Oklahoma State U. Receives a Record $165-Million Donation for Athletics

By ERIN STROUT

A billionaire alumnus has given Oklahoma State University at Stillwater $165-million for new athletics facilities, in what university officials said on Tuesday was the largest donation ever to a college athletics program.

The Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, a 1951 graduate of Oklahoma State, has paid the cash gift in...