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THURSDAY • October 25, 2012
After two years of remodeling, the gallery reopens today.
UCOSA officers may accept faculty/staff parking decals as an unofficial benefit of their position.
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LUKE LOFTISS, Contributing Writer The UCO College of Fine Arts and Design will celebrate the reopening of The Melton Gallery on Thursday, Oct. 25 with a special exhibition and reception held from 4-7 p.m. at the Melton Gallery, located inside the Art and Design building. The event is free and open to the general public and will feature art from David Phelps and Kevin Tero as well as from UCO’s own Art and Design students. Also on display is the 1897 Thomas Moran oil painting Venice at Sunset. Hor d’oeuvres and champagne will be served and music provided by UCO Music Faculty and guitarist Edgar Cruz. The reopening comes after two years of remodeling and renovations, which improved safety, installed new track lighting and ash hardwood floors. The new Melton gallery will now also rotate the artworks on display every six to ten weeks. The entire Melton Gallery collection is valued at over $4 million. “It’s really exciting to be able to exhibit the work of two artists who are very active in the community,” said Zina Gelona Director of the Office of Galleries and Collections for the College of Fine Arts and Design. The two artists in question, Phelps and Tero are award winning and widely collected both in the United States and abroad. Phelps in fact taught at UCO from 1989-1994 and was the first teacher to teach sculpting at UCO. His sculpture Pastoral Dreamer will be on display alongside his numerous other works, which include concaved figures, which make use of lighting and perspective to create optical illusions for the viewer. “He said build me a gallery and I’ll come back,” Gelona said. Phelps’ artwork is also collected prominently at the Hahn Ross gallery in Santa Fe New Mexico. Tero’s award winning paintings, 15 of which are featured are not his only work on display. Tero is also an architect and actually undertook the engineering of the remodel of the gallery himself. “I’d like to thank Dr. Clinton and the College of Fine Arts and Design for allowing me the creating power to do this,” said Gelona. “It was a labor of love,” she said, “I’m probably the only one eccentric enough to do it.” Great care has been taken to protect the Moran painting on exhibit with state of the art security systems installed to counter any potential thieves. The wall it occupies is equipped with motion detectors as well as alarms set to automatically alert police if the painting is tilted or otherwise moved. Among the UCO students whose work is on display, graduate student Shikoh Shiraiwa’s painted triptych entitled Sunflowers occupies a large space on the gallery wall near the Moran showpiece. Shiraiwa was able to take a picture of his work displayed alongside Moran’s and email it to his father back in Tokyo. According to Gelona having their work presented together with well-established and world famous artists is inspiring for students and a point of pride that they can always carry with them.
Students walk through the Liberal Arts faculty parking lot, Oct. 24. UCOSA officers have the option to use any of the five faculty lots on campus. Photos by Aliki Dyer, The Vista
• BRYAN TRUDE, Senior Staff Writer • Members of the UCOSA executive board are allowed to upgrade their student parking permits to faculty/staff permits for no extra charge, the Vista has learned following an investigation into the government body’s benefits. According to UCOSA President Alex Braden, the board is allowed to upgrade their permits as a matter of convenience, due to the large number of meetings the board members attend across campus. “We get faculty and staff passes. We still pay the same price for a regular parking pass. This came about way before I was even at the university, and I am a senior now, so this has been going on for quite awhile,” Braden said. “Everyone’s always paid the $100 a year as with any other parking pass. The reason behind it is there are a lot of meetings we have to go to across campus in a lot of different buildings, and so it just saves time for everybody over there. That’s the whole purpose of that.”
“I’m definitely for it. Thery’re always here, and I feel like they should be able to park closer to the buildings.” Braden also stated that the program is optional, however he himself participates in it, and that the benefit program is undocumented. Requests for more information on UCOSA benefits, made by written letter under the Freedom of Information Act, and hand-delivered by the Vista on Oct. 4, to both the offices of UCOSA and the office of Dr. Kathryn Gage, Vice President for Student Affairs, have not been responded to as of press time for this article. There are 54 designated parking lots servicing UCO facilities in the
Edmond area, Out of those 54 lots, a vast majority is designated commuter or multipermit parking. In total, only five are reserved 24/7 for the exclusive use of UCO’s over 800 faculty and staff. Five more lots and small portions of three others are marked as faculty-exclusive only between the hours of 7 a.m. and 4 p.m.
“Just because they are in government, they’re respected, yes, but they are still students. They should get the same rights as everyone else has.” Students interviewed by the Vista provided a variety of opinions on the program. “I’m definitely for it. They’re always here, and I feel like they should be able to park closer to the buildings,” Sharae Edwards, junior nursing major, said. “It’s probably just a bad idea, simply because the student governments are students, and are just the same as the rest of the students,” Cameron Barnett, freshman nursing major, said. “Just because they are in government, they’re respected, yes, but they are still students. They should get the same rights as everyone else has.” When the Vista reached out to faculty members for their input, the response was much more opinionated. “I know that faculty are upset about the lack of space in the parking lots that we use, so I don’t think faculty will be too thrilled to find out how spaces are being filled,” Dr. Elizabeth Overman, assistant professor of political science and president of the UCO chapter of the American Association of Uni-
versity Professors, said. “The other problem is that this is a public university, where egalitarianism should be a principle, and this is an inegalitarian measure. We try to be equal, people have equal access, equal standing in terms that we all park in the parking lots and walk in if we are able.” Other members of the faculty saw the issue as indicative of a greater problem concerning faculty parking on campus. “What I do object to is the new parking places that are reserved for the vice presidents of the university, because they already have their reserved spots over at the Admin building. I don’t really care if students and UCOSA can park there,” Dr. David Von Minden, professor of forensic science, said. “If it is on the books, it’s on the books, it should not be a problem. If it’s not, it should probably be put on the books...I think UCOSA, the executive body, needs to put that in writing somewhere, see whether the President will sign off on it.” Braden, when interviewed, stressed that UCOSA executive members still pay the $100 parking decal fee all students pay, and the upgrade program is optional.
Opinion
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October 25, 2012 Editorial
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With the election fast approaching, the time to make a decision on which candidate should earn the vote is close at hand. As a young woman voter, who will be voting for the first time, I feel that the election’s looming deadline is somewhat like a college exam, and I feel that I’m unprepared to vote, almost like failing to study for a test. So, being the information addict that I am, I tinkered around on the Internet in hopes of finding some great revelation on why I should vote for either one of the uninspiring candidates. While browsing CNN.com, I came across an article that made me question yet another research study. The study, conducted by Kristina Durante and colleagues of the University of Texas, San Antonio, suggests that hormones could have an impact on the way a woman votes, depending on whether she is single or in a committed relationship. Durante and her colleagues “found that during the fertile time of the month, when levels of the hormone estrogen are high, single women appeared more likely to vote for Obama and committed women appeared more likely to vote for Romney, by a
margin of at least 20 percent.” Durante explained the idea that single women appeared more likely to vote for Obama and committed women favored Romney, saying “When women are ovulating, the ‘feel sexier,’ and therefore lean more toward liberal attitudes on abortion and marriage equality. Married women have the same hormones firing, but tend to take the opposite viewpoint on these issues.” I applaud Durante and her colleagues for conducting this research. How else would I know whom to vote for? Might as well let my hormones dictate my political decisions, right? First of all, I’m wondering how many women this study accurately reflects. I am a single female, of voting age, who has never been in a committed relationship. When I wake up on Nov. 6, ready to cast my vote, will I suddenly changed my decision because I “feel sexier?” I think not. Women may, at times, have behavioral swings caused by slight hormone changes, however, we are not creatures swayed by our every hormonal spike.
The person that women voters choose to vote for will be based on beliefs, ideals and “the issues.” If a woman’s beliefs, ideals and stances on the issues change from week to week, following the will of her estrogen levels, then maybe she should consult her physician. Let’s all hope that the candidates don’t catch on to the results of the study. Before long they might be running political ads paired with ads for chocolate and Midol. I think we’d all agree that should never happen.
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Do you think UCOSA officers should get faculty parking decals? JOSH HAYWOOD
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“No, they’re not faculty. They’re not being paid though they’ve duties to do for the students.”
“No, They’re students. They don’t get paid. Only professors deserve the faculty parking decals.”
“Maybe. Just the one near NUC for their convenience to get to the office.”
“Yes. They run UCO events. Without them, we won’t have many activities. Probably they deserve that.”
Life
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October 25, 2012
DEMETRI MARTIN TO KICKOFF HOMECOMING WEEK • BROOKS NICKELL, Staff Writer •
The University of Central Oklahoma’s Student Programing Board (SPB) is breaking the routine this year. Instead of the usual music concerts of the past, SPB will be bringing comedian Demetri Martin to campus on Saturday, Oct. 27 for this year’s homecoming kick off show. The show will be held at Hamilton Fieldhouse, on the north side of UCO’s campus, and will begin at 8 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. for those who pre-purchase tickets. Tickets will also be on sale at the door. Students will be allowed in at 7:30 p.m for free with the presentation of their student identification. Demetri Martin is an American comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer and humorist. He is best known as the star of his own show entitled ‘Important Things with Demetri Martin,’ which airs on Comedy Central. Martin is also recognized for his 2007 stand up special ‘Person’ and his performance in the 2009 film ‘Taking Woodstock.’ Martin’s entertainment has been classified as observational comedy, surreal humor, musical comedy, wit/wordplay and sketch comedy. SPB feels that changing from a musician to a comedian will be a
good way to get more people involved. “We really wanted to go with a comedy show instead of a musical concert this year,” Sarah Watkins, SPB concert chair said. “Demetri Martin puts on a funny, clean show.” Watkins expressed that SPB was trying to target different age groups. SPB President Brittany Farre agreed and added that this has resulted in elevated ticket pre-sales. While no numbers were presented, SPB allows that within a week of receiving the tickets, sales already outnumber total ticket sales from the concert last year featuring country music artist Chris Cagle. SPB takes this as a sign that the show will be a big success. Farre encourages students to come out to the concert and hopes to see all 1900 seats in Hamilton Field House filled. “It’s a family friendly show and for students it’s free. Our goal is to bring fun events to UCO for the student body to enjoy.“ The concert is being sponsored through university allocated funds to SPB and the Homecoming Activities Board. Tickets are $30 for non-students. To pre-purchase tickets, go online to www.ticketstorm.com.
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Little Miss
SUNSHINE By Kara Stewart Happy Sluttyween My third-favorite holiday is just around the corner: Halloween. And if you know me, I’m that annoying neighbor that goes all-out for my favorite holidays. Not only have I painted a pumpkin, I am also carving one (plus four more for my roommates). We have hung the cobwebs, sprayed the fake blood, and eaten all the candy we bought for trick-or-treaters. I guess the trick is on them. So, what’s left? The best part: the costume. I typically don’t partake in what has become the norm for my gender: a slutty whatever. Don’t get me wrong, one of my favorite Mean Girls quotes happens to be, “I’m a mouse—duh.” I don’t even have a problem with the short skirts, the tutus, the thighhighs. Smear on your too-bright lipstick and put on your costume that’s full of innuendos. Unlike most other girls, I really don’t mind if this is how you celebrate. I don’t even go for the scary route, although I’m an avid lover of all things horror. While funny or clever costumes are my favorite, I don’t even dress in those. No sir, you will not find me as a packet of hot sauce or a zombie bride. Why is this, you may be wondering? What other option could keep me from the awesomeness I have described? It used to be awesome costumes. I
have gone as everything from Harry Potter to Batwoman. I still find allure to the Hulk masks and Jedi robes, but that is an era that has ended for me. I’ve crossed over to the dark side. I am one-half of a couple now, which means I no longer fly awesomely solo. Instead of simply picking the best costume I find, I now have to coordinate with another human whose tastes, while similar to mine, aren’t always on point. This could be the hardest thing I have ever had to do, because a simple Cowboy and Indian routine won’t do for me. No, I want Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, Pocahontas and John only I don’t know why I subject myself to this. While you kids are off settling for a fighter pilot or a slutty pumpkin, I’ll be slaving away over the perfect set of costumes. I envy you ladies, who simply get up and go to meet Mr. Prince or even Mr. Big Pimpin’ in their lastminute decision costumes. I almost miss the days where I could spend my Halloween showing up to parties nonchalant. Halloween is no longer just another holiday for me, it is an event. And that means that I still, one week away, have not perfected my costume. The life of a college senior is so difficult. Happy Halloween kids! Stay safe!
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Kyle Brower (left), President of UCO Skeptics, talks with freshman business management major Zeland English about signing a petition to force UCO to remove Chick-Fil-A from campus and replace it with a restaraunt of the students’ choosing. Brower says that, as a public institution supported by student fees and tax dollars, UCO should not be supporting a business that gives money to discriminatory groups by selling their products to students. Chick-Fil-A has been under fire for giving almost $2 million to foundations that support antigay agendas in 2010. Photo by Bryan Trude, The Vista
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Celebrate Halloween by rocking out and being a part of the “largest costume party in the Midwest.” Performances by OKC’s Flaming Lips, Stardeath and the White Dwarfs and New Fumes. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., show starts at 7:30 p.m. This event is free to the public. Seating is limited, so arrive early. Learn more at zooamp.com.
Gazette Halloween Parade - Oct. 27 The Gazette’s 6th Annual Halloween Parade and celebration of all that is macabre will take place this Saturday at 7 p.m. The parade runs through downtown and Midtown. Gazette’s Halloween Parade began as the Gazette’s Ghouls Gone Wild Parade in 2007 with 20,000 spectators and 64 entries. Last year, the parade boasted attendance of more than 60,000.
Pumpkin Palooza - Oct. 27 For more information Please Contact: Alumni Relations • (405) 974-2421 • uco.edu/alumni or Campus Activities • (405) 974-2363 • uco.edu/homecoming
Enjoy pumpkin carving, arts & crafts, pumpkin chunkin’, food, and other pumpkin themed activities from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Mitch Park behing the MAC. You can build your own catapult/trebuchet to send pumpkins flying. For more information, call (405) 359-4630 or visit www.edmondok.com/parks/rec.
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October 25, 2012
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Q&A JUSTIN POPE • Justin Pope, AP Education Writer •
President Barack Obama has rallied college students at dozens of campuses, touted his record on student aid and needled Republican challenger Mitt Romney for advising students to “borrow money if you have to from your parents.” Romney counters that despite the flood of federal financial aid unleashed during Obama’s term, college costs and student debt have only grown. The debate over rising college tuition is a microcosm of the broader debate over the economy: Obama argues he’s taken bold steps that minimized the damage of a deep recession and will build for the future. Romney says the president’s big-government interventions have backfired, and more private-sector solutions are needed. Here are some questions — and answers — about the complicated landscape of college costs and the presidential campaign.
Q. Can either candidate do anything about the increasing prices colleges are charging? A. Both say they’ll try. Obama has proposed a $1 billion “Race to the Top”-style contest to reward states for reforms, and said he could cut off aid to colleges that don’t take steps to improve productivity. He’s called for working with the states to cut tuition inflation in half within 10 years. A Romney campaign paper says Washington will no longer write a “blank check to universities to reward their tuition increases” and to support schools pursuing new models to drive down costs. But the debate mostly concerns the enormous mix of federal aid programs for students, which will disburse about $175 billion this year in the form of grants and loans. Q. What’s Obama’s record on student aid? A. Obama can rightly claim he’s trans-
formed the federal financial aid system. Partly that means more money — Washington is on track to disburse almost $50 billion more this year than in 2008-2009. Spending on Pell Grants for low-income students has nearly doubled to about $35 billion, supporting about 10 million students, up from 6 million when he took office, and he successfully pushed Congress to postpone a scheduled doubling of the interest rate on subsidized Stafford loans. But he’s also made structural changes. Obama stopped subsidizing banks to make student loans, and now almost all student loans come directly from the government. Much of the estimated $60 billion in savings over 10 years is channeled back into other student aid programs. A new income-based repayment program caps loan repayments for 1.1 million recent borrowers at 15 percent of discretionary income and forgives their debts after 25 years. The program will soon become a 10 percent cap and forgiveness after 20 years. Romney says the increased aid from Washington is driving up prices, arguing in a campaign position paper the president “returns over and over again to the old liberal playbook that has driven up tuition rates for decades.”
Foundation calls for reforms to the program so its benefits will be less weighted to higher earners). Q. How do the candidates differ on student loans? A. When Obama took office, two federal loan systems existed side-by-side — one offering direct loans from the government, the other subsidizing a kind of federal loan provided by private lenders. Obama ended the second system and moved entirely to direct lending. Romney’s campaign says the decision “moved a trillion-dollar obligation” to the federal balance sheet and is proving more expensive than expected, citing a Barclays research report that estimates costs of direct lending have been underestimated by $225 billion between now and 2020. Even accounting for the $60 billion in lender subsidies Obama has eliminated, Romney contends returning to a system that incorporates private lenders would offer taxpayers more efficiency and students better service. Obama argues the $60 billion previously
Q. What would Romney do as president? A. He’s pledged to reverse Obama’s “nationalization” of the federal student loan market and return private lenders to the process. He wants to consolidate what he calls “duplicative” student aid programs but hasn’t specified which ones. Romney education adviser Phil Handy, in a recent debate with an Obama counterpart, called the income-based repayment program a “creeping entitlement” but the campaign has not said publicly whether or how he would reform it. (A recent New America
NASA scientist, Central grad speaks to students about U.S.’s future in space • TREVOR HULTNER, Staff Writer •
Milt Heflin, associate director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center and UCO alumnus, visited spoke before students of his alma mater on Tuesday. He is the only scientist at the agency who has seen both the Apollo mission and shuttle program. Photo provided
If there was any doubt that NASA space exploration ended with the shuttle program last fall, Milt Heflin, the associate director for technical activities at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, was at UCO on Tuesday to dispel it. “I’m here to report to you that there is a future in human space exploration,” he said. Heflin, who is the only scientist still working for the agency who has seen the beginning and end of both the Apollo mission and shuttle program, talked to about 150 students in the Forensic Science auditorium about the recent past and imminent future of America’s space program and gave attendees a small taste of what NASA culture is like. “When I started at NASA in 1966, there was a lot of physics going on and not a whole lot of politics,” Heflin said. “We were mostly sheltered
from the politics didn’t have to see it. Now, things are flipped.” Despite that increase in visible politics, Heflin says that the agency gets bipartisan support, and while NASA’s budget is small (according to him, less than four-tenths of one percent of the US budget) it’s steady – something, he asserted, that can’t be said about a lot of other agencies. Heflin graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma, then called Central State College, in 1966 with bachelors degrees in physics and mathematics. His career with NASA began only weeks later in Houston, where he got involved with the Apollo program. Forty-six years later, he watched the last shuttles get pulled through the streets of Los Angeles and Houston. Tens of thousands of people watched the shuttle Endeavour be delivered to the California Science Center two weeks ago, and an estimated 150 to 200 thousand people watched the Explorer arrive at the Johnson Space Center to be scrapped. Heflin watched the crowds of people on television and at the Center. He said, “It dawned on me that they were seeing a symbol of American greatness, and wanted to get close to it.” Now that the shuttle mission has found its final resting place, both literally and figuratively, Heflin says that NASA has undergone a massive paradigm shift away from transporting goods and personnel to the International Space Station – though the ISS is still going to be a part of their plan – and toward solar system and deep space flight. “Right now we’re working on seed money to develop commercial space transport,” he said. “Three companies are working at the moment: Sierra Nevada Corporation, SpaceX, and Boeing.” Meanwhile, NASA itself is working on the Orion program, a new series of “Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicles” and rockets that hearken functionally and aesthetically back to the Apollo days. Heflin said that the first Orion flight test on the Delta IV heavy rocket was scheduled to
allocated to paying private lenders was wasted. Kvaal says it’s actually Obama’s directlending approach that makes better use of market forces — instead of getting subsidy checks, the student loan companies now compete for government contracts to service the direct loans, replacing bureaucrats. Jason DeLisle, a former member of Senate Budget Committee’s Republican staff who now directs the Federal Education Budget Project at the New America Foundation, agrees, calling the changes Obama made “something Bain Capital would come up with” rather than the government takeover Romney describes. Q. Any other differences? A. The Obama administration has aggressively pushed to regulate for-profit colleges, which receive billions in taxpayer-funded student aid dollars but have higher default rates and lower completion rates than other types of schools. Romney says those regulations are misguided and will stamp out innovation and student choice.
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October 25, 2012
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UCO professor of biology James Bidlack discovered a mutant strand of the E. coli that may lead to a cure for E. coli contamination.
• LARISSA LEICHTER, Contributing Writer • UCO’s Science Department, with the help of Dr. James Bidlack, a professor at UCO, set out to answer questions about a different strains of E.coli and how they affect the human body. “E. coli is one of, if not the most studied organism on Earth,” Bidlack said. He came across a very unique strain of E. coli while he was working at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. Throughout our entire bodies there are many beneficial strains of E. coli that are necessary in organs like the intestines and liver. There are actually many more beneficial E. coli in a person’s body, than harmful E. coli. But, when a devastating E. coli strain is active in a body it can cause symptoms similar to food poisoning.
Since a need for a vaccine to fight against the bad E. coli had arose, Dr. Bidlack found a mutant strain that will not live past the stomach. The science lab is running many different tests because the mutant strain could become a new mutation that would call for a new treatment. If the food or water consumed is contaminated with a damaging strain of E. coli, then a person can be contaminated and become sick in three to four days after consuming the strain. E. coli can also be easily transferred from person to person if hands are not washed properly or by children who have attended petting zoos and animal barns. In labs, many students recreate the unique strains’ two characteristics that cause this
mutation and prove the results. With these current results, the students have to complete many steps and tests to prove the mutation is the direct cause of the difference. “One of the things I love about UCO is how easy it is to get involved in projects like this, develop a relationship with a professor and work on a project the way I did,” said Eden Bernstein, a biology major that works with E.coli. When the results of the E. coli project are proven on all scales, it may lead to a cure for E. coli contamination. It may also lead to people being able to receive prevention treatments. This may take some time but it would be a great breakthrough for science and UCO if our students were able to solve this problem first.
The lab work is the hardest part because everything has to be precise so the results come out accurately. If the results are misleading, then the students have to spend more time in the lab to correct what went wrong. With this science project, proper storage has to be in place because many other qualities of the other student’s projects may react in negative ways. With this amazing finding, Bidlack was able to recruit students who were interested and willing to accomplish major findings for science. “At UCO, diligent students have a way to do become involved in research in a non-competitive environment, where they can become familiar with lab techniques and the process of publishing a scientific article,” Bernstein said.
American classic captures N. Korean imaginations • Tim Sullivan, Associated Press • PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — The former black marketeer has read it. So has the beautiful young librarian, and the aging philosophy professor who has spent his life teaching the ruling doctrine of this isolated outpost of totalitarian socialism. At times it seems as if everyone in Pyongyang, a city full of monuments to its own mythology, has read the book. In it they found a tortured love story, or a parable of bourgeois decline. Many found heroes. They lost themselves in the story of a nation divided by war, its defeated cities reduced to smolder and ruins, its humbled aristocrats reduced to starvation. The book is “Gone With the Wind.” To come across Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 Civil War epic in North Korea is to stumble over the unlikeliest of American cultural touchstones in the unlikeliest of places. What does antebellum plantation life have to do with North Korea, where three generations of rulers — grandfather, father and now the young son, Kim Jong Un — have been worshipped as omniscient? What appeal does Scarlett O’Hara’s high-society ruthlessness hold for people only a few years past a horrific famine? And yet here, in a country thought to have the world’s tightest censorship net, a place where the literary culture was largely inherited from Joseph Stalin, the government has published a novel that longs for the days of the slave-owning American South. Maybe the explanation is in Mitchell’s own words. “They had known war and terror and hunger, had seen dear ones dead before their times,” Mitchell writes of postwar southerners. “They had hungered and been ragged and lived with the wolf at the door. And they had rebuilt fortune from ruin.” In “Gone With the Wind,” North Koreans found echoes of their own history and insights into the United States: bloody civil wars fought nearly a century apart; two cities — Atlanta and Pyongyang — reduced to rubble after attacks by U.S. forces; two cultures that still celebrate the way they stood up to the Yankees. If North Koreans have yet to find fortune, they haven’t given up. “In North Korea only the strong survive,” said the onetime black marketeer, a former salesman of used televisions who spent much of his life in Pyongyang but who eventually escaped to South Korea. “That’s the most compelling message of the novel.” Perhaps more than anything, though, North Koreans found what readers everywhere ask of a good novel: an escape and a comfort. And in a country with little in the way of entertainment, a police state that keeps the entire population relentlessly on
edge, Mitchell’s well-told (if relentlessly soapy) tale of lost love, mansion life, war and honor became an important refuge. Ambitious young North Korean women, raised amid deeply entrenched sexism, find inspiration in Scarlett’s rise from ruin. Men revel in the muscularity of her swashbuckling love, Rhett Butler. People struggling with a lack of heat in winter, or political infighting, or the everyday pain of a marriage gone to hell can disappear into Mitchell’s story It also moved into official life. The movie, forbidden to the general public but beloved by the former dictator and movie buff, Kim Jong Il, is sometimes used in English-language programs to train elite government officials. North Korean negotiators meeting with U.S. envoys would occasionally quote from it, once replying to American criticism with the quote (which perfectionists might note is slightly off from the book and the movie): “Frankly, Scarlett, I don’t give a damn.” Ask around in this capital city, an enclave of North Korea’s educated elite, and nearly everyone has something to say about it. “Scarlett is a strong woman,” said Pak Su Mi, a twenty-something guide at Pyongyang’s main library, The Grand People’s Study House, a maze of house-sized rooms lit by stuttering fluorescent lights where the smell of mildew often hangs heavily. In a country where women’s fashions were long frozen in Soviet-style dowdiness, men watched intently as Pak strode through the library in her tight skirt, heels clacking on the concrete floors. “But the triangle relationship between Scarlett, Rhett Butler and Ashley, I didn’t like that,” she said. The games that Scarlett learned in the whirl of plantation life — to toy with men, to hide her intelligence, to dangle her sexuality — reinforced the worst American stereotypes. “I have to be loyal to my man, not be thinking of another man,” Pak said. Guides at places like the Study House are groomed to interact with foreigners, and are well-versed sliding propaganda into conversations. Pak didn’t miss her chance. “In my country,” she noted, pressing a button for the elevator, “the woman is more important in relationships.” “Gone With the Wind” is one of the bestselling novels in modern history, and remains a talisman in the American South, where Mitchell’s vision of a lost aristocracy often pushes aside the complexities of Civil War history. It still sells about 50,000 copies worldwide every year, according to its publisher, Scribner. When it was released, though, it sold copies by the million. It was popular from England to Nazi Germany to imperial Japan,
which then occupied the entire Korean peninsula. The book, which the Japanese probably brought to Korea in the 1930s, is thought to have largely disappeared from here by the end of the 1950-1953 Korean War. By then, the peninsula was firmly divided, many cities were shattered, and North Korea’s founder, Kim Il Sung, was building a Stalinist police state. When the government suddenly ordered it translated and released in the mid-1990s, a time when North Korea’s all-important Soviet support had disappeared and famine was looming, it swept like a literary firestorm through Pyongyang. The book scene here has long been dominated by detective stories and romance novels riven with heavy-handed propaganda, and classic foreign novels like “Don Quixote.” “For a while, you couldn’t have a conversation without talking about ‘Gone With the Wind,’” said the former Pyongyang TV trader, who spoke on condition he not be identified, fearing repercussions against relatives still living in the North. Why it was published, though, remains unclear. While Washington and Pyongyang are still technically at war, and hatred for the United States government is a constant in North Korean propaganda, American culture has always been quietly popular here. There are North Korean fans of everything from Mark Twain’s short stories to bootleg Schwarzenegger movies. Some believe the decision to publish “Gone With the Wind” was meant as a symbolic peace offering from North Korea to the United States — the two nations have sparred for years over Pyongyang’s nuclear program. Others see it as an attempt by the government to teach its people about American culture, or at least Mitchell’s version of that culture. Or perhaps it was an insult. “Gone With
the Wind” is, in many ways, a celebration of how North Korea sees its own history: as a small, honorable nation that stood up to Washington. “Mitchell’s depiction of U.S. soldiers as lecherous marauders is also a good fit with North Korean propaganda,” B.R. Myers, a North Korea scholar and professor at South Korea’s Dongseo University, said in an email. Its popularity, though, has little to do with politics. “The book is about the normal lives of the American people, so it does nothing to help me understand American policy of today,” said Song Chol, a 63-year-old professor who has spent much of his life studying “juche,” the North Korean philosophy of self-reliance that is quasi-religious dogma here. “I read it a long time ago,” Song then growled, making clear that additional questions should be on juche. Like Mitchell’s postwar southerners, North Koreans know about living through terrible times. Over 1 million North Koreans are thought to have died in the Korean War, and hundreds of thousands more in the mid-1990s famine. Rights activists say more than 100,000 people are held in political prisons. Poverty is the norm. The economy has improved for some over the past couple of years, and there are now a handful of rich North Koreans who can buy BMWs and flat-screen TVs. But most people barely get by. They earn a few dollars a month, and count themselves lucky if they own a bicycle. They are tough people, who endure North Korea’s brutal winters in thin cotton overcoats, plow fields with wooden farm tools and make ends meet by selling dumplings or laundry detergent in street markets. “The weak perish in ‘Gone With the Wind,’ said the former black marketeer. “That is something that North Koreans understand.”
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Volleyball
Volleyball continues road trip in Nebraska Whitt Carter
Staff Writer UCO will try to get back to its winning ways this weekend, as the Bronchos wrap up their final road trip of the season when they travel north to take on Nebraska-Kearney and Fort Hays State. Coached by first year man Edgar Miraku, UCO sits just under .500 on the year at 11-12, but have been playing very well as of late. Before Saturday’s loss to top-20 Truman State in four sets, the Bronchos had won six in a row and seven of their last eight, with five of those wins coming by way of a three-set sweep. The Bronchos lead the league in blocks and as they’ve improved, it’s been behind the stellar play of three players. Senior Morgan Roy has had a stellar four-year career at UCO and this year has been no different. Roy leads the Bronchos in kills per set at 3.73 Senior Faith Harmon has played tremendously, after having to step in after an injury earlier in the year.
Harmon is the top assister for the Bronchos, averaging 8.87 per set on the year. Junior Tate Hardaker has been rock solid all season long. The Edmond native is the backbone of the UCO defense. Hardaker is averaging 5.06 digs per set this season. But getting back on the winning track won’t be an easy task this weekend. On Friday, the Bronchos will travel to Kearney, NE to play the #4 ranked Lopers (24-2), who have won five straight. The Lopers enter this week tops in the league in kills and assists, and are led by Ariel Kroliskowski, MIAA Hitter of the Week Katie Sokolowski and Liz McGowan. On Saturday, UCO will make their way south, stopping in Hays, KS to take on the FHSU Tigers. Winners of four games in a row, UCO sophomore Carissa Ophus returns serve in a match earlier this season. Photo by Aliki Dyer, The Vista Fort Hays State (22-9) is right beFollowing this weekend’s road Nazarene. During the UCO six-game win hind Central Oklahoma in blocks, trip, the Bronchos will return home The Bronchos currently sit near streak, five of those contests came ranking second in the league in that to stay, as they close out this season the middle of the MIAA conference on the road and only on contest category. Jenna Ulrich, Kayla Zoglth with five home games over the next standings at 8 out of 13 teams with went to the decisive fifth match. man and Makenzie Weinman lead few weeks, starting with a home a record of 6-6 in their first year of the Tigers, who were swept by Necontest against in-state foe Southern conference play. braska-Kearney on Tuesday.
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Golfers finish season Bronchos hit the road Whitt Carter
Staff Writer Both the Central Oklahoma men and women’s golf teams wrapped up their fall seasons on positive notes this week, as the men won their second tournament in a row while the women garnered another top five finish. Each team was in action on Monday and Tuesday, wrapping up their fifth and final tournaments for the fall portion of the schedule. The men traveled to Eureka, MO to participate- and capturethe Midwest Regional Preview, while the women played in their final fall tune up at the Oklahoma Intercollegiate in Lawton, OK. MEN: Just as they did last week, the young guns came out hot and carried UCO to their second straight tournament title, as the Bronchos captured the Midwest Regional Preview crown on Monday and Tuesday at Fox Run Golf Club in Eureka, MO. The Bronchos were led by the freshman duo of top-five finishers Eric Kline and Rustin Purser, en route to a five shot victory over tournament host MissouriSt. Louis. UCO fired an opening round 301, well enough for first place after day one. The young group followed suit on Tuesday, cutting eight strokes off of their day one total and finishing the final 18 holes at 293, which was good enough to hold off Missouri-St. Louis. Kline has been outstanding all year and in the final tournament of his first semester, he was no different. The freshman finished at 72-74, which was good enough for second individually. Kline, fresh off of his first collegiate win, was just one stroke behind the individual winner Joe Atkisson of UMSL. Purser expanded off of his best tournament last week by finishing fourth after shooting 76-72 during the twoday affair. Lone returner Dillon Rust, who finished in eighth place with a 78-
71, continued his stellar play alongside Kline and Purser. Freshman Tyler Hargus finished in 12th place by totaling 76-76 and senior Trevor Stafford rounded out his year with 79-78. The Bronchos finished the fall with five top fives, placing in the upper echelon in all tournaments in what was believed to be somewhat of a rebuilding year. UCO won two tournaments and finished second in one other. UCO will continue play in February, where they will likely be ranked very high in most polls.
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WOMEN: Another day, another top five finish for the UCO women, as the Bronchos rallied behind senior Erica Bensch and junior Taylor Neidy to finish third in the Oklahoma Intercollegiate in Lawton, OK on Tuesday. UCO sat in fourth place after Monday’s round, but improved their day two score by ten strokes, a season-low 292, and climbed into third place, following tournament champion Midwestern State and Newman University. “We were just in too big of a hole to dig out of after the first round,” said UCO head coach Michael Bond. Bensch had her best effort of the fall on Tuesday, as the senior fired a one-under 71 to pace the Bronchos. Neidy finished tied for second place individually, followed by Aly Seng and Bensch, who each finished T-10th. Neidy fired a second day 72 to help carry UCO. Neidy held the lead after firing a two-under 70 on the first day, but was upended by Tarleton State’s Jacqueline Lau, who finished with a final round three-under 69. The Bronchos had a very successful fall, as they- like the men- also finished in the top five in all five tournaments, led by two third place finishes. “I’m really proud of the way we played today and I think that we can use it to build off of it heading into the spring,” Bond said.
UCO freshman forward Caitlin Bond passes the ball against Midwestern State on Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. Photo by Trevor Hultner, The Vista
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Contributing Writer Edmond, Okla- The UCO women’s soccer team looks to end the year strong with two conference road wins. The Lady Bronchos will be looking to bounce back from a one-all tie with Northwestern State University this past Friday. It is likely they will be favored in their last two games, even though on the road. When asked how confident he was in his team’s ability to win the last two games, Head Coach Mike Cook said, “I’m very confident. We feel good. Our goal is to win our last two and get ready for the conference tournament.” They kick things off by facing the Washburn University Lady Blues, Friday, Oct. 26, in Topeka, Kan. The Lady Blues are led by junior forward Caysie Beetley, who has five goals on the season. They are 3-2 at home and 4-11 overall. The Lady Bronchos shouldn’t have a problem getting by the Lady Blues, as they come in at 4-02 on the road and 12-1-3 overall. Brittni Walker leads the Bronchos with 18 goals on the season. They are also a good defensive unit, holding their opponents to 0.62 scored goals per game. Most coaches usually focus on defense and how defense can create your offense. If they keep performing as they have been then their offense will be just fine. As for Coach Cook’s take on how his team has performed so far this season, he said, “It’s been a good year, we have a couple of ties that we should have won but over-
all we’re doing well.” They’ve outscored their opponents 32 to 10 and have three times as many assists, holding a 25 to six advantage in assists. Washburn’s opponents have outscored them 20 to 31, which plays in the Bronchos’ favor. Next up is Emporia State University, Sunday, Oct. 28, in Emporia, Kan. This will be UCO’s last regular season contest, another game in which they are favored. Emporia comes in at 1-3 at home and 4-9-2 overall. The Lady Hornets are still looking for their first conference win, which should prove to be a tall task, going up against UCO. The Lady Hornets are led by sophomore forward Elizabeth High, who has four goals on the season. They may not have a whole lot to play for but they will definitely be looking to spoil UCO’s Season. The Lady Bronchos will definitely have to stay focused if they want to walk away with a win. Despite being heavy favorites to win this contest, this is a perfect set-up for a trap game. Emporia’s opponents have outscored them 16 to 19, which is half of what the Lady Bronchos’ opponents have outscored them. The Lady Bronchos shouldn’t have trouble scoring against Emporia, as the Lady Hornets average slightly over one goal a game, with 1.03 while giving up 1.22. If the Lady Bronchos handle their business like they are supposed to, then they should finish their regular season off strong, with only one loss on their record.
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Football
Bronchos back in action after week off Bobeck: ‘I’m just excited to get back on the grass.’ Chris Brannick
Sports Editor UCO football is back in action this weekend after their first and only bye week of the season. The Bronchos travel to Jefferson City, Mo. to take on the Lincoln Blue Lions Saturday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. Lincoln hosts the Bronchos on what will be their Senior Day and the Lions are looking for a big win, which would be their second of the season. Lincoln defeated NebraskaKearney on Oct. 13. The Lions are under the leadership of Mike Jones for the second season. Jones, who saved the Super Bowl for the St. Louis Rams in 1999, was 1-10 in his inaugural season with the reigns. The Lions have almost identical statistics with UCO in a couple of categories that spell out the records of the two teams. Lincoln has thrown 11 interceptions and lost six fumbles, UCO, 12 interceptions and six fumbles lost. The two teams are in similar situations and both are looking towards this game to gain some momentum as the season winds down. First year Broncho head coach Nick Bobeck spoke highly of the benefits of winning the last few games in a season. “Anytime that you end the season on a positive note, that’s going to build momentum... there’s going to be positive feelings and things like that going forward,” Bobeck said. The Bronchos will have to go back to their only win on the season to find the winning formula. With those 18 giveaways, none of them came in the Washburn win. The first words out of Bobeck’s mouth following the game. “That’s what happens when you
UCO football lined up in their game against Missouri Southern on Aug. 30, 2012. Photo by Cyn Sheng Ling, The Vista
don’t turn the ball over.” Central has also found success in games where junior runningback Josh Birmingham not only got blocking to run freely, but also caught passes out of the backfield. Birmingham has 18 catches, second most on the team, and 201 yards this season. A 73-yard touchdown reception ended the first half of the Bronchos game against Central Missouri. The games the Bronchos have had chances to win, Birmingham has caught the ball. Lincoln has allowed 22 rushing touchdowns this season and gives
up an average of 177.4 yards per game, something that could prove beneficial for the Bronchos. Sophomore Jacob Morris leads the Lincoln offense in both passing and running. The quarterback has thrown one interception in every game this season except last week when Morris threw two. Morris averages 153 passing yards per game and 25 rushing. Morris Henderson leads the Lions in rushing yards per game in seven games this season, including his first 100-yard game of the season last week against Fort Hays State.
Henderson has four rushing touchdowns this season. “They do some things as far as matchups that are difficult,” Bobeck said. “We have got to make sure that we stay sound and we make them beat us.” Junior quarterback Adrian Nelson started the first six games of his Broncho career before sitting out the Central Missouri contest. Nelson is 109-214 this season with six touchdowns but has thrown ten interceptions. “We think that there are some things that we can do and obviously
they’re gameplanning just like us,” Bobeck said. Christain Hood has been the goto guy for receptions this season for Nelson and Marquis Walters has been a deep threat. Hood has 32 catches for 299 yards but has yet to score. Walters has exactly half as many catches but has found the endzone three times this season. Morris’ favorite target for the Lions has been Maurice Woodard. The junior from Kansas City, Mo. Leads the team in receptions with 49 catches for 606 yards and has crossed the goalline six times.
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