Tulsa's Blast From the Past

By Grace Doyle

By taking a stroll around Cheap Thrills Vintage, you'll feel like you just stepped out of Doc's DeLorean and feel a wave of nostalgia like no other. 

Located on 15^th between Harvard and Delaware, the retro blue painted building is a gem for Tulsans who posses a vintage flare in life.

Street view of Cheap Thrills Vintage.

Life long collector and owner Kristen Casey shared how she has always been an enthusiast for vintage items. Casey remarked that her favorite decades have to be “the 40’s and 50’s”. 

Cheap Thrills offers men and women’s wear along with collectables, records, accessories and trinkets. Besides reminiscing over the certain outfits people wore at one time or another, you can also sell your own vintage clothes to Cheap Thrills. 

A glimpse of all types of vintage items.

You can tell that Casey has worked long and hard to collect many vintage treasures. Whether you are a hardcore collector or fancy trying a new style, Cheap Thrills has something for everyone and anyone. The collection consists of artifacts from the 1940's to the 1980's. 

Cheap Thrills is constantly getting new items that are very affordable and unique. You can check out what Cheap Thrills gets in at https://www.facebook.com/cheapthrillstulsa anytime.  

After shopping around I left with a smile on my face, some vintage buttons in my hand, wishing I owned a DeLorean. 

ACAC Renovations

By Neima Seirafipour

The main entrance into ACAC which will receive a face lift

The University of Tulsa has long been known for its limited amount of dining options, but thanks to renovations to the Allen Chapman Activity Center TU will soon have many more choices.

The University is relocating the University Bookstore to its own building on the south side of 11^th street, freeing up much space in ACAC. The new space is going to host eight new dining options including Panda Express, Pizza Hut, Einstein Bros. Bagels, and Garden Toss.

University of Tulsa Sophomore Nabeel Hefzi was very excited for the renovations said, “TU has always had a limited variety of places to eat, which is especially tough for those who are not on the university meal plan or do not have a car. These new restaurants combined with the existing ones will add enough variety for everyone to be pleased.”

The ACAC renovation will also include a makeover to the entrance of the building as well as to the upstairs lecture rooms. 

The side entrance to ACAC

An outdoor patio will also be added which will aid in accommodating more students at peak hours, and may even be the preferred seating when the weather is nice.

These renovations will surly make ACAC a great place to go between classes and hang out with friends, something TU has been missing. The renovations are expected to be completed for the fall 2014 semester.

For more information please visit: 
https://www.utulsa.edu/about-TU/news-events-publications/UniversityNews/2014/February/tu-to-expand-residential-life.aspx

New Residence Hall

The projected image of the new residence hall. 

New Residence hall

By Jordan Johnston

The University of Tulsa announced earlier this year of the addition of a new residence hall in the center of campus. The new hall will house around 300 students as well as office space for the Holmes Student Center.

“The addition of the new hall is great for TU, it’s going to bring in a lot more students to the university” says current student Thomas Taggart, “the only inconvenience is the construction through the middle of campus.”

Construction of the new hall. 

Construction has been underway on the 100,000 plus square-foot building and is expected to be completed for students for the fall 2015 semester. The recently renovated buildings throughout campus have added to the attraction of TU.

With the addition of the residence hall, the option to live on campus will be possible for more students. The announcement of the new hall came in early February 2014. The hall is located at the intersection of 5^th Place and Florence Avenue, in the heart of campus.

A fountain plaza will connect the hall with the student union. The student union, known as ACAC, is also getting a renovation with the addition of eight new restaurants. For more information on the renovations, click here TU Renovations. 

Clean Hands clothing store: bringing creative culture to Tulsa

By Kathryn Keenan

Clean Hands storefront.

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Clean Hands clothing store, located in the heart of Tulsa’s Pearl District, offers customers original print designs on a variety of apparel and posters.

TU student Natalie Crise paid $.50
and got an original Clean Hands pin
from the gum-ball machine.

Tulsa natives and co-founders, Aaron Wisner and Justin Baney, originally opened their Pearl District site solely as an art studio to create designs.  Since 2008, their company has been setting up temporary print locations to showcase Clean Hand’s work.

Screen printing became an online adventure when they launched www.cleanhandsarmy.com to take online art orders.  Customers could stop apparel and design their own print from a selection of original artwork.  

In 2013, the pair built a store at the front of the studio to house their full line of apparel and posters.  The storefront has since grown to include spray pain, markers, printing items, fine art records, and books.

All of the Clean Hand’s prints are hand pulled and uniquely produced by a team of artists.

This Clean Hands shirt
can be ordered online.

Mural found in Tulsa's Pearl 
District.

You can find additional Clean Hand’s artwork throughout the streets of Tulsa on murals.  The “This Land it Our Land Mural” was one of several murals designed with a purpose of was to developing the public artist movement in Tulsa.  Their goal was to enhance and bring life to areas with paint.

In the future, Clean Hand’s hopes to widen Tulsa’s creative culture by influencing the next generation of kids to become interested in printing and graffiti.

 www.cleanhandsarmy.com

Geology of TU buildings

 By: Mason Morgan

The University of Tulsa is often lauded for its beautiful campus buildings, but most students and faculty members never even notice the details and recurring themes of which they consist.

If you look closely at these buildings all around campus, you start to see a lingering consistency between the rocks that compose the buildings. These sandstone and limestone rocks show uniformity around campus and, only because of the age of the buildings, differ from the location they came from.

The majority of the sandstone originates from Tennessee and according to geologist Dr. Bryan Tapp; these sedimentary rocks are roughly 320 million years old. In addition, most of the limestone is from the Carthage, Mo. area and is around 300 million years old.

These two rocks compose a good amount of the facades of the TU buildings but the University didn’t stop there when it came to the geology of the campus. If you look closely at the new sign on sixth and Delaware (shown in picture), you can see a type of granite that is new to the TU campus but very old geologically speaking. This is called gneiss and according to TU professor Dr. Dennis Kerr, this red and black colored igneous rock is over 3.6 billion years old.

Many people can label campuses as beautiful even if they consist of normal red bricks. What especially makes the University of Tulsa noteworthy is the history that hides behind the buildings’ attraction.

For more information visit here.

Authentic Sushi but not Japanese Experience

By Rejie Shetty


In all of Tulsa you might be wondering where could one get an authentic Asian cuisine, well rest your worries as Tokyo Sushi and Hibachi located at 4942W. Kenosha St. in Broken Arrow,OK 74012 has the experience you desire.
    
"Eat much, pay less" said University of Tulsa Student, Mohamed Sharaiqi, who was there on a Saturday for lunch. "They have plenty of choices and varieties of Japanese cuisine but i really recommend the YO YO MAMA ROLL and the VOLCANO ROLL."
     
The restaurants operates all days of the week from lunch to dinner. They offer a buffet of all you can eat for around 20$.
    
"The sashimi was my favorite, it was really well done," said M.A Ghori, another student from the university of Tulsa. "All you can eat of sushi for under 20$, more rolls than i could have ever imagined." 
     
"The tempura, fried bananas with green tea ice cream are off the chain," said a regular who goes there on a monthly basis.

Over all most costumers are very fond of the food however quite a few have shown dissatisfaction with the service.

"We waited for what seems like forever, but the food more than made up for it," said Anh Nguyen. 

http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/1681997/restaurant/Tulsa/Tokyo-Japanese-Sushi-Hibachi-Restaurant-Broken-Arrow#hours-base

For further information and reservations please call (918) 6153700

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