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WORLD ORLO WRAP Guidelines prompt routine hospital AIDS testing WASHINGTON — Hospitals with sizable AIDS caseloads should offer voluntary HIV testing to every patient they admit or treat in emergency rooms, the govermnent recommended recently. Under new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, voluntary testing for the deadly virus would be routine in about 600 hospitals — 11 percent — primarily in urban areas hit hardest by the epidemic. The test results would be kept confidential and people could not be denied care because they refused to take the test.
Saddam's brother on goodwill tour NICOSIA, Cyprus — Saddam Hussein has his favorite half-brother winging around the Middle East to patch up relations with Arab governments. So far, Barzan al-Takriti has visited Libya, Tunisia, Yemen and Mauritania, Arab sources reported. He is also expected to go to Morocco, Algeria and Sudan. The sources, In Jordan and North Africa, said the tour is part of Saddam's new "charm offensive" aimed at wooing Arab and other Islamic countries.
Tulsa University boosts tuition TULSA — Students at the University of Tulsa will pay $615 more next school year for tuition and $170 more for room and board. The board of trustees approved the increase of about 6 percent It is the 13th consecutive increase for undergraduate students at the private university. Annual undergraduate tuition will go from $9,380 to $9,995. Graduate tuition will increase from $380 to $410 per credit hour. "These are tough times for higher education, and rising costs make tuition increases a certainty," said Burt Holmes, chairman of the board of trustees.
TUESDAY March 9, 1993
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Dorm plans not certain, Nigh says By Michele Soh
Staff Writer University of Central Oklahoma President George Nigh said plans to house men and women in the same dorm are not concrete. He said the issue "depends on our ability to sell the bonds, but could be as early as the fall semester." And so the saga of President Nigh's Master Plan for the UCO continues, amidst the confusion of questions raised. Thatcher Hall will be partially or completely closed, temporarily or permanently, to make room for administrative offices and meeting rooms while the University Center extension is being built, said director of Auxiliary Services, A.K. Rahman. Thatcher will be a good place to put the offices of food services as it is so close to UC, he said. "If we close Thatcher Hall completely, to have enough space for everyone, East and West must admit both men and women residents, Rahman said. Nigh explained that the plan was to work toward a housing complex on campus. Thatcher Hall stands on its own, while the other three halls are closer together, said Nigh. President of Residents Hall Association (RHA) Tansha Walker said most of the committee is against making East and West co-ed. All hall residents, through the RHA, will get to vote on whether the dorms will house men and women together, said Rahman, but the final decision lies with President Nigh and Vice President Joyce Mounce. "I am interested in the concerns and ideas of all campus residents. We have to figure out a place to put students before closing Thatcher," Nigh said. At an informal RHA meeting, Rahman showed possible plans for the renovations to East and West Hall before they can house men and women together and
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answered questions raised about the possible closure of Thatcher Hall. "We have to spend money to make some changes to the dorms before they can go co-ed," Rahman said. He added that it was too expensive to make Murdaugh Hall co-ed. He stressed that men and women will be on different floors and each wing of each floor will be locked at night. "Only specific keys can open the doors and the doors will be checked every night," he said. In different wings on the first floor of each hall, five rooms will be set aside for disabled students of each sex, Rahman said. He explained that even with co-ed dorms, hall policies and procedures will be the same. The current occupancy rate for the halls are 435 in West, 426 in East, 278 in Murdaugh and 139 in Thatcher. At least 1000 residents are needed for Housing to break even, Rahman said. One-third of Thatcher is occupied by Reserve Officers' Training Corps offices. Nigh will not place his fingerprints on any plan without first consulting all appropriate parties, including campus
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residents, said administrative aide to the president, Peter Regan. Tod Krout, president of Thatcher Hall Council, said they had a good turn out of residents at the last two meetings to discuss the possible closure of Thatcher. At the second meeting, President Nigh was present to talk about his plans for the Hall. "Thatcher residents are upset over the possible closure of the hall, but no affirmative action has been decided yet," Krout said. At the moment, the Hall Council is writing petitions about the co-ed issue, Krout said. "It's stupid to close [Thatcher] for a few teachers' offices," said Dave Adams, who is living in Thatcher for the second semester. "I don't want to move, Thatcher is cleaner, quieter and there are sinks in the rooms and more privacy in the showers," said Carter Davis, who has spent four semesters in Thatcher. A junior, Davis said he had to stay in East Hall over the Christmas break, and he found the dorm not as clean as Thatcher and smelly. V See Dorms page 4
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Resignations
UCO assistant physics professor Dr. Bahaeddin Jassemnejad will be lauded as the 1993 Distinguished Scholar of the year.
UCO Student Government Association sees two senators resign last week amidst previous allegations of election misconduct.
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