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Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
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Mark Schlachtenhaufen Staff Writer
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CSU students unique student leaders say By Mark Schlachtenhaufen Staff Writer Second of two parts Central State University wants to be compared with Oklahoma University and Oklahoma State University, but its location and student population make it unique, student leaders said. The majority of CSU students drive to school from the Oklahoma City area. Many of them leave a full-time job and go home to a family. Both OU and OSU have larger resident hall student populations than CSU. CSU has a growing night school enrollment which helps meet the needs of the university's sizable non-traditional group. According to 1989 administration statistics, the ages of evening and daytime students varied from 18 to more than 50. Nineteen to 25-year-olds dominate the makeup of daytime enrollment, while night time enrollment consists primarily of students from 27-35 years of age. Two current CSU students first attended college in the late 1960s. Danny Moore was a Broncho in 1968, left school, and went to Rose State College for two years in the late 1970s. He said he hasn't noticed a difference the second time around. "It can't be that much different at all, other than the age factor," Moore said.
"Maybe more kids now are more interested in getting an education than avoiding the Vietnam War." Moore said his schedule has been too busy to allow him to consider joining a student organization. Ken Harrison, a junior business marketing major, said now he is a goal-oriented student. "I've got a definite goal in mind now than when I went the first time," Harrison said. "That's to get a bachelor's degree. I don't really need it except for the personal accomplishment and to have a hedge against the future." Harrison is employed in sales, and said it can be an unpredictable profession. Fraternities recruited Harrison in 1969, but in 1990, he said he just doesn't know what campus student organizations are available. Groups catering to Harrison's personal interests, like computers or literature, would offer more than career-oriented organizations, he said. Senior Donald Coats, who attended Rose State College in 1980, has been a CSU student for about four years. Coats said his education is expanding and will benefit his career goal to be a writer. Not surprisingly, Coats said he would be interested in a writer's club and would like to be published in school publications. "I even learn from my failures now to make it better the next time," Coats said.
Many Central State University students may not have medical insurance due to high cost, but administration could do more to inform them of available policies, said Dr. Homer Coker, chairman of health physical education and dance. An administrative official said admissions and records could do more to inform students during the enrollment process in the future. Coker said his assumption evolves from student injuries in his physical education classes. "A student in one of my soccer classes had a knee injury and had to have complete reconstructive surgury," Coker said. "She had no insurance and the cost was several thousand dollars." The potentially high cost of medical insurance limits the number of insured, but students must also take the initiative to get assistance, Coker said.
"It's an added expense, but I don't see how anybody could afford to be without health insurance," he said. Darrell Gilliland, admissions and records director, said he would investigate the possibilities of supplying students with medical insurance information during enrollment. "It's probably an excellent idea," Gilliland said. Gilliland said his office has not been up to par on student medical insurance information due to the large number of programs his staff must sift through. Students that work full time, on or off campus, may have direct company medical benefits. But part-time students are restricted from most insurance policies, Coker said. Most student campus jobs are only 20 hours a week or less. Janet Bellows, student services assistant, said her office supplied medical insurance information to students in the administration building during enrollment.
Liberian loyalists bombard rebel troops MONROVIA, Liberia (AP)—Troops loyal to slain President Samuel Doe bombarded rebels from atop the executive mansion Tuesday, and a West African leader said Doe's death would make it more difficult to end the war. Two days after rebels led by Prince Johnson attacked Doe and his entourage at the headquarters of the West African task force, the late president's men used heavy cannons
to beat back insurgents. In the rest of Monrovia, shells exploded and gunfire crackled as Prince Johnson's fighters scoured the city for Doe loyalists. Survivors from Doe's elite presidential guard turned heavy artillery, placed on the roof of the seaside executive mansion, onto the rebels and the war-ravaged city. The guns normally face out toward the Atlantic Ocean.
Oklahoma Guard unit dispatched to duty OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)—An Company is the first National Guard Oklahoma National guard company unit in Oklahoma to be mobilized based in Wewoka and Konawa is as part of Operation Desert Shield. being called to active duty because It would be the second time an of the crisis in the Middle East, Oklahoma guard unit has been moOklahoma Adj. Gen. Don Ferrell an- bilized since the Korean War. In 1961, a Tulsa airlift group was nounced Tuesday. The 2120th Supply and Service called up for the Berlin crisis.