Many hope Mike Johnson will be able to help Congress make progress in funding agreements. Congress has faced challenges regarding appropriation bills for the fiscal year of 2024 since the end of summer, avoiding a government shutdown and the removal of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, following his passing of the stopgap bill that […]
For the last time this semester, welcome back to The Weekly Yak. It’s going to be a tough few weeks, but at least we finally get our Fall Break. The excitement of student life has decreased dramatically since Homecoming, and we truly are descending into dead week. To be honest, with the amount of sick […]
Mike Johnson is popular with the House Majority. The events of early October regarding the U.S. government’s potential and, eventually, postponed shutdown led to the dismissal of the former Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Less than a month later, on Oct. 25, with only a few weeks until the deadline for the temporary […]
Fighting street crime the TU way, with chai and “Blank Space (Taylor’s Version)” blaring. It was a great week for campus, but I wouldn’t say it was just because of Homecoming, because the only thing that came home was Starbucks. We as a collective really put the “unity” in community this week with the Halloween […]
I’m starting to feel like the CEO of Egg Inc. with the ever-growing title of wealth that I possess. But hey, it’s the sixth edition of The Weekly Yak, so welcome back if you’re returning. This week was rife with rain and pets and definitely not as much roasting as usual; we’re all tired. But […]
This approval could lead to a slippery slope of unconstitutional funding and authorizations. Oklahoma’s Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond, along with the Oklahoma Supreme Court, filed a lawsuit against the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board on Oct. 20, 2023, following the board’s majority approval in June of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma’s application to establish […]
There’s a controversial quote around that goes something like, “The customer is always right.” As an ex-employee of food service, I’m inclined most times to believe that that is false. However, I’m sure many members of the student body here at The University of Tulsa would agree that, since we are paying customers of this […]
I believe in the great belief that “We Should All Know Less About Each Other.” In my headcanon these two events are related: the restoration of Pat Case’s ice cream machine and the unfortunate image posted on TU’s community Snapchat story on Tuesday evening. It was a good week for those who aren’t interested in […]
Midterms week? How about THESE YAKS WERE SO MID THIS WEEK? There was no flavor, no motivation, no inspiration, much like the construction of half the buildings on campus. One Yik Yak user is quoted saying that, “Oliphant Hall is built like the backrooms, but at least we got a new dirt path this week.” […]
Call it the mid-semester blues or the yakarmic energies being strange because this week, attitudes were all over the place on TU’s designated app for gossip and arguments: Yik Yak. From an incredibly stupid and long debate about the lack of non-alcoholic drinks at frat parties (the original poster was in fact able to get […]