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Find out what UCO students have to say about the FDA banning flavored cigarettes. PAGE 2 Q&A with Nursing Chair
Dr. Linda Rider, chair of the nursing department, talks about her background. PAGE 4 50 Years Ago
Take a look back at homecoming weekend Nov. 7, 1959. PAGE 5 Eight is Great
UCO soccer continues it's winning ways, with their eighth straight victory. PAGE 9 Bronchos vs. Bearcats
UCO takes on Southwest Baptist during homecoming weekend. PAGE 10
Members of UCO's Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity will not receive disciplinary action for an image they painted Sunday morning on campus, despite some UCO students' allegations that the painting was sexual harassment. The image appeared on a window of the UCO Max Chambers Library. "We support the creativity the students are putting out there," Kay Robinson, director of Campus Activities, said. "We feel like the painting was subjective to different people's opinions. [The Homecoming Activities Board] didn't feel like it was ... outrageous by Photo provided by Lauren Brandeberry any means." This cell phone photo was taken as members of Senior Lauren the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity put the finishing Brandeberry, president of touches on the controversial homecoming paintthe Association of Women's ing. The painting has since been removed. Studies at UCO, filed a formal complaint Sunday eveI work at the library, I safety office and they told ning about the painting. was a little concerned," us they told [the Pi Kappa "Because I'm president Brandeberry said. "We Alpha fraternity] to alter of the [AWS] and because complained to the campus the image, but as of Sunday
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Oklahoma's first Republican governor and UCO's first "distinguished statesman in residence" Catch highlights from Henry Louis Bellmon died on the 5th annual Unity Tuesday at 88. Fest, which was held last He died at St. Mary's Mercy Hospital in Enid after a long batnight at Plunkett Park tle with Parkinson's disease, said Andrew Tevington, his former chief of staff and general coun"Recreating America" sel, to the Associated Press. He had been hospitalized at the Enid hospital since Sunday morning, Catch video footage Tevington said. (-2the preview of the "Oklahoma has lost a principled award-winning film and independent advocate for readocumentary son and fairness," said Chancellor Unity Fest diplays culture
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Bellmon taught political science at (then) Central State University.
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A recent report has recommended universities like UCO develop stronger policies on gambling.
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"We are taking every necessary step we need to make this right." Brandeberry explained why she felt the painting needed to be taken down immediately. "Everyone who goes [to UCO] has agreed to follow the student code of conduct and this clearly violates that," Brandeberry said. "[The painting] is demeaning to women. It's a little bit threatening. A lot of people have looked at the image and said they felt that it was portraying a rape." Robinson said the fraternity did not violate the student code of conduct and she disagreed with Brandeberry's assessment of the painting. "I'm a woman and I personally didn't feel that way at all, that it was indicative of a rape scene," Robinson said. "When I heard [Brandeberry said] that, I was actually very shocked." Sexual harassment includes "display of sexually demeaning obiects see PAINTING, page 3
Glen D. Johnson in a release from the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. "It was my honor and privilege to work closely with Gov. Bellman during my tenure in the Oklahoma House of Representatives. He was the kind of leader who transcended party, ideology and special interests. We will all miss him greatly." Bellman served two nonconsecutive terms as governor, one starting in 1963 and one that started in 1987. Between his two political terms, he taught at UCO, Photo Archives then Central State University, Oklahoma State University, the Former Okla. governor Henry Bellmon (left) sits with former UCO University of Oklahoma and president Bill Lillard in an undated photo from the time when
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night, no significant alterations had been made." Brandeberry said the AWS complained a second time and was told the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity had permission put up the painting and they could not order it removed. "It seemed to clearly violate [UCO's] sexual harassment policy," Brandeberry said. "We were told [PICA] had permission. [The security office] didn't tell us who gave them permission." Robinson is involved with the HAC, the organization that approved the Pike painting and, after the complaint, removed it. "I walked out there myself and took it down," she said. "We didn't want anyone to be in any way offended." PKA Fraternity president Jared Epling said the painting was a part of a comic book theme for homecoming and was not meant to offend anyone. "It was not meant to say ... women are inferior to men," Epling explained.
A recent report from the Task Force on College Gambling Policies has recommended protocls and programs for universities like UCO to inform students of gambling risks. The report, "A Call to Action, Addressing College Gambling: Recommendations for Science-based Policies and Programs," has io recommendations ranging from establishing campus-wide committees on university policies on gambling and promoting collaborations between alcohol awareness problems and gambling problems. Janis Chapel, coordinator of the UCO Student Counseling Center, said UCO's counseling center has not had any specific
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cases of gambling addiction as far as she knew, but the SCC would probably refer a student with gambling trouble off-campus. "We see students for a variety of things and we help them identify issues that may be troubling," Chapel said. "If we can't help them out here, we refer them to resources off-campus that we think can help them." Dr. Lorraine Youll, UCO professor of psychology, said there are many reasons people begin behaviors like smoking, drinking or gambling, and different reasons people continue those behaviors. "There's not just a single straightforward reason for addictions," Youll said. "Why people begin or continue is difficult to understand." Youll said that because there are many different reasons people continue
in those behaviors, organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous may help some people, but not others. "It doesn't take into consideration what motivates or perpetuates behavior," she said. In the introduction to the report, the organization said researchers and public health experts are concerned that college students are especially vulnerable to excessive gambling and gambling disorders. "Many of the same biobehavioral characteristics that make young people vulnerable to alcohol and drug problems also make gambling a risky activity with potential financial and health consequences," the report said. The task force is a program of the National Center for Responsible Gaming, funded by the American Gaming Association.
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