University of Central Oklahoma
THURSDAY The Student Voice Since 1903
January 16,1992
Snow shocks spring students By Penny Owen Staff Writer
Youths wield white paint in racial attacks NEW YORK (AP) — White youths chose a busy Bronx intersection at morning rush hour to copy a weekold crime and paint a 12-year-old Hispanic boy white. The boy was jumped despite a dragnet of police officers sent to the streets after a Jan. 6 attack about 10 blocks away in which two black children were robbed, punched, taunted and sprayed with white shoe polish. In retaliation two days later, an Indian girl was attacked on a city bus by a group of black teen-age girls, and two Hispanic youths were assaulted by three blacks, police said.
Welfare cuts aimed at multiple mothers TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The Legislature passed a welfare reform package that would cut payments to women who have more children while on the dole and could eliminate benefits for people who refuse job training. If approved by Gov. Jim Florio and the federal government, the package would make New Jersey the first state to deny grant increases to welfare mothers who have more children. Benefits now increase $64 for each additional child. That would stop under the bill, but mothers could work and earn the extra income without losing their original benefits.
Iraq obtaining means to build A-bomb UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Investigators think Iraq might have had the means to build four nuclear bombs a year using a large-scale, sophisticated system for enriching uranium, a U.N. nuclear expert says. Iraq has admitted to trying to enrich uranium by electromagnetic separation and other methods, and U.N. experts have said Iraq was clearly trying to manufacture a nuclear weapon Previously, they said Iraq might have been able to produce a bomb within a year if Allied bombing had not damaged much of its equipment during the Persian Gulf War. See World Wrap, back page
Returning to school Monday gave new meaning to the term "spring" semester as thousands of University of Central Oklahoma students fumbled their way through 40 mph gusts of snow only to find many of
the classrooms cold and dark. It happened about 7:48 a.m. when a transformer maintained by the City of Edmond blew out on the corner of Ayers Street and Chowning Avenue. Several UCO buildings, including all four dormitories, Central Cafeteria, Broncho Fieldhouse, and the Business, Music and Communications Buildings subsequently lost their electricity, which meant no lights and no heat. Most morning classes were still held in the outer rooms where natural light was available. Some were held on stairwells and in hallways, while others were simply dismissed. Mother Nature's sudden change of heart on the first day of the spring semester, A custodian using the elevator in the which resulted in over five inches of snowfall, caught many UCO students by surCommunications Building was trapped prise Monday. (Photo by Mark Zimmerman.) when the outage occurred, leaving her in suspense for about two hours before the realized panicking was not going to help, so power came on just long enough to let her she sat down with her Dr. Pepper and out. waited. Susan Harlow, a nine-year veteran of About 9:50 a.m., the power came on for UCO's custodial department, said she was less than a minute, but that was long riding to the secenough to free ond floor to get her Harlow from the equipment when elevator. The All went very smooth. The City of Edthe elevator jolted power did not still and went mond reacted quickly and the damage come back on By Sam Powell dark. again until about Staff Writer was kept to a minimum. Not having a 1:15 p.m. —Don Powers phone in the eleva"I sure have a Physical Plant Director University of Central Oklahoma policy tor, she yelled and lot more faith in has long held that dishonesty in the classbanged on the elethem (her fellow room is wrong, and now the faculty senate vator door until someone responded. employees) than I did before," Harhas clarified what constitutes academic "I could hear what was going on outside," low said, but added, "I will never ride misconduct. Harlow said. "I was listening to their scan- another elevator on this campus. I'm not goUCO President Bill Lillard recently apner, they were saying they were going to get ing to tempt fate." proved a proposal which, according to a fame out." A couple of years ago Harlow said she culty senate report, expands the university's After about 15 minutes, Harlow said she was trapped in the Administration Build- definition of academic integrity. ing's elevator, although that time it was for Faculty senate President Bart Binning only 15 minutes. said Proposal 92-9 would add a section to Elsewhere, UCO campus police spent the the faculty handbook and replace the curday responding to alarms going off in build- rent academic dishonesty statement in the ings and freeing stuck vehicles in the park- next faculty guidebook. ing lots, said Chief Bob Roberts. "For fairness we thought it would be apIn fact, police were unable to issue any propriate to have a statement as to what traffic warnings or citations Monday due to academic integrity was," Binning said. "If the weather and their workload, Roberts for instance you're writing a term paper you said. But Tuesday, it was business as usual. shouldn't be plagiarizing." The power failure, coupled with the haThe faculty guide only says that zardous driving conditions, prompted UCO academic dishonesty is behavior in which a to cancel Monday's evening classes. Even- deliberate fraudulent misrepresentation is ing enrollment was also cancelled, but the employed in and attempt to gain undeserved Administration Building will be open until intellectual credit, either for oneself or 7:30 p.m., Thursday, for late enrollment. another. Both UCO Vice-President Joyce Mounce Proposal 92-9 says academic integrity is and Physical Plant Director Don Powers based on two principles: First, that commended the City of Edmond for their academic work is represented truthfully as prompt attention to the power outage. to its source and accuracy; and second, that "All went very smooth," Powers said. academic results are obtained by fair and "The City of Edmond reacted quickly and authorized means. damage was kept to a minimum." The proposal also says that misconduct According to Powers, the only building could include, but is not limited to the Susan Harlow, a UCO custodian for suffering damage as a result of the outage following: nine years, was trapped in an elevator in the Communications Building for over was the Music Building, where a motor See Cheating, back page burned out and had to be replaced. two hours Monday.
Faculty senate defines conduct in classrooms