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  • Spring Sing highlights 2013 Spring Visit

    Oklahoma Christian University and its social service clubs will present the Disney-themed Spring Sing show, “The Wonderful World of OC,” on March 7-9. Spring Sing coincides with Spring Visit weekend, which brings hundreds of students from around the globe to OC’s Oklahoma City campus each year. The four Spring Sing performances will be Thursday, March 7 at 7 p.m., Friday, March 8 at 8 p.m., and Saturday, March 9 at 2 and 8 p.m. Tickets are available at the OC Box Office in the ...

  • Pulitzer-winning drama hits OC stage

    The Oklahoma Christian University theater department will perform the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “Doubt: A Parable,” on Feb. 22-23 and March 1-2. “Doubt” is set in 1964 in a Catholic school and church in the Bronx, New York. In this story, Sister Aloysius Beauvier must take matters into her own hands when she suspects a priest is abusing a student. The cast includes OC senior Hannah Faye Foster as Sister Beauvier, freshman A.J. Leingang as Father Brendan Flynn, ...

  • OC hosts 'My Black America' panel discussion

    Oklahoma Christian University’s Black Student Union invites the public to a free panel forum in recognition of Black History Month. Beginning at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, the event is titled “My Black America.” Panelists include Oklahoma City Thunder broadcaster Grant Long, KOCO news anchor Wendell Edwards, Dallas Cowboys Stadium human resources director Monica Brooks, OC professor Dr. Lawrence Murray and OC admissions counselor Candace Owens. The event will be moderated by Gary ...

  • OC holds undergraduate prices for second straight year

    Oklahoma Christian University (OC) officials announced today that undergraduate tuition will not increase for the 2013-14 academic year. The cost of attendance for OC undergraduate students also stayed the same from 2011-12 to 2012-13. “Affordability is a big deal to us because affordability is a big deal to students and their families,” OC president John deSteiguer said. “Holding our total price is the right thing to do again because we want students to get a first-rate ...

  • Video recap of Brandon Weeden at OC

    Cleveland Browns quarterback Brandon Weeden visited Oklahoma Christian University on February 8. The video above shows highlights of the day ... clips from his interview with OC president John deSteiguer, his news conference with the media (and special guest, 6-year-old Gavin Kuykendall), and his appearances at OC's daily Chapel service and the Athletic Hall of Fame Dinner. Weeden talked about a career that took him from Edmond Santa Fe High School (where he played for current OC baseball coach ...

  • Texas, OC, Harvard - Good Twitter company

    Thousands of students, faculty, staff and alumni call Oklahoma Christian University “home” … and that feeling has resonated on Twitter in recent months. TheBestColleges.org recognized the #OCisHome hashtag as one of the top 15 university hashtags on Twitter, ranking Oklahoma Christian 11th, right between the University of Texas and Harvard University. In praising #OCisHome, TheBestColleges.org said that it “provides a comparatively more intimate and supportive ...

  • OC presents instrumental concert

    A medley from “Les Miserables” will be among the selections at Oklahoma Christian University’s annual Winter Instrumental Concert on Feb. 10. The free concert featuring the university’s instrumental groups starts at 2:30 p.m. in OC’s Hardeman Auditorium. OC’s Symphonic Band will perform the “Les Miserables” medley along with Frank Ticheli’s “Nitro” and the Goldman March “On the Mall.” The university’s Jazz ...

  • Halie Hilburn appears on American Idol

    Halie Hilburn is "going to Hollywood" on American Idol after she advanced out of the Oklahoma City auditions. The Oklahoma Christian University alumna's audition aired on American Idol's January 31 broadcast. It featured both Halie (Swan) and her "dog" Oscar, who unfortunately didn't get a thumbs up from American Idol's resident "dawg," Randy Jackson, or fellow judges Mariah Carey, Keith Urban or Nicki Minaj. Halie, a 2008 OC graduate, hails from Vernon, Texas. Thanks to "HumanSlinky" for ...

  • OC says 'Hooray for Love' at Valentine Cabaret

    The Oklahoma Christian University Music Department will present the 24th-annual Valentine Cabaret dinner theater Feb. 14-16. This year’s Cabaret theme is “Hooray for Love: Highlights from the Great American Songbook.” Fourteen pieces written by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen and Burt Bacharach will be performed. Classics include “The Man I Love,” “I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good),” and “If I ...

  • Mercy opens clinic on OC campus

    Mercy Clinic has opened a permanent location, called Mercy Clinic at OC, on the Oklahoma Christian University campus. “We remember what it’s like to live on campus,” said Mercy Clinic at OC Medical Director Dr. Melinda Cail (OC alumna and daughter of Dr. James Cail, beloved retired Oklahoma Christian University psychology professor who taught for more than 30 years at OC). “Students have enough to worry about, so we want to make health care as simple ...

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