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November
1990HE 8 9, No. 21 Vol.
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VISTA
Tuesday Edition
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Alcohol abuse alleged By Matt Fithian Student Writer
Soaring above the steps of the Max Chambers Library, an skateboarder performs a stunt. Campus police said they constantly discourage this type of activity because of the risk of personal injury. (Photo by Ken Freeman)
Pageant contestants must apply today By Barbara Dewailley Staff Writer Although Central Sate University's fifth annual Miss Black CSU Pageant is not scheduled until Jan. 26, the deadline for contestants is today, officials said. Sherri Wright, pageant planning assistant, said several students have signed up to compete, and she expects good
participation. "Practice begins today from 6-9 p.m. in the University Center, Comanche Room. Renee Summers, Tracy Owens and Lyndell Walls are our committee members who will help plan the pageant," Wright said. Contestants must be full-time students with at least a 2.0 grade point average. For more information call Wright at Ext. 2593.
Six Central State University students were accused last Friday of violating the university's alcohol policy while at a schoolsponsored political science event in Oklahoma City. The students were CSU delegates to the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Legislature (O.I.L.). The students' names were submitted by delegate Leslie Aaron to Dudley Ryan, dean of student affairs. If found guilty, the students could face academic probation. Aaron said she named David Slane, Terry LeFrance, Jeffrey Aynes, Tracy Bartley, Sabra Thorpe and Mike Sullivan. Slane is the Student Association's vice president, and LeFrance is the senate speaker. Both could be forced to relinquish their posts if found guilty, LeFrance said. Rule violations were reported by Aaron to have occurred Thursday night in the hotel hallway and speaker's hotel room at the Sheraton Century Plaza in downtown Oklahoma City. LeFrance, Bartley, Aynes and Sullivan have admitted to drinking but said they violated no rules since they were drinking in public
hallways and in rooms not directly paid for by CSU. Delegates also contend they were not representing CSU at the time, but were on their own time as private citizens. A recent O.I.L. rules decision appears to support their claim by limiting O.I.L. business hours to those in which the mock legislatures are in session. Slane maintains he violated no rules, either of the delegation or of CSU, while he attended O.I.L.. Aaron stated she saw Thorpe in possesion of alcohol, but not
drinking. Aaron said Ryan told her those named should withdraw from the delegation. Later, Ryan, in conference with the accused, agreed to allow the delegation's steering committee to take any immediate disciplinary action they deemed necessary. He also told the delegates he would refer the matter to the Student Association for further action on the matter, LeFrance said. Please see ALCOHOL on page 8.
Student newspaper to unwrap design The Vista will feature centennial coverage, a new design and its largest printing ever Thursday. The redesign is an attempt to improve the newspaper's readability and create a more professional product, Mark Hanebutt, director of The Vista, said. "With the addition of the Associated Press earlier this fall and the upcoming changes in The Vista, we think Central State University will get a much-improved newspaper," Hanebutt said. The centennial section will feature articles and photographs ab-
out significant people and their impact on CSU during the school's first 100 years. CSU's student newspaper began publishing in 1903, and in recent years it has generally printed and distributed 5,000 copies twice weekly. Seven thousand five hundred copies will be printed Thursday. Normally an eight-page newspaper, The Vista's Thursday edition will be 16 pages, one of the largest productions in the publication's history.
CNN denies judge's order
OSU alums warn of elitism
MIAMI (AP) In a fight over freedom of the press, Cable News Network defied a federal court judge by broadcasting tapes of prison telephone calls between ousted Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and his defense team, U.S District Judge William Hoeveler told CNN's attorneys only minutes before Friday's broadcast that he would hold the network in contempt if the tapes were played. No immediate contempt citation was issued. CNN President Tom Johnson said the judge's order was an unconstitutional violation of freedom of the press, but Hoeveler said it was necessary to guarantee Noriega's right to a fair trial on drug-trafficking charges. "Here we have a novel problem—the right of the accused to have a fair trial," the judge said. "We lose sight of the fact that to satisfy the clamor of the reading and listening public, (we jeopardize) the right of the defendant, and that is the right I am going to protect." CNN has asked Atlanta's 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn Hoeveler's order. The Justice Department said the Bureau of Prisons has the right to tape all prisoners' calls and does so routinely, but Noriega attorney Jon May said calls between Noriega and his attorneys were to be confidential,
STILLWATER (AP)—The Oklahoma State University Alumni Association is urging members to protest higher admission standards that that group says could lead to academic elitism. In an eight-page position paper dated Wednesday, the association asked Oklahoma State alumni to write the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to oppose some of the proposed standards, said Jerry Gill, the group's executive director. "We are for academic excellence for OSU, but we're not for academic elitism," Gill said. "It's not our role to be highly selective as a land grant university." Gill said tougher admission standards and a 185 percent increase in tuition since 1982 already have contributed to a decrease in enrollment at OSU. He said as his group watched enrollment drop, "we became concerned that a land grant university could be excluding students who have consistently gone here." Gill said the alumni association is not opposed to all of the regents' admission requirements, but he said they could be moving too quickly to allow poorly funded state high schools to improve academic programs. He said while the group is interested in academic excellence, "we just disagree with the long-term effect" if standards are raised too quickly.
Group opposes site growth ENID (AP)—An environmental group wants the state attorney general to intercede in a dispute over a corporation's planned expansion of a toxic waste dump. Attorney General Robert Henry received a letter from Save the Cimarron Inc. earlier in the week, asking that he step in and require U.S. Pollution Control Inc. to hold two public hearings on the matter. USPCI is planning to expand from 10 cells to 14 cells its operation near Fairview. The cells are near the city of Enid's water wells. Claire Newsom, co-chairwoman of the environmental organization, told Henry in a letter that the state Health Department has not been able to produce a transcript of the original public hearing held in 1978.