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MISSION The UCO chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta will host Melanoma Awareness Week Oct. 15-18 in support of Madison Watts (pictured right), an Alpha Gamma Delta member and freshman, who is battling skin cancer.
ADAM HOLT, Staff Writer In support of a stricken sister, the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority will host Melanoma Awareness Week Oct. 15-18. Madison Watts, a freshman and member of Alpha Gamma Delta, was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma within her first few weeks at UCO. She is currently undergoing treatment at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. According to Melanoma.com, over 50,000 Americans a year are diagnosed with the skin cancer. Melanoma is usually the result of too much UV radiation from the sun or tanning beds. It has also been connected to heredity. Watts’ case is unique due to her being an avid sunscreen wearer and never tanned. This is her second bout with the cancer. She defeated it when she was in the eighth grade. Allex Tarr, senior public relations major and PR Coordinator for Alpha Gamma Delta, spoke in an email interview of how the sorority came together when they heard the news. “When we found out about Madison’s
situation, we immediately came together to brainstorm ideas on how to help her and her family both spiritually and financially,” she said. The product of this brainstorming was Melanoma Awareness Week, with all donations going towards “Maddy’s Mission.” “It is a mission that anyone can participate in,” Tarr said. “Praying to rid the cancer or donating to the financial burden her family has been placed un-
Delta members will be selling “Maddy’s Mission” bracelets and shirts. All sales will go towards the mission. Students will also be able to donate to a MidFirst bank account created for “Maddy’s Mission.” This event will also happen on Wednesday, Oct. 17 at the same time and place. One of the main events of the week will be the “Auction for Awareness” on Tuesday. “Girls and boys are auctioning off
“It has made me stop and think that it could have been any of the 130 girls in our sorority or anybody else at UCO or in the world. This can happen to anyone.” der. “ Watts’ family has had to rent an apartment in Houston during Watts’ treatment. Melanoma Awareness week starts off Monday, Oct. 15 by Broncho Lake. Between 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Alpha Gamma
dates, cooking, cleaning, tutoring, either individually or by groups, for people to make bids,” Tarr said. The auction will be hosted by the ACACIA fraternity and will be held in Constitution Hall at 8 p.m.
Thursday the sorority will be hosting “Oodles of Noodles.” “It is a spaghetti dinner and live music festival,” Tarr said. “The cost is $5.00 but any amount of donations will be taken.” “Oodles of Noodles” will be held at the Alpha Gamma Delta House from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Alpha Gamma Delta has set their hopes high for “Maddy’s Mission.” “Our goal is $20,000 by the end of the semester,” Tarr said. Tarr feels the experiences of this semester have changed her. “This event has changed me immensely,” she said. “It has made me stop and think that it could have been any of the 130 girls in our sorority or anybody else at UCO or in the world. This can happen to anyone. So, it made me really appreciate my healthy life and my healthy family and learn to never take single breath for granted.” For more information on Melanoma Awareness Week call (405) 760-9993.
MEDIA ETHICS CONFERENCE TO ‘LOOK AT THE CHALLENGES MEDIA FACES’ • JOSEPH B. NICKELL, Staff Writer • The University of Central Oklahoma’s Media Ethics Conference, planned by Yvette Walker, Chair of Journalism Ethics at UCO, and her Media Ethics Conference class, will be held Oct. 17 and 18 in the Nigh University Center at UCO. This year’s primary focus will be on media ethics in sports as well as politics, featuring workshops, panel discussions, guest speakers and a luncheon. The conference kicks off Wednesday at 9 a.m. with registration, followed by a 10 a.m. group session focused on politics. Lunch begins at 11:30 a.m. with keynote speaker Farai Chideya, a distinguished writer and resident of New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Chideya, also a spring 2012 fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, will deliver a speech entitled “The Wonder Boy/Wonder Girl Syndrome,” addressing the issues many young journalists face with ethical reporting.
“We are taking a look at the challenges the media faces when reporting stories and whether or not those challenges fall into an ethical quagmire. We want to talk about why these young ‘rock-star’ journalists are making mistakes, plagiarizing and making stuff up.” The afternoon group session starts at 1p.m. and will feature a panel discussion entitled “The Ethics of Sports Coverage”, which will include; Kelly McBride of the Poynter Journalism Institute, former Oklahoma University and National Football League player JD Runnels, Oklahoma City Thunder Vice President of Corporate Communications Dan Mahoney and Kenny Mossman, OU Senior Associate Athletic Director. There will be 8 different workshops open to attend Wednesday, 4 starting at 2 p.m. and the remaining starting at 3 p.m. The workshops will be led by a combination of guest speakers includ-
ing John Sutter, reporter at CNN.com, and News 9’s Kelly Ogle, as well as UCO faculty members. “Many UCO faculty have graciously agreed to participate on panels.” Walker said. “We are all exposed to media today and what you see and hear can be confusing. These wonderful speakers that we have will be able to deconstruct that and talk about what’s happening and why it’s happening.” Joshua Lim, International Programming Assistant at UCO’s Center for Global Competency, and a contributor in the setup of last year’s conference, also expressed the significance of attending for students. “This conference is absolutely important to students in the Mass Communications program because the conference tackles issues they will be facing in their field of study and if they are going to pursue a career in communications,
the conference will certainly be of help to preparing them for the ‘real world,’ but not just Mass Communication students.” Lim said. “I honestly think that students will be able to identify with the things discussed at the conference. No matter what field of the work force, there will be something these students will encounter at the conference that will be of help to them in the future.” The event starts back up Thursday at 9:30 a.m., offering workshops on ethics in Photoshop, marketing and public relations. The conference is free to students and the cost for non-students is $25, which includes access to the conference and luncheon. Registration can be completed and a full list of workshops, guests and faculty speakers can be found at the conference website, www.uco.edu/ethics.
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Vaccination leads to sexual inclination
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “the human papillomavirus (HPV), is the most common sexually transmitted virus in the United States.” At least 50 percent of sexually active people will have HPV at some point in their lives. The group most likely to infect the disease is adolescent girls and young women, with the disease most prevalent among girls ages 14-24. No, this is not one of those lectures that your ninth grade health teacher is required to give. So, why am I telling you all of this? This week, Pediatrics, a peer-reviewed journal, published a study, conducted by Kaiser Permanete/Emory University, revealing that the American public has yet to rally behind Gardasil, the vaccine available for HPV. The study stated that by 2010, less than half of eligible girls were given any doses of the vaccine. The CDC recommended that all girls aged 11 and 12 be vaccinated for HPV, because HPV is linked to mouth, throat, and cervical cancer. Why then, are parents hesitant to have their daughters vaccinated? Is it because of possible side effects or results of the vaccine? No.
Parents refuse to vaccinate their preteens and teens, because they are afraid that Gardasil causes sexual promiscuity among their darling daughters. Some mistaken parents have the belief that Gardasil serves as protection against becoming pregnant and contracting other sexually transmitted diseases, which would coerce young girls into becoming sex fiends. Although this opinion should be easy to refute, Kaiser Permanete/Emory University decided to conduct a study anyway. The study aimed to prove that Gardasil does not cause pre-teen girls to become more sexually active. Researches followed the lives of 1,300 pre-teen girls, who had been vaccinated, for three years and found that there was no significant increase in their sexual activity. I find a few things shocking about this scenario. For one thing, I am astonished at the need for this study. The thought that a vaccine would increase sexual activity by possibly preventing cancer seems ridiculous, to me. Second, the fact that someone would withhold a beneficial and possibly lifesaving vaccination from their daughter, at the risk that they might feel the
natural attraction toward another human being, and act on said feeling, is tragic. Maybe, instead of exercising your duty as parents in a way that could harm your child, like refusing them an inoculation, you should focus on parenting your child the way that you should, for example, by asking questions and actually talking to your teens. Maybe, if they conducted and published an unnecessarily obvious study about the importance of being a good parent, parents would be convinced.
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Student-produced one-act play to shed light on sex trafficking
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• ADAM HOLT, Staff Writer • “VOICED: The Real Story of Prostituted Women” premieres at the Pegasus Theatre, in the Liberal Arts building, Oct. 19-20 at 7:30 p.m. “VOICED” is the sum of the collaborated effort of Sumer Nolan, senior theatre performance major, and Claudia Fain, music theatre major. The one-act play concerns the issue of sex trafficking, particularly in Oklahoma. Nolan and Fain want to bring awareness to the problem and hopefully begin steps in creating a solution. The piece consists of a series of vignettes and monologues describing the plights of women trapped in the prostitution experience. The play began as idea from Fain. “Claudia initially approached me with the project and I immediately jumped on it,” Nolan said. The duo spent over a year to see “VOICED” come to fruition. “We spent six months just on research,” Nolan said. They not only wanted to study the inner workings and effects of prostitution in Oklahoma, through research articles and statistics, but also wanted to get a firsthand feel of an area with a high prostitution rate. Nolan and Fain were given a tour of the 33rd and Robinson neighborhood of Oklahoma City. No Boundaries International, a faith-based organization based in Edmond, who helps those in need, led the excursion. “It’s an area with a lot of problems in terms of drug and sex trafficking,” Nolan said. “I don’t think I would of known how prevalent the problem was without seeing it.” They also spoke to counselors at local reha-
bilitation facilities who help women involved in prostitution. Nolan is impressed by how much support they have received from other fine arts and design students. “When told about the play they would say ‘I think this is a great project. How can I help,’” Nolan said. A representative from All Things New Ministries, an organization who helps those affected by disaster meet physical, emotional, and spiritual needs, also spoke to the play’s cast to give them more understanding of the sex trafficking situation. The piece does not only focus on troubled neighborhoods. One monologue, in particular, involves prostitution in an upper-class neighborhood in Edmond. The play will be followed by a question and answer session. A panel will be composed of representatives from Oklahomans Against Trafficking Humans (OATH), No Boundaries, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, and the UCO Violence Prevention Project. The admission is free and donations will be accepted on behalf of No Boundaries and OATH. Nolan feels “VOICED” can be an eye-opening experience to those who attend. “For those who may not be aware of sex trafficking in Oklahoma, it’s enlightening,” she said. “We’ve made an effort to show the human aspect of the problem. We’ve put faces with the story.” For more information on “Voiced” call (405) 684-4375.
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just have more money. And I certainly don’t want public media to disappear. “So wait,” I can hear you say. “You don’t want the government to help fund public media, and yet you acknowledge that it would die if the government didn’t fund it? What gives?” As it turns out, the amount of funding public media actually gets through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is quite tiny. For most of the major stations, the total hovers somewhere around 10 percent. The majority of the funds go to local member stations in smaller markets, where they maybe can’t benefit from as much (or any) donation money from the larger nonprofit trusts. The government is keeping public media alive, sure. But apart from allowing more rural areas access to educational programming (which is definitely a good thing), the money the government gives to public media isn’t exactly helping it grow – and it’s opening it up to attacks from certain elements on the right. Public media should be voluntarily controlled by the people it effects the most – us. It is a common pool resource, not a function of government or product of private enterprise. So yes, we should defund public media as a governmentally-subsidized program. And we should also, voluntarily, as a nation, refund it as a network of independent media, a firm, powerful answer to corporate television and radio.
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South Korean performers are suspended in midair to form a human net in a performance, called “Aphrodite” by Spanish theater company La Fura Dels Baus, in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. The performance is part of the Hi Seoul Festival which runs from Oct. 1 through Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Red Bull driver Mark Webber, left, of Australia and his teammate Sebastian Vettel, right, of Germany perform with South Korean rapper PSY, centre, and his “ Gangnam Style” dance before the Korean Formula One Grand Prix at the Korean International Circuit in Yeongam, South Korea, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
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I agree with Mitt Romney on exactly one thing, and I hate that. During the first presidential debate, which was centered around issues of economics, Romney was detailing his plan to reduce deficit spending and let slip that, if elected president, he would defund public media. “I’m sorry, Jim, I’m going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I like PBS. I love Big Bird. I actually like you, too. But I’m not going to keep spending money on things, borrowing money from China to pay for it,” the candidate said, immediately setting off a firestorm of Internet comments and memes and elevating the statement to the same level of “did he just say that?” as “Corporations are people, my friend” did. There’s a lot in that sentence that I take issue with, of course – I think the potshot at both Big Bird and Lehrer, the debate moderator, was uncalled for – but, astonishingly, I agree with Romney. I think public media should divest from government subsidization. Now, I don’t have the same reasoning Romney has for defunding – he probably thinks that public radio and television can survive as a solely private enterprise, or if not he wants it gone. I don’t think that’s possible, not with corporate media and entertainment holding so tightly to their hegemony. The “free market” would swallow PBS and NPR whole – not because private networks have better programming, but because they
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Texas getting innovative in handling record-high national tuition rates • JOSH WALLACE, Staff Writer •
The cost of higher education is on the rise, and is a constant thought on students’ minds, but two different approaches in Texas are looking at ways to decrease the cost of a college education. One university is looking at offering loan forgiveness, while Texas Governor Rick Perry has called for the creation of a $10,000 bachelor’s degree. Starting next year, the University of TexasAustin (UT-A) will begin a trial program to encourage its students to graduate within a four-year time frame. Two hundred freshman will be selected for the initial program, and will be offered loan forgiveness on unsubsidized loans they have taken out, up to $1,000 plus the interest, if they successfully complete 15 hours of classes per semester. Tom Melecki, UT-A’s director of student financial services, told buisnessinsider.com, “The university is focused on improving our four-year graduation rate, and the pilot program is part of its broader effort to help achieve that mission.” The push is to change the time it takes for students to graduate, which UT-A has around a 50 percent graduation rate at four years, and an 80 percent graduation rate at six years. UCO criminal justice and forensic science major, Mary Ann Sanstra, believes that the benefits would outweigh the risks of taking a full load, adding, “I myself am currently on student loans, and I think I would take that risk and take the load over having to have to take out more loans, I think it would be a great opportunity for those that want to get through with school, those that want to suc-
ceed and get through it.” She also added that it might not be for everyone, that a reason some people take longer to graduate is that they enter college with an idea of what they want to do, but might ultimately end up in another field later on after testing the waters. As for the prospect of a $10,000 degree, Perry is campaigning across the lone star state, calling for universities to decrease the cost of a college education, and join the list of 10 colleges that Perry’s office have said will start offering the programs. Among the universities that will offer the program, is Angelo State University, where Perry spoke Oct. 3, saying, “A $10,000 degree provides an opportunity for students to earn a lowcost, high-quality degree that will get them where they want to go in their careers and their lives.” In order to be eligible for the program, a student must have an ACT score of 27 or higher, or a SAT score of 1220 or above. In addition to the initial requirements, once enrolled, students will need to maintain their GPA at 3.5 or above. With many universities already feeling a crunch on their budgets, there has been speculation that the degree program will have negative aspects, such as a high student to faculty ratio in the classroom, and the increase of online only courses. Texas Tech Faculty Senate President, Daniel Nathan, told the Lubbock Avalanche Journal that he believes that creating the degree will bring down graduation rates and make it difficult to hire more faculty, effectively lowering the
Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the library on the campus of Angelo State University, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012 in San Angelo, Texas, concerning the new $10,000 bachelor’s degree plan taken on by the university after a challenge was issued from the governor’s office in February 2011. The degree is supposed to allow for more affordable college education for Texas students. (AP Photo/San Angelo Standard-Times, Patrick Dove)
ability for students to succeed. UCO criminal justice major, Nathan Willman, thinks it might have a negative affect on the education process, adding, “It could, if just because of simply pay for professors. I suppose it depends on the programs being offered as well though. I think it depends on the situation, if that’s all you can afford, then definitely it would be a positive, there might
be a sacrifice in larger class sizes, but at least you can still learn and get a degree.” Sanstra sees more negative aspects than positive though, adding that in many cases you get what you pay for, that if a university isn’t able to have the resources to hire top level faculty with the experience and expertise students need, then the education they will receive will be sub-par.
Construction near Broncho Lake
SA FE to host C a n d l e l i g ht V i g i l Amber Richardson and foster son, Haden, 8, during GATE’s (SAFE’s former name) “Coming Out” candle light vigil, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011. File Photo, The Vista
• BRYAN TRUDE, Senior Staff Writer • Darden Pierce (left) and Derek Lampe (right) are laying pipes for irrigation near Broncho Lake, Oct. 15, 2012. Photo by Cyn Sheng Ling, The Vista
Debate team hosts presidential debate watch party tonight • LUKE LOFTISS, Contributing Writer • The University of Central Oklahoma Debate Team will co-host presidential debate watch parties beginning at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16, in Room 201 of the Nigh University Center and Monday, Oct. 22, in Constitution Hall. The Volunteer and Service Learning Center (VSLC), and the American Democracy Project are also sponsoring the event, which will provide snacks and refreshments for those in attendance. An open discussion, moderated by UCO’s Debate Team coaching staff will follow the debates, with everyone encouraged to join in. “We decided to do it because as the debate team, the presidential debates are the most high profile event that people associate with what we do,” said Dr. Matt Moore, coach of UCO’s debate team. “We are hosting these events in order to help inform students about the issues in the upcoming election. By watching the debates as a group you get the opportunity to hear different opinions about the candidates and the ideas presented. It also allows students to communicate to each other directly on the issues, rather than have their opinions simply mediated through polling data and turn out numbers. By seeing other students be active and passionate about politics, we hope it will inspire others to be involved in the political process,” Moore said. Moore’s hope that students be politically involved is shared by members of The American Democracy project (ADP). A voter registration drive organized by the ADP registered 1,060 UCO students to vote during the five-day event held in September, on campuses across Oklaho-
ma. UCO registered more students than any other college in the state for the third consecutive year.Voter turnout amongst young adults spiked during the 2008 election season and the most recent polls show the upcoming election will be closely contested after a recent surge in Mitt Romney’s poll numbers. Romney’s surge is attributed primarily to his strong performance during the first debate, where he aggressively criticized an uninterested-looking President Obama. Moore explained why the debates were important. “One of the core reasons why debate is important in a liberal democratic society is a focus on rational argumentation and reasoning for the purpose of producing an informed electorate. Having events on campus that engage students on the issues of the debates helps move the discussion away from partisan sound bites, gaffes, and personal attacks, to the policies that the candidates support. Our goal is not just getting students to vote, it is producing informed voters who are engaged in the political process,” Moore said. Other forthcoming election related events include a debate focused on “Does Voting Matter” held Thursday Oct. 25. The following Tuesday, Oct. 30, members of the UCO debate team will hold a public debate about various election issues such as healthcare, tax policy, and foreign policy. The team will debate the merits of each candidate’s position in an effort to clarify for students what are normally complicated subjects. Students who wish to vote in the upcoming election must be registered by Friday, Oct. 12.
The UCO Student Alliance For Equality will be hosting their annual Candlelight Vigil at 7 p.m. tonight, Oct. 16, at pavilion four at Hafer Park, 1034 S Bryant Ave., Edmond. The vigil is held in observance of National Coming Out Day, an international civil awareness day celebrating people who publically identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered, held on Oct. 11. Reverend Dr. Kathy McCallie of the Church of the Open Arms will be the keynote speaker at the event. “Coming out is a celebration of becoming oneself; it is a pinnacle of thought and self-discovery that many struggle with for years, and that some never resolve,” SAFE said through a press release on OKCPride.org. “Every year around National Coming Out Day, the community comes together through a Candlelight Vigil to share stories of coming out so that we may empower and support one another.” National Coming Out day, established in 1988 by psychologist Robert Eichberg and openly gay politician Jean O’Leary, references the act of “coming out” about one’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The date of Oct. 11 was chosen to mark the anniversary of the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1987, which was attended by over 200,000 people demanding legal recognition of gay and lesbian relationships and an end to anti-sodomy laws, among other issues. The vigil and others like that is meant to raise
awareness of the LGBT community and issues in society at large, much of which remains indifferent. “I’m not against it, but then again me and myself don’t believe in it,” Jerrin Thomas, freshman business administration major, said when asked on his stance on LGBT rights. “I’m not against people who believe in that, but I don’t embrace it or go out of my way to support it.” “I think [the vigil] is cool,” Kiera Hoelting, freshman forensic science and psychology major, said. “I like gays and lesbians, they’re awesome people, but I don’t know if it’s necessarily right for them to marry. I’m a very biblical person, and my theory is hate the sin, not the sinner, and in the bible it does state that marriage is between a man and a woman.” McCallie is a minister with the Church of the Open Arms, 3131 N Penn Ave., OKC, as part of the United Church of Christ. According to the church’s web site, the church “gladly welcomes all persons regardless of color, ancestry, age, gender, sexual or affection orientation, ethnicity, national origin, disability, familial status or political perspective.” SAFE, formerly known as GATE, is a studentrun organization dedicated to providing support and promoting equality on campus and in the wider community for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, whether student, faculty and staff or allies. For more information, contact sponsor Dr. David Macey by email at dmacey@uco.edu, or president Brandon White at bwhite17@uco.edu.
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Pair of Americans win
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From left, Per Krusell, Staffan Normark, Peter Gardenfors and Tore Ellingsen of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences present the winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 15, 2012. Americans Alvin E. Roth of Harvard University and Lloyd S. Shapley of University of California were cited for “the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design.” (AP Photo/Scanpix Sweden, Henrik Montgomery)
• Karl Ritter, Associated Press • STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two American scholars were awarded the Nobel economics prize on Monday for studies on the matchmaking that takes place when doctors are coupled up with hospitals, students with schools and human organs with transplant recipients. The work of Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley has sparked a “flourishing field of research” and helped improve the performance of many markets, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. Roth, 60, is a professor at Harvard Business School, but currently is a visiting professor at Stanford University. Shapley, 89, is a professor emeritus at University of California Los Angeles. Shapley learned that he and Roth had won the $1.2 million award from an Associated Press photographer and another journalist who went to his home in Los Angeles early Monday. “I consider myself a mathematician and the award is for economics,” Shapley told AP by telephone. “I never, never in my life took a course in economics.” Citing “the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design,” the award focused on the problem of matching different agents in a market in situations where prices aren’t the deciding factor. Shapley made early theoretical inroads into the subject, using game theory to analyze different matching methods in the 1950s and ‘60s. Together with U.S. economist David Gale, he developed a mathemati-
cal formula for how 10 men and 10 women could be coupled in a way so that no two people would prefer each other over their current partners. While that may have had little impact on marriages and divorces, the algorithm they developed has been used to better understand many different markets. In the 1990s, Roth applied it to the market for allocating U.S. student doctors to hospi-
tals. He developed a new algorithm that was adopted by the National Resident Matching Program, which helps match resident doctors with the right hospitals. He also helped redesign the application process of New York City public high schools, ensuring that fewer students ended up in schools that were not among their top choices. Similar formulas have been applied to
UCLA professor emeritus Lloyd Shapley, left, is seen at his home Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, and Harvard professor Alvin E. Roth is seen in a 2008 photo provided by Harvard University. Shapley and Roth were awarded the Nobel economics prize Monday for studies on the match-making that takes place when doctors are coupled up with hospitals, students with schools and human organs with transplant recipients. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, Harvard University)
efforts to match kidneys and other human organs to patients needing a transplant, the academy said. Roth was in California with his wife when he got the call from the prize committee at 3:30 a.m. “We missed the first call because we were asleep, but we had time to wake up and think that might be what it was,” he told The Associated Press. “My wife is going to go out and get us some coffee, and maybe we’ll absorb it.” He said he didn’t expect things to change too much, and that he would teach a class at Stanford on Monday. “But I imagine that they’ll be listening with renewed interest,” he said. “I think this will make market design more visible to economists and people who can benefit from market design.” Shapley is the son of renowned astronomer Harlow Shapley, whose work early in the 20th century included helping estimate the true size of the Milky Way galaxy. “Now, I’m ahead of my father,” Shapley said. “He got other prizes ... But he did not get a Nobel prize.” David Warsh, who follows academic economists on his Economic Principals blog, says Roth’s work has revolutionized the way organs are matched to patients. Before Roth, he says, “there were no economists in that business at all. He’s really changed it, and saved a lot of lives.” Prize committee member Peter Gardenfors said the winners’ work could also be applied to other areas, such as allocating housing to students or refugees. “There are economic problems that can’t be solved with normal market mechanisms,” Gardenfors said. “With these matchings there is no money involved so the main thing is to follow what kind of preferences people have — who wants to be matched with whom — and find a good solution to that.” The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was the last of the 2012 Nobel awards to be announced. It’s not technically a Nobel Prize, because unlike the five other awards it wasn’t established in the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist also known for inventing dynamite. The economics prize was created by the Swedish central bank in Nobel’s memory in 1968, and has been handed out with the other prizes ever since. Last year’s economics prize went to U.S. economists Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims for describing the cause-and-effect relationship between the economy and government policy. The 2012 Nobel Prizes in medicine, physics chemistry and literature and the Nobel Peace Prize were announced last week. All awards will be handed out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s death in 1896.
Des Moines newborn a numerologist’s delight • AP News Wire • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A dream alignment for numerologists has come true in the delivery room of a Des Moines hospital. The Des Moines Register reports (http://dmreg.co/RlH4Zw ) that Laila Fitzgerald weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces when she was born. She came into the world on Thursday, which, numerically speaking, was 10/11/12. She arrived, militarily speaking, at 1314, which would be 1:14 p.m. for civilians. So the numbers associated with her birth are 8-9-10-11-12-13-14. Laila’s mother, 26-year-old Katie Deremiah, of Des Moines, says she had a feeling Thursday would be the day, even though the due date was Oct. 19. Laila’s father, 26-year-old Ryan Fitzgerald, told The Register that he would buy a lottery ticket as soon as he left the hospital.
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Volleyball catching steam in October
UCO junior libero Tate Hardaker digs a ball in a match last season. Photo, Vista Archives
Chris Brannick
Sports Editor UCO’s Women’s Volleyball team has reached a four game winning streak, its longest of the season, to
pull the team closer to a .500 record at 9-11. The Bronchos got a pair of conference wins this weekend after taking a week away from Mid-American Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Edgar Miraku’s team notched their
first two wins of the streak against former conference foes East Central University and Southeastern Oklahoma State University. UCO made the trip to Maryville, Mo. on Friday, Oct. 12 to face Northwest Missouri State, and came
into the match with a 2-5 league mark. The match would test the Bronchos, forcing them to come from behind in all three sets. UCO was successful in their comebacks though and got the sweep. “Bottom line is we just played better,” Edgar Miraku said. The first year head coach was impressed with his teams play all around. “There are multiple reasons, we’re gelling better and the lineup is more consistent,” Miraku said. “Hitting better and blocking better.” UCO came back in all three sets and the final score was 25-23 in each of those sets. Freshman Barbara Jackson finished with 11 kills and was joined as the team leader by Senior Morgan Roy. Roy also led the team with 14 digs. Miraku praised the play of two other Bronchos, Talia Stanley and Juliette Smith. Smith had a kill and Stanley a block in the closing moments of the match to help UCO to the victory. Stanley added six kills and two blocks on the night. UCO made a quick trip to St. Joseph, Mo. on Saturday for yet another MIAA matchup, this time with Missouri Western. Roy would lead the team again but this time in a way she hadn’t done all season. The Bronchos were
in a hard fought battle with the Griffons and the match went all the way to five sets. This is when Roy took charge. The senior would finish with a career-best 23 kills including seven in the final set. “I think she’s been very determined,” Miraku said. “She’s our leader, and she led the conference in kills per set for a few weeks. She is a winner.” Roy finished with 23 kills, 14 digs and two blocks. Junior Tate Hardaker got 26 digs on the night. Miraku praised her in an interview on Monday saying she has been the backbone of this defense all season long. The victory improved UCO to 9-11 and 4-5 in conference play. The Bronchos are home tonight to face another MIAA opponent, Southwest Baptist. “Finally we’re home,” Miraku said. Miraku added that the momentum his team picked up on the road should help but that the focus remains the same. “It’s definitely a positive to be playing at home. We are still cautious because of fatigue, right now we are refueling.” Southwest Baptist is 1-8 in conference play this season and 8-15 overall.
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Vista Sports Report: Basketball preview and golf Chris Brannick
Sports Editor UCO Hoops Madness is set for Thursday night at 6 p.m. in Hamilton Fieldhouse. This will be your first opportunity to check out the Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams. The mens team will scrimmage early in the evening as well as hold a slam dunk contest. The women’s team will also scrimmage and hold a 3-point shootout. There will be prizes given away throughout the night and an opportunity to sign up for the exclusive student section for the 2012-13 season. A free t-shirt and hat will be given out as well to those who sign up. Last season the men’s team went 15-11, the women’s team 16-10. Both teams showed strong during the season as the home team losing only three games combined all of last season. Vista Sports will release its Basketball Preview on Nov. 1 with a full, in depth look into both teams upcoming season. Rosters, schedules and match-up highlights as well as in depth interviews with the coaches and players. Both teams began practice yesterday, their first fully sanctioned practice. The Women tip-off with an exhibition match on Oct. 30 and the men’s first game is also an
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exhibition on Wednesday, Nov. 7 when they travel to the University of Oklahoma. UCO Women’s Golf team is competing in the Dallas Baptist Classic today, the second round of the tournament. The Bronchos have competed in three tournaments this fall, finishing third, fourth and fifth respectively in those events. The third place finish in the Drury Falls Shootout to begin the season was the teams best showing behind the stellar play of sophomore, Lindsey Bensch, who shot a two-day score of 154. 154 was the number three different Bronchos totaled the next weekend in Daytona, Fla. Bensch’s little sister Katie Bensch, Aly Seng and Taylor Neidy tied for 11th in the NCAA Division II Fall Preview. And earlier this month Neidy tied for tenth with a 148 in the RCB Bank Classic in Oklahoma City to pace the fifth place Bronchos. UCO will head to Lawton next Monday for the Cameron Intercollegiate, their final tournament of the fall. The men’s team is also in action today and also in the second round of their tournament. UCO is in St. Joseph, Mo. for the Missouri Western Invitational. The Broncho’s came in second to start their season, in Pittsburg, Kan. Then a fifth place showing at the NSU Golf Classic in September and just two weeks ago finished fourth
in the Lindenwood Invitational Senior Dillon Rust has led the team so far this season. The Edmond native shot a final round 69 to force a playoff for the individual crown, Washburn’s Sam Schulte would edge out Rust for the win. Rust would tie for 13th in Broken
Arrow and tie for sixth in Lindenwood. The Bronchos have got help from a different group of golfers in each tournament. Landon Morgan, Eric Kline and Trevor Stafford have all joined Rust at the top of each of their tournaments this season.
The men’s team rounds out their fall season next Monday as well when they travel to St. Louis, Mo. for the UMSL Fall Regional.
UCO junior forward Jill Bryan looks to pass in a game last season. The Bronchos tip-off their season with “Hoops Madness” on Thursday night. Photo, Vista Archives
Whitt-ness This: New guys knocking on the door
Whitt Carter
Staff Writer If you ask Jon Gruden about toplevel quarterbacks in the NFL today, well, you might get more than you bargained for. He’ll say words like “genius,” “gunslinger,” and “shredder.” No doubt, Gruden will praise these signal-callers to the highest extent, one that is earned. He’s saying these things about Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers and Peyton Manning. He loves Drew Brees, Matt Ryan, Eli Manning and Ben Rothelisberg-
er. Sure he adores those mentioned above. Many would consider them to be the top seven quarterbacks in the game. Throw out Matt Ryan- who hasn’t won a playoff game yet but seems poised to this year- and the other six QB’s have won the last NINE Super Bowls. Whoa. Talk about the importance of having an elite guy under center. These guys are making the importance of having a good quarterback far greater than it’s ever been. And at a time when this position is at it’s finest, there is a new generation knocking on the door. Guys like Andy Dalton, Cam Newton and Matthew Stafford, who stated their cases last year. Rookies such as Andrew Luck, Russell Wilson and Robert Griffin III, two guys that have already shown that they can be the face of a franchise. Add in other young players who have shown promise in 2012 such
as Sam Bradford, Christian Ponder and Jake Locker. The quarterback position is filled with proven talent and unlimited promise. Just look at what some of them have done in 2012 thus far. Ponder has been a pleasant surprise, leading the Vikings to a 4-2 record when many were sleeping on Minnesota. How surprising has he been? Try 1,082 yards, 69 percent passing and 8 TD/4 INT. The dude can play. Wilson is a guy that no one really expected to play right away. The Seahawks signed Matt Flynn to an unnecessary amount of money, so when drafted by Seattle, he was thought to be a back up. Oh no, Pete Carroll only plays winners. And that’s exactly who he’s got. Wilson has completed 63 percent of his passes and led the Seahawks to a 4-2 start. Think he’s a gamemanager? On Sunday, against New England, Wilson was 16-of-27 for
293 yards. Three touchdowns, no picks. Think again. Robert Griffin III, or “RGIII” has been nothing short of unbelievable. One of the most unique players to play the position already, Griffin has displayed unprecedented play-making ability. Remember the guy you created on Madden ’07 that was 99 everything? That’s seemingly how he’s played through six games. He has single-handedly made the Redskins relevant again (they’re 3-3 people) and handed me two fantasy losses through six weeks. One of the more amazing things to me is how these young quarterbacks have picked up the pace of the NFL game so quickly. They seem to get more and more comfortable as every week passes. Heck, some of these guys are most effective in the hurry-up under two minutes to play. That’s incredible. For the older guys, it’s been much of the same. Brees breaking records from some
of the game’s greats, Ryan having a stellar regular season without losing a game yet and Tom being Tom (10 TD, 3 INT); it’s something we are all used to. And who knows what will happen come December? Will these young guys’ ball clubs even be in contention? I think some will, but some, maybe not. We know that we’ll see Brady, Rodgers and the Mannings when half of the field is sent on vacation. (If we didn’t, you might hear Jon Gruden calling me a genius for writing this column.) Experience is huge, and the older crop of guys knows that. And the young ones, yeah they’ll get there. When? We really don’t know. But I do know this. They’re hungry, capable and fearless. Oh, and they’re in hurry-up mode.
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Bronchos head into bye week 1-6 after setback to Central Missouri
UCO wide receiver Christian Hood fights for yardage against Northwest Missouri on Oct. 6, 2012. Photo by Aliki Dyer, The Vista
Whitt Carter
Staff Writer After the first quarter of Central Oklahoma’s road game at #23 Central Missouri on Saturday, the Bronchos were in the exact spot that they wanted to be. They had gained 154 yards and had scored on both drives, as they found themselves in front of the Mules, 10-6. The problem was, the second, third and fourth quarters didn’t come until Sunday, a day which belonged to UCM. The Mules used the somewhat “new” start to their advantage and rolled to a 47-17 victory over UCO in Warrensburg, Mo. on Sunday, dropping the Bronchos to 1-6 in overall and conference play in 2012.
After several weather delays before kickoff and during the first quarter, the game was postponed until Sunday afternoon, in which it would start with the first play of the second quarter. That’s when Central Missouri kicked things into gear. After a Broncho fumble, deep in Mule territory, UCM scored quickly (9 plays, 54 yards) on a 6-yard TD pass from Colter Smith to David Cannon. The score gave the Mules a 13-10 lead. Central Missouri would keep extending their lead, as the Mules ripped off 10 unanswered points before UCO had the play of the day just prior to intermission. After a downed squib kick on the ensuing kickoff, senior QB Ethan Sharp and the Bronchos had only :04 left to go 73 yards.
That’s all the time they needed. Sharp dumped off a screen pass to do-it-all junior RB Josh Birmingham and the junior did the rest, making defenders miss and racing his way, 73 yards, to the end zone as time expired. The score brought the Bronchos back within a score, trailing 23-17 at half. But all hopes of a comeback would end with the miraculous, final play of the first half. UCM dominated the second half, as the Mules piled on 24 points (while holding the Bronchos scoreless) and finished with 558 total yards of offense and moved their record to 5-2. Sharp, starting in place of junior QB Adrian Nelson, who was out with an injury, completed 20-of-40 passes for 295 yards and 1 TD/1 INT.
Birmingham had a stellar game, finishing with 216 all-purpose yards. The Luther-native had 70 rushing, 86 receiving and 60 return yards, while adding a rushing TD and scoring on the screen pass just before half. Junior WR Leroy Travis (65 yards) and sophomore WR Christian Hood (53) led the Broncho receivers with six catches apiece. Despite the loss, UCO had one of their better outputs offensively against Central Missouri. The Bronchos gained 364 yards, but only managed 72 of that total after halftime. On Saturday, the Bronchos got on the board early, scoring on the first drive by way of a 23-yard FG by senior K Chris Robbs. UCM would follow suit, evening the score at 3-3 off of a 40-yard FG
from Aaron Jamieson. But as stated earlier, the Bronchos found much success on Saturday, as they took the ensuing kickoff and drove 75 yards in 12 plays, taking 3:50 to cash in on a 4-yard TD run by Birmingham and take the 10-3 lead. UCM would add another FG by Jamieson, this one from 49, to make the score 10-6 before the game was postponed due to lightning. UCO will have their bye week next week, before traveling to Jefferson City, Mo. on Oct. 27 to take on Lincoln (1-6). The Blue Tigers got their first victory of the season this past weekend, as they defeated Nebraska-Kearney on homecoming 34-27.
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