The Vista Nov. 29, 2012

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INSIDE • Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE 2 • Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE 3 • Wii U . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE 5 • Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE 6 • Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGES 7 & 8

UCO Hockey is back

‘Chos On Ice

THURSDAY• November 29, 2012

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Hundreds of Central students take to the ice on Tuesday, Nov. 27 for UCO Skate Nights at the Edmond Ice Rink. The event was part of UCO’s weeklong Winterglow celebration.

For more photos see Page 3. Photos by Aliki Dyer, The Vista

UCO to break ground on

new labyrinth • BROOKS NICKELL, Staff Writer •

The groundbreaking ceremony for the University of Central Oklahoma’s new permanent Labyrinth will take place at 1 p.m, Friday, Nov. 30 at the Heartland Plaza. Heartland Plaza is located on UCO’s campus just west of the Y-Chapel of Song.

According to Dr. Rudebock, Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Studies at UCO, the groundbreaking will signify that creation of the permanent paver 11-circuit Chartres Labyrinth has begun. The event will begin with opening remarks by President Betz followed by written greetings from artists Marty and Debi Kermeen from Labyrinths in Stone. Marty and Debi will return to campus in the spring to lay pavers as the labyrinth is created. The Kermeens are also the creators of the labyrinth located in Tonkawa, Okla. as well as the one in Standing Bear Park, located in Ponca City, Okla.

Rudebock stated that Dr. Kathryn Gage of UCO ordered the first portable canvas labyrinth for UCO in 2004 for the Broncho Leadership Institute. Rudebock, who had introduced labyrinths

to her classes upon her arrival at UCO in 2003, volunteered to lead the labyrinth walk for the students and staff who attended this event.

“Since then, walking the labyrinth has become an annual tradition at the Broncho Leadership Institute,” Rudebock said.

The Department of Kinesiology and Health Studies, under the leadership of Dr. Donna Cobb purchased two canvas labyrinths.

This was followed by the formation of the Labyrinth Research Group by Drs. Rudebock, Powers, Fent, and Murray.

“The Office of Grants and Research funded several research projects involving the labyrinth beginning in 2008. As a result, there was an increasing interest in the labyrinth among university students, staff and faculty,” Rudebock said.

A labyrinth is a pattern with a single winding path leading to the center - the opposite of a maze.

Labyrinths are often looked at as tools or symbols of journeying to the center of ones self.

“Students who walked the labyrinth at various UCO campus events reported feeling calmer,

having clarity, and feeling more relaxed after walking the labyrinth; they also stated it was beneficial to have time to ‘pause’ during their day,” Rudebock said.

“It is a space for a walking mediation which can be done alone or with groups. The labyrinth also provides a space for transformative learning to occur through the areas of creative activities and research.”

Rudebock also stated that one of the frequently asked questions by students after their walk on the canvas labyrinths was “when can we get a permanent labyrinth on campus?”

“After walking the labyrinth at campus events, students shared how much they enjoyed the experience; many students said they felt their body ‘slow down’; and others shared how nice it was just to take a break and be with their thoughts. It seemed the labyrinth offered a unique opportunity for everyone on campus and could be central to learning.”

UCO’s permanent paver Labyrinth is projected to be completed May 2013.

Opinion

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November 29, 2012 Editorial

#socialmediaproblems • Sarah Neese, Copy Editor •

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I hate to break it to you, but Chris Brown is deleting his Twitter.

Again.

First of all, since when does following a celebrity, who is not personally known by most of his followers, on a social media site filled with mundane sentences, become so important that fans would become upset when he decides to no longer share his every move and faux-witty comment with the worldwide web?

Secondly, the death of his second twitter account is not the death of him, his music, or even his public presence.

Twitter has apparently become the sign of life for Americans.

A story released Monday morning, not yet confirmed to be true or false, reported that a couple named their newborn daughter Hashtag.

If this revelation is true, I’d like to personally apologize to little Hashtag for her future torture and

anguish.

When Twitter first exploded onto the social media scene, the potential was nearly endless.

Communication on a secondby-second basis could have potentially revolutionized the way global citizens interact on a personal level.

News from every inch of the globe could be posted, read and understood in less time than ever before.

People could start a movement with their sheer numbers, connecting on a mass scale through Twitter.

However, Twitter did not take these turns.

Instead, my timeline consists of tweets of boredom, non-important “first world pains,” uninspiring inspirational quotes and the ravings of overrated celebrities, such as Chris Brown.

Twitter has shifted its audience from successful networking and purposeful messages to a bom-

bardment of ignorant twits.

Though, with a name like Twitter it’s hard to imagine that the creators of Twitter didn’t intend for a numerous amount of twits to be involved.

What if people took the time to put their best ideas and sentiments on Twitter?

Statuses upon statuses filled with insightful, intelligent, elevated opinions and ideas.

Logging on to Twitter would be an enriching experience, filling your mind with new contemplations.

That day, I’m afraid, is not near to being a reality.

Maybe one day, if Twitter is still around when little Hashtag is old enough to tweet, Hashtag will find a way to make her namesake worth the world’s while, instead of an embarrassing reminder of what was. sneese@uco.edu

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What’s your favorite song?

OMER AKHTAR

MY YEN HO

KIYANA BAIRD

TYLER ASH

Industrial Safety - Junior

Finance - Junior

Early Childhood Education - Junior

Psychology - Freshman

“‘Turn on the Lights’ by Future. I like the beat.”

“‘What’s My Name’ by Rihanna. I listen to her song a lot.”

“‘Safe Tonight’ by Eagle-Eye Cherry.”

“‘The Scientist’ by Coldplay. It’s just a good song by my favorite band.”

Life

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November 29, 2012

UCO SKATE NIGHT

Opinion

Little Miss

• Photos by ALIKI DYER, Photo Editor •

SUNSHINE

By Kara Stewart The End of the World as We Know It However long ago, some guy ran out of room on a piece of stone, and thus projected the end of the world this December. There are a few theories: that some catastrophic atmosphere calamity that could be blamed on global warming will occur, or the dead will rise and crawl after what is left of our brains. For some of you, you will claim it will end in fire, and then there’s those of you that think everyone has gone crazy.

For me, I think it’s horribly apparent that the world is ending. Not only has Hostess closed its factory doors, but the Twilight saga movies are still being made while Harry Potter is, to my surprise and devastation, no longer a “thing.”

My brother, the male version of me, who doesn’t really “get” the whole relationship thing, not only fell in love but also pro-created. When is the due date of my niece, you’re dying to know? The exact projected date of the apocalypse, of course.

That’s not the only clear sign that things are changing: I’m actually getting good at this whole “girlfriend” thing. Not only did I plan an applauseworthy anniversary surprise, and I’m actually excited about it. For a girl that has more emotional attachment to inanimate objects than people, this is certainly a sign.

After a short-term love affair with ice cream, I got over my depression about being fired and realized that it was the best thing to happen to me. I was released from a job that was slowly killing my soul, and now I’m free to pursue whatever my heart desires.

Book Review

The Omnivore’s Dilemma

By Michael Pollan

Which is, occasionally, a three-hour art project on my days off (because I have those now!)

I have learned to let a lot of people go from my life, as well. I don’t know if it’s the blood-covered glasses of the impending doom or adulthood, but it’s not such a tragedy anymore if I lose touch with someone. People are meant to come and go in your life, and they teach you lessons along the way.

I know this last year I have let several people go that probably shouldn’t have been there in the first place, and there was no comforting ice cream involved.

Acceptance is key, and I’ve accepted that sometimes people are just bad.

You can’t help it, and heck, they probably can’t help it: some people are just truly awful people. It could be because they’re naïve, or because someone was awful to them, but that doesn’t really matter. What matters is that you keep stock up for the zombie apocalypse, because they’ll be the first to go.

You can’t always control what the world is going to throw at you, or that sometimes things will pile up in your life until you’re in the fetal position from being crushed by the stress.

In one semester, you could fall to the rockiest of bottoms and climb back out again; or you could choose to lay there and look at the sunlight.

As for the impending apocalypse, I’m going to quietly work on developing my ingenious plan of taking over a Wal-Mart and let the rest of the world figure itself out. I wish you all the best of luck (well, most of you)!

•Holiday Lunch• on the Lake today

• Review by EMILY Z. BROWN, Contributing Writer • I have loved animals my entire life- I was lucky to grow up with cats and dogs, riding horses, and playing with hamsters. In my adult life I have become involved with the Central OK Humane Society as a volunteer and foster…but I have never considered vegetarianism. I would often say that the only thing that prevented me from becoming a vegetarian were PETA videos I refused to watch- but herein lies the problem. I decided, at some point in my life, not to look at what was happening to my food because I knew it would disturb me. I knew that I would cry at the cruelty; I would cringe at the treatment of these food animals that are as sentient as my dog Ooli.

This is the very attitude that Michael Pollan takes on in his seminal work, The Omnivore’s Dilemma. We live in an unprecedented time in food- we are disconnected from the farmers that grow it; we purchase food in packages that don’t resemble the original organism in any way. Additionally, we actively live in a world of denial. Most of us, like myself, live (or lived) there by choice.

My husband read The Omnivore’s Dilemma years ago and began asking me to read it as well. Because of him reading this book we began patronizing local farmers and joined the Oklahoma Food Cooperative for some of our food- but still, I didn’t read it. Finally, after years avoiding it, I picked it up- and I am so glad that I did. The Omnivore’s Dilemma is far from the gruesome depiction of abused animals I feared; it is a frank discussion of the state of food in our country today.

Pollan first discusses the proliferation of corn- and how corn changed the way we (and our food animals) eat. Cheap corn means cheap feed, and industrialized farms quickly adopted this grain to feed cows, chicken, and pigs. As Pollan explains it, “Its chief advantage is that cows fed corn, a compact source of caloric energy, get fat quickly; their flesh

also marbles well, giving it a taste and texture American consumers have come to like.

Yet this corn-fed meat is demonstrably less healthy for us, since it contains more saturated fat and less omega-3 fatty acids than the meat of animals fed grass. A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef…In the same way ruminants are ill adapted to eating corn, humans in turn may be poorly adapted to eating ruminants that eat corn.”

But the Omnivore’s Dilemma isn’t just a treatise on corn, it’s an examination of where our food comes from. Michael Pollan takes us through a meal provided by animals living on a CAFO, or Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation. He discusses the abuse animals suffer (chicken beaks cut with hot wire, pigs with docked tails to discourage biting; pigs in confined spaces will often bite at each other’s tails) and the conditions in which they live.

While not explicitly graphic, Pollan is able to impart the types of lives these animals lead.

Pollan also explores “Big Organic” operations like Whole Foods, sustainable farms like Polyface Farm run by Joel Salatin, and hunting-and-gathering in order to be 100% responsible for his meal. These explorations dig deeply into how we consume- that even the most conscious of us that choose Whole Foods are still contributing to a global trade in non-local food.

The Omnivore’s Dilemma is, at its core, a call to arms. Michael Pollan wants us to think about where our food comes from, and how the decision to shop where we do directly influences the world around us. Do we really need to fly in asparagus in January from Chile just so we can have it? Is that ethical? Before the industrialization of our food systems getting out-of-season food was just unheard of. The convenience and on-demand eating we’ve become used to has led us to think it’s

• Brooks Nickell, Staff Writer •

okay to eat asparagus in January.

I hope that you read this book and enjoy it. I now have a better understanding of food and how to consume it in a manner that I am comfortable with. We have started to get all of our meat from local farmers as well as a majority of our vegetables. This life isn’t easy, it can be very difficult, especially when you’ve become accustomed to having anything you want any time that you want it.

I would like to leave this review with a passage from The Omnivore’s Dilemma.

“The industrialization – and brutalization – of animals in America is a relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: No other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intensively or as brutally as we do. No other people in history has lived at quite so great a remove from the animals they eat. Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do. Tail docking and sow crates and beak clipping would disappear overnight, and the days of slaughtering four hundred head of cattle an hour would promptly come to an end- for who could stand the sight? Yes, meat would get more expensive. We’d probably eat a lot less of it, too, but maybe when we did eat animals we’d eat them with the consciousness, ceremony, and respect they deserve.”

Emily Z. Brown is a Research & Instruction Librarian at the Universit y of Central Oklahoma.

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• MERVYN CHUA, Staff Writer • There will be a grilled cheese bar Thursday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Blue Tent by Broncho Lake. This event is in conjunction with the second annual Winter Glow Celebration. The grilled cheese bar will feature DJ Jonny Tsunami, a UCO student who will be playing Christmas DJ music. Admission is free.

Katie Kash, the Winterglow Campus Involvement Chair is excited for the grilled cheese bar.

“It’s grilled cheese, all different types of cheese – Monterey, Cheddar, all kinds for students on campus. It’s free grilled cheese, who doesn’t love that? And it’s right on campus.”

Jerrah Conley, Volunteer Chair for Winter Glow thinks that this is a good idea.

“Our main focus for Winter Glow is this Friday but it is also fun planning small activities and events leading up to Winter Glow. It reminds people about Friday and gives them a glimpse of fun they will lose out on if they miss the event.”

The grilled cheese bar is a student-run event from the Office of Campus Activities under the Winter Glow executive board.

Winter glow is a campus-wide holiday celebration that will be held Friday. Kash explains the event.

“Basically we turn the Nigh into holiday festive everything. There is going to be crafts and food and games and a DJ and all kinds of stuff. It is open to the Edmond community and will provide fun for all ages.”

Winter Glow: Miracle on 2nd Street will be Friday, Nov. 30 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Nigh University Center.

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Demonstrator Richard Ochs wears a button in support of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning as he stands outside of Fort Meade, Md., Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, where Manning is scheduled to appear for a pretrial hearing. Manning is accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and more than 250,000 diplomatic cables to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks while he was working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad in 2009 and 2010. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A retired Marine Corps colonel denied Tuesday that a three-star general directed the harsh pretrial confinement of an Army private charged with passing reams of classified documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks.

Daniel Choike was installation commander of the Quantico, Va., Marine Corps base during Pfc. Bradley Manning’s nine months of confinement there from July 2010 to April 2011. He testified at a pretrial hearing for Manning.

Manning is seeking dismissal of the case, alleging he was illegally punished by conditions that included being locked up alone at least 23 hours a day, being forced to sleep naked for several nights and being forced to stand naked at attention one morning.

His lawyers contend the conditions were directed by Lt. Gen. George Flynn, who was commander of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command at Quantico at the time. Confronted by civilian defense attorney David Coombs with a series of emails that included Flynn and Choike, Choike testified he kept Flynn informed about the situation but that Flynn never influenced the decision to keep Manning on maximum security and prevention-of-injury status.

“Gen Flynn was not in the decision-making chain,” Choike said. “Gen. Flynn never once influenced anybody.”

Instead, Manning’s custody status was determined by the brig commander, he said.

That position was held during Manning’s confinement by Chief Warrant Officer 4

James Averhart and then by Chief Warrant Officer 2 Denise Barnes.

Choike defended the brig commanders’ decision to keep Manning classified as maximum-custody detainee who posed a threat of injury to himself or others. The classification was contrary to the recommendation of mental-health workers who examined him.

Court recessed for the evening after more than five hours of testimony from Choike.

Choike acknowledged that Flynn had expressed interest in Manning’s confinement due to the nature of the charges and international media attention to the case. Choike said Manning was under suicide watch when the soldier arrived at Quantico from Kuwait, and Flynn wanted assurance that everything was being done to keep him safe. Another prisoner had committed suicide in the brig the previous December.

Choike said Manning’s custody status was determined in part by his odd behavior, including licking the bars of his cell, “erratic dancing” and lifting invisible weights.

Coombs suggested that the bar-licking occurred during sleepwalking and that the other behaviors were merely exercise.

Choike said Manning’s jailers took away his underwear at night starting March 2, 2011, after he made what they regarded as a suicidal comment: “I have everything I need right here to be able to harm myself. The waistband of my underwear can do this.”

Coombs suggested the comment stemmed from Manning’s frustration at being kept on injury-prevention status.

A day later, Manning was forced to stand naked at attention for morning inspection by a guard who told him he wasn’t allowed to cover himself with his blanket, Coombs said. Choike denied any knowledge of such an order. If the guard gave it, “That would be wrong,” Choike said.

“And why would that be wrong?” Coombs asked.

“It serves no purpose,” Choike said.

Before the hearing Tuesday, about twodozen Manning backers held up signs of support outside the post. Then they attended the proceeding, many wearing black T-shirts with the word “Truth” in white lettering.

The U.S. government claims the disclosures attributed to Manning endangered lives and security. Manning supporters say the leaks exposed war crimes and triggered pro-democracy uprisings in the Middle East.

Judges can dismiss all charges if pretrial punishment is particularly egregious, but that rarely happens. The usual remedy is credit at sentencing for time served, said Lisa M. Windsor, a retired Army colonel and former Army judge advocate now in private practice in Washington.

In a 1956 case, U.S. v. Bayhand, a military appeals court ordered all charges dismissed against a soldier who had been forced during his pretrial confinement to do hard labor alongside a sentenced prisoner. The court ruled that the soldier had been given an illegal order.

Since then, there have been few, if any,

OFFICER: GENERAL DIDN’T DIRECT MANNING’S

TREATMENT

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Fact:

cases in which pretrial punishment has led to dismissal of all charges. Lt. Col. Eric Carpenter, chairman of the criminal law department at the judge advocates school in Charlottesville, Va., said he couldn’t find one but he couldn’t say for sure that the remedy hasn’t been granted.

Manning has also offered to take responsibility for the leak by pleading guilty to reduced charges. The military judge hasn’t yet ruled on the offer and prosecutors have not said whether they would still pursue the charges against him.

The military contends Manning’s treatment at Quantico was proper, given his classification as a maximum-security detainee who posed a risk of injury to himself or others. He was later moved to Fort Leavenworth, Kan., where he was re-evaluated and given a medium-security classification.

A United Nations investigator called the conditions of Manning’s time at Quantico cruel, inhuman and degrading, but stopped short of calling it torture.

The 24-year-old native of Crescent, Okla., faces possible life imprisonment if convicted of aiding the enemy, the most serious of the 22 charges.

He is accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and more than 250,000 diplomatic cables to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks while he was working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad in 2009 and 2010.

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BRYAN TRUDE, Senior Staff Writer

(Left) GameStop employee Lani Girran hands over a Wii U system to Kevin Owande, 51, of Renton, Wash., on a busy Black Friday at the GameStop Southcenter store in Seattle on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. Owande was up early on Black Friday to purchase Wii U, one of the hottest products this holiday season. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Invision for Nintendo/AP Images) (Below) In this June 5, 2012 file photo, an attendee plays a video game using Nintendo’s Wii U controller at E3 2012 in Los Angeles. Nintendo unleashed 23 games for its upcoming console featuring a touchscreen controller at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, the gaming industry’s annual trade show. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Wii FOR U? The Vista’s Bryan Trude breaks down Nintendo’s latest consule,Wii U. The gaming system lauched Nov. 18 in North America and retails for $299.

With the holiday shopping season in full swing, one of the hottest items out there for Christmas gift-giving is Nintendo’s latest console offering, the Wii U. The console, the first new consoles on the market since 2006, is the follow-up to the Wii, which despite its’ lack of highdefinition graphics, clunky online capabilities and unusual motion-based controls, dominated the current console generation by appealing to casual gamers with simple, inexpensive titles.

Assuming one can find a Wii U – the console’s initial production run of 400,000 units sold out shortly after launch, and waiting lists at retailers extend well into 2013 – is this early entrant into the next round of the console wars worth the effort and cost?

THE HARDWARE The big selling points of the Wii U over the Wii are twofold: HD graphics and its controllers.

The Wii U is the first Nintendo console capable of HD video output on par with the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. Featuring an IBM-designed multicore processor, an ATI

Radeon-based graphics processor and 2 GB of memory supported by full 1080i HDMI output, it is easily Nintendo’s most powerful console to date.

Nintendo, however, has not released the exact technical specifications of the console.

The Wii U Gamepad, arguably the console’s most noted feature, has garnered mostly positive reviews from critics. Like the Wiimote controller of its’ predecessor, the Wii U’s gamepad features multiaxis sensors, a built-in microphone, speakers and an infrared sensor.

However, the differences begin with the 6.2-inch resistive touch screen that serves not only as a display for use by games, but can also serve as a primary display, allowing users to play games while someone else uses the television.

The controller’s infrared receiver, which on the Wiimote was used to orient itself with the sensor bar, also allows the Gamepad itself to be used as a television remote, while the built-in camera opens the door for possibilities with programs such as Skype.

THE SOFTWARE In North America, the Wii U launched

with 29 titles available. In addition to popular Nintendo staples such as Mario, Scribblenauts and Sonic the Hedgehog, the Wii U makes a push to entice hardcore gamers back who may have been put off by the casual appeal of the Wii. With titles from franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Mass Effect and Batman: Arkham City available at launch, Nintendo wants to show that the Wii U can appeal to both casual and more dedicated players.

However, reviews of these more hardcore titles have been mixed. For titles already released on other consoles, many Wii U ports have often added little to the experience to justify players jumping to the new console.

In his review of Madden 13 for the Wii U, IGN’s Greg Miller notes that while the Gamepad screen offers innovation in play calling, the Wii U version lacks the game’s much-touted Infinity physics engine, and that the graphics seem lower quality, though not by much. Otherwise, the game is just like the PS3/360 versions.

THE PROBLEMS Following the console’s release, early adopters took to the Internet in droves to

complain about issues surrounding the system.

With the system’s multiplayer and social features a big mark in the Wii U’s marketing campaign, actually using those features required users to spend up to an hour to download a 1 GB firmware update on launch day, which had the tendency to brick the console if the user reset or restarted the console during the reportedly lengthy download and install process, which some users reported taking as long as four hours.

The update issue was complicated by difficulties of the system connecting to many home Wi-Fi networks on launch day.

Other complaints include that the Wii U’s operating system takes up half of the console’s 2 GB of RAM memory, and many touted features such as Hulu Plus and Amazon on Demand connectivity were delayed at the last minute.

Other complaints according to gaming news site GamesRadar include the low battery life of the Gamepad, which can only operate a few hours on a single charge, and incomplete, beta-quality of much of the system’s software.

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RANDOM FACTS

While it’s up to individual states to determine the color of school buses, most have been painted National School Bus Chrome Yellow since a 1939 national conference recommended it as the shade of choice.

Pretzels were invented by an Italian monk who used the treats as a bribe to get kids to memorize scripture. In fact, the criss-crossed bits are supposed to represent the folded arms of pious children in prayer.

That baritone voice behind the Jolly Green Giant’s “ho-ho-ho” belongs to the late Elmer “Len” Dresslar Jr., a Chicago-area jazz singer.

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musical groups

58. Enrich, in a way

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Men’s hoops falls in fifth straight throws with less than a second left to play.

Two Josh Davis foul shots had tied it at 78-all with nine seconds remaining, but the Bronchos were whistled for a foul at 0:00.3 as Talley drove to the basket. He made both charity tosses to break the final deadlock and hand UCO its third straight home loss by three points or less.

It was the fifth consecutive defeat overall for the Bronchos, who fell to 1-5 on the season.

UCO trailed most of the game and was down by as many as nine in the second half before rallying to take a 56-55 lead on two Christian Huffman free throws at the 11:19 mark.

The Eagles went back on top 30 seconds later, pushed its lead back to eight (64-56) with 7:59 left and were still up by five (77-72) with just 1:12 remaining.

Again the Bronchos came back, UCO junior Josh Gibbs handles the ball against Mid-American Christian University on Tuesday, Nov. 20, getting a fast-break layup from 2012. Photo by Aliki Dyer, The Vista.

Jamell Cormier at 0:59 to make it EDMOND (Nov. 27) – Another ma yet again Tuesday night at Ham- breaking 80-78 decision to near-by 77-74 before Davis got a steal and home game that went down to the ilton Field House. rival Oklahoma Christian when the was fouled on the other end. He wire went against Central OklahoThe Bronchos dropped a heart- Eagles' Kendre Talley made two free drained both freebies to cut the

deficit to 77-76, with Talley making one of two free throws at 0:27 to up OC's lead to 78-76.

Spencer Smith rebounded Talley's second miss and Davis was fouled trying to muscle in for a layup at 0:09. The senior forward calmly swished both foul shots to tie it and the game appeared headed for overtime until the final whistle sent Talley to the line.

Josh Gibbs scored a game-high 24 points to lead UCO, hitting 10of-15 shots with a pair of 3-pointers while adding eight rebounds.

Davis (17 points) and Smith (15) each made three treys and Cormier chipped in 13 points, six rebounds and six assists.

The Bronchos led only once in the first half, at 5-4 on a Davis 3-pointer. OC held a series of nine-point leads before back-to-back Smith layups helped pull UCO within two at 40-38, but the Eagles scored the final five points to take a 45-38 lead into the break.

It was Central's final game before beginning Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association next Dec. 6 at Pittsburg State.

Hockey

Hockey team travels Iowa State in weekend series Chris Brannick

Sports Editor

The UCO Hockey team is traveling to Ames, Iowa this weekend for a two-game series with the Cyclones Friday, Nov. 30 and Saturday, Dec. 1.

The Bronchos were ranked number 16 in the most recent American College Hockey Association Division 1 Rankings released on Nov. 23, and are riding a small two-game winning streak, which has pushed their overall record to 10-8.

Iowa State is ranked just ahead at the number 13 spot despite a 9-10-1 record, down one spot from the previous rankings.

“They’re good, they’re a tough team, they’re always tough at home,” head coach Craig McAlister said.

Leading ISU is Jon Feavel, 25 points scored this season with 15 goals and 10 assists. The junior Feavel leads the Cyclones in power play goals with three and has two game-winning goals. The second most productive player matching up with the Bronchos this weekend will be J.P. Kascsak. With 22 points, most coming from his 14 assists,

the sophomore Kascsak has one game-winning goal this season.

Goaltending duties for the Cyclones have been split this season with Scott Ismond and Paul Karus taking most of the load. Matthew Cooper has one game in goal this season.

Ismond, another sophomore, has the most experience with 13 games played and has a 6-7 record in the net. The goalie has a 2.65 goals allowed average and one shutout, saving .92 percent of the shots faced this season.

Karus is 4-4 this season and has allowed 27 goals so far. The senior goalie hasn’t recorded a shutout in his appearances but does boast a .90 percentage of saves.

“They’ll probably come out all the guns firing,” McAlister said. “Hopefully we can do exactly what we did to Arizona, don’t get to excited about anything and capitalize on some of our chances again.”

Riley Spraggs continues to lead the Bronchos with 16 points this season. An even eight goals and eight assists has brought the freshman forward to the top of the team and Spraggs also has one power play goal and one game-winning goal.

Jordan Bledsoe is in second place on the

The UCO Bronchos look on during a game against Arizona on Nov. 15, 2012. Photo provided by Betsy Timken

team in points scored and also has eight assists to accompany the freshman’s four goals.

Spraggs’ eight goals are first on the team and fellow freshman Rylan Duley is second with seven.

Tory Caldwell has played in twelve goals this season in the net for the Bronchos. The sophomore is only 5-7 despite his .90 save percentage. Caldwell has one shutout this season and has a 2.98 goals allowed average.

Opinion

Full Timeout: Excitement in the NBA sparks rumors

Chris Brannick

Sports Editor Timeout. Much has been made of my love for the University of Central Oklahoma Bronchos. The same goes for my love for the New York Yankees and New York Giants. You might know that I also am a lover of the Oklahoma City Thunder. This though is more of a love affair between my favorite basketball team and another basketball team that represents what basketball is all about. Sometimes.

While watching a sports television show on Tuesday, I heard another fan of this team say that being a fan is emotionally complicated. I immediately related with a confirming nod and realized how much I still like this team. The other complicated factor in sports fandom is that fact that Oklahoma City has only been around for four years.

I’ve been a fan of one sports team or another most of my life.

Spending a winter night watching the Knicks play is something that only certain people can enjoy.

Most of the time enjoying a Knicks game comes at the expense of winning. Late Monday night was the first installment of the New York Knicks versus the Brooklyn Nets.

The Brooklyn Nets are spending their first year in the New York City borough after a move from across the bridge in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

The Nets won that game in overtime and it caused quite the storm of debates across the sports universe. Tons of questions were asked about whether or not the Nets are for real and could contend with other teams but more questions were asked about the new rivalry. Some journalists are not sure whether we can call it a rivalry yet because it has only been one game. In a couple of months the teams will have played four games and a better gage of whether or not it is going to remain as intense of its inaugural version.

Let me tell you what will not only make it as intense but even more of an attraction for the fans of the NBA. The New York Knicks need to trade Amar’e Stoudemire for Pau Gasol as soon as possible. This is the most recent rumored trade in the NBA. Even though the rumors come early and often in the 82 game season, this one makes the most sense and for both teams.

Mike D’Antoni was recently named head coach of the Las Angeles Lakers and the Lakers new point guard Steve Nash played alongside Stoudemire in Phoenix for

D’Antoni. The chemistry would be instant for a team that needs something, anything instantly. Now for Gasol, he averages 13.4 points per game and just over nine rebounds per game. The Knicks would love this. The way they play has been head-scratching because of the chemistry problems with Stoudemire and Knicks star Carmelo Anthony.

Here is where the trade gets interesting. Stoudemire hasn’t played this season due to injury and Nash hasn’t played since October when the season began. Which means, you wouldn’t trade away a player who hasn’t played this season because your team might be better.

Also, you wouldn’t trade away a valuable player like Gasol without knowing how he really can play with Nash. There has always been a question mark around Gasol and the addition of Nash this year meant that Gasol would be fed the ball in the right place at the right time.

If I’m the General Manager of either team today, I make the trade.

What D’Antoni wants to do in Las Angeles doesn’t have anything to do with Gasol and what the Knicks need when Stoudemire comes back from his injury is no Amar’e Stoudemire. For the sake of all the Knicks fans, whether part-time or not, make this happen and make it happen soon for the greater good of the sport.

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November 29, 2012

Basketball

Bronchos long-awaited home game Women’s team gets home game during four-game win streak

Savannah Hamilton (21) during a game between UCO and Newman in Edmond, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. The Vista Archives

Whitt Carter

Staff Writer

UCO will look to continue its winning ways this Saturday, when they host NAIA and in-state opponent Oklahoma Baptist in their home opener at Hamilton Field House on Saturday.

The Bronchos have won four straight after losing their season opener, and welcome a Bison squad to Edmond that they have already seen once this year.

Central Oklahoma pounded OBU in their first exhibition contest, beating the Bison 94-52 back on Oct. 30.

The Bronchos opened the season three weeks ago at the St. Mary’s Classic, a trip in which Guy Hardaker’s club would split the opening two games of the 2012

season.

UCO fell hard to Minnesota-Duluth 64-44, but ever since, the Bronchos have been on quite a roll.

The Bronchos have won four in a row and three of those have been by 17 points or more, with UCO’s most recent victories coming in the last couple of weeks.

Hardaker’s bunch got two wins at the Pioneer Classic in Denton, Texas by beating Angelo State 67-64 and Texas Women’s 59-35 before returning to Oklahoma only two days later to beat Southern Nazarene in Bethany 86-69.

The 4-1 start can be credited to fantastic starts by several veteran players.

Senior Alyssa Fuxa has been rock solid thus far for UCO, as the Garber native is

averaging 15.6 points and 6.4 rebounds per contest, while shooting nearly 45 percent from the field.

Junior Jill Bryan has posted impressive numbers as well. Bryan averages an even 11 points per game and pulls down a team high 6.6 boards per game and leads the team in three-point shooting and assists at 33 percent and 3.2, respectively.

Oklahoma Baptist enters the contest on a win streak of their own, as well.

The Bison have pulled off six straight wins after losing their season opener to the NAIA #21 Columbia College.

In fact, the Bison have won the six games by an impressive margin. The closest win for OBU during the hot stretch has been a 77-54 win against

#20 Avila University.

Charity Fowler leads the Bison at 13.8 points per game and 6 rebounds per game, while Bretlin Gableminn has been solid as well, posting 12.8 points per contest and 4.9 rebounds an outing.

After the contest with OBU, the Bronchos will be on the road once again.

UCO will travel to Pittsburg State on Dec. 6 for their inaugural MIAA conference bout, before visiting Southwest Baptist on Dec. 8.

The Bronchos next home game will be on Dec. 19, when UCO plays host to former LSC foe Midwestern State.

Tipoff against OBU on Saturday is at 2 p.m.

Wrestling

Third open on tap for Broncho wrestling team Whitt Carter

Staff Writer

UCO’s Tanner Keck wrestles OCU’s Andrew Pontikes during a match in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. The Vista Archives

Third-ranked Central Oklahoma will travel north this weekend to compete in the Fort Hays State Open, hoping to continue the early season success that has already been impressive.

After opening the season at the Oklahoma City Open, hosted by Oklahoma City University, with eight placers, the Bronchos wrapped up their second tournament visit before Thanksgiving at the UNK Holiday Inn, hosted by Nebraska-Kearney University.

Four different Bronchos came away as placers, led by two individuals at the same weight.

Senior Trison Graham and junior Casey Rowell both placed at 133, with Rowell coming in fourth and Graham finishing one spot behind at fifth.

Junior Jordan Basks had a solid day, finishing fifth at 149 and All-American senior Tanner Keck rounded out the Broncho placers with a sixth place finish at 184.

“It wasn’t a bad day and we had several kids get a lot of mat time that they needed,” veteran head coach David James said.

But, after a break through Thanksgiving, the Bronchos are ready to get back to work, preparing themselves for the latter part of the season. And that is

centered around getting guys healthy.

“We’re a little banged up right now and that kept us from bringing a lot of guys we would have, but it’s too long of a season to throw somebody out there who isn’t healthy and ready to go,” said James, who is in his 31st year as the head man at UCO. Last season, the Bronchos had six placers at the Fort Hays State Open, led by a runner-up finish from Keck at 184.

The Bronchos also got third place finishes from Rowell, juniors Ben Morgan (149) and Chad Wright (184), while junior heavyweight Cody Dauphin came in fourth.

The tournament is a one day affair, with no team scoring, but the Bronchos sent nine guys to the semifinals, something that was beneficial a year ago.

“We did a good job of moving a lot of guys into the semifinals, but we lost some tough matches there and a few guys didn’t bounce back well in the consolations,” James said last season.

“It was a pretty good tournament for us and I think we made some positive strides.”

Following the Fort Hays State Open, the Bronchos will return home to host Fort Hays State in their first dual of the year on Friday, Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. inside Hamilton Field House.

Broncho wrestling upcoming schedule Fort Hays State, 12/7, EDMOND Jet Invitational, 12/9, Wichita, Ks. NWCA Division II National Duals, 1/12-13, Springfield, Ill.