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Professors from Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business are visiting India during the week of January 22-26 to encourage high school students to get their undergraduate education at OSU, a top-ranked American comprehensive university. OSU is already the choice of thousands of postgraduate students from India. This initiative is to extend the same welcome to students preparing for their undergraduate admission.
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Spears's music videos have a significant contribution to the success of her music career. The video for "...Baby One More Time" featured the young singer wearing a school uniform exposing her midriff. This image portrayed in that video helped propel her to superstardom.[23][160] Similarly, the video for "Oops!... I Did It Again" showed Spears wearing a red tightly-fitted catsuit, fueling speculations that the star has breast implants.[23][160][161] Her image as a "clean, straight-up girl" was revolutionized by the videos for "I'm A Slave 4 U", "Toxic", and "Gimme More" which generated much controversy and portrayed Spears with a sexually oriented image.[160]
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Spears entered the studio with top writer/producers like Eric Foster White (Boyzone, Whitney Houston, Backstreet Boys) and Max Martin (Ace of Base, Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC). In late 1998, Jive released her debut single, the Martin-penned "...Baby One More Time." Powered by its video, in which Spears and a troupe of dancers were dressed as Catholic-school jailbait, the single shot to the top of the Billboard charts. When Spears\' debut album of the same title was released in early 1999, it entered the charts at number one and stayed there for six weeks. Once the ubiquitous lead single died down, the album kept spinning off hits: the Top Ten "(You Drive Me) Crazy," the near-Top 20 ballad "Sometimes," and the Top 20 "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart." By the end of 1999, ...Baby One More Time had sold ten million copies, and went on to sell a good three million more on top of that. Its success touched off a wave of young pop divas that included Christina Aguilera, Pink, Jessica Simpson, and Mandy Moore. Spears was a superstar, drooled over in countless magazines, including a Rolling Stone cover that prompted immediate speculation about the still-17 year old having gotten breast implants.
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Best known for her sultry image as a pop superstar, Britney Spears actually began her youthful career as an actress -- the singing came later. Spears was born December 2, 1981, in Kentwood, LA. A mere eight years later, she was auditioning for The Mickey Mouse Club, although she wouldn't be added to the cast for another three years. She spent summers schooling at New York's Off-Broadway Dance Center and the Professional Performing Arts School, and earned a role on the off-Broadway play Ruthless in 1991. A year later, she became a Mouseketeer, and was part of the show from the time she was 11 until she was 13.
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Spears was an accomplished gymnast, attending gymnastics classes until age nine and competing in state-level competitions.[19] She performed in local dance revues and sang in her local Baptist church choir. At age eight she auditioned for the Disney Channel series The New Mickey Mouse Club. Although she was considered too young to join the series at the time, a producer on the show introduced her to a New York City agent.[19] Spears subsequently spent three summers at NYC's Professional Performing Arts School and ... appeared in a number of off-Broadway productions, including 1991's Ruthless!. In 1992, she landed a spot on the popular television show Star Search. She won the first round of competition, but ultimately lost. At age eleven, Spears returned to the Disney Channel for a spot on the The New Mickey Mouse Club in Lakeland, Florida.[19] She was featured on the show from 1993 to 1994, until she was 13.
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The Spears School of Business is inducting two new members into its Hall of Fame including Donald D. Humphreys (’71 OSU Industrial Engineering and Management) and Connie N. Mitchell (’72). They will be honored Friday, Nov. 9, along with three others who have been named this year’s Outstanding Young Alumni. The Outstanding Young Alumni include Karl Bovee ('91), Ernest W. "Trip" Kuehne, III (’95) and Heather A. Wallace ('96).
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