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Winter storm puts istilb UCO lots on ice Ryan Croft Senior Reporter
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An unidentified person snowboards on the UCO campus during the snowstorm last week.
UCOSA plans for active semester
UCO students and faculty braved icy parking lots and sidewalks Thursday after returning to school from a two-anda-half day ice storm break. "The driving conditions were really bad for me," Sophomore Racey Ballard said. "[I was] sliding on ice." Freshman Tyler Butler had morning and afternoon classes on Thursday. "At lo o'clock in the morning I thought it was a little slippery," she said. "But I
thought it was bearable." Butler also said she saw other people "slipping and sliding around" on campus. "I heard that the [Liberal Arts] parking lot wasn't ... cleared off," Butler said. Mike Sokoff, UCO's director of transportation and parking, said UCO does not clear parking lots unless the weather is severe enough to keep them unsafe many days at a time. "If it was going to be something
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In a flash (drive), worm can infect computers
Stephani Tobin Copy Editor
With a new semester under way, the three branches of UCOSA have plans and aspirations for UCO's student body. Daniel Stockton, the president pro tempore of UCOSA Senate, said this semester there are a number of key items on their agenda students can look forward to. One major item is the Healthy Campus Initative, which will design, implement and evaulate policies to help make UCO a healthier place to study and work, according to the UCO website. On the UCOSA meeting Monday, Stockton informed members to get to work on the initiative and create legislation to make the idea into law. "This will be a heavily debated topic," he said, "and I imagine we'll see some big hitters come to bat for both sides." Stockton also wants to provide more organization for the various groups and organizations on campus, and implement new steps in the process. The steps will help UCOSA streamline the application process for new campus organizations, decreasing paperwork and setting criteria for stagnant and non-active student groups. Stockton hopes that removing stagnant organizations will help combat the decrease in funding they may see as a result. "All of these things will hopefully lead to less stress on both sides of
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OFFICE TO HELP COMMUTERS WITH SCHEDULING ISSUES
UCO once had a reputation as a school that catered to commuter students, said Nathan Box, Commuter Student Services Coordinator. Continued on TheVistaOnline.com THE FALL OF THE COMMON RESUME You've heard it a thousand times, but resumes are no longer just pieces of paper. In fact, many companies in the Oklahoma City area are choosing to completely bypass the resume in their initial recruiting. Continued on TheVistaOnline.com AT 83, WOMAN ASPIRES TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL Prospective UCO student Jeanne Olivier was barely 30 when she marched in Alabama with Martin Luther King, Jr. "A guy threw a green apple and hit me in the head," says Olivier. "It hurt like the devil!" Continued on TheVistaOnline.com RUGBY CLAIMS LARGE VICTORY OVER TULSA The UCO Rugby Club beat Tulsa, 26-o Saturday to claim its first win of the spring and its inaugural victory in the Heart of America Rugby Football Union. Homestanding UCO held off several Tulsa scoring threats in the first half and then exploded for 26 unanswered points after intermission. Continued on TheVistaOnline.com Go online!
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Windows users beware: Millions already impacted Caleb McWilliams sm014/ther
A malicious computer worm, affecting millions of computers worldwide, uses the college student's best friend to spread itself: a flash drive. Experts estimate that up to 15 million computers are infected with the worm, known sometimes as Downandup, Conficker or Kido. The worm primarily affects computers running Windows XP and Windows 2000, but has recently hit computers running Windows Vista and Windows 7 Beta. First discovered last November, the worm evolved in late December and has since exploded into an "epidemic," Panda Security Technical Director Luis Corrons said. "This is no doubt an epidemic and the worst may
still be to come, as the worm could begin to download more, malware onto computers or to spread through other channels," Corrons said. Symantec, publisher of the Norton AntiVirus software line, said on its website that "[t]he worm tries to take advantage of a problem with Windows (a vulnerability)... to quietly install itself. The worm also tries to spread by copying itself into shared folders on networks and by infecting USB devices such as memory sticks." Through shared folders on networks, USB devices and the Internet, Conficker continues to grow at an alarming rate. In another twist, the worm "guesses" passwords and uses vulnerable weak passwords to gain more access. Passwords such as "password," "admin" or "123456" are quickly guessed. Dr. Cynthia Rolfe, vice president for information technology at UCO, gave several tips to keep students, faculty and staff safe on their personal computers and
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