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GOING GREEN COULD LEAVE SOME DEPARTMENTS IN THE RED A new printer policy designed to save energy and money could leave some departments with increased costs. Administrators are confident that every one will benefit but admit some departments may face increases.

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OKLAHOMA CITY — After weeks of negotiating, the governor and legislative leaders last week finally unveiled a fix for the devastated 2010 state budget. Now, work begins on a budget for the upcoming fiscal year that looks to be even worse. Lawmakers learned last week they have about $5.4 billion to spend on the fiscal year 2011 budget that begins July 1. That amount is $1.2 billion less than they appropriated last year and likely will result in major cuts across state programs.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Since the passage of Oklahoma’s graduated driver’s license law in 1999, the number of fatality crashes involving 16and 17-year-old drivers has decreased from 75 in 2000 to a low of 39 in 2008, and crashes in general are also down. The numbers include wrecks that killed teens and others where a 16- or 17-yearold was behind the wheel of at least one of the vehicles involved.

WASHINGTON — How rattled are Toyota dealers?

Some dealerships nearly hired the same crisis public relations firm that handled the travails of Paris Hilton, Chris Brown and a company that California called the state’s worst inland polluter. With Toyota waging a furious battle to protect its name following the recall of 8.5 million vehicles, many of its 1,200 dealers are taking matters into their own hands. Dozens of dealers will lobby members of Congress this week.

WASHINGTON — Democratic governors express concerns about the sagging political fortunes of President Barack Obama and his party, with several urging the White House to change its approach ahead of the fall elections.

FEB 23, 2010

By Kory Oswald / Editor-In-Chief UCO’s staunch attempt to go green has caused some anger and confusion among faculty and staff after it was announced the university would implement a new printer policy designed to reduce electricity usage.

The new policy may also reduce the number of printers available to students and staff, as well as raise operational costs for some departments.

Administrators say the new policy, which will bind the entire campus to a sole company for all printing and copying services for five years, will reduce electricity use by 5 percent,

generating approximately $15,000 a year in savings for the campus.

The policy includes the maintenance costs of all printers and copiers, as well as the cost of toner for all the machines. Administrators believe the different components of the policy will ultimately generate much more than the $15,000 the university will save on electricity.

“The annual savings is $477,000,” Mark Moore, the vice president of administration, said.

“Term savings ... is $2.3 million over that five years.”

The new policy has already started

to take effect and has angered many faculty for several reasons. They feel President Webb and administration signed a binding agreement without consulting, or even considering the impact it would have on the students and faculty. Some are also angry because they say the new policy will increase the operational costs of many departments, a burden that could be passed on to students.

The faculty have also complained that the administrators involved have not been forthright with important information regarding the new policy after revealing that UCO had already

signed into the contract.

“I think our major frustration is, No. 1, the decision was made without consulting academic affairs or faculty,” Roz Miller, the chair of the Department of Mass Communication, said.

“It appears to us that no one took into account how this would negatively affect departments and their departmental budgets, and of course our major concern is where is extra money going to come from to pay for this.”

In a meeting with the university chairs on Feb. 2, Mark Moore and

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By Ryan Costello / Staff Writer SB 09-201, or the Financial Fairness Act of 2010, was ratified last week, and already the bill’s opponents have begun to form a proposal that might reinstate the budget constraints lifted by the recently passed bill.

The Financial Fairness Act removed statutes that bound the funding of the Young Democrats and College Republicans, the two most prominent political groups at UCO, by deferring the task of divvying their funding to the General Conference Committee on Appropriation, which determines the budgets of most student organizations by weighing out each group’s credentials.

On February 15, SB 09-201 was passed 47-13 by the UCOSA Senate in a vote that followed several minutes of debate and was subsequently signed into effect by President Daniel Stockton. Following the bill’s signing, its original adversaries began drawing up proposed legislation to counter SB 09-201.

Senate President Pro Tempore David Jenkins is concerned about how the new proposal could affect student organizations throughout UCO. “If worded too broadly, (the proposed legislation) could place severe restrictions on the funding of any group that advocates for any policy changes,” Jenkins said.

Jenkins helped to author the Financial Fairness Act alongside Sens. Katie Cooper and Jessie Collins, Reps. Thomas

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Students attend the UCOSA meeting on Monday, Feb. 22, in Constitution Hall in the NIgh University Center. UCOSA talked alternative scheduling and urinal dividers, among other things.

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Editor The Vista The “Racist Graffiti” story is disturbing to many of us, not just those of us who are engaged across race and culture lines in our public and private lives, but also those of us who have been proud of the way we have striven here to minimize racial, cultural, and religious conflict. We can be very proud, especially proud of Thomaira Babbit for sacrificing her time and effort to help us celebrate diversity and by drawing attention to the ways African Americans have contributed to our cultural development. We should celebrate our achievements, as our Museum Studies program does, and as our Ethnic Studies, American Indian and Asian Studies programs in the department of History and Geography do. Ms Babbit studies in our department and we are all proud and supportive of her. She contributes so much to enriching our lives.

I ask that we not forget the positives while we are faced with the cruel racism that still persists among us. Do not let this person (or persons) who exercised their liberties to do harm to others dominate us. That lack of civility should not be rewarded by diverting us from our goal. Rather let that evilness serve to unite us by even stronger bonds.

Thank you MeShawn Conley and everyone of you in Multicultural Student Services. Whoever defaced property, sought to belittle our President on racist terms, are offset by the thousands upon thousands of faculty, students, and staff who praise diversity and condemn such cruelly childish behavior.

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CAMPUS QUOTES

A recent CNN poll said that 86 percent of Americans believe that the government is broken,what is your opinion on the current state of the U.S. government?

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“My opinion is that it is not perfect, it has flaws. It is still better than others [governments] around the world.

Still something needs to be done about it.”

“Uhh… I don’t know about broken. I wouldn’t say that.

It just is… I don’t know.”

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Sophomore–Marriage & Family Life Ed.

“I don’t know. I don’t pay attention to that stuff.”

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“The people supporting the government and lack there of are the problem.”

“I don’t think it’s broken. I think our view of it is broken… We should trust people in the government.”

“I don’t care. I’m from Canada.”

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Printers Continued from page 1 Denise Smith informed faculty the university was going to use the company Standley Systems as its printer and copier service provider. The company will lease all printers to departments for a monthly fee that ranges from $15 to $62.51 a month and higher, depending on the type of equipment and the options available for each machine.

There will also be a fee for each page printed. The price for that varies from 0.0059 cents to 0.0175 cents and will also depend on the type of print and the equipment used.

The news was a surprise to the chairs, and the meeting raised more questions than were answered.

“Specific questions were asked; vague or nonanswers were given,” Miller said.

Faculty are still seeking information from administrators.

“I would just like to see the study that showed, overall, that the university would at least break even on this. Now the reason that we were given in the chairs’ meeting was all about the electricity savings. That’s all we were hearing,” Miller said.

“They told us, ‘Sure, if you want to replace every printer for every faculty and staff member, you can do that as long as you’re willing to pay the monthly leasing fee.’ Well, that’s outrageous. We can’t afford to do that.”

Departments at the university do not currently have to pay a monthly fee to lease their current printers, nor do they have to pay a per copy/print fee. However, they do have to pay for toner for each printer, which can cost as much as $1,500 a year for each department.

Standley will also provide service and maintenance for every piece of equipment and will employ a student worker on campus to answer service requests.

All of the equipment will be “Energy Star” rated, which is a joint energy efficiency rating program between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, designed to save money and protect the environment.

“It’s our belief, and we feel that the computations by the company were appropriate, that there’s going to be a significant savings. Not only short term but long term,” Moore said.

Luis Montes, a faculty senator and assistant chair for the chemistry department in the College of Mathematics and Science, is willing to concede that the policy could save money for the university, if administrators would give him information he has been requesting since last November.

“There were some faculty who had some concerns about this as early as September,” Montes said.

“I tried to get some information from both purchasing and Information Technology, just calling different people and I was never given any information. The only information that I got was a copy of the proposal that Standley sends to departments for what equipment they have, but we never received any information about a cost benefit analysis that was done ... by any office.”

Montes drafted a resolution in the Faculty Senate that is requesting information regarding the new policy. The resolution also requests that IT respond in writing within one month of the passage of the resolution.

The resolution was introduced on Feb. 11 and was sent to

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UCOSA continued from page 1 the Information Resources and Technology senate committee, which suggested the resolution include a request for information from the Purchasing Department as well as IT. The committee will make its recommendation on whether to pass the resolution during its next meeting on March 11.

Montes did his own analysis and has determined that for the college computer lab it would cost $2,900 for printing under the new policy compared to the $1,680 that is currently spent, including the toner cartridges.

“I’m not saying that they necessarily made the wrong the decision ... in going with this, but we don’t know. From what we’re seeing here we have higher costs,” Montes said.

“And we would like to see the decision process that went into this.”

Officials of the Political Science Department also did their own cost analysis of their current printing habits versus the new printing policy with Standley and determined that their costs will increase approximately $800 a year under the new policy.

In an e-mail to Pamela Washington, the dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Dr. Louis Furmanski, the chair of the Political Science Department, said, “That represents a minimum 15-20 percent increase in costs to the portion of our E&G (Education and General funds) which goes to office supplies, etc. This is at a time when the university is being asked to reduce its budgets 5-7 percent per month. ... The impact this new contract would have on student printer usage in labs is beyond my abilities to analyze. But I suspect it would be quite significant as well.”

In a telephone interview with The Vista, Furmanski also expressed that he has not seen enough information from administration. “These calculations are based on information that I have. There may be other information that could result (in a different outcome),” he said.

Moore said the budget for departments that might see an increase that will ultimately be balanced out by the anticipated universitywide savings that the new policy will create. However, he did admit there may be some negative and unforeseen consequences for some departments.

“What we know is that we need to be cognizant of the fact that there may be some departments that won’t have this type of savings that we are anticipating and ... it could be detrimental to them,” Moore said.

“And so now at least we are aware of them. But I can’t tell you what it is we will do, but we will try ... but we are going to view that, and we are recognizing that there is something that we need to do for that. Part of the process is you can’t handle everything at once.”

Standley Systems is currently running pilot programs to see how to best implement the new policy in certain areas of the university. The company has already run the tests in the Physical Plant Department, the Administration Lillard building and DPS. Standley is currently developing a pilot program for academics but could not say when or where the tests would take place.

The company hopes to have the policy fully operational within the year.

“The repealing of the existing statute was much needed. It is not right at all for a governing entity to place restrictions on certain organizations because of their intended purpose or preamble.”

-Daniel Stockton

Lewis and Cole Stout, and Speaker of the House Matt Blubaugh.

Jenkins went on to say the new proposal, which he said is being pushed hardest by UCOSA Sen. Nathan Steele, could potentially limit such policy influencing student groups as the Gay Alliance for Tolerance and Equality, the UCO chapter of the NAACP, and even UCOSA. Steele did not return The Vista’s attempts to speak with him, but Jenkins did note he sees the motivation behind the forming legislation, which aims to offer an even financial playing field for all student organizations.

“I understand the reasoning that everyone would be on an equal playing field,” Jenkins said.

What Jenkins disagrees with is the new proposal’s potential to reward less deserving student clubs, claiming that the new legislation would give equal budget considerations to both the most active and most ineffective student organizations.

Stockton, who described himself as “happy” to sign SB 09201 into law, shared his views on the forming proposal in an e-mail from a conference in Dallas, Texas.

“The Financial Fairness Act is a great piece of legislation and has provided the senate with some much needed debate and stimulation,” Stockton said.

“The repealing of the existing statute was much needed. It is not right at all for a governing entity to place restrictions on certain organizations because of their intended purpose or preamble.”

Another concern in the camp against the Financial Fairness Act is that without the previous budget ties, one political group might be tempted by any financial advantage to use university funds on political lobbying.

Stockton, however, does not echo that sentiment.

“As a veteran of student funds and accounts, I do not share those concerns. Student funds have never and will never be used on ‘political lobbying,’” Stockton said.

Jenkins also said those against the Financial Fairness Act on the grounds of political lobbying woes were “trying to find a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist,” as it illegal by Oklahoma state law.

Stockton said he would be forced to veto any legislation that infringed on student groups’ ability to affect policy change at UCO. There is currently no timetable on when the proposal will be completed.

Campus

PARTS OF CAMPUS LOSE HEAT

By Tiffany Brown and Jenefar DeLeon / Staff Writers Last Friday after 4 p.m., an off-campus power line was cut by workers for the city of Edmond, causing four buildings on campus to be without heat on Monday.

The workers were trimming trees when they cut the line, but it did not result in a full power outage.

“Crews were working all weekend to get (the heat) back,” Adrienne Nobles, director of communications and marketing, said.

The city was waiting on parts that were expected to be in on Monday, and the university planned on having the heaters fully functioning Tuesday.

The Lillard Administration Building, Health and Physical Education, Evans Hall, and Health and Environmental Sciences were very cool on Monday.

Administrators did not expect the temperatures in the buildings to drop below 60 degrees.

The severed power line caused several heating units and blowers to fail. Several have to be completely replaced.

The Lillard Administration building had partial heat, but there was no heat for the basement of Evans and the first floors of HES and HPE. Employees and students were advised to wear extremely warm clothing on

Monday to help stay warm.

“It’s been a little cool, but it’s not too bad,” Patricia LaGrow, vice president of Academic Affairs, said.

LaGrow is one of several UCO faculty and staff members whose office is located in the Lillard Administration building.

Parts of the buildings are colder than others, but faculty, students and staff are coping with the cooler temperatures, she said.

Faculty members have been checking the thermometer, and temperatures have remained steady, LaGrow said.

“We’ve been doing really well,” LaGrow said. “People aren’t really complaining.” Everyone is working, just as they did when the heaters were not broken, she said.

UCO has a 20-year performance contract with Johnson Controls Inc. since 1993. The contract includes campus lighting, Central Plant upgrade, heating plant repairs and many more reported by the Johnson Controls Inc. Web site.

Employees of the UCO Physical Plant and partners at Johnson Controls Inc. have worked throughout the weekend to restore heat to all of the buildings on campus and to parts of the four buildings above.

“We really appreciate the work they have been doing to get the parts ordered and get the problem fixed,” LaGrow said.

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MAKE-UP ARTIST ADDS NEW TWIST TO CLASS

DIRECTOR PRODUCES BROADWAY TONIGHT

A dozen brushes, a palette of colors, and heat from the lights surrounding the mirror indicated students getting ready for the day’s makeup lesson.

With each student’s makeup station organized and ready to start, hairdresser and makeup artist Debra Reed opened up class with a twist. The five-minute introduction to the day led to a timed schedule for a themed contest.

The requirements were simple: create your own cupid makeup design. One would think it would consist of hearts, red glitter and a design of lovely aspects. Think again. Some students went the polar opposite of those happy thoughts and took the dark path for their designs.

Reed gave her students this design project two weeks ago. She explained that even though the Valentine’s mascot is known for love, he is also known for mischief.

“He would shoot one arrow of gold for love and another arrow of lead for death,” Reed said.

With that in mind, students were influenced on what kind of cupids they wanted to design. With only an hour of preparation, the students were under the pressure to have complete looks for the contest. Before they could start applying makeup, the students had to have their schematics approved.

“A schematic is like a road map for the face.

The more detail, the better,” Reed said.

As some students imitated their schematics to their faces, others improvised as they applied more and more colors. Kassie Carroll, senior music theater major, had a strong vision for her cupid. She researched the Chinese geisha from about 2,500 years ago. They were performers who sang and danced, and they were classified as prostitutes though some did not provide any sexual services.

“I wanted to interpret other cultures into my cupid,” Carroll said.

By the end of that short hour, there was a

variety of “cupids” in the dressing rooms of Mitchell Hall Theatre. From a cute love bug to the evil death cupid, the students were ready for the judging to begin. With a few theater faculty members judging, the students explained what kind of cupids they were. Student Michelle Waggoner described her cupid design as “if Tim Burton got his hand on cupid.”

After the winners were announced, Reed set up a small reception with appetizers, drinks and cookies that all tied in the theme of Valentine’s Day. Last semester as assistant teacher, Reed had a similar themed makeup contest class during Halloween. However, this is her first official semester teaching the Stage Makeup course at UCO.

“You are all on your own.

Be prepared, and there are no mistakes in makeup.

It is all about your imagination.”

As a hairdresser and makeup artist for OKC shows, Reed informs her students on how this class is beneficial to their careers. Kristina St. Clair, junior theater education major, said this class is greatly appreciated.

“This class gives me a variety of teaching skills that I can use than just acting. I don’t have to have someone to come in to do makeup for my shows,” St. Clair said Even though this class is required for all theater majors, it is open to anyone who is creative and has an imagination. Reed wants her students to understand there is no help out when you are getting ready for a show.

“You are all on your own. Be prepared, and there are no mistakes in makeup. It is all about your imagination,” Reed said.

Reed is teaching at UCO and doing hair and makeup for the show “Wizard of Oz” at the Civic Center Music Hall.

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Music theater director Greg White took part in the production of the recent play Changed Forever and the upcoming musical Pippin, which run in Mithcell Hall.

By Heather Aki / Contributor Music theater director Greg White’s first year back is nothing but a calendar filled with meetings and deadlines.

With one meeting after the other, White flips through his planner to see what is next on his agenda. Doodling in more conventions and looking for spare time, he hopes to cross out at least one task by the end of the day.

“My life is a calendar,” White said.

As music theater director since 2002, White is in charge of all events coming through the music theater department. From posting auditions for summer jobs on the call-board outside his office to making sure students are improving the minor details of acting, White keeps himself busy.

“The best thing about Greg is that he has such a strong, clear vision for his shows, but he doesn’t interfere with my creative process as a performer. It is truly a collaborative discovery. He doesn’t give you the right answers.

He asks the right questions,” recent graduate Hilary Finch said.

One thing after another, White accepts more responsibilities campus. This is his first year as producer of Broadway Tonight. This program presents five to six shows each year that consist of tours and concerts performed by actors who are renowned nationwide. For instance, Emmy Award-winner Ed Asner performed in November 2009 at Rose State College.

Broadway Tonight first became a part of UCO in 1998. Since then, the program has been a successful addition to the university grounds. As first-year producer, White has

some proposals in mind. One of them is to mingle Broadway Tonight and the music theater department. Bringing an actor who has been in the business for awhile to help or direct one of UCO’s shows is another one of White’s proposals. This could happen with actors or tech designers.

“This would be the best of both worlds. It would give students more types of opportunities and experiences,” White said.

Being an alumnus of UCO, White knows how the system of student life works. He has this proposal because he wants to give students what he did not experience while in school. Then students who get to experience doing a show with a professional can add it to their résumés when going to auditions or applying for jobs after graduation.

Another task that has to be dealt with annually is choosing the shows for the following season. White is not only deciding on next year’s music theater show season, but Broadway Tonight’s season as well. White’s decision making is based on his faculty and his environment. With the renovations of Mitchell Hall Theatre, White chose this performance season to complement the theater and the directors of the show. “High Society” was chosen because it has a 1940s classic look that went well with the sophistication of the theater. The spring shows were chosen based on the directors.

“I chose “Pippin” due to Steven Smeltzer telling his story through dance and the Andrew Lloyd Webber show because Nick Savarine has worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber himself,” White said.

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Edmond firefighters respond to a fire in the Art Building on the UCO campus early Friday evening. Jeffrey Harp, the executive director of police services at UCO, believes the fire was related to the brief campus wide blackout that happened just moments before the fire was reported.

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A Glimpse Around the World

Four week-old female African lion cubs are seen at the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010. Three new female cubs born last month in the Ramat Gan Safari have calmed fears from veterinarians of a pending reproductive disaster after a string of male-only births. In the past two years only male lions have been born, which combined with infighting and relocation of several lions had decreased the number from 50 lions to 20.

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PHOTO BY PIER PAOLO CITO

In this picture taken on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010, patient Miguel Angel, 37, peeks through a door at the “Vision en Accion” asylum in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The center was created with private donations by Jose Antonio Galvan, known as El Pastor, a born-again preacher, to take care of drug-addicted mentally ill people with no place to go in Juarez, a city that has been turned into a battle field by Mexico’s powerful drug cartels.

A man drives his motorcycle through a flooded street under heavy rain in Buenos Aires, Friday, Feb. 19, 2010.

Afghan soldiers kneel in formation next to U.S. soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, during conduct a dismounted patrol in the Badula Qulp area, West of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 19, 2010.

Getting the facts

Q&A WITH CHARLES CLARK Charles Clark has worked in the basement for 10 years. Find out why he does it and what has changed the most during that time.

Q: How long have you worked here?

A: Oh, let’s see. I’ve been here since November of 1999.

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I don’t… Can’t really think of anything. I mean, we’re kind of isolated here, so we don’t see a lot of outside stuff. I can’t think of anything that comes to mind.

So I’ve been here… a little over ten years.

Q:

How big of an impact on student mailing habits do you think the internet has had?

Q: Is this a mail center or an actual post office?

A: Well it’s not an actual post office. It’s… um… it’s

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Yeah, I’ve noticed some reduction in volume over run by the University. And… uh… we handle stamps and all the years. I’m, you know, I’m involved in it myself. So I can that stuff. But… uh… We aren’t an official- We used to be a see how it’s changed quite a bit. But uh… I don’t know how contract station, but not anymore. much you would say in volume. Uh… maybe a third. I don’t know. I mean, you know, the amount of mail. Now we get an You used to be? How long ago was that? awful lot of packages where students are sending stuff home, or parents are sending stuff to students. We get a lot of those.

Oh… That’s been five or six years ago.

Do you think there’s still fears about dangers being What was the reason for the change? sent in the mail? Such as anthrax.

Q: A: Q: A: Because of… Before, we had to pay rent on the boxes

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Oh yeah. We get information from the post office to the post office. So we bought the boxes, and this way it’s talking about suspicious mail, and that kind of stuff. There cheaper. It’s a better… it’s a better set-up for the university… was a lot more concern right after the 9/11 thing than there to make money off of the boxes. is now. We even had rubber gloves and that kind of stuff because of the anthrax scare.

Have you worked for USPS or anything before this?

Anything else you want to add?

Oh, I’m uhh… you know… I’m retired. That’s why I’m a part-timer. No, I did not work for the mail or the post You know, I like working part-time at the campus office before. here because it helps keep things structured… Makes me feel young.

What is the biggest change you’ve noticed on campus here in 10 years?

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Head coach Terry Evans talks to his UCO men’s squad last Wednesday night.

behind the arc in the second stanza.

Offensively, the Bronchos couldn’t play true to their identity as a three-point shooting team. UCO’s 27 percent from distance after intermission didn’t supply enough scoring to support a Broncho victory.

The 74-point total was the season’s second lowest for a team that led the LSC fourth nationally in scoring at 90.2

points per game entering the contest.

The Bronchos did manage to tie the game at 49, and again at 53, and even took a 56-53 lead when Eric Cazenave single handedly gave UCO a 5-0 run. Again though, the Bronchos fell back into a shooting slump, missing five of their next six shots in giving way to a 15-3 NSU run and game-high nine-point lead.

From there, NSU fought off the Bronchos, using a bit of home cooking in shooting 31 free throws, 21 in the second half, to UCO’s 13 for the entire contest.

“It just didn’t happen for us today. We weren’t consistent enough, both offensively and defensively, and NSU hit some big 3-pointers late when we were making a run. It’s a tough loss, but we’ll bounce back,” UCO head coach Terry Evans, said.

Evans’ Bronchos squandered another spectacular outing from Dauntae Williams, who had a game-high 29 points to go with five assists and three steals.

Cazenave had 16 points and six assists, and Rhymes had 16 points, six rebounds, and four assists.

UCO’s women found little but heartbreak in Tahlequah, either.

Their loss gave NSU the division lead, and the Bronchos have just two more games to make up ground in the LSC North.

Much like the men, the women found themselves in good position to set a school record by winning their 10th consecutive game, nursing a 27-25 with 4:14 left in the opening half. Also like the men, however, the women were put away when their offense disappeared, as UCO failed to score again until the 17:59 mark of the second half.

After eight straight misses and two turnovers mired the Bronchos into a 38-27 deficit, UCO would challenge only once.

A layup from Alyssa Fuxa brought the Bronchos within 48-42, but NSU responded with a 16-1 run to go up 6443, dashing any hopes of a UCO comeback.

“We missed a lot of easy shots and let them get too many open looks,” UCO head coach Guy Hardaker, said.

“The game got away from us a little bit at the end of the half, and we just couldn’t get it back.”

Ashley Beckley set the pace for the Bronchos, scoring 15 points and securing seven rebounds. Fuxa was the only other UCO player in double figures, scoring 12.

The men dropped to 20-5, including a now tarnished 9-1 mark in the LSC North, and the women fell to 19-6 overall and 10-2 in conference play.

UCO will play their final home games of the season on Wednesday night. They will play host to East Central University.

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SPORTS

Baseball

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UCO STUNS NO. 1 TEAM IN NATION

Ryan Schoonover (1) steps up to the plate in last Wednesday’s win over No. 1 Emporia State.

By Ryan Costello / Staff Writer One team was reeling, trying to defend its home turf for the first time after limping back from a lopsided series, losing three of four in Abilene, Texas. The other was the top-ranked team in the nation, their pit stop in Edmond just another stepping stone en route to yet another win on a thus far unblemished

season.

This was the task UCO faced in hosting the powerhouse Emporia State Hornets at Broncho Field on Wednesday.

The Bronchos, however, proved again there is no such thing as a free lunch, not even in sports, downing the nationally top-ranked Hornets by a final margin of 10 to eight.

As the one and only Chris Ber-

man would say, “That’s why they play the game.”

Taking advantage of an ESU fielding error in the first inning, the Bronchos scored four two-out runs on five hits. UCO catcher Brady White slapped a seeing-eye single to the right side to bring home two Bronchos, and was brought home himself two batters later when first baseman John Bryant singled to

right field.

UCO would score again in the third to bring their lead to 5-0 when third baseman Casey Bruns singled home one run.

Following an ESU score in the top of the fourth, the Bronchos answered back behind Taylor Brown’s RBI double and Luke Yost’s RBI sacrifice grounder, extending the Broncho lead to 7-1.

Again, UCO held the Hornets to just one run in the ESU half of the fifth inning, and again the Bronchos returned fire.

UCO took a 10-2 lead with three runs in the fifth on Taylor Brown’s RBI single and Tucker Brown’s tworun double. A sizeable lead at the time, the Bronchos would turn out to need every bit of it to gut out an upset win.

It was after the fifth that the Broncho scoring stopped and the ESU lineup started making contact. ESU scored two runs in the seventh and another four in the eighth inning, closing the gap to 10-8.

From there, the Bronchos could simply hold on, and riding the clutch pitching of Kale Murphree, the Bronchos did just that.

Murphree came into the game in eighth inning to close out the final two frames in relief of Austin Baker, who fell victim to an ESU onslaught, giving up four runs and retiring not a single Hornet batter. Murphree delivered though, striking out two and giving up just one hit in two in-

nings of shutout pitching. Murphree earned his first save of the season, inducing the final ESU hitter to tap a harmless groundball to shortstop Tucker Brown to finish the game off.

“That’s a great win and shows that we can compete with the best teams when we show up to play,” UCO head coach Wendell Simmons said “We really swung the bats well, made some big plays in the field and got some good pitching from a couple of guys.”

The Broncho offense was supplied by several hitters on Wednesday. Taylor Brown had four hits in five at bats, with two RBIs and two runs scored, narrowly outdueling brother Tucker Brown, who went three for five with two RBI and one run scored. White had one hit and two RBI in four at bats. Yost, Bruns and Bryant all finished with one RBI. Cade Kauk (1-0) earned his first win of the season, scattering two hits and two walks across three innings, and striking out one against a lineup that was averaging an even eleven runs per contest coming in.

The improbable win improved UCO’s record to 2-3 in the early goings.

After having a four-game set against East Central University canceled due to weather, the Bronchos next action is scheduled for today at 2:30 p.m. against the 2-4 Missouri Southern Lions.

Hockey

By Chris Wescott / Sports Editor The only thing that went No. 10 Central Oklahoma’s way this weekend was the fact the games didn’t count toward anything. The brackets are set for the playoffs, and nothing that happened in the bedlam series affected the impending No. 7 OU vs. No. 10 UCO matchup in Chicago. Win or lose, only pride was on the line. The big game takes place on March 6, just a week and some change away.

That doesn’t mean OU’s sweep of UCO didn’t hurt. The Sooners beat UCO 5-1 in front of an enormous crowd of rowdy Bronchos fans on Friday night in Edmond. They then held off the Bronchos’ comeback attempts, winning 4-2 on Saturday night in Oklahoma City.

Emotions ran high on Friday night, and that got the better of the Bronchos. This season has UCO’s first, true senior class. Only one senior graduated from the team last year; nine will graduate this season – the most in their four-year existence. Friday night was senior night, and the excitement in the air was palpable.

OU scored first, silencing the crowd and stunning the Bronchos early. That was when the ice seemed to tip in UCO’s favor. Patrick Biron fired a shot in goal with just more than a minute to go in the first period on a power play. The period

ended with the game tied and the crowd going crazy.

The second period was all Sooners. They took advantage of power plays, taking on UCO goaltender Justin Sgro with everything they had. They even applied shorthanded pressure when UCO had the man advantage. The second period ended with the Sooners having the 3-1 lead.

OU scored twice more in the third and final period and got the 5-1 victory. Despite making some highlight-reel saves, Sgro was harassed all night, and the Sooners never let up.

Aside from those few amazing saves and the lone Broncho goal, the only thing that really got the crowd going was an altercation between Kevin Fukala and several Sooner players. Fukala dropped the gloves and took on one OU player after another, then played to the crowd trying to get them back in the game.

Saturday night was a more exciting game. Once again the Sooners jumped on top early, but the Bronchos kept things close. With 2:41 remaining in the first, UCO scored, making the game 3-1.

In the second period, it was all Bronchos all the time. UCO stunned the OU crowd by scoring and drawing within one. But, it wasn’t the goal that silenced the Sooner fans, it was the inspired play by the Bronchos.

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NO. 10 BRONCHOS FALL TO NO. 7 SOONERS

Patrick Biron (25) and Tony Panizzo (10) battle the Sooners for the puck in Friday night’s 5-1 loss. UCO dropped to 24-12-2 on the season with the Sooner sweep. Their next game will be on March 6.

second period. They would not let up on the Sooner goaltender, constantly putting shots on net. It appeared to be a completely different UCO squad on the ice.

The Sooners, however, would be the only team to score again that night. Despite many attempts by UCO to get back on the board, the game ended with a 4-2 OU victory.

The Sooner sweep put UCO at 2-12 all-time against the University of Oklahoma. Though that may not bode well for the Bronchos heading into the playoffs, they always seem

to play better on the road, as well as in big games. You need not look any further than these past few weeks.

The Bronchos, fighting for a playoff spot and facing a near impossible challenge of four straight road games against top 10 teams, got it done. With their post-season bid on the line, UCO swept No. 10 Arizona State on the road, and No. 4 Illinois on the road.

Playing Oklahoma in Illinois may also be to the Bronchos’ advantage.

UCO currently has 14 players from the state of Illinois on their roster.

When they played at No. 4 Illinois a little more than a week ago, it was some of their most focused and determined hockey to date.

UCO next travels up to Chicago, Ill., to participate in the 2010 ACHA Men’s Division I National Tournament. The tournament takes place March 6-10. UCO plays Oklahoma on March 6, and then the winner of that game face the winner of No. 2 Penn State vs. No. 15 Canton on March 7. The tournament will be broadcast in its entirety live on http://fasthockey.com.

Basketball

BASKETBALL WINNING-STREAK COMES TO AN END

tally of 81-66.

The men saw their school-record All good things must come to an 16-game win streak evaporate at the end. What goes up must come down. worst of times. A win over the RivC’est la vie. Call it what you will, erHawks of NSU would have all but but the men and women of Broncho iced the Lone Star Conference North basketball both learned a tough les- race by giving the UCO a two-game son on Saturday, with both UCO win lead with just two games to play. Instreaks coming to an end on the road stead, the Bronchos find themselves in in Tahlequah, Okla. a dead heat to close out the season.

Both teams fell to division rival The Bronchos seemed well on their Northeastern State, the men by a score way to securing yet another win, when of 81-74, and the women by a final Chris Rhymes sent home an authorita-

By Ryan Costello / Staff Writer

tive slam dunk that gave UCO a 32-25 lead with 5:23 remaining in the first half.

It was then that UCO’s typically reliable, if not sometimes automatic shooters went cold.

NSU would close the half with a 7-0 run, with the Bronchos missing their final 10 shots of the opening stanza to open the door for the hosting RiverHawks.

NSU buried a three just 19 seconds into the second half, and the Bronchos

seemed to be back on their heels for most of the final twenty minutes. UCO couldn’t seem to gain enough momentum on defense, failing to string together several stops in succession and allowing the RedHawks to shoot 46 percent overall and 42 percent from

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