:P•
6
University of Central Oklahoma
THURSDAY January 19, 1995
The Student Voice Since 1903
UC to receive 'reconstructive surgery' By Jason Webb Staff Writer Changes, changes, changes! Just about the time UCO students are fed up with all of it, progress sweeps across the University Center.
Upstairs is moving downstairs, downstairs is erecting walls and moving around the corner and all the while, Taco Bell is on its way. The University Center is undergoing reconstructive surgery due to the incoming food court, which is scheduled to be fully
completed within a year, said A.K. Rahman, director of Auxiliary Enterprises. The food court will house eateries such as Burger King, Taco Bell, Chick-Fil-A, Peppers Pizza, Dunkin' Donuts and Java Coast. North of the new food court, additional
sitting space will be erected in June, said Joyce Mounce, vice-president for administration. The area will be enclosed in glass, and will allow a view of Thatcher Lake. 'V See CHANGE, Page 9
MSA Fund established for victims of holiday wreck
Students prepare to march around the campus in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. (Staff Photo by Christopher Smith) lf See RELATED STORY, Page 4
A fund has been established by the Malaysian Student Association (MSA) to help with medical and funeral expenses of two UCO Malaysian students; one who was killed and one who was Mau seriously wounded in a car accident during Christmas break. Seniors Vui Fah Mau, 24, actuarial science major, and Seel May Kong, 22, math major, sustained extensive injuries at the intersection of 164th Kong and MacArthur when their 1987 Nissan Sentra collided with a Chevrolet pick-up truck Dec. 23. Mau did not survive. Police said the accident occurred when Mau apparently mistook the two-way stop VSee FUND, Page 9
Computers: The final frontier? An in-depth look at new, lightening-fast technology and its interaction with education This is part one in a three-part depth story exploring the technological advances in education.
PART ONE:
With "high technology' currently being used around the globe, professors are forced to accommodate in order to educate. V Educational Flux: Learning in a New Age of Technology
Tomorrow's generation of chil-
Editorial 2 Letters 2 World Wrap X Around Campus X Sports X Comics X
SUCCESS UCO professor Mike Seikel tells his story—from parenthood to the FBI and back again.
10
dren may not need to go to school. Through the use of technology, they will he able to wake up, put on their house shoes and robe, go to the computer screen and interact with their peers and teacher. "People are learning all over the place. It's a terribly dangerous and costly mistake to confuse learning
SPORTS UCO men's basketball loses grip to Angelo State in Lone Star Conference
13
with schooling, because that's not education and the future is being where the learning is taking place," shaped by it. said Lewis J. Perelman of the high"The way we learn is going to er education division of the change drastically in the next few Discovery Institute in Seattle, years. Technology is not going to Wash. be the core, but the tool with which Chris Jones, UCO multi-media we will be learning," he said. curriculum specialist, said technolAdvances in educational techogy has made it's appearance in VSee COMPUTE, Page 17
WEEKEND Check out the events happening around town this weekend with this new Thursday section.
18