Northwestern Oklahoma State University. Homepage Skip Slider Be a part of the Ranger FamilySchedule a campus tour today SCHEDULE A TOUR Ride, Rangers, Ride From football to rodeo, weve got your sport ATHLETICS Welcome to NorthwesternSchedule your campus visit today VISIT NWOSU Success Lives Here Becoming a Ranger has never been easier. APPLY NOW Ranger Preview Nov. Scholarship Available for Attending REGISTER TODAY Be a part of the Ranger Family Schedule a campus tour today SCHEDULE A TOUR Ride, Rangers, Ride From football to rodeo, weve got your sport ATHLETICS Prev. Next RESOURCES Email Blackboard Ranger. Net Library Services NWOSU Bookstore APPLY NOW Begin Create Opportunities RANGER PREVIEW Register Today UNIVERSITY CALENDAR ALL EVENTS OCT 0. Voter Registration Sign Up, 9 a. The Ranger Softball Team is sponsoring its second annual voter registration sign up in the Student Center. OCT 0. 3 OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine Speaker Angie Bruce, Recruitment Specialist for OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine will come and speak about admission requirements, the application process and the OSU COM program in general. OCT 0. 3 Artist in Residence Robert Camacho Artist Talk Artist in Residence Robert Camacho will give an Artist Talk at the Graceful Arts Gallery and Studio OCT 0. Woodward Campus OBI Fall Blood Drive Woodward Fall OBI Blood Drive OCT 0. Comprehensive Exam for Graduate Students Graduate Students will take their comprehensive exam at 1 p. EC 1. 09. UNIVERSITY NEWS ALL NEWS Five Northwestern education seniors awarded Guthrie Scottish Rite Scholarship October 2, 2. Five Northwestern Oklahoma State University seniors were awarded the Guthrie Scottish Rite Scholarship given by the Guthrie Scottish Rite Charitable and Educational Foundation. READ MORE Northwestern English program offering Writing Marathon October 6 in downtown Alva open to the public October 2, 2.
Northwestern Oklahoma State Universitys English program will play host to a Writing Marathon workshop in downtown Alva on Friday, Oct. Graceful Arts Center. READ MORE Miss Woodward Lexi Vanderwork wins 2. Cinderella crown September 2. Lexi Vanderwork, Miss Woodward, won the title of Miss Cinderella for the 6. Miss Cinderella Pageant at Northwestern Oklahoma State University Friday, Sept. READ MORE document. Slider controls true, pager false, auto true, speed 4. University Profile University Profile Northwestern Oklahoma State University is a public regional university that has received national acclaim for its combination of high quality academic program and affordability. While Northwestern primarily serves the vast geographical area of northwest Oklahoma and the Panhandle, its student come from more than 4. The main campus is located in Alva, a city of approximately 5,0. Oklahoma. Alva is located 1. Kansas border, approximately 1. Oklahoma City, and 1. Wichita, Kansas. The community is fully engaged with the University and even dedicates sales tax money to fund scholarships. 1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul. Students can choose from more than 4. Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degrees. Northwestern offers masters degree programs in education, counseling psychology, and American Studies, and a doctoral program in nursing practice. Students enjoy a vibrant on campus college experience by living in university housing, dining in the cafeteria or Student Center Snack Bar, participating in Greek life or campus organizations, attending home athletic contests, or attending numerous other campus events. Northwestern also operates additional locations in northwest Oklahomas two largest cities Enid and Woodward. Northwestern Enid assists a diverse population, including adult learners, achieve their career and educational goals by providing local, affordable access to higher education by offering upper level courses leading to an undergraduate or graduate degree. Many students take advantage of the Bridge Program between Northwestern and Northern Oklahoma College, a local community college, and make a seamless transition to Northwestern for completion of their four year degree. Northwestern Woodward provides convenient access to higher education opportunities to a diverse population, including non traditional students, to assist them in meeting education and career goals in a supportive environment. Students attending classes at Northwestern Woodward are able to take the same types of undergraduate courses that are available at Northwesterns main campus in Alva. Traditions Traditions OVERVIEW HOMECOMING FAMILY DAY ALMA MATER MASCOT COLORS FIGHT SONG OVERVIEW HOMECOMING FAMILY DAY ALMA MATER MASCOT COLORS FIGHT SONG Northwestern Oklahoma State University is a public regional university that has received national acclaim for its combination of high quality academic program and affordability. While Northwestern primarily serves the vast geographical area of northwest Oklahoma and the Panhandle, its students come from more than 4. HOMECOMING The Alva community, Northwestern alumni, current students, faculty and staff, as well as prospective students and bands from surrounding areas join in celebrating the Ranger family. FIGHT SONG Northwesterns fight song is Ride, Rangers, Ride Its tradition to stand, clap and sing to show our Ranger Pride whenever this song is played. ALMA MATER Oh, Northwestern is the universitys alma mater. Its sung and played at various events, including commencement, football games and the Spring Alumni Reunion Banquet. MASCOT COLORS Rowdy Ranger is our mascot character and can always be found at our home athletic events, homecoming events and anywhere to entice Ranger pride for the Ranger Family. Homecoming Traditions OVERVIEW HOMECOMING FAMILY DAY ALMA MATER MASCOT COLORS FIGHT SONG OVERVIEW HOMECOMING FAMILY DAY ALMA MATER MASCOT COLORS FIGHT SONG At the heart of Northwestern traditions is the fall homecoming event. The Alva community, Northwestern alumni, current students, faculty and staff, as well as prospective students and bands from surrounding areas join in celebrating the Ranger family. Homecoming events such as the Miss Cinderella Pageant for high school senior females, the homecoming parade, band and parade float competitions, Ranger Royalty, and more are all funded strictly through the purchase of Northwesterns annual themed homecoming button. Schedule of Events. Thursday, Sept. 2. Miss Cinderella Talent Show 7 3. Herod Hall Auditorium. Friday, Sept. 2. 9, 2. Rally Round the Ranger. Noon 1. 2 p. m., Alva Campus, Ranger Statue Lady Rangers Volleyball VS Southeastern 6 3. Percefull Fieldhouse. Miss Cinderella Pageant. Herod Hall Auditorium. Saturday, Sept. 3. Ranger Run 5. K and 1 Mile Fun Run8 a. Alvas Downtown Square, north side. Homecoming Parade 1. Alvas Downtown Square. Alumni Lunch 6personImmediately following the parade, Alumni Tent on the Courthouse Lawn Lady Rangers Soccer VS Harding 1. Alva Rec Complex. Alumni Band Rehearsal. Alva Campus, Fine Arts Building, third floor Dunning Performance Center Dedication. Dunning Performance Center. Massed Bands Performance Before the start of the football game, Ranger Field. Northwestern VS Southeastern Football Game 4 p. Ranger Field TITLE Miss Cinderella Pageant CONTENT Since its inception, the Miss Cinderella Pageant has provided a means by which outstanding high school seniors can compete in a worthwhile pageant for both honors and awards of scholarship. This scholarship pageant takes place on Thursday and Friday of Homecoming week, followed by the parade on Saturday at 1. Alvas downtown square. The pageant has grown in size and significance in northwest Oklahoma, and towns along the Kansas and Texas borders. The winner of the Miss Cinderella title receives eight semesters of tuition and a one year room waiver at Northwestern Alva. The first and second runners up receive six and four semesters of tuition, respectively. The winners of the talent and congeniality titles each receive a one year room waiver in addition to the one year tuition scholarship that each contestant receives. Click here for more information on most recent winners, pageant history, and former Miss Cinderella. A contestant must be a true high school senior female, single, and at least 1. September 1, 2. 01. She must never have previously entered the Miss Cinderella Pageant. For a full list of requirements download the entry forms, rules and guidelines below. MISS CINDERELLA ENTRY FORMSInitial School Letter 2. Song of Myself. Wont you help support Day. Poems 1. 81. 9 1. I celebrate myself, and sing myself. And what I assume you shall assume. For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul. I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, formd from this soil, this air. Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their. I, now thirty seven years old in perfect health begin. Hoping to cease not till death. Creeds and schools in abeyance. Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten. I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard. Nature without check with original energy. Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with. I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it. The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it. The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the. It is for my mouth forever, I am in love with it. I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked. I am mad for it to be in contact with me. The smoke of my own breath. Echoes, ripples, buzzd whispers, love root, silk thread, crotch and vine. My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing. The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and. The sound of the belchd words of my voice loosd to the eddies of. A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms. The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag. The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields. The feeling of health, the full noon trill, the song of me rising. Have you reckond a thousand acres much Have you practisd so long to learn to readHave you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of. You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, there are millions. You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me. You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self. I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the. But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now. Nor any more youth or age than there is now. And will never be any more perfection than there is now. Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. Urge and urge and urge. Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and. Always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life. To elaborate is no avail, learnd and unlearnd feel that it is so. Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well. Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical. I and this mystery here we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen. Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. Showing the best and dividing it from the worst age vexes age. Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they. I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself. Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean. Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be. I am satisfied I see, dance, laugh, sing. As the hugging and loving bed fellow sleeps at my side through the night. Leaving me baskets coverd with white towels swelling the house with. Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes. That they turn from gazing after and down the road. And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent. Exactly the value of one and exactly the value of two, and which is ahead Trippers and askers surround me. People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and. I live in, or the nation. The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old and new. My dinner, dress, associates, looks, compliments, dues. The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love. The sickness of one of my folks or of myself, or ill doing or loss. Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news. These come to me days and nights and go from me again. But they are not the Me myself. Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am. Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary. Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest. Looking with side curved head curious what will come next. Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it. Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with. I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait. I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you. And you must not be abased to the other. Loafe with me on the grass, loose the stop from your throat. Not words, not music or rhyme I want, not custom or lecture, not. Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice. I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning. How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turnd over upon me. And parted the shirt from my bosom bone, and plunged your tongue. And reachd till you felt my beard, and reachd till you held my feet. Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass. And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own. And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own. And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women. And that a kelson of the creation is love. And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields. And brown ants in the little wells beneath them. And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heapd stones, elder, mullein and. A child said What is the grassHow could I answer the child I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord. A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt. Bearing the owners name someway in the corners, that we may see. Whose Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation. Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic. And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones. Growing among black folks as among white. Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I. And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. Tenderly will I use you curling grass. It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men. It may be if I had known them I would have loved them. It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out. And here you are the mothers laps. This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers. Darker than the colorless beards of old men. Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths. O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues. And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing. I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women. And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken. What do you think has become of the young and old men And what do you think has become of the women and childrenThey are alive and well somewhere. The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the. And ceasd the moment life appeard. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses. And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. Has any one supposed it lucky to be bornI hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it. I pass death with the dying and birth with the new washd babe, and. And peruse manifold objects, no two alike and every one good. The earth good and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good. I am not an earth nor an adjunct of an earth. I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and. They do not know how immortal, but I know. Every kind for itself and its own, for me mine male and female. For me those that have been boys and that love women. For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted. For me the sweet heart and the old maid, for me mothers and the. For me lips that have smiled, eyes that have shed tears. For me children and the begetters of children. Undrape you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded. I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no. And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.