The Vista November 16, 1993

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University of Central Oklahoma

TUESDAY November 16, 1993

The Student Voice Since 1903

Boren visits UCO, advocates foreign language studies Wyandotte tribe forced to drop casino plans

By Steve Sager Staff Writer

ARNOLD, Mb. (AP) — The Wyandotte Tribe wants to open a riverboat gambling operation south of St. Louis instead of a land-based casino. First Nation Management Inc. and the Wyandotte tribe had proposed building an 80,000square foot casino on a 20-acre site in Arnold, 16 miles southwest of St: Louis. But the plan ran into opposition last week from residents. Tribal attorney Brad Goss said Thursday the plan was being dropped. He said the reason was not local opposition but because Gov-. Mel Carnahan had advised the Wyandottes he would not support any proposal that did not adhere to the state riverboat. gambling law. The group is "very, very much pursuing other options in Jefferson County," Goss said. He said that meant riverboat. gambling, but declined to say what locations the group was considering.

Trucker, truck, cattle disappear MIAMI, Okla. (AP) — A tractor-trailer carrying cattle hides from Kansas to Texas has diSappeared, along with the 71year-old driver, authorities said. Robert D. McLendon left Emporia, Kan., on Nov. 5, bound for Houston, Texas, said Denise Debrick, co-owner of Debrick Truck Lines in Paola, Kan. McLendon was supposed to arrive in Houston on Nov. 8, but the last known contact McLendon had with anyone was on Nov. 6, when 'he bought fuel in Big Cabin, Okla., Debrick said. McLendon is 5 feet 7 inches, weighs 230 pounds and has blue eyes and is bald. The truck company sent its own driver from Kansas to Texas, searching along the interstates and truck stops for McLendon.

TSee WORLD WRAP, Page 8

U.S. Sen. David Boren, D- Okla., held an open forum discussion for students, staff and faculty Nov. 11 at the University of Central Oklahoma. Boren took the opportunity to talk about his plan for affording students a chance to attend colleges outside the U.S.—to introduce them to a multiculture. "I hope that nobody in this room thinks that they are going to live out their lifetime, especially students, speaking only English, dealing with, if it's an economic or social setting, with people who speak only English and come out of an American cultural background. No one's going to do that," said Boren. "You are blessed at this university with a large number of international students. It's wonderful for them and it's wonderful for those of you from Oklahoma and other places to have the experience to interact with them." Boren attributed much of the problem to the fact that the U.S. is a provincial society. "We sat back for a long time. When we had 80 percent of the marketplace maybe we could think that everyone else was going to have to learn English, talk our language, know about us, we don't need to know about them because we were so overwhelming in our role in the world."

U.S. Senator David Boren speaks to UCO students, staff and faculty Nov. 11 at the University of Central Oklahoma. He was the keynote speaker for the annual Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence Conference. (Photo by Christopher Smith)

See BOREN, Page 4

Faculty Senate discusses technology, communications By Roy Howe Staff Writer The university's Faculty Senate met last week where a schedule for input for the proposed College of Fine Arts was distributed and a task force for a new educational technology and communications plan was discussed. The Board of Regents for Oklahoma

Colleges gave its approval last month for the University of Central Oklahoma to begin planning for the new college. The proposed reorganization schedule is simply a draft, said senate president Fred Grosz who added that starting with a framework in a written form is the best way to get the ball rolling. The draft shows that a committee to study the academic restructuring of the existing OW.

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Mock Trial

Eating disorders

UCO nursing department secretary Amy Fish kin, played the part of the plaintiff in the COSAFE date rape mock trial.

Students with eating disorders talk about recovery. (Part ll of II)

Editorial 2 Campus

Liberal Arts College would comprise faculty, students, college deans, administrators, alumni and a committee chair appointed by the office of academic affairs. It outlines that faculty from the four colleges and the Faculty Senate would be elected to serve on the organizing committee.

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