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Oklahoma State University–Stillwater is a land-grant, sun-grant, coeducational public research university located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA. OSU was founded in 1890 under the Morrill Act. Originally known as Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College , it is the flagship institution of... the Oklahoma State University System . Official enrollment for the fall 2010 semester system-wide was 35,073, with 21,149 students enrolled at OSU-Stillwater. Unofficial enrollment shows the Freshman class of 2011 to be the largest on record, but the official number has yet to be released. OSU is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with high research activity. Oklahoma State University is listed by the Princeton Review as one of 120 “Best Western Colleges” for 2011, and as one of 50 "Best Value Colleges – Public" for 2010. It is ranked by U.S. News & World Report No. 66 among "Top Public Schools:National Universities" and No. 132 among all National Universities for 2011.
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Waxahachie is a city in Ellis County, Texas, United States, and a southern suburb of Dallas. The population was 29,621 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Ellis County. Waxahachie was the birthplace of Tom Blasingame, considered the oldest cowboy in the history of the American West,... R&B singer Tevin Campbell, Bill Ham , Byron Nelson, a professional golf legend and Academy Award winning director Robert Benton, who made his 1984 film " Places in the Heart" in his hometown. It was said that Edward McDaniel was from Waxahachie, but he was born in Bernice, Oklahoma. In 1988 the area around Waxahachie was chosen as the site for the Superconducting Super Collider, which was to be the world's largest and most energetic particle accelerator, with a planned ring circumference of 87.1 kilometers . Seventeen shafts were sunk and 23.5 km of tunnel were bored before the project was cancelled by Congress in 1993. The town is also the namesake of the former United States Naval ship USS Waxahachie .
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