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A city remembers; cannot forget By Tim Talley
compound in Waco, Texas, killed 168 people in Oklahoma City, inAssociated Press cluding 19 children at a day care. The Molotov cocktail explosion OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — this summer illustrated again how Before Sept. 11, there was April sensitive people in Oklahoma City 19 — when a truck bomb sheared are to any potential threat, said Suaway one side of a federal building san Winchester, whose sister died in in middle America and proved that the federal building attack. anyone, anywhere, can be attacked. “I think we’ve experienced firstThe combination of hand that it’ s not sometwo tons of fertilizer thing to take lightly. You and fuel oil in Okla“I’m sure it immediately put your homa City destroyed could happen memories and experithe notion that people again. I hope ences into play,” she content to live far from it doesn’t, said. “You realize it’s the nation’s biggest citsomething that is very, ies and tallest buildings but the way very real and somewouldn’t be targets of the world is thing that can happen. If terrorism. today, you you’re in a place where As the nation prepares never know.” you’ve not gone through to observe the 10th anniversary of the Sept. — Shirley Ferguson, 72, that, you might not take it as seriously. You know 11 attacks, many Okla- of Oklahoma City. that it can happen.” homa residents are still In the latest case, aucoping with the fear or anxiety set thorities say a 15-year-old boy was off by the earlier bombing. When playing with Molotov cocktails bea Molotov cocktail blew up alongfore the fatal fire that killed an elside an Oklahoma City home this derly couple. Shirley Ferguson, 72, summer, people’s thoughts and talk whose neighbors were the ones instantly turned to the 1995 explokilled, said anyone is vulnerable. sion. “I’m sure it could happen again. “Every time you see a bombing on I hope it doesn’t, but the way the TV, you think of the Murrah buildworld is today, you never know,” ing,” said Tom Kight, who didn’t she said. “It makes me concerned learn that his stepdaughter was about the evil that’s around.” killed in the attack until five days afFerguson’ s daughter, Sherie Asterward. “I’ve lived with anxiety. You bell, 53, said the emotional impact see some of the bombings, whether of the Oklahoma City bombing and it’s Afghanistan or Iraq, you’re going the firebombing in her mother’ s to flash back.” neighborhood are “too closely reAl-Qaida’s attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, killed nearly 3,000 people lated.” “That brought a lot of fear back to in New York, Washington and me,” Asbell said. Pennsylvania. Timothy McVeigh’s “It can happen anytime — anybombing of the nine-story federal body, anytime,” said neighbor Bob building, in retaliation for a 1993 Bosse, 64. “You just hope that it government raid on a religious
In this July 27, 2011 file photo, construction continues on One World Trade Center, left, in this aerial photo in New York. The tower has reached the 76th floor. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
won’t.” McVeigh, an army veteran, was convicted of federal murder and bombing-related charges in the Oklahoma City bombing. A co-conspirator, Terry Nichols, was convicted on federal and state charges and is serving multiple life sentences. McVeigh was executed on June 11, 2001 — three months before the attacks targeting the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. On Sept. 11, Richard Williams felt an awkward kinship with New York and Washington. Williams, who needed 150 stitches to close wounds on the right side of his body after the Oklahoma City bombing and lost dozens of colleagues and friends in the attack, said he “got that same, sick gut feeling those people got on April 19th.” “My first reaction was to pick up the phone and call my fellow survivors, people I knew. Here was that
same feeling of understanding what those people were beginning to go through,” he said. Williams, 65, who was at a business meeting in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building at 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, said little things can still put people on edge. “Hardly a day goes by in Oklahoma where we don’t hear something about the bombing,” he said. “Just to hear a fire engine, or a loud noise, or a sonic boom from Tinker (Air Force Base near Oklahoma City), any one of those things can trigger an emotion.” As the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 approaches, “I know what they’re ready to go through, physically and mentally, and that brings anxiety for me,” said Williams, who has since retired and is living near Houston. “You see more and more (9/11) documentaries. It brings back that sickness, that sick feeling you get in
your gut because it makes you relive it, but I think that’s part of the healing process.” Winchester, whose sister Margaret Clark was killed in the Murrah building bombing, said she has benefited emotionally from a memorial erected at the site of the blast — something victims in New York and Washington don’t yet have. “Any time something like that happens now, I think there is compassion from anyone in Oklahoma, particularly anyone directly involved in the bombing here,” she said. “There’s just a very personal side of knowing what those people are going through.” Kight, 72, said that despite the time that has passed, the pain has stuck with him. “Our memories as we get older, they fade to a certain degree,” Kight said, “but I’ve got a picture in my mind that never (goes away).”
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UNDERSTANDING TRAGEDY IN MEDIA By Cody Bromley / Editor-In-Chief This Sunday many people are going to ask each other where they were or what they were doing on Sept. 11. I propose a different question: how did you learn about Sept. 11? I had just walked out of my seventh grade world history class at my middle school. The classroom was inside of the library, and when I passed the circulation desk the librarians were watching CNN. It was 45 minutes after the second plane hit, but the worry in the eyes of the librarians and my teachers led me to understand the gravity of the situation. I represent a generation too young to remember the bombing of the Murrah Building (I was in kindergarten), and too naive to feel the weight of the Sept. 11 attacks. My only way of understanding those events has come from the narratives media has fed me. In fact, most of the world’s 6.8 billion residents were not in New York or OKC on those days. The masses were not informed from firsthand accounts, but from mass media outlets and word-of-mouth. This editorial isn’t to criticize the works of the outlets who covered those events, or to say that mistakes weren’t made in the process, but to say that we have lost our emotional ties to the media. Our little student newspaper doesn’t get much in the way of sensitive news and local tragedies. That isn’t to say that UCO isn’t immune to being hurt, because although nobody wants to hear it, we’re just as vulnerable as any other university. Ask OSU about losing a third of their basketball team in 2001. Ask OU about the alcohol abuse that led to a student’s death and becoming a dry campus. And lest we not forget our peers at Virginia Tech. No amount of well-wishing is going to prevent an accident, and while the events of Sept. 11, April 19 and Virginia Tech were no accident, our response was much the same. Hurt, followed by fear and anger. But new tragedies are hapenning every month. The media keeps us tethered to them, and every month is the tenth anniversary of something that we gave blood for, that we donated canned goods for, and that we contributed money to. We don’t just live through these tragedies daily, we overcome them daily. As editor of this paper, I want The Vista to be a comforting voice if a tragedy were to strike us. That way, when we look back from ten years, we won’t just remember who or what we lost, but we will celebrate as a community who healed together. We bounced back from Sept. 11, and now we know we will be able to get up the next time we fall down.
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FREEDOM TOWERING OVER NEW YORK By Karen Matthews / Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) ‚— Ten years after the 9/11 attacks destroyed the World Trade Center, an 80-story glass and steel tower is rising like a phoenix from the ashes of ground zero. The site called a “hole in the ground” for years has cranes in the air, trains running underground and hundreds of trees planted around giant, man-made waterfalls to remember the dead of Sept. 11. And the surrounding neighborhood ‚— no longer just a financial district ‚— is bursting with young families, new schools, a Whole Foods and a Barnes & Noble. Tourists squint and point their cellphones at 1 World Trade Center, once known as the Freedom Tower. “I’m kind of proud because I was here two weeks after 9/11 and this was a dust pit,” said Larry Brancato, 59, of Wallingford, Conn, walking by ground zero. “It just shows that Americans have always had a can-do attitude.” After years of inertia, and prolonged disputes between government agencies, insurer and a developer who had just taken out a 99-year lease on the towers when they were toppled, the development of the trade center is substantial, and the tallest tower can now be seen for miles. “People can begin to see that this is no longer a hole in the middle of New York, but a real place is emerging,” said architect Daniel Libeskind, whose master plan serves as a blueprint for the site. A memorial featuring waterfalls cascading into the footprints of the twin towers will open to the public on Sept. 12, a day after families see their loved ones’ names around the pools for the first time. The skyscraper formerly known as the Freedom Tower is growing by a story a week and now stands 1,000 feet above the skyline as the tallest building in lower Manhattan. A transit station and a second office tower also are taking shape. As the trade center lay in smoking ruins in 2001, New Yorkers debated the future of the 16-acre superblock that the twin towers had dominated. Some wanted to rebuild the two 110-story skyscrapers exactly as they had been. Others said that out of respect for the nearly 3,000 dead, the entire tract should be a memorial or a park. Larry Silverstein, the developer who signed a lease on the twin towers on July 24, 2001, pushed to rebuild the 10 million square feet of office space he had lost. Civic groups pushed for a more neighborhoodfriendly design than two monoliths on a concrete plaza. Libeskind, who won a competition to become the site’s master planner, focused on the Freedom Tower, with an asymmetrical spire soared to the symbolic height of 1,776 feet and echoed the Statue of Liberty across the harbor. He set aside half the site for a memorial that left empty the spots where the destroyed towers
stood, and set space aside for a performing arts center to merge culture and commerce. Tensions were inevitable between Libeskind’s artistic vision and Silverstein’s desire for buildings that would draw tenants. Now, Libeskind said, “the tensions are gone.” 1 World Trade hardly resembles Libeskind’s early drawings, but he called it “an impressive building.” Designed by David Childs, its tapering form is symmetrical but retains the spire and the 1,776 feet. To guard against truck bombs, the bottom 20 floors will be windowless, reinforced concrete covered by glass. The base will house infrastructure like generators and air-conditioning systems. Critics warned that 1 World Trade would be hard to fill. Who would work in a symbolically loaded building at a location that terrorists had attacked twice? Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer once called the Freedom Tower a white elephant. It’s looking less like that now that Conde Nast has signed a lease to move its trendsetting magazines like Vogue, Glamour and Vanity Fair to 1 World Trade when the building
opens in 2014. Christopher Ward, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the trade center site, called the Conde Nast agreement “a phenomenal game changer.” “The Conde Nast deal has really jump-started interest downtown,” Ward said. Under a deal between Silverstein and the Port Authority, the authority is building 1 World Trade Center on the northwest corner of the site; Silverstein wants to build three office towers on the east side of the 16 acres. The first of Silverstein’s buildings, known as 4 World Trade, was up to 48 floors this week. Silverstein says the 947-foot tower designed by Japan’s Fumihiko Maki will be finished before the taller 1 World Trade, catty-cornered across the site. The Port Authority, which lost its headquarters and 85 employees on Sept. 11, will move into the second tower rising at the site when it is complete. Silverstein says other “household name” tenants will follow. With the economy nosediving and Silverstein and the Port Authority battling over who should finance
two unbuilt towers ‚— designed by architects Richard Rogers and Lord Norman Foster ‚— the future of those buildings looked doubtful a couple of years ago. An analysis prepared for the Port Authority in 2009 projected that there might be no market for a third tower at the site until 2030, much less the original five planned. Silverstein and the authority agreed to a deal last year that will let Silverstein build his second skyscraper when he raises $300 million of private equity, leases out at least 400,000 square feet and obtains financing for the remaining cost of the tower. The third building under his control ‚— the second-tallest in the master plan ‚— will be built when the market supports it. Silverstein, who is 80, wants to see all of the buildings completed in his lifetime ‚— and he says he will. He said he could get another tower up in 2015. “And if it all works out well,” he says, the last one could be up a year later. Ward was slightly less optimistic, predicting that Silverstein’s towers might be completed by 2017 or 2018. Steven Spinola, president of the
Real Estate Board of New York, said that despite the still-sputtering economy, there will be a demand for a new trade center. The average age of New York City’s 500 million square feet of office space is nearly 70. “Companies want fresh, new space,” Spinola said. And tax incentives intended to spur redevelopment after 2001 make the trade center cheaper than other Manhattan buildings. Tax breaks also fueled residential growth, and the population of downtown Manhattan below Chambers Street ‚— the area that encompasses the trade center ‚— has doubled since 2001. Tara Stacom, a vice chairman of real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield who is in charge of leasing 1 World Trade, said the building’s proximity to attractive residential neighborhoods is a selling point. Other trade center projects include Michael Arad’s memorial, the museum scheduled to open next year and Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava’s transportation hub, designed to look like a bird in flight. The hub will eventually include restaurants and stores, restoring one of the largest shopping centers that used to sit at the base of the trade center. The transit hub, which will serve as a gateway to New York for tens of thousands of daily New Jersey commuters and connect to city subway lines, has been plagued by delays and budget overruns. Its 2005 budget of $2.2 billion has ballooned to $3.4 billion and could still grow. Ward said the station will be completed by the end of 2014. When it opens in less than two weeks, the memorial will bring thousands of people and life into a closedoff superblock that transformed from construction pit to construction site in a decade. Hundreds of trees will surround the enormous, man-made waterfalls filling the one-acre squares where the twin towers stood. The names of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six are inscribed in bronze panels. After memorial judges said Arad’s original design was too bare, landscape architect Peter Walker was brought in to add greenery. Hundreds of swamp white oak trees have been trucked in to provide a canopy over the memorial plaza. The museum, opening next year, will feature trade center artifacts like a fire truck used to rescue people from the north tower. Arad said the construction that surrounds the pools won’t distract memorial visitors. The point of the rebuilt site, he says, was to combine quiet, contemplative spots with the city’s bustle. “The memorial was always designed to compete with all the stimuli that surround the site,” he said. “We’re in lower Manhattan surrounded by towers, by the sort of bustling humanity. And the memorial was always designed to really create a quiet and contemplative space in the middle of all this. It’s really a clearing in the middle of the forest.”
One World Trade Center has reached the 80th floor in this aerial photo, Tuesday, Aug. A view of the World Trade Center South Tower memorial pool at the National Septem30, 2011 in New York. Sept. 11, 2011 will mark the tenth anniversary of the terrorist at- ber 11 Memorial and Museum in New York,Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan tacks in the United States. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) Walsh, POOL)
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Sustainability
SPOKIES BRINGS BIKES TO BRICKTOWN According to a 2011 study by the British Medical Journal of people who had participated in a bike share program over the course of four years, as many as 12 deaths were avoided by the cyclists as compared to those who didn’t participate in the program. This is mainly attributed to the health benefits of an increase in activity, as well as the decreased likelihood of being in a fatal accident. The study also found that over the course of those four years the bike program decreased carbon emissions by nine million kilograms, or approximately 9,900 U.S. tons. Another beneficial reason for having bike share programs like Spokies and Bum-a-Bike, according to Chip Nolen of UCO Transportation and Parking Services, is that it is a great way to get people interested in the biking lifestyle. “It’s great for people who are newer to bikes,” Nolen said. “They may be a little intimidated to buy their own bike initially, but this is a fun and easy way to try out bikes, and I know there’s been a few people who have bought their own bikes after trying out Buma-Bikes for a few years. For people who are too leery or new to bikes or anything like that, this is a fun way to get around, go to lunch, get wherever they want to go.” The biggest beneficiaries of the program include not only the businessmen who already work downtown, but the many students already attending the ACM@UCO, who will now have an easy and cost-effective way of navigating the downtown area. According to Chip Nolen and Tim Tillman pose with one the bikes that will be used in the new bike share program in downtown Oklahoma City, Tillman, there are plenty of other people who Thursday, Sept. 7, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista could stand to benefit from the service Spokies will provide. According to Tim Tillman, UCO sustain- construction By Ben Luschen / Staff Writer “There’s a whole lot of urban residential livability coordinator, students at UCO will of the bikes as well. As soon as late September, people looking probably be able to see some similarities be“We have played an integral role in getting ing, that’s really starting to expand. So you got for an efficient way to get around in down- tween Spokies and UCO’s already successful the program up and running,” Tillman said. a lot of people who may live in Deep Deuce town Oklahoma City will be able to rent a Bum-a-Bike program. “Our bike shop Cycology also bid for and got and they work at Devon and they just want to bike. “Our model, our manufacturer, our basic the assembly and maintenance contracts, so ride a bike,” Tillman said. Spokies, a bike share program which will bike setup [is similar]. Yes, the program was we’re actually making the bikes and maintain“Hopefully it will be a very popular program bring approximately 95 bikes to several des- very much modeled after Bum-a-Bike,” Till- ing them.” with residents and tenants but we also want to ignated stations across the Bricktown and man said. There are several reasons for the city to be- attract tourists. We want to get the tourists indowntown areas, aims to help solve the comUCO’s involvement in the program goes be- gin adopting a bike share program. For one, volved so they can explore downtown and see muting problems that are associated with a yond the inspiration of the project, but in the the program may also save lives. the landmarks we have on a bike.” large and growing city.
9/11
TEN YEARS LATER, SERVICE PROJECTS REMEMBER
Every year about 200-250 volunteers plant nearly 3,000 flags around Broncho Lake. Photo by The Vista
By Ben Luschen / Staff Writer For the firefighters of Edmond Fire Department Station 1, a simple spaghetti dinner would go a long way in recovering from wildfires that burned through Oklahoma City and Edmond last week. “It was physically taxing, and a little overwhelming to be honest with you,” Bud Vandewalker, 37, said. Vandewalker is a fireman at Station 1 who will be there for the UCO Volunteer and Service Learning Center’s annual spaghetti dinner for local firemen. “At some point there’s only so much you can do when the elements are against you,” he said. In addition to the fireman dinner, the VSLC will also have its yearly flag ceremony by Broncho Lake in order to honor those affected by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. This year, however, the VSLC hopes to make the 10th anniversary of the tragic day a more special occasion, partially by bringing much more attention to the flag ceremony, according to Brandt Smith, the center’s Assistant Director. “This year we’re having an actual ceremony where we’re going to have a presentation from a religious figure and then the leadership on campus,” Smith said. Smith also hopes that this year’s event will involve a record number of students.
“Because of the anniversary, I would not be surprised if more people came. I hope more people come out,” Smith said. This year the VSLC, in partnership with the Max Chambers Library, will be showing a film in Constitution Hall today at 6:30 p.m. entitled “9/12 – From Chaos to Community.” The 2006 film will highlight how the New York community attempted to recover the day after the attacks on the World Trade Center and grew as a community in the process. According to Smith, UCO will also be hosting a Terrorism Impact Panel on Friday, Sept. 9. The panel will consist of survivors and first responders to Oklahoma City’s 1995 Murrah Building Bombing as well as David Cid, director of the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism; they will discuss both their experiences and the threat of terrorism within both the state and the nation. The panel will meet at 3 p.m. in the Pegasus Theater in the Liberal Arts building. Getting involved in many of the events is a fairly simple process, Smith said. “Everything but the firefighter dinner you can just show up to,” Smith said. “I wish that I could send 17,000 students to the fire department but they’re only so big, so when they gave us the list of stations they told us how many students could fit in each dining area on top of the firefighters.”
There is only limited space remaining for the firefighter dinners, which will take place at 17 different fire houses across the Edmond and Oklahoma City areas. Smith advises those who wish to get involved to sign up for the event at the VSLC offices in the Nigh Center, across from the bookstore. For the firemen of Station 1, things like the spaghetti dinner and just a simple “thank you” are among the most rewarding parts of their job. “It’s awesome, you know; we always have people bringing treats by, snacks, homemade cookies. That’s part of the reward, in addition to people thanking us,” Vandewalker said. “Sometimes when we’re at an incident, and
for those people that’s their worst day, family members or whatever will come back and say, ‘thank you, we’re appreciative of what you’ve done.’ I mean, it’s neat to get that response. People are very generous.” At the same time, John Block, another fireman at Station 1 and whose father was a fireman, says they don’t let the praise get to their heads. “Sometimes [people thank us] so much. Well, we want to do this, this is our job. Like, we don’t walk up to the cashier at Wal-Mart and thank him for what he’s doing for us. People are very generous, but it’s our job,” Block said.
9/8 – 6:30p.m. - “9/12 – From Chaos to Community” - Constitution Hall, a film displaying how the New York community rose together the day after the attacks of September 11. 9/9 – 9:00a.m. - Remembrance Service and Flag Planting - Broncho Lake,a moment of silence and prayer service before planting over 3000 flags around the lake. 9/9 – 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. – Terrorism Impact Panel – Pegasus Theater in Liberal Arts, members of the community hold a panel regarding the impact of terrorism within Oklahoma, the United States, and the world. 9/9 – 4:30p.m. check in - Firefighter Dinners – Sign up is available in the VSLC until full. Students will travel to 17 fire houses around the Edmond and OKC and prepare a spaghetti dinner for the firefighters there to show our appreciation for their service.
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Art
WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS Professor Dr. Terry Clark has temporarily put down the pen to pick up the brush. His art is currently featured at the Adelante! Gallery in the Paseo.
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Dr. Terry Clark, professor of journalism at UCO and former department chair of Mass Communications, poses for a photo at Adelante Art Gallery in the Paseo District of Oklahoma City, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. Photo by Garett FIsbeck, The Vista
By Mervyn Chua / Contributing Writer “A lot has to do with passion, not a degree,” Dr. Terry Clark, the director of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, says. To many at UCO, he is just known as Professor Clark, professor of journalism. However, at Adelante! Gallery, Clark is September’s featured artist of the month. The gallery is in the Paseo Arts District in Oklahoma City, between 30th Street and Walker. He exhibits there on a regular basis and has had 34 paintings featured. Every first Friday of the month, there is a big art show and Clark’s paintings were chosen to be exhibited this past week, on Sept. 3. Clark writes a monthly column, “Clark’s Critique,” for Oklahoma Publisher, the official monthly publication of the Oklahoma Press Association. This past summer, two of his articles were published in Persimmon Hill, the national magazine of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Additionally, OKC Biz ran his article on the future of newspapers. This year, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award from Statewide by the Oklahoma pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. His award-winning blog, Coffee with Clark, features watercolors, photography and writing.
Clark grew up in the home of an artist. His father was good at oil and portraits, and Clark grew up loving to draw. However, he only started watercolor painting 10 to 11 years ago. “Watercolor painting was more of a hobby,” he said. “It was to divert from journalism, [it was] a place of refuge and rest. When you work on art, you forget everything else. You just focus on creating something or solving a problem” Clark’s inspiration comes from New Mexico. Although born in Dallas, Tex., he grew up in Albuquerque, N.M., and lived most of his life on the Great Plains: “the land of far horizons and dramatic skies”, Clark reminisces. Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent also inspired Professor Clark; they are his favorite painters for their great grasp of drama and light, as well as their breaking of the rules. So why watercolor painting? Why not anything else? “Watercolor painting humbles me,” Clark said. “It is a difficult medium, especially if you want to control everything. You have to be creative, break more rules and always be ready to learn.” Clark feels that watercolor painting applies to his teaching and journalism and gives him perspective on it. “Things do not always turn out like you want them to,” he said. “You have
to adapt and look at things from different angles. There is not one right way of doing things”. When it comes to advice on success, the wise man utters, “Just keep trying.” “The main thing is to try and do what you want to do,” Clark said. “No matter what the art or job is, you have to be willing to take risks and fail. Without risks and failure, you will not grow and achieve different things. Also, learn to laugh at yourself and not be so serious. But above all, it is all about passion.” For more about Dr. Clark or his blog, Coffee with Clark, visit: http://clarkcoffee.blogspot.com.
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BLOGS SPREAD BRONCHO VOICES An academic tool that is growing in popularity gives students a new avenue to voice their opinions and share their experiences: Broncho Blogs. Broncho Blogs started four years ago through Enrollment Management; students wanted to blog about their experiences at UCO and market the university to high school students. Since then, it has grown into yet another tool that students can use to add to their experience at UCO. Darren Denham, content administrator in the Office of Information Technology, says the blogs are a great tool for students and they are easy for students to get involved with. “To get involved with Broncho Blogs, students need a faculty sponsor and their blog can be a group, an individual or team blog,” Denham said. “They have to be geared towards academics and cannot be personal blogs.” Students can click the “Request Blog” link on the UCO
Blogs page and fill out a request form. After their blog has been processed and approved of meeting an academic standard, IT creates the blog, contacts the student or group and arranges training on how to use the blog. Students can blog as frequently or as little as they want. They can even write mobile posts from their iPad, iPhone, or Blackberry device. Another feature is social networking sharing options, so posts can be shared with the blogger’s Facebook or Twitter friends. Two popular blogs include the Graduate Studies Blog, which is a team of 10 bloggers, and the iPad Academy, which is a collection of blogs from professors who use the iPad as part of their curriculum. Another popular blog is Lessons in Leadership, which features posts from UCO President Don Betz. The Office of Leadership uses this blog as well, and Jarrett Jobe, a Lessons in Leadership instructor, spoke about how much of a benefit the blogs are to his classes. “The blogs are an excellent way to get students to discuss,” Jobe said. “As an instructor, it’s an efficient way to discuss key points when we have a speaker come to our class and students are able to directly respond to one another.” Will the blogs be around for a while? Darren Denham thinks they will. “They facilitate opinions, they’re open, and they have no barriers,” he said. “As long as they fill an academic need, we will continue to have them for those who need them.” More information, as well as the blogs themselves are availible at http://blogs.uco.edu
Conflict is a good thing. I write this in anticipation of denials, disagreements and disparaging looks. In the game of life, I award 50 points if you can within reason convince me the opposite is true. Imagine that distant, faraway time before Facebook, when your most pressing dilemma was naptime, or more recently, Homecoming. A time of “check yes or no” notes folded into paper cranes and thrown across the room behind a teacher’s turned back; a time when being in band wasn’t a cool thing and ‘hipster’ alluded solely to underpants. In the “modern age,” what was previously an ability has transformed into a right. Chests puffed with a heightened sense of superiority, we tweet things that would make Grandma Betty’s dentures fall –smackright out of her mouth into the cornbread stuffing. It’s been a few years since grade school; do you remember what happened when you targeted someone not quite your size? If your luck was particularly poor, fists flew. As of yet, technology has advanced to where you can have a video chat with your girlfriend, your students or even Grandma Betty. But we aren’t to the point where we can touch, taste or feel; particularly, we aren’t to the point where we can reach through the screen. Many of you should be thankful, too. Due to over-usage, and I suspect poor taste, “Come at me, bro” has reached meme status, the Lady Gaga of recycled repartee. We giggle and titter shamelessly as we type it, hiding behind predictable Twitter names or deceptive Facebook accounts. All trolling aside, everybody claims passivity these days. The truth is, we love conflict, but only one-sided, one-dimensional conflict. We love to strike the match, but we fan the flames while whistling and pointedly looking away. So let me return to the point previously made: conflict is a good thing. Words won’t always save you, and peachy lipsticks and pricey shoes are a poor substitute for personality. I’m sure you’ve heard at least once in your life: “If you have nothing nice to say, keep your mouth shut.” I’m telling you, truer words were never spoken. Lying by omission is at minimum still a fib, but it’s no worse than your passive-aggressive tweets “calling out” your last boyfriend. Conflict’s inherent value, if nothing else, was to teach us how to choose said battles. It comes down to this: if you wouldn’t say it face-toface under threat of a “knuckle sandwich,” then odds are you should sign out or re-tweet a breaking news story instead. Not everyone is going to overlook your ego, and malice for the sake of shock value isn’t charming. It wasn’t cute when you dealt insults like “bird brains” or “short bus,” and it’s no more so even when you dress them up in an array of 50-cent words. So put your phone down, rethink and walk away. Because trust me on this one, not everyone is forgiving; gone are the days of patty cake or “Valentines for everyone,” and elementary school teachings or Facebook friends lists be damned, everyone is definitely not your friend.
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EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! From press to stand, newspaper circulation crews distribute to thousands upon thousands of papers. The Vista’s own Troy Fisbeck gets our paper to its final destination each Tuesday and Thursday morning. By Danniel Parker / Contributing Writer September 4th is Newspaper Carrier Day. It is a day for appreciating an often-thankless job; a day when publishers, reporters and readers all take time to pay respects to those employed at the bottom rung of the journalistic ladder: the paper boy. The origins of Newspaper Carrier Day date back to 1833, when The New York Sun hired Barney Flaherty, a 10-year-old paperboy, to shout their headlines on street corners. Publishing magnate Conrad Black launched a conservative paper that attempted to rival the New York Times in 2002. In homage, he named it The New York Sun. Editor in Chief of the New York Sun, Seth Lipskey, ran the paper until 2008, when it reformatted as an online periodical. Lipskey spoke to The Vista about Newspaper Carrier Day. “When The New York Sun was launched in 1833, it was a different kind of paper; far cheaper -at one cent- than the other papers in the city, and it relied on newsboys to hawk it on the streets,” Lipskey said. “The Sun hired the first paper boy, and changed the face of journalism. It soon became the biggest newspaper in the city and, eventually, one of the biggest in the world,” Lipskey said. He said The Sun still sees the virtue of honoring and celebrating those who sell newspapers on the street. Until recently the image of news carriers was that of a bicycling teenage boy with a bowl cut. This is no longer relevant or accurate, but the ghost image remains, like the after-glow outline from a black and white television that’s just been turned off. Due to the stereotypes of a bygone era, being employed as a paperboy is often pictured as a badge of loserdom by modern culture. Danielle Rade, an administrative assistant with Opubco, the publisher of the Oklahoman, says this representation of news carriers is far from the truth. “The news carrier is the frontline for our paper,” Rade said. “We value them and heavily rely on them. A lot of times our carriers are stay-at-home moms trying to make ends meet, or college students who can handle the nocturnal hours,” Rade said.
She said that every year, around Oct. 20, The Oklahoman prints a four-page ad thanking news carriers for their service, and they deliver donuts to each distribution center. Rade said without news carriers, The Oklahoman would have to raise their price per issue fees significantly. Though The Oklahoman contracts over 500 news carriers across the state, many smaller papers have switched over to distributing their paper to subscribers using the United States Post Office. Terri Bohanan is a sales representative for The Edmond Sun. She says she’s glad the paper no longer hires news carriers to deliver the news. “I believe our readership is up now that people are getting the paper in their mailboxes rather than thrown on their driveways,” Bohanan said. Other small papers like The Vista or The City Sentinel employ only one person to deliver their paper to newsstands. At UCO on behalf of The Vista, he is a freshman named Troy Fisbeck. Though the International Newspaper Association celebrates Newspaper Carrier Day between Oct. 8-12, and The Oklahoman designates Oct. 20 as the day to pay tribute, this reporter would like to take the time to thank Fisbeck for his work and effort. If you are interested in applying for a job as a newspaper carrier for The Oklahoman, contact the Opuco Circulation Department at (405) 478-7171.
Oil & Gas
NATURAL GAS STUDY FINDS ‘FRACTURING’ UNSAFE By Trevor Hultner / Staff Writer The Shale Gas Production Subcommittee of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, a special panel charged by President Obama in April and commissioned by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu in May, released a 90-day report last month expressing the panel’s concern with aspects of the extraction and production process. The panel, charged with “identifying measures that can be taken to reduce the environmental impact and improve the safety of shale gas production,” also called for the industry-wide adoption of “measurement and disclosure” practices that would “[benefit] all parties in shale gas production.” The report, which largely runs counter to industry assertions that natural gas extraction and production is safe, came under criticism and scrutiny by environmental groups who claim a possible conflict of interest with six of the seven panel members. In a Freedom of Information Act request filed on June 8 of this year, the Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Working Group wrote, “Despite Secretary Chu’s stated commitment to establishing an independent fracking review, DOE has already compromised that aim by stacking the subcommittee with individuals who have significant financial interests in concluding that
fracking is safe.” According to the FOIA request, subcommittee chair John Deutch, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is also on the board of directors at Houston, Texas-based Cheniere Energy, Inc., a “liquefied natural gas company that paid Deutch about $882,000 from 2006 through 2009.” Five other members were found to have received financial awards from the industry, including; Stephen Holditch, the head of the petroleum engineering department at Texas A&M; Stanford University geophysics professor Mark Zoback; Kathleen McGinty, vice president of Weston Solutions, Inc., a consulting company that does business with companies like Chesapeake Energy; Susan Tierney, former assistant secretary of policy at the Department of Energy under President Bill Clinton; and Daniel Yergin, a Pulitzerprize winning writer and economic researcher who co-founded IHS CERA, an energy consulting firm. Despite what a petition of two dozen independent scientists called a “lack of impartiality” on the part of the subcommittee, Amy Mall, a Senior Policy Analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council, called the report “really important.” “One of the key results of this report was a formal acknowledgment by the subcommittee that natural
Oil and natural gas is a major source of revenue for Oklahoma and other parts of the country. A new report has concluded that there may be some safety issues surrounding its extraction. Photo by Trevor Hultner, the Vista
gas production presents a range of very significant risks to human health and the environment,” Mall said. “We thought it was really important that the panel found that there were significant concerns, and that we need changes in rules to really efficiently protect public health and the environment.” The report recommended nine
separate measures that the natural gas industry could take to make extraction and production safer, including improvement of public information about shale gas operations, protection of water quality and reduction in the use of diesel fuel. The full report can be found here (http://www.shalegas.energy.gov/
resources/081111_90_day_report. pdf ) and more information about natural gas extraction and production, and specifically hydraulic fracturing, can be found here (http:// switchboard.nrdc.org/hydrofracking.php ).
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NEW PARTNERSHIP TO GROW ‘HEALTHY CAMPUS’ By Chantal Robatteux / Senior Staff Writer
Jazz Lab, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista
By Mark Smith / Contributing Writer UCO’s Jazz Lab is spreading cancer awareness through music, laughter and community. The Second Annual Cancer Awareness Benefit Concert will be held at 8 p.m. Sept. 16 at the UCO Jazz Lab, located at Fifth Street and South Broadway Avenue in Edmond. A variety of musical genres will be available from local talents including the Matt Stansberry band, Joe Stansberry, and Matt’s father and mother Mark Alan and Nancy Stansberry, among others. Tickets are on sale online now for $7 and will be $10 at the door. Food and drinks will be available for purchase by Hideaway Pizza. In its second year, the concert first started last year as a family effort to create cancer awareness the Edmond area, according to Matt Stansberry, ACM-UCO music professor and event sponsor. “We have had a lot of death in our family
because of cancer,” he said. “And, [we] wanted to bring more awareness to people in the community.” Stanberry spoke of his grandmother and grandfather’s death from prolonged cancer. “It is a very painful death,” he said. Afterwards, he said his family decided to start the concert to raise money for the Peggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center at the OU Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. For more information on the concert, visit Stanberry’s website at www.mattstanberry. com. Or, contact the UCO Jazz Lab. This Week at the Jazz Lab Thursday, Sept 8 - Matt Schinske Tickets $14 in advance, $20 at the door Friday, Sept 9 - Souled Out Tickets $12 cash/check Saturday, Sept 10 - The Shadowman Blues Project featuring Dr. Greg Parker Tickets $12
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After first partnering in 2009 to bring Mercy Clinic to UCO, Mercy Clinic has made a financial commitment of $5,000 for three years to support UCO’s Healthy Campus Initiative. According to Danielle Dill, assistant director of Fitness and Health Promotion for the Wellness Center at UCO, Mercy began its partnership with the UCO Healthy Campus Initiative when it began operating the clinic on campus. She said the UCO Healthy Campus Initiative started in spring 2008 with a group of students, employees, alumni and community partners dedicated to creating a campus environment which supports healthy lifestyles. “The Healthy Campus Leadership Team meets regularly throughout the school year to assess campus health needs, develop strategic plans, implement evidenced-base programs and evaluate efforts,” Dill said. The partnership has both enhanced campus healthcare and saved the university in excess of $600,000 in expenses. “Mercy and UCO have continued to work closely on various campus health issues since that time. For example, the Lunch and Learn Information Sessions,” Dill said. The Healthy Campus Initiative’s hope is to change peoples’ lifestyle. “Through collaborative efforts across campus, the Healthy Campus Initiative hopes to create a culture in which the pursuit of a balanced lifestyle is valued, physical and mental health is fostered, and all members of the university community are encouraged to take responsibility for choosing to be well,” Dill said. “In addition, the UCO Healthy Campus Initiative provides student leadership learning experiences that frame the concepts of health and sustainability in a global context and challenge students to be leaders for a healthy and sustainable future.” The UCO Healthy Campus is a part of the Healthy People 2020 and the Healthy Campus 2020 initiatives. “Healthy People 2020 is a set of national health objectives designed to promote health and prevent disease,” she said. “The federal government creates these health objectives every ten years by working with an alliance of more than 350 national organizations and 250 state health, mental health, substance abuse, and environmental agencies. Healthy Campus 2020 focuses on the Healthy People 2020 objectives that are relevant to college campuses.” Dill added that UCO Healthy Campus’ mission is to promote a campus environment supportive of the development and maintenance of a healthy body, mind and spirit for the entire UCO community. “UCO Healthy Campus collaborates with stakeholders in the campus community to ensure that our campus is optimally and sustainably organized to support, strengthen and enhance health, enabling students and employees to achieve, learn, work and serve,” she said. The UCO Healthy Campus Leadership Team serves as the primary force to carry out the Healthy Campus mission. Dill said the UCO Healthy Campus Initiative directly supports the university’s mission of providing Transformative Learning experiences for students. “Transformative learning is a holistic process that places students at the center of their own active and reflective learning experiences,” she said. “Students at UCO will have transformative learning experiences in five core areas: leadership; research, creative and scholarly activities; service learning and civic engagement; global and cultural competen-
cies; and health and wellness.” According to Dill, Mercy’s donation will support current health and wellness programs and services on campus including fitness, health promotion, public health and clinical efforts. “The funding will also leverage resources for the campus to expand services,” she said. Future plans for Mercy’s three year gift include the addition of a contracted eating dis-
“Health is tied to academic success, which is tied to professional success, which is tied back to health.” - Danielle Dill
order specialist; implementation of a community garden on campus; nationally recognized training and certifications for student peer health leaders; support for spiritual wellness efforts on campus; curriculum integration; the systematic assessment and evaluation of health and wellness programs and services. “In addition to Mercy’s financial assistance, Mercy physicians and allied health care professionals have assisted with strategic planning and implementation of various programs and services on campus,” Dill said. Mercy’s partnership with UCO Healthy Campus connects direct health care services with health promotion efforts on campus. Dill believes UCO Healthy Campus can have a significant impact on the health of the nation. “According to the American College Health Association (ACHA), 26 percent of the people in the United States, 73 million, have completed at least four years of college and are likely to have received services from college wellness programs. Over 15.2 million students are pursuing advanced education in the United States,” she said. She added the UCO Healthy Campus Initiative provides the structure to facilitate a unique opportunity to influence the health and lifestyle of a substantial proportion of the citizenry now and in the future. “Health is tied to academic success, which is tied to professional success, which is tied back to health,” Dill said. The Mercy Clinic is located in UCO’s Wellness Center and provides UCO students, employees and the general public with quick and easy access to quality health care services. Mercy also provides MyMercy®, a free online service, allowing patients to schedule appointments, read lab results, contact doctors and even renew prescriptions; all from a phone or computer.
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SPORTS
SEP. 8, 2011
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Central Football Opinion
CENTRAL FOOTBALL READY TO REBOUND
UCO running back Josh Birmingham rushed for 45 yards with one touchdown and caught eight passes for 55 yards in their game against North Alabama Thursday Sept. 1, 2011 in Florence, Ala. Photo Provided
By Bryan Trude / Sports Writer Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Coming off a loss against North Alabama that saw the Broncho offense fall flat on its face, to the tune of a 31-10 loss, UCO is now heading to a hopefully more manageable matchup with the Savage Storm of Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant. Against the Lions, Central posted its lowest point total since a September 2008 loss to Texas A&M-
Kingston, where the Bronchos only managed to score six. Despite starting quarterback Ethan Sharp’s 351 yards passing, he obtained that by going 41 for 71, both school records. Star running back Joshua Birmingham went 12 for 44 rushing, contributing to a team total 37 rushing yards. That’s the team total, mind you, not a single player’s. The main reason North Alabama only led 14-3 at the half was a Broncho defense that netted three inter-
ceptions, despite the offense matching with three lost fumbles in the first half, a number UCO needed 11 games to reach last year. Against Southeastern, Central will face a similarly potent quarterback in junior Logan Turner of Springfield, Tex. The Southern Methodist transfer averaged 213 yards for the Savage Storm last season, despite the team going 3-8, including a onepoint win over the Bronchos last season. The game will be the season opener for the Storm’s first season as part of the new Great American Conference, a nine-team Division II conference consisting of schools in Oklahoma and Arkansas from the Lone Star Conference and the Gulf South Conference (of which North Alabama is a member.) Whereas the Lions are among the top tier of Division II schools, the Savage Storm decidedly are not. They enter the season without their leading rusher from last year, Baylen Laury, and with a defensive unit that allowed an average of just over 35 points. However, they do bring in a serviceable quarterback in Turner, as well as a wide receiver corps that feature four transfers from Division I schools. Southeastern will be eager to show itself by handling an opponent they squeaked by last year, and by proxy, their shiny new conference. The Savage Storm will have an ample crowd to perform in front of as well; Paul Laird Field’s listed capacity of 9,000 is the second largest in the GAC, behind only Henderson State of Arkadelphia, Ark. Although down from the 11,000-plus crowd Central faced in Florence, Ala., the Storm crowd will undoubtedly make the Bronchos feel decidedly not at home. This game will serve as the low point of the barometer, the other end of the spectrum by which UCO can be measured to get a feel as to where this team is. Against top-tier
competition, Central’s highly-touted rushing attack was virtually shut down. To reach the 351 yard passing mark, Sharp had to throw two games’ worth of passes and rely on a Broncho defense usually seen as a weak point to keep the game within reach until turnovers allowed North Alabama to pull away. Watch to see if the new defensive unit can contain a potentially punishing Savage Storm aerial attack. If Birmingham can shake the
rust off and bring back that second dimension of the Bronchos’ offense without repeatedly handing the ball to Turner and the Storm on a silver platter, Central figures to rebound nicely from the disappointing showing last week and go into next week’s matchup against Angelo State with a respectable 1-1 record. Prediction: UCO 28, SE 10
UCO quarterback Ethan Sharp set a new school record for pass attemps (71) during Central’s 31-10 loss against North Alabama on Thursday Sept. 1, 2011 in Florence, Ala. Sharp connected on 31 of the 71 attemps for 351 yards and one touchdown. Photo Provided.
Opinion
REALIGNMENT AN ISSUE AT ALL LEVELS By Bryan Trude / Sports Writer It’s a small note in a greater melody. UCO Athletics kicks off its fall athletic season on down notes. The teams face not only the football loss to North Alabama; UCO Soccer dropped its first two games last weekend, and the results of yesterday’s home opener will not be available in time to make press. Central’s year of independence before it joins the MIAA, however, is peanuts compared to the greater symphony of conference realignment that pervades all of college athletics. Anyone who follows college athletics at all - and in this football-mad state where OU is king and OSU is prince, that’s just about everyone - has certainly been following the developments involving the impending doom of the Big 12 conference. Yes, I said doom. With the insistence of Texas in having its own Longhorn Network parallel to the conference’s separate TV deal,
followed by Texas A&M’s temper tantrumslash-throwing themselves at the SEC like a desperate drunk on singles night, the word around here has been not how the conference will be saved, but where the two big-name state colleges would wind up after the Big 12 implodes. The experts say the Pac-12; I personally think that with enough Big 12 schools, the Mountain West could make a push to claim the Big 12’s BCS berth. But I digress. The plague of conference realignment is not restricted to big Division I schools. The shifting and rearranging of conferences has changed the face of Division II as well, with Central being one of the major players. Regular readers of the Vista likely know that the Bronchos’ switch to the MIAA has been a common topic; however, UCO is not the only team lost by our previous conference affiliate, the Lone Star Conference (LSC). Although Central will join Northeastern
State in moving from the LSC to the MIAA, we are just two of five teams the LSC has lost this season; former conference foes Southwestern, East Central and Southeastern (who UCO will face in football this Saturday) have all jumped ship for the new Great American Conference, leaving the LSC with 11 members. The LSC, for comparison, have not lost a member since Harding University left in 2000 for the Gulf South Conference (incidentally, Harding is now a member of the GAC), and have not added a member since the University of the Incarnate Word joined in 2009. The future of the LSC seems uncertain. The 80-year-old conference, which once features schools across the southwestern region of the United States, now only has one member outside of Texas (Cameron University in Lawton.) The death of conferences, whether slow like the LSC, or embarrassingly fast and public like the Big 12, is a bombastic fanfare for those who see college sports as a business and
a somber dirge for those who see it as an institution. Where is the variety of competition in a conference with 16, 18, or 24 member schools? How much parity can you have amongst college teams if you need to compete against 20 others for a conference championship, much less a national? The NFL conferences feature four teams each; if you cut down the number of conference champions, how do you pick who gets to go to the playoffs? More specifically, how do you decide who gets left out? There is a saying: “too many chefs spoil the soup.” Athletic directors should not be in a rush to fly towards bigger conferences like moths to a light bulb, because when it comes to winning that championship, chances are bigger that conferences will hurt, not help, the competition. Is the potential financial payout worth that?
VISTA SPORTS PREDICTIONS: NFL WEEK 1 The NFL kicks off their season tonight with a matchup between the New Orleans Saints and the Green Bay Packers. The UCentral sports staff will offer predictions every week to give readers an idea to who will win each game. UCENTRAL STAFF
Saints Steelers Falcons Bengals Packers Ravens Bears Browns
Colts Texans
Titans Jaguars
Bills Chiefs
Eagles Rams
Lions Bucs
Panthers Cardinals
Vikings Chargers
Seahawks Giants 49ers Redskins
Cowboys Jets
Patriots Dolphins
Raiders Broncos
Trey Hunter / The Vista
GB
BAL
ATL
CLE
HOU
JAC
KC
PHI
DET
ARI
SD
SF
NYG
NYJ
NE
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Bryan Trude / The Vista
GB
PIT
ATL
CLE
HOU
JAC
BUF
PHI
DET
ARI
MIN
SEA
WAS
NYJ
NE
DEN
Amber Pyle / The Vista
GB
PIT
CHI
CIN
IND
JAC
KC
PHI
DET
CAR
SD
SF
NYG
NYJ
MIA
OAK
Garett Fisbeck / The Vista
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BAL
CHI
CLE
HOU
TEN
KC
PHI
TB
ARI
SD
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NE
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Kyle Renfroe / UCentral
GB
PIT
ATL
CLE
HOU
TEN
BUF
PHI
DET
CAR
MIN
SEA
WAS
DAL
NE
OAK
Terry Fox / UCentral
GB
PIT
ATL
CLE
HOU
TEN
KC
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SEP. 8, 2011 Central Volleyball
VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS
CENTRAL VOLLEYBALL WINS HOME OPENER
By Trey Hunter
Vista Sports Editor
Realigning College Football The Big-12 Conference has taken hit after hit in the past two seasons with the losses of Colorado and Nebraska in 2010 and the eventual loss of Texas A&M this season. The demolition of the conference is inevitable and talks of Oklahoma, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State and Texas leaving for the Pac-12 conference has torched any chances of recreating a 10-team league. Therefore, the foregone conclusion is undoubtedly turning to the new and improved way of looking at college football. Super-conferences. Super-conferences are the iPhone of the gridiron. They are the new fad that all of the “cool” kids are talking about, with good reason. There are so many fun toys to play with. Take the future Pac-16 conference for example. The rivalries that have been a tradition for many years will stay in tact. Oklahoma and Texas will continue to battle it out in Dallas every year, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State will still carry out bedlam and USC’s rivalries with Cal and UCLA will still hold face. Now picture the new rivalries. Oklahoma and Texas, two super-power football schools, will battle twice every two years with fellow super-power USC. They will also matchup against Oregon, who played for the National Championship last year and started this season as the third ranked team in the country. I can already hear fans licking their chops over the opportunity of watching those games. The arguments against the newest college football fad are far and few between. Yes, fans will be hard pressed to travel miles and miles away to catch an away game against conference foes and yes, central time zone teams will have to play later at night than usual. However, teams like OU and OSU will only have to make trips to each school once every four years and don’t forget, the west coast teams will have to play in central U.S.A. as well. The Pac-16 isn’t the only foreseeable super-conference either. There could be a joining of conferences across the nation. The Big-10, which actually has 12 schools, could join with the Big East to create massive basketball matchups. Indiana, Ohio State and Purdue would have the chance to battle Pittsburgh, Villanova and Syracuse year after year. The SEC and the ACC could join forces and bring forth matchups like Miami (Fl.) and Virginia Tech versus just about anybody in the Southeastern Conference. Talk about parody. Now the question arises. What happens to the teams who aren’t chosen to play in these gigantic conferences? What do we do with the Boise State football program or the Kansas basketball program? Ultimately, they take the biggest hit, but when the money factor is brought to the table, those teams seem to get pushed aside. Kansas’ head basketball coach Bill Self commented last year that he has the nation’s best basketball program and they are going to be sent to a conference in which they play no-names all season. Unfortunately, that fact is true, but football reigns supreme and their program just doesn’t have the tradition to carry their other programs. Everybody needs to start preparing for the inevitable. There is just no way around it. The football schools are unhappy with television contracts and schedules, and when that happens, changes are going to be made. So just like when we all dropped our Sprint and Verizon flip-phones for the new-aged smart phones, we need to drop the old conference formations and get with the more improved super-conference idea. Come on, everybody is doing it.
Jordan Jacobs (15) celebrates with UCO’s women’s volleyball during a game against Southeastern Oklahoma State at Hamilton Field House, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. UCO won the match in 5 sets. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista
By Trey Hunter / Sports Editor Alex Richardson, Morgan Roy and Jordan Jacobs each accounted for double-digit kills to lead the Central volleyball team to a five-set victory over Southeastern Oklahoma State on Tuesday at Hamilton Fieldhouse. UCO dropped the first set after losing six of the first eight points. They bounced back, however and eventually captured a 16-15 lead halfway through before losing it 25-22. UCO lacked an offensive attack early with only 12 kills in set one, five from Richardson, four from Jacobs and three from Roy. Both teams exchanged points at the beginning of the second set before UCO jumped out to a 9-4 lead. The Bronchos dominated mid-way through the set and went on a run towards the end to win 25-17 and tie the match 1-1. Sophomore setter Bella Romero led Central with 17 assists and posted eight digs as well. Richardson and Roy each had eight kills and senior libero Ginger Gowen had two aces to lead the offense. Central carried the momentum into the third set. The Bronchos led 19-12 in part to a dominating performance from Richardson and Roy. Richardson accounted for 13 kills and Roy accounted for 10. Jacobs also contributed to the offense with nine kills. Romero set up her attackers with 28 assists, nearly doubling her amount from the third set. UCO went on to win the set 25-16 and took the 2-1 match lead. Southeastern bounced back to tie the match 2-2 after a 2517 set win. The Bronchos posted better statistics with 47 kills off of 44 assists compared to the Savage Storm’s 40 kills off of 37 assists, however, UCO wasn’t able to score off of attack opportunities. The Bronchos were 9 for 24 on side-outs compared to Southeastern’s 10 for 18. The final set was decided after 29 points with the Bronchos winning 16-14 and taking the match 5-4. Richardson, Roy and Jacobs combined for 43 kills in the final set and Romero recorded 45 assists. Gowen led the defense with 21 digs while sophomore libero Tate Hardaker recorded 19. “We weren’t focused at the beginning of the match,” head coach Jeff Boyland said. “One of the things we put on our locker room board was to execute and do the little things right, which we didn’t do. I was pretty confident we would turn things around towards the end of the first set, which is pretty important for such a young team.” “We had a great crowd here tonight,” Boyland said. “As a fan, it’s fun to watch a five-set match. As a coach, you don’t want
to see it, but it brings a lot of excitement and gets everybody going.” The Bronchos improved to 4-1 on the season. They will travel to Bolivar, Mo. this weekend to participate in the Southwest Baptist Classic. They will compete against Colorado School of Mines and Northwest Missouri State on Friday and against Fort Hays State and Southwest Baptist on Saturday. Central will host Arkansas-Fort Smith next Tuesday at 7 p.m. for their second home match.
UCO women’s volleyball head coach, Jeff Boyland, talks with the team during a time out during a game between UCO and Southeastern Oklahoma State at Hamilton Field House, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista
Central Volleyball
UCO SET FOR SOUTHWEST BAPTIST CLASSIC By Amber Pyle / Contributing Writer The Central volleyball team heads to Bolivar, Mo. this weekend to compete in the Southwest Baptist Classic hosted by Southwest Baptist University. UCO faces Colorado School of Mines in the first match, who brings Jackie Stabell, a 6’0” junior outside hitter/opposite from Tomball, Texas. Stabell averaged 4.06 kills and 4.53 points per set while hitting .406 from the net (133 total attacks) in the tournament last week. “They are a very good team, we played them last year,” UCO head coach, Jeff Boyland said. “They are very fast and have a very complex offense. I have seen them on film and they are probably going to be the best team we face this year.” The next match will be against Northwest Missouri State who is led by returning seniors, Laira Akin and Alex Hanna. Hanna led the Bearcats in kills with 352 and Akin ranked first in assists with 1,097 in the 2010. “We are going to have to play defense and show some good
blocking with this team,” Boyland said. “Both of these teams are really solid. Northwest Missouri is a really big team whereas Mines is a really fast team, so it will interesting to see how we match up against both of them.” Saturday the team faces Fort Hayes State and Southwest Baptist. Winning their first home match of the season Fort Hayes brings their season total kills to 206 and attacks to 507. Southwest begins its season with 181 kills and 637 attacks “I don’t expect these to be as strong but they will still be solid teams,” Boyland said. “Nowadays you have to play to beat teams, you cant expect to win by the name on the back of you shirt.” The tournament will start on Friday at 9:30 a.m. and UCO will compete in their final match at 5 p.m. on Saturday. The team returns home on Tuesday to host Arkansas-Fort Smith for their second home match of the season. Central focuses its efforts on a strong defense this weekend as they begin the Southwest Baptist Classic. The team returns home Sept. 13 to host Arkansas-Fort Smith.
SOUTHWEST BAPTIST CLASSIC Central Oklahoma Schedule Fri. 9:30 a.m.- vs. Colorado School of Mines Fri. 2:00 p.m.- vs. Northwest Missouri State Sat. 11:00 a.m.- vs. Fort Hayes State Sat. 5:00 p.m.- vs. Southwest Baptist