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The Hispanic American Student Association kicked off the beginning of Hispanic Heritage month yesterday with a fiesta of free food, pinatas and dancing. "I think it's a good way to show our culture at UCO," Mike Chavez, president of HASA, said. "I'm looking forward to just showing the whole campus that there are Hispanics here and we are proud of our culture." Despite a damp and cloudy afternoon, Chavez estimated that approximately loo students stopped by to take advantage of the free food and festivities. "I'm excited that so many people came out and supported us," Chavez said. "Everyone had fun." Photo by Byron Koontz Along with food, dancing and piñatas, the presentation featured a jalapeno eat- Alma Folklorica, a high school dance group dances yesterday during the Hispanic ing competition. Lotteria, which Chavez heritage Month kickoff. The group is from Guymon, Okla and was asked to dance by described as "mexican bingo," and the the HASA president, Mike Chavez, a sophomore at UCO, who danced with the group for dancing of Alma Folklorica, a high school more than three years. In this picture the group is performing a dance from the state of dance group from Guymon, Okla. that Chihuahua, the vibrant costumes are authentic from the region. Chavez danced with for more than three the whole Hispanic Heritage month," during one of the final events of Hispanic years during high school. Heritage month. "Latin Fusion," a dance Andrea Pisani, the HASA treasurer, said. The group has danced in competitions "I hope the [UCO students] see that party on October 9 on the third floor in the professional adult level and has won we are not all from Mexico. There's more Balcony of the University Center, will last awards for best choreography, technique from other countries. I really hope they get from 7:30 p.m. to midnight. and form and best costume. "Our culture is kind of different from to know our culture better." Yesterday the group performed approxToday the association will host "Latin America's and it's a good way to show it imately 20 dances from five different Fiesta Volume One," which is one of three by dancing...and showing some of our cusregions in Mexico. dance lessons that will feature many styles toms," Chavez said. They wore colorful costumes that of Latin dancing. According to the U.S. Census Bureau are typical of each region for the dances Volume one will focus on Salsa dancing website, Census.gov, Hispanic Heritage they performed. Terri Mora, the group's and will be held in room 201 in the Nigh month was created by Lyndon B. Johnson. director, traveled to Mexico to procure University Center and it will last from 7 It began as Hispanic Heritage week but the clothes from the states of Veracruz, p.m.to 9 p.m. was expanded to a month long celebration Tamaulipas and Chihuahua, a northern Latin Fiesta Volume Two will be held at in 1988. state of Mexico that runs along the border the same time but will focus more on the It officially starts Sept. 15 and ends of Texas and New Mexico. Merengue and will be Sept. 22 in Ballroom October 15. Sept. 15 is the anniversary of During Hispanic Heritage month, HASA A in the Nigh University Center. independence of Costa Rica, El Salvador, will have events that the association hopes The third volume of Latin Fiesta will be Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. will create an awareness and appreciation held in Ballroom A again and will focus on Mexico and Chile celebrate their indeof the Hispanic culture. pendence days on Sept. 16 and Sept. 18, the Bachata dance. "It's the first time we are doing things All of the dance lessons will be applied respectively.

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On April 14, 1994, seven leaders of the American tobacco industry, including William Morris, then president of Philip Morris USA, testified to Congress under oath that "cigarette smoking is not addictive," according to hearing reports. What those executives didn't know was that one of the men responsible for proving that the nicotine in cigarettes is in fact addictive wag in a warehouse in Washington, being protected by the president's Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Dr. Victor DeNoble, a researcher hired by Philip Morris in the 198os to find a "safe" cigarette, one with no cardiovascular risk, testified two weeks later about research he'd done with colleague Dr. Paul Mele on rats that proved nicotine is addictive. "I told Congress under oath that nicotine changes the way a rat's brain works while I worked inside a tobacco company," DeNoble said. DeNoble spoke at a presentation yesterday put on by the Oklahoma County Tobacco Use Prevention Center, the UCO Wellness Center, the UCO Kinesiology and Health Studies Club, UCO Leadership Central and the UCO Community Health Club. DeNoble's story began 29 years ago when he was studying alcohol addiction at the University of Minnesota. "I had a group of monkeys, they would get drunk, and I would try to figure out

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DeNoble took the job, though uninterested at first, on the advice of his psychiatrist, who asked, ironically, "how much trouble could you get into?" Upon arriving at the company and attending his first meeting, he was told that Philip Morris "kills 138,000 people a year from heart attacks and brain strokes." "My job was to find a substitute for nicotine, a man-made drug, a drug that could be put into a cigarette and not produce heart problems," DeNoble said. DeNoble and Paul Mele, his friend and colleague, had a laboratory in the company "trying to find out if rats get addicted to nicotine and if we could find a different drug, a drug that would go to their brain but reduce heart problems." Toward the end of their experiments, the rats were taking in nicotine equivalent to 90 cigarettes a day. DeNoble said the tobacco industry says people smoke because actors smoke in movies, to lose weight or because pf advertisements in magazines. Photo by Allison Rathgeber "Now rats have never read a magazine Dr. Victor DeNoble presented his lecture, or been to the movies. I've never seen a "Inside the Dark Side: The Science Behind rat try to lose weight or be sexy for the rat Tobacco, The Truth Behind Lies" yesterday next door," he said. at UCO. DeNoble said he understands that's why people start smoking, but "the reawhy," he said. "It wasn't a hard job; If you son people continue to smoke is that nicohaven't seen 12 intoxicated monkeys, you tine is a drug and it changes the way our haven't lived." brain works." He got a phone call from Dr. William DeNoble went to Philip Morris execuDunn, of Philip Morris. This call would tives and told them that nicotine changes take him on a journey to being in the center of the struggle between the tobacco compasee TOBACCO, page 10 nies and the government.

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