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RECORD BREAKING By Trevor Hultner / Staff Writer Oklahoma was subject to several powerful earthquakes over the weekend, with one on Saturday night breaking a record for the most powerful quake in state history. The recordbreaking quake in question, a magnitude 5.6, started at 10:53 p.m. and lasted for about a minute, causing structural damage to some homes and in one instance, toppling a spire on Benedictine Hall at St. Gregory’s University in Shawnee, Okla. Facebook and other social media sites experienced an influx in mentions of the Oklahoma earthquake, and “Earthquake in Oklahoma” became a trending topic on Twitter. “I was watching an HBO series called ‘Oz’, it’s about the Oswald State Penitentiary, so that was pretty terrifying to be watching a guy get shanked in prison, and then an earthquake happened,” Audrey Thomas, a sophomore vocal music education major at UCO, said. “I was a little freaked out, and I couldn’t move for a second.” Thomas said she didn’t know what was happening until her roommate yelled “earthquake!” “He ran out, and I just kind of sat there and was like, ‘I don’t know what to do in the case of an earthquake, so I’m just going to sit here,’” she said. “It was my first earthquake, and I didn’t care for it.” The epicenter of the large quake was about five miles southeast of Sparks, Okla., a small town in Lincoln County. Early Saturday morning, another large quake registered a 4.7 magnitude and was recorded with an epicenter about eight miles northwest of Prague, Okla., roughly five miles directly south of the Saturday evening’s quake. “We do know that this earthquake occurred on a ‘strike-slip’ fault,” Paul Caruso, a geophysicist at the United States Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center, said. “That means that the movement was in a sideby-side motion, it wasn’t up and down like a ‘thrust’ fault.” Caruso said that the USGS was not able to pinpoint the exact fault line the quake originated from, but that it’s possible that it came from the Wilzetta fault. “The Wilzetta fault is one of a small series of faults formed during the Pennsylvanian Epoch about 300 million years ago, and it’s believed that these faults have been reactivated,” he said. Caruso said that faults became dormant as a result of changing plate tectonics. “The stress and strain has been readjusted so that it isn’t on that main fault line,” he said, “but then, hundreds of millions of years later,
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Jess Burrow, left, and James Patterson, look over the damage caused outside the home of Joe and Mary Reneau when their chimney was toppled by Saturday’s earthquake, in Sparks, Okla., Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
that fault is still a weak spot in the crust of the Earth, so if there’s stress and strain in the area, that’s natural the first place that’s going to fail.” Caruso said the USGS expects aftershocks to continue for weeks, and possibly months. “We can’t predict earthquakes, and we don’t know how long the aftershocks will continue,” he said. “But we hope that the 5.6 quake was the biggest in the series.” For more information on earthquakes in Oklahoma and what to do in the event of one, scan this tag:
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Maintenance workers inspect the damage to one of the spires on Benedictine Hall at St. Gregory’s University in Shawnee, Okla., Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011. Two earthquakes in the area in less than 24 hours caused one of the towers to topple, and damaged the remaining three. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
EARTHQUAKES 5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT
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The spot underground where the rock breaks is called the focus of the earthquake. The place right above the focus (on top of the ground) is called the epicenter of the earthquake.
In 2010, the Oklahoma Geological Survey was able to locate 1047 unique earthquakes, the largest of which was a 4.7 felt near Norman, OK.
Before Saturday evening’s record breaker, the largest recorded earthquake in Oklahoma was a 5.50 magnitude quake near El Reno in 1952.
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Earthquakes occur when underground rocks break along a fault line. The break releases energy which cause seismic waves that shift and shake the ground.
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The largest earthquake in recorded history occured in Chile in 1960. The magnitude 9.5 earthquake killed approximately 1,655 Chileans, left 3,000 injured and 2,000,000 homeless. The quake also caused a tsunami that killed 61 in Hawaii, 138 in Japan and left 32 dead or missing in the Philippines. The largest recorded earthquake to ever hit the United States was a magnitude 9.2 that struck Prince William Sound, Alaska on March 28, 1964.
The earliest reported earthquake in California was one felt in 1769 by the expedition of Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola. The quake occured while the group was camping about 48 kilometers southeast of Los Angeles. There is no such thing as “earthquake weather”. The USGS website states that there is an equal distribution of earthquakes in cold weather, hot weather, and rainy weather as well as the varying seasons.
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“I didn’t even feel it. I was “I was highly excited. I “I wasn’t here, I was on a driving. It was funny, there’s knew exactly what it was, it cruise in Jamaica.” big earthquakes everywhere was kind of cool.” else and we’re having to rebuild knocked over chairs and stuff.” ISHAIA SMITH
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WHO’S AT FAULT? There is an old saying about the people of Oklahoma. “Everyone’s an amateur meteorologist.” Perhaps that statement should be amended to include new seismological credibility. Citizens from the Panhandle to Green Country have weighed in on their social medium of choice and the results are in. God did it. This is not surprising when factoring in the state’s religious dominance, but large numbers of people are also saying that God caused the earthquake as a sign of the coming apocalypse. Before God gets all the credit for what is sure to not be the end of the world, there is another yet to be implicated suspect. In the state of Oklahoma it is almost impossible for the oil industry to do wrong, but there is a chance that natural gas drilling left the state shaking “like a Polaroid picture.” Hydraulic fracturing, colloquially known as “fracking,” is a process of digging deep into the earth and flushing pressurized liquids through underground rock to fracture and release deposits of natural gas. While the process has been criticized for leaking toxic chemicals into nearby ground water, this is another “they don’t want you to fracking know” shindig altogether. But places in Arkansas, Texas, West Virginia and now Oklahoma have seen spikes in seismic activity that all too conveniently follow multi-stage hydraulic fracturing. Early this year, the Oklahoma branch of the U.S. Geological Survey released a report looking into whether or not fracking was causing earthquakes. In the summary of the report, OGS said, “Our analysis showed that shortly after hydraulic fracturing began small earthquakes started occurring, and more than 50 were identified, of which 43 were large enough to be located. Most of these earthquakes occurred within a 24 hour period after hydraulic fracturing operations had ceased. There have been previous cases where seismologists have suggested a link between hydraulic fracturing and earthquakes, but data was limited, so drawing a definitive conclusion was not possible for these cases.” So, at this point, the data is not strong enough to say that these drilling sites are either guilty or innocent. Not an indictment, but it sure doesn’t make God the sole suspect. But maybe God did do it and (s)he made it look like natural gas rigs caused it. One thing is for sure, Oklahomans are bound to start seeing more “Fracking is completely safe!” commercials on TV. But, to be completely serious, the earthquakes in Oklahoma are all Oklahoma’s fault. The Meers fault to be exact.
“I thought it was awesome, it was my first earthquake ever, so I had a big ol’ smile on my face, then it got scary because it went on.”
“It was shocking. I was in “I was at my parents’ house my bed in Murdaugh Hall, in Valiant, 250 miles souththen I felt this shaking.” east, just barely in Oklahoma, and I still felt it, but it wasn’t ridiculous there.”
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WEEKEND DEBATE TOURNAMENT AT UCO, A FIRST SINCE TEAM REFORMED
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UCO debaters Gregory Munday (front) and Mike Maxey compare notes during a debate match against Emporia State University Saturday, Nov. 5 in the Liberal Arts building. Photo by Bryan Trude, The Vista
By Bryan Trude / Staff Writer The UCO Debate team hosted the Joe C. Jackson intercollegiate debate tournament last weekend, Friday, Nov. 4 through Sunday, Nov. 6 in the Liberal Arts building. Matthew Moore, UCO debate coach, said 40 teams from 16 universities, including Arizona State, Kansas, Oklahoma, Emporia State, Texas - San Antonio and Wyoming, registered to take part in novice, junior varsity and open divisions. The University of Missouri – Kansas City won the open division, while teams from the Kansas City Kansas Community College won both the novice and JV divisions. This is the first time UCO has hosted the Joe C. Jackson tournament since the team reformed after a one-year hiatus following a scandal surrounding the team’s previous coach, Eric Marlow, that led to his dismissal and the dissolution of the debate program. The teams in all rounds debated the
resolve of the U.S. government to increase democracy assistance in Middle Eastern and North African countries. “The winners of each debate are determined by judges,” Moore said. “They watch the debate, take notes and review the evidence after each round.” In a round, each side is given nine minutes to make their initial argument; however, with post-argument discussion, a round of debate can last up to three hours. UCO entered three teams in the debate, two in the junior varsity division and one in the novice division. Gregory Munday, freshman political science and economics major, was eager to help put UCO back on the debate map, and have some fun doing it. “Overall, it’s been pretty fun,” Munday said. “I was in debate for four years in high school, and I actually went here because UCO historically has a really good debate team, it’s one of my reasons for picking UCO.” As for UCO, the two-person team of Tess Botkin and Austin Vance were the
only ones to place, taking seventh in the JV division. Vance took seventh and Botkin took 10th in the individual rankings. “I like to do research and explore different aspects of resolutions, and present that information to others,” Mike Maxey, junior political science major and Munday’s teammate, said. “I was in debate years ago in high school, and I noticed that they started the program back up, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to further my debating skills.” Munday agreed debate is a good opportunity and a good fit with his personality. “Debate is competitive, and I am fairly competitive,” Munday said. “Second, it’s the most informative event I’ve ever been in. I’ve learned more from debate than I have from any of my classes.” Moore said there was still scholarship money available for students interested in debate. For more information, contact Moore at 794-5564, or by e-mail at mmoore3@ uco.edu.
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By Chris Howell / Staff Writer The second annual Campus Wellness Symposium will be held Friday to help campus wellness officials across the state better serve record numbers of college students. Registration for the symposium starts at 8 a.m. at the Moore Norman Technology Center. The event will last until 4 p.m. and the keynote speaker will be John Clapp, Ph.D., director of the Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention. “Colleges and universities are concerned with making themselves as healthy as they can and meet the needs of their students, especially with the stressful environment,” Pamela Boatright, campus safety coordinator, said. “We know these are issues that in some scope or fashion need to be addressed.” The symposium is being organized by the Campus Wellness Consortium, a group of people from public and private higher education, as well as couple of people from the career tech system. The group was formed last year by the Oklahoma State Regents of Higher Education, who recognized the importance of health promotion on college campuses with record enrollment. College enrollment in Oklahoma jumped 5 percent in the 2009 school year after years of stagnation or even decrease, according to the State Regents website. College enrollment tends to increase during recessions because unemployment drives people to enroll to make themselves more marketable to employers, according to a report by Mark Kantrowitz, the publisher of fastweb.com and finaid.org. “Most campuses will have counselors that can help people through these hard times, and this counts as part of their training,” Boatright said. The symposium and the CWC is “open to anyone from public, private or career tech institutions who interested in wellness issues in a campus environment.” However, the CWC is not for counselors, who already have a separate professional organization. “Our first symposium was last year at Rose State College, in July, when we had a special emphasis on tobacco free campus. This year, we’ve expanded our scope to include other campus health and wellness issues like alcohol, drug abuse, suicide prevention and gambling,” Boatright said. Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in Oklahoma, and legislators have become more active in combating it. Restaurants were required to either be smoke-free or provide a separate ventilated room in 2006, and there can be no smoking within 25 feet of most public buildings.
By Mervyn Chua / Staff Writer Fifteen countries will be represented at the UCO Grand Ballroom from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for the annual 36th International Festival on Nov. 10. There will be booths serving free food from around the world, displayed artifacts, high-energy performances – everything from fashion, dancing, singing and even the display of martial arts. Performances start at noon and last until 1:30 p.m. This year, the International Festival will also be a competition between the 15 country organizations. The countries are the African, Chinese, European, Saudi Arabian, Taiwanese, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Nepali, Vietnamese, Latin America and Pakistani Student Association. These organizations will have to compete in categories including performance, food, display, as well as the spirit they have for the festival. The best group overall wins the grand prize of $200. The International Praise Festival was first started by international students with the International Student Council (ISC) to give back to UCO and the community. “The International Festival is a celebration of diversity on campus, raising cultural awareness”, Joshua Lim, Public Relations and Marketing Officer of the committee, said. “It is a place to educate oneself and see the world from another perspective.” “Everyone who travels has the spirit to explore culture and lifestyles to expand their humble view,” Tracy Tindle, Immigration and Activities Advisor Office of International Services, said. “Unfortunately, not every UCO student has the time or money. International Festival can be the spark, the inspiration to want to understand the world in a different way through learning from other cultures.” “There are so many countries represented here who are able to showcase their culture. This is something proud for UCO,” Alvin Teh, Chair of the International Festival Committee, said. “The festival creates an experience for participants to feel like they are travelling around the world in such a small place and such a small time without flying to other countries.”
What: 36th International Festival When: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10 Where: Nigh University Center Ballroom
Since I strolled out of my mother’s womb, I’ve survived three raptures. Heck, I turned the swine flu to bacon in a single day. Let’s just say Gloria Gaynor’s 1978 single, “I Will Survive” was inspired by my life. However, as this canny rambler looks off into the horizon, an icy, foreboding moon ricochets my gaze. The next test emerges. No, I’m not talking about December 2012. The Mayan calendar running out of pages stacks up like a measly cakewalk compared to November 2012. Presidential elections pass like slow parades. There are no Shriners in tiny go-carts or fried Twinkies, but there are plenty of halfdrunk clowns and horse crap. Why is it necessary to take a look now, when America’s supply of aspirin and subsequently sanity will not be destroyed for another year? Well, an uninformed public makes brash decisions if not constantly reminded of the candidates’ shenanigans. The frontrunners of the GOP could all appear as cast members on Saturday Night Live portraying caricatures of Republican stereotypes. While many Americans turn off their television sets to escape the onslaught of ultra-left and ultra-right media outlets, the Republican party keeps handing microphones to irrational carnival barkers in love with the sound of their own voices. Let’s look at three leading Republican candidates: Mitt Romney, Herman Cain and Rick Perry. Time to get Mitt Romney out of the way. He has done decently in the polls, flip-flopping with Herman Cain for the top spot, but Republicans want a novel approach to getting back to Nostalgia Boulevard. They are seeking a hard-nosed candidate. Romney’s changing views on economic recovery and abortion have left many voters unsure if they can trust him, and since Romney went around the block in ’08, his campaign tends to get shrugged off in hopes of some new “maverick.” Herman Cain, the king of the eighth-largest pizza franchise in America and former ladies’ man, took heat last week with sexual harassment accusations coming to light. Of all the GOP presidential hopefuls, Cain has one the worst rankings on PolitiFact, the site created by the St. Petersburg Times to combat political falsity. Recently he was given a “pants on fire” ranking for saying China is “trying to develop nuclear capability” in a PBS Newshour interview. China has had nuclear capability for more than 40 years. In the last five years, you were 108 times more likely to be executed by Governor Rick Perry than to die in a terrorist attack. The man has executed more convicted persons in his stint as Texas governor than were executed in the 30 years before he took office. An aroma of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey billowed from his lips on Oct. 28 in New Hampshire. “Live free or die, victory or death, bring it!” Perry shouted in a stupor. Perry along with Cain, both feel global warming is fictitious despite the evidence from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Here’s to hoping a real candidate emerges for the GOP. No extreme caricatures, no marketing ploys of drunk gunslingers, or sleazy pizza mongers. All I’m asking for is a candidate that wouldn’t fit in with a traveling circus.
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PLAYING JUST THE CLASSICS By Ben Luschen / Staff Writer Housed in the Mass Communications building, university-owned classical station KCSC Edmond 90.1 gives fans of Bach and Wagner exactly what they want: more music with no commercial interruptions. According to Susan Clark, development director for KCSC, the station’s aim is to spread the music among the people of the state and beyond. KCSC is the only locallyprogrammed, all-classical radio station in the state. “Our mission is classical music,” Clark said. “Our goal is to provide people with quality classical musical work.” Last week however, KCSC was on a very different mission. From Oct. 31 to Nov. 7, the radio station held its annual fall fund drive, which hoped to spike donations and new station memberships. KCSC holds two fund drives each year, one in the spring and one in the fall. Money taken in from the drives helps fund satellite fees, CDs, programming and purchasing new technology. This fall, KCSC’s goal was to bring in about $65,000. As of Nov. 7 at 7 a.m., the station had only reached around 68 percent of its target amount. Clark remains hopeful there is still much more money to be made, as history indicates the final day of the drive is usually their most successful. According to Clark, donations have been slow across the board for similar stations. “We’ve talked to other public
radio stations who’ve already had their drives and in this economy it’s been pretty tough,” she said. Though the annual fund drives are a large part of what keeps KCSC running, memberships and donations only account for 40 to 50 percent of the station’s total budget. “The rest comes from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, from UCO, they’re our licensee. They basically put us up, house us, and pay our utilities,” Clark said. “Then grants and underwriting make up the rest of that.” Because KCSC is a public station, they cannot accept advertisers in the traditional sense, but are allowed to have some underwriting agreements. Underwriting is a process in which businesses contribute to the funding of a station. In return, the station will acknowledge the business for their support on air. KCSC currently has a variety of underwriters. Though companies like Homeland and Hudiburg Subaru are underwriters for the station, the majority of KCSC’s contributors are fine arts organizations, including the UCO Broadway Tonight Series and the UCO College of Fine Arts and Design. “We are very closely aligned with the College of Fine Arts and Design because it is our mission to promote all arts organizations,” Clark said. The station is involved in the arts in a number of ways. Every Thursday morning, KCSC host Brad Ferguson broadcasts his
Susan Clark, development director of KCSC, and Brad Ferguson, station manager, go on air to encourage listeners to donate for the KCSC Edmond 90.1 Fall Fund Drive at the KCSC studio in the Mass Communication building, Monday, Nov. 7, 2011. The funds collected will account for 40-50 percent of the program’s income. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista
show, “Spotlight on the Arts,” live from the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. In the hour-long show, Ferguson interviews local artists, musicians, actors and other performers. Another weekly show, “Performance Oklahoma,” broadcasts performances from a variety of symphonies including the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, OK Mozart, Canterburty Choral Society, Bright Music and symphonies from state universities.
Clark said KCSC can be very useful to those who closely follow local orchestras. “You can miss a performance live but you can actually hear the entire broadcast of that concert,” she said. KCSC’s commitment to the arts has earned it a fairly large following of those who share the station’s passion for the arts; they are estimated to have 46,000 listeners statewide. There are also many other listeners from around the nation and
world who stream the station live on KCSC’s website. Clark contributes the station’s following to their devotion to the arts and passion for the music they play. “We’re one of the few stations in the country that actually airs the classical works in their entirety, the full works,” she said. “You’re not just hearing a movement, you’re hearing the entire work.”
College of Fine Arts and Design
FINE ARTS AND DESIGN BRINGING OPERA TO JAZZ LAB By Brittany Dalton / Copy Editor The College of Fine Arts and Design will present “Opera Scenes: An Evening of Love” this week at the Jazz Lab. The performances, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. starting Wednesday, Nov. 9, will showcase 14 opera students in a variety of opera scenes centered around the theme of love. Featured compositions range from Mozart to Puccini, among others. Kevin Eckard, director of the opera division, said the theme is a more easily-accessible introduction to opera, as well as the exploration of the many ways in which love manifests itself.
“The opera scenes explore a loose concept of love,” he said. “It explores such things as dysfunctional relationships. There are different forms of love: one performance follows two old women attracted to a beggar.” The Opera Division hosts opera workshops every fall, each with a different theme. Eckard notes an interesting distinction between this performance and others in the past. “This performing class is much younger, there are a lot of sophomores,” he said. “It’s very interesting to see because this is the next group coming up the ranks.” While many may find opera not an immediately accessible art, Eckard said this perfor-
mance hopes to bridge the gap. “I think the biggest hurdle to more people getting into opera is the language barrier,” he said. He noted this performance features operas both in English and in other languages. “I find that many people who say opera is hard to get into, have not been to one yet,” he said. “I think it’s important that you get to see several types, be they comedy, dramatic, or otherwise. A lot of it is experience, and this is an opportunity for [the audience] to get their feet wet.” Eckard said this performance offers not only a range of operas in different languages, but also different styles of music and orches-
tration. “This performance will be a sampling of several types of opera,” he said. Tickets for the performance are $5 and can be purchased at the door with cash or payment by check. Credit card payments will not be accepted. The performances will run from Wednesday, Nov. 9 through Friday, Nov. 11. For more information on upcoming opera events or the Opera Division, contact Kevin Eckard at 974-5171. For further information on events and performances in the College of Fine Arts and Design, visit www.uco.edu/ cfad/events.
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‘OCCUPY’ ACROSS AMERICA
Photos: Left, Occupy Denver (AP Photo/Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post), top center, Occupt Detroit (AP Photo/Detroit News, Ricardo Thomas), bottom center, Occupy Tulsa, (AP Photo/The Tulsa World, Mike Simons), top right , Occupy Wall Street (AP Photo/John Minchillo), bottom right Occupy Atlanta, (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser). Graphic by The Vista
Reports from The Associated Press COLORADO Occupy Wall Street supporters in Denver are preparing to move from Civic Center Park to another city park to make way for a Veteran’s Day celebration. Protesters say they plan to march in front of downtown banks Saturday as part of a national movement to urge people to close their national bank accounts and transfer their money to local credit unions. Activists in Pueblo and Grand Junction are also planning to participate in the effort to withdraw their money from banks. GEORGIA The Rev. Jesse Jackson and a group of Occupy Atlanta protesters took over the lobby of SunTrust Plaza in downtown Atlanta for
about an hour on Friday afternoon. The group sang protest songs at the Atlanta-based bank’s downtown headquarters, which was shut down during the protest. After the protest, Jackson said that the movement should be about banks and financial conditions and not about clashes with mayors and police. NEW YORK New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the violence that erupted in Oakland won’t be repeated in New York. Bloomberg said Friday on his weekly WOR radio appearance that the city won’t tolerate some of the behavior at Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, but officials also must “understand the laws and the implications.” The mayor says that anybody who thinks the city is doing nothing is wrong.
About 15 Occupy Wall Street protesters have demonstrated outside a New York City courthouse over the arrests of some of their cohorts. The demonstrators beat a drum and chanted “free our prisoners” outside the courthouse Friday. One of them, Jose Mediavilla says he and two other protesters were arrested near the activists’ encampment in Zuccotti Park under a state law that bars more than two people from wearing masks at protests. He says they donned the masks only briefly for a photograph. Police said at least 17 protesters were arrested in the area Thursday. NORTH CAROLINA Two dozen demonstrators face trespassing and resisting arrest charges after police say they refused to leave a downtown park where
members of the Occupy Asheville movement aimed to start an aroundthe-clock vigil. Asheville Police spokesman Lt. Wally Welch said Friday that 23 people were peacefully arrested and processed, while a woman in a wheelchair was issued a citation on the spot late Wednesday. Protesters argued their constitutional rights to gather and protest in a public place could not be restricted by the park’s 10 p.m. closing time. OKLAHOMA Ten Occupy Tulsa protesters have been arrested during a protest at a public park. The Tulsa World reports (http://bit.ly/vRssXg ) that the protesters went into custody peacefully Thursday night at the Chapman Centennial Green park in downtown Tulsa as a crowds on the sidewalk sang “The Star-Spangled
Banner.” Police Chief Chuck Jordan says he’s enforcing the park’s curfew. The arrests bring the total to 33 Occupy Tulsaprotesters who have been arrested since Tuesday night. RHODE ISLAND A Providence city councilor is planning to introduce a resolution expressing support for Occupy Providence activists to remain indefinitely at a public park downtown where they have been camping for nearly three weeks. City Councilman Luis Aponte on Friday called the protesters’ encampment at Burnside Park a “lawful expression of their First Amendment rights.” The city has agreed to delay legal action at least until next week at the request of an Occupy Providence attorney. Activists ignored a Sunday deadline to vacate the park.
Nursing
NURSING STUDENTS OFFER HEALTH SCREENINGS By Bryan Trude / Staff Writer The UCO Nursing program held a free health screening for students from noon to 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4 on the second floor of the Nigh University Center. The screening, which was free of charge for students, checked blood pressure, body mass index and blood glucose levels. “In our nursing program, we have a course called Success,” Leann Laumbach, nursing instructor, said. “Part of their course is that they have to do healthy type activities. We’ve had health fairs, screenings, events that help bring awareness of people’s health to the public.” The Success course, a five-semester program consisting of sophomore through senior nursing students, helps students gain experience with interacting with patients and performing basic nursing tasks, such as checking blood pressure. “[Success] helps us get ready for our boards and develops us as nurses,” Ashlee Sareing, senior nursing major, said. “[Events like this] help me build up my skills, we can do blood pressure and blood glucose, as well as help us interact with patients or clients.” Blood pressure, the pressure that blood exerts on the walls of the circulatory system,
is one of the body’s major vital signs. Expressed as values of maximum (systolic) and minimum (diastolic) pressure, the average blood pressure for a healthy adult is less than 120/80. Excessive blood pressure is a condition called hypertension, which begins at a rating of 140/90. Hypertension is a risk factor for stroke, heart attack, heart failure, kidney failure and arterial aneurysm. Body Mass Index, or BMI, is a system that gauges weight status based on the person’s weight and height. According to documentation provided by UCO Nursing, a normal BMI for an adult is between 18.5 and 24.9. “A lot of students in the college age range tend to skip meals,” Laumbach said. “They don’t eat particularly healthy diets, so they need to know if they’re at high risk for diabetes. For college age students, the biggest risk is for poor dietary practices. If you’re overweight when you’re young, you’ll become even more overweight when you are older.” Blood glucose tests are used to measure levels of glucose in the blood, which is an indicator of diabetes. Diabetes occurs when the body is either not producing enough insulin (Type I), which is a chemical that breaks down sugar into energy, or the cells do not respond
UCO nursing students enrolled in Success administer health screenings to students on the second floor of the Nigh University Center on Thursday, Nov. 3. Photo by Bryan Trude, The Vista
to the insulin present in the blood (Type II). While the cause of Type I diabetes is unknown, Type II is becoming more common due to increased obesity rates. “Health is always important,” Sareing said.
“It should be a routine to get these things checked out so often so students don’t fall into a position where they have to deal with more severe conditions.”
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TEXAS NO MATCH FOR UCO HOCKEY UCO Broncho hockey team won the two-game series against the University of Texas over the weekend with a combined score of 33-0. This game marked Texas’ worst loss of the season.
UCO’s JM Biron, 20, lines up to take a shot on goal against the Texas Longhorns, Friday. The Bronchos won the first match 16-0 and the second 17-0 to hand Texas their worst losses of the season. . Photo by Liz Boyer, The Vista
By Bryan Trude / Sports Writer The UCO Bronchos hockey team swept a two-game series against the University of Texas with a pair of dominating performances, downing the Longhorns by a combined score of 33-0 Friday, Nov. 4 and Saturday, Nov. 5 at Arctic Edge. The series loss sets a school record for goals and shots made in a game, as well as a Texas season record for widest loss margin and largest goals against total for a game and a series.
In the first game, a 16-0 victory, the Bronchos (8-7) opened up scoring with authority, scoring five goals in the first period. Bronchos scoring was led by freshman forward Shane Khalaf. The Tulsa native had two goals and an assist in the first period to lead UCO, followed by senior defender Adam Hull with two assists. Despite the fast start, UCO Head Coach Craig McAlister knew his team could do better. “The game wasn’t fast moving, so it gives the Texas goalten-
der plenty of chances in front of him,” McAlister said. “Longhorns are basically playing a penalty kill situation in the fiveon-five, so we’re taking a lot of outside shots. Regardless of what they do, we still have to run our offense.” UCO followed up in the second period with six goals, a season high for a single period, before closing out the game in the third with an additional four. Twelve different Bronchos found the back of the net, led by Khalaf and freshman forward Nolan Grauer, both with two goals on the night. Texas goaltender Jason Magusiak had 76 shots for 11 goals against before being replaced by sophomore Bryan McGee in the third. UCO laid 113 shots on Texas, who only managed nine shots on freshman goaltender Zdenek Zavadil of the Czech Republic, who made his first start in net this season. The second game, a 17-0 victory, got off to a slower start thanks to an improved Longhorn attack, turning up the defensive and offensive pressure on Central compared to the night before. UCO points leader Donald Geary began the scoring for the Bronchos, tipping one past Magusiak midway through the first. Despite the improved defense from Texas that held the Bronchos to only six goals in two periods. The Longhorn defense collapsed in the third, however, which saw 11 goals scored between Magusiak and McGee. The pair faced a total of 118 shots, while Zavadil faced only eight. The Broncho goal-scoring assault was anchored by Geary and senior Jean-Marc Biron, who both had hat tricks on the night. 10 Central skaters in all scored goals, with five scoring two or more. “We’re trying to improve our game one game at a time, so a win like this gives our guys confidence, especially after the hard schedule we’ve had,” JM Biron said. “Stats like this are flattering, but goals win games, and that’s what we went to do this weekend.” UCO will return to action at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11 at Arctic Edge, when the Bronchos will take on the University of Buffalo. Friday will be the team’s “Pink in the Rink” night, where fans will be encouraged to wear pink UCO Hockey shirts that will be sold this week in Nigh University Center, with proceeds going to support breast cancer research.
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NOV. 8, 2011
Central Football
BRONCHOS LOSE PRESIDENT’S CUP By Trey Hunter / Sports Editor The UCO football team’s last victory over Northeastern State came in 2009 when both teams were in the former Lone Star Conference. The Bronchos won the game by a score of 47-38 and it was their fourth victory of the season. This year’s battle for the President’s Cup was a completely different story. The Riverhawks took home the trophy and beat UCO on their own home field, 35-7. Northeastern started the game fast by scoring 14 of their 35 points in the first quarter. The Riverhawks started their second drive at UCO’s 33-yard line with a six-yard run by running back Terrance Dixon. On the next play, quarterback Johnny Deaton connected with Ryan Dvorak for a 27-yard touchdown pass that put Northeastern on the scoreboard first. The Bronchos were forced to punt on the ensuing drive. However, two plays later, Central defensive back Dylan Warner picked off a Deaton pass and returned it to Northeastern’s 42-yard line to set up the offense’s next drive. The Bronchos drove to the 35yard line and took the field after a timeout to attempt to convert on fourth and three. A false start penalty set Central back five yards and the coaching staff decided to punt and set up Northeastern at their
UCO’s Tucker Cason, 22, and Devoris Dozier, 6, take down Northeastern State’s Terrance Dixon, 22, during their game Saturday. The Bronchos fell 35-7 and Northeastern took home the President’s Cup for the second straight year. .Photo by Liz Boyer, The Vista
one-yard line. The Riverhawks accepted the challenge and turned in a grueling eight-play drive that was capped off by a 62-yard pass from Deaton to Jahmai Coleman to push Northeastern’s lead to 14-0. Central started to move the ball down the field on their next drive. An 11-yard pass play from Ethan Sharp to Steve Caldwell and a 42-
yard pass from Sharp to Bryce Davis put the Bronchos in scoring position. Three plays later, kicker Chris Robbs had a chance to put Central on the board for the first time, but missed a field goal from 22 yards out early in the second quarter. Central’s defense held Northeastern for the rest of the first half and with less than one minute to go, de-
OKLAHOMA CITY OPEN RESULTS CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 174 – Derek Peperas, Oklahoma City, dec. Kelly Henderson, UCO, 5-1. 184 –Tanner Keck, UCO, dec. Andrew Pontikes, OCU, 8-6. 197 – Cayle Byers, Oklahoma State, tech. fall Jarrett Edison, UCO, 15-0.
fensive back Devoris Dozier intercepted a Deaton pass at UCO’s fouryard line. Central ran the ball three plays in a row to end the half to go into the locker room down 14-0. The second half was much like the first. UCO drove down into their own territory, but was forced to punt the ball away. Northeastern drove the ball down into scoring position, but
another Deaton interception, this time by Creadell Pennon, gave UCO the ball back with a chance to cut into the Riverhawks’ lead. Central couldn’t do anything with the opportunity and two drives later Northeastern scored again to take a 21-0 lead. The Riverhawks scored on another long pass by Deaton that ended up in the hands of Trey McVay for the touchdown. Central finally got on the board on the ensuing drive. The Bronchos started with great field position and scored on a 25-yard pass play from Sharp to Christian Hood to cut Northeastern’s lead to 21-7. The Riverhawks answered back moments late. On the first play of their next drive, Deaton connected with McVay again, this time for a 64-yard touchdown to give Northeastern a 28-7 lead. Northeastern scored again later in the game. After a long drive, Dixon scored on a 14-yard run to ice the game at 35-7. The Bronchos finished with 256 yards through the air and 70 yards on the ground. The Riverhawks finished with 388 yards passing and 205 yards rushing. Central was forced to punt 11 times compared to Northeastern’s four. UCO fell to 2-8 and will finish the season against Lindenwood University on Saturday, Nov. 12. The game will be Central’s fourth home matchup in a row and is scheduled for 2 p.m.
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CONSOLATION ROUND 125 –Ryan Brooks, UCO, dec. Jared Steinbach, OCU, 9-5. 141 –Casy Rowell, UCO, dec. Dalton Dennis, Oklahoma, 5-0. 149 –Kaleb Cradduck, UCO, dec. Willie Delk, OCU, 4-0. 157 – Nik Turner, OCU, dec. Cory Dawuphin, UCO, 3-1 (SV). 165 – Kyle Detmer, OU, dec. Chris Watson, UCO, 5-2. 174 – Andrew Spangler, OU, dec. Derrick Adkins, UCO 8-2. 184 –Chad Wright, UCO, dec. Cody Linton, Cumberland, 10-4. Hvy – Tyson Yoder, OSU, dec. Cody Dauphin, UCO, 3-1.
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