Changes ahead

The only constant in life is change.
The NewsPress, National Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University experienced change in the last two weeks.
The NewsPress newsroom moved into its news center this week. The news gathering operation is still in the same building. We've moved upstairs in the portion of the building that once housed KOSU. Readers of the printed newspaper won't notice any changes. Those will come in the e-world. We will have more content for our website -- www.stwnewspress.com. The news center will have a studio dedicated to the production of online videos -- including daily Webcasts of the day's most important stories.
It also will allow us to produce more multimedia projects for the website, including slide shows, podcasts, oral histories and video stories.
On stwnewspress.com Thursday, we broke the story that the National Wrestling Hall of Fame is negotiating to buy the Dan Gable International Wrestling Institute and Museum in Waterloo, Iowa. The Gable museum will be a branch of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame if the deal goes through. Buck Clark, the mayor of Waterloo, says the city supports the merger 100 percent.
Wednesday, I spent an hour interviewing the new dean of OSU's Spears School of Business. Dean Lawrence Crosby has big plans for the school, including a new building at the same site by 2015. Read more about Crosby's dreams for the business school in Sunday's NewsPress.