DEC. 8, 2011
Men’s Basketball
Christmas
During Tuesday night’s basketball game, a bench-clearing brawl broke out between the Bronchos and the USAO Drovers. Page 8
Death the halls? Three reasons why this holiday season might just kill you. Page 5
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STUDENT CHEF SERVES UP COOKBOOK By Ben Luschen / Staff Writer Some people are naturally-born cooks. For others, like Emily Leahey, a senior who has just released her digital cookbook, the “Campus Cook Book” through Central’s Peer Health and Leadership program. According to Leahey, the culinary art take a little time to master. “I’m a walking accident,” Leahey said. “I wasn’t even allowed in the kitchen. Once I turned 17, I was able to cook, and my first dish was on my parents’ anniversary. At six in the morning I went into the kitchen to cook them chocolate chip pancakes. They wake up at 6:15 with the alarm going off because I set the kitchen on fire.” What started as a gesture of appreciation for her parents grew into an act of necessity as Leahey’s mother became bedridden for three months after a hysterectomy later that year. Through trial and error, Leahey had to quickly hone her cooking skills as she tried to feed both her father and her two brothers. “That was scary because I felt like I had to take my mom’s role, and I didn’t want to do that,” she said. Leahey, a self-professed adrenaline junkie, plays golf for UCO and is very active. For that reason, she began researching ways to integrate healthy aspects into her cooking while not sacrificing flavor – her family made sure of that. “[My brothers] wouldn’t eat if it was just healthy and it didn’t taste good,” Leahey said. “So I had to make it taste good as well.” The first thing she learned in her
Emily Nylund poses for a photo with her recently published book, “Campus Cookbook” at a house in North Edmond, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista
research? Managing carbohydrates. “If you research carbs, you’ll see that they are the only thing that the brain feeds off of,” Leahey said. “As
college kids, we’re constantly studying, so we need carbs, but at the same time we overload, and when you overload on carbs it turns to
sugar and then we crash.” Leahey explained this is the reason students encounter problems. “That’s why students have really
altered sleeping habits, develop hypoglycemia, and gain weight really fast,” she said. “Trying to limit the
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International
UCO PRESIDENT BETZ VISITS CLASS FOR DISCUSSION ON INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS AND JOURNALISM By Cody Bromley / Editor-in-Chief
UCO President Don Betz spoke to an International Media class last Thursday about international awareness and his experience as a journalist. Photo by Jay Chilton
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May it never be said that UCO President Don Betz doesn’t make time for his students. Last week, Betz attended Dr. Terry Clark’s International Media class to both join the conversation about media abroad and share his experiences. “What you’re interested in have been my interests for most of my life,” Betz said. The course puts an emphasis not just on media abroad, but journalism, and Betz told the class how long he has been involved with journalism. “When I was very young, probably in your range, when I was living in the Middle East finishing my doctoral research and doing some other things I worked as a journalist there,” Betz said. The style Betz said he did journalism in was a “shadow type,” which he said he has always used even back when he was editor of the University of San Francisco’s newspaper The Foghorn, when he worked for the Mediterranean Press Agency in Beirut and also for the international newspaper The Daily Star. “If I had not gone the International Relations / University Administration path, I’d probably be doing a lot more of that. I just think it’s so frightfully important to the future of everything from democracy, to understanding to building global relationships in the world that you’re doing to be devising for us old guys,” Betz said. During the time with the class, Betz said that
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he has heard the death bell rung for journalism “dozens of times” but has yet to believe its time has come. “Great journalists will be here forever, because no matter how much access you have, it is so important, so centrally relevant that we interpretation, that we have context, analysis, critique,” he said. Looking at how journalism in the United States is being represented abroad, Betz applauded the work of Anthony Shadid. Last September, Shadid came and spoke to students about being a foreign correspondent with the New York Times. Earlier this year, Shadid was part of a group of journalists who went missing in Libya during the uprising against dictator Muammar Ghaddafi. “He so understands the context that he can illuminate it for you,” Betz said. Another journalist Betz admires the work of is Fareed Zakaria. What Betz told the class he enjoys about Zakaria’s show on CNN called “Fareed Zakaria GPS” is how Zakaria pushes the assumptions of the viewer. “Just when you think you understand the issue, he gives you a different perspective,” Betz said. Betz stayed around until almost noon, shaking hands and meeting the students, but even then he continued to tell students about why he thinks it is important for them to stay connected to a the world at large. “There’s never been a time when change has been this rapid or this deep.”
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