The Vista June 20, 2012

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Life

The average restaurant worker lives below poverty line, according to latest report Many waiters and waitresses across Oklahoma are struggling to make ends meet with their wage frozen at $2.13 Trevor Hultner

Staff Writer

At first glance, the restaurant industry provides a vital service for young adults in the United States, steady employment with the chance at earning a manageable wage.

One respondent to an online call-out for this story, UCO elementary education junior Angela Roybal, said, “I make $3.63 an hour (as a hostess) and my managers are always very helpful when it comes to my schedule. […] The hours kind of suck but the money is usually pretty good, enough for me to be completely independent.”

In many cases, this does not represent the norm.

According to the 2012 Restaurant Opportunities Centers United National Diners Guide, the current median wage for restaurant workers is $8.90, putting them below the federal poverty line.

Over 90 percent of workers surveyed by the guide reported that their restaurant didn’t offer paid sick leave, and worker discrimination across color- and genderlines is a widespread problem.

One respondent, Amanda Whitlow, from Oklahoma City, said in an email that she had watched a co-worker begin her menstrual cycle while on the job, but the shift manager had refused to let her go.

“She asked to go home because she was so sick from her period and they told her that if she left she would be fired because starting your period is not a legitimate excuse to leave work,” she said. “She left crying and puking and was fired.”

In another situation, Whitlow found herself face-to-face with an abusive manager as well.

“One night I was hosting and one of the managers, [name redacted], came up to me and said, ‘What’s up, c---?’ and my mouth dropped and I didn’t even know what to say and he said, ‘Do something, b---h.’ and walked off,” she said.

“I should have probably reported him for saying those things, but I felt at the time that nothing would have gotten done about it because he was best friends with the general manager.”

The federal minimum wage for tipped workers has been frozen at $2.13 an hour, compared to the recently raised $7.25 an hour for all other workers, since 1991. While a few states, like California, have legislated higher minimum wages for tipped workers, others, like Oklahoma, have strictly adhered to the federal standards.

One veteran of the industry said her earnings had decreased by as much as 50 percent in the last five years alone as a result of her wages not keeping up with

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Philanthropy

Tipped workers in the restaurant industry are only guaranteed $2.13 an hour in wages; even though restaurants are supposed to reimburse workers when they make below $7.25 an hour in tips, gratuities are still an uncertain way to earn money for a lot of workers. Photo illustration by Trevor Hultner, the Vista

Music

US Sitting Volleyball Team member The Jazz in June Festival begins featured on ABC’s ‘Secret Millionare’ Musicians gather in Norman for 29th jazz festival

Charlie Swearingen advocated Limbs for Life nonprofit Alex Cifuentes

Contributing Writer Charlie Swearingen, of the U.S. Paralympic Sitting Volleyball Team, stepped into a different type of spotlight when he was featured on the TV show “Secret Millionaire.”

During the show, Swearingen’s relationship with Connor Karow, a 10-year-old who, like Swearingen, had a limb amputated, was highlighted.

Karow appeared on the show to represent Limbs For Life, an organization that provides assistance for prosthetics to those who cannot otherwise afford them.

Asides from monetary gifts, Limbs For Life recycles old prosthetics and gifts them to those unable to afford them.

“Beyond that first thing that we can give them, it sets them on a path that will allow them to do whatever they want to do in the future,” Swearingen said of the organization.

Swearingen hopes that the airing of his episode of “Secret Millionaire” will help bring awareness to the issues that people with physical disabilities face. He faced many trials when becoming a paramedic because of his prosthetic.

“With technology today, they can make a leg stronger than someone that is ‘able-bodied,’ so it’s really the word disability that is a misnomer,” said Swearingen.

Swearingen wants to teach Karow that though things may be tough, to remember that he can achieve his dreams.

Swearingen can relate to the struggles Karow faces when he gets a prolonged stare or is teased at school for his prosthetic. He tries to teach Karow that the people who laugh or point just don’t understand his situation.

“Ultimately, maybe the bully and Connor might never get along, but the big thing is building the culture especially in Connor’s mind that ‘Hey, I can do whatever I want to do,’” said Swearingen.

Swearingen also hopes to teach people that he does not need any pity.

“There are people who think that inherent-

The Jazz in June festival launches June 21 and will conclude June 23. Stock photo

Josh Wallace

Staff Writer

Paralympic Sitting Volleyball athlete Charlie Swearingen represented Limbs For Life on a recent episode of ABC’s Secret Millionaire. Photo by Trevor Hultner, the Vista

ly because you are missing a leg, that abilitywise you are in the hole, and that’s not the case,” he said.

Swearingen frequents the gym to keep in shape for the Paralympic team and continues to push his limits as an athlete.

“I was in the gym lifting 950 pounds on a leg press, and it was my leg that was buckling a little,” said Swearingen.

He can out-lift most of the general public and wants people to know they do not need to feel sorry for him.

Although Swearingen alone has accomplished many great things, he wants the spotlight to be on Limbs For Life.

“The great part of being on the show has nothing to do with me, but it’s all about Limbs For Life. Making sure that millions of people are now exposed to Limbs for Life that weren’t before, and that is fantastic,” said Swearingen.

With June, in Oklahoma, there come warmer temperatures and longer days, providing the perfect time to get out and enjoy the outdoors. For those looking to get outside and enjoy the weather, along with some great live music, the annual Jazz in June Festival is coming up.

This is the 29th year for the Jazz in June Festival in Norman, which runs from June 2123. The festival has transformed significantly from its humble beginnings in 1984, which was a far smaller event that drew in around 300 people. Today, the three-day event takes place at multiple sites, with a variety of performers, and brings in around 50,000 people over the course of the festival.

Karen Holp, Vice President of the Board of Directors for Jazz in June, describes the differing events, “There’s three nights of concerts, two jams, and four, one hour long clinics.”

She adds that the event has become a very popular attraction every year for the City of Norman and points out that the event is completely free and that they’ve raised money all year long to keep the concerts free.

Visitors can expect around six to eight vendors set up around the concerts, selling a variety of foods and beverages. “People can bring their own stuff, their own food, or purchase from the vendors we’ve got on site. All three nights people should bring their own chairs,” Holp said.

The performers will be playing a range of blues and jazz throughout the festival, with regional and national artists headlining. The evenings all open up with local or regional bands. Holp adds that they like to give stage presence to musicians in the area.

As it is June, and temperatures may be leaning towards the warm side, Holp offered some advice for those attending to stay cool. “There isn’t much shade at Brookhaven and very little shade at Andrews Park. Bring lots of cool liquids, bring an umbrella, not too big, like personal size, because you don’t want to block the view from people behind you, and wear loose clothing.”

The festivities kick off Thursday, June 21 with “Blues under the stars” at Brookhaven Village, located at NW 36 and Robinson in Norman. The music starts at 7:00 p.m., with Steve Coleman & The OBS All-Stars, followed by the evening’s headliner, Carolyn Wonderland, taking stage at 9:00 p.m., whom Holp described as having a fantastic stage presence.

The evening will conclude with a blues jam at 11:00 p.m.

Friday’s event, “Jazz under the stars,” is also located at Brookhaven Village, starting at 7:15 p.m. Artists for the evening include What’s That, and the headliner, The Bert Dalton Brazil Project, which mixes the sounds of popular Brazilian music styles with jazz.

The final day of the festival, Saturday, kicks off at 6:00 p.m., in Andrews Park, located

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Opinion

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June 20, 2012 Editorial

Underwhelming the overwhelmed

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While driving around town, it is likely that Edmondites will encounter a number of political signs lining the curbs of Edmond’s streets.

Though it’s only the end of June, these signs serve as an unwelcome reminder that election season is still – and will continue to be – upon us.

These signs are meant to attract attention to local and state elections, such as the battles for state senator spots and the coveted county court clerk position. However, these signs, competing for local loyal voters, also point to the national election, which seems to be carrying less and less momentum.

There arrives a time in every young American’s life when each of us comes of age and acquires the great privilege of voting.

I have to admit that when I turned 18, almost exactly one year ago, voting was not at the top of the list of reasons that I was excited to “become an adult.” With that being said, voting, although not at the top, was on that list.

I remember being a little disappointed that the year I turned 18

was not an election year.

But, now, my time has come.

I will be turning the great age of 19 this week, and I find that my excitement to vote has dramatically decreased.

Although I have never voted, it seems that my sentiments are shared with quite a few other young American voters.

In 2008, young adults across America stood up and voted in masses during the election that made history.

According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, 2 million more young Americans voted in the 2008 presidential election than in 2004.

With grandiose campaign themes and charismatic candidates, it’s not surprising that so many more young adults used their privilege to vote in 2008.

It is apparent that this presidential election does not hold the same theatrical appeal as the last one.

So, is it the decrease in theatrics that has researchers predicting a significant decrease in the young voter turnout for this year?

Or, could it be the candidates’

focus on their opponent’s negatives rather than their own positives?

Whatever it may be, the current presidential candidates seem to be failing at gaining the attention and loyalty of the youth of America, myself included.

Although I believe strongly in civic responsibility, my sense of self-efficacy is waning.

This generation will eventually become the nation’s leaders, the country’s workforce, and the caregivers to the nation’s current batch of politicians.

We will likely encounter cultural crises left by the generations of leaders before us.

With all of this being said, it seems, in a way, tragic that this election’s candidates have lost their ability to inspire excitement in the electorate, and with that loss, they have also most likely lost the extra 2 million young voters of 2008.

It appears that this year’s candidates are no more exciting than a few local campaign signs lined down Edmond’s streets.

Sarah Neese, Copy Editor

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Should servers trade their tips for minimum wage?

CARMEN MABREY

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“Yes. Depending on where you go, there is a lot of people who don’t tip.

Servers get paid off of their tip wages, because the rate is less than two dollars. To compensate for people who don’t tip, an increase in base pay would be a lot better.”

“I don’t know. I’ve never really been in that business, so I don’t know.”

“Yes. With servers, you’re either swimming or starving. If you have a good day, you’re going to make a decent amount of money, but if you have a bad day, you’re broke. If there is a higher base salary, they will have job security.”

“Yes. Most people don’t go into places tipping. They go in and not even get enough on their tip from just one table, and I think they work really hard.”

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Q&A

Vista Q&A: Matthew Esch, Gilman Scholarship Recipient financial need who have never been abroad, it’s to give them the opportunity to go abroad. I had never left the country, so they looked at me and said “that guy has to get out of here,” or something like that. They actually want people who have never been out of the country, to go and learn about other cultures so we can get the United States going a lot better, be more globally competent and all that.

Vista: What about this place you’re going to?

Esch: I’m going to Pukyong University in Busan, South Korea, right on the southern tip. To build the college, they had to go to the local fisheries since it’s on the harbor area, so they went to them for funds.

They said “we can do this if you can train kids in the fisheries business.”

Next semester, I might take some classes in harbor management, stuff like that.

Vista: You said you had never left the country before. What concerns do you have in going to live in a foreign country for the first time?

Esch was one of 50 students to win up to $8,000 through the State Department’s Gilman Scholarship Program. Photo by Bryan Trude, The Vista

Junior and international business major Matthew Esch was one of 50 students nationwide awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship to study abroad. He will be spending the 2012-2013 school year at Pukyong National University in Busan, South Korea. Recently, the Vista sat down with Esch to see how he

looked forward to the opportunity.

Vista: Can you tell us a little about the Gilman scholarship?

Esch: The Gilman scholarship is a grant program through the United States Government. Students who receive Pell Grants or other kind of

Esch: I’m not too concerned. I know a lot of people from South Korea, there’s about 157 students at UCO from there. I’ve studied their culture pretty well and I’ve taken some classes in Korean. What concerns me is that if something does happen, my family won’t be there with me. But, I’ve been here for three years, and my family is all in Pennsylvania, so I’m used to not re-

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lying on them too much to help me think I’m going to miss much beout. sides that.

Vista: Do you speak Korean?

Vista: Why do you think it is important for a student to study Esch: I took two semesters of Ko- abroad if they have the opportunity? rean here. I think I can speak it OK, but I feel like I’m going to learn a lot Esch: The reason my major exof it there. ists is because we conduct business around the world. Business majors Vista: One of the defining aspects understand the business side of it, of any foreign culture is the food… but international business majors have to understand the business Esch is then shown a video of side and the international cultural Sannakji, a Korean delicacy that side. If you do not understand an is the still-moving octopus ten- area’s culture, you will not succeed tacles that have a reputation of at all. You could have a marketing sticking to the inside of a diner’s major who knows how to make a mouth. commercial in an area, and it would be a lot better than an international Esch: Is this octopus? business major’s commercial. However, their commercial has a small Vista: Yup. chance that it could flop on some little cultural detail. You don’t exEsch: Live octopus…yeah, I pect someone with cultural trainthink I’m going to have to try it out. ing to make that kind of flop, and that is the same thing the governVista: Do you have any strategy ment sees in sending kids abroad. to eat that thing without it killing It’s important to understand culture you? in all these areas. It’s kind of like just knowing their language is one Esch: Well, I’d just do it. If it’s in thing, knowing the culture is somethere, it’s not getting out. Once it’s thing else entirely. If you do not in my mouth, I’m not spitting it out. understand the culture, then you That would be really rude. cannot communicate with them on a human level.

Vista: You’re going to be gone for an entire year on this scholarship.

Esch will depart in August for What are you going to miss?

South Korea. For more information on the Gilman Scholarship, Esch: I could say I’m going to visit www.lie.org/gilman. For more miss my family, but these days you information on UCO’s study abroad can go on Skype and everything and opportunities, visit the Centre for talk to them on the phone. I don’t Global Competency, located on the

Little Miss Sunshine By Kara Stewart

Jazz in June

Six-time Grammy Award winner David Sanborn headlines this world-class, music festival held every year in Norman. The event will take place over several sites including Brookhaven Village and Andrews Park. Other acts performing at the event include Carolyn Wonderland, the Bert Dalton Brazil Project, Steve Coleman and the OBS All-Stars, funk-fusion band What’s That, Ivan Peña Ensemble, Norman High School Jazz Combo, and the New Horizons Jazz Band.

The festivities begin on Thursday, June 21 at 7:00 pm. The event will end Saturday night, with the last set scheduled for 11:00 pm. Admission to the event is free.

Knights Auto Club Car Show

The annual Knights Auto Club Car Show returns to Shawnee on Saturday, June 23. The show recieves over 150 entries every year, this car show features a variety of vendors, live music, inflatables for the kids and more. A wide array of classic automobiles and custom hot rods will be available for viewing as you wait to see which lucky vehicle owner will win awards in categories such as best engine, best paint, best interior, the mayor’s choice award and the hotly-contested best of show.

Okfuskee County Wildfire Cook-Off

The Okfuskee County Volunteer Firefighters Wildfire Cook-Off in Okemah will be cooking up some delicious barbecue throughout this two-day event. See which team takes home the top prize in the categories of chicken, beef and pork.

Oklahoma City Redhawks

The Oklahoma City Redhawks will be playing a homeseries this weekend against the Omaha Stormchasers. The first game is Saturday, June 23 at 7:05 pm.

The second game is Sunday, June 24 at 6:05 pm. The third game is Monday, June 25 at 7:05 pm. Finally, there is an early game Tuesday, June 25 at 11:05 am. The Redhawks are currently leading the Pacific Coast League American West Division.

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Jazz blocks northwest of downtown at 201 W Daws St. “Jazz in the park” starts off with the New Horizons Jazz band, followed by local students performing in the Norman High School (NHS) Jazz Combo at 6:45 p.m. The Ivan Peña Ensemble takes the stage at 7:10

p.m., followed by an encore

by NHS Jazz Combo at 8:35 p.m.

Headlining Saturday is Grammy Award-winning saxophone artist David Sanborn, who will be taking the stage at 9:00 p.m. Rolling Stone described Sanborn music

as, “He’s jazz, he’s funk, he’s soul, he’s pop, he’s blues, he’s rock.” Rounding out the Jazz in June Festival will be a Jazz Jam led by the Grant Goldstein Ensemble at the Norman Santa Fe Train Depot at 11:00 p.m

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Summer Lovin’ There is no such thing as summer lovin’.

Every year, right around the time that school children are doing anything but their homework, and my birthday begins to creep up like graduation, I have this longing for all things summer: sunshine, surf, hotdogs, and most importantly, holidays that celebrate “Amu’rca.”

Generally, I start to feel a little crazed. I don’t want to wear jeans or T-shirts anymore. I wear less make-up, pull my hairup and crank on the fans in hopes that my ritualistic dance around the apartment will somehow bring in the season.

And then it gets here, and I suddenly remember why summer sucks so entirely bad.

It’s almost as if this wonderful wheatgrowin’ state casts a spell on me that lasts through the other three seasons. I entirely forget that an Oklahoman summer is entirely different from any other summer in any other place.

Sure, there’s sunshine. It blasts down from the heavens above like a death ray. I watch the neighbor’s cats crawl under the stairs in a futile hope to escape. I’m half afraid that there’s going to come a time when they become dog food, for pure lack of energy to escape.

There’s surf, too. Take a travel down the highway to the nearest lake, and after spending all of your pocket change to get in, you can enjoy the sounds of children screaming in the shallow waters. If that’s not enough to fill your heart with joy,

there’s always the redneck karaoke station down the way, as well as that one guy who’s blasting Grateful Dead from his fishin’ boat.

Oh, I love summer. I love watching my flesh burn from stepping outside for more than thirty seconds. I love sucking down bottles of water like my life depends on it (because it does) and being drenched in sweat the moment the sun rises.

And, as it always does, half-way through the summer I realize that this is no vacation at all. Even the trips to the lake and other adventures can’t trick my subconscious back to the state it was in prior to the season. I spend my days inside, afraid of the Holocaust-like heat, typing away at my school and my job.

And, I’m fairly confident, by the time the Fourth of July rolls around, I will be momentarily chipper, a short delusion caused by one-too-many heat strokes and good-natured alcoholism. I will dress in my most patriotic (and summerappropriate) gear, bust out the grill and watch the neighborhood kids attempt to kill each other with fireworks.

Oh, the good ol’ days.

Before too long, I will be clinging to the joys of fall weather: cool air perfect for walking, hot tea and cuddling under blankets with books. I’ll realize that the air is too cool, the tea too hot, and that the only thing I’ve ever enjoyed about the seasons is the idea of them.

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Social networking creates new issues in grieving Adam Holt

Staff Writer

With social networking still in its youth, most of us have not dealt with many of life’s realities in conjunction with this technology, including the most inevitable.

What happens when your friend or family member dies?

A Facebook page status no longer changes and a recently uploaded selfportrait takes on a new meaning. A Twitter feed goes silent.

How do family and friends deal with this new angle of society? What becomes of the networking pages of the deceased?

Often family of someone who has passed will take over the Facebook or MySpace page to memorialize, or sometimes create memorial page to itself.

Angela Knight, J.D., Assistant Chairperson of the Funeral Services Department and Assistant Professor says these actions have become another way we grieve.

“Part of grieving a significant loss is through certain behavioral tasks, marking this significant loss,” she said. “Examples of this are roadside markers, planting trees, and now these social networking pages. It is a behavioral task.”

Another aspect of the site a friend or family member leaves behind is a communal sense of mourning. People from different areas of the deceased come together and grieve in a way that has not existed before.

“Through social networking you are

sharing stories online and it helps to have more of a public mourning experience,” said Knight. “Those who mourn more as an individual tend to more likely develop depression.”

Jennifer Pearsall, a recent UCO public relations graduate, has first hand experience with losing someone close and the influence social networking had on the grieving process.

Pearsall met Ethan Hendricks at Oklahoma City Community College.

They became friends while sharing a news reporting class and became even closer as they both joined the staff of the school’s newspaper, The Pioneer.

In August of 2011, Hendricks died in a vehicular accident.

Quickly, friends and family went not only to their phone, but also texting and Hendricks’ Facebook page.

Pearsall feels Hendricks’ page was helpful for her in her time of need.

“A person can say what they want without having to face what they are saying,” she said. “I was able to vent, share stories, and talk with others about Ethan without feeling horribly uncomfortable or anxious.”

“I had never experienced something so awful before and either I wouldn’t have coped or it would of taken me a lot longer if I didn’t have that outlet,” said Pearsall.

Through this social mourning, a silver lining can sometimes be found.

“I met Ethan’s parents a couple of times, but after his crash I started talking with them on Facebook pretty regularly. It was a way for me to keep Ethan alive by including his family in my life,” said Pearsall.

Though social networking has brought positive to the way we grieve, there are some negatives, especially concerning control of information.

“I found out Ethan died through a Facebook post. Something along the lines of ‘R.I.P. Ethan, I’m gonna miss you,’” she said. “I thought it had to be a joke, but at the same time I just had this bad gut feeling.”

A call from Hendricks’ fiancé confirmed the worst. Ethan had died.

“I didn’t want anyone else to find out that way so I started making calls. Several calls later and I couldn’t bare repeating the story and being questioned

so I resorted to texting everyone,” she said.

“I spent the next several hours texting back and forth. It was probably one of the worst feelings having to tell people you know that their friend is dead.”

Privacy is another issue that is often not respected enough in these situations, though it is usually unintentional.

“I could also see [social networking] being bad because some stories were meant to be private. Or if the family wanted a small funeral but now everyone wants to go, the cost and wishes might both go out the window in order to accommodate everyone,” said Pearsall.

Even though social networking brought the news of her friend’s passing in a way she wishes on no one, Pearsall is grateful that Hendricks’ page was there for everyone who needed to speak to him and to each other.

“I’m sure there’s are a million negatives to this, but for me, I am thankful to have something where I can privately have reminiscing moments, go through old photographs and read others stories of how he affected their lives.”

Campus News

OrgSync simplifies campus organization operations Joseph B. Nickell

Contributing Writer

The University of Central Oklahoma purchased, in the fall of 2011, an online organization management tool called OrgSync. The company, based out of Dallas, was founded by a group of students at the University of Texas.

The program was set up on UCO’s campus in early February to simplify the way organizations run, interlink all members of organizations and the organizations themselves and make joining an organization easier for students.

The program has been in use for several months now, and university staff and students agree that it is accomplishing all of these goals.

In the short time that OrgSync has

been active, the benefits of the program are already starting to come into effect.

According to Nathan Foster, Coordinator of Student Organizations, before, students had to fill out packets of paper work to start a new organization, a task that could be drawn out and involve several trips back and forth to the Student Organizations office. Now, it’s as simple as directing students to the website.

“It’s made student organizations more efficient,” Foster said. “We can now put all our forms online.”

Simplifying the way that student organizations run is only the start. OrgSync has also made it easier for students interested in joining organizations to do so.

Organizations can post events on a master calendar that shows their and all other organizations’ upcoming events.

Any student can view the calendar online. Foster says that it has made it easier for students to find organizations’ upcoming events and allows them to choose what organization they would like to check out, and when, more effectively.

“The interest in student organizations has always been high,” Foster said. “Now students can access the website and see all the organizations and a calendar with all their events. It’s really starting to interlink student organizations.”

Students have seen the positives of OrgSync over the past 4 months. Austin Hula, a junior at UCO, is a member of Sigma Tau Gamma and president of the Volunteer Activities Council. Hula agrees with Foster on how OrgSync is starting to interlink organization and also added that it has made it easier for students to join an organization.

“It keeps the action going. Students can see when organizations are having events. Unlike Facebook, where smaller organizations have trouble getting their events known to the student body, OrgSync allows all events to be viewed on the master calendar. You’re now able to see what all organizations are doing, not just the bigger, more popular ones,” Hula said.

There are still a few things OrgSync is working to implement. However, UCO is already starting to see the changes in running student organizations.

“People are still learning how to utilize the new system. It’s a new avenue, from advertising events to communicating inside your organization,” Cole Stanley, Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs said. “I have heard no one come back with a negative complaint.”

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Restaurant workers inflation.

“This used to be a very well paid industry back in the day, and now you are lucky to break even making minimum wage,” she said.

Several groups, like ROC-United and the Food and Retail Workers branch of the radical labor union the Industrial Workers of the World, have sprung up in recent years with the goal of improving the poor working conditions seen across the industry.

Founded in 2001, ROC-United says it is “the only national restaurant workers’ organization in the United States … dedicated exclusively to the needs of restaurant workers.”

It uses tools such as the Diners Guide to educate consumers on wage and working conditions in their favorite restaurants; a series of tip cards are also available for restaurant-goers to leave servers along with their tip.

The Food and Retail Workers Union was founded in October of last year and brings together several IWW-led campaigns, such as the Jimmy Johns and Starbucks Workers Union. The former is notable for blowing the whistle on a Minneapolis-St. Paul Jimmy Johns store’s policy of not allowing paid sick leave. In April, a federal judge found the store guilty of illegally firing six union organizers for leaking that information.

Consumers can download the Diners Guide at ROC-United’s website, http://www. rocunited.org, as well as tip cards and other informational material. Information about the Food and Retail Workers Union can be found at http://www.iww.org.

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Repair of vandalized Picasso going well Juan A. Lozano

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HOUSTON (AP) — Officials at a Texas art museum where a vandal spray-painted a Pablo Picasso painting last week say most of the damage to the more than 80-year-old artwork has been fixed.

A spokesman for the Menil Collection said Tuesday that restoration work on Picasso’s “Woman in a Red Armchair” has been “going very well” and the damage appears to have been caught in time.

Houston police are still investigating, and no charges have been filed in the case.

Officials say the vandalism happened June 13 at the Houston museum.

Police spokeswoman Jodi Silva says investigators are reviewing both surveillance video from the museum as well as a cellphone video taken by a witness and later posted on YouTube.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston curator Edgar Peters Bowron, left, and exhibition designer Bill Cochran standing next to Rembrandt’s “Portrait of the Artist” at the museaum in Houston. A collection of paintings including works by Rembrandt, Van Dyck and Gainsborough has left its home at London’s Kenwood House to travel the U.S. while the stately mansion undergoes renovation. June 3.

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International

Obama seeks G-20 results on economy

President Barack Obama arrives at the G-20 summit in Los Cabos, Monday, June 18, 2012. The leaders of the world’s largest economies have agreed to step up their efforts to boost growth and job creation. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Adrian Wyld)

Ben Feller

AP White House Correspondent LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) — President Barack Obama, closing his final foreign trip before the November election, sought to head home with fresh commitments Tuesday that Europe was racing toward a plan to keep its economic union afloat and its allies from being sucked into recession.

Leaders of the world’s other established and emerging powers wanted something from Obama, too — an assurance that the U.S. economy won’t plunge into an abyss at year’s end, when tax hikes and big spending cuts are due to kick in unless lawmakers and the White House cut a deal.

All sides at the Group of 20 summit seemed intent on sending confident signals to jittery markets and unhappy electorates. The European mess of high debt, high borrowing rates and high unemployment poses huge spillover risks to the American economy and Obama’s political future.

Underscoring the stakes, Obama broke from the main summit Tuesday for a brief meeting with leaders from Britain, Germany,

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Italy, France, Spain and the European Union.

Obama also met privately Monday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Following their talks, he sent word through a spokesman that he was “encouraged” about Europe’s path. Merkel proclaimed that the European Union nations were determined to solve the crisis through debt cutting, growth and cooperation.

“That reached very attentive ears here,” Merkel said from the summit, held in this resort region along the Pacific coast of Mexico.

Obama was immersed in a second day of summit talks before meeting separately with Chinese President Hu Jintao and holding a news conference. He was to be back in Washington early Wednesday, where a fierce reelection campaign and a slumping U.S. jobs market await him.

Despite the words of unity, European leaders showed signs that they have heard enough about their troubles, particularly from Americans. Memories linger of the 2008 financial crash that was borne in the United States and destroyed jobs and wealth.

“The eurozone has a serious problem, but it is certainly not the only imbalance in the world economy,” Italian Prime Minster Mario Monti said Tuesday. He said the United States’ own financial problems were mentioned

UCO receives grant to continue Upward Bound Mervyn Chua

Staff Writer UCO has received $1.53 million from the U.S. Department of Education to continue the Upward Bound program, a program that reaches out to metro high school students to prepare them for college education. The Upward Bound program started in 1965 by the U.S. Department of Education.

UCO first got involved in 2000, with the theme “The First in the Twenty-First.” This program provides opportunities for students who come from low-income, first-generation and ethnically underrepresented families. Pamela Edwards, the program coordinator of the UCO Upward Bound program said that these schools were specifically selected by UCO. “We felt that these high schools need the most help because they are struggling academically. We also identify that not many of their high school graduates’ parents have completed a four-year degree”.

UCO currently serves 73 students from three high schools—Cricket Oak, Star Spencer and Capitol Hill. The selected students came through a combination of avenues.

Some were referred by teachers, while others filled applications to be part of the program.

The program has two components. The first component, which runs from September to May, is referred to as the academic year, where the students are still physically in high school.

The second component is the summer en-

richment program, where the students come to UCO for six weeks. The students have a schedule and attend academic classes from 8:30 a.m. to 2:10 p.m. on weekdays. UCO hires university professors and public school teachers. There are specific courses that the students have to take, which include math all the way to pre-calculus, a foreign language, an English class, and science with a lab. Students also have to attend workshops on Saturdays and maintain a GPA of 2.8 in order to stay in the program.

UCO was one of 23 Oklahoma colleges to receive Upward Bound funding. During the next five years, the grant will provide $306,070 a year which will be used to pay salaries, keep up with technological advances, student travel and even monthly checks up to $40 awarded to participating students in the program.

Since the start of UCO’s involvement in the program, UCO started seeing their enrollment increase and become more diverse.

“UCO started becoming more known and students started looking at UCO differently and even as an option for their higher education,” said Edwards.

“One of the things that happens when we write the grant is we have to get letters of support. Basically that means that people believe in the program and they want the program to continue.”

in G-20 talks “by almost everybody, including President Obama.”

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso took an aggressive tone with reporters on Monday, also pointing some blame at North America and saying “Frankly we are not coming here to receive lessons in terms of democracy.”

Europe’s ability to turn around its fortunes fast will have direct bearing on whether Obama wins a second term. The bigger the drag from abroad, the harder the job growth in the United States.

Obama said all countries must contribute so “the economy grows, the situation stabilizes, confidence returns to the markets.”

Although the foreign gatherings allow Obama to show off statesmanship, every day spent away from the United States and a direct focus on jobs in America quietly gives headaches to his campaign aides.

While Obama was in Mexico, his Republican competitor, Mitt Romney, was wrapping up a campaign bus tour through the heart of America.

Obama was spending much of Tuesday on the economic crisis after taking care of some unrelated diplomatic business — his first meeting with Vladimir Putin since the former Russian president returned to the job this year. The leaders met for two hours Monday, in talks dominated by a bloody Syrian conflict that has deeply divided Russia and the U.S. Central to the G-20 debate is how nations can boost jobs and consumer demand without sinking deeper into debt. Obama has implored governments to spend and grow, not

just cut.

A draft of the leaders’ final statement shows they want assurances that the United States won’t take a deep plunge and drag them down as well.

The statement says the U.S. will “calibrate” its attempt to rein in debt and spending “by avoiding a sharp fiscal contraction in 2013.”

That’s a reference to a big threat to economic growth in the United States after the November election: the expiration of George W. Bush-era tax cuts and a scheduled round of automatic spending cuts that could send the nation back into a recession.

While the White House and lawmakers agree that they must act late this year or early next year to avoid such a “fiscal cliff,” there is no path yet on how to avoid it.

Obama’s political move has been to constantly show confidence in Europe’s ability to solve its problems, but prod its leaders to move and chide them for not doing more sooner. Now, White House aides talk more positively about the direction of the debate, as they see it, toward the role of government in spurring economic growth.

“I think if you look at the shift in the focus, you’ll see a very strong focus on supporting demand ... recognizing that economic conditions have deteriorated,” said Lael Brainard, the Treasury Department’s undersecretary for international affairs.

“This is very important to the Europeans in particular,” she said. “And yes, we have heard it from German colleagues.”

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If the hump becomes depleted, it will shrink, flop over, and hang at the camel’s side.

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Basketball

Men’s basketball up first in series of Q&A

Men’s Basketball head coach Terry Evans instructs Senior Josh Davis in a game against Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Nov. 15, 2011. Photo Services

Chris Brannick

Sports Editor Like many of the sports here at UCO, 2011-12 played out as an interesting year for Terry Evans and the UCO Men’s Basketball Team.

Finishing 15-11 proved the team’s desire and determination given their particular circumstances.

UCO athletic teams competed as independents last year awaiting the move to the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association. This resulted in more road games and inconsistent opponents.

The Bronchos persevered, and The Vista is going to catch up with the coaches to reflect on the season that was and look forward to the challenges ahead.

The Vista: Lets start with last

season. 200 wins, tough schedule, and you had a few obstacles.

What do you take with you from there?

Evans: It’s going to be tough anytime you have 20 road games out of 26 games. We had some injuries, losing those guys really hurt us. We feel like we gave away about five of those games. We could have won 20 games.

The Vista: You signed seven players earlier this year and now two more, what do you like about the new kids?

Evans: UCO’s a little unique. We play with a lot of Oklahoma kids.

We need to get kids with good grades who are from Oklahoma and that can play basketball. Then we get them in here and get them tough.

The Vista: How about those fresh faces? Is this part of the process?

Have you been in a situation like this before?

Evans: We’ll have 8 guys with a lot of experience, some Division I guys and Junior College transfers.

It’s going to be competitive. I think the guys who come in here in the best shape are going to excel because talent wise they are all good.

The Vista: Are you excited about the MIAA? As a coach how do you feel about being in a conference?

Evans: Yeah, we’re definitely ready to be in a conference so our kids can get the recognition with a conference tournament and an AllConference team.

The Vista: Is there anywhere specifically in the MIAA you’re looking forward to visiting?

Evans: We’ve been there recently, last year we were 9-2 against the MIAA and I think 8-0 the year before that. But Central Missouri and Washburn have been pretty good for a while and of course Northeastern. They’ve been to an Elite 8 and Northeastern has won a National Championship. So yeah, you kind of put a star by those games knowing what they can do for your team.

The Vista: It’s already been 11 years since your arrival. Does it seem like it?

Evans: Yeah it’s flown by, I was looking at a website that showed us as a top team in the region for the last five years, and I was really proud of that. I hadn’t even realized it.

The Vista: Finally, Thunder or Heat?

Evans: The Thunder can win if they play defense, block out and rebound. I think they can probably get some more movement in their offense. I think they gave away a couple of games.

The Bronchos will be led by Senior forwards Josh Davis and Spencer Smith. The only two who saw minutes last season. As well as June Carter who sat out last season.

Davis started in 13 of 25 games last season, he averaged 5.8 points per game and 3.6 rebounds.

Smith also started in 13 games and grabbed just over three rebounds per game. Smith averaged more than eight points per game.

Carter averaged five points and four rebounds in 2010-2011

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Hall of Fame votes in nine for class of 2012

EDMOND (June 18) -- Six of the best athletes in school history, a coach who re-established a national powerhouse and two former athletes who went on to long careers in coaching and administration have been selected for induction into the University of Central Oklahoma Athletic Hall of Fame.

Making up the 2012 Hall of Fame class is tennis All-American Melburn Brown, Jr., wrestling national champion Todd Drake, basketball All-American Tyrone Hopkins,

football All-American Johnnie Jones, multisport standout Christina Smith and soccer star Sally (Holmes) Tinga in the Athlete Category, while Jim Rogers was selected in the Coach Category and Jessie Banks and Don Jimerson for Lifetime Achievement.

The nine new members will be formally inducted during the UCO Hall of Fame Banquet, which is set for Friday, Nov. 2 in the University Center Ballroom during Homecoming weekend

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Opinion

Football

Full Timeout

25 things you need to know about Broncho Football ‘12

By Chris Brannick Sports Editor

Don’t say anything about the no no Sometime about six to eight years ago, a dark cloud hovered over America’s pastime, and the outlook didn’t appear that it would leave anytime soon.

The Steroid era, as people now refer to it, tested baseball and its fan base the way baseball would begin testing its participants.

America had grown quite fond of the homerun and now all of the sudden we didn’t now whether or not we trusted our heroes every time they blasted a deep fly ball back, back and well, I mean maybe that was tainted.

Television quickly turned us on our favorite boys of summer and made us think that they were cheaters and needed to be ostracized at once. There was little argument from anyone about whether or not there was something wrong going on.

Suddenly a mystery ensued on the future of baseball and how it would be viewed. Would it take a dip as one of the top sports in North America? Would its loyalists continue to loyally venture out to the ballpark for a beer and a hot dog? Would dads even want to take their sons to the game anymore for that once momentous occasion? How would this sport withstand a blow strong enough to forever tarnish its purity?

The punishment for these players would be severe and long lasting. For some, it was suspension, and that was all.

Those guys might end up serving their time and moving on or never returning to the game all together. The accountability issue became number one.

Players that admitted to using steroids could move on with their life and play ball. Some of the others who were either scared to admit that they did what more than half of the players of their time did or were just too stubborn, would not be able to escape this.

Monday, Roger Clemens was acquitted on charges of lying to a grand jury about his use of performance-enhancing drugs. This was the second trial against Clemens. The first was declared a mistrial.

Clemens hasn’t pitched since Sept. 2007, and his last few seasons were more like half seasons, because he couldn’t endure an entire season. Sounds like a guy using performanceenhancing drugs, right?

Clemens cannot escape this. The same goes for Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, for Sammy Sosa and the Most Valuable Player of 2011, Ryan Braun.

It wasn’t much later that we began to see the counterattack of baseball. If we begin in 2004, we can count six perfect games and 16 no-hitters. One-third of the perfect games in the history of Major League Baseball have been thrown in the last eight years.

In a discussion about baseball “these days,” a friend said that for the past three or four years, he’d been saying this was the year of the pitcher. Season after season he has been right, technically. Though you can’t exactly have a year of the pitcher followed by a year of the pitcher followed by another year of the pitcher. It just doesn’t work like that.

The post-steroid era consists of no-hitters and perfect games and despite the lack of homeruns, good honest baseball. Now, if we can just work on instant replay.

UCO’s Joshua Birmingham (21) runs past Lindenwood’s Donald Collier (8) and Chaz Fulton (93) during a college football game between UCO and Lindenwood at Wantland Stadium in Edmond, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

Whitt Carter

Staff Writer The Vista continues its look into the approaching Broncho football season.

With five of our top 25 reasons to get excited about this season coming every week, here are numbers 20-16.

20. The foot of Chris Robbs. The three-year starter returns for his final year and if Robbs can improve like he has in each of his season as a Broncho, field goals and PAT’s should be no problem.

Robbs is a career 21-30 on field goals (70%) and 84-90 on PAT’s (93%). Robbs currently holds a streak of 28 straight converted PAT’s, including a perfect 2020 in 2011.

Having an effective, and consistent, kicker is very underrated. Broncho fans should be excited to see jersey #30 trot onto the field, post-touchdown, simply because it will probably result in seven points, rather than six.

19. Free game day give-a-ways. A Central tradition that will be extended in 2012, the UCO Athletic Department gives students an incentive for attending home games.

In recent years, it has been t-shirts, towels, sunglasses, etc. Students can probable expect more of the same, but it is possible that the athletic department could improve on those items or give out more sought after items. Rumor has it that the items in 2012 are top of the

line stuff.

What ever the case may be, UCO always comes through with game day give-a-ways; a definite reason to show up at Wantland Stadium.

18. Transfer Delans Griffin. Think Josh Birmingham.

Griffin was rated nationally as a top20 back by Rivals.com while at Clinton High School in 2009. After holding seven offers, Griffin committed to Texas Tech, but because of complications, wasn’t able to attend school in Lubbock.

After enrolling at NEO last fall, Griffin was one of the bright spots on a Norseman squad that finished 3-6. Griffin totaled 267 rushing yards, 174 yards receiving, scored six touchdowns and averaged 33 yards on eight kickoff returns.

Griffin has the chance to be something special for the Bronchos. Can you imagine another back that’s nearly as shifty and quick as Birmingham? Get your popcorn ready.

17. OU/OSU football games only fall on 2/5 Broncho home games. This is great news.

A reoccurring problem is seeing Broncho students/fans flock to Norman or Stillwater on the day of UCO home games. With this year’s set up, there’s no excuse for students to not be in attendance at the least three home games.

Two dates: September 22 and November 10. Those are the only two days that

feature either OU or OSU home games (or both) alongside Broncho home affairs.

However, times have not been released for Sooner or Cowboy games yet.

Therefore, because both UCO games on the aforementioned days are at 2 pm., there is a chance that night games could occur for both OU and OSU. If that’s the case, students, there is no excuse. Get your hooves up.

16. Christian Hood and Tucker Holland. Both pass snatchers have been vitally important to the Bronchos in the past couple of years, which is a good sign for the new QB, Adrian Nelson.

Hood wasted no time racking up catches and yards in his first campaign at UCO. The Tulsa Union graduate caught 54 passes for 530 yards, one of which was a score. Hood also returned punts and kicks, totaling 176 more yards in that area. The sophomore emerged as the go-to receiver last year, something you can expect more of in the fall.

Holland has been a three-year starter for the Bronchos. Since 2008, Holland has 88 grabs, accounting for 892 yards and nine touchdowns. Holland displays more than reliable hands and is a precise route-runner. In 2009, the Edmond native posted 43 catches for 481 yards and was the recipient of seven TD passes.

In 2011, Hood and Holland combined for 30 % of production by Broncho receivers. That should be comforting to a new staff and quarterback in 2012.

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