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Safe passage across Second St. debated by university, city

Lt. Col. Terry L. May park dedication Nov. 11

by Courtney Bryce Vista Staff Writer

Elevated walkway proposed at a cost of more than $1 million

by Trisha Evans Vista Senior Staff Writer

UCO and the City ofEdmond are working on a solution to make it safe to cross Second Street on foot, after a student pedestrian was hit by a car while crossing the street Sept. 19.

Karen Ocker, director of Transportation and Parking Services, said an elevated walkway is a possible solution.

The City of Edmond has proposed the pedestrian bridge as a possible Centennial Commission Project for the State Legislature to consider as a key community concern.

The city has asked for funding for a similar bridge that would allow people to walk over West Edmond Road to the Festival Market Place near Downtown Edmond, Ocker said. The estimated cost is $1.2 million.

She said an elevated walkway near UCO would cost more because that portion of Second Street is a federal highway, and therefore must comply with the American Disability Act, most likely requiring an elevator for wheelchairs.

"There has been some discussion, but no formal committees are set up," said Tom Minnick, Edmond traffic planner. "There are a lot of issues that have to be ironed out."

Minnick said the biggest issue is funding. The question of who will pay for the project and who will maintain it is still

being debated. The portion of Second Street by UCO is also U.S. Highways 77 and 66.

The city is not going to hire an engineer to design the bridge until a funding source is found, he said. The design for the bridge could cost the city between $80,000 and $100,000.

"There are a lot of hurdles that need to be jumped before this could become reality," Minnick said.

A small task force will be formed of UCO, city, Centennial Committee members and Oklahoma Department of Transportation officials, Ocker said "It's a costly project and we're not sure it would be used by the students," Minnick said.

"How can we assume that they would use the bridge? Would they continue to just cross the street as they do now?"

Kathleen Martin, theatre arts sophomore, said the walkway would be more convenient than waiting at the stoplight.

"Hell yeah, I'd use it. It would be a lot safer than walking across with 40 mile an hour cars," said Clint Hays, theatre arts junior.

Ocker said the city ofEdmond conducted research that found an average of 53 students crossing Second Street every hour.

The number will likely increase when the new Oklahoma State Bureau of

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Tracy Monahan, daughter of Lt, Col. Terry L. May, taps her rank Nov. 11 and shares memories of when her father commissioned her as an officer at UCO. The park was dedicated in front of a crowd of friends, colleagues and representatives from the community. The park, on the northwest corner of Thatcher Hall, includes an ROTC cannon, flagpole and newly installed benches and shrubbery.

In his tenure at UCO, May taught, led the Broncho Battalion and served as an administrator.

Winter blanket drive targets seniors' living in poverty

UCONNECT set for site

by Amanda Black Vista Staff Writer

upgrade over Christmas

Sigma Phi Omega, the honor society for gerontology at UCO, is sponsoring Project Keep Warm for older adults who live below the poverty line in Oklahoma County.

The society would like to gather enough items to help 100 seniors keep warm, said Dr. Douglas Reed, Sigma Phi Omega adviser.

They will collect "unused blankets, lap quilts, hats, gloves and scarves," Reed said.

Society officials ask that the tags are still on the unused items when donated.

In addition to donations, "the chapter has raised some funds which will be used to purchase these items," Reed said. Cash donations can also be made to the society.

Chapter President David

Access, grades, e-mail will be unavailable for 11 days

by Brett Deering Vista Staff Writer UCONNECT will be offline over the Christmas break from 8 a.m. Dec. 23 to 8 a.m. Jan. 3 for a major system upgrade.

"There was no 'good' time to do it," said Drew Duke, UCO director for Student Financial Services. "Since Banner and UCONNECT are interconnected, it had to be at the same time."

"We will have a 'frequently asked questions' page (at www. ucok.edu) on the down-time," said Mark Moore, UCO direc-

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for of Process Services for Administration.

"We will also have e-mail blasts (to students)," Duke said.

"We felt this was the least damaging time, for all of the university," Duke said. "But the biggest problem with downtime is grades."

Jerry Legere, assistant vice-president for Enrollment Management, said his office will post grades online from instructors that get grades in early throughout finals week.

"All during final exam week, as grades get in, we put them

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A scene from the play "Pterodactyls" Nov. 10 that involves a large dinosaur skeleton made out of foam. The Theatre Department will present an encore of the show Nov. 16 and 17.

Reba Collins, UCO emeritus journalism professor, died at 5 a.m. Nov. 14 Collins, 80, graduated from UCO, then-Central State College with a bachelor's degree in English and journalism in 1958 and taught from 1958 to 1975 at UCO. Gloria Quaid, former UCO student and owner of the Bethany Tribune, said Collins was a significant part of her and her husband's lives. She said she first met Collins when she wrote press releases for her through UCO Public Relations.

"I met her when I was 17.

She was 36," Quaid said. "I didn't know it was unusual for a freshman to write press releases."

Quaid said Collins asked her to write the copy for the Bronze Book after the original writer they had fell through.

She said Collins recruited Tom Quaid to UCO by promising him a job on the yearbook staff and a debate scholarship.

Quaid said that's how she met her husband.

"She (Collins) told me I would think he's really something," Quaid said. "And I did."

Quaid said she and her husband later published two of

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World's cultures displayed, celebrated at 30th Inn Fest

by Trisha Evans Vista Senior Staff Writer

More than 1,000 people turned out for the 30th annual International Festival Nov. 10 in the ballrooms at the Nigh University Center.

The event included food, dance, song• and the celebration of cultures from around the world.

"We are here to celebrate our differences," said Lanre Daniels, ISC president. "The International Student Council put this together so we can be able to share the beauty of culture."

Eleven country organizations performed and 16 had informational booths with cultural elements from their countries.

The displays and performances were judged.

The Kenya Student Association won the performance segment of the festival for their dance. Juchitra Tadimalla performed a traditional folk dance, claiming second place for the India Student Association.

The Japan Student Association won third place for a traditional Hokkaido dance they performed to rock music.

Miki Arikawa said the dance is a customary good luck dance for fishermen.

by Vista photographer Naomi Takebuchi A band from Pakistan also competed, performing Is song Juchitra Tadimalla, from India, performs a traditional folk dance they wrote for earthquake vic- during the 30th annual International Festival Nov. 10 at the Nigh University Center. She won second place for her performance. tims in Pakistan.

The Morocco Student See photos from the International Festival, Pg. 7.

Association won first place Many students dressed in Nance, international admissions for their display, a canopy tent their countrie's traditional attire adviser. where visitors could sit on and a few participated in an International Festival is one bright-colored pillows and drink iptemational fashion show, a of five "signature events" held traditional mint tea. yOw element added to the festi- on campus.

The Nigeria Student val this year.

Association won second place Students from 91 different for their display and the Kenya countries are represented at Trisha Evans can be reached at Student Association placed UCO this semester, said Linda tevans@thevistaonline.com . third. ,I

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Much A Do About Nothing I am writing regarding the article "Side of Controversy Served up With Theatre Production" from the November 8, 2005 issue of The Vista. I didn't know. I was stepping into a hornet's nest about the controversy over free speech for this play. I was asked to moderate a panel dealing with homosexuality, AIDS and other aspects brought forth by this play. I had not seen the play and my training is in film criticism, not theatrical, but there are similarities. I put together a very qualified panel to respond to this production.

What upsets me most is the

incendiary discourse the news framing ofthe story caused. I did not know I would be juxtaposed to a backlash of campus voices against the right to show a form of art. What upsets me most are the prejudicial statements voiced by some of the students on the campus and the cowardly people who were upset by the kissing scene between men in the paper.

First, the University has the obligation to support ALL constituents of the campus--gay, straight, bi., heterosexual, religious and atheist. A university does not practice thought control. Why polarize groups against one another? That is

what Jerry Springer does on his talk show, and it does not dead to civil discourse. The gay kiss between men has a long history of being censored in the media, yet no one sent letters to the Vista signing their hames to what they thought was offensive.

If Mr. Diaz wants the administration to listen to his side and censor, I am afraid he was born in the wrong time period.

Perhaps he needs a lesson in McCarthyism where censorship, job loss, and unleashed terror were part of the ultraright conformism of the 1950s.

Another oft-quoted chapter of the Bible used against gays and

even to kill them is Leviticus 20, verse 13. Literally taken it says, that homosexuality is an abomination and they should be put to death. I don't call that love. I call those Biblical literalists preachers of bigotry and hate. Gay and lesbian youth suicide is about 30% higher than other groups, according to the Depat talent of Health and Human Services. I know of students being kicked out of their homes for declaring they are gay or lesbian. I had a good friend murdered for being gay.

Apparently, some people do not practice love for the sinner, as Mr. Findley suggests.

Lastly, how can a group

of people really judge a piece of art without seeing it? I did not like the play's very tragic ending and the glamorizing of death. Without addressing issues of real-life, people do not feel safe in their environments.

Hypocrisy and denial continues, and unquestioned persecution will reign supreme. The play succeeds in bringing out into the open what once was invisible and unhealthy into the open for public discussion and debate. In an age where sex can mean death, we must educate about AIDS and promiscuity.

We must protect ourselves from contracting this dreadful disease, which does not have a

sexual orientation.

I suggest Mr. Diaz do what other groups have done on campus. That is, to stage his own production, such as the very good Vagina Monologues done by students not in the theatre department. The worst we can do to others in a democratic society is to silence them. All voices must be allowed to stake out their perspectives and to accept a response to them.

It fascinates me how so many people in this day and age see the absence of leadership as better than taking a stance when it comes to major political issues and I can't help but apply that apathetic mindset to the results of recent polling of Governor Henry. Survey USA recently conducted an approval poll that reported 62% of Oklahomans believe he is doing a good job while 33% disapprove of the

Governor's leadership. But as I began speaking to more and more of my liberal friends and co-workers it became obvious to me that the reason they liked Governor Henry was because he hasn't drawn any major opposition to his obtuse economic theories. Had these same individuals actually heard another side to the argument, they said they might have been more inclined to reject the Governor's eco-

nomic plans to bring Oklahoma out of the gutter that Sandy Garrett and Governor "Read Ya'll" Henry have put before us.

Its almost laughable in some instances to gauge the reactions

tions, their immediate response is to act in defense as though they themselves were put on the witness stand. They cannot defend the fifteen years of Sandy Garrett's downfall where education has done nothing but come closer and closer to the bottom of the list of schools with the best education. Just when you think we cannot fall any further under the Garrett reign of doom it gets worse.

Apathetically we've ignored the opportunities to replace a person who has long since been a cancer to the success of the Department of Education and instead decided that it must be somebody else's fault.

All that being said, if the Democratic leadership consistently does not offer economically reasonable means not just to bring a sound process to fund education but a means to bring

QUALITATIVE education to the children of Oklahoma, then that leadership must be replaced or we as a state will continue to live with rising costs and thinner wallets to contend those costs.

The problem lies within and it is resolved with fiscally conservative candidates who will cut waste-spending and trim the fat of big government.

-Kyle E. Houts, UCO College Republicans

of my Henry-supporting friends because for one second they will hoot and holler for victory of a passed proposition but when it comes to the end results of the productivity of these proposi-

-Kole Kleeman, Ph.D. Professor of Mass Communication

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The Terry May Park; a fitting ceremony for a friend of the university

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o many great and wellloved professors, administrators and students have passed through UCO in more than 100 years. In fact, everyone who has a stake in this campus leaves a little something behind. We cannot honor everyone who has made a difference here, but it was nice to see the park for Lt. Col. Terry L. May come to fruition Nov. 11.

Not many students on campus will remember May, but his name still carries weight at

all levels of the university. He headed up ROTC, taught classes and served as an administrator, all after his military career.

In recent years, he spoke to writing classes in the former Journalism Department (now Dept. of Mass Communication) about the work that he came to be remembered for: reporting the stories of veterans for a column in The Edmond Sun. May told students about meeting with veterans, some quite old, who entrusted him

with stories they had not told in years, if ever.

May told journalism students to be compassionate, patient and make interview subjects corn fortable talking about their experiences. He stressed accuracy

and being informed of the subject matter at hand, before conducting any interview.

Unfortunately, many in the journalism classes did not get to know him well because when he spoke to classes in recent years his health was already in decline.

Memorials cannot be erected for all the great minds that have touched our campus after they have passed away. The new park, however, is a beautiful addition to the campus and to

a good man, a good soldier and a good educator who surely made the same impression on others as he made on those who met him and heard him speak.

The journalism students who were lucky enough to have met him will surely take his advice with them in their journalism careers.

The Vista Editorial Board can be reached at editorial@thevistaonline.com .

WORD ON THE STREET: THE CITY OF EDMOND AND UCO ARE WORKING ON A PLAN TO MAKE IT SAFER TO CROSS SECOND STREET. Compiled and photographed by Justin Avera.

Would you use an elevated walkway over Second Street if one was built?

"Oh yeah. You just wait there (at the stoplight) for five minutes and then they give you like two seconds to walk across. I think the walkway is a good idea."

"It's not a traffic problem that's keeping me from walking. It's where I'm going."

"Hell yeah, I'd use it. It would be a lot safer than walking across with 40 mile per hour cars."

"Yes, walking over here I almost got hit twice."

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Ashley Ohisen

Engineering, freshman

Clint Hays

Nursing, freshman

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New look, functions for UCONNECT planned for early 2006

by Brett Deering

Vista Staff Writer UCONNECT will undergo a face-lift over Christmas break to give students more options for Internet access and communication with university administrative functions.

The current system consists of UCONNECT and the integrated information system, which hosts services like Broncho Central, said Sandra Thomas, assistant vice-president for Information Technology.

"Banner is the back-bone of all administrative services," she said.

The upgrade will bring together services like class registration, financial aid, bursar and academic records so stu-

dents can have access from one location, UCONNECT. "The two systems will interact much better," said Drew Duke, UCO director for Student Financial Services. "Banner will be able to send and receive (to UCONNECT) more efficiently."

When students log-in to the new site with their current ID and password, a series of tabs or 'channels' will appear, across the top of the page, with campus and personal announcement boxes in the body of the page, and e-mail is loaded and opened in the top-right corner.

Duke said students will be able to configure the channels to receive web-content of their choice. "There's an infinite number of tabs and an infinite

number of channels per tab," he said.

"It's a true portal (to the internet)," said Duke.

The new UCONNECT channels provide content using RSS feeds or "rich site summary," programs that web-content providers use as "A means of circulating headlines and links to new stories on their sites," states Jonathan Eisenzopf in a 2000 article on the Web site New Architect Magazine.

The new UCONNECT allows students to subscribe to providers that use RSS feeds, so each time students log-in to their account, their selected channels update the latest headlines from a given provider, and students can link to those stories

and Web sites.

"You can choose whatever you want," Duke said. "Whether you want it to subscribe to The Chronicle of Education or what the Comedy Central joke of the day is or Google Earth Zoos."

Duke said as the new system is used, more RSS-enabled feeds will be selectable in a menu UCONNECT will provide for students to configure their page. He said there will also be tutorial tabs that instruct students how to subscribe and configure RSS feeds they find on their own.

"You can probably expect hundreds (of providers on the list) with this system," he said.

Certain tabs will be permanent on UCONNECT, like "school services" and a

"registration" tab, Duke said.

"There's some real-estate (space on the page) taken up by some defaulted in-channels."

Duke said permanent tabs like 'school services' will allow university personnel to better answer student questions like "How do I enroll?"

"It's important for us to be able to say 'well, you need to log-in to UCONNECT, it's under the school services tab and it's the channel on the farright column,' or something like that. That's the reason we wouldn't allow that (students to remove these tabs), because we couldn't offer the help," he said.

Duke said the upgrade's new information reciprocity between

the administration system and UCONNECT will allow students to transmit and receive information for most administrative functions in a near 'realtime' environment.

"You can do things in response to the information you're getting. You can send information back to the administrative system saying 'Hey, I just paid this $15 parking ticket, let me enroll,' which it would do," he said.

"This is the part that's powerfully different from the old system," Duke said.

UCOnnect will be offline from 8 a.m. Dec. 23 until 8 a.m.

Jan. 3.

University offices are scheduled to be closed from Dec. 22 to Jan. 2.

SITE from page 1 on the system twice a day, in the morning and the afternoon," Legere said. "The following week, all grades have to be in by Tuesday at noon from faculty, the 20th of December."

Legere said decisions on academic standing, whether a student is put on, removed from or will continue on academic probation or suspension, will be posted late in the afternoon of Dec. 20. He said students who h ve been suspended as a result of fall grades will have their s ring enrollments removed from the system by the afternoon of Dec. 21.

"That will free-up closed spaces (in classes) for other students," he said.

Legere said transcripts will be available by the late afternoon of Dec. 20, and fall graduation status reviews should be

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Heather DeFord, seated, shows off her artwork to her grandparents Horace and Jackie DeFord Nov. 11 during a reception for the art exhibit "An Eyeful" at the Individual Artists of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City. The exhibit includes works by 12 UCO senior art students. The exhibit continues through Nov. 26.

Northwestern signs lease for Woodward campus

DRIVE from page 1 Sanders said, "The unprecedented rise in fuel costs means a very costly winter. We are concerned with our low income seniors and their ability to keep warm.

Providing them with ways to keep warm while in their homes will be of tremendous service to this frail population." • Vycke McEwen, secretary of Sigma Phi Omega, said, "This project is an effort to provide those seniors who have given so much for so long with some

items that will not only help ward off the winter's cold, but will be a tangible reminder that someone cares about them."

Donations will be taken in the Human Environmental Science Building, Rm. 209 through Nov. 30. For off campus donation sites, contact Vycke McEwen at 570-2483.

Amanda Black can be reached at ablack@thevistaonline.com .

ALVA, Okla. (AP) - Regents have approved plans by Northwestern Oklahoma State University to lease 40 acres of land in Woodward to construct a permanent campus.

Northwestern will construct a $2.5 million general classroom and office building at the site, with construction expected to begin in spring 2007.

The 100-year lease was approved Friday in Alva by the

Board of Regents of Oklahoma Colleges.

"Today marks an important milestone for the future of Northwestern and the future of Woodward," said Northwestern President Paul Beran. "A permanent facility in Woodward has been on the drawing board for almost 10 years, and I am thankful that the hard work of so many people is being rewarded today."

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completed by 5 p.m., Dec. 21.

"And we're also hoping that we'll have their degrees posted (online) if they've graduated," he said.

Sandra Thomas, assistant vice-president for Information Technology, said student e-mails wouldn't be lost while the system is offline, just stored until the upgrade is finished. "Once the upgrade is complete, they will be sent to the new server to your account. You won't miss an e-mails," she said.

Thomas said UCONNECT does have a feature to forward e-mails, but since the system will be offline, the utility won't work.

Brett Deering can be reached at bdeering@thevistaonline.com.

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He said the most logical place for the walkway would be between the OSBI building and Central Plaza.

Ocker said she questioned whether the elevated walkway would be cost effective.

"Quite honestly, is a bridge over the street the best option?

I'm not convinced it is, and I'm not convinced it is not," Ocker said. "I don't think we've done enough internal studies to know , the answer to that. There are a lot of options out there that we have not explored."

She said a tunnel and a train system is another possible solution.

Minnick said the tunnel

option would pose drainage and safety concerns.

Ocker said the Broncho Bus already exists for students to ride.

The bus stops at Central Plaza every 30 minutes beginning at 7:40 a.m. and running until 2 p.m.

Ashley Nickelson, history junior, said the Broncho bus is a cheaper solution to the walkway. She said she would use the shuttle if she could ever catch it.

"If it stops, it only stops for like 10 seconds," Nickelson said. "It's just a totally useless service to have."

Trisha Evans can be reached at tevans@thevistaonline.com.

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Musicians gear up for several upcoming concerts

by Courtney Bryce Vista Staff Writer Horns, bassoons, percussion instruments and a string quartet will cover the stage as music students perform in the UCO Chamber Ensembles Concert at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17 in Mitchell Hall.

Dr. Lori Wooden, director of the Broncho Bassoon Band and coordinator of the event, said the Percussion Consort, E'spirit du Horn (the Horn Choir), Broncho Bassoon Band and a quartet called Quartetto Three Plus One will perform.

"It's a collaborative concert of the individual concerts," said David Hardman, director of percussion studies and the Percussion Consort.

Hardman said he is picking a few pieces from the Percussion Consort's upcoming concert Nov. 20 in the ,M77 Lab. He said any instrument that can be struck, scraped or shaken is a percussion instrument, which includes the drums, maracas, chimes and the xylophone.

Hardman said the difference between a big concert band or orchestra and an ensemble is that there's no one to follow in an ensemble.

"There's no conductor in a small group," Hardman said.

"It's more about listening. It's a more intimate group."

Dr. Sion Honea, head of music theory and history and director of E'spirit du Horn, said his group specializes only in the French horn. He said the drawback of directing a larger group with several instruments is that as a director he can't stop and work with a particular instrument.

"The benefit is that it (a small ensemble) allows you to work in more detail on the difficulties of that particular instrument," Honea said.

Honea said any student that is majoring in music with an emphasis in horn must play in E'spirit du Horn.

"If you are taking applied horn and you are a horn major, you must participate for the training," he said.

Honea said the ensemble is open to any qualified member of the student body. He said the ensemble currently has one horn member that is actually studying with an emphasis in the trumpet.

He said E'spirit du Horn will perform one classical and one romantic piece at the concert.

"I picked them because they

Alan Ridout, which they adopted as their theme song.

"We play it every time we perform," she said. "It literally sounds like pigs. It's a funny piece. We do some serious pieces and some that are just fun."

Wooden said her bassoon players are pretty diverse and can play anything from Five Renaissance Quartets music to Bach to Mozart.

"We also play such things at the 'Pink Panther' and 'Baby Elephant Walk' by Henry Mancini," she said.

Wooden said next semester the group will be working on a new piece called "The Monster that Devoured Cleveland."

Zac Henthorn, music performance sophomore and Broncho Bassoon member, said he is looking forward to performing the music he's been working on.

"It ( an ensemble) is a lot more close knit," Henthorn said.

"It's a lot more responsibility because there's not another instrument to get your back."

He said the bassoon is a very unique instrument.

"Bassoon is a quirky instrument," Wooden said.

"There's not a lot of us (bassoon players)," Henthorn said.

"It's definitely a fun instrument

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Clayton Eckert, music education sophomore, practices on the marimba xylophone Nov. 20 in preparation for an upcoming concert at Mitchell Hall.

(E'spririt du Horn) played them at a previous concert and they were well received," Honea said. "You usually try to pick some pieces that are more accessible and fun for the people. A

smaller group gives you a better engagement with the audience than a large group."

Wooden said one of the pieces the Broncho Basson Band is playing is "Pigs" by composer

to play. I'd rather play it than like the flute."

"The finger system (of the bassoon) is very chaotic," Wooden said. "But every instrument has its problems."

Wooden said she thinks there is sometimes a misconception about people's attitudes toward classical music.

"I think the genre of classical music is as unique as any other.

There's going to be people that like rap, or like country or like classical," she said. "The history (of classical) is so huge. So people might like huge romantic symphonies but hate Bach."

Wooden said she hopes nonmusic majors attend the concert.

"The kids outside of the College of Arts, Media and Design would be blown away by what some of the students are doing," she said. "I would be thrilled if all the math majors or whatever came over. It (the concert) is different."

"It's an opportunity to hear each other and the repertoire," Honea said. "You hear different styles and periods and broaden your knowledge of music in general."

Courtney Bryce can be reached at cbryce@thevistaonline.corn,

Salty endeavor pays off for one UCO student

by Courtney Bryce

Vista Staff Writer

Andrea Fredericks, UCO finance junior, proved with the success of her company, "Salt Soothers," that people of all ages and genders like to soak in the tub.

Fredericks said she came up with a formula that used different oils out of necessity.

"I moved here from California and the Oklahoma weather dried my skin out," Fredericks said. "Lotion wasn't working."

Fredericks said family members and neighbors started asking for her product so she started selling two products she devised, which were Dead Sea Salt and Dead Sea Body Scrub.

She said she used moisturizing scrubs, salts from Israel and oils in her product formula.

"I never intended to have more products or open my own company," Fredericks said.

She said one week after friends and family got a hold of her products the business

snowballed. Fredericks said "I had so many customers," she and her husband soon took Fredericks said. "She bluntly out a $10,000 loan to start the , said it's going to be too much company. m to handle. She helped me nar"Within the first six months row my focus instead of mass we paid off the loan and began customizing." to profit and build equity," Fredericks said she took Fredericks said.

McClure her original product Fredericks said she came up and the professor helped her with more products including streamline her market. spa salts, salt scrubs, bubble Fredericks said she found an bath oils and bath salts. art student, Chris Matlock, to She said she also began to help her with a design for her import Dead Sea Mud from products. Matlock designed a Israel, which is the only full picture of a girl soaking in a product she imports. bathtub.

"I brought that product in She said despite the fact that because so many women were the labels were streamlined to asking me for something to use one design, the product still on their face," Fredericks said. appealed to everybody.

"All the research I did kept "Our products appeal to pointing back to Dead Sea Mud. bath lovers, oil lovers, people It is 100 percent natural clay with dry skin, men, women, the from the Dead Sea. As it dries, young and the old," Fredericks it pulls out oil secretion and dirt said. "That's the beauty of our from the face. It also contains products." magnesium and potassium."

McClure said while she Fredericks said at first she would like to take some of the wanted to let customers cus- credit for Fredericks's success, tomize their own product labels. Fredericks virtually did the She said Dr. Nancy McClure, whole project on her own. her UCO marketing professor, "She brought in her protalked her out of it. totype," McClure said. "She

You are 'cordially invited to inquire about

needed her tags with one product to be consistent with the second."

McClure said she even got an opportunity to try out the product.

"It's amazing. I am a 50year-old woman and I did have dry skin," McClure said. "It's a great product."

McClure said another piece of advice she gave to Fredericks was to hire a manufacturer to concentrate on the whole sells so she could concentrate on the retail sells.

Fredericks said she and her husband had their hands full just attending trade shows and craft fairs to present their products to the public.

"That's how we generate so much business," Fredericks said.

She said she also attends school full-time and her husband works another job full-

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time.

"Our company has grown so incredibly fast," Fredericks said.

"There were things I couldn't do on my own."

Fredericks said since she opened the company, business has grown each month anywhere from 40 to 90 percent.

Fredericks said they also sell their products through distributors in six states. She said their newest aspect of business is a new spa product that is sold exclusively to spas.

Fredericks said "Salt Soothers" also helps schools with fundraisers.

"Schools have asked us to make a fundraising package available," Fredericks said.

She said 40 percent of the profit comes back to her business.

Fredericks said the fundraising package is also available to any UCO organization.

McClure said she's been pretty interested in keeping track of the company's progress.

"Andrea really absorbed everything she heard in class," McClure said. "She's one I can hang my head on. She's a pride."

McClure said Fredericks is not the only entrepreneur the College of Business Administration has walking through their hallways.

"I've had lots of entrepreneurs I'm pretty proud of," McClure said. "I think it says a lot about our caliber of students.

We have some creative, clever and savvy students."

Courtney Bryce can be reached at cbryce@theyistaonline.com.

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Ailing horse track hopes gaming machines will boost revenue Track officials cite tribal gaming as main reason attendance had dropped off at Remington Park OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A new 650-machine casino will open next week at Remington Park, and owners hope the $35 million renovation project will rescue the 17-year-old racetrack.

Remington Park's opening caused quite a stir in Oklahoma in the late 1980s, but attendance dropped off dramatically in the 1990s and continued to suffer with the rise of Oklahoma's tribal casino industry.

State Treasurer Scott Meacham predicts the casino

will make $65 million a year.

As mandated by the law that legalized racinos in Oklahoma, the state will receive between 10 and 25 percent of the cut of the profit. The percentage varies depending on the amount of profit. Roughly 25 percent more goes to racing purses, breeders and horsemen's organizations. Remington Park expects to clear about 55 percent before operating expenses and repaying of its renovation debt.

As the track's general manager, Scott Wells' job is to cre-

er's dozen of 15-foot murals will adorn the casino walls.

Produced by a Las Vegas company, they s were intended to represent pastoral scenes of Oklahoma, but Wells wasn't thrilled with the first offerings.

So, he plans a contest among Oklahoma artists to replace them.

Live entertainment will take place Thursdays through Sundays on a stage 10 feet above gamblers. An 84-inch video screen at the back of the stage will broadcast sporting

ate a symmetry between two distinct gambling crowds —the horse aficionados who consider racing the world's greatest sport, and those who come for the casino-style gaming action.

Many of the nation's previous racinos have struggled because of expert advice urging that the two gambling venues be kept separate, with blackened windows in the casino to prevent distractions.

The result, Wells said: A loss of ambiance.

At Remington Park, a bak-

Hiett touring Oklahoma to study impact REBA from page 1 of economic decline in rural areas Collins' books. She said the first House speaker's motives for project questioned by critics OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - a Durant-based nonprofit eco- lent incidents at prisons, PrOr Todd Hiett is nearing the finish nomic development organiza- said: "If Hiett wants to be a of a whirlwind two-month tour tion with offices in Oklahoma leader, he should get back to of Oklahoma as part of a fact- City and in the Wes Watkins Oklahoma City and take care of this issue." finding mission he initiated as Center in Stillwater.

"If anyone who attended the Like much of rural America, speaker to find ways to rescue economically depressed rural many towns on Oklahoma have hearings associated with the fallen hard economic times in REDI task force would know, areas.

From Idabel to Woodward, recent decades, the aftermath of that is a ridiculous statement," from Miami to Frederick, Hiett the industrialization of farming, responded the speaker, a former will have traveled through much the loss of some markets and dairyman. "It is the first time in many years, if not in state hisof rural Oklahoma by the time other factors.

Lisa Pryor, state Democratic tory, that a state leader has been the tour winds up on Nov. 30 Party chairwoman, said the willing to commit this kind of in Poteau.

Everyone agrees Hiett's Hiett group is duplicating effort to revitalizing the econoRural Economic Development previous efforts by the state my in rural Oklahoma.

"I have a job to do as speaker Initiative has a noble mission, Department of Commerce but the Republican speaker's and the Oklahoma Extension and I am going to do that job. critics suggest the tour may be Service, which held county-by-. Revitalizing the rural economic county "listening sessions" in is a passion of mine and I am more political than substantive.

The tour began Oct. 4 in 2003 and made suggestions on going to do everything I can Blackwell, a week before Hiett, how to help rural communities to move the state in that direction."

R-Kellyville, announced he was obtain more jobs.

He said rural residents who "We already have had two running for lieutenant governor, very credible groups gather have attended the REDI meethis first statewide race.

Others running for the post information about rural eco- ings have shown they are "huninclude House Democratic nomic development," she said. gry for leadership and solutions" Leader Jim Askins, D-Duncan, "I don't know why it needs to to their plight.

"The flow of information is and Republican Sens. Scott be done again, much less in Pruitt, R-Broken Arrow, and an election year. So, it kind of so much more productive when the Legislatures goes to the stinks.

Nancy Riley, R-Tulsa.

"My concern is what are the rural communities than when A wide open contest for the post developed when incum- citizens of Oklahoma really the rural communities come to bent Mary Fallin announced she going to get out of this? Is it a committee room at the Capitol would seek the GOP nomina- more about exposure for Hiett to express their thoughts," he tion for the 5th Congressional or is it really trying to address said.

Hiett is not ready to disclose District post Ernest Istook is issues that are important for details of the developing prorural economic development?" leaving to run for governor.

She suggested the tour could gram to help rural Oklahomans, Hiett announced the REDI be a factor in why Hiett has but says the task force is receivtour in mid-August, appointing a task force to help develop resisted calling a special session ing many solid proposals.

"The problem we are going a plan to aid rural areas. He to appropriate money to help is using $114,000 of legisla- the Department of Corrections to have is narrowing down the tive money under his control to speed up the hiring of prison ideas that we have picked up to a level that can be handled help fund the effort, along with guards.

Hiett maintains prison staff- in one legislative session," he funds from Rural Enterprises of ing problems can be fixed with said.

Oklahoma.

Hiett will be term-limited Former Republican U.S. a supplemental appropriation Rep. Wes Watkins of Stillwater, when the Legislature convenes next year and had considered a race for governor before opta former Democrat, was in regular session in February.

Citing series of escapes, ing to. :go after the.' post Fallin awarded a $60,000 retainer to work on the plan. The REI is fights and other recent. vio- is leaving. He is the state's first Republican speaker in 82 years.

book, "Will Rogers-Courtship and Correspondence 1900'915,7 is the only book in the wOrld'fbat contains all of the letters Rogers wrote while traveling around the world from 1900 to 1915, before he was famous.

They were letters he wrote to his wife while courting her.

Quaid said Rogers had a column called "Will Rogers Says."

"Governor Nigh asked her to put it together for legislatures," Quaid said.

Quaid said Collins read through his column and published articles and quotes that she liked. She said Collins' work encouraged Peter Stone to write "Will Rogers Follies."

"It's the only book sold at the "Will Rogers Follies" show on Broadway," Quaid said.

Quaid said it was probably Collins' most successful book.

"It's still going," Quaid said.

"It's like the little engine that could."

Quaid said she later asked Collins to write a column for the Bethany Tribune, which Collins also sent to the Edmond Sun. "She was a hardworking woman and she was curious," Quaid said.

Gypsy Hogan, University Relations publications editor, said wherever Collins went, she seemed to pull people together and interest them in the history she knew.

"I saw her just a few weeks ago," Hogan said.

Hogan said she was a student at UCO from 1971 to 1974. She said even though she never had a class with Collins, she always heard good reports from fellow students.

"She was well known and liked by many students and many that I knew," Hogan said.

Hogan said Collins made an appearance at the Alumni House during homecoming week to catch up with past students.

"I'm so glad she came over

events.

A buffet area next to the 76,000-square-foot gaming floor seats 150, and seating for 100 more overlooks the racetrack.

A curtain will remain down at most times, with attention there drawn toward nine flatscreen TVs. "We'll raise the curtain when we have a race we really want to show," Wells said. "Our goal from the outset has been to make this the most racing-oriented racino in the world."

and we got to see her," Hogan said. "I'm glad she came on a Friday night to see studentS.she ago. It was just taught 3 0 so kind andtrabious. She loved to visit with people."

Koveta Schibbelhute, University Relations office manager and administrative assistant, said she was Collins' secretary when she was the Public Relations director.

"She was a fabulous boss and director," Schibbelhute said.

"She had a real quiet demeanor and she ran the office without stress and yelling. Everyone had such respect for her."

Schibbelhute said Collins' advice to everyone was to do their job to the best of their ability,' and when writing a story, make sure all the facts are correct.

"She was always your friend and you could talk to her about anything," Schibbelhute said.

"Dr. Collins was my first journalism professor," said Dr. Terry M. Clark, chairman of the Department of Mass Communication. "She was a terrific writer and she loved UCO." After Collins left UCO in 1975, she was the director of the Will Rogers Memorial until 1989.

"No university has ever had a student, faculty member or alumnus like Reba Collins," said Dr. W. Roger Webb, UCO president. "Her service, loyalty and extensive contributions to Central are legend. She will forever remain our sweetheart."

The cause of Collins death was unknown at the time of publication. .

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Vista Staff Writer Nathan Winfrey contributed reporting to this article.

Courtney Bryce can be reached at cbtyce@thevistaonline.com.

CAMPUS ANNOUNCEMENTS/ MEETINGS Alpha Phi Sigma CJ honor society will hold its first charter meeting from 6 to 7 p.m. Nov. 15 in Rm. 211 at the Liberal Arts Building. For more information contact David Harrison at uco_broncho@yahoo .com or Dr. Bartgis at 974-5533.

The UCO Democratic Socialists will screen the film "WalMart: The High Cost of Low Prices," as part of its Radical Film Series at 3:20 p.m. Nov. 15 in the Troy Smith Lecture Hall at the Business Building. For more information call Tre Ronne at 306-5988.

Campus Life will host "Read & Lead," 12 to 1 p.m. Nov. 15 in the Nigh University Center, Rm. 301. Students receive a free lunch and book if they read the book by Nov. 15 and attend the lunch discussion, BookS may be picked up in the NUC, Rm. 424. For. more information call Emily Overocker at 974-2363.

The Theatre Department will perform a preview of the Play "Pterodactyls" its entry to the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16 at Mitchell Hall. The admission is $3..

The Student Programming Board will present "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" at its movie night at 8 p.m. Nov. 16 in Pegasus Theater at the Liberal Arts Building.

For more information call Brooke Wilson at 974-2593.

The UCO Toastmasters will hold a meeting at 1 p.m Nov. 16 in Rm. 320 at the Nigh University Center. For more information e-mail nchu@ucok.edu .

The First American Student Association's Indian Dance Exhibition will be from 7 to 8 p.m. Nov. 29 in Pegasus Theater at the Liberal Arts Building. Call Liz Cook at 9743588 for more information.

The Association of Information Technology Professionals will hold its monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30 in the Troy Smith Lecture Hall at the Business Building. For more information e-mail nchu@ucok.edu .

The Accounting Club's end of the semester party at 7 p.m.

Dec. 3 in the Will Rogers Ball Room at the 'Nigh University , Center. E-mail esauter@ucok. edu for more information.

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November 15, 2005

Purcell-based company provides horse clone surrogates

By JUDI BOLAND Associated Press Writer PURCELL, Okla.

While some of the mares jockey for position around the hay feeder filled with alfalfa, others check out the human visitors to their pasture, leaning forward to have their muzzle or ears scratched, searching handbags for an edible goodie.

The more than 30 healthylooking horses in this one pasture are all shapes and sizes and include an Appaloosa, a couple of bays, chestnuts, a paint and a Palomino.

None of the mares have a name, and their only identification is two plastic collars with numbers. The other thing these mares have in common is they each has been impregnated with a cloned embryo produced

by ViaGen, an Austin, Texas, company that specializes in cloning horses, cattle and pigs.

The mares are due to deliver in February.

ViaGen contracts with Purcell-based Royal Vista Southwest, which provides horses to carry these embryos, which are produced in a process where the DNA-bearing nucleus of a horse's cell is placed into an unfertilized egg, which has had its nucleus removed.

The implanted DNA drives the egg to develop into an embryo, which is'placed in a mare, which carries it to term and gives birth to a genetic clone of the animal whose DNA began the process.

Iran Polejaeva, chief scientific officer with ViaGen said the company has successfully produced clones in,seven different animal species. , The first cloned horse was born in 2003 in Italy. In 2005 Texas A&amp;M University created the first cloned horse in the United States.

ViaGen is cloning performance type horses for $150,000, for customers who want to continue their horses genetic makeup.

Currently these do not include thoroughbred racing horses.

The Jockey Club, which regulates the registration of thoroughbreds, will not allow any foal to be registered that is produced by the process of artificial insemination, embryo transfer or transplant, cloning or any other form of genetic manipulation.

The health of the breed is better served with natural breeding, said Bob Curran, Jr., Vice President of Corporate Communication for the Jockey Club.

"Because the technology is so new, the health ramifications of cloned foals need to be studied," Curran said.

The Jockey Club uses parentage verification along with DNA testing to make sure the foal has been naturally bred.

Michael San Filippo, spokesman for the American Veterinary Medical Association said endurance horse racing allows cloned competitors, as does the equine sports of show jumping, polo, carriage horse racing and dressage.

"In dressage most of the animals are geldings and they can't reproduce, so when you have an outstanding horse, then you can use the cloning process to preserve the genetic lines," Polejaeva said.

Polejaeva said that it has taken awhile but they are now having a very good success rate of collecting a tissue sample from the donor, culturing it in the laboratory, removing the existing material from an egg and injecting the cultivated cells into the egg. ViaGen laboratories then cultures the new embryo for about six days and with the next step being transferring one embryo into a surrogate.

Mark Walton, president of ViaGen, Inc. said they are not

anticipating any of the colts to have any health problems, saying "the clones are identical twins separated by time."

"Cloning is just another reproductive technology," said Polejaeva, similar to embryo transfer or artificial insemination.

ViaGen does not have any brood stock so the embryos are shipped to Oklahoma where technicians at Royal Vista Southwest, places the embryo into a mare that is on the proper cycle to receive the embryo, said Jim Bailey a veterinarian and an owner of Royal Vista Southwest.

Bailey said they screen the

mares for reproductive soundness, make sure they are healthy, are gentle and used to human contact and that the social order in the herd has been established.

"The secret to good stock is to keep them stress free," Bailey said.

"Most of these mares would go to slaughter if they were not being used for embryo transfers."

He said the mares are kept outside, even during the winter and only taken into a barn at night when it comes closer for them to deliver a colt.

"We keep a really close watch on them when it get close

to their delivery day because we only have a small window of opportunity of about 25 minutes to an hour to help with the delivery in case there is a problem," Bailey said.

Bailey is excited about the biological technology that allows reproductive technology as cloning and embryo transfer.

"In the past two years we have been making progress by leaps and bounds, so who knows where this technology will advance in the next two," Bailey said.

Jim Bailey, a veterinarian and an owner of Royal Vista Southwest, is pictured with mare number 5232 at his facility in Purcell, Okla.

Royal Vista Southwest placed cloned embryos into the mare.

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PHOTOS The UCO International Student Council presented the 30th annual International Festival in the Nigh University Center Ballroom Nov. 10.

The festival included entertainment, food and competitions between the different international organizations on campus. Over 1,000 people attended the event throughout the day.

November 15, 2005

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UCO International Festival Photos by Naomi Takabuchi

Columbian student Carolina Nova shows her traditional dress to the judges.

Hasnaoui Mohammed, journalism freshman, serves traditional Moroccan mint tea (Atai) during the Members of the Keya Student Association perform a traditional Kenyan dance during the International Festival Nov. 10. KSA won 1st prize in the performance competition.

International Festival in the Nigh University Center Ballroom Nov. 10.

Members of the Japan Student Association perform a traditional Japanese dance, "Souran-bushi," during the International Festival Nov. 10. JSA won 3rd prize in the performance competition.

ENTERTAINMENT

November 15, 2005

Martin sheds 'wild & crazy' routine, still acts like a 'jerk'

by Kelley Chambers Vista Editor-in-Chief

If Woody Allen is the king of writing odes to his favorite city, New York, and inserting himself as one of the central characters, then Steve Martin is in the running for a close second.

Martin jumped on the train in the early 90's with his homage to Los Angeles, aptly titled "L.A. Story."

Now he is back nearly a decade and a half later with "Shopgirl." The film is the antithesis of 'L.A. films like "Falling Down" and "Boys N The Hood" that highlight the city's crime and decay as Allen's films are compared to gritty New York cop dramas like "Mean Streets" and "Serpico." Everyone knows L.A. and New York are dirty and tough, but sometimes it's nice to see films that focus on an idealized version of those city's and quirky lovable characters rather than gunfights, drugs and murder.

"L.A. Story" poked fun at Los Angeles and at Martin himself. In it, he portrays the Wacky Weatherman for a local T.V. station who is actually a somber and introverted character who cannot escape his T.V. persona.

In "Shopgirl," there is no trace of Martin's trademark `wild and crazy guy'. There is no sign of King Tut; not a trace of The Jerk.

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Martin's bittersweet novella of the same name.

Hoping to change course over the past decade, Martin took more serious roles and holed up in his home in the late 90's to become a writer.

His efforts were not in vain.

He is a regular contributor to such high-brow publi-

cations as The New York Times and the New Yorker, and wrote the book of short works "Pure Drivel" and the "Shopgirl" novella.

Whatever his motivations for writing the book, it has transferred well to film.

Martin plays, (but has denied it is based on his

own life), Ray Porter, a wealthy man who falls for a much younger woman who â&#x20AC;˘ is perched at the glove counter at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills. (If memory serves, she worked at Neiman Marcus in the book.)

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At about the same time, two men come into her life.

Jeremy, a well-intentioned but immature man her age who is unfortunately little more than a cad, and Porter, the urbane older man who wants to lift Mirabelle out of her boring life and have a little fun in the process.

Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore) turns in a fine performance as Jeremy who takes to the road with a rock band and ends up becoming the kind of man Mirabelle is looking for while her relationship with Ray undergoes changes brought about by their differing opinions of the terms of their relationship.

There are moments of comedy and the same charm that made "L.A. â&#x20AC;˘ Story" so delightful.

Martin has advanced to more high-brow comedies but for fans of his comic persona he can be seen in the upcoming films "Cheaper By the Dozen 2" and a remake of "The Pink Panther." Unfortunately, Martin has taken many low brow roles.

Hopefully, we won't have to wait another few decades for Martin to crank out another L.A. fairy tale.

lonely gl ove-sellerMirabelle who moved to L.A. from Vermont to become an artist but finds herself watching the lives of people she would like to be who pass Kelley Chambers can be reached by her counter while she at kchambers@thevistaonline.com. ticks away the minutes only to return each night alone to a dreary apartment.

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"Jarhead:" A war movie without all the icky fighting aware of the Vietnam vibe and had a little fun with it. When a passing helicopter blares music by the Doors, Swoff asks, "That's Vietnam music. Can't we get our own music?"

Though a war movie with little action, "Jarhead" doesn't skimp on the gruesome imagery. The troops' nighttime march through the hellish nightmare zone of burning oil wells, lit by retreating Iraqis that by that time speckle the blackened desert sands with their charred remains, is sickeningly realistic and one of the most memorable of recent history.

The only real complaint is, ironically, with the character development. For a movie that hinges it's success on that quality, something is lacking from the script by William Broyles Jr. ("Cast Away," "Apollo 13") that doesn't really make us care enough about anyone for the movie to work like it should. In contrast, the brutal and at times disturbing "Saving Private Ryan" followed a much larger central cast, packed in the bombs and blood, and still left us with at least some of the characters' names in our heads. "Jarhead" leaves no such impression. The characters are too similar, and there's too much meanness for any of them to really gain much of our sympathy.

It's not perfect, and it is mostly forgettable, but it's one of the best movies out right now.

by Nathan Winfrey Vista Staff Writer

Any studio that releases a movie with the tagline "Welcome to the Suck" has a lot of faith in their product, and "Jarhead," a Desert Storm drama from "American Beauty" director Sam Mendes, just might be tough enough to stand up to any puns fired its way.

"Jarhead" is based on the book of the same name that chronicles the real-life experiences of author and former Marine sniper Anthony Swofford, who was one of the first 5,000 troops in the desert but never saw much action in the four-day war. Swofford really does look a little like Jake Gyllenhaal ("Donnie Darko"), who plays him in the film, if you squint your eyes, stand on your head and use your imagination a little. Leading the supporting cast is Jamie Foxx as Staff Sgt. Sykes. Foxx continues to climb the Hollywood ladder since last year's "Ray" and "Collateral."

If he would only quit making trash like "Stealth," his resume from the past year would rival any actor in the business. Peter Sarsgaard ("Garden State") also continues to prove that he's the next generation's A-list.

Not a movie about whizzing bullets and bone jarring mortars, though not entirely devoid of them, "Jarhead" focuses on the people who weren't on the

In this photo provided by Universal Studios, Staff Sergeant Sykes (Jamie Foxx) and Anthony "Swoff" Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal sustain themselves with sardonic comedy in "Jarhead." front lines, a less glamorous and perhaps less exciting aspect of the war, but interesting nonetheless.

Instead of a high body-count and thrilling displays of noble heroism set before a backdrop of tattered American flags and a swelling John Williams score, we get a slow-paced, introspec-

tive character study about a young man growing more and more unhinged with each passing day spent with brash GIs, sadistic superiors and nothing but sand, sky and dust in every direction.

This is not a month's ration of patriotism dropped by passing C-130s upon weary civilians

suspicious of the current war, the political fence.

Reminiscent of Vietnam War nor is this an attempt at antiwar propaganda targeted at vot- dramas "Platoon" and "The ers whose opinion of President Thin Red Line," "Jarhead" Bush and the war in Iraq sits on offers little that we haven't seen the fence. It is almost complete- before, but does take an interly apolitical, as it was intend- esting perspective and the Gulf ed to be, though it is quickly iWar setting helps set it apart becoming the discussion topic from its predecessors. of moviegoers on both sides of I think the filmmakers were

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Tammy Jo, who was recently

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"Nothing prepared me for the angry, hurt young man I abandoned years ago," she said through tears. "When I got out, I had this overwhelming fear.

The state took care of me for 10 years and now I not only had to take care of myself, but also my son?"

When Tammy Jo went to prison, her two sons went to live with family, who received child welfare services assistance from the state to make ends meet in an already tight family budget.

Like many mothers fresh out of prison, Tammy Jo faced a mountain of debt and had limited job opportunities. She also was handed a bill from the state for $15,000 in back child support she owed for the services provided to her children.

K.C. Moon, director of the Oklahoma Criminal Justice Resource Center, said a study released Nov. 1 of incarcerated women and their children showed that a number of caretakers in the state "fly under the radar" so mothers are not expected to pay back care for their children.

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NFL from page 12 Vikings 24, Giants 21 Safety Darren Sharper had three interceptions for the Vikings (4-5), one he returned for a 92-yard touchdown on the first play of the second quarter.

Koren Robinson ran back the second-half kickoff 86 yards and Mewelde Moore had a 71yard punt return.

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Eli Manning finished 23-of48 for 291 yards for the Giants and threw a 23-yard touchdown pass to Amani Toomer to give him 10 straight games with a touchdown pass, the longest active streak in the NFL. But he threw four interceptions and had two others that were dropped by Minnesota defenders.

Packers 33, Falcons 25 At Atlanta, Gado supported Brett Favre, who threw for 252 yards and came up with a great escape on a drive that led to Ryan Longwell's fourth field goal, a 51-yarder with 4:01 remaining that restored a ninepoint lead for Green Bay (2-7).

Less than a minute later, rookie receiver Roddy White finished off the Falcons (6-3) with their sixth fumble of the day. Nick Barnett scooped up the ball and returned it to the Atlanta 2, where Gado powered into the end zone for his third TD. Lions 29, Cardinals 21

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behind twice in the second half, throwing a 17-yard TD pass to Benjamin Watson for the winning score with 2:16 left. Gus Frerotte drove the Dolphins 70 yards to the 5 with a minute left, but his fourth-down pass was incomplete with 36 seconds to go.

Two-time defending Super Bowl champion New England (5-4) remained alone atop the AFC East. The Patriots have won 21 of their last 25 division games. Miami (3-6) missed a chance to tie for the division lead, instead losing for the fifth time in six games.

Larry Fitzgerald had nine receptions for 141 yards and a score for the Cardinals, who got their first TD rushing this year when J.J. Arrington scored from 1 yard in the third quarter. But they had just 38 yards on the ground.

Bills 14, Chiefs 3 J.P. Losman replaced Kelly Holcomb (concussion) in the second quarter, led Bills touchdown drives on two of his first four possessions and showed he deserved his starting job back.

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by Harry Gatewood III Vista Senior Sports Writer Technically, the UCO soccer team continued its unbeaten streak at the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional Nov. 11 in Denver, Colo. The Bronchos battled Regis University to a 2-2 tie at the end of regulation in the first round of the tournament, but lost 3-1 in a shootout.

Regis will go on to play defending national champion and regional host Metropolitan State University to decide the regional champion.

UCO finished the season 163-2.

The Bronchos won their fourth Lone Star Conference title in six years and made the national tournament for the fourth time.

The Bronchos started the season facing four of the top five teams going 2-3 and still managed to win the LSC North.

UCO led 1-0 at the half against Regis, but fell behind with a onepoint deficit as the score stood at 2-1 in the second half. The Bronchos tied the game with 13 minutes remaining in regulation to force overtime.

Neither team's offense was productive in the two 10-minute overtimes, so the game was decided by a shootout.

Five players from each team took turns shooting from the pen-

Volleyball After an 18-game winning streak, UCO fell in the Lone Star Conference Tournament finals Nov. 12 to No. 11-ranked Abilene Christian University.

ACU has now won 29 consecutive matches as they defeated the Bronchos 30-12, 30-19 and 30-19 to win their second straight LSC title.

The South Division champion Wildcats haven't lost since starting the season 0-3.

ACU hit a booming .342 for the match while the Bronchos had their second-worst hitting match of the season at .053 with 23 errors and just 29 kills in 114 attacks.

Katie Schult led the Bronchos with 10 kills, while Kim Morgal had nine. Jenny Anderson led the defense with 16 digs.

Despite the loss, the Bronchos earned an at-large bid in the NCAA Division II Women's Volleyball Championship. The Bronchos travel to Kearney, Neb. for the Southwest regional Nov. 18, and have drawn a firstround rematch with ACU.

Men's Golf The UCO golf team landed a 10th-place finish at the Hawaii Fall Intercollegiate Classic to conclude the fall golf season.

The Bronchos were the only non-Division I team in the 21team field.

UCO shot a final-round 309 and finished three trips around the par-72 Kanoehe Klipper Golf Course with a 913 total.

Todd Dayton led the Bronchos in the final round with a twoover-par 72, while Matt Ellis and Chris Hutson scored 78, Michael Vitale a 79 and Chance Cruson an 82.

UCO had finished first, first and second in its three previous fall tournaments.

Dayton, a first-team AllAmerican for the Bronchos last year, finished in a tie for no. 14 in the individual standings with a four-over 220.

New Mexico State University shot an 871 and edged UNLV by one shot for the team title, San Diego State University was third at 876 and Baylor fourth at 879.

Santa Clara (894), Cal Poly (895), St. Mary's (895), Drake (898) and Wyoming (909) also finished ahead of UCO, which tied host and defending tournament champion Hawaii for 10th.

Wrestling The UCO wrestling team opened its season Nov. 13 in the Central Missouri State Open in Warrensburg, Mo. Eleven UCO wrestlers placed in the event, although no team scoring was kept.

UCO's Kyle Evans, ranked fourth nationally in the preseason NCAA Division II ratings, went 6-0 in the tournament and won the 141-pound championship.

Evans defeated Stanford's Tyler Parker 1-0 in the championship match.

UCO's Josh LeadingFox also advanced to the tournament finals, but lost 2-1 in overtime to Lindenwood's Chase Gormley to finish second in the heavyweight division.

Placing third for the Bronchos were Earl Jones, Cort Peterson and Jared Hess.

Bronchos Shane Caruthers, Jared Henning, Shea Timothy, Jason Leavitt, Ryan Henning and Daniel Morrison also placed in the all-day tournament.

by Harry Gatewood III and Matt Cauthron

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2005

by Vista photographer Brett Deering

Bronchos goalkeeper Carly Fischer is knocked to the ground earlier this season at Tom Thompson Field. The Bronchos lost in a shootout in the first round of the national tournament in Denver, Colo.

alty spot, UCO misfired on three of its first four shots, getting its lone goal from Carmen Davis.

Regis made three of its first four attempts to take the win.

The Bronchos jolted to a quick one point lead with just 1:07 into the contest as Lindsey Hull took a cross from Joy Hagemann scorching the net with a shot from 15 feet deep.

The lead stood until Cassie Cornett headed in a shot for Regis for a score of 1-1.

Regis then took a 2-1 lead in the 72nd minute with a Kate Murphy goal.

UCO broke even after Sarah Addison blasted in a goal from 20 yards out at 77:34.

Each team had just one shot in the first overtime and Regis had the lone attempt in the second, with goalkeeper Carly Fischer making a nice save on a Murphy offering.

That set up the shootout and the Rangers prevailed to move on to the finals.

Ashley Golden, Chelsea Ryden and Tiffany Haines led UCO's defensive efforts.

The Bronchos will lose four seniors off the team -- Hagemann, Golden, Anna Snedeker and Meleia Bacon -- but will return seven starters next year in their bid for a third straight league title.

Harry Gatewood III can be reached at hgatewood@thevistaonline.com.

Mays' Nowitzki too hot All-time records fall, NFC North shines in for Hornets to handle wild NFL weekend

by The Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ Dirk Nowitzki's back problem appears to be behind him.

Nowitzki showed no sign of a lower back strain Saturday night, scoring 30 points in the Dallas Mavericks' 109-103 victory over the New Orleans Hornets.

Jason Terry added a season-high 26, including eight in the final 4:22 when the Mavericks held off a New Orleans rally.

Nowitzki was coming off a 23-point, 16-rebound effort Friday night against Charlotte. He was just 9-of-22 from the field in that one, but hit half his 18 shots against New Orleans including 5-of-9 from 3-point range.

"We just need to get him some rest now," Dallas coach Avery Johnson said.

"He hit big shots when we needed it. I thought there were some shots where he could have taken the ball to the basket, but it's a work in progress."

Terry provided a nice complement to Nowitzki. His driving basket with 31.8 seconds remaining made it 104-96. After a three-point play by Chris Paul got the Hornets within five, Nowitzki sank two free throws for a 106-99 lead and Terry added two more a bit later as the Mays held on.

"We have a lot of offensive weapons on this team, from the starting lineup to the bench," Terry said. "They played a lot of zone against us. We found the holes and I was able to hit some shots."

Paul led the Hornets with 26 points on 10-of-13 shooting. He was coming off a 4-of-13 night in a loss to Orlando on Wednesday. Speedy Claxton had 17 points and David West 15.

The Hornets drew a capacity crowd of 19,163 for the second time in three home games. This was the first time they played on the same day that the Oklahoma and Oklahoma State football teams also played at home.

"You have to go through some pain to know what this is all about and be able to win close games like thisAt home," Hornets coach Byron Scott said.

Nowitzki scored 12 hi the third quarter when the Mavericks used a 10-0 nin to take a 71-60 lead. During the quarter the 7-foot Nowitzki was guarded alternately by 6-5 Desmond Mason and 6-9 Bostjan Nachbar and he took advantage, hitting a pair of 3pointers and two jumpers to help the Mays take control.

His 3-pointer at the 7:35 mark of the fourth quarter gave the Mavericks their largest lead, 92-78. New Orleans then got within 94-88 with a 10-2 run. Terry ended the spurt with a baseline jumper, added another jumper about two minutes later, then came through with his driving basket and added two free throws in the final

AP

Oklahoma City / New Orleans Hornets point guard Chris Paul takes on the much larger Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks Nov. 12 at the Ford Center. Nowitzki scored 30 points in the Mavericks' 109-103 victory over the Hornets.

seconds.

The Hornets came out with more energy against the Mavericks than they did against Orlando and shot 50 percent in the first quarter. But the Mays hit 65 percent (13-of20) as consistently scored inside against the smaller Hornets.

Keith Van Horn, who had 15 points, scored six straight after entering late in the first quarter. He added five more early in the second, including a 3-pointer that gave Dallas its largest lead of the half, 38-30.

Up next for Hornets: Nov. 16 vs. Denver Nuggets @ Ford Center

by The Associated Press

Usually a sweep involving NFC North teams means Chicago, Minnesota, Green Bay and Detroit all lost. Not this week, when the NFL's most maligned division went 4-0.

And in quite dramatic fashion.

The Bears used the longest play in NFL history, Nathan Vasher's 108-yard return of a missed field goal at the end of the first half for a 17-9 victory over San Francisco on Sunday.

"I've never really seen it work, but we always feel like we can get big plays like that. I'm still speechless," Vasher said. "I was feeling like I was running the 400 meters out there. I just fell into the end zone. The NFL has been around a long time. For my name to be at the top of that is truly an honor."

The Vikings also set a record, becoming the first team in the NFL to get touchdown returns on a punt, a kickoff and an interception. Then Paul Edinger's 48-yard field goal with 10 seconds left beat the Giants 24-21.

"I'm glad the guys figured out that we can win the game on defense and on special teams," coach Mike Tice said. "Maybe we can figure out ... and start winning on the road, because that's what it takes in this league to win on the road _ you have to play really well on defense and really well on special teams."

The Packers also scored a big road upset, surprising the Falcons 33-25 behind their fifth-string running back. Nigerianborn Samkon Gado ran for 103 yards and scored three touchdowns.

"It was surreal," Gado said. "I didn't even think it was a reality. But I'm here. I'm just enjoying it as much as possible."

And the Lions outlasted Arizona 29-21 as Roy Williams had his first big game with seven receptions for 117 yards and TD catches of 7, 21 and 29 yards. The last Lion to catch three TDs in a game was Herman Moore in 1995.

"You don't have to be perfect with him," quarterback Joey Harrington said. "A guy like Roy can make plays that aren't there."

Elsewhere, it was Tampa Bay 36, Washington 35; Indianapolis 31, Houston 17; Pittsburgh 34, Cleveland 21; Denver 31, Oakland 17; Carolina 30, the New York Jets 3; Seattle 31; St. Louis 16; New England 23, Miami 16; Buffalo 14, Kansas City 3; and Jacksonville 30, Baltimore 3.

Dallas visits Philadelphia on Monday night.

Off this week, the final week of byes, were Tennessee, Cincinnati, New Orleans and San Diego.

Bears 17, 49ers 9 At wind-swept Chicago, Bears (6-3) won their fifth straight.

Joe Nedney's 52-yard attempt went wide right and Vasher caught the ball over his shoulder, hesitated momentarily on whether to come out of the end zone, sprinted to the 15, then reversed his field, picking up a convoy of blockers.

The previous longest play was Baltimore's Chris McAlister's 107-yarder with a missed field goal in 2002.

Cody Pickett, at one time a fourth stringer, attempted just two first-half passes for the 49ers (2-7) -- both were incomplete -- and finished 1-for-13.

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