The Vista Oct. 4, 2011

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The Pegasus Astronomical Society will have students seeing stars with a stargazing party in Plunkett Park.

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UCO’s Ethan Sharp (7) celebrates with teammates after a touchdown during a game between UCO and East Central University, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

By Cody Bromley / Editor-in-Chief & Bryan Trude / Sports Writer After weeks on the road, the Bronchos are home.

On Saturday, the Bronchos took their first win of the season against the East Central

University Tigers.

The 41-21 game is a turnaround from the previously 0-4 Bronchos, and is also the first win for the team since Oct. 2, 2010, when the Bronchos beat ECU. Joshua Birmingham rushed for 233 yards in the game, the sixth-best single game total in

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school history and more than doubling Birmingham’s previous best performance on the season. The mark is a personal best for Birmingham.

Bronchos hit the road again this Saturday against California Polytechnic State in San Luis Obispo, Calif.

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Homecoming

CENTRAL PAYS TRIBUTE

By Janetta Bridges / Contributing Writer

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Painted Greek letters and hand-crafted floats surrounded each end zone in Wantland Stadium for UCO’s 2011 Tribute to Central homecoming football game.

School spirit radiated throughout the stands while UCO’s fraternities and sororities sat shoulder to shoulder to show their Broncho pride. With morale high, the football players lead the school to victory with a score of 4121 against the East Central Tigers.

Alpha Gamma Delta’s new member, Katie Huse, showed off her baton skills after the first half of the game. Her talented baton-twirling technique led her to win first place in Greek life’s talent show.

Jordan Brandon, another new member of Alpha Xi Delta, displayed her bronze and blue colors as she performed on color guard for the Stampeded of Sound halftime show. Kaitlyn Burnett, Melissa Motte and Michelle Gallimore, three Delta Zetas that represented the UCO pom squad with their hip-hop dancing, after the second quarter.

Quintrell Coburn, a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, said his favorite part of Homecoming was cheer and dance. “It is a chance for everyone to loosen up and show their fun side,” he said. “But tailgating has good food, good music and good people. And

UCO homecoming king and queen, Britton Adams and Jessica Harrison, pose for a photo during a game between UCO and East Central University, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

The Bronchos will not return home again until Oct. 22, when the they take on Fort Hays State University. This game will mark the beginning of UCO’s final home stand, and the Bronchos will not hit the road again for the remainder of the regular season.

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The men of Sigma Tau Gamma won first place overall for Greek and open organizations in the cheer and dance competition.

With neon Soffe shorts and leg warmers, they took the crowd back in time as they danced to songs like “Spice Up Your Life” and “Respect.”

“We were the only ones to not drop a flyer,” Grady Wilbanks, an associate of the Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity, said.

Majority of the Homecoming court consisted of sororities such as Sigma Kappa and Delta Zeta, and fraternities like Pi Kappa Alpha. Delta Zeta’s Elizabeh Le passed down the title of Homecoming Queen to Sigma Kappa’s, Jessica Harrison.

“It’s pretty amazing,” Harrison said. “I wouldn’t have been able to do it without them.”

During the third quarter of the game, Greek brothers and sisters waited to hear who had the overall win for Greek Homecoming. Alpha Gamma Delta won first place, while the women of Sigma Kappa took second and the men of Pi Kappa Alpha came in third.

“Homecoming is full of great competition, but at the end of the day, we are all UCO Greeks,” said Sarah Wylie, a member of Alpha Xi Delta.

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“A flash on the camera would be pretty cool, like a flashlight or something like that.”

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THE AGE OF iDESIRE The iPhone 4 launched on June 24, 2010. That means today, Oct. 4, is the 469th day of iPhone 5 rumors.

For months, it’s been leaked case prototype after leaked case prototype. What does it all mean? Effectively nothing.

Last week, Apple sent out invitations to an event that depending on when this article is read, may or may not have happened yet. This editorial won’t speculate on what exactly will be or perhaps was said at Apple’s press event, but the event’s name, “Let’s Talk iPhone,” makes it pretty obvious that they’re talking about the future of the iPhone.

Instead, consider this question: does the world need another iPhone?

Looking at smartphone technology both before and after the iPhone’s launch make it pretty obvious that the market was forever changed by Apple’s design. From form factor, to feature set to “App Store,” nearly every feature introduced by the iPhone has been replicated on another device. Samsung has even tried suing Apple for infringing its intellectual property while at the same time copying Apple’s trademark box designs, charger design and in many ways, phone design.

Does the world need another iPhone? Probably not. If you look around a Verizon store, just about everything already looks like an iPhone anyways.

Will we get one? Most assuredly.

As long as Apple continues to redefine the iPhone every year to year-and-a-half, a large number of people will probably keep buying them.

But is there an iPhone 5? Nobody knows. At least, nobody who knows is talking or allowed to talk, so nobody knows.

Oddly enough, Apple isn’t really in a dire strait for making an iPhone right now. For a short while this summer, Apple was the highest-valued company on the market and last Monday the company closed at a new all-time high. That all-time high was 10.1 percent higher than when Steve Jobs left.

Needless to say, Apple is doing okay.

So, given all those things, at this point a new iPhone is about as plausible as another season of “Arrested Development.”

What’s that? Series creator Mitch Hurwitz said Sunday that the show will return for one more season and a movie?

Well, damn. Maybe there is something to these new iPhone rumors.

“I would like for it to have “Faster Internet speed.” that mobile Wi-Fi, like the Androids.”

“A bigger screen.”

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‘GOTCHA’ WANTS TO GET NEW SET OF VOLUNTEERS

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Penn Henthorn, program director for Campfire USA’s Heart of Oklahoma council, shows the creek where canoeing programs are held, pointing out the low water levels. Photo by Bryan Trude, The Vista.

By Bryan Trude / Staff Writer Students in the Oklahoma City Public School District will have a new resource available to them in the coming weeks, a resource that is seeking UCO student volunteers to help.

Camp Dakani, a campsite run by the Heart of Oklahoma Council of Campfire USA, will be introducing their new “Great Outdoor Teaching Classroom Holiday Adventure” (GOTCHA), with their first sessions during the weeks of Oct. 17 and 24.

“We developed GOTCHA to fill the new gaps in the Oklahoma City schools calendar,” Penn Henthorn, program director for Heart of Oklahoma Council, said.

Oklahoma City schools recently implemented the year round calendar, which means students have longer breaks for fall, winter and spring.

“We’ve developed the program to not only give kids the outdoor activities they get at camp, but also to give them educational experiences throughout those breaks,” Henthorn said.

Activities for campers during the GOTCHA program include canoeing, rock climbing, environmental science, compassing and pacing, how to navigate using coordinates and how to use a GPS, among others.

The program costs $150 per week per camper, or $35 for a single day, which runs from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Additional after-hours care is available for campers for $75.

To make the program work, Henthorn reached out to the Volunteer Service Learning Center (VSLC) at UCO to seek student volunteers to work as activity leaders and general help. Volunteers who can commit to a full week are also being

sought as group leaders.

Henthorn said that volunteers will be provided the training needed, as well as provided lunches. Full-week volunteers will also receive a GOTCHA program t-shirt.

All schools in the Oklahoma City district were switched to year-round in December 2010, by a unanimous vote of the school board. The schedule works by reducing the length of summer break to eight weeks, and making up the difference by making the fall, winter and spring breaks longer: two weeks for fall and spring, three weeks for winter.

“I think this program is a good thing because people are looking for things to do with their kids for two weeks,” Shene Murphy, alumni association board member and parent of an OKCPS student, said. “My son plays football so he won’t get the break off, and some students can’t take off because of grades, but if they PR it right, especially for elementary school kids, this can be a great program.”

Camp Dakani is a campsite located at 3309 E. Hefner Rd., just west of I-35 and south of Frontier City. The site was established by Campfire USA in 1956.

“One of our major goals, as stated on our mission statement, is to build caring, confident youth and future leaders,” Henthorn said. “What that means is that with all of our youth we try to instill a sense of self-confidence and a sense of the ability to succeed in the world.”

Students interested in volunteering can contact the VSLC at 974-2621, or contact Campfire USA directly at 478-5646.

Information Technology

A MONTH OF CYBERSECURITY AWARENESS

By Cody Bromley / Editor-in-Chief Nigerian princes, script kiddies and hackers are all waiting behind trap doors on the Internet, and this month the Office of Information Technology wants you to think before you click.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and all month long IT will be reminding students, faculty and staff about the dangers that lurk on the Internet with special events, trainings and giveaways.

“We participate in an annual cybersecurity awareness month, and it was actually started by an online group called Stay Safe Online,” Dr. Cynthia Rolfe, vice president for Information Technology, said. “It was originally targeted to K-12 to help students or young people understand how dangerous it is to be in cyberspace if you don’t watch what you say.”

Stay Safe Online, run by the National Cyber Security Alliance, is a nonprofit organization who works with both governmental and non-governmental entities to ensure a safer online experience.

This year, Stay Safe Online, along with other federal agencies to include the Department of Homeland Security, will come together to support cybersecurity awareness in the month of October.

The Department of Homeland Security takes cybersecurity very seriously. Last June, a major worm called “Stuxnet” was found to have penetrated power plants, traffic systems, and other essential functions of society at systems around the

world.

Notably, the virus showed up inside the computers at a nuclear facilities in Iran and effectively shut down the countries supposed nuclear enrichment capabilities. The source of the virus is unknown, but fingers have been pointed all over the globe, including at the U.S. and Israel.

Moving forward in a digital millennium, with national security, not only will defense technologies becoming more even high-tech, weaponry is also going digital.

Digital warfare is far from what goes on inside UCO’s network, but Rolfe said that her office takes advantage of this month to remind Central’s campus to use strong passwords, encrypt their data, not put sensitive data on mobile devices, and more.

“We are required by law to do awareness training on how to keep data private and secure,” Rolfe said.

Some of the things that IT will be doing to remind faculty and staff include a cybersecurity tip of the day in UCONNECT and Centralities, IT will offer training classes and online classes on cybersecurity, there will be posters all over campus with QR codes leading to tips, plus a pocket protector giveaway and a video contests for students and staff.

With the video contest, students and

employees are invited to contribute a video within the topic of cybersecurity awareness, including safety when using social media, cyberbullying and other issues.

“It doesn’t have to be an academic kind of video. Any student can submit a video,” Rolfe said.

The student winner of the video contest will receive an iPad, and then have their video sent off to the national video contest.

Ultimately, Rolfe said she knows that a lot of the information students hear during Cybersecurity Awareness Month will not have be the first time they will have heard it, but she said that is kind of the point.

“That’s what the awareness campaign is to remind you about: what you probably already know. But sometimes, when it’s in your face, then you go, ‘Oh yeah.

That makes sense,’” Rolfe said.

For more information about taking a cybersecurity class in the Technology Resource Center call 974-5595.

I knew it was the beginning of the end when Becky strolled into our second grade classroom, head as high as a skyscraper. Atop Becky’s brown Slinky curls of hair laid a baseball cap, which read “Girl Power.”

Pretty soon, all the girls were decked in Girl Power décor. With the new attire came testosterone-crushing confidence. The playground lay in ruin. Girls chased, wedgied, and discarded runny-nosed boys like used tissue paper.

From second grade through high school, every woman I came across lived on the corner of Out Of and Reach.

When a migrant worker cannot find action, he seeks new territory. I packed my suitcase and hopped on the crest of social networking’s burgeoning tidal wave.

Social networking allows us to connect with loved ones from beyond mountain range or across ocean, but more importantly, social networking retooled the creep. For most of my youth, if someone asked what a creep was, the stereo dial would turn and Radiohead’s 1992 debut single would crawl across the room.

But as conniving Internet vultures began to watch future prey go from “in a relationship” to “it’s complicated” to “single,” the folks at Merriam-Webster struggled to pen an adequate definition of the new creep.

Couple a youth brimming with girl power alongside the new age of creeping and you are left with a smirking debutante, hiding a dagger dripping with male seduction tactics behind her back.

The problem is not so much that classic courtship has been kicked in the proverbial gonads, but with advent of the Creep Age came casualties in the department of best intentions.

Sure, stalking women, collecting their used gum for closet shrines, and sending Facebook messages comparing their breasts to overripe cantaloupes are all behaviors inherently wrong and inherently creepy.

However, what about persistence? At a time when logos means absolutely nothing to us and aesthetics means everything, when most young people look to settle down, the deciding factor tends to be a hotness scale.

Dwelling on aesthetics could be a major player in Oklahoma’s staggering divorce rate, where 32 percent of all adults in the state have been divorced.

Persistence is key to a strong relationship. Only when someone cares so much that they completely and continually sacrifice themselves for their partner’s greater happiness, do you have a relationship that can avoid hitting the divorce button.

So, just because a fella or a lady continually puts forth effort to be with you, does not mean they have ill intentions. It means they have excellent taste in people.

Dig deeper than aesthetics. Dig until you find empowerment through the kindness of a genuine relationship.

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Education

GOVERNOR URGING STATE COLLEGES TO PRODUCE EVEN MORE GRADUATES

By Ben Luschen / Staff Writer Oklahoma has officially joined in the “Complete College America” program, an initiative that hopes to raise the number of college graduates in a number of member-states nationwide, Gov. Mary Fallin announced Sept. 22 while speaking at UCO. The initiative coincides with The National Governor’s Association’s “Complete to Compete” initiative, which urges all state governors to establish programs which will encourage current and past students to finish their degrees.

Oklahoma is planning a number of measures in order to better give its residents the tools they need to be successful in college, including a statewide redesign of remedial education and the continued development of Reach Higher, an adult degree completion program. The end goal, according to Gov. Fallin, is to raise the number of new degrees to a yearly average of 50,900 by 2023.

Last year, the state produced 30,500 new college graduates.

“The Complete College America initiative will ensure our state has the type of highly-skilled, educated workforce that we need to be competitive,” Fallin said at her UCO press conference.

Steve Kreidler, executive vice president at UCO, agrees that increasing the number of college graduates in the state is important, especially in uncertain economic times.

“One thing we know for sure is, if we want to help [the state’s] companies grow, we’ve got to make sure we have college graduates for them to make sure they grow and fund

the state,” Kreidler said.

According to statistics found on the Complete College America website, it is estimated by 2020, 59 percent of Oklahoma jobs will require some amount of higher learning.

Currently, only 30 percent of adults in the state have a career certificate or college degree. As of 2008, only 23 percent of Oklahomans had received degrees from four-year colleges, ranking 42nd among the states.

Part of Fallin’s plan to produce more graduates includes encouraging those who have delayed or abandoned their college education to return to school and finish their degree. According to Kreidler, UCO has a long-standing tradition of accommodating adult students.

Part of the reason UCO is so welcoming for older students is because the school doesn’t hire graduate assistants to teach its classes.

which Kreidler says will be quite a task.

“It’s taken us 120 years to get up to 3,000 degrees, now we’ve got 10 years to get another 2,000 on top of that each year, which will be really challenging, obviously,” Kreidler said. “We couldn’t have that many more students on our campus in the buildings we’ve got; they’re already overcrowded and [some] faculty members don’t have offices.”

Despite the odds seemingly stacked against the school, Kreidler is still confident that UCO will be able to meet the demand for more degrees.

“We know it won’t be easy, but in my opinion, if there’s any school in the state that can do this thing, it’s UCO,” he said. “We can do this thing. We’ve already grown so much just in the last three or four years.

We’ve added 1,500 students just in the last couple of years. Each year we set a new all-time record for number of degrees we’ve conferred.

My personal opinion is UCO is going to lead the way on this deal.”

“We know it won’t be easy, but in my opinion, if there’s any school in the state that can do this thing, it’s UCO.”

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Dr. Steve Kriedler, University Provost “I think if you’re an adult student, having a 22-year-old graduate student who just took the course two semesters ago and then teaching it isn’t a very good learning environment,” Kreidler said.

Other reasons Kreidler lists are UCO’s convenient location within the Oklahoma City metropolitan

Gov. Mary Fallin announced Oklahoma’s official involvement with the “Complete College America” program, Sept. 22 at UCO. She wants the state’s colleges to produce more graduates. Photo provided

area and the school’s wide selection of online courses to choose from.

Nearly 10 percent of UCO’s courses are available online.

In order to keep pace with the

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PEGASUS SOCIETY GOING OUT OF THIS WORLD

By Chris Howell / Staff Writer The Pegasus Astronomical Society will bring the stars closer to you tonight at Plunkett Park.

The society, based at UCO, will host a stargazing party at 7:30 p.m. to raise awareness for the club, astronomy and the sciences.

“We’re kind of an outreach organization, trying to share the beauty of the night skies with the general public, trying to raise awareness of the public for science,” Dr. Charles Cooper, the faculty sponsor for the Pegasus Astronomical Society, said.

The society generally holds star parties two or three times a year, for students and the general public, in addition to its own meetings.

“It’s pretty much plug-n-play. Press a button, and the scope will go to what whatever star or galaxy or nebula you want to look at.

It’s a lot of fun,” Ira Topp, the student president of the society, said.

The telescopes at the party will be set to observe Great Star Cluster in Hercules, a globular cluster of stars, one of among around 150 such clusters in the Milky Way. Participants at the party will also observe Jupiter and it’s moons, as well as Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the latter two not observable with the naked eye.

“When you’re looking at the stars, it doesn’t matter how old or how young you are. There’s always something new that you might not have seen before,” Topp said. “For me, when I look at Saturn through one of the bigger telescopes and see it up close, I know there’s about a billion miles between us and Saturn, but it seems like it’s closer, like it’s right there.”

The club normally has 15 to 25 members.

With 16 current members, the society has been active since around 2001, according to Cooper. New members can submit applications at the party.

“There’s been a diminution of interest in the sciences, in recent years. I personally think that’s a dangerous thing,” Cooper said. “There’s kind of a perception amongst the public now, especially in our legislature, that if there’s letters past your name, Ph.D. or whatever, then you are to be suspected of something dubi-

ous. Part of our goal is to make the public aware that what we are doing is nothing subversive. It’s our purpose to try to make the public more aware of the benefits of knowing more about stuff, rather than less.”

The society is a member of the Night Sky Network, a partnership between NASA, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and other amateur astronomy clubs.

“I would say nebulas or galaxies are my favorite objects to look at. Stars, they’re kinda cool, but I would say looking at galaxies, makes you wonder what else is out there,” Topp said. “Are we the only ones staring up

at them, or are they at their telescopes looking back at us? When you look at a galaxy, you look at how many stars are in there, and how many of those stars have planets, and how many of those planets might have something?”

Participants are welcome to bring their own telescopes.

“Bring just yourself and your eyes. You should also dress for the weather,” Cooper said.

“Bring yourself and an inquisitive mind,” Topp echoed.

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Garrett Cox of the Physical Plant cleans the moss off of the fountain heads in Broncho Lake, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. Photo

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By Mervyn Chua / Contributing Writer On Sept. 28, the Baptist Collegiate Ministry (BCM) on the corner of Main and University hosted the Broncho Buddies Kickoff Party, an opportunity for the attending students to meet and interact with one another.

The event, which took place from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., was held for the largest Broncho Buddies group ever: 132 students, who have been placed in 66 pairs.

Broncho Buddies is an intercultural program designed to bring international and domestic students together to learn from one another.

“Broncho Buddies is a system of cultural experiences where we pair international and American students based on interest,” Linh Thai, Special Student Assistant for CGC, said.

“It is a bridge that connects both cultures.”

The Centre for Global Competentcy (CGC) is a joint venture between the Division of Student Affairs and the Office of Academic Affairs. One half of the program provides students opportunities to study abroad as well as paid internships, while the other half lets

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“International students seldom make friends with American students,” Kimily Waldron, associate director of BCM, said. “So many times students just go for classes and leave.”

The BCM was used to host this event because the Nigh University Center is often occupied by meetings. The BCM has enough room, though, with even a ping pong and pool table as an added bonus.

American student Denise Miller expressed her goals in joining this program.

“I want to meet as many people as I can from other cultures and live with new friends for life,” she said.

“It is good for anti-social people like me,” Audrey Tai of Malaysia said. “This program forces me by giving a gentle push in my interaction with American students.”

The sign-up date for Broncho Buddies has been closed. However, students interested in joining Broncho Buddies can sign up next semester at the International Office.

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A TRIBUTE TO CENTRAL

Students cheer on the home team during the homecoming game against East Central University, Friday, Sept 30, 2011. Photo by Liz Boyer, The Vista

President Don Betz and wife Susanne during the 2011 UCO Homecoming Parade, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011.

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Miss UCO Rachel Hill during the 2011 UCO Homecoming Parade, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

Sigma Tau Gamma performs winning routine at Hamilton Field House for Cheer Dance Competition, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. Photo by Sacha Swift, The Vista

Edmond Mayor Partice Douglas during the 2011 UCO Homecoming Parade, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011. Photo by The UCO Stampede of Sound performs their halftime show, “The Latin Experience”, during a game between UCO and East Central University, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

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1. Blah-blah-blah 2. “___ say!” (2 wds) 3. Launch 4. Murder without leaving a trace on the body 5. Companion of Artemis 6. Get cozy 7. Fink 8. “Giovanna d’___” (Verdi opera) 9. Curiosity (2 wds) 10. City in NE Scotland on the North Sea 11. Supplement 12. Someone who travels for pleasure 13. Fancy 21. Lens cover?

22. Slept, Brit. slang 23. Bubkes 24. Assortment 28. Murmured 31. Do away with 33. Most uncouth 35. Combine with 53 (chemistry) 36. Closed tightly 37. Academic term 38. Accommodate 41. Grand ___ (“Evangeline” setting) 42. Rings 43. Took part in turbulent disturbance 44. Brief appearances of a prominent actor 46. Fix 50. ___ brulee 51. Alter 53. Detective’s need 54. BBs, e.g.

58. Victorian, for one 59. Clairvoyance, e.g. (acronym)

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SPORTS

OCT. 4, 2011

Central Hockey

UCO HOCKEY EXTENDS WIN STREAK The 4-0 Bronchos led the ice this weekend to leave Texas A&M going home without a win during their season opener.

The Bronchos will hit the ice again this week against three different teams for the 2011 ACHA Division I Showcase.

A referee tries to break up a fight between UCO and Texas A&M players during a game between UCO and Texas A&M at Arctic Edge in Edmond, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

By Bryan Trude / Sports Writer In their first true test of the season, the UCO Bronchos hockey team extended their winning streak in their second week of action, defeating the Texas A&M Aggies in consecutive games Friday, Sept. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 1 at Artic Edge Ice Arena in Edmond.

The Bronchos (4-0) were flying high after opening the season with

dominating wins the previous weekend, while the Aggies (0-2) were looking to open the season with some wins following their thirdranked performance last season in the ACHA Division II standings.

In the first game, the Bronchos seemed to start off on the same foot they left the last game in, turning in their third straight games with five goals as they routed the visitors from College Station, Texas, 5-1.

Despite another high-scoring victory for Central, the Bronchos were slow to start in the first period and once again had problems with penalties (21), a problem Head Coach Craig McAlister said is one his teem needs to fix.

“The thing is that the first period was a bad period,” McAlister said.

“We didn’t move the puck very well.

But we came in, talked about it and dominated the second period.”

Many of UCO’s penalties in that game came in the third period, a period McAlister described as a “penalty fest.” Play was stopped over five times as UCO players scrummed with larger, more physical Aggies skaters. One scrum saw TAMU sophomore Steven McHale earn an ejection.

“Teams are trying to find a way to play against us and take away our speed,” McAlister said. “A&M was constantly trying to hit us to interrupt our speed and our cycling and our movement towards their net.”

A revenge-minded TAMU squad exploited central’s problem with discipline on the ice the following night.

More Broncho penalty problems and difficulty sinking shots against the twine allowed the Aggies to challenge late in the third, erasing a 3-0 advantage. In the end, however, Central was able to weather the TAMU onslaught, escaping with a 3-2 win.

“I’m disappointed that we did not stay disciplined,” McAlister said.

“It’s something we talked about before the game, during the game, but we’re still having discipline problems with guys doing what they want to do ... taking very bad penalties.”

“When you take a very bad penalty, like when someone stops just short of the goaltender, you’re thinking ‘Hey, that’s just too much, I gotta send a message,’ you’re not sending a message, you’re just being undisciplined,” McAlister said.

“You’re taking all that moment and putting it back in your pocket.

We’ve had chances that we could do something and put this game away, but instead we chose to play undisciplined hockey and allow [TAMU] to get on the power play over, and over, and over again.”

“I think we broke down a little bit,” senior Nick Novak, one of the team’s three captains, said. “But in the last five minutes, after we called a timeout, we came together as a team and shut them out for those last few minutes.”

Despite the team’s difficulty with discipline, they remain perfect on the season thus far. This weekend, the Bronchos will take that perfect record on the road for the 2011 ACHA Division I Showcase in Springfield, Illinois.

The Bronchos will play three games against three teams this weekend; Friday will match UCO against the Adrian College Bulldogs, Saturday brings on the Seawolves of Stony Brook University, and Sunday offers a matchup between the Bronchos and the Kent State Golden Flashes.

Central will return to action in Edmond Friday, Oct. 14 at 7:30 p.m. The Bronchos will play the second game of their first homeand-home Bedlam series against the University of Oklahoma Sooners; the first game will be Oct. 13 at the Blazers Ice Center in Oklahoma City, on OU’s home ice.

Admission to all UCO home games is $5 for students and faculty, $7 for everyone else, and free for children under five and youth hockey players wearing their jerseys.

Sports Opinion

CENTRAL FOOTBALL NEEDS TO START NEW STREAK

By Bryan Trude / Sports Writer Soak it up, UCO. After 10 straight losses, the sound of victory ringing in your ears on a warm Saturday afternoon is almost like an angelic chorus.

It might be awhile before that happens again.

Don’t be mistaken; this victory is very well deserved. East Central is a quality team, and the Bronchos earned every inch of yardage they gained, fighting through with mental and physical toughness for every point they put up on their almost three-touchdown rout of the Tigers. Sharp, Birmingham, Pennon and the others earned their first win with blood, sweat and grit.

Problem is, once the fanfare goes quiet and the stands at Wantland once again sit empty, all that is left is a still-harsh reality.

That reality, I’m afraid, begins with the offensive line.

The O-line on Saturday played phenomenally, allowing Birmingham to rush for a career high total (233 yards, sixth best in school history), but the reality of the situation is that out of five offensive line starters, four are out with injuries, many suffered in the season opener against North Alabama.

Head Coach Tracy Holland isn’t very confident he’ll see his O-line starters return anytime soon either.

The evidence was loud and clear Saturday, every time Sharp had to make a leap to catch

high snap after high snap from the shotgun.

If he had to jump any higher, the basketball team would offer the junior QB a scholarship.

Although both Sharp and Birmingham had stellar outings, the youth and inexperience of their protecting linemen showed, as both got hit enough to cough up two fumbles on the day, versus ECU’s none. Out of the seven UCO drives that ended without a score, four were 3-and-outs.

Another note to keep in mind is the streak.

UCO’s next game is on the road in San Luis Obispo, Cali. There the Bronchos face the Mustangs of Cal Poly State, a NCAA Division I FCS team.

Though Central’s 10-game losing streak is snapped, the Bronchos still have not won away from Wantland since October 2009.

UCO has played 11 games on the road since without a victory, including the 0-4 start to the season.

While that makes their home-opening win that much sweeter, it doesn’t bode well for this young team who has to face their first Division I opponent in 11 years this week, not

even considering they have to do it after riding a bus for a 1,480-mile road trip.

If Google Maps is to be believed, that is just 16 minutes shy of a 24-hour trip.

If the Bronchos are going to go into California and continue that winning feeling they started in Edmond, they are going to have to prove they have the mental toughness and maturity to overcome road weariness and perhaps a sense of overconfidence stemming from their first taste of victory.

They’ve shown that they can play focused and disciplined football; they only drew two penalties last Saturday. They’ve shown that their patchwork O-line can help Birmingham have the kind of game he is truly capable of.

Now, it’s time to prove that Saturday was no fluke, but this team shining at their true potential. In my honest opinion, against Cal Poly, I’m not sure they can.

But, I will be the first to cheer if they prove me wrong.

Please, Broncho football, make me eat my words. I like hearing that sweet song, victory.

UCO’s Joshua Birmingham (21) runs past ECU’s Dontae Smith (5) during a game between UCO and East Central University, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2011. Birmingham set a personal record with 244 yards and one touchdown. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

SPORTS

OCT. 4, 2011

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UCO Football

BRONCHOS GO HARD, WIN BIG

UCO’s Dante’ Lipscomb (3) runs down the field during a game between UCO and East Central University, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

UCO’s Tyler Newton (96) tries to block a pass by ECU’s Tyler Vanderzee (12) during a game between UCO and East Central University, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

UCO’s Ethan Sharp (7) runs for a touchdown during a game between UCO and East Central University, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

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ECU’s Chris Espinoza (35) during a game between UCO and East Central University, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2011. Photo

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SPORTS

OCT. 4, 2011

UCO Football

HOME SWEET HOME

UCO Blue Crew and cheerleaders take the field before the homecoming game Saturday Oct.1, 2011. The Bronchos earned their first victory of the season in their first home game, 41-31 over East Central University. Photo by Garett Fistbeck, The Vista

By Trey Hunter / Sports Editor For the first time all season, the Central football team walked up the steps, away from the field and into the locker room with the feeling of victory reflected in the expressions on their faces.

After starting the season with four straight road games which equated to four straight losses, the Bronchos pulled out their first victory during Homecoming on Saturday at Wantland Stadium in Edmond, triumphing 41-21 against East Central University.

The offense was led by a powerful run game, which produced 292 yards and two touchdowns. Running back Josh Birmingham broke his single game record of 205 yards with 244 yards and a score off a 74-yard dash during UCO’s first possession of the second quarter. Dante Lipscomb filled in for the injured Qua’Don Henderson with 24 yards on four carries.

Quarterback Ethan Sharp also contributed to the ground game with a 24-yard touch-

down run, the longest of his career.

Sharp and Central’s air attack were on target all day.

The UCO quarterback completed 26 of 36 attempts for 176 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Sharp connected with tight end Bryce Davis for a 21-yard strike late in the third quarter. He completed his second touchdown pass to UCO’s second tight end Derrick Ingram in the middle of the fourth quarter.

Birmingham was the leading receiver for the Bronchos with five catches for 43 yards.

“We’ve had a lot of turnover in the offensive line,” coach Tracy Holland said after the game. “When you put new guys in it changes things up quite a bit. The thing with Josh and Ethan is that the offensive line had a great game. That gave us the confidence to do some other things.”

“I felt Coach Harp called a great game,” Holland said. “He made the interior have to run and chase and I felt he did a great job with it.”

UCO’s defense had its best game to date.

Defensive back Creadell Pennon set the tone in the second quarter, when he intercepted ECU quarterback Chad Winbush’s pass in the end zone and returned it 100 yards for the touchdown that gave Central a 14-0 lead.

Pennon had two other picks on consecutive drives to start the fourth quarter. Keno Meadows, Brandon Williams and Tucker Carson led the defense with 10 tackles each and held ECU to just two touchdowns, the best performance of the season.

“The defense has come a long way,” Holland said. “That was something we wanted to work on in the offseason. Coach Petrino had them ready to play today. We’ve seen faster improvement on that side of the ball this year, and I feel like they’ve played outstanding in the last couple of games.”

“It’s really exciting to come out on homecoming and get a victory,” Holland said.

“We’re going to enjoy this now and then get ready to get another one in California next weekend.”

The Bronchos moved to 1-4 on the season.

They travel to San Luis, Calif., next Saturday to take on California Polytechnic State University in their fifth road game of the year.

Central’s next home game is scheduled for a 2:00 p.m. kickoff against Fort Hayes State University on Oct. 22.

RECORDS BROKEN - Josh Birmingham broke his singlegame rushing record of 205 yards by rushing for 244 yards and one touchdown.

- Ethan Sharp set his own record for longest run with a 24-yard touchdown in the second quarter.

- Creadell Pennon tied the record for longest interception return with his 100-yard return in the second quarter.