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FBI lab director to head Forensic Science Institute $5.7 million Institute to be completed by late 2006

by Trisha Evans Copy Editor The current director of the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Va. was named the new director of the UCO Forensic Science Institute Feb. 27 in Evans Hall.

Dr. Dwight Adams, UCO biology alumnus ’77, will begin his new job July 1 after a 23-year career with the FBI. Adams has served as the laboratory’s director since 2002.

“Not only will Dr. Adams bring instant international recognition to our Forensics Institute, but he also will bring a real passion for advances in forensic science,”

said UCO President Dr. W. Roger Webb. “There’s no doubt that his deep experience and his impact as a leader will help us build upon our forensic science curriculum.”

Dr. David von Minden, associate professor of chemistry, said Adams’ leadership will enhance the reputation of the school. He said Adams will bring good contacts and a network of other leaders in the field.

“He can only improve the state of the academic programs,” von Minden said.

Charlie Johnson, UCO News Bureau director, said UCO is in the planning stages for the $5.7 million institute that will be built across Second Street from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Forensics Laboratory, which is currently under construction.

Construction is scheduled to begin on UCO’s Forensic Science Institute in November or December,

Johnson said.

Adams developed the Bioforensics Analysis Center in association with the Department of Homeland Security to help the FBI in terrorism cases involving weapons of mass destruction, Johnson said.

To provide the United States with intelligence, Adams created the Terrorist Explosives Device Analytical Center to analyze improvised explosive devices coming out of countries all over the world, especially Iraq and Afghanistan, Johnson said.

Von Minden said around 175 undergraduates and 50 graduate students are in the forensic science program, a program UCO has had for more than 30 years.

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

Chancellor dies of brain cancer

by Nathan Winfrey Senior Staff Writer Dr. Hans Brisch, chancellor emeritus of the Oklahoma State Regents of Higher Education, died Feb. 22 of brain cancer.

During his 16 years as chief executive officer, Brisch led statewide programs that incorporated more than two dozen state colleges and universities, as well as various other agencies and higher education centers.

“You could see his heart in

his work,” said Brenda Reneau, Oklahoma Labor Commissioner. “I knew him professionally and personally, and I had a great deal of respect for him.”

“Dr. Brisch was an enthusiastic naturalized American,” said Ben Hardcastle of the Oklahoma Board of Regents. “He came over to the U.S. at the age of 17 out of the poverty of post-war Germany.”

“He made a life for himself with his devotion to scholarship and service,” Hardcastle said.

Hardcastle said Brisch’s inter-

ests were primarily and exclusively in students, and that he was instrumental in the establishment of several financial aid programs, such as the Chancellor’s Scholarship Fund and the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program.

“He is influencing the lives of, really, tens of thousands of young people,” Hardcastle said.

Patrick McGuigan, Deputy Commissioner of the Oklahoma Department of Labor, said he had

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UCO President W. Roger Webb introduces Dr. Dwight Adams as the new director of the

see BRISCH, page 11 UCO Forensic Science Institute Feb. 28 in Evans Hall.

Students contribute to 'idea fair'

Dancing for Diplomas

by Alex Gambill Staff Writer The UCO administration held one of many “Good 2 Great” idea fairs for students to design the university’s future Feb. 27 in the Nigh University Center.

Steve Kreidler, vice president of Administration, said he’s held about 15 idea fairs this semester for the program.

He asked students what the university should offer or change to better the itself.

“I would like a study abroad program through UCO,” said Becca Roach, biology senior.

Ben Lynch, biology freshman, said he would like UCO to offer doctoral programs.

Roach expressed a need for a

student union so students could have a place to socialize and feel more connected to UCO, especially for students that commute. Kreidler said many students have asked for a student union.

“The problem with the student union here…is that you want a place to be seen and a place to sit, you want a place to hang,” said Dr. Robert Epstein, assistant vice president of Administration. “We don’t have that here, I mean it’s very uncomfortable to do that anywhere in this building (Nigh University Center) in its current state.”

“If students don’t get plugged in their first semester or even their second semester, they

think they’ve got to go somewhere else,” Lynch said.

He said freshmen leave UCO if they don’t feel like they connect socially.

Lynch said the university should host more big events, like concerts. He said it could be used as a recruiting tool, but at the same time give students entertainment on campus.

Lane Perry, graduate student and assistant to Kreidler, said university culture is defined by good memories, and more events on campus would help publicize UCO. Students said it would be great if UCO had a campus corner and places to hang out on

see IDEAS, page 7

Brit rockers Coldplay make tour stop in Oklahoma City

by Nathan Winfrey Senior Staff Writer

by Heather Warlick Staff Writer

UCO students have many different part time jobs to help them get through college, but some of them do not feel comfortable talking about their work.

Some do not even use their real names at work, choosing

stage names instead. Kendall and Marley are two good examples.

They are exotic dancers.

Full time students, these women make a living stripping. Kendall, 26 and Marley, 28, said at least five other women they work with are UCO students, and that danc-

ers are not what they are cracked up to be.

“Most people think that dancers are sluts, drug addicts, prostitutes and unfit mothers,” said Marley, public relations senior. “The majority of us would rather be broke and

see DANCING, page 7

Thousands of music fans invaded Bricktown Feb. 27 for the Oklahoma stop of the global Twisted Logic Tour, featuring British superstars Coldplay and special guest Fiona Apple.

The district was filled to bursting, and the streets swarmed with people. Sonic and canal-side eateries spilled patrons onto the street, and the Bricktown Brewery and Tapwerks were a barely navi-

A man and his wheel

The healing power of made-up words

Kinesiology senior Peder Angell, known simply as 'Cain,' shows his enthusiasm for unicycling in UCO's new club.

UCO graduate student Mark Brennaman takes made-up words and features them on his website, 'Witwords.com.' Brennaman started the site as a way to deal with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

See Sports pg. 14

See Entertainment pg. 11

gable maze of bustling concertgoers with rock T’s, blazers and beer steins. Hopeful scalpers waved suspicious tickets in the air and shouted out prices as the throng funneled itself into the front doors of the Ford Center.

Up a crowded escalator and past a half-dozen vendors and a merchandise table, concrete tunnels led to the concert hall and chock-a-block seating where legroom was a luxury and hearing your neighbor nearly impossible. The Ford Center seats more than 20,000 people for

concerts and that night empty seats were rare.

A hush came over the crowd as the lights shut off and spotlights crisscrossed through the foggy concert hall. Then Fiona Apple, wearing a black dress and a white sash, unceremoniously walked up the steps to the stage with her band.

The vegan, green-eyed songstress performed songs from her newest album, the long-delayed 2005 release “Extraordinary

see COLDPLAY, page 10

MLK III speaks at UCO

The son of famed civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. visits UCO to give a speech titled, "My Father's Dream, My Mission."

See News pg. 3

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Opinion

March 2, 2006

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STAFF EDITORIAL Squeezed by textbook publishers and booksellers, UCO students face overpriced textbooks and under priced sellbacks every semester.

A report issued by the U.S Accountability Office in July 2005 said textbook prices increased at six percent every year between 1986 and 2004. As a result, UCO students have to find new ways to pay for books. Some students have turned to online sources while others have resorted to selling their books back for a pittance of what they are worth.

Local bookstores claim they

mark up books 20 to 30 percent from the publisher’s price to make a profit because publishers jack up their prices every other semester. Some UCO professors who have authored textbooks said used book sales are hurting the publishing industry.

In order for publishers to stay in business they must come out with new editions, which most booksellers can’t resell. It costs publishers more money to print these new editions causing the price of the textbooks to increase.

For example, on www.amazon. com “The Conceptual Physical

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Winter weather calls for comfort rituals. A hot cup of coffee, steaming bowls of chicken soup and morning oatmeal are what we have to look forward to as daily reprieve from the outdoor chill. Sneaking a cigarette break has many students braving the weather as they dash to their cars or huddle in doorways, a habit that also makes them more likely to catch a cold this season. More direct correlations, ranging from cancer to tooth decay, are associated with all tobacco use, but particularly

to smoking.

If you’ve reached 18 without forming the habit, chances are you won’t wake up on an ordinary Thursday and decide to give it a try. The most at-risk group is composed of those who began in their teens and have continued, making long-term results significant possibilities.

Social smokers classify themselves as occasionally sampling a cigarette at a party or bar, but immediate as well as cumulative damage is still present.

Carbon monoxide, urea, and

Science” book, required for UCO physical science classes, increased by about $12 from the second edition to the third edition.

According to the U.S Accountability Report the main reason for the price increase is that publishing companies add materials like CD-ROMs and other instructional supplements.

As prices on materials increase, publishers have to increase the price of their textbooks.

An article published on www. salon.com said 20 percent of a publisher’s budget for each book pays for the materials needed for

hydrogen cyanide are just a few of more than 4,000 chemical compounds present in cigarettes, components also found in car exhaust, urine and rat poison.

Their presence in breast milk is currently being studied to measure its effects on early childhood development, and specific fetal anomalies have long been confirmed.

Brands marketed as “light” contain only marginal differences in tar and nicotine content.

According to the National Cancer Institute, someone dies from a smoking-related disease every eight seconds. The foremost cause of preventable death in the United States, smoking accounts for about one-third of all fatal cancer cases, including lung, esophageal, cervical and pancreatic tumors. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention links significantly higher rates of heart attack, chronic obstructive pulmonary

the book, including paper and printing costs. Then they have to pay for staff salaries, cuts for the distributors, booksellers and promoting costs.

Despite the excuses from both sides, the annual increase on textbooks is unnecessary.

As long as bookstores and publishers point the blame at each other instead of taking responsibility, there will be no end to price gouging.

Publishers need to quit adding unnecessary materials to increase textbook prices, and booksellers need to start buying books back

disease (COPED), ulcers and stroke with smoking just three cigarettes a day.

Second-hand smoke also puts non-smokers at risk for the same conditions, and about 50,000 people die annually from exposure without ever having touched a cigarette.

Elderly relatives probably come to mind at the mention of oxygen equipment and chronic illness. Despite media attention focused on the latter topics, the risks really aren’t tangible to the average college student and their advent seems decades away at best.

School prevention programs and mediocre ad campaigns have partially instilled the concept that smoking is unhealthy, but young people seem hard pressed to define exactly why.

Shortness of breath long precedes other lung ailments, and participating in organized sports or engaging in routine physical activity can be a challenge.

The principal cause of cataracts is smoking, which can weaken

for their full worth, unless they are damaged. At the same time, professors and students need to compare the prices of different books at several stores before ordering and buying.

Courtney Bryce, Managing Editor

Courtney Bryce can be reached at cbryce@thevistaonline.com.

your eyesight, forcing you to smoke-free hours allow your use glasses at a younger age and lungs to start a cleansing proeventually needing surgery. cess and all nicotine is out of the Aesthetic changes are notice- body within two days. You’ll able among social smokers as notice improved circulation and well as pack-a-day devotees. less problems breathing over You may also start to notice the next six months.

Five premature aging, including fine smoke-free years will cut your facial wrinkles, exposed veins risk of heart attack and cancer on the hands or arms and sal- in half, while ten restores both low skin. Yellow, brittle nails to the levels of a person who need more than a manicure, and has never smoked. no amount of whitening proceMethods of kicking the habit dures can fully restore damaged span from hypnosis to patches, teeth. More severe dental prob- pills, and nicotine gums and lems often accompany chronic a ready supply of old wives’ bad breath and gum disease. tales contribute to popular Hair often takes on a dry texture advice. For legitimate steps and smoke can alter its color. and professional support, call The cost of an average pack the American Cancer Society’s of cigarettes ranges from $4 to toll free number, 1-800-ACS$7, not including related tobac- 2345 or visit their website at co taxes. Financial aspects www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/ alone often influence people’s content/PED_10_13X_Guide_ decision to quit, a process that for_Quitting_Smoking.asp requires willpower but proffers immediate benefits to your wallet as well as your well being.

Blood pressure and pulse return to normal 20 minutes after Callie A. Collins can be reached at your last cigarette. Twenty-four ccollins@thevistaonline.com.

CAMPUS QUOTES: The first wave of spring weather has arrived.

Compiled and photographed by Travis Marak & Midori Sasaki.

What will you do to enjoy the outdoors this week?

“Probably take a nap on one of those benches instead of going to class.”

“I'll be practicing all day, but maybe I'll go play some tennis.”

“I'll probably run and take my dog for a walk.”

“I might have a little picnic with my daughter.”

Drew Kemp

Spencer Jones

Whittney Johnson

Kentrell Gaddis

English, junior

Music, freshman

Biology, junior

General studies, senior

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Martin Luther King III focuses on poverty, racism in speech that she could get better. Then a couple months back when we were told that she had canDr. Martin Luther King III cer, we still were holding the spoke to an audience of about thought that she could over500 people the last day of Black come even that burden.

History Month, Feb.28.

"There is a process of grievHis speech was titled, “The ing that we all must go through Dream Lives On...” and focused when we lose a loved one. No on three major issues his father, one can tell how long that prothe late Martin Luther King Jr., cess will be,” he said. championed: poverty, racism The program began with a and violence. poetry reading by UCO student He was originally sched- Ty Smith entitled “Sanctified uled to speak Feb. 2, but the to be Unified” and a perforpassing of his mother, Coretta mance by the UCO Ebony Scott King, Jan. 30, delayed his Gospel Choir, directed by plans.

UCO student, Phillip Thomas.

“While we knew that there Following an introduction by was always the possibility of Dr. William Radke, vice presiher passing, it is normal and dent for Academic Affairs, King natural to retain hope and to took the podium and began his always believe that she was lecture. going to get better,” King said.

“Often times I have asked “When she first had her stroke the question, ‘have we achieved five months ago, we were told the dream of Martin Luther King Jr.,’” King said. His answer was that in some areas we have achieved the dream but in many we have not.

“We have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways but more narrow minds.

We spend more but have less,” King said. “We have more degrees and less sense; more experts and more problems.

by Vista photographer Brett Deering We’ve cleaned the air but polCedric Ford, Midwest City, asks Martin Luther luted our souls.

King III what citizens can do to keep the issue We have fancier of Hurricane Katrina survivors "fresh" on the houses but brominds of government officials. ken homes.”

by Heather Warlick Staff Writer

King said his father and mother had a vision for the nation where love, justice and equality would exist for all humankind.

“There is something wrong when a nation has the inordinate amount of wealth that this nation has and yet has the audacity to have 36 million people living in poverty. That is unacceptable,” King said.

Some may think Americans have overcome racism, King said, but it still exists prevalently, especially in education.

“Quite frankly, American history is taught from a white European perspective which excludes native Americans, Latin or Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans and Eastern Americans,” he said.

“There is something wrong when a nation has the inordinate amount of wealth that this nation has and yet has the audacity to have 36 million people living in poverty. That is unacceptable.”

Martin Luther King III

It is not just racism, he said, but “classism.”

“We often used to say, lift yourself up by your own bootstraps. That’s an insult to say to a bootless person,” King said.

King said he believes the United States should be able to provide health care for every citizen and that corporate downsizing, outsourcing and bankruptcies contribute to

the unemployment levels in the United States.

His ideal of non-violence is paramount in his belief that the United States has handled the war with Iraq improperly. He said the death toll in Iraq is now near 200,000 and the cost of maintaining the war is unconscionable.

The cost of war, he said, prevents the United States from providing the basic tools of education, and that “every kid we know is being left behind.”

“We spend an inordinate amount of money on death and destruction. We have weapons systems today that we might never use,” King said. “We could blow up the world. We have nuclear capacity that could kill all of us but leave the buildings standing.”

People are products of their environment, he said, and until they change what they consume, society is going to continue to be violent. People are programmed to be violent and they don’t even realize it, he said.

“Ultimately we must find a way to reduce and eradicate poverty,” King said. “We can and must find a way to minimize racism and sexism. We can reduce violence and live in a nation where love and peace exists.”

He called on young women and men who believe in the ideals his father preached to carry on the torch.

“We know that a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. So we must decide if we are going to be the thermometers or thermostats of society,” he said.

A thermometer records the temperature, but the thermostat regulates the temperature.

People have the ability to either

by Vista photographer Brett Deering

Martin Luther King III responds to a student's question about the state of black families in the U.S. Feb. 28 in the Nigh University Center ballroom. conform to the rules society and I think that he showed that dictates, or to change them, he he is not afraid to tell his side of said. the story,” said Joe Thomas, vice “Sometimes we must take president of the Black Students positions that are neither safe, Association. “He stands by his nor popular, but we must take views and I think that gives those positions because our students motivation.” conscious says its right.”

The event was sponsored by A candlelight remembrance the Black Student Association, march, led by the Ebony Gospel the Diversity Round Table Choir, followed King’s speech. and the Student Programming “It was a great honor and a Board. Student organizers preprivilege, and we thank God sented King with a framed for the opportunity to be able illustration of the Oklahoma to bless him through song. Not City National Memorial and very many people get to be a Museum pond as a token of part of something like this,” appreciation for his visit. choir member Aldon Buggs Heather Warlick can be reached at said.

“I enjoyed the speech a lot, hwarlick@thevistaonline.com.

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Bombings in Baghdad, mortar fire in nearby town kill 30 in Iraq

by Sameer N. Yacoub AP Writer

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Bombings in Baghdad killed 26 people and four others died when mortar rounds slammed into their homes in a nearby town Wednesday, the second day of surging violence after authorities lifted a curfew that briefly calmed sectarian attacks.

Saddam Hussein’s trial resumed, with the former leader telling judges he ordered the trials of Shiites who eventually were executed in the 1980s and said their lands should be confiscated, but he insisted that those actions were not criminal.

The trial then was adjourned until March 12.

A spokesman for the powerful Association of Muslim Scholars blasted the government for failing to stanch sectarian attacks that have pushed the country closer to civil war.

“It is clear that the government and its security forces are incapable of taking any action,” said Abdul-Salam al-Kubaisi, a spokesman for the Sunni clerical group.

Government forces should “do their duty and withdraw to the Green Zone,” he said, implying Iraqi troops needed protection from American forces in the heavily fortified area of central Baghdad that houses the U.S. Embassy and the Iraqi government.

Al-Kubaisi denied Sunnis were behind the latest attacks, saying Shiite politicians and religious leaders were trying to inflame sectarian hatred “to make use of these events and everything in this country to achieve one goal -- to serve their future interests.”

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Samarra, 60 miles north of affairs teams would help with east Baghdad -- killed at least Also Wednesday, mortar Baghdad. repairs.

23 people and wounded 58, shells fell on three houses in The government said 379 On Tuesday, Sunnis and according to police Lt. Thaer the mixed Sunni-Shiite town of people had been killed and 458 Shiites in Baghdad traded Mahmoud.

Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south injured as of Tuesday afternoon bombings and mortar fire About an hour earlier, a bomb of Baghdad, killing three civil- in nearly a week of sectarian mainly at religious targets, killhidden under a car detonated ians, police Capt. Rashid al- violence tied to the Askariya ing at least 68 people. Those as a police patrol passed near Samaraie said. A fifth mortar bombing. Another 30 died attacks came after authorities downtown Tahrir Square, said shell slammed into the mixed Wednesday. on Monday lifted curfews and Interior Ministry Maj. Falah al- Qadisiyah neighborhood in west On Tuesday, President other restrictions.

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Late Tuesday, police reported finding the body of Shiite cleric Hani Hadi handcuffed, blindfolded and shot in the head near a Sunni mosque in Baghdad’s notorious Dora neighborhood.

In the Saddam trial, the chief prosecutor showed documents on an overhead screen outlining the bureaucracy behind a crackdown that led to the imprisonment of nearly 400 people and the executions of 148 people following a 1982 attempt on Saddam’s life in the town of Dujail.

Three of the defendants denied sending handwritten letters to the Interior Ministry informing on Dujail families linked to a Shiite opposition militia accused in the assassination attempt.

Saddam also said his codefendants should be freed because they simply were following his orders.

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Bush says U.S. will stick by Afghanistan, predicts capture of bin Laden

by Terence Hunt AP Writer President Bush, on an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, vowed Wednesday to stand by this emerging democracy and “not cut and run” in the face of rising violence. He also predicted Osama bin Laden would be captured despite a futile fiveyear hunt.

“I’m confident he will be brought to justice,” Bush said, standing alongside Afghan President Hamid Karzai outside the presidential palace.

Bush also rallied U.S. troops and expressed solidarity with Karzai’s U.S.-backed government in a surprise visit of just over four hours at the onset of a South Asia trip.

He later flew to New Delhi, India, where tens of thousands of Indians demonstrated Wednesday against his visit, and was visiting Pakistan later in the week.

Bush pledged that bin Laden, the al-Qaida leader, and other planners of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks would be caught.

“It’s not a matter of if they’re captured and brought to justice, it’s when they’re brought to justice,” Bush said.

It was the first presidential visit to Afghanistan since the United States routed the Taliban and began a thus far fruitless five-year search for bin laden in the region.

Bin Laden is believed to be hiding out somewhere along the mountainous AfghanistanPakistan border.

Bush held a working lunch with Karzai and other Afghan leaders, attended a ribboncutting ceremony at the U.S. embassy in Kabul and spoke to U.S. troops at Bagram Air Base.

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U.S. President George W. Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai give a joint press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan March 1. Bush made a surprise visit to Afghanistan ahead of his trips to India and Pakistan.

“People all over the world are watching the experience here in Afghanistan,” Bush said, praising Karzai as “a friend and an ally.”

Karzai took power after U.S.led forces overthrew the Taliban regime. But Taliban insurgents

and al-Qaida militants have been increasing attacks within Afghanistan in recent months.

The director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, told a congressional hearing in Washington on Tuesday that

the insurgency was still growing and posed a greater threat to Karzai’s government “than at any point since late 2001.”

Karzai greeted Bush as “our great friend, our great supporter, a man who helped us liberate.”

Turning to his three-day visit

to India, Bush said the United States and Indian government still have not reached a deal over U.S. help for India’s civilian nuclear program.

“This is a difficult issue,” he said. Negotiations were continuing, Bush said.

“Hopefully we can reach an agreement,” Bush said. “If not, we’ll continue to work on it until we do.”

U.S. restrictions on providing nuclear assistance to India, slapped on after back-to-back nuclear weapons tests by India and Pakistan in 1998, remain in place.

Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signed an agreement in July that would provide India with nuclear fuel for the country’s booming but energy-starved economy.

But the pact faces some political opposition in both countries, mostly over determining how to separate India’s civilian and military nuclear facilities.

Asked about the search for bin Laden, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States, and of the president’s long-ago call for getting him “dead or alive,” Bush said the search for bin Laden and his associates continues.

“We’ve got U.S. forces on the hunt for not only bin Laden but anybody who plots and plans with bin Laden,” Bush said.

“There are Afghan forces on the hunt. ... We’ve got Pakistan forces on the hunt.”

Bush’s entourage flew into the city from Bagram in a flock of heavily armed helicopters.

Two door gunners on a press helicopter fired off a short burst of machine gun fire at unknown targets as the aircraft flew low and fast over barren, rugged countryside.

Before leaving Afghanistan, Bush gave a pep talk to U.S. troops at the air base. Speaking to about 500 soldiers in a huge recreational tent, Bush expressed resolve at the U.S. mission here.

“I assure you this government of yours will not blink, we will not yield. ...The United States is not cut and run,” Bush said to enthusiastic cheers and applause.

There are about 19,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a number Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has said would be reduced to about 16,000 by summer.

At the ceremonial ribboncutting ceremony, Bush told U.S. embassy workers they were “on the front line of freedom’s march.”

Suspicion that al-Qaida and Taliban militants may be using Pakistan as base for launching terror strikes in Afghanistan has become a source of tension in relations with Afghanistan.

More than two dozen suicide attacks in recent months have fueled Afghan suspicions.

Bush said that, when he is in Pakistan later this week, he will raise the issue of cross-border infiltrations with Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf.

Meanwhile, Pakistani security forces backed by helicopter gunships struck a militant training camp earlier Wednesday in a tribal region on Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing or wounding at least 25 militants, an official said.

Bush was accompanied by his wife, Laura, who visited Afghanistan in April 2005. Vice President Dick Cheney visited there in December 2005.

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CAMPUS ANNOUNCEMENTS n Alpha Xi Delta sorority and Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity will host Comedy Night with comedian Steve Hofstetter from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. March 6 in Ballroom C of the Nigh University Center. Proceeds will benefit the Make a Wish Foundation.

Student tickets can be purchased for $5 at booths set up in the Education and Liberal Arts Buildings all week.

For more information call 201-4563. n The International Student Council will host International Women’s Day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 6 in Ballroom C at the Nigh University Center. Proceeds will benefit the UCO International Women’s Scholarship Fund. For more information call 9742131. n Tomorrow’s Alcohol and Drug Counselors of America will be hosting Lean on Me, A Journey to Recovery and Life from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. March 6 in Pegasus Theater in the Liberal Arts Building. There will be music, a panel discussion, vignettes of a mock intervention, and personal stories from people in recovery. For more information contact Pam Hilliard at 819-6859. n The UCO Swing Dance Club offers free dance lessons from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. and dancing from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. every Thursday in Room 202 of the Nigh University Center.

A partner and prior experience are not required. For more information contact Dr. Billye Hansen at 974-2483. n Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity will host Dodge Ball Cancer at 12 p.m. March 26 in the Wellness Center.

Proceeds will benefit the Lance Armstrong Foundation. The cost is $30 for a sixmember team. Forms are due by March 22.

For more information call Trevor Byrkit at 206-6726 or Jeremiah Esterline at 3138536. n Applications for Student Leadership Awards, Student Organization Awards and nominations for Sponsor or Adviser of the Year are due at 5 p.m. March 8 in Room 424 of the Nigh University Center.

P LICE BRIEFS BURGLARY 11:02 a.m., Feb. 21 A burglary from Central Plaza, 930 E. Second Street, was reported to DPS. INFORMATIONAL 4:45 p.m., Feb. 26 A student reported fraudulent charges on his bank card.

LIQUOR LAW VIOLATION 2:30 a.m., Feb. 24 Officers confiscated drug

paraphernalia, marijuana and alcohol from three students in Murdaugh Hall while performing a welfare check.

Hall.

HARASSMENT 10:30 p.m., Feb. 21 A student reported being harassed in the Music Building.

TRAFFIC 12:15 p.m., Feb. 21 An officer observed a reckless driver in the parking lot west of the Edmond Chamber of Commerce, and the driver refused to stop when ordered.

SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY 8:02 p.m., Feb. 21 A student was illegally burning trash on the west side of West

7:54 p.m., Feb. 26 DPS stopped a vehicle at Washington and Ayers. The driver was under suspension,

had an expired tag, no valid insurance and warrants.

10:05 p.m., Feb. 26 Officers made a warrant arrest at University and Main.

VANDALISM/ DESTRUCTION/DAMAGE 9:23 p.m., Feb. 24 DPS responded to an attempted break-in at the Broncho II Apartments, 600 N. Chowning Ave.

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News Forensic science students conduct 'Child ID Project'

by Nathan Winfrey Senior Staff Writer The UCO Student Academy of Forensic Science conducted a Child ID Project Feb. 16 designed to help authorities locate missing children.

Christy Smith of the UCO Child Development Center said the students took finger prints and mouth swabs from the children as their parents picked them up.

Amber Cook, graduate president of SAFS, said the swabs collected DNA samples from the cells inside of the children’s cheeks. The students also took digital pictures of the children.

The samples were placed inside an envelope and given to the parents, who filled out personal information forms inside the Missing Information

on Lost Kids packets. Nick Ylla of Farmers Insurance Group brought the packets and helped distribute them.

“Everything that was collected was given to the parents in case their child became missing. Since this is a parent’s worst nightmare, we at SAFS wanted to help the parents be prepared and be able to hand over all this to their local police department,” Cook said.

Cook said the Child ID Project was born from SAFS’s desire to help the Edmond community with its forensic skills. About 14 volunteers were present, and 25 of the 40 children enrolled at the Child Development Center participated, all with their parents’ consent.

“Nothing was done unless the parents were OK with it,” Cook said.

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Carson Carpenter, 3, enjoys a sucker as he gets fingerprinted Feb. 16 in the Human Environmental Sciences Building.

John Cramer of the Crime Prevention Unit of the Edmond Police Department was also present to answer parents’ questions.

“All the volunteers that were there felt that this was a great

success and want to continue this again next year,” Cook said.

Nathan Winfrey can be reached at nwinfrey@thevistaonline.com.

IDEAS from page 1 campus that are open 24 hours.

“We’ve been trying to assess what we’re good at today,” Kreidler said, “and we’ve been having sessions like these to find out what our hopes and dreams are.”

Kreidler said all the student input would be given to UCO’s executive committee for future university planning.

He said UCO will create an “audacious goal” to enhance students’ connections to the campus and to create the best university possible.

To submit an idea to better UCO, log in to Uconnect and click the Good 2 Great tab.

by Vista photographer Travis Marak

Ben Lynch, left, biology freshman, and Becca Roach, biology senior, talk with Steve Kreidler about ways to improve UCO at the Good to Great idea fair in the Nigh University Center Feb. 27.

Alex Gambill can be reached at agambill@thevistaonline.com.

homeless and starving than to prostitute ourselves.”

A Navy veteran, Marley used the GI Bill of Rights to finance her first two years of college. She received $15,000 from the military fund, but said she makes an average of $1,500 a week dancing.

“We get in there and treat it as a job because that’s what it is, its not prostitution,” Marley said.

Kendall said she doesn’t feel comfortable telling her classmates what she does for a living but it is more common than most people think.

Kendall and Marley estimate that 30 percent of the dancers at their club are either current college students or have already graduated.

“People are prejudiced like we are a class or a race, but we are people just like anyone else and we deserve to be seen in a better light,” Kendall said.

“It’s a territory that no one wants to talk about. It’s a taboo in our society.”

Jenn is another dancer who attends UCO full time. She is the mother of two boys, both under five years old. She said the thing that hurts her most is when people think of her as an unfit mother. She said she is actively involved in her children’s lives and is a member of the school PTA. “I am a great mother because I have time to spend with my boys and money to provide for them,” Jenn said. “But when people find out what I do for a living, they instantly judge me. I think they feel sorry for my boys.”

She said she usually tells people, including her sons, that she is a waitress. She only

tells her closest friends what she really does.

She said very few strippers like their jobs, but they get addicted to the money.

When she graduates and gets a “straight job”, she said she knows that she will not make as much money as she does dancing.

“Sometimes I worry about that, but I think that having my education will make it worth it,” Jenn said.

Many perils exist in the business of exotic dancing.

Kendall still thinks about the time a customer at one local strip club shot one of the dancers in the face because she wasn’t interested in him. The girl lived, but is paralyzed.

“There are a lot of weird guys that hate women and that would be an ideal place to go,” Kendall said. “Another thing you want to worry about is cops. You can get popped with some kind of sex charge that can stay with you for the rest of your life.”

In Oklahoma, there are strict rules governing the stripping business, and police take them very seriously. The customers, however, continuously proposition the dancers for sex, Marley said.

“It offends us just like it would any woman when we get propositioned,” she said.

“I wouldn’t recommend that a girl get into this,” Jenn said, “but I do wish that people would lighten up. We are not doing anything illegal, and it’s not anyone’s place to look down on us.”

Heather Warlick can be reached at hwarlick@thevistaonline.com.

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'Vagina' to raise funds, promote domestic violence awareness Students sell tickets to 'Vagina Monologues'

by Heather Warlick Staff Writer A benefit production of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” will raise funds for the Young Women’s Christian Association and The Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. Three performances will be held at 7 p.m. March 6-8 in Constitution Hall.

Created by Ensler, V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls.

Usually observed in February, the V stands for Valentine, victory and vagina.

“I think that it’s a wonderful cause to protect women and children and for people to just be aware of the violence that goes on in our society,” said Marcia Holden, early childhood education major. “It tells women to think of themselves in a more positive way. The word vagina is not a dirty word.”

Holden will be acting in “The Vagina Monologues” along with 15 other student actresses playing various roles from a 6-year-old girl to a mother who

by Vista photographer Midori Sasaki

Stevie Lorance, philosopy senior, left, and Tre Ronne, general studies senior, explain to Chase Bessonett, broadcasting junior, about 'The Vagina Monolouge' by Broncho Lake Feb. 28. watches her daughter-in-law give birth.

“As ‘The Vagina Monologues’ and other oppor-

tunities for women to dialogue happen, women become

advocate and advocate for their sisters in helping them escape from domestic violence situations,” said Penny Hampton, director of adult services for the YWCA of Oklahoma City.

“It promotes awareness, but I feel we could always do more.

Domestic violence is one of those family secrets that are kept hidden away and anything we can do to bring it to the forefront of people’s consciousness is important,” Hampton said.

Statistics from the coalition indicate that a rape is reported every five and a half hours in Oklahoma, and domestic violence is reported every 20 minutes. Since only 16 percent of sex crimes are reported to police, these numbers represent a small portion of the big picture, Hampton said.

Projects like “The Vagina Monologues” help fund organizations like the YWCA, but more state funding is needed, she said. House bills 2561 and 2437 which could increase funding by allowing for an income tax earmark are in committee.

Tickets for “The Vagina Monologues” cost $5 for students and $7 for general admission.

aware of what domestic vio- Heather Warlick can be reached at lence is and are able to self- hwarlick@thevistaonline.com.

News station recieves $150,000 grant to digitalize broadcasting dept.

by Mark Hall Staff Writer UCO’s news station, Channel 22, received a $150,000 grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation in February.

The money from the grant plus another $150,000 from funds generated from a contract with the city of Edmond for broadcast services will be used to begin digitalizing the broadcast department.

“The equipment is old and it needs to be updated,” said Dr. Terry M. Clark, chairman of the Mass Communication Department.

The original estimates of the upgrade were approximately $500,000. Fund-raisers are being set up to raise additional funds for the upgrade. Student tuition and funds will not be raised to pay for the upgrades.

Clark said that the changes to the broadcast department will begin to take effect within a year and a half, and he would like to see them finished within two years.

To help with these changes, the department is in the process of hiring a general manager for the news station. Clark said he would like for the general manager to be hired by June.

“A lot of this process will depend on the general man-

by Vista photographer Travis Marak

UCO Channel 22's Micah Manalo, broadcasting sophomore, left, and Mandy Buntin, broadcasting senior, prepare for a broadcast in the Channel 22 studio in the Communications Building. ager,” Clark said.

The upgrades to the broad-

cast station will help the 180 broadcast majors at UCO

and all students in the Mass Communication Department by bringing the equipment they use up to date with what is being used in the field today. Clark said that within a year and a half Channel 22 should be able to do digital broadcasts.

“These changes will put students in the future,” said Dr. David Nelson, broadcast professor.

Nelson said the changes that this grant helps bring about will put UCO on the cutting edge in university standards, and just about equal to what news and commercial stations are using now.

“Students will readily adapt to the technology, since students

are increasingly digital today,” Nelson said, “Students tend to have more trouble adapting to the analog technology that is being phased out.”

Nelson sees a time in the future when everything will be done digitally, but he believes that is a long way off.

This is the third grant that Clark has gotten for the Mass Communication Department from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. One was used for the new photography lab in the Communication building, and the other was $250,000 for the endowed chair in journalism ethics.

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COLDPLAY from page 1 Machine,” as well as earlier hits from her other records. She started at the piano for her first three songs, and then got up to sing after hit “Shadowboxer” from her debut album “Tidal,” which was met with a crescendo of applause sparkling with the flashes of camera phones.

Apple drew cheers from the audience with “Paper Bag” and “Used to Love Him,” filling the auditorium with her trademark voice while her dutiful backup band provided the rest. She paced the front of the stage in a funny dance similar to the one made infamous by “Seinfeld” character Elaine, but Apple clearly wasn’t concerned with it. She was focused solely on her music.

She returned to the piano for angry 7th song “Oh Well,” which she said was, “about that other woman.”

After that song, Apple greeted her audience and made them repeat “Kevin is a prick” after her, referring to their sound man who would be leaving the band after that show.

Apple said, “We could have just gotten drunk and done something stupid, but we’ll still do that later.”

It was back to frenzied dancing and her distinctive vocal style for her final song, “Fast As You Can,” which ended their set with tumultuous applause from the crowd.

After an hour of tear-down and set-up, a digital countdown began on a massive screen that stretched across the back of the stage. Lighting technicians, suspended dozens of feet above the stage in swiveling, precarious seats, prepared to trace the stage with burning spotlights like gunners in a World War II bomber.

The concert hall became chaos when Coldplay burst onto the stage wearing all black with

white sneakers as the first notes of “Square One,” the first song on their new album “X&Y,” blared from miked amps and passed through the audience like an electric charge building in a distant thunderhead. As the song picked up steam, bright spotlights mounted behind the band cast massive silhouettes of curly-haired frontman Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland on the crowd filling the opposite wall.

The band followed “Square One” with piano-heavy trademark “Politik,” the first song from their album “A Rush of Blood to the Head,” then Martin addressed the crowd.

“We’re proud to be in Oklahoma after three years,” said Martin to the audience.

Coldplay last performed in Oklahoma at the Civic Center Music Hall in winter 2003.

Next the band pulled out “Yellow,” one of their first singles, from their 2000 album “Parachutes.”

Giant yellow balloons poured from the ceiling and began to burst as people in the crowd bounced them across the concert hall. Martin called for the crowd to pass one to the stage, which he popped with his guitar, blasting the air with champagne-colored confetti.

After hit single “In My Place,” Martin took a break to speak to the audience.

“We didn’t expect so many people to come out on a Monday night,” Martin said. He said the crew informed him that he just sang the first four songs with his pants unzipped.

“It was a wardrobe malfunction,” Martin said. “If you saw anything you shouldn’t have I sincerely apologize.”

Martin switched to an acoustic guitar for “God Put A Smile Upon Your Face,” then to a piano for “X&Y” and then back to acoustic for “How You See the World No.2” for which bassist Guy Berryman picked up a set of maracas.

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Chris Martin of Coldplay sings at the Brit Awards in London Feb. 15. Coldplay played at Oklahoma City's Ford Center Feb. 27.

“Has everybody gotten over the wardrobe malfunction?”

Martin asked the audience during a break between songs, and then he said, “If you’re like this on a Monday night, I’d love to see you on a Saturday night.”

They played wildly popular “Don’t Panic” next, during which Martin gave up vocals for a verse to let Buckland sing, followed by upbeat “White Shadows” from their new album. During “White Shadows,” the screen showed the band in reverse black and white, the image of the equals sign drawn on the back of Martin’s hand white on charcoal skin. The symbol represents “free trade,” a political issue Martin is vocal in.

For fan favorite “The Scientist,” the screen changed to

an image of space and zoomed in on the earth until a man became visible lying asleep on the grass. The image continued to magnify through the man’s hand through to his cell structure.

The band took a short break and drummer Will Champion came to the edge of the stage and snapped pictures of the audience with a disposable camera, which he then threw into the crowd. A girl on the second floor barely caught it, the camera narrowly saved from a plummet to the floor below.

“I would have to say in the year and a half we’ve been on tour, this is one of the best nights,” Martin said. He said they were taken on a tour of Oklahoma City earlier in the day, including the site where

Oklahoma rock band The them live,” said Jessica Anglin, Flaming Lips first played. graphic design sophomore.

“It was a very moving expe“I was pleasantly surprised rience for us,” Martin said. at how much I enjoyed Fiona “Even though we’re interna- Apple. Her voice was incredible tional superstars, we love The and her dancing was really ranFlaming Lips.” dom and spastic,” she said.

After the break, Coldplay “I thought it was an awesome played “Till Kingdom Come,” show,” said Caleb Beavers, the hidden track on “X&Y,” for interpersonal communication which the band gathered togeth- senior. “They’re hyped up to be er at the front of the stage with one of the best live bands, so I a harmonica. “Till Kingdom was expecting a great live show, Come” morphed into a cover and honestly they totally lived of “Ring of Fire” by country up to it.” legend Johnny Cash.

He said a lot of bands will Following the mellow play a song they know isn’t as “Trouble,” the band geared up good as their other to allow fans for “Clocks,” which was met a trip to the bathroom, but “I with an explosion of applause kept looking for the piss-break and frantic green, laser-like song and I couldn’t find it, so lights that made the band look I finally just had to choose one like it was in the middle of a and make a run for it.” space battle. Rays of sunlight Beavers said he thought shot upward from the stage for Coldplay acted very humble, “Talk,” the last song of their set, “The fact that they were miking during which a confused black their amps, I thought was cool bear wandered around on the because Coldplay has kind of screen behind them. that larger than life aspect about After unrelenting applause, them anyway and seeing them Coldplay reemerged for do something that struggling an encore that began with bands do was cool.”

“Swallowed in the Sea.” Martin “Coldplay had absolutely left the stage for “In My Place,” amazing energy, more so than I ran to the far end of the concert thought they would,” said hall, climbed high into the audiKristin Wilson, advertising ence and sang the rest of the freshman. “I love their music, song supported by the hands of but I never really knew what his fans. they would be like live.”

Following their final song, “Chris Martin really carried “Fix You” from their new it through,” she said. “He was album, the humble Brits took all over the stage, which was a gentlemanly bow and left the awesome.” stage to uproarious applause.

“I personally think with how “I thought it was an amazing big Coldplay is they could have concert,” said David Doughty, had a better opening act,” broadcasting senior. “I thought Wilson said. “I don’t think it Chris Martin was real classy brought the energy that should as far as the way he treated the have prefaced Coldplay.” crowd…he just seamed like he Beavers said he thinks really liked Oklahoma and he Coldplay haven’t forgotten their kept talking about it.” pub roots.

“I respect Fiona Apple as “You’re seeing it on the grand a musician, I like a lot of her scale,” he said, “but there’s still older songs,” Doughty said, something really cozy about “but I was expecting a lot more it.” out of her.”

“The Coldplay concert was exhilarating. I like them even Nathan Winfrey can be reached at more now that I have seen nwinfrey@thevistaonline.com.

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UCO grad student gathers 'witwords'

by Desiree Treeby Staff Writer Are you witty or needing a good laugh or a â&#x20AC;&#x153;chiggle?â&#x20AC;? If so, take a look at a Web site full of â&#x20AC;&#x153;nocabularyâ&#x20AC;? words, which are defined as a collection of funny, made-up words.

The site, www.witwords. com, was created by Mark Brennamen so people can take a break from their day to get clean entertainment thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all positive or neutral, said Brennaman, education and wellness management graduate student.

During the last weekend of January, the site was featured on the National Public Radio show, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Car Talkâ&#x20AC;? hosted by Tom and Ray Magliozzi or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Click and Clack.â&#x20AC;?

Click and Clack mentioned the word, or the nocabulary word, â&#x20AC;&#x153;fartfignuganâ&#x20AC;? which is defined as releasing gas in a small German automobile. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They thought it was the funniest thing ever,â&#x20AC;? Brennaman said.

He learned that his site was mentioned because a friend from Asheville, N.C. had listened to the show and told Brennaman. He said the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;fartignuganâ&#x20AC;? comes from the idea behind an old Volkswagen commercial featuring the word, â&#x20AC;&#x153;farfignugenâ&#x20AC;?.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was just a silly commercial,â&#x20AC;? Brennaman said.

He said he edits the words carefully, because he wants it to be a site that a child and a grandmother can look at. â&#x20AC;&#x153;About one out of every eight words are chosen for submission,â&#x20AC;? Brennaman said.

He said that Australian Greg Slater is prolific in submitting words and, â&#x20AC;&#x153;theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re incredibly funny.â&#x20AC;?

Brennaman said he started the site as a way of recovering as a crime victim. Six years ago he was stabbed in the back of the neck three times while walking across his apartment complexâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was at the wrong place at the wrong time,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What took several seconds has lasted six years.â&#x20AC;?

After the attack he suffered Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and sought help from the Veterans Affairsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hospital. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What I got from the Internet kept me going,â&#x20AC;? he said because after the attack he feared being around people.

A favorite word of Brennamanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is â&#x20AC;&#x153;neologophobic,â&#x20AC;? which is the fear of coining new words.

BRISCH from page 1 breakfast once a month with Brisch and a group of people interested in the economic growth of America for more than 12 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just had great affection for him, great respect. We were great friends,â&#x20AC;? McGuigan said.

Reneau said Brisch was of the utmost integrity, that he was a man of his word and that he had an impeccable reputation.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;He really served as a role model for a lot of people in administrative positions in education and even down through the classroom,â&#x20AC;? Reneau said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was always impressed at how he pushed at the Legislature on tough issues for education,â&#x20AC;? Reneau said.

She said he would take on tough subjects and unpopular positions when he thought it was the right thing to do. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know anyone who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t respect him. Even people who disagreed with him respected him, and you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say that about

everybody,â&#x20AC;? Reneau said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to admire someone who will stand up for what they believe in under pressure, and I saw him do that,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He is missed greatly.â&#x20AC;?

The funeral services were held Feb. 25 in Oklahoma City. Brischâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife Margaret and their three children requested that instead of flowers, donations be made to the Chancellorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Scholarship Fund.

Nathan Winfrey can be reached at nwinfrey@ thevistaonline.com.

Desiree Treeby can be reached at dtreeby@thevistaonline.com.

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Sports WRESTLE: UCO conquers regionals as three players earn top seeds from page 14 had 58 takedowns and allowed just nine.

Hess, junior from Oklahoma City, earned his first national

UNICYCLE from page 14 really good way to meet people.”

Motter, who goes by “Cain” personally and professionally, performs on a unicycle in costume at various events.

The enthusiasts have also dreamed up other activities to do while riding the unicycle.

One such idea: unicycle jousting, a sport Angell has spent much time developing.

“I bought the Web domain unicyclejousting.com,” he said.

After meticulously creating a shield and two lances, made from thick dowels with a tennis ball on the end, he said he put the idea on the backburner.

Rex Campbell, who plans to attend UCO in the fall, works as a street performer under the name, “The Orange Guy.” He said riding around is great, but adding other “circus arts,” such as juggling, while riding the unicycle is where the money is.

Campbell also performs through the Oklahoma City Arts Council.

In addition to the club, a unicycle session in the Wellness Center may turn up in the future.

“I’m going to try to make some type of free unicycling clinic during the evening once a week,” Angell said.

In the meantime, Angell encourages beginners to give the unicycle a try.

As he claims in his Facebook group, which currently has 11 members, “I can teach you how to unicycle. Anyone can learn.”

Kristen Limam can be reached at klimam@thevistaonline.com.

tournament berth with a victory over Indianapolis’ Michael Jackson. Hess is the No. 1 seed at 174 pounds.

“This team did well at regionals and set ourselves up to make a run at the nationals,” Hess said. “I believe we all got drawn into good brackets, and we all know that anything can happen in any match once we're competing at the national level.”

Hess led the Bronchos with 32 victories this season, seven of them coming in major decisions.

Jolley, sophomore from Skiatook, Okla. finished fourth at 197 pounds.

“I feel that I could have done better overall,” Jolley said.

“Every year there are upsets in the first round of the tournament, I mean fourth seed beating first seeds. I feel that if I just

wrestle smart, I can be one of the upsets and get a big win.”

Jolley will face University of Nebraska-Kearney’s Jeff Sylvester in the first round. The two faced each other twice this season with Sylvester winning both of the matches.

Finn, sophomore from Moore, earned his No. 1 seed by defeating University of Central Missouri State’s Dan Moore in heavyweight.

“As a team we did really well, we all wrestled to our ability,” Finn said. “We feel as though we are in a good position going into the tournament.”

Finn is aware of the history and stature of being named AllAmerican. His dad wrestled for UCO and earned All-American status in 1979.

“It would mean a lot to me to

earn such an honor. Placing AllAmericans and winning championships is what wrestling for UCO and coach James is all about. That is the reason for wrestling here at this university,” Finn said.

James, in his 23rd year of coaching, has won 11 national championships and had five runner-up finishes. James has earned six national Coach of the Year awards. He has coached 43 individual national champions and 134 All-Americans.

“It’s a testament to the commitment of the individuals here in this program,” James said.

“It’s an honor to be a part of the great competition and to have the ability to coach a great group of student athletes.”

Teddy Burch can be reached at tburch@thevistaonline.com.

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MEN'S A Championship game Sunday, March 5 Teams TBA Wantland, 7 p.m.

POSTSEASON from page 14 Sam Belt, sophomore guard, picked up 11 rebounds, five assists and two steals. Senior guard Aundrae Grayson, who averaged 22 points in two games last week, scored just six points—all on free throws—but grabbed five defensive rebounds and three steals.

With the win, UCO raised its tournament mark against TAMUK to 4-3 and its home record to 11-1.

UCO will face South Division champions Tarleton State March 3 in Durant, with the final the next day. The winner of this tournament earns an automatic spot in the NCAA Division II national tournament. The 64team field will be announced March 5.

MEN'S B Championship game Thursday, March 3 Kryptonite vs. Neon Death Kings Wellness Center, 8 p.m.

MEN'S C Championship game Thursday, March 3 Clay Ponies vs. Gorillas Wellness Center, 9 p.m.

MEN'S D Championship game Thursday, March 3 And 1 vs. BCM Wellness Center, 7 p.m.

by Vista photographer Midori Sasaki

Kristen Limam can be reached at klimam@thevistaonline.com.

March 2, 2006

Senior guard Kentrell Gaddis rushes past a defender when UCO picked up an 84-66 win over TAMUK Feb. 28 in Edmond.

For more information on UCO intramural sports, including schedules and results, visit www.ucok.edu/wellnesscenter/i_home.htm.

Norman Public Schools Early Childhood Teacher Job Fair Tuesday, March 7th, 3:30p.m. - 6:30p.m.

NPS is seeking additional Kindergarten teachers for the 06-07 school year. Full day Kindergarten will be offered beginning this Augus. To schedule an interview and for additional information please call 405-366-5873.

SPORTS

University of Central Oklahoma

Tuesday, MARCH 2, 2006

Wrestlers capture regionals each individual seeded first through fourth. By winning, the wrestler continues to advance through the bracket. It is a douThe UCO wrestling team ble loss elimination, and the won the NCAA Division II final eight contenders are given Midwest Regional championAll-American status. ship Feb. 25 in Jefferson City, Individuals are given one Tenn. point for a victory. One and The Bronchos won individual a half points are given for a championships from sophomore bonus victory, and two points Kyle Evans, junior Jared Hess are given for a pin. At the end and sophomore Chris Finn. The of all the matches, the points of Bronchos as a team had a 33.5the individuals are accumulated, victory and advanced nine of 10 and the team with the most individuals to the national tourpoints wins the national chamnament March 10-11 in Findlay, pionship.

Ohio.

Evans, sophomore “We did well in a couple of different areas,” said Wrestling Scores, Midwest Regional from Edmond, enters the tournament a No. 1 seed head coach David James. and is optimistic about the Championship Finals “We are proud of the team Wt. Results Bronchos in the tournafor regaining the regional 125 Compton, AU, dec.

Caruthers, UCO, 5-2 ment. championship, and we are 141 Evans, UCO, pinned Kilgore, CMSU, 5:29 “We all worked really really excited to place in 149 Guerra, Findlay, dec. Timothy, UCO, 4-2 hard to get to this point,” nine of 10 weights.”

165 Peterson, TSU, major dec. Petersen, UCO, 15-3 Shane Caruthers (125 174 Hess, UCO, major dec. Jackson, Indy, 17-4 Evans said. “If each of us takes care of the individpounds), Earl Jones (133 285 Finn, UCO, dec. Moore, CMSU, 7-3 ual match first, then the pounds), Evans (141 team's overall standings pounds), Shea Timothy wrestler at all 10 weights.

The will take care of itself.”

(149 pounds), Jason Leavitt (157 Mavericks are two-time defendEvans compiled an overall pounds), Cort Petersen (165 ing national champions. record of 24-4 on the season and pounds), Hess (174 pounds), The national tournament Heath Jolley (197 pounds) and Finn at heavyweight qualified consists of 64 wrestlers, with

by Teddy Burch Sports Writer

for the national tournament.

Kenny Meredith, freshman from Murfreesboro, Tenn., placed sixth at 184 pounds and did not qualify for the national tournament.

“Meredith just fell a little short,” James said. “He finished with a 24-19 record and as a freshman, was able to compete in a regional tournament. He gained a lot of experience and this will prove to be very valuable in the future.”

Top-ranked NebraskaOmaha is the only team in the tournament that will have a

See WRESTLE, page 13

Unicyclers unite for new club

by Kristen Limam Sports Editor

by Vista photographer Midori Sasaki

Senior guard Aundrae Grayson looks for an opening during the Bronchos' 84-66 win over Texas A&M-Kingsville Feb. 28 at Hamilton Field House. The Bronchos move to the semifinals of the LSC Postseason Tournament and will face Tarleton State March 4 in Durant.

UPCOMING HOME GAMES

SOFTBALL UCO Softball Classic (in Mustang, Okla.)

Friday, March 3 10 a.m. vs. Oklahoma Baptist 12:30 p.m. vs. Angelo State

Saturday, March 4 12:30 p.m. vs. Tarleton State 5:30 p.m. vs. Okla. City University

Sunday, March 5 3 p.m. vs. St. Gregory's 5:30 p.m. vs. Oklahoma Baptist

INTRAMURAL BASKETBALL Thursday, March 2 Games begin at 7 p.m.

(Wellness Center, Hamilton Field House, Wantland)

Friday, March 3 6 p.m.

(Wellness Center)

Sunday, March 5 Games begin at 1 p.m.

(Wellness Center) 4 p.m.

(Wantland)

Bronchos stroll past first round of tourney

by Kristen Limam Sports Editor The UCO men’s basketball team advances to the semifinals of the Lone Star Conference Postseason Tournament with an 84-66 win over Texas A&MKingsville Feb. 28 at Hamilton Field House.

“We played really relaxed tonight,” said head coach Terry Evans.

The Bronchos had not won a first-round game since the 1997-98 season. Since then, they have lost all five opening rounds they have played in.

“Just to know that we’re the team that broke that curse, so to speak, is an amazing feeling,” said senior center Joe Kennerly.

UCO never trailed after senior guard Kentrell Gaddis scored three seconds into the game.

The Javelinas kept the pressure on the Bronchos in the first half, down 23-22 with 6:40 remaining. But a 10-3 UCO run brought the Bronchos a com-

fortable 33-25 lead, which they padded even more going into halftime, 42-31.

“Basically, we just played inside-out basketball,” Kennerly said.

UCO stunned TAMUK by shooting 17 of 20 free throws in the first half and adding 15 of 22 in the second half.

The Javelinas attempted to capitalize on a Broncho skid in which UCO missed three shots and four free throws, cutting a 19-point deficit down to 10 with 4:04 remaining. UCO got back on course, though, going 14-6 in the final minutes of the game.

“Joe Kennerly stepped up and played strong around the basket,” Evans said.

Kennerly scored nine rebounds and a team-high 23 points in UCO’s rout of TAMUK, which placed third in the LSC South Division.

Other players that didn’t score as many points, Evans said, made a large contribution defensively.

See POSTSEASON, page 13

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Children first learn to ride a tricycle. Most children then, after learning the skills needed to operate that vehicle, advance to a bicycle. Very few, however, graduate to a unicycle.

That number may soon increase at UCO, thanks to the campus’ Unicycle Club.

Peter Angell, kinesiology and health sciences senior, took his idea to the UCO Student Association, where it passed Feb. 13.

Angell has a recent, yet intense enthusiasm for the activity.

“About three months ago, I was at a bike shop and just bought a unicycle,” Angell said.

Since then, he has accumulated six unicycles, including a five-foot high “Giraffe” and a “Coker” with a wheel 36 inches in

diameter. The latter cost about $400, though Angell said a basic unicycle runs about $60.

The club meets Fridays at 2 p.m. in front of the Wellness Center and is open to anyone who unicycles or would like to learn.

“If you practice half an hour to an hour a day, it will take you about two weeks to learn to ride,” Angell said.

Angell’s hobby rubbed off on his roommate, graduate student David Ahlgren.

“Once you get started, it’s better than riding a bike,” Ahlgren said. “It’s almost like you’re flying.”

In addition to being fun, unicycling has physical benefits.

“It’s a great way to get a work out,” Angell said.

Ahlgren added, “It takes a lot of endurance.”

Photographic arts senior Harry Motter said, “It’s a

See UNICYCLE, page 13

by Vista photographer Midori Sasaki

Harry Motter, photo arts senior, rides his unicycle outside the Wellness Center Feb 24.