The Vista Feb. 22, 2005

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UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

Chamber of Commerce inducts Webb into Hall ■ President Webb receives "lifetime achievement" award for service to UCO.

by Ashley Romano Staff Writer W. Roger Webb, president of UCO, was inducted into the

2004 Edmond Hall of Fame at the annual Edmond Area Chamber of Commerce banquet Feb.4.

"I was very surprised and gratified," Webb said about being inducted into the hall of fame.

Dr. Cynthia Rolfe, the 2004 chairman of the Board of Directors of the Edmond Area Chamber of Commerce, said the hall of fame award is pre-

sented every five years and is given to four or five people in the Edmond community.

"It's like a lifetime achievement award," Rolfe said.

She said the nominees have to have brought either local, state or national attention to Edmond and have to live in Edmond or lived in Edmond during the time of their achievement.

"President Webb has brought

economic developments to Edmond through his public/private partnership between the Oklahoma Forensic Institute, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the city of Edmond and UCO," Rolfe said.

In addition to receiving a plaque to commemorate his induction, Webb, the 19th president of UCO, was also award-

ed the first Community Ruth Boss, Pelco Products, Inc. Leadership Award given by the owner Phil Parduhn and local Edmond Chamber of businessman Jim White.

Dr. Garland Godfrey, UCO's Commerce.

Rolfe said during the course 16th president, was the only of a nominee's position, he or other UCO president to be she would have needed to inducted into the Edmond Hall "highlight Edmond" to be con- of Fame. He was inducted in sidered for the leadership 1982. award.

Other 2004 inductees included former city councilwoman Ashley Romano can be reached at Kay Bickham, Re/Max realtor aromano@thevistaonline.com.

HR society meets to discuss violence in the workplace

by Ashlie Campbell Staff Writer The UCO Human Resources Society held a Violence in the Workplace meeting Feb. 17 in the Troy Smith Lecture Hall in the Business Building.

The guest speaker, Kathleen McComber, spoke on her personal experience with workplace violence and how employers can be better prepared.

McComber was the corporate vice president of human resources for Edgewater Technology in Little Rock, Ark. when an employee, Michael McDermott, opened fire on the facility in Wakefield, Mass. on

CDC advises freshmen receive new meningitis vaccination

by Trisha Evans Staff Writer

Photo by Naomi Takebuchi

Workers continue construction on Wantland Stadium Feb. 17. Construction is planned to be finished by Aug. 15 when the 2005 football season begins.

On Feb. 10 a government panel recommended all college freshmen who live in dorms receive a new meningitis vaccine that lasts longer and prevents students from carrying the bacteria.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended the new vaccine Menactra. The vaccine is effective for more than eight years, while the old one lasted just three to five years and did not prevent people from carrying meningitis.

The panel also recommended all 11 to 12-year-olds get the shot, along with teenagers entering high school.

According to the CDC, college freshmen who live in

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Music professor travels to India for festival ■ Dr. Sam Magrill participated in a Chennai, India music festival

by Trisha Evans Staff Writer A UCO music theory and composition professor traveled to southern India Dec. 20 through Jan. 1 to participate in the city of Chennai's 35th Annual Music Festival.

Dr. Sam Magrill, composer-

in-residence and assistant director of the School of Music, first started transcribing Indian music into Western notation seven years ago and is now working on a third volume of transcriptions.

Magrill met M.V. Narasimhachari, a composer and choreographer, while he was the artist-in-residence at UCO during the summer of 1997.

"We began a dialogue about Indian music and Western music with the purpose of translating Indian music into

Western notation," Magrill said.

He said he is the only person he knows who is doing this kind of work.

"It's tricky," Magrill said.

Indian music is based on a completely different scale than Western music.

"There is more subtlety in it," Magrill said. "It's an improvised art form."

Narasimhachari, invited Magrill to attend Chennai's music festival. Chennai is formerly known as Madras and is located on the coast of southern

India.

Magrill played with the Madras string quartet and gave a concert entitled "A Bouquet of Music," Jan. 1. The concert title was inspired by the bouquet of flowers given to him when he arrived in India.

Magrill and the quartet performed pieces from Bach, Handel, Mozart, Jacques Ibert, Camille Saint Saens and several pieces composed by Magrill including his "East West Duo." "This work bridges two cultures, showing respect for each," Magrill said.

"I went to a lot of exciting performances, about 13 to 14 places in Chennai," Magrill said.

He also gave a lecture titled, "Adapting Indian Ragas to Western Opera." Magrill wrote his opera "The Gorgon's Head," with parts of it based on Indian ragas or scales.

"Truly, music transcends all barriers," Magrill said. "Music is universal and has no barriers of religion, race or creed."

"It is very exciting interact-

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Dec. 26, 2000.

McDermott fatally shot seven workers in the human resources and accounting departments because he was upset that the IRS was going to garnish his wages.

"What I learned from this is you had better be prepared," McComber said.

Workplace violence has increased by 41 percent over the past 10 years and an average of 20 workers are murdered each week in the U.S., McComber said.

McComber offered several suggestions on how employers can be prepared, including

see VIOLENCE, page 3 CAMPUS ANNOUNCEMENTS ■ A memorial concert to honor former faculty member Ruth Ralston will be at 3 p.m.

Feb. 26 in the Y Chapel of Song.

■ Student Programming Board will hold Broncho Jam Unplugged at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22 at the UCO Ja77 Lab. There will be live music and free pizza. Call 974-2593 for information.

■ "Share Hope for Tomorrow: Suicide Awareness Program" will be at 6 p.m. Feb. 24 in the West Hall Lobby. It is open to all students and faculty.

■ Donations are being accepted for a campus-wide clothing drive for the YWCA domestic abuse shelter. The clothing drive will run through March 11, and donations should be dropped off at Rm. 201 of the Human Environmental Sciences Building.

■ Career Services will hold 20-minute mock interviews for students from 8:30 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 5 p.m.

Feb. 22. To reserve a spot, call 974-3346 or visit Career Services, Rm. 338 of the Nigh University Center. Feb. 10 is the last day to sign up.

■ UCO's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance will help taxpayers will their federal and state tax returns from Feb. 1 through April 12 in Rm. 347 of Thatcher Hall. For information, contact Dr. Mary Sheets at msheets@ucok.edu or at 974-2834.

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OPINION

February 22, 2005

LETTER TO THE EDITOR •

Cartoon by Eric Osborn

In response to Travis Cleek: Discerning means "to detect with the eyes; to detect with senses other than vision; to recognizes or identify as separate and distinct."

But more importantly, you ignore the fact that the "entire page" full of "nothing but lies" that The Vista used to attack you, was really a bout two inches worth of text. Political cartoons do not always represent the views of the newspaper.

Neither do opinion columns. So call it like it is. And besides, if you had taken the time to read the editorial "attacking" you, you'd have noticed that it DOES NOT attack you. It attacks the media.

As for "Straight Pride Week," the issue is not one of hypocrisy. The issue is one of oppression. Gays have always been oppressed. They have been told they are immoral Satanic, and just plain wrong.

They have been made to feel worthless by the powers that be and by society. Eventually, gays realized that they weren't worthless and that being gay was OK. That's where Gay Pride Week comes from.

Straight Pride Week is unnecessary because EVERY

week is Straight Pride Week.

It's the same reason why you can have BET (Black Entertainment Television) but not WET (White Entertainment Television). Because most television already IS White Entertainment Television.

You say that "Coups claim to strive for equality and then when it is presented to them they realize that what they really wanted was privileges."

A coup is "a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics; especially : the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group."

Did the gays take over? Did I miss something? What are you even talk about?

You claim that these "coups" want privileges. But you don't state what it is you think they want. You're just repeating the same tired right-wing rhetoric, and I seriously doubt you even know what it means.

Next time you decide to write a letter to the editor, do us all a couple of favors. Get your facts straight, and don't use word you don't understand.

Danny Peters, English graduate student

STAFF EDITORIAL

An ode to the Duke of Gonzo

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aybe it's because his idol Ernest Hemingway did it.

Maybe that's why Hunter S. Thompson has now joined the bizarre ranks of authors and journalists who shine brightly then call it quits on their own terms.

Thompson, the creator and king of "Gonzo Journalism" ended his life on Feb. 20 with a gunshot to the head in the kitchen of his home outside Aspen, Colo.

Thompson was the ultimate journalist in some ways because he did things his own way. He shattered the image of the disheveled old journalist recording the facts then darting back to the newsroom to write the story with no attachment aside from the by-line.

When Thompson was at his best, fact and fiction melded into some of the most imaginative and unreal stories

to ever emerge from reputable news sources. Thompson was part of the new school of journalism that included Tom Wolfe, where the journalist became the participant and in some ways the story came second to the writers own whims, interpretations and adventures. But he may not have always been comfortable in his own skin. For reasons that probably included avoiding self-incrimination, he affixed his nom de plume 'Raoul Duke' to many by-lines throughout his writing career.

He was a legend, even though he lived almost as a recluse high in the Rocky Mountains. Two movies were made about him, he knew everyone and everyone wanted to know him. So what brought about his ultimate demise?

Thompson made no secret of his drug and alcohol use and abuse. It was

the basis of most of his writing.

Though to many he was a freak, a joke, a novelty that wrote stories of excess only to glorify himself and his own legendary status. But in fact Thompson was much more.

He met presidents and a stroke of his pen could make or break a candidate in the eye of the youth and counterculture vote, who co-incidentally almost made him the sheriff of Aspen three decades ago.

Thompson talked football with Pres. Richard Nixon, described Pres.

Jimmy Carter as one of the most honest men he had ever met. When a hick named Clinton was vying for the Democratic Party nomination for president in the early nineties, Thompson met with the then-unknown future president at some backwater in Arkansas to listen to his ideas to court what Thompson dubbed the "rock n'

roll vote."

Thompson went out to cover stories with little regard for the subject and more for his own strange adventures, excesses and odd interpretation on just about everything. He narrated the American way of life with an eye for the bizarre, where doom lurked around every corner. He spent a fortune and sent the bill to whomever he happened to be working for at the time. Editors hated him but he made himself and those around him wealthy and famous.

But all was not well for Thompson.

A few years ago on a rare appearance on the Conan O'Brien show to promote a new book, Thompson staggered to his seat, mumbled and was visibly uncomfortable, disheveled and angry.

He married his second wife Anita in recent years and wrote glowing accounts of their life together in his

oddball sports related column for ESPN.com.

And now he is gone.

In his weekly column for ESPN dated a day after his death, Thompson borrowed the title "Death in the Afternoon, from Hemingway and the column has overtones of death and decay. There is no mention of Thompson's plans but the article eerily portends that he may have had this in mind for a while.

In the end maybe it just came down to 'Hemingway did it.' From reports from the scene and a press release from Thompson's son Juan, he waited until his wife left for the gym then with weapon in hand finished the final chapter in a strange and wonderful and extremely weird and rotten adventure.

The Vista editorial staff can be reached at editorial@thevistaonline.com

MIKE'S GRIPES

People can be so flippin' lame sometimes... hate the way sometimes I see a movie or hear an album, and I really like it, and then some months later, it hits in the popular culture, and it somehow ruins the whole thing.

I remember in high school, I was so into the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and when "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" came out, I ran out and bought a copy. I know this example shows my age, but whatever. Not a lot of people liked them much at that time or even really knew who they were. I listened to that album hundreds of times that winter, and it didn't leave my car stereo until spring.

Then "Under the Bridge" was released as a single that summer, and every time I turned around, it was playing on MTV or in some idiot's car. The

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MICHAEL ROBERTSON COLUMNIST morons that used to make fun of me for listening to that kind of stuff or wearing an earring or having a Mohawk or whatever were suddenly going around singing "Under the Bridge" and pretending they were the biggest Red Hot Chili Peppers fans of all time. The album sold a gazillion copies, and the Chili Peppers slowly morphed into the

predictable, commercialized money machine they are today.

This kind of thing gets on my nerves.

More recently, I saw "Napoleon Dynamite." I went to the theater last fall and saw it with a friend of mine, with only about a fourth of the theater filled. I thought it was funny, and I saw it another time, enjoyed it and went on with my life. It reminded me what it had been like to be impossibly inept at playing the high school social game and how sometimes people become friends simply because they have being an outsider in common.

And then, all of a sudden, I guess a few weeks after the movie came out on video, I found myself surrounded by people quoting the movie, calling each

other "flippin' idiot" and laughing like hyenas.

Again, it was the people who would never in a million years be friends with someone like Napoleon who for some reason latched onto it. The most unexpected people kept asking me if I had seen it. Even my counselor, who has to be one of the squarest people on the planet, recomrnended it.

I keep expecting to come to campus one day and see a bunch of trendy, trucker-hat wearing Abercrombie-andHollister acolytes wearing moon boots and doing interpretive dance out in front of the UC. I don't know why this bothers me.

That would actually be pretty funny.

I guess it's the fact that a lot of people won't appreciate something until

the commercial culture at large has validated it and let them know it's cool.

Once it's been deemed cool enough for their attention, though, whatever it is gets worn out through overexposure until it really becomes 'so last week,' and whatever was good about it in the first place becomes lost in the hype.

I guess it just illustrates that most people are followers and can't make up their own minds about much of anything. Don't get me wrong, I like people, but sometimes they get on my flippin' nerves.

Michael Robertson can be reached at mrobertson@thevistaonline.com .

CAMPUS QUOTES: How do you feel about tattoos becoming legal in Oklahoma?

"Since we're the last state that makes them illegal, we might as well make them legal."

"I don't have one. It does not affect me if they are legal or not. There should be an age limit."

Josephine Muburi

Kathleen Stepanek

Jerrod Bowers

General business senior

Biology sophomore

Law freshman

"I think it's a horrible idea. My biggest fear is seeing a 50-year-old lady mowing the lawn in a bikini with tattoos."

"Everybody is entitled to make a decision on if they want a tattoo."

Jared Meers Corporate communications senior

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NEWS February 22, 2005

Photography program receives grant for new 20-station computer lab

NEWS IN BRIEF Bush issues forceful words to Iran, Syria BRUSSELS, Belgium — President Bush appealed to Europe on Monday to move beyond animosities over Iraq and join forces in encouraging democratic reforms across the Middle East. He also prodded Russia to reverse a crackdown on political dissent, demanded that Iran end its nuclear ambitions and told Syria to get out of Lebanon. Bush did not rule out using military force in Iran, saying all options remain on the table. But, addressing widespread concerns in Europe that Iran is the next U.S. target after Iraq, Bush said: "Iran is ... different from Iraq. We're in the early stages of diplomacy."

Israel frees 500 Palestinian prisoners JERUSALEM — Israel freed 500 Palestinian prisoners in a goodwill gesture Monday and President Bush pledged to support efforts to resolve the conflict, saying peace based on a two-state solution was within reach. "Our greatest opportunity, and our immediate goal, is peace in the Middle East," Bush said in Brussels, Belgium, on the first day of a fence-mending trip to Europe.

LOS ANGELES — California's latest series of storms turned deadly when a rockslide killed a teenage girl in Orange County and a city worker died after plunging into an enormous sinkhole caused by the rain, authorities said Monday. The girl, identified as 16-year-old Caitlin Oto, was in her bedroom when large boulders crashed through the walls and roof of her family's apartment in the rural Silverado area east of Irvine, said Joseph Luckey, supervising deputy coroner.

Official: Syria troops out of Lebanon soon DAMASCUS, Syria — The Arab League chief said Monday that Syria will "soon" take steps to withdraw its army from Lebanese areas in accordance with a 1989 agreement. The announcement by Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa came after a meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad.

A $113,387 grant has been awarded to the UCO Journalism Department by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.

Dr. Terry Clark, journalism department chair, said the grant will be used to create a new 20station computer photography lab.

He said the department hopes to have the lab opera-

tional by the fall semester.

"We're thrilled and honored by the confidence the foundation shows in our program and students," Clark said.

Clark said the photography program has been growing in recent years, and that "officials of the foundation praised the journalism department for its high-quality educational program."

He said the lab will help reduce some of the demand on the upstairs Macintosh comput-

er lab in the Communications Building, which usually has seven or eight classes in it each semester.

Mark Zimmerman, Vista adviser, teaches Adobe Photoshop for Journalists in the lab upstairs and said the new lab will be helpful.

"There definitely needs to be more computer lab space," Zimmerman said.

Clark said the department to buy 20 Macintosh G-5 computers for the lab and 12 of the lat-

est Canon 20-D digital cameras.

"This will enable our students to stay in the forefront of industry demands, and, with the only photography degree in the state, help us meet our obligations to students and photography for maintaining our reputation for excellence," Clark said.

Clark said the lab will be on the first floor of the Communications Building.

Michael Robertson can be reached at mrobertson@thevistaonline.com .

OU, OSU to benefit most from bond issue ■

House speaker Todd Hiett says UCO was shortchanged in education bond issue.

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by Michael Robertson Staff Writer

OKLAHOMA CITY — The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University and their branch campuses stand to benefit the most under a proposed $500 million higher education bond issue, with about $234 million headed for those institutions.

The two largest projects would be $72.7 million for an OSU science and technology research center and $32 million for the first phase of an OU chemistry and biochemistry research and instructional complex.

The rest of the money would be distributed among other institutions, with each of Oklahoma's 25 public colleges and universities guaranteed at least $1.5 million in projects,

higher education officials said.

Ultimately, 140 projects would be built in 36 communities across the state.

The bonds, plus more than $400 million in interest, would be paid off over 30 years using higher education's share of proceeds from a state lottery.

The Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved the bond proposal Wednesday. The full Senate could consider it as early as this week.

If passed, the measure still would need approval from the Republican-controlled House and Democratic Gov. Brad Henry.

Lawmakers can either consider the construction proposals as a whole, voting for or against the package, or consider adding and dropping some projects.

Henry and higher education officials are pushing to keep the package intact.

House Speaker Todd Hiett, R- Kellyville, said House

Republicans are developing an alternative proposal they will announce "soon." The Republican proposal could include substantive project changes, he said.

Higher Education Chancellor Paul Risser said the original deal has the endorsement of every university and college president in the state and "each project was considered and approved by the governing boards of each public institution."

"I am convinced it's the right list because it wasn't put together by the Legislature," Henry said about a week ago.

Senate Republican leader Glenn Coffee, R-Oklahoma City, is content to leave the projects as presented.

Coffee said he might prefer alternative projects in some cases, "but in the Senate we're not suggesting we need to open that up."

Hiett, who presides over the first Republican-controlled

House in more than 80 years, said House Republicans may seek changes or substitutions in the proposed projects.

"If you would look at the projects with an objective formula based on growth and enrollment, I think you would determine there are some universities in the current proposal that were shortchanged," Hiett said.

The University of Central Oklahoma would fall in that category, Hiett said.

Hiett disagrees with the argument that the proposal was not based on politics because all college presidents agreed to it.

State Finance Director Scott Meacham is concerned the bond issue could implode if lawmakers bicker over projects in an effort to obtain more money for their home districts.

Hiett said large bond issues such as this one don't come very often, and the Legislature should focus on getting it right more than doing it fast.

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Former presidents meet tsunami survivors

Feel the burn...

WELIGAMA, Sri Lanka — Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton spent time with child survivors of Asia's tsunami on Monday, getting clues to the emotional impact of the disaster after surveying the massive physical destruction it caused. In the fishing town of Weligama on Sri Lanka's battered southern coast, Clinton and Bush visited temporary houses built of cinderblocks and iron sheeting and sat with children who danced, sang and drew pictures of their experiences.

— from The Associated Press

VIOLENCE from page 1 auditing the workplace for safe- was able to fly in from ty, having and practicing an Fayetteville and share her expeemergency plan, and holding a rience with us," said Lindsey zero tolerance policy for intimi- Murry, Human Resource Society president. dation and threats.

Renee Warning, assistant "It doesn't have to happen at a workplace, it can happen at professor of management and school or in a store," society advisor, said about 150 McComber said. "Violence can people attended the meeting.

"Statistics show the incihappen anywhere and places just don't seem to be prepared." dents of violence in the workMcComber now works as place have increased...," the senior director of human Warning said. "Therefore, resources for the University of resulting in the need for new Arkansas Medical Science competencies that must be Hospital in Little Rock, Ark., developed in our future leaders, and is a board member of the and managers and teachers."

Society of Human Resources Management.

Ashlie Campbell can be reached "We were very pleased she at acampbell@thevistaonline.com .

Photo by Naomi Takebuchi

Marolyn Marten works on building arm muscle Feb. 17 at the Wellness Center. Marten has been using the gym since it first opened.

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MAGRILL from page 1 ing with a different culture. It gives you insight into your own culture."

"Music is an integral part of India's culture, a way of life."

Magrill said. "They take the arts seriously."

"People of India consider these fine arts more than entertainment. They are sacred and a means to spiritual elevation."

Magrill says he plans to keep

transcribing music in the future and hopes that his third volume will be finished sometime this year.

"I feel that the music of the twenty-first century is a music of synthesis and should bring people and cultures together," Magrill said.

Ashlie Campbell can be reached at acampbell@thevistaonline.com .

dorms are six times more likely to get the disease. Meningitis affects about 3,000 people a year in the U.S. and kills around 300 people a year.

Amanda Moran found out she had viral meningitis in Aug. 2003, the week before she intended to move into the UCO dorms.

The disease spreads quickly through the body producing flulike symptoms and is sometimes hard to detect. A spinal tap is the only way to find out if

it's meningitis, Moran said.

"They prepared my mom for me to die," Moran said.

She still suffers from migraines and insomnia, which are common for meningitis survivors.

"It took me about a year to get back to my normal routine," Moran said.

Now a political science sophomore, Moran has volunteered for the National Meningitis Association since May of 2004. She wants to

raise meningitis awareness in Oklahoma, especially at UCO. Beginning last fall, all students who live on campus were required by state law to have a meningitis shot.

Moran said many students won't get vaccinated because of the cost.

The meningitis shot is expensive, around $75, Moran said. She wants to do fundraisers to help students cover the cost.

"It's your life or $75,"

Moran said.

The new shot is expected to become available to doctors in March, according to the CDC. The manufacturer who makes Menactra is not prepared to produce the amount of the vaccine that the panel is recommending.

The NMA expects a shortage of the vaccine until around the year 2007, Moran said.

Trisha Evans can be reached at tevans@thevistaonline.com .

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NEWS February 22, 2005

"Constantine" falls toward the bad side

by Christy Lemke The Associated Press

Picture the music video for Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me a River."

You remember it — the one in which Justin glides through a sleek, modern mansion in muted shades of green and gray, exacting revenge on a blonde in a newsboy cap who looks suspiciously like his real-life ex-girlfriend, Britney Spears.

Now picture the video as a two-hour movie, with Keanu Reeves standing in for Justin.

And imagine that instead of being a boy-band icon, Reeves is a chain-smoking exorcist who trolls the seedy sections of Los Angeles, babbling in a sarcastic monotone about the battle between good and evil that's secretly being waged all around US.

And there you have "Constantine."

It looks fantastic, director Francis Lawrence helmed the award-winning Timberlake video and many others before making his film debut here but

takes itself so seriously, it's often laugh-out-loud funny.

"That exorcism wasn't right.

Listen to the ether," Reeves says as the titular John Constantine, though he sounds more than a little like his Neo character from "The Matrix" trilogy, to which this undoubtedly will draw comparisons.

Like "The Matrix," "Constantine" exists very much in its own fully formed dark universe (the script from Kevin Brodbin and Frank Cappello is based on the "Hellblazer" graphic novels), which you will either accept wholeheartedly or dismiss as nonsense.

Seems Constantine has always had a gift for seeing dead people or' demons who roam about but look like regular humans. Tormented by these visions as a young man, he tried to kill himself and he succeeded, spending two minutes in hell, which director Lawrence depicts- vividly with smoky, burnt orange intensity only to be revived. Now in an attempt to earn an eventual spot in heaven (`cause suicide is a no-no in the Catholic faith), Constantine

tries to rid the Earth of the devil's disciples.

And they know exactly who he is. They come after him all the time.

"A demon just attacked me right out in the open on Figueroa," Constantine tells a nightclub owner and longtime associate (Djimon Hounsou), sounding as if he's quoting a Warren Zevon song.

One by one, the few friends he has get picked off, until all that's left are his eager, fasttalking sidekick, Chaz (Shia LaBeouf from the children's series "Even Stevens," providing much-needed comic relief), and police detective Angela Dodson (Rachel Weisz), who came to him for help in solving the death of her twin sister, Isabel (also Weisz).

They team up to battle bad guys who are obvious a flock of evil winged creatures flies toward them on the street, and when Angela pulls out her gun, Constantine deadpans, "That's really not gonna help" as well as forces who aren't so clearly menacing. Gorgeous Gavin Rossdale, lead singer of the

British band Bush, is convincingly unctuous in a chalkstripe suit as Satan's right-hand man, Balthazar.

Also coming through with a meaty performance amid the madness is Tilda Swinton as a beautifully androgynous version of the angel Gabriel, who spars with Constantine over his, desire to gain access to heaven.

Then the devil himself shows up in the form of Swedish actor Peter Stormare, dressed in crisp white, licking his lips and delivering his lines in a slightly effeminate fashion.

Is he playing this climactic scene for laughs? Or just trying to be weird for weird's sake, as so often seems to be the tendency with this movie?

It is simply not worth going to multiplex and back to learn the answer to this or any other of the film's ponderous mysteries.

"Constantine," a Warner Bros. Pictures release, is rated R for violence and demonic images. Running time: 122 minutes. Two stars out of four.

Photo by Justin Meru

The fifth annual Blaze Bronchos junior wheelchair basketball team vs. the Oklahoma City Blazers hockey team compete in a wheelchair basketball game Feb. 19 at Hamilton Field House. The final score was Blazers 24 and Junior Blaze Bronchos 31.

Actress Sandra Dee, dead at age 62 The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Sandra Dee, who at the height of her fame in the 1960s was arguably the biggest female teen idol of her time, has died, leaving a legacy of film roles that includes "Gidget" and "Tammy and the Doctor."

"She was Gidget, and she was Tammy, and for a time she was young. America's ideal," film historian Leonard Maltin once said of her. Dee later married another pop icon, singer Bobby Darin, Dee died of complications Sunday morning from kidney disease at the Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, her family said. She was 62.

Steve Blauner, a longtime family friend who represents Darin's estate, said Dee had been hospitalized for nearly two weeks. She had been on dialysis for about four years, Blauner said.

"She didn't have a bad bone

in her body," he told The Associated Press on Sunday.

"When she was a big star in the pictures and a top five at the box office, she treated the grip the exact same way she treated the head of the studio. She meant it. She wasn't phony."

With her squeaky-clean image and girl-next-door charm, Universal Studios cast Dee mostly in teen movies such as "The Reluctant Debutante," "The Restless Years," "Tammy Tell Me True" and "Take Her, She's Mine." Occasionally, she landed secondary roles in more mature films, such as "Imitation of Life," "A Portrait In Black" and "Romanoff and Juliet."

Dee later made an independent film "Rosie!" (1968), starring with Rosalind Russell, but she never recaptured the stardom of her teenage years. Her last film credit was for the 1983 movie "Lost."

In 1960, Dee married Darin in Elizabeth, N.J., following a one-month courtship. A son, Dodd Mitchell, was born the following year.

Born Alexandra Zuck in Bayonne, N.J., on April 23, 1942, Dee became a model while in grade school. In a midcareer interview with The Associated Press, she explained her name change.

"I used to sign vouchers and sign-out sheets with 'Alexandra bee,"` she recalled. "Somehow it stuck and when (producer) Ross Hunter signed me to my first picture ... 'Sandra Dee' was the name they gave me."

Her name was resuscitated in 1978 with the film "Grease," which featured the song "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee" that mocked her wholesomeness.

But Dee didn't mind, Blauner said.

"She always had a big laugh about it. She had a great sense of humor," he said.

Blauner said her favorite films were the ones she made with Darin, adding that the singer remained the love of her life despite their divorce. Darin, who had rheumatic fever as a child, died following heart surgery in 1973. He was' 37.

In 1965, with her divorce from Darin dampening her teen appeal, Dee was dropped by Universal.

"I thought they were my friends," she said in a 1965 interview with the AP, referring to her former bosses. "But I found out on the last picture CA Man Could Get Killed') that I was simply a piece of property to them. I begged them not to make me do the picture, but they insisted."

Actor Kevin Spacey, who portrayed Darin in last year's biopic "Beyond the Sea," which he directed, said Dee had seen the movie and approved.

"She called me last week and said she loved it," Spacey told an interviewer last year. Actress Kate Bosworth, who played Dee in the film, said at the time: "She had this image but she was so tragic and lost and naive and she could have had such potential to tap into that, but nobody gave her the chance.

Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide

by Catherine Tsai

The Associated Press

DENVER — Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said.

He was 67.

"Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family," Juan Thompson said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News.

Pitkin County Sheriff officials confirmed to The Associated Press that Thompson had died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Thompson's wife, Anita, was not home at the time.

Besides the 1972 drug-hazed classic about Thompson's visit to Las Vegas, he also wrote "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72." The central character in those wild, sprawling satires was "Dr. Thompson," a snarling, drugand alcohol-crazed observer and participant.

Thompson is credited with pioneering New Journalism _ or, as he dubbed it, "gonzo journalism" _ in which the writer made himself an essential component of the story. Much of his earliest work appeared in Rolling Stone magazine.

"Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist," Thompson told the AP in 2003.

"You have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere.

You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it."

An acute observer 'of the decadence and depravity in American life, Thompson also wrote such collections "Generation of Swine" and "Songs of the Doomed." His first ever novel, "The Rum Diary," written in 1959, was first published in 1998.

Thompson was a counterculture icon at the height of the Watergate era, and once said Richard Nixon represented "that dark, venal, and incurably violent side of the American character."

Thompson also was the model for Garry Trudeau's balding "Uncle Duke" in the comic strip "Doonesbury" and was portrayed on screen by Johnny Depp in a film adaptation of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."

Other books include "The Great Shark Hunt," "Hell's Angels" and • "The Proud Highway." His most recent effort was "Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral. of Dumbness."

"He may have died relatively young but he made up for it in quality if not quantity of years," Paul Krassner, the veteran radical journalist and one of Thompson's former editors, told The Associated Press by phone from his Southern California home.

"It was hard to say sometimes whether he was being provocative for its own sake or if he was just being drunk and stoned and irresponsible," quipped Krassner, founder of the leftist publication The Realist and co-founder of the Youth International (YIPPIE) party.

"But every editor that I know, myself included, was willing to accept a certain prima donna journalism in the demands he would make to cover a particular story," he said. "They were willing to risk all of his irresponsible behavior in order to share his talent with their readers."

The writer's compound in Woody Creek, not far from Aspen, was almost as legendary as Thompson. He prized peacocks and weapons; in 2000, he accidentally shot and slightly wounded his assistant, Deborah Fuller, trying to chase a bear off his property.

Born July 18, 1937, in Kentucky, Hunter Stocton Thompson served two years in the Air Force, where he was a newspaper sports editor. He later became a proud member of the National Rifle Association and almost was elected sheriff in Aspen in 1970 under the Freak Power Party banner.

Thompson's heyday came in the 1970s, when his larger-thanlife persona was gobbled up by magazines. His pieces were of legendary length and so was his appetite for adventure and trouble; his purported fights with Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner were rumored in many cases to hinge on expense accounts for stories that didn't materialize.

It was the content that raised eyebrows and tempers. His book on the 1972 presidential campaign involving, among others, Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey and Nixon was famous for its scathing opinion.

Working for Muskie, Thompson wrote, "was something like :being locked in a rolling box car with a vicious 200-pound water rat." Nixon and his "Barbie doll" family were "America's answer to the monstrous Mr. Hyde. He speaks for the werewolf in us."

Humphrey? Of him, Thompson wrote: "There is no way to grasp what a shallow, contemptible and hopelessly dishonest old hack Hubert Humphrey is until you've followed him around for a while."

The approach won him praise among the masses as well as critical acclaim. Writing in The New York Times in 1973, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt worried Thompson might someday "lapse into good taste."

"That would be a shame, for while he doesn't see America as Grandma Moses depicted it, or the way they painted it for us in civics class, he does in his own mad way betray a profound democratic concern for the polity," he wrote. "And in its own mad way, it's damned refreshing."

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Israel frees five hundred Palestinian prisoners JERUSALEM — Israel freed 500 Palestinian prisoners in a goodwill gesture Monday and President Bush pledged to support efforts to resolve the conflict, saying peace based on a two-state solution was within reach.

"Ow- greatest opportunity, and our immediate goal, is peace in the Middle East," Bush said in Brussels, Belgium, on the first day of a fence-mending trip to Europe.

Bush also promised to back Palestinian reform, which he said would give momentum to changes throughout the Middle East. Bush said he would send Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to an international conference in London March 1 designed to help the Palestinian authority reform its finances and security system.

The prisoners were welcomed as heroes in the West Bank and Gaza.

Near the West Bank town of Jenin, a 30-year-old bystander was killed accidentally by celebratory gunfire, and four people were wounded.

In the West Bank city of Nablus, a crowd of 15,000 welcomed a group of 100 prisoners. Dozens of gunmen fired in the air, among them members of the Islamic militant group Hamas who appeared with their weapons in public and unmasked for the first time since Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to an unofficial truce earlier this month.

"There will be no peace as long as there is a single prisoner in Israeli jails," the Hamas leader in the West Bank, Hassan Yousef, shouted through a bullhorn.

Israel holds more than 8,000 prisoners and has turned down Palestinian demands for a large-scale release, particularly of those involved in attacks on Israelis.

Suhail Abu Madala, 35, spent four years in prison and had three more years to serve when he was set free Monday.

"I cannot believe that I'm smelling the air of freedom, that I will see my family," Abu Madala said, choking back tears after being reunited with brothers and sisters and his 12-year-old son, Mohammed. "Nothing can describe my joy and my feelings.

Those freed had not been involved in attacks on Israelis.

Israel has promised to release 400 more prisoners within the next three months. A joint Israeli-Palestinian ministerial committee will decide which prisoners will be released in the second round. Israel is resisting Palestinian demands to free those serving long terms, including for attacks on Israelis.

In the West Bank, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia presented a new Cabinet to parliament Monday, but expectations of easy approval quickly fizzed during a stormy session.

Qureia twice slammed down the microphone when peppered with complaints by legislators about government corruption and failure to carry out promised reforms.

If Qureia fails to win parliament backing for his team, he would have to step down. A vote initially set for later Monday was postponed until Tuesday.

In a historic Cabinet vote Sunday, Israel voted leave Gaza and four settlements in the northern West Bank and approved a revised West Bank separation barrier closer to Israel's pre-1967 frontier.

With the vote, an Israeli government agreed for the first time since capturing the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 Mideast war to dismantle some of the dozens of Jewish settlements it has built there.

The Gaza withdrawal passed 17-5.

The Cabinet must still approve each of four evacuation stages, but even opponents said those votes are just a formality.

Pinchas Wallerstein, one of the leaders of the council of Jewish settlements, called on supporters to begin "an aggressive and strong struggle" but not engage in violence.

In Gaza, Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri called the planned Israeli pullout "a result of the heroic resistance of our people."

The revised separation fence leaves 6 percent to 7 percent of the territory in Israeli hands, said Vice Premier Shimon Peres.

Some 15,000 to 17,000 Palestinians will also end up on the Israeli side of the bather, officials said. Tens of thousands of Israeli settlers would continue to live on the Palestinian side of the barrier, as there is no decision to remove those enclaves.

Photo by Naomi Takebuchi

Gerald Wade, medical technology junior, studies a slide of Leucosolenia (a type of sponge) during the animal biology lab Feb. 17 in the Laboratory Annex Bulding.

Oklahoma Senator draws praise for immigration reform

by Ron Jenkins The Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY — A Tulsa senator is sponsoring what proponents are calling a groundbreaking approach to a dire economic problem by penalizing employers who hire illegal immigrants.

The Oklahoma Fair Employment Act, by Sen. Tom Adelson, would penalize employers who hire illegal aliens and give employees who are displaced because of those hirings legal status to sue.

Since appearing on Lou Dobbs "Moneyline" on CNN, Adelson has been drawing praise from national immigration reform groups, who contend the influx of illegal immigrants is suppressing wages and threatening the American middle class.

"This is first-of-its kind legislation in the country. It is a bellwether and I am sure we will see similar bills like this," said Dan Stein, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Federation for American Immigration Reform, known as FAIR. "This is stuff that should have been done by Congress 15 years ago," Stein said.

But the legislation has its critics, including the Greater Oklahoma City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, where officials think the issue of displaced U.S. workers is overblown.

The U.S. Census in 2004 estimated. Oklahoma an illegal resident population of 46,000.

The state has 3.5 million residents, of which about 305,000 are foreign-born.

Adelson said it may be a bigger issue in other states such as Arizona and Texas, which border Mexico, but "it is an issue everywhere unskilled labor is subject to illegal competition."

David Castillo, chairman of the Hispanic chamber, said the bill is "bad for business" and also bad for thousands of hardworking, legal Hispanic immigrants who could be penalized if the legislation is enacted.

Under the measure, a company that hires illegal immigrants would have its certificate of incorporation suspended and lose any income tax deductions linked to payments to the immigrants.

The bill describes illegal immigrants as "illegal laborers" and says the state finds that anyone who hires such laborers "have systematically distorted the labor market of this state by reducing wages, adversely affecting working conditions and evading taxes."

"Employment of unauthorized illegal laborers should be viewed as any other illegal business practice, that is, a means to exploit others and to gain an advantage over lawabiding competitors," the bill declares. The issue of illegal immigration is especially sensitive in southwestern states, as illustrated in the recent U.S. Senate campaign in Oklahoman when Republican Tom Coburn was criticized over a television ad that showed images of Hispanics

and dark hands receiving welfare payments.

The Republican Senatorial Committee sponsored the commercials, which said Democrat Brad Carson had voted in Congress to make it easier for illegal immigrants to "cross our borders and take our jobs" and to allow them to easier access to welfare.

Spokesmen for human rights groups demanded that the ads be pulled and also criticized Carson, who was defeated by Coburn, for saying that illegal immigration and government policies encourage business to send jobs overseas and depress wages.

"Certainly there is bigotry out there and that is unfortunate," said Adelson, while adding that he believes American is a "blessed country" because of its diversity.

"This is just simply a matter of the widespread illegal practice of hiring illegal workers," said the senator, a former health secretary in Gov. Brad Henry's cabinet. His measure is awaiting action in the Senate Business and Labor Committee and Adelson said he is confident it will be approved and go to the full Senate.

Castillo said his organization opposes illegal immigration but also recognizes that many people are coming to the U.S. because of economics and "a lot of them are hardworking people that want to make a better life for their families.

CAMPUS EVENTS ■ The Student Programming Board presents Broncho Jam Unplugged Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the UCO Jazz Lab. There will be live music and free Hideaway Pina.

Admission is free and no tickets are required. For more information, call 974-2363.

■ The Marketing Club is sponsoring an informational session with head marketing coordinator of Sonic Headquarters in Oklahoma City, Holly Arder. Anyone interested in learning more about marketing programs is invited to meet at 6 p.m. Feb. 24 at the Bricktown Sonic.

For more information, contact the UCO marketing department at 974-2437.

■The Creative Writers Study Institute will hold a Broncho

Writers Workshop Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the Liberal Arts Bldg. Rm. 136. Everyone is welcome and no writing experience is necessary. The Broncho Writers Workshop is held the second and fourth Thursday of every month. For more information, call Kevin Adkisson at 476-4159.

■ The Association of Latin American Students will hold Salsa Night Feb. 25 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Nigh University Center Rm. 300.

The event is free and there will be instructors to teach Salsa and chips, dips and sodas.

NA free GMAT practice test is available for anyone to take Feb. 26 at 9 a.m. in the Business Bldg. Rm. 113. To register, call 1-800-KA PTEST.

• The Bangladesh Student Association will hold a film show in Pegasus Theatre in the Liberal Arts Building Feb. 26 at 5 p.m. There will be a brief presentation before the show and pizza afterwards.

Tickets are limited. For more information, call 788-7432.

■ "The Vagina Monologues" Cast and Crew will be selling tickets to their performance from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day this week in the Liberal Arts Foyer and every day next week in the University Center Food Court. Tickets are $5 for students and $7 for non-students. Performances will be March 8, 9 and 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Pegasus Theater of the Liberal Arts Building.

Proceeds will go to the OKC YWCA and the Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault.

Photo by Justin Avera

Freshmen King and Queen nominees are displayed in the University Center Feb. 21. Voting will take place until Feb. 23 on UCONNECT and the winners will be announced Feb. 24.

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.pr 9 sk "There he goes, one of God's proto too strange to live, too weird to die.. • "So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"

—Hunter S. Thompson, age 17 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God...

After the Word was the writer, and the writer was with the Word.

There have been many writers since the Word — many good, many bad — but none were Hunter S. Thompson.

Hunter Stockton Thompson died on Sunday, Feb. 20, 2005 and I nearly cried. At age 24, I lost my first hero.

My editor-in-chief called me at 10:25 p.m. to tell me, because I don't have Internet at my house. I stepped outside to smoke a cigarette for my hero and the dark clouds shouldered their way into the sky, which had been clear and 74 degrees all day. The end of the day when Hunter S. Thompson died was punctuated by a period-mark of lightning, and I thought it was fitting.

Thompson pioneered what is effec-

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tively known as "gonzo journalism," which stands in direct opposition to the accepted form of journalism where the unobtrusive journalist generally strives to remain anonymous and retain an objective story. In Thompson's firstperson gonzo journalism, the author becomes an integral part of the story and essentially becomes the pipeline through which subjectivity is pumped through by the gallons. In gonzo journalism, objectivity is abandoned and often spit upon.

"Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist;" Thompson told AP in 2003. "You have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere.

You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it."

Thompson always stood in antagonism and opposition to the current of power. As the result of a deal struck with a district attorney, Thompson went to the Air Force instead ofjail and began his career as a newspaperman at the Command Courier on Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Both Thompson and the military knew he didn't belong there. Often, Thompson would write friends and tell them, "...give up all ideas of volunteering for the military. It is a way of life which was never meant for our type. Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the armed forces. It is a catch-all for people who regard every tomorrow as a hammer swinging at the head of man..."

Indeed, Thompson was never meant for the Air Force. And when he finally got an "honorable" discharge, he wrote his own press release, which menhoned things like wine bottles hurled from speeding, muffler-less cars with no brakes, an immediate search for himself, a one-time sports editor and

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well-known "morale problem" with an affinity for wine.

Years later, Thompson nearly got his sweaty grip around the position of sheriff in Aspen in 1970 under the Freak Power Party ticket. The feat was almost pulled off on the basis of Thompson and his team's tireless effort to rouse and organize the nonvoter vote — something Democrats nowadays could stand to learn a thing or two about.

Thompson is probably most widely known for his opus, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," which was first published in Rolling Stone in excerpts. Fear and Loathing found commercial success in the 1998 movie adaptation starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, introducing a new generation to the twisted body of Thompson's work.

If I could get by without mentioning Fear and Loathing, I would. By my sight, its not his best work. It would be worth mentioning instead, "Rum Diary," and "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72."

Many at the time heralded it as one of the best in offering. the An-ierican

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populace a look into American politics — "political commentary that was uniquely American."

Many still do.

Most recently, Thompson has been writing sporadic columns for ESPN's Page 2, entwining sports, politics and gambling almost so seamlessly that by the end, you're wondering, "What did I just read?"

Love him, hate him, or know nothing about him, HST lived by his own rules, and despite his weird addictions to more forbidden things, the least of which were guns, he was a shining example of the kind of life America makes possible.

Thompson's death may not affect you much, in the sense that you may not have cared for much for the man.

But humanity lost a pioneer when it lost Thompson, and humanity is always in need of pioneers.

We lost something special in the schizophrenic scribblings of the desperate southern gentleman.

The king is dead; long live the king!

Gavin D. Elliott can be reached at gelliott@thevistaonline.com.

Catch a wave and you're sittin' on top of the world The University of Central Oklahoma Bronchos caught a wave of successive victories in their six game winstreak, riding it to the top of the Lone Star Conference North Division and poised to claim the title as theirs.

by Harry Gatewood HI Sports Writer The University of Central Oklahoma men's basketball team continues to excel with leaps and bounds, securing at least a share of the Lone Star Conference North Division title.

UCO got two wins over Southwestern in a dramatic 7674 victory in addition to a naction packed 104-71 riot over Cameron University on Feb. 17.

The Bronchos improved to a blazing 20-5 overall and 9-1 in the North Division while the SWOSU own the only North Division win over UCO this season.

The second-place, No. 19ranked Bulldogs fell to 20-5 on the season and 7-3 in the North Conference.

UCO came together and Terry McVay blasted seven straight points in a 9-1 run that gave the Bronchos the lead until the final bang.

The Bronchos held off Southwestern Oklahoma's rally in the final minutes for a melodramatic two point 76-74 win.

The Bronchos trailed 60-57 when Joe Kennerly started the 9-1 spurt with a tip-in and McVay scored the next seven points.

McVay made a lay-up off a Deshone Henderson steal, igniting a pair of free throws and a booming a 3-pointer from the corner as the shot clock wound down to give UCO a 66-61 lead.

Sam Belt slashed a 3-pointer at the 4:08 mark, upping the Bronchos 71-63 lead.

The Bulldogs barked back with a 9-2 run — seven of those on free throws bringing the score to 73-72 on a Jamaal Shell free throw with 37.4 seconds left.

Belt rebounded Shell's second miss and Mike Currin was fouled at 22.9, with the junior making one free throw for a 7472 lead.

SWOSU missed two shots on the other end, with

Henderson fouled collecting off the second miss.

Hendrson sunk both foul shots with 6.9 seconds left for a 76-72 lead.

The Bulldogs Lewis drove in for a lay-up at 03.5 to make it 76-74.

UCO threw a blazing pass the length of the court that SWOSU's Shell intercepted, passing to Lewis.

Lewis just missed the gamewinning try from 30 feet, closing UCO's' performance.

Belt paced the Bronchos, making four three-pointers, scoring 22 points and adding a game-high 12 rebounds.

Henderson finished with 13 points, McVay with 11 and Currin with 11.

The University Of Central Oklahoma men's Basketball team performed another theatrical performance Thursday Feb. 17, staging a dazzling 104-71 victory over 1-8 discombobulated Cameron University .

UCO demonstrated pure execution with productive defense posting an amazing 17 team steals.

After the Cameron University game, Marcus Steele was asked, "What do we need to do to overcome Southwestern Oklahoma State University? Steele said, "We say they got lucky last game, we didn't come out ready, like I said we'll come together and we know what we need to do, we'll take care of them, we'll take care of them just like we did everybody else."

UCO had sniper-like three point shooting, making 32.6 percent in addition to a dominant close range accuracy, shooting 43.8 percent from the field.

The Bronchos made 14 threes, having 12 of their 13 players score, including five in double figures.

Cameron fell to 13-11 and 18 in conference.

Marcus Steele had 14 points, a game-high eight rebounds and another team high of four steals.

Steele said, "I feel great,

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everything is going our way, baskets are falling, it's just beautiful."

Sam Belt led the Bronchos with 19 points, hitting five three-pointers. Terry McVay added 12 points, Deshone Henderson 11 and B.J. Raney 10 as UCO got 67 points from its bench.

The Bronchos scored 29 points off Cameron turnovers, with Steele and Kentrell Gaddis getting four steals apiece to lead UCO's defense.

Steele said, "We play our game, we play how we know we can, and you see the results," Seven players made at least one three-pointer, with big men Joe Kennerly (1-1) and Willie Shannon (2-of -3) hitting their first threes of the season.

The Bronchos finished 14 of 43 from long range, including 11-of-31 in the second half Cameron had the lead early in an 11-2 advantage at the 16:49 mark of the first half UCO exploded with a 12-0 blast returning 13-11, tying it 16-16 after a Steele three-point play at the 12:53 mark.

Henderson put the Bronchos atop 27 seconds later with a pair of free throws to start another Photo Services 12-0 run that ended with Muyi Sosanya's lay-up and a 28-16 Terry McVay goes for a lay-up against Cameron on Feb. 17. McVay scored seven straight points in a UCO lead with 8:46 left.

9-1 run that gave Central Oklahoma the lead for good against Southwestern.

The Bronchos took a dazzling 51-32 halftime lead, two 3-pointers from Belt and another from Mike Currin in a blazing 50-second span early in the

by Harry Gatewood III Neither team could score in the eighth and the second half to open up a 62-35 Sports Writer Bronchos failed to capitalize on a one-out, baseslead. loaded situation in the top of the ninth.

The trailing Aggies never got Oklahoma Christian University handed the The Lady Eagles finished the Bronchos, closer than 22 the rest of the University of Central Oklahoma a duo of softball plucking an excruciating run in the bottom of the way and the lead peaked at 44, losses on Feb. 17. ninth.

101-57 with 3:51 remaining on The Bronchos dropped out a 6-5 nine inning The Lady Eagles scored two runs early in each a Kentrell Gaddis lay-up. decision in the opener despite the hitting heroics of the first two innings of the second game to grab UCO hosts East Central of Tommie Mitts. a quick 4-0 lead.

Thursday in its regular season UCO could have capitalized on two opportuniUCO had a chance to blaze twice, especially in home finale with a chance to ties to score in falling 4-lon Thursday. the fourth with bases loaded and no outs, but claim an outright title.

Mitts led UCO in the opening game, blasting a couldn't find a Broncho run until the seventh lead-off home run in the top of the first inning when Mitts had a sacrifice fly. adding a two-run shot in the fifth to give UCO a Stacy Walden had a pair of doubles to lead two nm 4-2 lead.

UCO's seven-hit attack.

Harry Gatewood III can be The Lady Eagles came back with three runs in The Bronchos returned to action on February reached at hgatewood@thevisthe bottom of the sixth to go ahead 5 4, but 21, hosting Northwestern Oklahoma in 1 p.m. taonline.corn Mitts' took the reigns with a clutch RBI single in doubleheader. the top of the seventh tying it and forcing an Harry Gatewood III can be reached at extra inning for the Bronchos. hgatewood@thevistaonline.com .

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Southwestern puts reigns on Bronchos 4-game win-streak

by Harry Gatewood III Sports Writer The University of Central Oklahoma Women's Basketball team took a nose dive in a trying second-half comeback effort. UCO fell short 64-55 as the Southwestern Oklahoma Lady Bulldogs used a grueling bite to stop the Bronchos comeback.

The University of Central Oklahoma overcame Cameron University in an early offensive blaze in a 59-56 victory.

UCO rallied from a 10-point deficit to take a 53-52 lead with 2:31 remaining against SWOSU, but the Bronchos committed three turnovers down the stretch and SWOSU ended the game with a 12-2 run to pull out the Lone Star Conference North Division win.

UCO won its' last four games by a combined total of 11 points, fell to 15-9 overall and 5-5 in the LSC North. The Lady Bulldogs improved to 1411 and 5-5 as both teams continue to battle fora top-four finish and a berth in the LSC Postseason Tournament.

The Bronchos trailed 30-23 at halftime and were down 4131 midway through the second half when UCO rallied, pulling even at 45-45 when Meghan Craig hit a 3-pointer at the 4:53 mark to cap a 14-4 run.

Craig finished with five three-pointers and 17 points to lead UCO, while Hamilton had 14 points and Lindsay Young with 10.

UCO missed five of its first six shots, falling into an early 93 hole and SWOSU's Paige Adams drilled four three-pointers in the first 10 minutes as SWOSU surged to a 23-11 lead.

The Bronchos finally heated up from long range in the final minutes of the first half, getting two threes from Craig and one each from Lindsey Wilson and Tiffany Johnson in pulling within 27-23 with 1:15 left.

Laura Hamilton was explosive against Cameron University in the first half, opening the game with a three, in addition to shooting 3-of-4 from the three point line.

Laura Hamilton said, "Just like last week, we worked on our shooting a lot, we knew we had to come out early, every game it seems like it takes us a whole half just to get on the board so we came out early."

UCO shot 41.7 in the first half from the three point line.

The Bronchos hit their first five 3-point tries.

Three by Hamilton and two

by Meghan Craig jumping to a 21-9 lead barely five minutes into the game.

Head Coach Shawn Williaims said "Our shooting at the start was really good, but

there toward the end I thought we were relying on that three, I mean we got happy at that three point line, and that's something that we can't do we got to go inside and out."

It was the fourth straight league win -- all by four points or less -- for the Bronchos, who improved to 15-8 overall and 54 in the LSC North while dropping the Lady Aggies to 11-13 and 5-4.

Cameron overcame an early 12-point deficit to take a 30-28 halftime lead.

Cameron was atop 44-37 with 12:16 remaining when Hamilton started UCO's rally.

Williams Said, "I thought our full court press helped us a lot, it kind of turned the game around."

Hamilton said, "At the end of the second hal,f we had some problems with our offense but we were just able to hang in there at the end of the second half. We slowly picked it up and were able to come out at the end."

Williams said, "The second half we did a better job of getting Lindsey Young the ball and letting her to go one-on-one down low."

Two free throws by Young at 7:50 and two more by Jackee' Brown at 7:32 gave UCO a 4544 lead. CU came back to tie it 48-all with 3:15 left on two Chelsea Turner free throws.

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Young's three point play at the 2:54 mark put the Bronchos in front for good at 51-48, with Lindsey Wilson hitting a key 3pointer as the shot clock wound down to put UCO on top 54-49 with 2:16 to play.

Cameron stayed close as the Bronchos missed four straight free throws, but Brown made essential rebounds and was fouled to connect on two free throws with 20 seconds left to make it 58-54 and seal the win.

Williams said, "I just told them to stay focused. We scored 19 points early and then we scored 9 points after that, we were taking good shots, we just have to put them in."

Hamilton finished with 19 points, four assists and three steals. Young's inside game produced 14 points and 12 rebounds, with Craig adding 12 points, six rebounds and five assists.

UCO moved into a tie for third place in the North Division standings with three regular season games remaining.

The top four teams from the North and South divisions qualify for the LSC Postseason Tournament.

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Harry Gatewood III can be reached at hgatewood@thevistaonline.com .

Meghan Craig had the team high 17 points against Southwestern on Feb. 19.

No. 5 Bronchos ward off Cougars in 25-18 victory 14-3 major decision from Jerod Goodwin at 157 and a tough 21 win from Cort Petersen at 165, but SIEU won the next three weights to go on top 12-7.

The staking loss in that blaze was No. 3-ranked Ryan Daniels' 10-5 setback at 174, with the Cougars adding a fall at 184 and a 2-1 win at 197 over regular 174-pounder Jared Hess.

A forfeit at heavyweight put the Bronchos on top 13-12 and

by Harry Gatewood III Sports Writer The University of Central Oklahoma overcame Southern Illinois-Edwardsville with a 2518 victory. A Shane Caruthers' fall and a pair of essential forfeits helped No. 5-ranked Central Oklahoma stunt the Cougar upset.

The Bronchos jumped out to a quick 7-0 lead with a lopsided

Caruthers followed with his key fall at 125, a third-period pin that made it 19-12.

Another forfeit at 133 gave UCO a thorough 25-12 lead, with SIEU winning the final two matches to arrange the final margin.

The Bronchos, missing injured starters at 149 and 197 pounds for the fourth straight dual, won just three of the eight bouts contested in their final

match of the season.

UCO finished the season 127 with its 18th straight win over the Cougars.

UCO doesn't return to action until going to Kenosha, Wis. on Feb. 27 for the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional.

Harry Gatewood III can be reached at hgatewood@thevistaonline.com.

157: Jerod Goodwin, UCO, maj. dec. Matt Warren, 14-3.

165: Cort Petersen, UCO, dec. John Ficht, 2-1.

174: Eric Scholle, SIUE, dec. Ryan Daniels, 10-5.

184: Pat Healy, SIUE, pinned Carson Kleinfeldt, 3:49.

197: Branden Lorek, SIUE, dec. Jared Hess, 2-1.

285: Josh LeadingFox, UCO, won by forfeit.

125: Shane Caruthers, UCO, pinned Scott Audo, 6:10.

133: Jared Henning, UCO, won by forfeit.

141: Bill Breheny, SIUE, dec. Kyle Evans, 12-7.

149: Joe Rujawitz, SIUE, dec. Wes Ruth, 7-2.

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