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Vol. 89, No. 2
Tuesday Edition
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Classes full, officials say Palestinian returns home IVUSSEIRAT CAMP, Occupied Gaza Strip (AP)—Abu Raed Kharwan, who built a career as a accountant in Kuwait, now finds himself back in the squalid Palestinian refugee camp where he was born 39 years ago. "I used to send money home," Kharwan said as he sat on his father's porch, wearing a white cotton gown that is the typical garb in the Persian Gulf region. "Now I am a burden." Kharwan and his family are among thousands of Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories who face economic hardship as a result of Iraq's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait. In addition to providing Palestinians with jobs, Kuwait's contributions helped Palestinian hospitals and funded refugee aid programs. Ironically, most Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip support Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, whom they see as a increasingly powerful leader capable of restoring Arab pride and supporting their cause for independence.
Majority oppose haste NEW YORK (AP)—A Newsweek poll released Saturday found 80 percent of Americans oppose quick military action against Iraq, preferring instead to wait to see if economic and diplomatic sanctions are effective. The poll, conducted on Thursday and Friday, also found growing support for a covert assassination of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein as a way of quickly ending the crisis. In the new poll, 43 percent said they would support an assassination, 49 percent opposed it /and 9 percent didn't know. In a Newsweek poll two weeks ago, 34 percent supported a covert assassination. Federal law prohibits American involvement in the assassination of foreign leaders. 'e
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TULSA (AP)—Rep. Mike Synar said Friday the Nuclear Regulatory Commission sent a special investigative team to a processing plant at Sequoyah Fuels Corp. in Gore, where workers ;found water samples bearing 35,000 times the amount of uranium allowed by federal standards. Synar, D-Okla., requested the NRC inspection team earlier Friday. The team the NRC sent Monday includes the commission's top uranium specialist from Denver and an expert in groundwater hydrology. Please see WORLD WRAP on page 4.
By Mark Schlachtenhaufen Staff Writer
Anxiously watching television in the Oklahoma Room, Iranian Central State University employee Lourdes Baharestani waits for news from the troubled Mid-east area. (Photo by Paul McEntire)
OSBI investigation results sent to DA By Mark Schlachtenhaufen Staff Writer A year-and-a-half long Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation audit of the Central State University Foundation will be released to the Oklahoma County District Attorney's Office in early
September, a bureau spokesman said. The foundation, not directly affiliated with CSU, solicits financial gifts and scholarships, said Donna Peters, foundation adviser. The foundation, which conducts no day-to-day business, has no main office but uses CSU facilPlease see OSBI on page 8.
While Central State University enrollment figures are substantially higher than 1980, a relative increase in state funding for building improvements is "far overdue," a CSU administrator said. As of Wednesday evening, fall enrollment totaled 13,723, down about 500 from last year's record 14,214. Late enrollment continues through Sept. 4. Clyde Jacob, vice president for academic affairs, said the university has been actively soliciting state revenue to build classrooms to accommodate an overflow of students. Jacob gave a time period for new funding. "Now," he said. "We need facilities now." The last state-funded campus buildings were added in the late 1960s, Jacob said. For the past five years, CSU administrators have lobbied legislators to inform them of CSU's physical needs, Jacob said. Classes have been held off-campus in churches due to overcrowding. "The president, myself and the vice president for administration have ... tried to make a very strong case for our need for classroom buildings," Jacob said. "We've tried to highlight the fact that our enrollment has continued to climb over the past five or six years, but our state appropriations for operating the university has not nearly climbed at the same level," Jacob said. Students, which provide a broad voice of public opinion, could help CSU obtain more state funding by contacting their legislators by telephone, letters or through in-person contacts, Jacob said.
Nation may call reserve units By Erin Mitchell Staff Writer Many Central State University military reserve students could be affected by President Bush's orders for thousands of reserve units to be called to active duty, said Lt. Col. Eugene Heintz, military science chairman. Students who are members of military reserve units could be eligible for mobilization and deployment. Central State University President Bill Lillard said students called for active duty will not be penalized. "Basically this means that it won't cost them a dime, and it won't create an academic record for them," said admissions and records Director Darrell Gilliland. Tuition will be 100 percent refunded and classes dropped for reservists called to duty, Gilliland said.
"Of the 110 people in ROTC, about 40 are also simultaneous members of various units of Army National Guard and Army Reserves," Heintz said. Other non-ROTC reserve and guard students are equally eligible for mobilization, Heintz said. "I believe that what we're doing over there is right," said John Price, senior ROTC student. As an Oklahoma National Guard member, senior Price is in a special operations aviation unit. "This would be an opportunity for me to prove that I am capable of doing the job I have spent so much time training for," Price said. "I'm not saying I'm not scared, but I've trained on and off for almost ten years." "These people are trained and paid with tax dollars to do a job, and if they are called upon, they'll do it," Heintz said.