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Making healthy choices
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Gas leak at Buddy's "a challenge" on. As of Wednesday afternoon, workers were makCopy Editor ing sure connections were secure before a final test. A recent gas leak outside If that test passes, the of Buddy's on Monday kept gas should be turned on everything that operates on within a few hours. gas in the cafeteria inoperBuddy's staff noticed able until Wednesday evethe smell of gas outside ning. the building on Monday, "It's been a challenge," and since then the gas has Greg Schwartz, director of been turned off. Dining Services, said. "It Schwartz said that there wasn't something that was was an old pipe undercontrollable." neath the building, and Because a majority of they have now replaced the ovens and ranges at what was under the buildBuddy's use gas, other food ing with a new pipe. had to be brought in to Because there is no serve to diners. hot water to wash hands, "We've been cooking Buddy's has put out hand Photo by Laura Hoffert food in the UC," Schwartz sanitizer in both bathsaid. "We've been putting rooms and at the entrance it in hot boxes and then Dan Damron, left, Buddy's kitchen supervisor and Dan Nyagol, grill cook, grill to the building, Adrienne hamburgers outside of Buddy's cafeteria due to the gas leak that occurred bringing it up here." Nobles, UCO director of Additionally, some food earlier this week. "It made my day much better when I found out I could work communications and marlike hamburgers have been outside," Damron said. keting, said. cooked outside the buildBuddy's does have a ing on an outdoor grill. for replacing the gas pipes, Work has been finished quality test from the envi- temporary water heater Workers for Trade "were working until 3 a.m. on the pipes, he said, and ronmental safety depart- for the staff to wash their Mechanical, the contrac- last night," Schwartz said. they were waiting on an air ment to turn the gas back hands though, Nobles said.
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OKC Thunder donates equipment to UCO would like to donate that, and that UCO would be a good place for that to go," said Jeff McKibbin, director of UCO's athletic training program. Both modalities, the MegaPulse II Shortwave Diathermy and Precision Micro Current Electrical Muscle Simulat N, will serve as valuable training additions to the current curriculum, he said. McKibbin said the equipment will serve as a practice unit for our students in a controlled setting, to learn how the different parts of the
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UCO's Athletic Training Education graduate program in the College of Education and Professional Studies recently received a donation of two essential modalities for its athletic training lab from the Oklahoma City Thunder organization. 'The Oklahoma City Thunder called, and had upgraded some of their equipment, and felt like they
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Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day,"
A world renowned author, juggler, consultant and inspirational speaker spoke to the UCO community. Michael Gelb, a former professional juggler who once performed with artist such as Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, spoke and hosted a workshop as part of the "Everyday Genius: Finding Your Genius" event. It was the first of several creative series events to be hosted by UCO creative Leadership Council.
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machines work. "It will be critical, because we're gonna try to expose them to as many different modalities that exist in a clinical setting," he said. "It adds another piece to our transformative learning that can't be acquired in a lot of different clinical sites." McKibbin said the donation evolved from previous meetings held between the Thunder and their department. "We had planted a seed and said `We're here, we're here in Edmond.'
that could help students make the process of studying easier. It could also help students improve their memory and have fun in the process. Gelb said he had been teaching in the Creative Learning filed for a while before the book was created. He explained how he was invited to speak for the Young President's organization in Washington, D.C. Yet he knew the group was hosting an event in Florence, Italy. He said Florence was his favorite city and he wanted an invitation to speak at that event. After he finished speaking in Washington, he was approached by the education chair from Florence and asked if he were invited to Florence what would he speak about, Gelb said. "I looked him right in the eye and I said how about how to think like Leonardo da Vinci," Gelb said. Gelb said he was asked if he could really present a topic about how to speak like da Vinci. "I said sure," Gelb said. "So I see GELB, page 4
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In the midst of near recordbreaking heat temperatures and ice cream dripping from cones onto the hands of children over this past summer, Eileen Parks and Kerstin Allison spent much of their time in the University of Central Oklahoma Science lab studying bats. Allison and Parks are studying
the bumps on the ears of Mexican Free-tailed Bats to see if the bumps are used for an aerodynamic purpose. "Half of the reactions I get from people are, 'Why?"' Parks, a UCO medical technology student, said as she sat at a chocolate-colored table along with her lab partner Kerstin Allison, a UCO nursing student, outside of Barnes and Nobles. "Our goal is to make a 3-D model see BATS, page 5
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Eileen Parks and Kerstin Allen study a Mexican Free-tailed bat. The two researched the bumps on the ears of the bats to see if they are used for an aerodynamic purpose.
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And the relationship is probably going to grow," he said. The talks between the department and the Thunder started in early summer this year and included many informal conversations as well as two formal meetings, McKibbin said. He said- the equipment - will sharpen the program's students and make them "more remarkable." "When, at some point they have see THUNDER, page 3
Students study bat ears
Gelb outlined the several principles presented in his New York Times Bestselling book "How to
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