Student plans to shave head for children’s cancer research
Kenneth Meador
LANDA MCCLURE
Staff Writer
staffwriter2@occc.edu
St. Patrick’s Day usually has people wearing green clothing, but participants involved in the St. Baldrick’s Foundation will line up to get their heads shaved at 2 p.m., March 28, at VZD’s Restaurant and Club.
Kenneth Meador, nursing major, is one of 51 volunteers in Oklahoma to agree to shave their heads in return for donations to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.
Meador said he has a long way to go before he reaches his goal of $1,000.
READ MOREUpdate: Reports on Feb 26 incident released
Staff reports
OCCC Pioneer
A safety and security incident report, released March 8, along with a second incident report released by President Paul Sechrist’s office March 10, reveals further details of an incident that took place Feb. 26 that resulted in a report of a gunman in the college Library and a gun misfiring by an OCCC security officer.
Events started to unfold the morning of Feb. 26 when a bulletin indicating a threat had been made toward college campuses of a possible shooting that day was circulated outside of the Safety and Security office.
According to college officials, the alert was not state specific or even campus specific. It did, however, have an attachment of a photo of the person who had made the threat.
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