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Miss Asian UCO raises funds through fashion show UCO's second Miss Asian UCO fundraising fashion show took place Friday night in Constitution Hall. Miss Asian UCO, Sophia Chung, coordinated this year's event, which helps to bring awareness to the pageant and also helps to raise proceeds used towards the scholarship award
Inside Scoop Nobel laureate speaks at OCU
for the 2009 Miss Asian UCO. Tickets for the show were $3 in advance or $5 at the door.
An effort of awareness
On Oct. 1, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai spoke at Oklahoma City University as part of the Distinguished Speakers Series. In the documentary "Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai", Maathai was quoted as having said, "You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself."
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Forensics welcomes renowned scientist
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Features Rock the Block, a hit UCO's Housing Activities Council held the annual Rock the Block from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. this past Thursday. This year the proceeds from the purchase of entry bracelets for food and drinks went to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. The bracelets sold for $3 and t-shirts for the event were $5. Page 5
by Vista photographer Chris Albers
Junior psychology major Collin Slater sits outside his shack during Shack-a-thon, an event held to increase poverty awareness during Poverty Awamess Week.
UCO students participate in the annual Shack-a-thon in order to raise awareness on campus about poverty By Stephani Tobin
Staff Writer
Students at UCO will experience and learn the issues surrounding poverty on campus during Poverty Awareness Week, in an effort to raise money for non-profit organizations in Oklahoma. The nationally-recognized week, which runs from Oct. 5 – 11, will be sponsored at UCO by the Volunteer and Service Learning Center [VSLC]. The funds raised will go toward Infant Crisis Services in Oklahoma City and Heifer International, an organization focused on helping people find a sustainable source of food, according to the Web site. "We want to show that poverty is not just homeless people on the street," said Lyndsay Holder, the volunteer services coordinator
The Bronchos beat the Bearcats, 43-40, on the road, in a close game Saturday night, putting UCO at 2-4 for this football season. UCO started off strong by scoring the first touchdown at 2:35 in the first quarter. Quarterback Brandon Noohi made the twoyard run in for the touchdown, and Chad Susman kicked for an extra point. -Page 8
"We want to show that poverty is not just homeless people on the street." --Lindsay Holder
with the VSLC. "Every day [this week], if you are on campus, you will see something regarding Poverty Awareness Week." The highlight of the demonstrations will be the "Shack-a-thon," which will feature groups of UCO students spending the week in cardboard shacks around campus to display how homeless people live.
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Visitors to the UCO Internet home page may notice a change in the Web site's address. Between now and Jan. 2, 2009 the Web site will progressively change from the ucok.edu domain to uco. edu . Stephanie Edwards, director of Information Technology Internet Strategy, said her department would be migrating all e-mail addresses from username@ucok.edu to username@ uco.edu. According to www.uco.edu/ newhome, the domain change already went into effect. All services and Web sites must be migrated to uco. edu domain by the January expected completion date. "It is the right thing to do for the University, to marry the traditional UCO with the Internet home uco. edu," Edwards said. "The timing is because uco.edu became available and it was a great opportunity to take advantage of it." After Jan. 2, all links at "ucok.edu " will no longer function, according to the Web site. According to www.uco.edu/ newhome.edu, prospective students and other visitors university Web sites commonly type in a URL that makes sense to them, such as the initials of an institution. All ucok.edu email accounts will still be valid until the final transition date in January of next year, according to the Web site.
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Wall Street tumbles amid global sell-off By Joe Bel Bruno and Tim Paradis
Asssociated Press
Bronchos win over SW Baptist
University to drop "k" from ucok.edu By Nelson Solomon
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The UCO Forensic Science institute will welcome Dr. Henry Lee, a renowned forensic scientist, for a presentation at Constitution Hall as part of UCO's "Passport to China." The presentation, which will be free and open to the public, will take place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 7. Dr. Lee will be speaking about his high profile work, which includes the O.J. Simpson and Jon Benet Ramsay murder cases said Dr. Dwight Adams, director of the UCO Forensic Science Institute.
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NEW YORK -- Wall Street suffered through another extraordinary and traumatic session Monday, with the Dow Jones industrials plunging as much as 800 points — their largest one-day point drop — before recovering to close with a loss of 370. The catalyst for the selling, which also took the Dow below 10,000 for the first time in four years, was investors' growing despair that the spreading credit crisis will take a heavy toll around the world. Investors have come to the realization that the Bush administration's $700 billion rescue plan and steps taken by other governments won't work quickly to unfreeze the credit markets. That sent stocks spiraling downward in the U.S., Europe and Asia, and drove investors to sink money into the relative safety of U.S. government debt. Fears about a global recession also caused oil to drop below $90 a barrel. "The fact is, people are scared and the
only thing they're doing is selling," said Ryan Detrick, senior technical strategist at Schaeffer's Investment Research. "Investors are cleaning out portfolios and getting rid of everything because nothing seems to be working." The selling was so extreme that only 264 stocks rose on the NYSE — and 2,986 dropped. That's a telling sign considering the stock market is considered a leading economic indicator, with AP Photo by Mary Altaffer investors tending to buy and sell based on where they believe the economy will be The Dow Jones news ticker is reflected on a window at the NASDAQ building just before the closing bell, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008 in New in six to nine months. York's Times Square. Monday's stock trading extended what has been an exceptional stretch of This latest decline indicates that investors volatility, in which triple-digit drops in the are becoming more convinced that the Dow are becoming almost commonplace; country is leading a prolonged economic in the past week, the blue chips have fallen crisis that is shifting to other nations. more than 1,100 points, or nearly 11 percent.
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