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ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK? While walking around a college campus at night can be a scary thing for some, UCO offers several programs to help students feel safe and secure as they walk back to their cars, rides or dorm rooms.

It is a story that plays out at campuses nationwide time and time again. On June 2, Indiana University junior Lauren Spierer disappeared while walking to her apartment. Her keys were found a block from where she was last seen.

Spierer, who made headlines again a few weeks ago as Terra Haute, Ind. police began searching a landfill in connection to the case, is only one of hundreds of persons of all ages who are reported missing each day. According to statistics from the FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC), as of the end of 2010 there were over 85,000 active missing persons cases in the United States.

At UCO, there are programs set up through Police Services to help prevent UCO students from becoming part of that statistic.

The most prominent of these programs is UCOPD’s “Safewalk” program, a 24-hour personal escort service.

“Under our Safewalk program, any student or faculty member can call to have a UCO police officer or student officer escort them to their car or other destination,” Sgt. Jeremy Biggs, UCO police department shift supervisor, said. “There are phones and callboxes in several buildings on campus that are direct

lines to our dispatcher.”

Biggs also said they can use any phone and call the department’s nonemergency number and request an escort.

Although UCO has an average of two patrol officers on duty at any given time, Biggs said the department employs student employees as “student officers,” whose primary responsibility is escorting students under the Safewalk program.

“The student officers have a golf cart for their use, and they drive around looking for students who may need an escort,” Biggs said.

“They don’t have any police powers, but they do carry radios and can call us directly if they need to. They are more eyes and ears out there helping us keep the student body safe.”

The sworn officers of the department also are promoting safety by taking a more involved role with the community, talking with students and faculty and increasing visible patrols on foot or bicycle, a method Biggs calls “community policing.”

NCIC statistics show that most missing persons cases with victims under 21 years of age involve white or Hispanic females.

The UCO Violence Prevention Project also offers advice to students and faculty to help them protect themselves from becoming victims.

According to information published online by VPP Project Coor-

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Members of Alma Folklorica from Guymon dance by Broncho Lake in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

dinator Kathryn Toahty, students should avoid walking alone or using shortcuts at night, sticking to lighted areas and walking with keys ready and an “air of confidence.”

“The biggest thing is that we want

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UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY ‘TRIMMING THE FAT’ FROM BUDGETS

In this Nov. 10, 2010 photo, Louisiana State University students Mark Nehlig, left, and Brian Sain lift a coffin representing education after a rally to protest against cuts to higher education on the steps of the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, La. Louisiana (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

By Justin Pope / Associated Press Colleges and universities are cutting budgets by the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars. But what exactly are they cutting — fat or lean?

There are two new contributions to the debate, which is more like a shouting match on many campuses. The two key questions: Are the masses of administrators and executives who sprouted across higher education in flush times taking their fair share of the pain during the current crisis? And will the crisis really force higher education to be more efficient?

Johns Hopkins professor Benjamin Ginsberg has buttressed his acerbic attacks on higher education’s “bureaucracy gone wild”

with a new book. But a report out Wednesday from a research group offers a more positive take. It concludes that compared to previous downturns, colleges have better resisted the temptation to balance the books with easy cuts to teaching, and are trying to make structural reforms.

“These guys know that doing the usual round of across the board cuts and waiting for the money to come back wasn’t going to work this time,” said Jane Wellman, executive director of Delta Cost Project, which studies university spending patterns and has sharply criticized “administrative bloat” on campus in the past.

To be sure, college teaching has taken an unprecedented hit during the Great Reces-

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students to use Safewalk, it’s one of our most underutilized programs,” Toahty said. “But when you can’t use it, it’s good to park close to the building and well-lit areas. You can’t always walk in a group, but you can

always have your keys and a cell phone in your hand.”

Toahty also recommended that students be aware of their surroundings, walk in populated areas,

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CONAN THE PRANKSTER

By Shawn Pogatchnik / Associated Press DUBLIN (AP) — Talk about a tough professor.

Trinity College in Dublin was spoofed Thursday when an unknown prankster posted an academic profile of its newest English lecturer: a certain Conan T. Barbarian, complete with Hollywood mug shot of a shirtless, sword-clad Arnold Schwarzenegger in his maiden film role.

Trinity removed the parody site — but not before dozens of fans had archived the Web page of the mock biography and turned it into an Irish viral sensation.

Trinity spokeswoman Caoimhe Ni Lochlainn said the university had never had its Web site disrupted like this before. She confirmed that Trinity was certain it was an inside job, not the work of a hacker.

Dr. Barbarian’s Trinity profile contains a warrior’s feast of references to the arcane plot of the 1982 film, which was critically panned but a

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box-office hit that launched Schwarzenegger’s movie career.

It claims he has been preparing for the rigors of academic life since being “ripped from his mother’s womb.” His Ph.D thesis is titled “To Hear the Lamentation of Their Women: Constructions of Masculinity in Contemporary Zamoran Literature.”

The latter refers to one of the most famously ridiculous lines from the film, when Conan is asked what is best in life and replies: “To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.”

The parody faculty listing claims he was appointed to the School of English “after successfully decapitating his predecessor during a bloody battle which will long be remembered in legend and song.”

It cites his upcoming courses as including “Vengeance for Beginners” and “Deciphering the Riddle of Steel.” That riddle is central to the film’s plot and concerns whether a sword is more powerful than a man. Answer: Nope.

Conan’s stated classroom policy is to crucify students who cheat or show weakness.

Ni Lochlainn said the prank posting was being broadly viewed as “quite humorous,” but Trinity investigators were seriously trying to identify the culprit.

She said punishment would depend on “the full facts of the case.”

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OKLAHOMA! WHERE THE NEWSPAPERS ARE GOING DOWN THE DRAIN...

CO-PUBCO? It may sound a little different, but it is not one of the changes being made as part of the sale of The Oklahoman’s parent company to Colorado tycoon Philip Anschutz’s Anschutz Corp.

The tradition of the 108-year-old Oklahoma-owned paper officially died on Thursday, but looking at the newspaper industry across the country, the deal is more akin to pulling the plug on a vegetative great-grandparent.

Last May, The Oklahoman let go 57 employees and this summer veteran editor Ed Kelley left the paper after more than 35 years with the company. Now, with the details of the sale to Anschutz coming to light, it becomes obvious what was going on at OPUBCO. They were trying to sell.

Anschutz earns his money from a great many ventures: oil drilling, propane, railroads, radio, newspapers and more. But what is of true concern is something that’s haunted metro area publications for so long: will they criticize, or even cover, the abuses and control of the gas industry?

It’s hard enough to see anything philanthropic in this city without also seeing the names Chesapeake, ONG, OG+E, or Devon slapped on it somewhere. That said, will an actual oil tycoon’s newspaper go after “big hearted” big oil?

OPUBCO is expected to operate independently of the Anschutz Corp.’s other assets, and as it stands today The Oklahoman’s editorial page already ranks pretty high in terms of conservative editorial sections.

The actual amount of changes within OPUBCO is rather small, with only a few shuffles in the leadership going down, and that could be the true problem. More of the same could kill the paper quicker than the life support provided by this new deal.

What would fix the ailing paper fails to be seen. It can hardly be said that the paper is in great company; especially at a time when Oklahoma State’s student newspaper has decided to start charging for online content, as has The Oklahoman’s Tulsa cousin, the Tulsa World, and even “the Cadillac of news coverage,” The New York Times.

The great problem isn’t with The Oklahoman, OPUBCO, Anschutz, the state’s big oil players, Oklahoma’s growing radical conservatism or even a bad economy.

The true problem with the fate of The Oklahoman is that nobody cares anymore. And to those who say that OKC “can’t not” have a newspaper, imagine actually reading one.

“Yes, I do. The doors are always locked on the dorms and you can’t get in without a key and there is always safe walk you can call.”

“Yes, the police are always patrolling on bikes and cars. Plus, you have safe walk. It’s not safe to walk alone at night, period.”

“They could do better.”

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UCO SKEPTICS CERTAIN ABOUT FUNDRAISING By Josh Hutton Del Boca Vista, Oklahoma

UCO Skeptics president Arpana Delaya, vice president Matt Korstjens and member Emily Gray set up a table in the Nigh University Center during their “Ask a Skeptic” fundraiser. The club was raising money to help finance a trip to Houston, Texas for the fourth annual Texas Freethought Convention, scheduled for October 7-9. Photo by Trevor Hultner, The Vista

By Trevor Hultner / Staff Writer The price of knowledge was only a dollar last week as the UCO Skeptics threw a fundraiser in the form of a twoday-long Q-and-A session covering every aspect of critical thinking.

Those with inquiring minds (and more than a few singles lying about) could pay to pick the brains of the new group’s members, including the group’s president, psychology grad student Arpana Dalaya, as well as vice president Matt Korstjens.

The group was raising money to help fund their inaugural trip to Houston, Texas, for the Texas Freethought Convention on Oct. 7.

The Texas Freethought Convention is an annual event sponsored by the Atheist Alliance of America. According to the event’s website, this year’s guests include Richard Dawkins and biology professor and science writer Paul Zachary “PZ” Myers.

“We have a lot of money that we need, but what we’re trying to do is do our best to cut into those costs,” Korstjens said.

“We are planning on spending quite a bit of our own money to go, but we are trying to help reduce costs.”

Students could either ask the Skep-

tics their own questions or choose from a prefabricated list that was on display.

Some of the questions included “Why should I believe you?” and “What evidence is there for evolution?”

“People ask questions,” Korstjens said.

“We try to give the answer, according to whatever the evidence is.”

Other questions tackled religion, homeopathy and how skeptics figure out which information is credible and which information isn’t. Questioners kept things civil during the two-day fundraiser.

“Well, it’s a mixed bag, we have a lot of like-minded people come over and kind of sign up for the group, rather than donate or whatever, gets some free material,” Korstjens said. “We’ve also had a couple of people that were a little contentious, a little argumentative, but nothing serious.”

Dalaya reaffirmed this.

“We haven’t really had any serious confrontations at all,” she said.

There was, however, some issue with people confusing “skeptic” for “conspiracy theorist.”

“I think most people don’t know what a skeptic is,” Dalaya said. “A lot of them confuse us with conspiracy theorists, so

we do get questions like ‘oh, so are you skeptical of 9/11?’ or, like the guy who was just here: ‘Do you think Oswald shot Kennedy?’ And we’re not really looking into conspiracies, we’re looking more into pseudosciences and trying to see whether or not there’s evidence for them or not.”

The UCO Skeptics will be holding another two-day fundraiser on Sept. 28 and 29.

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SAFEWALK and that students be familiar with points of reference and people who can help them, such as neighbors and resident hall attendants.

“If you’re coming out of a class, let your instructor know you are waiting on a Safewalk escort, the instructor should be more than happy to wait with you or even walk with you

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to your car,” Toahty said. “Students might also want to make friends with classmates so they can have a group to travel with.”

Toahty said it becomes more important for students to be vigilant as fall approaches, when the sun begins to set earlier in the day.

“I think [these programs] are a good thing to have around,” Snowa Claborn, a freshman psychology major, said. “I haven’t had anything happen to me, I thankfully haven’t needed help yet.”

Biggs said that the police department was working on developing ideas for new programs, and is accepting input from the UCO community for ideas and feedback.

“At the University of Oklahoma, they have these blue callboxes all over the place,” Claborn said. “UCO should put callboxes around outside and in the parking lots, and mark them so they can be identified from a distance.”

Students or faculty requiring an escort may use any callbox found inside a campus building, or can call the UCO Police Department directly at any time at 974-2345.

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Last month, CNBC ranked 10 of the best suburbs across the nation. Our very own Edmond took number one. While most city-dwellers take this accolade with pride, it makes me want to pack my life into a gunnysack and run for the hills. I’m twenty years old. Living in the “picket fence”-iest city in the U.S. at twenty equates to checking into a nursing home at forty.

Sure, suburbs are dandy if you got two kids, a wife that spends her evenings perusing the patio furniture section of Target, and an arthritic Shih Tzu that has been around so long, you recall it eating potato chips off your lap during the ’96 Olympics.

But since I’m stuck here until I grab a degree, I’m going to make the best of it. Let me put down my bowl of 18-cent noodles. Excuse me while I polish off this three-liter (yes, three-liter) of Diet Dirtwater Cola that I found covered in cobwebs on the bottom shelf of a thrift store. Allow me to slip into my official “The Dude” robe, as I discuss how we can take Edmond from “A great place to grow” to “A great place to raise the roof”.

Stop the formality of small talk. The eerie, perfectly plastic, “nothing-bad-ever-happens-here” vibe of Edmond correlates directly with small talk overuse. When 90 percent of my conversations end with “Yup, sure is nice to have these cooler temperatures,” I become disillusioned. I forget people suffer at all.

Since I believe in being personally responsible for getting the ball rolling, I now end most conversations with “Yup, that was the first time I felt a woman’s touch,” and you should do the same.

Instead of wasting hours keeping the yard outside your rent house prim and proper, focus on yourself.

I might have DEA agents snooping around my front yard jungle, making sure illegal plants aren’t sprouting under my personal canopy, but I get an extra hour per week for me time.

With that surplus you could knit, start on the next great American novel, or be like myself and post topless mirror pics on Facebook.

Lastly, students, do not allow the outside appearance of suburban living to dilute ambition. From the outside, a look at settled families can convince that a life of routine is what the degree garners. Even after landing a 9 to 5, even after pulling in the big bucks, make sure you are chasing after a greater purpose than making ends meet. Do not spend your days walking around, head as tense as a matchstick, awaiting the lurking strain that sets you on fire, but instead attempt to bend your environment to your vision.

Nobody wants to go into early retirement at 22 in some Oklahoma version of Del Boca Vista. Have the courage to do more than drift.

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BUDGET CUTS sion. Universities have cut tens of thousands of mostly part-time teaching positions.

That means fewer and more crowded classes, and much more work for the teachers who remain.

The University of North Carolina system has eliminated more than 3,000 positions — mostly adjunct professors — to bridge a $414 million state budget cut this year. The beleaguered California State system — which has lost roughly $1 billion in funding — has turned away 50,000 otherwise admissible students in recent years for lack of resources to teach them.

But at the same time, major system reorganizations are under way in several states. Last week, the University of Wisconsin detailed plans to cut 51 jobs at its system HQ, giving more autonomy to branch campuses and shielding them somewhat from even harsher cuts. Missouri’s university system has cut central-office jobs, while universities in Michigan, Ohio and Illinois are all at least starting to collaborate on bulk purchasing.

At Cal State schools, more than two staff and administration jobs have been eliminated for every full-time faculty spot reduction over the last two years.

Linda Katehi, chancellor of the budget-battered University of California-Davis, scanned a campus auditorium full of nervous employees last week, delivering a blunt message along with an update on plans for a massive re-organization that will at last bring the university’s IT, financial and back-office operations under one roof.

“If we don’t change, I don’t think we will be able to survive” the financial crisis in higher education, she said.

The latest Delta Project report covers only spending through 2009, so it captures only the early stages of the latest budget pressures.

But it does suggest universities have begun making important changes in where they spend money.

Over the past 10 years at public universities, instructional spending rose only around 10 percent per student, while spending on “institutional support” rose 15 percent and maintenance 20 percent. But more recently the figures have turned. In 2009, instructional spending rose 1 percent, administrative spending 0.4 percent and operations fell 5 percent.

“The first place that they’re going is in those administrative areas,” Wellman said. “There’s big money in that. It’s painful but they have to do it.”

And yet, just when you think the budget battles of the Great Recession might be what finally tamed academia’s sprawling bureaucracies, take a look at the job openings listed with The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed. On the latter’s website last week, fewer than 40 percent of the approximately 7,100 help-wanted ads posted by col-

leges and universities were for faculty jobs.

The other two-thirds were for administrative and executive jobs, some with the kinds of titles that make higher education critics cringe: “Marketing Coordinator,” ‘’Consultant-Talent Acquisition” and “Director of Discovery and Access.”

Plenty of campuses still have their share of Ginsberg’s stock characters — like the business-minded dean obsessed with starting new programs and writing strategic plans but out of touch with the basic business of teaching.

Ginsberg’s book, “The Fall of The Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters,” notes that in 1975, roughly 275,000 administrators and staffers supported 450,000 professors on college campuses. By 2005, staffers and administrators easily outnumbered teachers.

Ginsberg said he’s glad to hear the Delta Project found signs of progress but doubts it will last. He says universities are treating the symptoms, not the disease.

“Senior administrators still have good reasons to extend the ranks of their administrative armies,” he said in a telephone interview.

“All the deans and deanlets and dingalings hire more of themselves and make work for one another.”

Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, sympathizes with Ginsberg’s take on the sprawling higher ed bureaucracy — but also agrees things may have changed lately.

“There’s been more cutting form administration in the last two years then I’ve ever seen before,” said Nelson, a professor at the University of Illinois who is also a vocal critic of high presidential and administrative salaries.

“It’s partly symbolism. If you’re going to make the faculty and staff take furloughs, if you’re going to cancel positions that are scheduled to be filled, and you don’t want to be hung on the quad, you have to show some willingness to cut some administrative fat. But there’s so much fat they’ve gotten nowhere near the meat on the administration side.”

Ginsberg says universities could cut onethird of their administrative jobs with nobody even noticing the effects.

Few would go that far. The Delta Project data, for instance, typically make finer distinctions than Ginsberg between top-level administrators and support staff like mental health counselors and financial aid advisers who are inarguably front-line workers for the university’s educational mission.

Meanwhile, few would count staff like IT coordinators or campus police — both of whose ranks have surged in recent years — in the same category as executives with titles like “director of institutional effectiveness” (one that particularly irked Ginsberg).

Meanwhile, the legions of fundraisers and grant-writers whose jobs barely existed 40 years ago probably would not have survived

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Mark Stansberry performs at the OU Cancer Benefit concert at the UCO Jazz Lab, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

the chopping block this long if they did not usually bring in more revenue for the university than their positions cost.

A picture of the scope of the cuts in one state emerged last week when the University of North Carolina system detailed some of the consequences of the $414 million cut in state funding it is facing this year alone. Jobs lost include the equivalent of 880 full-time faculty and around 2,000 part-timers, but also more than 1,000 full-time staff and administrators.

Not all of those staffers work in classrooms — but they do affect students.

At UNC’s Wilmington campus, the library will be open 35 fewer hours per week.

Elizabeth City is cutting evening hours at its counseling center. And in one college of the Charlotte campus, advisers now must handle nearly twice as many student visits per year.

But along with positions working directly with students, prominent administrative job titles are among those that have been cut at UNC campuses, including associate vice chancellor for business affairs, vice chancellor for community affairs and director of univer-

sity communications.

University of Wisconsin President Kevin Reilly says that between transparent public budgets and the steady state cuts — including $250 million the last two years alone — that he’s faced, he finds the idea of an out-of-control academic bureaucracy incredible.

He noted top Wisconsin executives, staff and faculty alike joined all state employees in taking eight furlough days after the last budget, amounting to a 3-percent pay cut.

“We haven’t been fat and happy and growing,” said Reilly, whose system is cutting the budget 25-percent at system headquarters and 11 percent at branch campuses.

Ginsberg might concede the higher ed bureaucracy is no longer happy, and perhaps no longer growing.

But he stands by the charge of “fat.”

“The university used to be run by the faculty,” he said. “If they’re run by administrators, they become General Motors — top-heavy entities that are saved from bankruptcy only by government money.”

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BRONCHO FALL SPORTS ACROSS THE BOARD It may feel like school just started, but at four weeks since the beginning of the fall semester, all of UCO’s fall atheletic teams are in full swing. UCO’s football team will spend one more weekend on the road before coming home on Oct. 1, and Women’s Soccer will play their next home game Friday at 4 p.m. against St. Mary’s.

Vanessa Birmingham, mother of UCO star running back, Josh Birmingham, cheers with her family, (from left) Ashley Birmingham, Terry Gaddis, 6, Roderick Brown, 6, and Teriq May, 10, during a game between UCO and Southeastern Oklahoma State in Durant, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista UCO’s Qua’Don Henderson runs the ball during a game between UCO and Southeastern Oklahoma State in Durant, Satureday, Sept. 10, 2011. Photo by Garett FIsbeck, The Vista

UCO’s Joshua Birmingham (21) runs the ball during a game between UCO and Southeastern Oklahoma State in Durant, Satureday, Sept. 10, 2011. Photo by Garett FIsbeck, The Vista UCO’s Summer Grantham (2) battles Southwest Baptist’s Hallee Ruckman (30) for the ball, Sept. 10, 2011. Photo by Liz Boyer, The Vista

Morgan Roy (6) returns a ball over the net during a game between UCO and Southeastern Oklahoma State at Hamilton Field House, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

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CENTRAL UPSETS NO. 2 ST. EDWARD’S From BronchoSports.com Goalkeeper Brandi Barleys spearheaded a stout defensive effort that propelled streaking Central Oklahoma to a monumental 2-0 upset of No. 2-ranked St. Edward’s here Sunday.

The fourth straight win for the Bronchos was one of the biggest in school history as Bartley had five saves and UCO scored two second-half goals to topple the Hilltoppers on their home field in wrapping up a successful two-game road trip.

“We’ve had a lot of big wins over the years, but to go on the road and knock off the number two team in the country is huge and I’m really excited for our players,” head Mike Cook said. “Our back row defense was outstanding today and we just weren’t going to be denied. It’s obviously one of the best wins we’ve ever had, but it doesn’t mean much if

we don’t keep it going” Jordan Hutchison and Alyssa Anderson led UCO’s back-row defense that kept the Hilltoppers at bay and UCO prevailed despite being outshot 12-4. The Bronchos, now 4-3 after an 0-3 start to the season, made two of those four shots count to pull out the upset.

Ashton Morris got the first goal, breaking a scoreless tie in the 64th minute when she took Nawal Kirtspass and found the back of the net from 20 yards out. Summer Grantham gave UCO some breathing room at the 76:44 mark, gathering in a loose ball and scoring from 10 yards away to make it 2-0.

Aggressive defensive play did the rest as UCO’s Jordan Hutchinson steals the ball from a Southwest Baptist player in their game the Bronchos constantly kept SEU in check to last week in Edmond. UCO is now 4-3. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista close out the upset.

UCO returns to action Friday, hosting St. Volleyball Mary’s at 4 p.m.

CENTRAL DOWNS SNU From BronchoSports.com Alex Richardson had two kills in a 4-0 run that ended the fourth set and Central Oklahoma overcame a slow start to get past Southern Nazarene here Friday night.

The Bronchos, coming off Thursday’s tough five-set loss at East Central, dropped the first set to the Crimson Storm before roaring back to claim a 15-25, 25-18, 25-20, 25-22 victory.

UCO improved to 6-6 with the win while dropping SNU to 12-3.

“We came and played real sloppy in the first set, but did a good job after that,” head coach Jeff Boyland said. “It was a big win for us after the way we lost the night before, so I was proud of the way we responded.”

The Bronchos were facing a 22-21 deficit in the fourth set as SNU tried to stay alive, Central’s Juliette Smith attempts to spike off a Bella Romero set in UCO’s game against but UCO reeled off four straight kills to end Southeastern last week. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista the match. Richardson had two of those, with

Jordan Jacobs and Halie Harrington getting the others.

Richardson finished with a, match-high, 17 kills, while Jacobs added 12 and Morgan Roy added 10. Bella Romero had 36 assists from her setter post, with Sam Cool and Tate Hardarker collecting 13 digs apiece to pace the defense.

The Crimson Storm dominated the first set in taking a quick lead, but UCO rallied strong in the second to tie it. The Bronchos led just 6-5 early in that set before taking control with an 8-2 scoring spurt that saw Richardson score three kills.

The third set was tied 15-all before UCO took the lead for good, getting kills from Romero and Jacobs in scoring three straight points.

The Bronchos return to action Tuesday, traveling to Wichita, Kan. to take on Newman.

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BRONCHOS GET RAMMED

UCO’s Josh Birmingham rushes through a gang of Angelo State Rams in their game Saturday in Angelo, Texas. UCO lost 20-0 for their third loss of the season. Photo Provided

By Trey Hunter / Sports Editor The Central football team lost to the Angelo State Rams 20-0 Saturday in Angelo, Texas, and fell to 0-3 after three straight road games to start the season.

UCO quarterback Ethan Sharp started the game strong, completing on five of his first seven pass attempts and moved the ball to Angelo’s 34-yard line. However, Central’s offense didn’t do much more and was dominated by Angelo’s defense for the remainder of the first half.

Angelo State’s offense wasn’t much better in the first two periods.

Central was able to keep the game close and forced the Rams to kick a field goal with the final second rolling off of the clock to make the game 3-0 going into intermission.

Quarterback Blake Hamblin led the Rams’ offense down the field for

their lone scoring drive of the half.

He completed four of four passed for a total of 64 yards and also rushed the ball twice for 11 yards.

His second scamper for eight yards set up kicker Jarred Martin’s 29yard go-ahead field goal.

UCO’s defense held strong to start the second half. They allowed the Rams to drive into scoring position, but a rush by Angelo running back Tristan Carter for negative yards forced the Rams to punt and gave the ball back to UCO. Central’s offense couldn’t take advantage after Sharp completed three of three pass attempts on their first drive of the half. Angelo’s defense, who stopped the run all game, held Birmingham on two rushes and forced the Bronchos to punt the ball back to the Rams, which set up their second scoring drive of the game.

Hamblin completed a 46-yard

pass to wide receiver Joey Knight for a touchdown with 7:50 left in the third quarter, giving the Rams a 10-0 lead.

UCO once again stalled on a drive that saw Sharp complete two passes. Central wasn’t able to move the ball past their own 18-yard line and their punt set up the Rams at the UCO 49-yard line.

Angelo drove down the field again. Hamblin threw three incompletions, but was able to run the ball three times for a total of 19 yards and set up another field goal for his team. However, UCO was given an opportunity to get back in the game as Martin missed wide left from 39-yards out with 3:46 left in the third period.

Central was forced to punt once again after Sharp missed on a pass to Birmingham at the UCO 30-yard line.

The Rams took advantage as Hamblin completed on five of six pass attempts and led Angelo down to the UCO 17-yard line where Martin was able to convert on his second field goal of the game. The Rams took a 13-0 lead.

UCO immediately went back to the air and was immediately forced to punt. Sharp, who couldn’t find anybody open down field all night, only completed one pass on the drive and Birmingham rushed the ball once for negative yardage.

The Rams were forced to punt as well, but their defense held UCO once again and they received the ball back at the UCO 36-yard line with 13:03 left in the game. Hamblin completed on three pass attempts for 50 yards and set up a three-yard touchdown run by Carter to give the Rams a 20-0 lead and ultimately the victory.

Sharp and the offense had three chances down the stretch to get back into the game, but failed to convert and were handed their third straight loss to start the season.

UCO’s offense gained a total of 275 yards on the night compared to Angelo’s 347. The Bronchos rushed the ball 23 times for 11 yards, and threw the ball 53 times for 264 yards. Central gave up 102 yards on the ground and 245 yards through the air.

UCO will finish off their fourgame road trip to start the year against rival Southwestern Oklahoma State University Saturday at 6 p.m. in Weatherford. The Bulldogs are 2-1 on the season with wins against Northwestern and Henderson State of Arkansas.

UCO will play their first home game against East Central on Oct. 1.