This article was the second article that I wrote for The Oracle.  It along with two subsequent sports columns (which were the only three sports columns that I wrote before I became the Innovations editor) were submitted to and won the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Media Association Sports Column Award for small to medium sized four year colleges.

Ironically, it was to be the only award I would receive in my three years at The Oracle.

And another thing.  This article successfully got even the sports section censored.  Up until I started to write the administration only perused the news and innovations sections, but after my crack about the ORU president even the sports section was reviewed.  In all fairness the "leaving the brain at the border" was a quote from the president himself.  I was only trying to draw attention to the fact that the president attended a women's soccer game (most president's tend to only make the big profile games - I thought it was cool that he was at the game).  It didn't come out right.

A rumor circulated after this article that the writer had gotten expelled or suspended.  Needless to say I never got to the bottom of whether this rumor was true or not.  I was too busy going to class.

This controversy also put my name on the map and made anything I wrote into a must read.  By the administration at least.  Most of the articles I wrote would eventually get printed, but a few of my stories made it to the cutting room floor.  See the Signature collection.

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