it as well. Everyday it seems I read a news article talking about biofuels, the Pickens Plan and how to reduce CO2 emissions and promote environmental friendliness. One industry that is looked upon to provide solutions is the auto industry, but who does the auto industry look to for answers? Motor sports.

Now lets throw NASCAR out the window here because they are in their own little bubble when it comes to the motor sport industry.Lets look at sports car racing instead.Let’s take for example General Motors. GM, among others in the auto industry, realize the importance of reducing CO2 emissions and providing a platform to showcase the fact that they, as an automobile manufacturers, are taking steps to learn about and to produce cleaner automobiles.

To explain, the American Le Mans Series, which General Motors competes in, has initiated the “Green Challenge.”The Green Challenge focuses on the eco-friendliness of the competing cars, teams and manufacturers.Competitors are scored based on over 30 factors such as fuel mileage, fuel type, CO2 emissions, use of tires, etc.

This brings me to my next point. GM and their Corvette racing team have made a strong statement to the world by powering their race cars with cellulosic ethanol. Cellulosic ethanol is the next generation of ethanol fuels. Cellulosic ethanol is easier to produce, cleaner burning and more powerful than the corn ethanol so many of us are used to hearing.

Lately, I have been talking with people in the biofuel community in attempts to secure an engine package that will see the F2009 running on E85, a much more eco friendly fuel than gasoline. Discussions have been positive and meetings have been going in the right direction.

As advocates of biofuel, eco friendliness and a promoter of all things Oklahoma State, OSU FSAE would like to pledge their commitment to finding solutions. I believe OSU FSAE is a great platform to draw attention to eco friendly issues and hope that people in the community will see our vision and jump on board with us as well as the rest of the motor sports industry.

Until next time, if you would like to learn more about what the motor sports industry is doing to promote other means of eco friendly cars, Google search terms such as: ALMS Green Challenge, Formula One KERS and cellulosic ethanol.

Hello, my name is Jonathan Hufnagel and I am a part of OSU’s Formula SAE racing team.
Through this blog I hope to keep all our fans and sponsors up to date on the going’s on at our shop. Every blog will be posted from our shop here at the DML and will likely feature interviews from team members about their project on the car and it’s progress. Appearances the team make and any other relevant information dealing with OSU FSAE will also be posted. So here goes…

Today was a great day for the team. We are installing a Honda F4i 600cc engine that will produce around 70 horsepower to the F2009 chassis. We’ve used Honda F4i engines in our three previous cars due to the fact they have great power and reliability. I have to say, this is definitely the most significant addition to F2009 to date. Further good news is that our first dyno day is set for Dec. 5 at OSU Okmulgee. We’ll use our time at the dyno to test and figure out the engine’s optimum fuel-to-air ratio so we can produce as much power as possible.

Not only is the team hard at work designing and building the F2009, but also we are hard at work securing sponsorship money. Money is the name of the game in motor sports and it can also be the biggest hurdle to success. With little money coming from the university, the cash flow of the team is solely dependant upon the students will to attain it. Hopefully in the near future I can say OSU FSAE has secured a deal which will ensure enough funding to get the team and the car to all three of our competition’s this year.

Also, the team is launching its first Web site which should be on the web by the end of the week. Check it out at www.okstateracing.com

Thanks for reading and feel free to e-mail me at jonathan.hufnagel@okstate.edu. I hope to keep an update every couple of days so check back soon!

At first glance, I immediately saw Batman. Well, Batman with a jacked up face. On the outset, I would say it looks like a creepy eye - with Batman coming out of the pupil. 

This is a picture of planets outside our solar system. These are the first ever pictures released of other planets in the universe. Pretty interesting.

You can read the whole story here:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/11/13/new.planets/index.html

For Batman fans, the “Dark Knight” DVD release is less than a month away:

http://thedarkknight.warnerbros.com/dvd/

Sen. Ben Jones presented a recommendation to name the North Lobby of Boone Pickens Stadium after Dr. Lewis.

The field that the stadium sits on was originally named after Lewis in 1910.

In 2005, the field was renamed for Boone Pickens who donated $165 million to renovate the stadium.

When the field was being named, the entire student body supported that it be named after Lewis, Jones said.

Naming the lobby would be a tribute to Lewis and everything that happened on Lewis Field over 95 years.

The recommendation was passed with unanimous consent.