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By Cody Bromley / Staff Writer A new military based video game is taking fire for naming the opposing forces as the Taliban. The game in question is Electronic Arts’ “Medal of Honor,” and is currently available on next generation consoles and computers. The game, which is loosely based on a 2002 Afghanistan military operation, had originally named the insurgent fighters as the Taliban. In a multiplayer mode, players could take control of the Taliban fighters to wage war against and kill U.S. forces. Amanda Taggart, senior PR manager for Electronic Arts, defended the developer’s inclusion of the name in an interview with AOL News. “Most of us having been doing this since we were seven: if someone’s the cop, someone’s gotta be the robber, someone’s gotta be the pirate and someone’s gotta be the alien,” Taggart said. “In ‘Medal of Honor’ multiplayer, someone’s gotta be the Taliban.” John Wood, a junior mechanical engineering and industrial safety major, has played several war-themed games and said the name makes the game more realistic, but that games have the potential to go over the line. “In the previous “Medal of Honors,” you could choose to be the Nazis. To me if you’re a Jewish person or if you’re not Jewish and you had a family member that was in the Holocaust, the way people negatively viewed Nazis is still kind of viewed that way,” Wood said. The line between reality and fantasy was too close for several branches of the military that banned retailers from stocking the game on military bases. This response caused Electronic Arts to change the name of the enemy team from “Taliban” to “Opposing Force.” Despite the name change, the military has not changed its position. Locally, Tinker Air Force base has a GameStop on its premises. An employee from the store named Keith confirmed over the phone that at their location they would not stock the game. In the same breath, he suggested a nearby GameStop off base that does carry the title. Officially, the branches of military have stated that the game can be purchased by service members off-site and brought back onto the base. Army and Air Force Exchanges commander Army Maj. Gen. Bruce Casella said that Army and Air Force exchanges would not carry the game “out of respect to those touched by the ongoing, real-life events presented as a game.” Still, other popular modern war titles, such as games from the “Battlefield” series and games from the “Call of Duty” series are still for sale at the GameStop at Tinker Air Force base. The big competition this holiday season for “Medal of Honor” is another first person shooter called “Call of Duty: Black Ops.” The “Call of Duty” series made its resurgence in June 2008 with the release of their new Modern Warfare franchise. The first game in the series broke several sales records, but those achievements are minimal compared to the success of its sequel. In the first five days of release for “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,” the game sold $550 million worth of copies in the United States and the United Kingdom combined. Comparatively, that launch beats any amount of money earned by a movie release in the same timeframe.
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These photos were taken from a video shot by Mark Zimmerman as part of a graduate art project for the University of Oklahoma. Meredith Zimmerman (shown) said that shaving her head was, “liberating.” Her chemotherapy treatments began after she was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer June 7.
By Ryan Costello / Senior Staff Writer This summer was supposed to be easy. The workload of a pair of university employees, Meredith Zimmerman an administrative secretary for the UCentral Media department, and her husband Mark Zimmerman, a photography instructor on campus and graduate student in fine arts, is typically lighter in the summer than in the hustle and bustle months of spring and fall semester. It was supposed to be a time for them to breathe. But it wasn’t. First, their family dog of thirteen years died, but that was just the beginning of what Mark describes simply as, “a stressful summer.”
At a recent doctor visit, Zimmerman was told not to have a mammogram until she was 40 years old, the typical advice given to a patient. In June, however, Zimmerman found a lump in her right breast about the size of a pea. She immediately scheduled a mammogram, but was still confident, as was Mark, that it would turn out to be nothing. So much so that Mark had not initially planned to accompany Meredith to the scan until the two agreed just before the appointment that he would be there to share the good news that all was well. The doctor was not as sure. “You could tell she wanted to tell me it wasn’t cancer, but she knew it was,” Meredith said. “She also said on the mammogram there were calcifications, which knowing quite a bit already about breast cancer, calcifications don’t mean anything good.” The initial scan and biopsy was Friday, June 4, but the two would not get any results confirmed until the following Monday. Throughout the weekend, Meredith stayed her typical selfpositive. It was not until Sunday evening that the nerves began to seep in. Meredith will be celebrating her 37th birthday in November. Her aunt died from breast cancer at the age of 37. “At one point [Sunday evening], Mark was helping me change the sheets on the bed, and he was like, ‘How are you doing?’ and I said, ‘Funny you should ask, because I feel like I want to throw up,” Meredith said. She heard the news, as if being read her sentence, on June 7; She had what was called triple negative breast cancer, an aggressive and difficult to identify cancer that at her age and race, Meredith said she had only a 10 to 15 percent chance of developing. “You immediately know that your life’s never going to be the same… and it’s definitely not,” she said. Over the next several weeks, Meredith saw a succession of doctors for different reasons. She had a mastectomy performed on her right breast, and was prepared for the rounds of chemotherapy she would have to endure. “You kind of get worked through the program,” Meredith said. “After your surgery, you’re set up to get a port put in, which is a way for them to give you chemo, but that’s actually under your skin in your body,” Meredith said, thumbing at the device, the shape of which is barely visible buried just above her left breast. The port is used to draw blood, and to feed the mélange of chemotherapy drugs into the body. Doctors also removed a pair of lymph nodes from her right arm to see if the cancer had spread. That was when the first good word came; the cancer was in the earliest of stages, and was still isolated. But with the good, there was even more difficult news. A PET scan showed that Meredith had a nodule on her thyroid, a growth that she would later learn was also cancerous. Still, even after the surreal surgeries and treatments, Meredith had hopes that it was all a mistake.
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A new campaign offering free contraceptives for women is being launched by Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The campaign, called Birth Control Matters, aims to make sure all prescription methods of contraception are covered without co-pays as part of the preventive services package that will be determined sometime in the next year by the Institute of Medicine and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The decision on whether to include it in the healthcare reform guidelines has been put off for months. While many benefits of the healthcare reform law will not take effect until 2014, some smaller changes to health insurance will provide big benefits in the next year. In particular, new health insurance policies will be prohibited from requiring co-pays or deductibles for “preventive services” like cancer screenings, as well as immunizations and smokingcessation programs. The idea is to cut health care costs because prevention is much cheaper than treating illnesses. In July, HHS published a list of the services that will be covered under this provision for public comment. Not included: contraception. Instead,
HHS asked the Institute of Medicine to make recommendations on what should be included beyond the current list. The deadline for those rules is next Aug. 1. According to new polling done for Planned Parenthood by Hart R e -
search Associa t e s , more than 70 percent of those polled earlier this summer said prescribed birth control should be covered under preventive health care, including 77 percent of Catholic women, 72 percent of GOP women votes and 60 percent of male voters.
In an npr.org article, Hart Research President Geoff Garin said, “This is different from other aspects of the abortion debate. Contraception is the middle ground in the abortion wars where those on both sides meet happily.” However, not everyone agrees. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops argue in a letter sent to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in mid-September that contraception should not be offered as a preventive service without co-pays or deductibles. Out-of-pocket costs for birth control can be prohibitively expensive for many women, especially those with low-incomes. The high price of birth control can result in women using birth control inconsistently or not at all, often leading to unintended pregnancies. Co-pays for birth-control pills can be $40 to $50 a month, and the cost of more effective methods like IUDs and contraceptive implants are much higher. “I use Mirena and it’s good for five years,” junior Kerri Hunt, fashion marketing major said. “But it cost about $800 and my insurance only covered around $400. I’m still making payments.” “As a student, that is one of the hardest things,” Hunt said. “Actually paying for [birth control] when you have so many other bills…not everyone can do that.”
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STUDENTS’ ATTEMPT AT POVERTY By Josh Hutton / Staff Writer There is a divine energy hovering over Broncho Lake each year on day one of Shack-A-Thon. Most of the participating students puff out their chests and boast Rambo-worthy survival skills as the sun sets and night blankets the makeshift hobbles. Yet around 2:30 a.m., the boasts seem to dissipate into a nearly inaudible sigh of grim acceptance. The whacky conversations, dancing and moon all begin to wane. Fatigue settles in, but Mother Nature’s cold wind will not allow it to be satisfied. The realization hits: our pampered blue blood is no match for the pseudo-city streets. Shack-A-Thon is UCO’s staple event for Poverty Awareness week. It has been exceptionally effective as a philanthropic effort, but also as a personal lesson to students. There is nothing more sobering than a cardboard roof losing the fight with the rain and collapsing on your sleeping head. It forces the student to reflect upon their future real fast. This year, they have implemented a new rule, banning any electronic devices that must be plugged into an outlet. Cutting down on the mockery of poverty that was demonstrated by playing video games last year. Living in a state where the poverty level is substantially higher than the national average, makes an individual skeptical of job security, given the nation’s crippled job market. A startling 43.6 million people (14.3 percent) live in poverty in the United States, according to the Census Bureau. The guideline the U.S. uses is still the out-dated poverty line established in the 1960s, implying the actual number of people in poverty is much higher. So, when day three of Shack-A-Thon rolls around, passerbys will get a small taste of impoverished desolation. Inevitably, there will be some who have not watched their soaps in two days, have not been able to sucker someone into buying them some food and many have stayed long past their supposed shift. It is as if Shack-A-Thon provides a microscope into how our spoiled selves cope. It is clear that the new electronics rule, made the event less popular, as a lower density of shacks dot Broncho Lake’s coastline. Help UCO as it tries to bring attention to poverty this week, and be kind to everyone who has the wherewithal to battle the elements, in the name of raising funds for the cause. Get rid of some coins, and play a role in the push against poverty in the United States.
“I haven’t really followed “Jari Askins, because she’s it.” from Duncan and the only candidate I know about. My dad is a fireman and I know Mary Fallin is in favor of cutting firemen’s budget.”
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Twenty-five percent of college-aged women engage in bingeing and purging as a weight-management technique. The Student Counseling Center offers free counseling to UCO students, located on the 4th floor of the Nigh University Center.
By Brittany Dalton / Contributing Writer It is a problem affecting one of every five females in America; it is a silent struggle that can often go undetected for a significant amount of time. But four out of every ten Americans have either suffered, or known someone who has suffered, from an eating disorder. Ten million females and one million males in the U.S. are suffering from an eating disorder, according to the National Eating Disorders Association. Of the classified eating disorders, anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness, including major depression. Approximately 90 percent of those affected by anorexia are female, and the death rate associated with anorexia nervosa is 12 times higher than all other causes of death for women 1524 years old. “Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by self-starvation, excessive weight loss and refusal to maintain weight,” Jaime Buecker said. Buecker is the president and co-founder of the Oklahoma Eating Disorders Asso-
ciation. Some of the symptoms include, but are not limited to, an intense fear of gaining weight, isolation from others, a distorted body image, loss of menstrual cycle in women, frequent weighing, excessive dieting, excessive exercise, preoccupation with food, calories or weight and denial of hunger. While dieting does not automatically equate to the presence of an eating disorder, the Alliance for Eating Disorders notes that dieting is the most common behavior leading to an eating disorder. In a society where 80 percent of women report they would like to lose weight, the diet industry rakes in more than 50 billion dollars a year. “Sometimes it starts in college: dieting and getting compliments for how you look,” Jan Chapel with UCO’s Student Counseling Center said. “If you start getting thin, people notice. And so you start to think, well what if I lose ten more pounds?” Chapel notes that there can be many influences that may trigger an individual’s development of an eating disorder
“Call of Duty” faced its own controversy just before its launch in wake of a single player mission that had players working with a terrorist to kill civilians. Before beginning the game, players had to choose if they wanted to take part in the “disturbing” mission or not, not being told what exactly was to occur. Players who chose to skip the mission were not penalized, nor the ones who played it rewarded. Wood described his play through of that mission as “messed up.” He believes that the developers could have achieved a similar result by having the players watch a short video instead of making the player actively participate. Around the release of the game a spokesperson from Activision, the developers of the game, told video game website VG24/7 that the inclusion of the scene was to instill a sense of importance in the players. “The scene establishes the depth of evil and the cold bloodedness of a rogue Russian villain and his unit. By establishing that evil, it adds to the urgency of the player’s mission to stop them,” the spokesman said. Despite forcing players to decide whether or not to take part in the mission, parent groups criticized the publisher for the game saying it could easily fall into the hands of children. On the Fox News channel, the show “Fox & Friends” had video game journalist Jon Christensen on to discuss the disturbing part of the game. “Kids can definitely pick up the game,” Christensen said, “if parents buy it for them. I have a buddy who’s a manager of a store. Little kids came in to buy the game and he asked if they were over 17. They said no, so he didn’t sell them the game.” The interviewer responded by suggesting that once in the household there is no barrier for stop a child from picking up the title. A Taliban-free version of “Medal of Honor” is in stores now. “Call of Duty: Black Ops” will be released Nov. 9.
such as anorexia. “People can get it from all around. They hear it from the media, they hear it from friends, they hear it from parents sometimes.” The effects can be dangerous, including depression, extreme fatigue, hair loss, dehydration, abnormally slow heart rate and blood pressure, malnutrition osteoporosis and in extreme situations, death. “When you’re starving, your body starts to feed on itself,” Chapel said. “So you can have heart problems, all kinds of organ problems.” Many people, Chapel included, believe the media plays an adverse role in influencing women’s self-esteem, and their body image. “It involves a changing of perceptions, and helping them learn to feel good about themselves. Accepting who they are, just the way they are.” But when Americans are bombarded with images of the ‘perfect’ body in the media, it can be difficult. “A lot of it has to do with how women are perceived in the fashion industry, in the advertising industry, as well as how they are portrayed on MTV and BET,” Dr. Kole Kleeman said. Kleeman is a professor of Media Studies at UCO. “The woman’s body is portrayed as defective, and in need of repair,” he said. “Women are taught to appear, men are taught to act. Women are taught to believe that their success in life depends upon their appearance,” Kleeman said. Kleeman noted that with modern technology, what we are seeing is not always real. “With Photoshop, we are seeing what are not really ‘real’ people, and we are comparing ourselves to these images.” Just one recent example of this would be in Self Magazine’s September 2009 cover. Kelly Clarkson appears on the cover, a cover Self Magazine later admitted they had airbrushed, altering it to make Clarkson appear trimmer. The editor of the magazine explained After some controversy, players of the new “Medal of PHOTO PROVIDED
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Honor” game will not be able to play as members of the Taliban. Developers have instead changed the name of the team to “Opposing Force.”
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FAMILY FILMS FOILING FEMALE FAIRNESS By Cody Bromley / Staff Writer College students may not be in the target demographic for family films, but their effects are slowly shaping the next generation. A study done at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California analyzed 122 family films from 2006 to 2009. Among the films analyzed, 50 were major box-office hits. The study found that less than 30 percent of characters in the films were female. One in four of those females were depicted in “sexy, tight or alluring attire.” “Females are portrayed as ‘sexy’ in films due to restricted and stereotyped imagery where women are objectified for the pleasure of the male gaze,” Dr. Kole Kleeman, media studies scholar and UCO professor, said. The Annenberg study also found that female characters were more likely than men to be quantified as “beautiful” and one in five were “portrayed with some exposed skin between the mid-chest and upper thigh regions.” Dr. Kleeman clarified this finding. “If you examine television discourse, [females] are often shot from their legs, their breasts and in ways that make them an object rather than a person. You can also examine the content of what women are saying by verbal codes and it usually is subordinate to men. Why aren’t women shown in intellectual, pro-
fessional and other expressive roles? They are placed in a very form of objectification, which contributes to how women are perceived by others in the world,” Kleeman said. Beyond the minority role that females play in family films, the Annenberg study found that one in four women was shown with a waist so small that, the authors of the study concluded it left “little room for a womb or any other internal organs.” “90 percent of women suffer from eating disorders in this culture,” Kleeman said. Many of these actors have had various surgical procedures done to them to present the perfect body. Susan Bordo, Thomas Keith and others have found that girls as young as eight years old are drinking D i e t
Cokes and making rigorous exercise a part of their daily routine,” Kleeman said. This data, matched with a 2003 Kaiser Family Foundation survey can be extrapolated to dan-
gerous heights. The Kaiser survey found that half of children ages zero to six have at least 20 DVDs in their homes. Half of them also watch at least one D V D per day. With all the “destructive” imagery, Kleeman said he thinks there are some shows and films that are e m powering f o r
women. “For instance, Tarentino’s ‘Kill Bill,’ ‘Sex in the City,’ perhaps even ‘Mad Men,’” Kleeman said. He says the AMC show “Mad Men” is significant for its presentation of a conversation about gender roles during a period of time when there was entrenched inequality between the sexes. Despite the positive reinforcement of equality from those shows and films, Kleeman said that from his research, more often than not women will be ‘clawed back’ by the mass media to subordinate roles. “In a commodified culture, the situation has gotten worse,” Kleeman said. “Take MTV and hip-hop for instance. In the beginning, you had great visual performers such as Michael Jackson and hip-hop in its original from the Bronx. You have hip-hop artists with a message. Now the only thing that is selling is a degrading body image of women on MTV and BET.” Kleeman’s response on how to fix this is simple. “Don’t buy the stuff,” he said. “People in the media business need to try and promote alternative representations that are not degrading to women. I also have argued for years following George Gerbner that one of the most important tasks of schools should be to teach critical/analytical viewing or what I call in my research media literacy.” One way to attain “media literacy” is through media studies. Kleeman teaches several media studies cours-
es in the Department of Mass Communication. “Most people who aren’t schooled in media studies have a very narrow view of the world such as that which is promoted on television about gender,” Kleeman said. He says that media studies is more than “simply sex sells,” but a look at how it is promoting an ideology of gender subordination and gender display, which he says is “misogynistic and patriarchal.” “I think all students, especially those in production, can benefit from media studies curriculum because it teaches about how the meanings that are being produced by the cultural industries of the mass media are not always beneficial to people. In this way, they can learn to be better, more critical producers and consumers of mass communication,” Kleeman said.
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By Jessica Bruha / Contributing Writer Central’s Three C’s will be hosting a session from 2-4 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 26 in the Center for Transformative Learning, Room 108 for students, faculty and staff. The Three C’s represent character, civility and community. Karen Youngblood, director for Staff Leadership Development and External Leadership Training, will be discussing how these characteristics can be applied to everyday life and in the workplace. The event is free and open to all students, faculty and staff members. Faculty and staff can register online through the Center for Transformative Learning’s website. Students must register by calling Training Manager Fran Petties at 974-2655. “We’re going to take a fun and informative approach reviewing the Three C’s through the eyes of Hollywood,” Youngblood said. While discussion will not include entertainment such as Britney Spears, they will be looking at the movies “Miracle” and “Apollo 13” she said. The session will be very fundamental, Youngblood said. The session will help everyone get on the same page and operate with the same core values. All managers should be constantly working on developing the same core values in their employees. “I really think it’s important that everyone
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Karen Youngblood, director for Staff Leadership Development and External Leadership Training, will be disucssing the “Three C’s” of UCO at the event on Tuesday.
have the same starting point,” Youngblood said. “You can take a lot of individualized classes but unless you have that backbone knowledge, the classes don’t connect.” This will be the first session of Central’s Three C’s and will continue to be held once a semester after this semester Youngblood said. It will be tweaked as needed, according to demands, upon receiving feedback and depend-
ing on where people want to take it she said. The Three C’s were President Roger Webb’s initiative over the past five years to make for a healthy, wealthy and wise campus she said. The words character, community and civility kept rising to the top of the different attributes and characteristics for this type of campus she said. The Staff Leadership Development depart-
ment is about six months old and there is a renewed effort to really offer systemized, repetitive and ongoing training Youngblood said. Before, different departments would do training according to their specialty she said. They are beginning to make more of an effort to roll out the training words under one roof so people can get the training they need she said. The Three C’s are part of the faculty and staff’s individual development plan, Youngblood said. They are one of the core competencies in Professional Education that support the six tenets of the Transformative Learning program she said. According to the Center for Professional and Distance Education, “Courses in Professional Education are designed to increase knowledge and enhance performance that benefits professional growth and organizational success.” All of these sessions are very practical and will help make students successful in life, which is what everyone at UCO wants for them Youngblood said. “I love being part of professional education, it’s my passion,” Youngblood said. She said she respects that the university finds it important to open training up to faculty, staff and students. “Lifelong learning is paramount to being successful anywhere.”
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BIRTH CONTROL The new campaign is still trying to collect a million signatures to make sure contraception gets on the list of approved services. In the meantime, both sides argue their case. The bishops - as well as some other conservatives - said that pregnancy is not a disease and use of birth control is a “personal” or “lifestyle” choice. They also claim that some
birth-control pills and other devices are a risk to health. However, science supports a different position. The Centers for Disease Control calls family planning “one of the greatest health advances of the 20th century.” Unintended pregnancies represent serious health risks for both women and their chil-
dren. As HHS’s own report “Healthy People” points out, many women who did not want to be pregnant do not seek prenatal care in the first trimester, if at all. Women who did not want a baby in the first place “are more likely to use tobacco or alcohol during pregnancy.” It follows those children who start out as unintended pregnancies are at greater risk of low
birth weight, of dying in their first year, or of being abused. “If they could include at least one contraceptive out of say eight different methods, it would significantly lower the rate of unplanned pregnancies—especially among young adults,” Hunt said. “This way you decide when you are ready.”
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to interviewers that they had indeed altered the images, “just as we would for any star.” While the media may claim their intentions are not to portray thinner as more beautiful, the images are everywhere. On television, in the advertisements, and on the runway. In fact, the National Eating Disorders Association found that 98 percent of fashion models are thinner than the average American women. This statistic may not surprise many people, but it does show that the image portrayed in the media does not always line up with reality. “It’s no wonder women start to hate themselves, compared to these images,” Kleeman said. “This image is sent out through all channels. We live in a mediated society, and unfortunately people look up to these stars.” Kleeman believes the key to reversing the trend toward anorexia in society is education, as well as a change in perceptions. “We need more realistic bodies in the media,” he said. “We definitely need to re-educate our youth, because the media is not. We should boycott high fashion. We need to increase media literacy, offer a critical and analytical view of the media.” With the bulk of advertising directed toward children, it is small wonder that girls as young as nine are being admitted to hospitals with anorexia. Specialists are beginning to see girls as young as six obsess over their appearances. “Women are dying because of this,” Kleeman said. “We can’t see this as ‘normal’. It’s not normal.” In past years, sites have even sprung up all over the Internet encouraging disordered eating, commonly known as ‘pro-ana’ sites. These sites hold forums
where anorexics can offer support for one another or post pictures of themselves as they drop pounds. Many of the sites even offer tips for girls either suffering from anorexia, or those who are ‘flirting’ with the idea. One such site, Ana’s Thinspiration: Thin is Beautiful, offers a “Best 100 Things to Know.” These ‘things to know’ are in fact
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Women are dying because of this,” Kleeman said. “We can’t see this as ‘normal’. It’s not normal. tips on how to cheat one’s body into feeling full, and other ways to avoid eating. “When you are hungry, do something gross like dig for worms, clean a kitty litter box, or something. It will make you less likely to eat,” one tip reads. Many of these sites instruct girls to keep a picture of a fashion model they admire, with them at all times, to remind them to refrain from eating. According to the National Eating Disorders Association, “Media images that help to create cultural definitions of beauty and attractiveness are often acknowledged as being among those factors contributing to the rise of eating disorders. Media messages screaming “thin is in” may not directly cause eating disorders, but they help to create the context within which people learn to place a value on the size and shape of their body.” A consensus among many professionals is that body image must be addressed. Women and men alike must come to realize that thinnest is not necessarily most beautiful.
At 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29, UCO will hold a free screening of “America the Beautiful: is America Obsessed With Beauty?” in conjunction with the Oklahoma Eating Disorders Association. UCO is showing the film as part of its Healthy Campus initiative. “The documentary takes a close look at the image that our society and the media present,” Buecker said. “Body image is how we see ourselves in a mirror or in our mind. This perception could be positive or negative.” Following the film, members of the Oklahoma Eating Disorders Association will hold a moderated discussion. Those who attend the screening will have the chance to discuss the issue with a panel of experts. “The purpose of showing this film is to raise awareness, challenge everyone to be critical media consumers, as well as start a dialogue about a normally taboo topic,” Buecker said. “It is time to talk about body image and eating disorders.” Kleeman agrees, emphasizing that something must be done about the media’s pervasiveness in the issue of body image, and anorexia. Kleeman notes that the current accepted ‘norm,’ that of stick-thin models, must be addressed. “We need to de-familiarize the familiar. We need to make the familiar strange. Because the familiar is very strange, and it is not healthy.” To learn more about anorexia, and treaments that are availible, scan either of these tags.
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“I remember several times thinking, even after they did my surgery to remove it, that you think, ‘When they do the pathology report that somebody’s going to come back and tell you that it wasn’t [cancer], that they wrong. That it was a joke,” Meredith said.
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You could tell she wanted to tell me it wasn’t cancer, but she knew it was,” Meredith said. But no one did. It was all real, and at no point was it more apparent than after Meredith’s first chemotherapy treatment, which landed her in the emergency room after eight hours of intense nausea. “The very first time they gave [chemotherapy] to me, right after they gave it to me, you can tell your body’s almost in shock,” Meredith said. She’s had a round of treatments every other Thursday since. As the reality of a battle with cancer set in, Meredith’s perspective changed. “It’s probably everything traditionally people say… you appreciate the little things,” Meredith said. She bit back tears as she spoke about her children, Abigail and Joey, neither of whom is a teenager yet. “As a parent, the last thing you want is to not see them get older,” Meredith said. But if the success of her treatments is any indication, she’ll have the chance. Meredith’s final round of chemotherapy is scheduled for Thursday, and her first meeting with a plastic surgeon to discuss the reconstruction of her right breast will be Nov. 19. She’s not quite out of the woods yet, but she’s close. “She’s been extremely strong. I can’t imagine ever being as strong as she is. She’s educated herself a lot about it, which sometimes I’m the opposite; I don’t want to know what things could be,” Mark said. The end of her treatments, including the ones for her thyroid, her reconstruction surgery, and perhaps even the re-growth of her hair, should be complete by next summer. “It’s just nice to be able to think that there is an end to the stuff she’s be dealing with… We can make up for the summer we just had,” Mark said. Just in time for Meredith and Mark to breathe.
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UCO ‘LEANS’ TOWARD EFFICIENCY PHOTO BY JOSEPH A. MOORE II
By Emily Davis / Contributing Writer Lean University might sound foreign to many on campus, but UCO employees have had the opportunity to become familiar with Lean principles and put them into action in their particular area of employment here on campus.
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One of our goals is that all employees will be Lean thinkers, meaning that they will think about what is the wasteful action going on ... ”
Karen Kusler displays a Mr. Potato Head toy she uses as a model for the diferrent steps in a process. Kusler says that these exercise can be used for most processes like, making a cup of coffee at Starbucks or students having finding ways to pay for college. At UCO it is used to simplify end of year reports in the accounting department and laying out the parking on campus.
Executive Vice President of UCO, Steve Kreidler, introduced Lean principles onto UCO’s campus. “He (Kreidler) came to campus around 2001, was dealing with a devastating budget crisis,” Lean University Director Karen Kusler said. “He has worked with Lean manufacturing when he was in economic development here in Edmond, and so he decided that he wanted to try using Lean to try to reduce the inefficiency, cut out the wasteful practices, to see if that could help balance the budget.” “It’s been very effective,” Kusler said. According to the campus website, “Lean University at the University of Central Oklahoma is a training and consulting group offering Lean facilitator certification and process improvement consultation for those in higher education and government agencies.” In Kusler’s translation, “Lean University is…an internal training function, to improve the efficiency and ultimately reduce costs for the university.” Since working in academic assessment for some years, Kusler began looking for a change at UCO. This is when she found out about Lean, got certified and is now the director. Kusler said that Lean started out as a manufacturing program and that while learning about
Lean, her mentor taught her more in that approach. She then translated what she learned to be used in a higher education platform. Kusler stated three roles in which Lean University is involved. “One (role) is that we go out and facilitate Lean events. We’ve identified an area… that they would like to be more efficient, that they’re having trouble keeping up with demand,” she said. “As a second purpose, I offer the Lean training programs on campus, and I offer, every three months, a Lean thinking course.” “One of our goals is that all employees will be Lean thinkers, meaning that they will think about what is the wasteful action going on,” Kusler said. “We have eight areas of waste…we want employees to be thinking of that type of waste, and when they have an issue that’s frustrating to them, stop and ask, well why is it this way? Is there a better way for us to do it? How can we improve this? We want them to be Lean thinkers so they can actually improve small processes that they have control over or that they can bring forth to their supervisors, other processes that might be bigger, and needs more input.” The eight areas of waste are waiting, inventory, sources, defects, overproduction, motion, travel and over-processing. The third purpose that Lean University is involved in is a corporate training program, Kusler said. Different universities have wanted to incorporate Lean principles onto their campuses. These universities will either have Kusler come in or have a Lean manufacturer come in and do sessions. There are a number of benefits that Lean University provides. “It reduces the cost of providing services, it reduces the frustration of the individual receiving the services…and it improves employment moral, Kusler said. Last year alone we calculated that we had conservatively saved $600,000 just through Lean processes.”
Opinion
MINERS NOT THE ONLY HEROES By Shelley Sanders / Contributing Writer The rescue of the Chilean miners was an awe-inspiring television event. The counter at the bottom of the screen marked each rescue. Personal information of each miner established familiarity, and a Chilean cheer was heard as each one arrived at ground level. After the rescue was complete, we felt inspired by human fortitude and worldwide cooperation. A media frenzy has existed throughout, but let the pie be split for ratings and profit now that they are free. The classification of the miners has become debate among some. The miners are being called heroes by numerous media outlets and some disagree with the label. Were the miners courageous and brave? Yes, but they had to be. Should they be given money or trips to Greece? They survived 69 days underground and a little compensation is in order. Their stories are also equally important whether they are shown on the big screen or expressed in money-making memoirs. Our attentions should be on the miners, fascinated and thankful for their survival. But who saved them? There were many unsung heroes that contributed to the saving of these 33 lives. NASA provided a group of engineers to design the capsule for the rescue even when they were only originally requested for psychological and medical advice for survival during harsh conditions. A United States company, Aramark, provided vacuum-packed, hot food for the miners that could be delivered underground through an eight centimeter wide hole. A Kansas-based firm, Layne Christensen, provided the drilling and a Pennsylvania company, Schramm provided the drilling rig. Unfortunately the media has not focused on the selfless efforts of these organizations and their heroic actions. While some return home to heroes’ welcomes in their cities, they are mostly going to return to work without Oakley sunglasses and without trips to Greece. But isn’t that how it should be? These are my favorite heroes. They do it because it needs to be done and they expect nothing in return. Our society unfortunately makes famous the heroes that wear the badge, knowing it is a façade. From pastors to celebrities, today’s culture is confused on what constitutes worthy of praise or reward. Oprah Winfrey has been
hailed as a generous person with her gift giving to an in-studio audience. Oprah did not buy the cars for her teacher audience in 2004; Pontiac provided them. But who could blame us for not realizing the correct source when such magazines like People incorrectly reported, “’Oprah’s Favorite Things’ is just the latest in what has been a generous year for the talk-show host. She also gave away more than 270 Pontiac G6 cars to audience members earlier this year.” This year, Tourism Australia is footing the bill for one of her selected audiences to visit their country, all in an effort to promote tourism, which has declined on the world’s smallest continent. Again, she did not pay for any of the expense. Yet Oprah is praised by the masses for being a hero. The Sydney Opera House will be renamed the Sydney Oprah House for the event. Why is this woman being rewarded with such an honor and why do we regard her so highly? At most, she is a spokesperson for companies that advertise their products via her show. The true heroes that are presented with occasions to provide selfless service are never going to step into the spotlight for their due. That is not their nature. But now is the time that we should be, at the least, more discerning with today’s hero. Monetary gain and power should never be in a local religious leader’s heart. World famous celebrities should never be revered for TV time they receive answering phones for charity. They should be writing anonymous checks. Yes, my favorite hero is the behind-the-scenes, humble person who does not judge, does not have to make a decision of getting involved, the person who steps up or steps in. They do not look for reward here or in the hereafter, they are content with the belief that the world is worth living in, each and every one of us. They sleep peacefully at night. They help, they do not brag. Nobel Prize winner and French novelist Romain Rolland once wrote “Heroes do what they can.” Before we designate our next heroes, we need to be asking did that person do all that they could? The miners bravely survived a disastrous event as they waited for rescue. The miners’ rescuers are heroes for doing all they could to make that rescue happen.
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By Josh Hutton / Staff Writer Both Jari Askins and Mary Fallin agree on most of the key issues (fighting “Obamacare,” strict illegal immigration policies, and on the local side, both are against State Question 744). Fallin is a 26-point favorite in the popular polls and the candidate’s website gives a shallow overview of her contentions on public issues. Fallin seems to be playing along with the GOP’s attempt to swallow the Tea Party by adopting the same ideas. Complying with the conservative backlash trend, Fallin has a few doneto-death assertions that she reverts to in every address to spark oohs and ahhs from supporters: “I’ve worked in Congress to fight Obamacare.” Using the moniker “Obamacare” seems to play off the Obama-is-Satan mentality that plagued the 2008 campaign. The same people that sent the mass e-mails claiming Obama was a Muslim, are having a field day in the current political climate. The universal healthcare proposition became so stripped down by the time it passed, it barely resembles socialized medicine. Our system of government is set up to ensure that change occurs at a glacial pace. Any supposition that the new healthcare plan is going to destroy the country can be trashed because most in this nation have, and will continue to see, very little difference in the system. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann selects Mary Fallin for “Worst in the World” list. Boasting “real” Oklahoma values, “Faith, Family, and Freedom,” Fallin has failed two of her three Fs in a shamefully public manner. It is hard for me to buy her dedication to family, when in
that keeping a low tax will draw businesses to Oklahoma, and that may be true in the short term, but Oklahoma is running on an incredibly tight fiscal budget, and bears the burden of one of the most crippled education situations in the nation. Grabbing a few big businesses will not mean anything if the state does not reach a level of stability, and if the state is not raising a generation of well-educated citizens, those big businesses will migrate elsewhere. Mary Fallin’s strategy reeks of Sarah Palin’s old tact, being an embodiment of simple phraseology trending on Twitter. Conservative candidates crying for no spending, 2nd Amendment pride, vicious illegal immigration ideas, and the death of “Obamacare” are a dime-a-dozen. My fear is that we are electing people based on appeasing one-liners, instead of level-headed rationale and foresight. The next four years will prove whether or not Fallin’s words were metal, or fickle projections of misinformed voters. Mary Fallin, Republican gubernatorial candidate, is favored to win election for governor this November.
1999 she underwent a divorce and was accused of an affair with a state trooper. It is hard for me to buy her dedication to freedom when she was not in support of a bill enhancing enforcement for the prevention of homosexual hate crimes. This screams an adherence to preferred justice, not an even scale. Making Oklahoma “open for business,” her “blueprint” for the state’s economy is beyond vague; the only clear contention is she does not believe in repealing the Bush tax cuts. To climb out of a deficit, a nation has to raise taxes. It is inevitable and cyclical. She believes
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Music
ALBUM REVIEW COME AROUND SUNDOWN
BY KINGS OF LEON RELEASE DATE: OCT. 19, 2010 LABEL: RCA
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By Josh Hutton / Staff Writer It is difficult to have high hopes for an album when its opening track is entitled “The End.” The end of soul? The end of uniqueness? Yes, “Come Around Sundown” is an aim-to-please-everyone disc that ends up sounding like a bottled fart. When you sold over 6 million copies of your last record, I guess you are allowed to pass off a mediocre mess. Not trying seems to be the new mantra of Kings of Leon. Front man Caleb Followill admitted that he would ad-lib each song during the recording process and boy, does it show. Of course, lyrically, Caleb Followill has never been comfortable. Introspective depth has always alluded him; in fact, it is rare he sees past his genitals. On their earlier recordings, he would make his words practically incoherent, and used his voice as just another instrument. In a way this worked better, given the dirty groove of early KOL. The funkier, Strokes-esque, version of KOL seemed to embody a raunchy, riotous youth accurately, especially on 2005’s “Aha Shake Heartbreak.” On “Come Around Sundown,” they have
deconstructed the heavily layered guitar of their break-out, “Only by the Night,” and have avoided a return to form. Sticking themselves in mundane purgatory with their sound. On “Mary,” they shoot for a My Morning Jacket sound-a-like, “The Immortals” feels like a local Clash cover band, and each song follows the same formula: minimal verses and soaring choruses with no hooks. “Radioactive” is their blatant attempt to become “the Southern U2” that so many critics have described them as. While “Radioactive” is the strongest track on the album, it plays into the contradictory nature of the disc. First off, “Radioactive” promotes a positive political undertone. Just look at their hard-to-take-seriously music video that finds them frolicking with black children in Uganda, only to dish out the juvenile and trite passage, “I’ve got a friend who showers me in boozes, tells me I got a big ol’ d---, and she wants my a--hole,” on the album’s lowest point, “Mi Amigo.” Secondly, there seems to be a constant contradiction of whether the narrator wants to go “home” or run further away.
The first half of the album seems to lean toward homesick, yet the artwork sports a beach, and those are hard to come by in Tennessee. “Come Around Sundown” best serves as a case study into the cancer of fame. It eats at the ability to empathize, internalize, and often leads to a creativity breakdown. Leaving a watery formula of a wealth-seeking shortcoming, making it an album that I doubt even die-hard fans will appreciate.
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FACT
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A.J. BLACK What do a crackhead, a Harvard graduate and a beauty school dropout all have in common? Well, for one thing they can all vote. It is no wonder that the majority of us are tired of hearing about politics as usual. Sometimes a brother just wants to dance, and I’ll cut a rug with a quickness, but most of us don’t have anything on the mad dancing skills the modern politicians possess, and I picked up a step or two from two of the finest last week. It is important to take full advantage of the opportunities an institution of higher learning provides, and I did just that when I attended the university-sponsored gubernatorial debate between Oklahoma’s next mayor and the other guy, or should I say lady. If I didn’t know any better, I would have guessed that the circus was in town or maybe a rivalry football game. A person could feel the energy in the air as the house systematically divided into the two opposite factions of red and blue.
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The idea is to rock the vote, rally the youth and bolster the number of voters, because if enough people decided not to participate, the system would crumble.
The seasoned veterans faced off in dramatic fashion, and took turns answering pre-determined questions from a small panel of representatives of major media outlets. In what has become typical fashion, each contestant showed off their skills of jumping, jiving and tap dancing around and on questions that allowed them to drop talking points like it were hot. One thing they forgot to do was debate, answer anything directly or open up the floor to questions from the people in attendance. After listening attentively to the two professionals practice lyrical and political witchcraft, I am still uncertain about what either one of them stands for, what the difference is between them, or exactly why they should represent Oklahomans as a highly paid bureaucrat. The idea is to rock the vote, rally the youth and bolster the number of voters, because if enough people decided not to participate, the system would crumble. However, the current balance of power has repeatedly failed to convince the upcoming generations to retain the same blind faith in a system of limited choice between one or the other party, as the aging American population of voters shrivels up like a prune. It is not always easy to describe your personal political views, especially when we are only allowed one word, but I have found that if you limit yourself to a label, like Democrat or Republican, then you just end up limiting yourself. There is hope, and I have an idea. Regardless of our political leanings, we have one thing in our favor: the common ground of contempt for political propaganda and hypocrisy. Since voting will only encourage them, and any politician is going to do what they are going to do anyway, and switching back and forth between one party controlling Congress or the other has never changed anything in the past. I think it is safe to say that continuing that behavior will only result in the same as it always has. So I’m going to mark down Nov. 2 on my calendar as “Don’t go vote day,” because I know bullshit when I see it. -Light it Up, A.J. Black
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By Chris Wescott / Sports Editor After a heartbreakingly close series against Penn State, the Bronchos dropped one spot in the national rankings to No. 17. The Nittany Lions also dropped to five from the four spot. Now Central Oklahoma returns home after their lengthy road trip to take on another top five opponent. No. 2 Davenport comes to Arctic Edge Arena in Edmond this weekend for a two-game series. The two teams will play at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and again on Saturday night. If UCO could beat Davenport, it would be a huge accomplishment for a team that has grown accustomed to winning, but has struggled with it so far this season. The No. 17 Bronchos are 3-7-1 on the year, and find themselves in unfamiliar territory. But the players are not worried. “I think we have been playing better the last couple of games,” UCO freshman Peter Ekholm said. “If we can continue riding that wave and get a couple of wins starting this weekend, we should have a good chance, I mean there [are] a lot of games left.” There are 27 games remaining to be exact. That is including this weekend’s series. So while the season has not started off great, there is potential for a quick turnaround. It would be very disappointing to a young Broncho team to miss the playoffs. UCO has qualified for the national tournament the past two seasons.
“Right now, I would say that we aren’t worrying about playoffs yet,” Kevin Bergquist, sophomore forward, said. “Obviously, if we don’t get things turned around that will become an issue sooner than later. But as a team, I think we are more focused on taking things game by game. So right now we are looking at Davenport and nothing beyond that.” With 27 games remaining and 17 of those against ranked opponents, the Bronchos’ season is far from over. But UCO’s task of turning the season around does not get easier this weekend. Davenport is 10-2 this season. They are 7-2 on the road, and have only lost to the No. 1 Lindenwood and No. 8 Iowa State. This series could go a long way for UCO moving forward. “It’s a big deal,” Bergquist said. “We are facing another top ranked team and we are still looking to find our groove as a team and get some momentum. A win against Davenport would be a huge confidence boost to our team, but we have to go out and work for it.” Jonathan Cannizzo leads the Bronchos in points with 15, which includes five goals. Freshmen Anthony Knuth and Donald Geary have chipped in with three goals apiece. Knuth has five assists and is second on the team with eight points. Geary has seven points this season. Michael Haszto also has three goals with two assists. In net, Nick Holmes has played in 10 games and has made 326 saves on 363 shots in 589.58 minutes.
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The Bronchos celebrate an overtime win over Slippery Rock at the ACHA Showcase.
Broncho Spotlight
Q&A WITH UCO WRESTLER MICHAEL WALKUP Q. Q. A. A. Q. A. How long have you been wrestling?
How do you feel about this upcoming season?
I started wrestling in 8th grade. I was the smallest kid in the school and the team needed a 78 pounder. The coach approached me and asked me to join and after some persuasion from my friends, I joined and have been doing it ever since.
Optimistic. Our team is young but very talented. I think we have a good chance at winning the national championship.
Have you considered using your wrestling skills in the MMA after school?
I have considered it but I doubt I will. Wrestling is a great basis for mma. I love watching mma and wouldn’t mind learning some submissions. I wouldn’t mind doing one local fight just to experience it but don’t plan on seeing me in the UFC. By Michael Collins / Sports Writer
UCO Football
BRONCHOS LOSE ANOTHER CLOSE GAME to seal the game. For the RiverHawks they continued their dominance in the Lone Star Conference, they are 4-0 against conference foes and will be looking to win the North Crown this year. For UCO, they continue to lose games in the 4th quarter. Although the Bronchos may not be going to the playoffs this season, they are definitely finding some players who will play big roles on this team next year. Birmingham added another 100 yard rushing performance, 102 to be exact, to go along with a couple of scores. Birmingham reached the 1000 yard mark this game, and because just the 24th player in Broncho history to do so. He will have three games left to add to his total. Sharp had an up and down game, he was forced out because of injury, but ended the day 19-38 while throwing for 216 yards and 2 scores. A shinning light in an otherwise dismal outcome was that Sharp didn’t throw an interception. He com-
pleted passes to 7 different receivers, one of which was Artrell Woods. In just his 6th game since returning from his horrific injury while he was attended Oklahoma State, he caught his first pass as a Broncho. The defense again gave up to many points, though they were put in some tough situations. A blocked punt and a fumble put the RiverHawks deep in Broncho territory and led to 2 scores. On the season the Broncho defense is giving up 37 points per game, which is way to much to contend on this level of football. This week will mark the last home game for the Bronchos this season. Texas A&M Commerce will bring a 2-6 record here to Wantland Stadium, and could possibly provide a win for the troubled Broncho’s. Comparing opponents is tough, but the RiverHawks crushed Texas A&M Commerce in their match-up earlier this season, so if the Bronchos just play up to their ability they should be able to scratch out a win.
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By Michael Collins / Sports Writer This past Saturday the University of Central Oklahoma’s football team gave up yet another second half lead. Leading by 3 after the third quarter, the Bronchos ended up losing 28-39 to Northeastern Oklahoma State. This loss dropped the Broncho’s to 2-6 on the season with only 3 games to go. The game started off great for the Bronchos as they took the ball and drove 85 yards on 11 plays and ended the drive with a touchdown pass from Ethan Sharp to Dolphin Davis. After surrendering 2 straight touchdowns on passes from Northeastern’s Trey McVay, which put the Broncho’s down 15-7, they came right back and answered with a drive of 68 yards and took just 3 minutes off the clock and culminated with Josh Birmingham powering in from 3 yards out. With the score being 14-15 at this point in the second quarter things looked to be going ok for the Bronchos. Midway through the second quarter things got even better when Creadell Pennon picked up a fumble and returned it for a 37 yard score, and put the Bronchos up 21-15. But after surrendering a field goal and another touchdown the Bronchos went into the half down 25-21. Trailing by only four points it was anyone’s ballgame. Birmingham got the team rolling after half-time when he caught a 33 yard touchdown pass from Ethan Sharp that gave the Bronchos the lead again at 28-25. Sadly that was the last of the scoring from this high powered offense. The RiverHawks would go on to add 2 rushing touchdowns
UCO wide receiver Carter Whitson (6) is tackled after making a catch in the Bronchos’ homecoming loss to SEOSU.
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SPORTS
OCT. 26, 2010
Sports Feature
By Trey Hunter / Contributing Writer Alina Istrate loves to run. The UCO cross country standout has enjoyed running her entire life. Growing up in Romania, she did not play basketball or volleyball like most American girls. She ran. She started running cross country and track when she was seven and started running competitively when she entered the fifth grade. “I have teammates who have played different sports like basketball, but for me it has just been running. I’ve been running since I was a kid,” Istrate said. Running earned her a spot on the Romanian junior national cross country team in 2006 and 2007. After graduating high school, she ventured to the states for education and to continue her running career. She enrolled at Oklahoma State University and started for the school’s cross country team. However, the freshman experience of Stillwater, Okla. was not quite what she was hoping for. “It was just such a big change and it made it really hard,” Istrate said. “I went home to Romania for the summer after my first year and I didn’t want to come back. I just didn’t feel connected and I didn’t have many friends. It was just different.”
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ALINA ISTRATE LOVES TO RUN
Alina Istrate (above) runs in a cross country meet early this year. The senior is from Galati, Romania.
UCO cross country coach J.D. Martin found out that Istrate wanted to return to Romania for good and he pitched an offer to her to join his team at Central Oklahoma. He explained to her that it is a smaller school than OSU and that she should come tour the campus. Istrate took Martin’s advice and made a visit to Edmond and fell in love. “I visited the campus and met the girls on the team and really liked what I saw,” Istrate said. “There was
just something about it. So I decided to enroll at UCO and it has turned out to be the best decision I’ve ever made.” It turned out to be a great decision for coach Martin and the Lady Bronchos as well. In 2008 Istrate had four top-eight finishes and came in first in the UCO Land Run. She also finished sixth in the Lone Star Conference, earning all-conference honors. Two other notable finishes for Istrate were the OBU In-
vitational where she finished third and the Cowboy Jamboree where she finished eighth, 29 spots better than her finish in 2007 as a Cowgirl. The year 2009 was an injuryplagued season for Istrate. She opened the season up finishing third at the UCO Land Run and finished 15th in the Friends Invitational. She suffered a foot injury and would sit out the rest of the regular season before returning for conference and regional races.
Istrate opened the 2010 season off with a bang. She won the UCO Land Run race and helped pace the Lady Bronchos to the team title as well. The senior standout was off to a fast start until another injury popped up. She missed the following two races and returned to pace the Lady Bronchos to a third place finish in the Bison Invitational in Shawnee. She finished sixth in the race. The Lady Bronchos finished runner up at the Midwestern State Invitational in Wichita Falls, Texas on Oct. 16 and Istrate helped lead the team with a top-ten finish. “This is the best team I’ve ever been on,” Istrate said. “We are really close and we are really talented. It’s not just me. We are good top to bottom and freshman to senior. We have a chance to do really well in conference and regionals.” Istrate has gone through many changes since enrolling at Oklahoma State in 2007. She has since made a name for herself as one of the best runners in the state and the region. She has enjoyed new success, new friends and although Istrate is nearly 6,000 miles away from Romania, she has enjoyed her new home in Edmond.
Oklahoma City Barons
By Chris Wescott / Sports Editor In hockey, there are goal scorers. They are the players that coaches rely on to put the puck in the net on a nightly basis. Their jersey numbers litter the stands, and their highlights are the most memorable. The Oklahoma City Barons of the American Hockey League have such a player in Alexandre Giroux. Giroux, a 6-foot-3 205 pound left wing man out of Quebec City, QC, Canada, has seen his fair share of goals. He is the reigning league scoring leader in the AHL. Giroux scored 50 goals in 69 games with the Hershey Bears during the 2009 season. He added in 53 assists on the year. During the 2008-2009 campaign, Giroux scored an amazing 60 goals, with 37 assists. While his past success is well-documented (seven seasons with 30 or more goals), Giroux is just now hitting his stride for the Barons in their inaugural season. After being held scoreless for the first two games, Giroux has scored four goals and has totaled four assists in the last seven contests. His eight points rank him second on the team behind defenseman Shawn Belle who has nine points (1-8-9). Giroux’s performance drew praise from OKC head coach Todd Nelson following the Barons’ 3-0 win over Lake Erie on Oct. 19. Giroux scored two goals in that game. “Once again, he’s starting to find the back of the net,” Nelson said. Giroux has been more than help-
ful on the power play. The forward has scored two of the six Oklahoma City power play goals this season. He is the only player on the roster with more than one. Perhaps the biggest “Giroux moment” of the season so far happened this Sunday. Oklahoma City battled back from down 1-0 to take a 2-1 lead in their game against the Hamilton Bulldogs. The game, which was nationally televised on NHL Network, got close into the third when the Bulldogs tied the game at two. The game went into overtime, and Giroux was the hero. Alexandre “So Smooth” Giroux fired a shot from the deep slot 3:58 into the extra period and that’s all she wrote. Oklahoma City would snap their two-game skid and move to 4-4-1-0 on the season. Giroux’s recent success is a good sign for an Oklahoma City team that has just begun to tap their potential. With players like Giroux, Linus Omark, Liam Reddox, Belle, Martin Gerber, Colin McDonald and Teemu Hartikainen, the Barons are a talented squad. It is just a matter of getting their goal scorers, like Giroux, the puck and continuing to string together wins.
NOTE: The Barons’ outstanding streak of 35 straight opponent power plays killed, came to an end on Sunday. Hamilton scored on the power play in the third period to end the streak.
From bronchosports.com
UCO SOCCER: BRONCHOS STAMPEDE PIONEERS Amanda Franklin scored her first goal of the season as Central Oklahoma stampeded past Texas Woman’s for a 3-1 Lone Star Conference victory at Tom Thompson Field here Sunday afternoon. After being substituted into the match in the 23rd minute, Franklin scored an unassisted goal from the top of the box in the 25th minute to give the Bronchos a 1-0 halftime lead. Three minutes into the second half, the Bronchos upped the lead to 2-0 when Summer Grantham capitalized on a penalty kick to knock in her third goal of the season.
The Pioneers unleashed six of their 12 shots in the game over the next 15 minutes, but goalkeeper Samantha Rusk helped keep TWU at bay and UCO put the game away late in the contest when #Katy Kashwer# scored from 30 yards out. The Bronchos improved to 8-7-1 on the year and 4-4-1 in the league with the win that opened a three-game regular season-ending homestand. UCO will host West Texas A&M Friday at 4 p.m. before taking on Eastern New Mexico next Sunday.
PHOTO BY STEVEN CHRISTY
GIROUX HITTING STRIDE FOR BARONS
Alexandre Giroux (12) celebrates with Brad Moran following a goal on October 16, 2010.
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