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WORLD WRAP • Fax now a medium for heavenly prayer JERUSALEM (AP) — God can now be reached by modem. Every day, hundreds of notes seeking divine intervention are stuffed into cracks in Jerusalem's Wailing Wall, Judaism's holiest shrine. Now, if one can't make the trip to the wall, a note can be sent by fax. Faxes sent to a number the national telephone company has set up will be taken to the wall by an employee, company spokesman Zecharia Mizrotzky said Wednesday. The fax number is 011-972-2612222. It is not toll-free.
Political appointees face unemployment WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of drawing a government salary, hundreds of George Bush's political appointees are eligible for a government unemployment check. And some are applying for it. "It's an insurance policy that's been paid for," said one outgoing official at the Treasury Department who said he was thinking of applying for unemployment insurance. "It' s something to tide us over until anotherjob comes along ... something to keep the groceries on the table," said the official, who asked that his name not be used. But the money won't come close to matching the salaries most appointees are leaving behind. The average benefit for out-of-work government employees is $173 a week for about 18 weeks.
IBM announces big loss for 1992 NEW YORK (AP) — IBM announced a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, the worst financial performance in U.S. corporate history, and forecast more bleak times during a farreaching restructuring. IBM's sales fell for an unprecedented second straight year, while job cuts totaled 40,000 and will reach nearly 100,000 over three years by the end of 1993. IBM's stock extended declines that have dragged it from above $100 a share last summer to levels unseen since 1975. IBM fell$1.12- to $48.37.. V See WORLD WRAP, page 6
TUESDAY January 26, 1993
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Library expansion remains uncertain Students may pay extra fee to help finance project By Teri Harzheim
Staff Writer University of Central Oklahoma students might be paying a $2.50 per credit hour library facility fee in the fall semester to help finance the $8.7 million library expansion proposal in UCO's master plan for future campus improvements. "The fee will help double the size of the library," said Joyce Mounce, vicepresident of administration. "It has to be approved by the State Regents for Higher Education and then by the State Legislature." The expansion project is a step toward
bringing the Max Chambers Library, built in 1966, back up to American Library Association standards, said Mounce. "American Library Association standards are based on enrollment. They recommend that we have a square footage of 211,060," said Carol Barry, library assistant director. Since 1966, UCO's fall enrollment has increased by 7,445 students and graduate enrollment by 3,048 students. The library is currently 102,703 square feet. Upon completion of the expansion program, UCO will have a library facility of 194,903 square feet. The $2.50 would provide for 83,000 square feet. "The money will go toward capitol
improvements only," said Barry. "The effort to build up our collection comes from enrichment funds." Improvements included in the plans are space for users, including individual and group study space, student instruction facilities, space for library materials, staff, service, work areas and equipment, and unassignable space including stairwells, elevators, hallways and restrooms. Expansion of the library will begin in the fall upon approval of the master plan and as soon as the bonds sell, said Mounce. "The legislature usually doesn't approve those fees until May," said Mounce.
John Pickard, assistant professor of humanities and philosophy at UCO, stands by part of his paperback book
cover collection, "Paper Thunder II," which is on display through Feb. 9. (Photo by Mike Simons)
his interest of literature and film. "Paper Thunder II" is the original shpw plus about 150 other additional books. The collection displays the varieties of paperbacks published in that era and the diversity of their cover styles and art. Some of the genres featured in the show are classics, westerns, thrillers, horror, science fiction and historical. "It represents popular culture. Things
that sink into your system unconsciously, and the artist sometimes remains more often anonymous," said William Wallo, museum director. "Because more thought and energy was devoted to it, the paperback cover embodies much more cultural information in a wider variety of ways than almost any other similar device," Pickard wrote in the exhibit booklet.
Exhibit displays 50-year-old book covers By Teri Harzheim
Staff Writer John Pickard's collection, "Paper Thunder II", an exhibit displaying paperback book covers of 1939-1959, is on exhibit at the University of Central Oklahoma Museum of Art now through Feb. 9. "The show deals with the covers and the relationship of the covers with the content of the book," said Pickard, assistant professor of humanities and philosophy at UCO. Although popular in Europe, paperbacks were not popular in America until the emergence of Pocket Books Inc., said Pickard. "I grew up reading those books. Several years ago they started becoming rarities, and I remembered how vivid the covers were," said Pickard. "The object was to sell these books anywhere but in a bookstore ... and make them available to the public." Pickard began putting together the show about five or six years ago tying in xo
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