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C?) Sound Supernova 'Stars Go Dim' Oklahoma City, Tulsa bands shine at UCO Broncho Jam Rhiannon Winkelman ,S'tqffit viler
An electric atmosphere filled the UCO Jazz Lab on Tuesday night. The bands Map the Sea and Stars Go Dim were scheduled to take the stage at 8 p.m. for the Student Programming Board's first Broncho Jam of the semester. Map the Sea opened to a full house, with every seat full and the walls lined with people. This group was billed as a local band, but they gave a performance worthy of any national venue. The poignant lyrics combined with fantastic sound and energy to communicate a deep creative vibe that was obviously strong amongst the members of the band. Map the Sea is based out of Oklahoma City. Composed of lead singer Joe Hopkins, guitarists Tyler Evans and Alex Fatkin, bassist Joe Rigazzi and drummer Clay Vaughn, the group was able to deliver everything promotions promised. Although Hopkins' voice was sometimes lost beneath the instrumentals, it was able to hold is own for the majority of the performance, delivering passionately intense ballads. Fatkin and Vaughn seemed always to be in motion, but Evans and Rigazzi offered a cooler vibe, balancing out the band's ambiance. Although Map the Sea's performance was a short one, the group exited the stage to enthusiastic applause. The few seconds of sound check for the next band, Stars Go Dim, offered an intensely sweet taste of the upcoming performance when lead singer Chris Cleveland belted out a few lines. Within the first few notes, the Jazz Lab fell completely silent. The band took the stage a few minutes later, and without pause launched into their first number. Stars Go Dim is composed of only four members, but the group launched itself from song to song with impeccable timing, their talented drummer leading the way. Bassist Michael Wittig anchored the right hand of the
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Stars Go Dim, a band from Tulsa, Okla., performs at the UCO Jazz Lab Tuesday, Feb. 3. Another local band, Map the Sea, performed beforehand. stage, his obvious love of music apparent by his dramatic and energetic movement, which was continuous throughout the show. Guitarist Joey Avalos was almost lost at the far right end of the stage, but his concentration and ease with his instrument betrayed a confidence that would prove admirable if this musician was on his own. Meanwhile, the sound he contributed was an underscore for Cleveland, who vaulted from piano to guitar and back again, belting out lyrics covering everything from commitment issues to stormy relationships. Their song "Crazy" is an excellent example of such topics.
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During a short break, Stars Go Dim took a moment to speak to the audience about a partnership they have formed with an organization known as Invisible Children. The group's focus is on children in northern Uganda, stolen from their families and trained to fight in militaristic groups. These children, some as young as 5 or 6, are trained under terrifying conditions to use various weaponry and fight for the people who took them from their families. More information about this group can be found on the band's MySpace page, www.myspace.com/starsgodim. Cleveland moved on to explain the next song, "Come
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In continual efforts to make UCO one of the healthiest campuses in America, the Wellness Center has given students another outlet to start and maintain healthy lives. WhentheNational Institutes of Health awarded the health and education company called Inflexxion a grant to build the Web site MyStudentBody. corn, the Wellness Center staff began to gain interest in the groundbreaking idea. "The NIH is a tough agency to get funding from; it's very competitive," James Allen, assistant director of health pro-
motion, said. "It shows Inflexxion had done their homework and got the seal of approval from an institute that has high expectations." The Web site works hand in hand with the Healthy Campus Initiative, which the Wellness Center has been promOting for the past several years. Based off of six module lessons that are believed to encompass an overall healthy lifestyle, UCO's campus initiative focuses on three of those components: physical activity, alcohol awareness and tobacco usage.
Since the Web site and the Wellness Center's association with MyStudentBody.com are still in their infancy, the primary module being used is alcohol usage. "Where we use the site is in the Healthy Life Skills class, which is part of the university core curriculum," Allen said. "The class focuses on nutritional behaviors, stress, physical activity and alcohol usage." Students who have taken or are taking Healthy Life
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Students at UCO and Oklahoma's six other public master's universities are paying a higher percentage of education-related costs at their schools, a new study suggests. The report, from the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity and Accountability, shows that at public master's institutions in Oklahoma, educational and related costs have decreased 1 percent per student from 2002 to 2006, but that the student share of those costs in the form of tuition had increased 16 percent. The Delta Project recently released the report, "Trends in College Spending: Where Does the Money Come From? Where Does it Go?" takes data from more than 1,944 public and private institutions in the United States, from 2002, 2005 and 2006. On the national level, the figures are similar to Oklahoma's. In • 2002, students paid 38 percent of those educational expenses, but in 2006, students paid nearly half. The Delta Project's report noted "tuitions go up for two basic reasons: to pay for real increases in overall spending, or to substitute for revenue declines elsewhere in an institution's
budget." The practice of substituting for the revenue declines is sometimes called cost shifting, and is usually used to make up for shortfalls in state and local appropriations to the institution. "It's a definite mind-shift that students and donors are paying a larger share of the costs," said Dr. Sue Lynn Sasser, associate professor of economics at UCO and director of the Center for Economic Education. The report notes that if tuition followed only at the spending rate of education and general spending between 2002 and 2006 at public master's institutions, tuition would have actually decreased by 2.1 percent. However, the report noted that in-state average tuition at those institutions has increased by 29 percent. The UCO Fiscal Year 2007 Annual Report noted "[t]uition rates for the 2006-2007 fiscal year increased for undergraduate and graduate students by 4.4 percent." Similar to the Delta Project's report, the UCO report also noted "while the state continues to demonstrate strong financial support for higher education in Oklahoma, it has not been enough to keep pace with the growth of UCO. Therefore, UCO must rely more heavily on other revenue streams to maintain its quality programs."