University of Central Oklahoma
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THURSDAY November 7, 1991
Live from UCO; comedy writer By Pam Thurman Student Writer
Iowa Student Kills 5 IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — When Gang Lu's doctoral dissertation wasn't chosen by a University of Iowa committee for an academic honor, he filed a complaint and he bought a .38-caliber revolver. He took the gun to a weekly meeting of the physics and astronomy department Friday, where he killed five people and himself. Lu, 28, shot to death three professors and the student whose dissertation last spring was nominated for the award. He then went to another building, where he fatally shot an administrator and wounded her secretary.
Walter's son charged with drug possession NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Prosecutors filed misdemeanor charges Tuesday against Shaun David Walters, the 19-year-old son of Gov. David Walters, and his girlfriend after police alleged they found drug paraphernalia at the younger Walters' residence. Norman police Sgt. Bill Johnson said police answered an alarm call at the home and found the front door open, or unsecured. Confiscated material included a marijuana seed, grow light, Styrofoam cups, potting soil and a homemade device apparently used for smoking marijuana.
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Live from New York, it's Mark O'Donnell, a multi-talented writer whose credits include "Saturday Night Live," "Ha!," "Comedy Zone," and "MTV's Halfhour Comedy Hour." O'Donnell will be at the University of Central Oklahoma on Saturday morning to speak to the Creative Studies Writer's Institute about comedy writing. O'Donnell graduated from Harvard University where he wrote for the Lampoon. He mailed samples of his writing to SNL from college but never heard anything back. A year after graduation he moved to New York where he met the headwriter of SNL, who thought he was funny and hired him, O'Donnell said. "It seems you have to be there. If people knoW' you in flesh and blood, it helps reinforce their notion of you and your work as existing," O'Donnell said. He wrote for SNL in 1981 at the same time Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo were part of the cast. He wrote many of the Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood segments, a take-off of the popular childrens show, "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood," that featured Murphy. "I left 'Saturday Night Live' because as a playwright and story writer, I'm protective of my personal vision. Everything was done at the last minute in a dead heat, and sometimes I liked it and sometimes I didn't," O'Donnell said. O'Donnell said he considered working at SNL more of a sideline and he is prouder of the fact that he has published a book of short stories, "Elementary Education," and four plays.
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"It's a very satisfying feeling, seeing your work on stage, on screen, or on the page, the official typeset. When your work finds its way to the audience and there is communion between you and the audience's mind, that's what makes it worthwhile," O'Donnell said. He grew up in Cleveland and won a contest in the third grade with a song he wrote that was played on local radio. At 17 he won the Dramatics' National Student Playwrights' Competition, O'Donnell said. "I took a bus to Ball State in Muncie, Ind.
Astronaut's talk launches Flu shots National Chemistry Week available By Marcia Benedict
Hill chosen for '91 magazine honor NEW YORK (AP) — Anita Hill has picked up another honor in the wake of her testimony during Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination hearings, this time from Glamour Magazine. The magazine, in picking "1991's bright spots," said it chose women who were "beacons of integrity, humor, guts and grace in an often graceless and cold-blooded world." Hill was named "for sacrificing her privacy to speak out for women." Hill will be featured in Glamour's December issue.
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to see the production of my play, 'Bricks, — O'Donnell said. "It was exciting." O'Donnell said he and his twin brother, who is head writer for "Late Night with David Letterman," have wanted to be writers as long as he can remember. "When we were five or six years old we would create picture books and share them with each other," O'Donnell said. O'Donnell will speak from 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday in Old North, room 206. Everyone can attend; cost for non-members of CSWI is $5. For more information contact Pam Thurman 722-8824. V
Staff Writer An astronaut who has spent more than 500 hours in space will speak to students at the University of Central Oklahoma, at 7:30 tonight in the Liberal Arts Building at the Pegasus Theater. Dr. Shannon Lucid, a native of Bethany, will deliver a lecture entitled, "Chemistry and Space," to students as a part of National Chemistry Week, said Dr. Terrill Smith, UCO chemistry professor and coordinator of chemistry week. "Everything related to the physical world is related to outer space," he said. Lucid has been involved as a crew member on three space shuttle missions, and has worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration testing shuttles and serving as chief of mission support and chief of astronaut appearances. In addition to Lucid's lecture, students have an opportunity to attend a career day panel discussion and open house, Friday, Smith said.
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The department will present a panel discussion from 1 to 2:30 p.m., Friday, in Howell Hall, Room 320. From 3 to 5 p.m. students can tour the chemistry department. "When students are in chemistry classes it can be a little hard to make connections between their studies and the everyday world. So, we want to emphasize to the students in particular, that what they are studying is an important part of their lives," Smith said. V
Flu shots are available at the Health Center, and supply is limited, said Susan LaForge, RN and director of the center. "We do not have much of the vaccine left, so its first come first serve," said LaForge. There are three different types of flu virus; A/Beijing, A/Taiwan, and B/Panama, T 2Forge said. "And a person can get protection from one shot, and it will cover the three types of the flu virus," said LaForge. Persons with adverse reactions to such testing should not be vaccinated, she said. And the flu shot should not be administered to individuals with a history of hypersensitive (allergy) to the chicken egg. "A person may experience swelling and soreness in the arm, after receiving a shot," said LaForge. "But it should not make a person sick, because there is nothing in the shot."