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UNIQUE PAIR TO GRADUATE by Nelson Solomon Staff Writer Marva Hogg walked the stage to receive her first UCO diploma 33 years ago, and on May 10 she will do it again, except this time she will have the joy of graduating with her daughter, Mahkesha. Hogg graduated from UCO, or Central State University as it was then called, in 1975 with her library certificate and teacher certification, but has now come back to the university to graduate with a master's. Both of them will graduate this semester from the College of Education, Mahkesha on May 9 with a bachelor's degree in Community Health with an emphasis on health policy, and Marva will walk on May 10 with a master's degree in Instructional Media Education. Mahkesha said they were hoping to graduate together, but the College of Education separates the Joe C. Jackson graduate students from the undergraduates. She said she thinks this opportunity is "really neat because you hear about some parents who went to college with their kids and I never thought it would happen to me." "I don't really see her a lot, but sometimes we meet up for lunch in the cafeteria. My friends would tell me they saw my mom in the library and talked to her. Then all of a sudden we're graduating together. It just kinda happened so quick," she said. Marva said the chance for her and her daughter to graduate at the same time is the "coolest thing." "This was not planned. We just happened to be talking .
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have the best instructional media program in the nation; the professors are top-notch, and I've really increased my knowledge in technology," Marva said. Marva said she has had to learn how to work with Web sites, animation and information skills. "I have thoroughly enjoyed my stay the last two years in graduate school," she said. She has been working for the Mid-Del school district since she graduated, and will
Seven UCO students will make the trek to Tulsa this summer to compete in the annual Miss Oklahoma pageant Scholarship Pageant 2008. The Miss Oklahoma Scholarship Pageant is sponsored by The Tulsa Kiwanis Club and offers over $2,000,000 in scholarships to contestants each year. The pageant will be held on June 7 at the Maybee Center on the campus of ORU in Tulsa. Each of the seven UCO students competing in the pageant won one of the 42 local pageants sanctioned by the Miss Oklahoma Scholarship Pageant. The UCO students competing in the pageant include: Miss Edmond LibertyFest Emoly West, Miss Mustang Ashley Baumgartner and Miss Bricktown OKC Natasha Alikhani. Baumgartner said competing in Miss Oklahoma is a wonderful opportunity to experience. "You can't describe the feeling competing getting to compete in the pageant, but I know it's a wonderful opportunity for a young women to experience," Baumgartner said. Other UCO students include: Miss South OKC Taylor Upson, Miss Route 66 Michelle McCoy and Miss Tulsa State Fair Gentry Johnson and . Miss UCO Ashley "Eddie" Edwards. Edwards said she has been
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Marva Hogg and Mahkesha Hogg, mother and daughter, will graduate together from the College of Education.
one day, and she told me she was going to graduate in May '08, and I said 'Wait a minute, so am I!" she said. Both of them share another bond besides graduating together; they share Greek experiences in their time at the university. Marva has been a member ofDelta Sigma Theta since her undergraduate years at UCO and Mahkesha is a member of Sigma Lambda Gamma, a multicultural sorority. Mahkesha is the vice president of the community health club and vice president of her
sorority as well as ? - -;‘ber ut the Native dneri, an Student Association and an advocate for health issues and human rights. Marva said she recently ran into Dr. Charolette MylesNixon, UCO special education professor, who was a pledge under her in her sorority during her undergraduate years. Mahkesha pointed out how they both share the name "M. Hogg". "They're always sending me my mom's stuff," she said.
She said there's been a running joke because her assigned UCOnnect username at the university is "mhoggl" while her mother's is "mhogg". "That's funny, because they didn't even have the Internet back in the 1970s," she said. Marva is walking on May 10, but will actually get out of school in July. She said she came back to UCO because she loves the school so much. "I decided to come back 33 years later because they
Social Host ordinance seems to be effective in Edmond hol and becoming intoxicated. Ricks and Murdock said steps to prevent such behavior Edmond Chief of Police include checking IDs. Bob Ricks and Edmond city In 2007, the number of attorney Stephen Murdock arrests for violating the ordiwere on campus Monday nance was 71. So far this year speaking to students about there have only been nine Edmond's Social Host ordi- arrests. nance. "The vast majority of the Edmond was the first city arrests that we have made in Oklahoma to pass a Social have been because we have Host ordinance, Murdock said. gotten calls from the neighIt was passed to help reduce bors," Ricks said. the occurrence of underage "Most of these cases are drinking and the resulting not parents that are being problems in Edmond. arrested. Most of these cases "The number one choice turn out to be people 20, 21 or of drug in young people ... 22, whose parents are perhaps still is alcohol," Ricks said. out of town, or have their own Under the ordinance, hosts apartment by this time, and of parties are held responsible they're throwing these parfor the actions of minors pres- ties," he said. ent on their property. During Murdock said anyone a party or gathering, a home arrested for violating the or property owner must do Social Host ordinance will be everything possible to prevent taken and booked into jail, and the party from getting out of all information collected there control and also must prevent see HOST, page 9 minors from consuming alcoby Carrie Cronk Staff Writer
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Stephen Murdock, Edmond city attorney, speaks to students Monday about the city's Social Host ordinance.
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