The Vista April 24, 2012

INSIDE

THEVISTA University of Central Oklahoma

• Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE 2 • Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE 3 • Memorial Scholarship . . PAGE 3 • Inauguration Photos . . . PAGE 5 • Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE 6 • Sports . . . . . . . . . . . PAGES 7 & 8

Vista Sports takes a look at two more future MIAA Rivals PAGE 7

TUESDAY • April 24, 2012

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WWW. UCO360.COM Inauguration

PRESIDENT BETZ INAUGURATED

Glen Johnson, Chancellor of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, and Richard Ogden, Regent Secretary, present President Don Betz with his presidential medallion during the President Don Betz Inauguration at Hamilton Field House, Friday, April 20, 2012. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

Trevor Hultner

Staff Writer Dr. Don Betz spoke to an assorted crowd of UCO students, faculty and staff, as well as various state and regional politicians and educators, following his official installation as the university’s twentieth president.

During a 20-minute address, titled “Greeting A Culture of Learning, Leading and Serving,” Betz carried with him a message of continued confidence while acknowledging the tough times people everywhere are going through.

“Please understand, from the very few words I’ll give you today, if you’ve ever talked to me, this is not about me,” he said. “I’m smart enough and old enough to know that this is about Central’s historic focus on student success, on helping students learn, and

on developing our state.”

He thanked the faculty, students and staff of UCO for “[personifying] the irrepressible spirit and passion for learning that has been the Central way for 122 years and counting.”

“I’m the 20th president, officially (after nine months working); I am the 20th president of this hallowed institution,” he said.

Betz detailed his relationship with the most recent former UCO president, Roger Webb.

“For 24 years, Webb and I collaborated at two storied Oklahoma institutions,” Betz said.

“One of which is the University of Central Oklahoma, and the other one, of course, is Northeastern State University.”

Betz said that Webb’s leadership, council and friendship enriched him immensely.

“Here we are today, celebrating the legacy of Central, and we are celebrating the power of learning,” he said.

Betz told the audience that human talent was the only truly sustainable resource, and that UCO’s goal was to enrich that talent – a goal, he said, that extended back to the 1890s when UCO (then known as the Territorial Normal School) – was founded.

“That Territorial Normal School was the first public building intentionally dedicated to public higher education in Oklahoma Territory,” he said. “Why was educating teachers one of the first collaborative civic acts undertaken by those settlers? Well, they needed teachers for the burgeoning population; and, I believe, they well understood that teachers were critical actors in shaping this new society via the knowledge and skills they imparted, and importantly, values they professed.”

Betz said that today’s society was a “cauldron of change,” and that while this new era in modern history could be characterized by

disruption, “hunkering down is not an option.”

“Our confidence, ladies and gentlemen, will be derived from our competence,” he said.

Throughout his speech, Betz repeated what he thought was the core theme of UCO – learning, leading and serving – and promised that during his term, UCO would become a top-10 metropolitan university in the nation.

“We are here, in this place, as a metropolitan university, to make a difference. We call it ‘making this place matter,’ because it matters to us,” he said.

“If we do this right, if we have consistent access to resources and support and encouragement, this culture that I’m talking about may be the greatest gift we could ever hope to give, the most enduring legacy we pass on to our students,” he said. “They will write our future.”

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Technology

TROJAN EXPOSES APPLE VULNERABILITIES

Antivirus firm Kapersky has released a tool to remove the flashback trojan. Photo provided

Any Mac user who is not up to date on software updates could be exposed to the Flashback Trojan.

Graphic by The Vista

Josh Wallace

Contributing Writer At one point in time Apple computers were deemed more secure than Windows-based PCs, a selling point touted to many consumers who were deciding which side to choose.

The claim that Macs didn’t suffer

from nasty viruses, or other security issues, no doubt swayed many to go with Apple, but recent high-profile viruses designed to target Macs show that the systems are vulnerable to the same issues commonly thought to only plague PCs. The latest version of the Trojan virus Flashback began making the rounds towards the end of March 2012, and within a few weeks, more

than 650,000 Apple systems were reported to be infected.

The virus works like other Trojans that have come before, posing as a legitimate program, then exploiting a piece of software and infiltrating the system to where hackers can gain control of the infected machine and the information it contains.

Flashback has had different variations since its initial discovery in

September 2011, but the latest instance exploits a vulnerability that had been known about for several months before Apple eventually responded. This has led to criticism from the tech community, including from Kaspersky Lab’s Chief Security Expert, Alex Gostev.

“This means the window of exposure for Mac users is much longer than PC users. This is especially bad news since Apple’s standard anti-virus update is a rudimentary affair which only adds new signatures when a threat is deemed large enough,” Gostev said. “Apple knew about this Java vulnerability for three months, and yet neglected to push through an update in all that

time.”

On April 12, Apple released a patch that would remove the known variants of the virus, but a few days later another Trojan affecting Macs, SabPub, was discovered.

These latest viruses underscore that the belief of Apple’s computers being considered more secure than their competitors, is a false and outdated perception.

One of the reasons this point of view has continued for so long, can be tied to why hackers release viruses in the first place: notoriety.

With the majority of computers in the world being Windows-based, a

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Opinion

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April 24, 2012 Unsigned Editorial

WHAT DOESN’T KILL THE BILL IT MAKES IT STRONGER

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Weeks ago, the highly contentious debate over proposed Internet regulatory bills were hard to avoid. SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect-IP Act) were villianized all over the Internet for their potenital abilities to censor content at will and fine offenders.

Well, there’s a new kid on the block and that kid’s name is CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act).

Don’t let the name fool you, this bill is not about protecting sharing. If anything, it’s about the opposite. How so?

This bill allows companies and the government to spy on you when you’re on the Internet.

The Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit public policy organization dedicated to the protection of free speech on the Internet, have published a list of the four biggest offenses with CISPA and its vague wordings.

First on the list is the fact that CISPA currently grants a practically unlimited

definition of what information sites can share with the government. Under this provision, sites like Facebook could give law enforcement a user’s entire profile.

This might not be the absolute worst thing if the user whose data is being handed over is guilty of a major crime, but if a person is innocent they have their privacy tramped for nothing. This provision needs a revision at minimum.

Next on the list opens up companies to share user information directly with the National Security Agency. The CDT believe that this would be better served going to the Department of Homeland Security, a civilian agency with more accountability to general public for any failures or abuse.

Third is the fact that data collected by the government through CISPA can be used for purposes other than cybersecurity. Here’s an example: You post pictures of your new patio on Facebook and that data is sent off to the government. It gets

plugged into a database that’s available to federal agencies like the IRS. As a result, you get audited when they find that you didn’t pay the right amount of property taxes since didn’t file with your local assessor’s office. It sounds crazy, but that’s only about half as crazy as CISPA itself.

Last on the CDT’s list is how vague the bill’s language is. “The bill includes vague language authorizing ISPs and others, ‘notwithstanding any other provision of law,’ to use ‘cybersecurity systems’ to identify and obtain cyberthreat information. We are concerned that this is an authorization for use deep within private networks of the EINSTEIN system developed by DHS with NSA help,” the CDT say in a blog post on their website.

To sum it all up, CISPA has some lofty ideals, namely “the more we share with the government, the safer we are.”

This isn’t true. The more information we share with the government, the weaker we are.

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Cartoon by Evan Oldham

What did you think of Metta World Peace’s elbow to James Harden’s head?

Was it intentional?

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“Dude, yeah. He didn’t even turn around and check if he was okay. It had to be intentional.”

“Yes it was intentional.

That was the true Ron Artest, he’s a true thug.”

“I do think it was intentional. I lost all respect for that World Peace guy.”

“I think it was intentional and I thought it was a disgrace.”

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Scholarships

FORMER UCO STUDENT MEMORIALIZED WITH SCHOLARSHIP Ben Luschen

Staff Writer It’s been over a year since Niki Bauer lost her daughter, but the passing time has not made her loss any easier.

“I’ll make no bones about it, I’ve been really depressed,” Niki Bauer said, “but also really motivated to memorialize her, because she was a good person.”

Cheryl Bauer, who was a UCO student, died on the job, working for the Paseo-area restaurant Sauced. The restaurant had just received an order of beer, and Bauer was told to move it from the floor level to the basement.

The dumbwaiter she was using would malfunction, however, dragging her inside. Cheryl would spend three days on life support before dying on March 7, 2011 at age 21.

Though the loss of a daughter has been painful, Cheryl’s parents have gone to great lengths to make sure their daughter’s legacy is not forgotten. This year marks the first year of the Cheryl Marie Bauer Memorial Scholarship; a $1,500 prize which will be awarded to a pair of students who are reminiscent of Cheryl.

The main qualifications for consideration are that the student must have at least a 3.25 GPA and attend either Putnam City High School, OSU-OKC, or the University of Central Oklahoma – the schools

that Cheryl had previously attended.

Applicants must also demonstrate either a generous spirit or persistence in life in a 300-500 word statement. Finally, applicants must show a creative side, as Cheryl was voted “Most Artistic” in her Putnam City graduating class.

Although Cheryl was a visual artist, Niki Bauer says what qualifies as creative is up to the student’s discretion.

“I’m willing to define creative in the loosest sense,” she said. “Maybe they’re not a visual artist, but maybe they’re a good problem solver. I deliberately left it vague.”

The scholarship’s submission deadline is April 30. A few applications have already been entered, but Niki Bauer says she has not received as many as she was hoping for.

Though the scholarship is an important part of memorializing their daughter, Niki and husband Eric Bauer have other ways they would like to honor her name.

The Bauers have worked tirelessly to restore their daughter’s old car, a 1974 Chevy Nova. It had been Cheryl Bauer’s dream to restore the car with the help of her father, but now it is a project her parents take on in memoriam.

The Bauers hope to take the Nova to car shows around the city, using it as a conversation piece, perhaps prompting donations to their

daughter’s fund.

Niki Bauer says she also hopes to make a PowerPoint presentation for schools and workplaces discussing the importance of on-the-job safety.

“I think a lot of kids just got to work and it never occurs to them that it can be their undoing,” she said.

For Niki Bauer, the importance of preventing another student’s workrelated death can not be understated – one mother’s pain is enough.

There are no warning signs that you may be a victim of a workplace accident, she says, only consequences.

“It happened just like that. She was perfectly fine, perfectly healthy, a student like you.”

For more information on the Cheryl Marie Bauer Memorial Scholarship, please visit www.cherylbauerscholarship.org.

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Former UCO student Cheryl Bauer poses for a photo with some of her artwork. Photo provided

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MAC TROJAN hacker can release a piece of software capable of exploiting far more systems than the significantly smaller numbers of Macs.

In an interview from 2010 with Cnet, hacker Marc Maiffret elaborates, “It’s even a little scarier with them because they try to market themselves as more secure than the PC, that you don’t have to worry about viruses, etc.”

However, Maiffret said this perception is

untrue.

“Anytime there’s been a hacking contest, within a few hours someone’s found a new Apple vulnerability. If they were taking it seriously, they wouldn’t claim to be more secure than Microsoft because they are very much not,” he said. “And the Apple community is pretty ignorant to the risks that are out there as it relates to Apple. The reason we don’t see

By Josh Hutton Exitlude

I sat in an all-night diner with Evan, The Vista’s cartoonist, sipping on coffee and trying to recover from a week of emotional devastation.

A few minutes after midnight, a group of high school kids in their loose-fitting prom night attire strolled in and grabbed a table next to us. The boys loosened their ties. They talked loud and with pretention about the pancake selection. The sound of the words resembled the sound of wisdom, but they held no wisdom.

After spouting off a few lines, they’d look at their spray tan dates in puffy, frilly dresses of gold and burgundy. The girls played along by laughing and resting their heads on the shoulders of the boys. They looked like they were in love, but they weren’t.

So many people confuse actually living with pageantry and plotlines. The girls in gold and burgundy knew their fellas were subpar human beings, but the conflict aids in the rising action of their lives. This notion, that in the first act of our lives the direction of life’s plot should be set, is dangerous.

Unforeseen mishaps love to derail best-laid plans.

Last week I ruined the greatest relationship of my life by selfishly seeking an ego fix. I had the luck of dating one of the most brilliant and most beautiful women on this planet. We’d gotten to the point of mapping out a future together – destinations, occupations, establishing a family.

I think it’s smart to plan ahead, but life

doesn’t play by the plotline we write. The only guarantee in our story is the ending. Life is a tragedy. And yet, I see so many people comparing relationships to romantic comedies and sitcoms, sometimes shamelessly mimicking them.

Stop fishing for conflict, stop casting yourself in the position of your favorite stars, and realize that life is about truth and self-awareness.

Seeking both is a constant struggle. Myself, I’m constantly lost. Often in life I feel like a nomad. No place feels like home. No person I can trust. I’m just moving – drifting on to the next respite. I treat aimlessness like a police officer treats his beat. I patrol the darkness looking for meaning, and wonder how so many people can put on spray tans and pretend they’ve found it.

Some find solace in gods, some find solace between callused thighs, some find solace on the plasma screen, and some of us never find comfort. What is there to do?

People do not need to get dolled up and rewrite their favorite movies. Each of us must strive to be more pragmatic. For me, life is about finding the beauty. Beauty courses through the all-night coffee chat, my baby nephew laughing for the first time, and even the roughest patch in a relationship can still shimmer with grace.

Find what is good, what is transcending and fight like hell to preserve it.

Comment on this column on UCO360.com Follow Josh on Twitter @purposenomadic

more attacks out there compared to Microsoft is because their market share isn’t near what Microsoft’s is.”

As Mac sales continue to grow, and Apple continues to strike at Microsoft’s market share for personal computers, they have become an increasingly popular target for hackers.

Apple users concerned about their systems becoming infected are instructed to routinely

download the latest OS updates as they come out and to install and keep up-to-date antivirus software on their systems.

Kaspersky Labs has setup a website specifically for those concerned that they might have been infected by the Flashback virus; it can be accessed at www.flashbackcheck.com/

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April 18, 2012 The distasteful comments and heinous accusations made about UCOSA, its outgoing officers, and Sigma Nu Fraternity by Alex Braden & Evan Askey in Tuesday’s edition of the Vista have caused a considerable amount of alarm and dismay amongst students. After being inaugurated both Askey and Braden have not only continued their political mudslinging, but have taken it to a whole new level. As UCOSA President and VP they should be focused on uniting this campus rather than focusing on petty fraternity rivalries. Such conduct by our elected UCOSA officials only makes a mockery of our student government.

Subsequently, they want to talk about what they believe the men of Sigma Nu have done to UCOSA. I propose we expand the conversation and examine the contributions made by my brothers that have served the student body. As a result of my brothers’ endeavors, library hours have been extended so that Max Chambers now closes at 2 am rather than 11pm. In addition, the men of Sigma Nu have led initiatives such as: making UCO a Tobacco

Free Campus, erecting stop signs, making the Central Alert System available to all students, providing the student body with free scantrons, and creating funding sources for student life to not only survive but flourish in the near future. And let it be known that construction of a new emergency call box is currently underway.

Evan Askey said “Matt Blubaugh didn’t live up to the standard UCOSA should have for its president”. He and all of our brothers that have been elected have set the standard for what it means to serve the UCO Student Association, and I challenge the new exec team to not only meet that standard but exceed it.

In Sigma Nu we dare to be men different from the rest, and refuse to let the rest turn us into different men. We are quality men, and it is not with arrogance that we say that, rather with confidence in the values we live by each and every day.

- Caleb Phillips Sigma Nu Fraternity

Alumni

UCO ALUM MOONLIGHTS AS WEDDING EXPERT Madeline Rainwater

Contributing Writer “I have 25 years of pent-up wedding opinions,” Sheri Gaches says.

UCO graduate Sheri Gaches is known on campus as the spunky administrative secretary for University Relations, but online she is admired for her practical advice and truthful opinions concerning all things weddings.

Among thousands of wedding-themed Web sites on the Internet, her blog, “Memoirs of a Gaches”, stands out as a unique account of the nearly 200 weddings Gaches has attended in her life.

“I’m not a wedding crasher. I am genuinely invited to all the weddings I go to,” Gaches said to answer an all-too-familiar question.

Gaches owes her “through-the-roof wedding attendance” to her father—a Baptist minister in Lawton, Okla. Many of the weddings she attended as a child were officiated by her father.

Once, at the age of five, she was given the role of stand-in flower girl to a couple she’d never met because her father was officiating.

Although Gaches is unmarried, her wedding expertise has grown to be greater than that of most brides.

As a three-time flower girl, two-time bridesmaid, and having performed many other duties including acting as the dreaded candlelighter and cake server, Gaches wields her knowledge of the good and the ugly of the wedding world to help improve future endeavors.

With the summer wedding season swiftly approaching, Gaches holds firm in her advice for soon-to-be married couples. One area she targets is music.

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“Do not make your wedding a musical,” Gaches said. Limiting the number of songs played during the ceremony helps to keep it flowing, and guests happy.

“After all, lighting the unity candle takes, approximately, 10 seconds (depending on how stubborn your candle is). The rest of the song is spent standing awkwardly, trying to find something to bide your time while everyone is staring at you,” Gaches wrote in one entry.

“Do not show up late,” Gaches said. “You don’t want to walk in with the bride.”

Along with her advice against tardiness, Gaches encourages guests to be attentive during the ceremony-- absolutely no texting. You are there to be a part of a special moment in the life of the bride and groom.

“I’d like to say that the best part is the ceremony, but let’s be real, we’re in it for the party,” Gaches said.

Gaches said that guests, while attending receptions, should keep in mind that they are there to have fun. They should get up, walk around, and meet people. If things go wrong, for example, the caterers run out of food, be patient and hit the dance floor.

“There’s a medium between being the life of the party and just wasting space,” Gaches said.

Gaches’ blog is an abundance of wedding knowledge from a woman with an affinity for fairy tales. “[Weddings] have life-changing effects on people. There’s always the expectation that something magical might happen,” Gaches said.

Read more wedding wisdom from Sheri Gaches at memoirsofagaches.blogspot.com.

Campus Activities

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF CAMPUS ACTIVITIES OFFICE AWARDED Courtney Bass

Contributing Writer

Walt Coates helps Katie Reddick, junior, in to an aqua massage machine near Broncho Lake, Monday, April 23, 2012. The program was sponsored by the Student Programming Board. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

Courtney James, the assistant director of Campus Activities at UCO, was recently awarded two positions with the National Association of Campus Activities.

According to the National Association of Campus Activities their mission is to “advance campus activities in higher education through a business and learning partnership, creating educational and business opportunities for its school and professional members.” This organization has more than 950 college and university members and more than 550 associate members who represent artists, lecturers and performers.

“I love working with students and student affair programmers at NACA and bringing back different ideas to the UCO Campus. These positions help me become better at my job and I learn a lot, “ James said.

James started working at UCO in the summer of 2010 after graduating with a Student Affairs Masters from the Western Illinois University.

“I knew the student affairs master program and careers were right for me after being involved as an undergraduate at Augustana College in Illinois “ she said.

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INAUGURATION

President Don Betz walks through campus for the first time after being officially inaugurated, Friday, April 20, 2012. Photos by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

Edmond Mayor Charles Lamb speaks during Don Betz’s inau- UCOSA President Matt Blubaugh presents President Don Betz with a photo of a tree that will be planted guration, Friday. outside his office, a gift from the UCO student body.

The Mace, a part of traditional ceremony, was created in 1975 and designed by retired art professor Dr. Hall Duncan.

Dr. James Bidlack, professor of Biology, applauds during the President Don Betz’s Inauguration.

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45. Spider’s work 46. Cattle fair 49. Eyepiece 50. Lift, so to speak 51. Caused to increase in intensity 53. Deuce toppers 56. Works in the garden 57. Dungeonlike 58. Call to a mate 59. Christmas season 60. ___ lab 61. Free from, with “of”

55. Informal term for nakedness

21. Irritable

62. Married John Lennon

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There is a scale for measuring how spicy a food is. It is called the Scoville Heat Index.

The spiciest pepper has over 1,000,000 Scoville units.

Night and day.

In the 16th century, gin was referred to as “mother’s ruin” because people thought it could induce abortions.

Night falls.

Day breaks.

Because you are in control of your life. Don’t ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

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April 23, 2012

MIAA

GETTING TO KNOW THE MIAA: PITTSBURG STATE GORILLAS, SW BAPTIST BEARCATS Christopher Brannick

Contributing Writer The Vista is nearing the end of their look into the schools that make up the Mid-American Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Up this issue is Pittsburgh State University and Southwest Baptist University.

Pittsburgh University is set in Pittsburgh, Kansas and lists its enrollment at 7,127.

The 2012 MIAA Hall of Fame Class was recently announced and includes PSU’s 1991 Football National Championship team, and former All-Americans Ronald Moore (Football), and Christie Allen Logue (cross country/ track & field).

Tim Beck roams the sidelines of Carnie Smith Stadium, nicknamed “The Pitt,” and in his inaugural season as head coach, Beck went 6-6. Beck followed that up last fall with a National Championship. The second for the University and just as Beck’s predecessor Frank Broyles did before him, Beck won his title in his second season.

On staff for 23 seasons including 16 as the offensive coordinator, Beck replaced Broyles, who won 198 games in 20 years, including a Nat’l Title in 1991. Broyles would take the Gorillas to four more title games though he never was afforded the opportunity to raise the gold ball again.

UCO will travel to Pittsburgh, KS Sept.

8, for the 10th all-time meeting between the schools. PSU is 3-5-1 against the Bronchos.

Last season’s basketball men’s and women’s teams hosted UCO with the Bronchos prevailing 79-72 in the men’s contest and the Women Gorillas defeating the Bronchos 76-71.

On Mar. 9 the PSU Softball team lost both

Graphic by Micheal McMillian

games in a doubleheader to the Bronchos.

There will be limited competition against the Gorillas in the future. PSU Men compete in Basketball, Baseball, Football and Golf. The women however only compete in Basketball and Softball as well as Volleyball in similarity with UCO. The Southwest Baptist Bearcats call Bolivar Missouri home. The school of 3,400 celebrated a Women’s Tennis MIAA Championship on Sunday, their second straight, stretching their record to an astounding 22-2 this season. The Bearcats defeated UCO ON Mar. 3, 5-4.

Bearcat Football went 6-5 in 2011 after a 6-1 start. SBU allowed over 40 points per game during a four game losing streak that finished their season.

The Bronchos host the Bearcats on Nov. 3 and have won two of the three meetings between the schools.

Keith Allen is head football coach for the Bearcats and with 24 four wins in the last four seasons, Allen has quickly become the all time winningest football coach in school history.

Allen spent three seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Oklahoma, where he earned his degree in civil engineering.

The Bearcat’s Women’s Volleyball team hosted UCO last fall and lost 1-3. In Men’s Basketball an 18-12 record included a loss to the Bronchos on Nov. 26, 77-66.

Competition between SBU and UCO Men’s teams will resemble that between PSU and UCO. The Bearcats Men compete in Basketball, Baseball, Football and Golf like UCO does and also have Cross Country, Track & Field, Tennis and Soccer. The story isn’t the same for the women’s sports. The Bronchos compete in all eight sports offered at SBU.

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FORMER AD MURDOCK DEAD AT 81, MEMORIAL SET EDMOND (April 21) -- Former Central Oklahoma athletic director and coach Charlie Murdock died Friday at the age of 81 after a lengthy illness.

Murdock served as athletic director from 1976-86, with the Bronchos winning an NAIA national football championship, six NAIA national wrestling crowns and numerous NAIA District 9 titles in various sports during his tenure.

A member of the UCO Athletic Hall of Fame, Murdock was an all-conference running back for the Bronchos in 1954. He returned to UCO as an assistant football coach in 1962, helping the team win the NAIA national title that season, and was a member of the football staff until 1967.

Murdock also served as golf, tennis and track and field coach for the Bronchos, earning District 9 Coach of the Year honors twice in track.

A memorial service for Murdock will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Henderson Hills Baptist Church, 1200 E. I-35 Frontage Road, in Edmond.

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BASKETBALL 2010-11 season at SOSU, averaging 9.9 points, 3.9 rebounds and 2.7 assists a game but did not play last season.

The four prep players signed include Cal Andrews of Washington High School, Rico Hogan of Norman High School, Terrell Savala of Edmond Memorial High School and D.J. Mahone of Tulsa Edison High School.

A 6-foot-6 forward, Andrews averaged 13.5 points and 6.0 rebounds a game last season in leading the Warriors to the Class 3A state semifinals. He scored 29 points in a firstround win over Sperry and was an Oklahoma Coaches Association All-State selection Andrew will be joined in the frontcourt by D. J. Mahone who averaged 10 points and eight rebounds per game as a senior at Tulsa Edison and was an honorable mention Allstate pick.

Hogan also earned OCA All-State honors after netting 15 points and five assists a game last year. Hogan was also a part of Nick Bo-

beck’s first football signing class. Guard Terrell Savala will join Hogan at UCO after averaging 13 points per game in his senior season at Edmond Memorial.

UCO will also have the services of three players that redshirted last season. Seniors Tony Ross and Spencer Smith and redshirt freshmen Seth Heckart and Jacob Strassle will join the seven newcomers to total eleven new players for coach Evans next season.

Spencer Smith averaged 13.5 points and 8.5 rebounds per game as a sophomore at Northern Oklahoma College in Enid. Strassle and Heckart both provide perimeter shooting and ball handling skills while Ross will provide athleticism to the team.

The Bronchos finished last season with a record of 15-11 while competing as a Division II independent and failed to make the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2006.

UCO will compete in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association next season.

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THE BEN ZONE

By Ben Luschen Vista Columnist

END OF ERA SHOWS STRUGGLES OF ALZHEIMERS The announcement, though painful, had to be expected.

Last Wednesday, Pat Summitt, the head coach of the women’s basketball team at the University of Tennessee and the sport’s all-time winningest coach, resigned. In August 2011, Summitt revealed to the public that she had a form of earlyonset Alzheimer’s disease.

The Lady Vols were once respected as the top program in their sport. Not long ago, Summitt stood symbolically as the image of success in women’s basketball, but has since been passed by the likes of Geno Auriemma and Kim Mulkey.

Frankly, I have no idea how Tennessee could have continued to recruit players into a program that was led by a coach with Alzheimer’s.

Though the University of Tennessee is losing an icon from its sidelines, the loss of the coach is nothing compared to the slow, infuriating and painful loss of the person.

Someone out there gets to watch helplessly as their best friend slips into the shadows. Somewhere out there, a son will watch his once-strong mother fall into helplessness.

It would be sad enough if it were just the Summitt family that had to endure this, but it isn’t. Alzheimer’s and dementia are nationwide problems, and the epidemic is growing.

Currently, slightly more than five million people in the nation 65 or older have Alzheimer’s, but by 2050, experts predict that number to increase to over 15 million. A person in the United States is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s every 69 seconds.

It seems everyone these days has a family member or knows of someone who is suffering from dementia. I wish I were the exception, but I’m not.

For most of my life, I’ve watched as my grandmother – my Gammy – journeyed down the wicked road of self-loss.

I consider myself fortunate though – fortunate for having known her before the disease took its grip on her mind.

I’ll always remember sitting in the backseat of my grandparents’ green Oldsmobile as I drew scribbly pictures of dinosaurs in spiral-bound notebooks. It never occurred to me then that these were memories I’d hold on to forever. I certainly never thought I would one day be driving the very same car to and from school everyday, but clearly life is full of surprises.

The Gammy I knew and loved still lives. She lives in my childhood memories. She lives in the leather seats of that trusty old sedan. Her nurturing spirit is memorialized every day by her loving family, who now return the care she offered them for so many years.

Every October, I see pink everywhere. This is not a slight against breast cancer, I am merely posing a question: Why don’t Alzheimer’s and dementia get that kind of attention?

Where is the recognition for a disease that 38 years from now will affect one in 45 people? Where is the outrage over a disease that is currently both terminal and incurable?

It’s as if people have come to accept the disease as just another part of getting older. It’s not. At least it doesn’t have

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#3 UCO BRONCHOS SPLIT DOUBLEHEADER VS MWU EDMOND (April 22) – Amanda McClelland came through with a clutch second-game performance in the pitching circle to earn No. 3-ranked Central Oklahoma a doubleheader split with No. 17 Missouri Western here Sunday afternoon.

The Bronchos dropped a 3-2 decision in the opener – their second straight loss after having a record 35-game winning streak stopped Saturday by Emporia State – before bouncing back with a 5-0 shutout in the nightcap as McClelland tossed a complete-game five-hitter.

The sophomore right-hander walked just one and didn’t allow a runner past second base in throwing her fourth shutout of the season, improving to 18-1.

UCO moved to 38-5, the second-most wins in school history. The Bronchos are scheduled to end the regular season Tuesday at home against No. 25 West Texas A&M. “That was a big win for us after having lost two straight close games,” head coach Genny Honea said. “Amanda did a great job and really threw the ball well and we came up with a couple of big hits that we needed.”

UCO managed just one hit through the first three innings before finally breaking a scoreless tie in the fourth.

Kayce Raines led off the inning with a bloop double before going to third on Kacie Edwards’ single – her schoolrecord 68th hit of the season -- and scoring on Megan Whitmire’s groundout.

The Bronchos scored two runs in the fifth and sixth innings to put the game away.

Raines drove in a run with an infield single and Edwards had an RBI groundout in the fifth, with Brittany Weaver and Hannah Justus adding RBI hits in the sixth.

Raines and Kaylee Brunson had two hits apiece to lead UCO’s eight-hit attack.

The Bronchos were limited to six hits in the first game, with Nathalie Timmer-

Sophomore Amanda McClelland during a game against Missouri Western Sunday, April 22. Photo provided.

mans going 3-for-3 to collect half those.

UCO took a 1-0 lead in the second inning on Devyn Frazier’s single down the left field line that scored Weaver, who was hit by pitch earlier in the inning, before the Griffons came back with three

runs in the fifth to go up 3-1.

The Bronchos got a run back in the fifth when Timmermans smashed her 20th home run of the season over the right field fence, but MWSU held on for the 3-2 win.

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BRONCHOS SIGN SEVEN Blake Colston

Contributing Writer University of Central Oklahoma men’s basketball coach Terry Evans has signed four prep players and three transfers to add to his roster for the 2012-2013 season.

Division I transfer Nic Combs from Troy University joins Jamell Cormier from Southeastern University and Christian Huffman of Independence Community College (Mo.) as the three transfers in the class.

Combs, an Edmond Santa Fe product, be-

gan his college career at Jones County (Miss.)

Junior College where he averaged 11.0 points and 6.2 assists a game in one year tbefore spending two years at Troy, averaging 3.0 points per contest last season.

Huffman, a 6-5 forward from Midwest City, averaged 13.6 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.4 steals a game during his sophomore season at Independence.

Jamell Cormier earned All-State accolades at Stillwater High School before playing at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M. He spent

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