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What are you doing to raise awareness for breast cancer this month?

An Iraq War correspondent shares his thoughts and experiences while in a warzone.

Broncho up! What you need to know about the 2010 homecoming.

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BREAST CANCER AWARENESS

By Chantal Robatteux / Staff Writer

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ctober is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and UCO is hosting some events to help raise awareness about this disease.

According to the American Cancer Society, the most common cancer among women in the United States other than skin cancer is breast cancer. The ACS website said, “Breast cancer is also the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women, after lung cancer.”

Breast cancer has gotten so important, there are many events in October to raise awareness.

The NFL players were wearing pink on their football gear such as on the shoes and gloves, the referees had pink on the whistles and there was a pink ribbon displayed on the field.

Panera Bread also has the Pink Ribbon Bagel to help raise awareness and to support breast cancer organizations such as the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

UCO had events starting Monday, and they are lasting until Saturday, Oct. 9. There will be a Medical Forum today from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Will Rogers Room, Nigh University Center.

Tomorrow, mixers will be sold on the Nigh University Center balcony. It will cost $3 with pink on it, and $5 without the pink.

Saturday is the last day for the Breast Cancer Awareness Week. At 5:30 a.m., one can volunteer for “Race for the Cure” at the Nigh Center.

The ACS website said that getting a mammogram is one of the best things a woman can do to protect her health. Mammograms can find breast cancer early and the earlier the cancer is discovered, the easier it is to treat and the higher the chances of survival.

If a person is 40 years old or older, she should get a mammogram every year.

If a person is in their 20s and 30s, she should have a clinical breast exam as part of a regular exam by a health expert, when possible every three years.

Some signs to look for and to have checked out by a professional to see if it is breast cancer are a lump or swelling, skin irritation or dimpling, or redness or scaliness of the nipple or breast skin.

The ACS said to remember that these signs are most of the time not cancer, but should be checked out by a doctor.

In 2010, the ACS estimated that there were about 207,090 new cases of invasive breast cancer in women in the United States, and in men it was about 1,970 new cases. There will be about 39,840 women deaths from breast cancer, and about 390 men will die from breast cancer.

However, the ACS stated that Breast Cancer death rates have been going down which is assumed to be linked to finding cancer earlier and having better treatment available.

ACS said, “Right now there are more than 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in the United States.”

Another event UCO will be hosting for Breast Cancer Awareness takes place in February.

Courtney James, the assistant director for Campus Activities and Events, said the event is called “Big Pink Volleyball.” It is a week-long volleyball tournament benefiting breast cancer research.

James said, “There’s one huge twist - it’s played with a four-foot pink volleyball.”

She said the tournament will be Feb. 21-24, 2011 at the Wellness Center.

“We have not yet opened registration for the event and probably won’t do so until after Winter Break.

The registration fee will be $5 a person and teams can consist of six or more people,” James said.

Things to Know About Breast Cancer

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According to statistics, 70% of breast cancer lumps are discovered by women during a breast selfexamination, or BSE. Early detection of breast cancer is essential for a favorable prognosis.

Medical experts recommend that all women over 20 years of age conduct a monthly breast selfexamination to look for lumps and other breast changes.

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Breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women, except for skin cancers.

The chance of developing invasive breast cancer at some time in a woman’s life is a little less than 1 in 8 (12%).

The American Cancer Society’s most recent estimates for breast cancer in the United States are for 2010: About 207,090 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women.

About 54,010 new cases of carcinoma in situ (CIS) will be diagnosed (CIS is a noninvasive and is the earliest form of breast cancer).

About 39,840 women will die from breast cancer.

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After increasing for more than 2 decades, female breast cancer incidence rates decreased by about 2% per year from 1998 to 2007.

This decrease was seen only in women aged 50 or older, and may be due at least in part to the decline in use of hormone therapy after menopause that occurred after the results of the Women’s Health Initiative were published in 2002.

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At this time there are over 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in the United States. (This includes women still being treated and those who have completed treatment.)

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A VISIT WITH GOVERNOR HENRY

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DID YOU KNOW? President Dwight D. Eisehnhower was the only president to serve in both WWI and WWII.

Less than a month away from electing a new governor, current governor Brad Henry took time to speak to UCO students in the Lessons in Leadership class on Tuesday, Oct. 5.

Members of the Leaders of Tomorrow, Transfer Leadership Council and President’s Leadership Council, along with UCO and Rose State College faculty and other Broncho classes, congregated in Constitution Hall Tuesday morning to hear Henry share what he considered to be some guiding leadership principles.

Lessons in Leadership is a required class for incoming students into a leadership scholarship program, but enrollment is open to any student who is interested in honing their leadership skills. Along with various activities, students have the opportunity to hear from local (and beyond) successful leaders and innovators.

After a friendly introduction from UCO President Roger Webb, Henry took the stage.

He stated that in examining the lives of great leaders, past and pres-

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Gov. Brad Henry delivers a speech to a Lessons in Leadership class, as well as scholarship groups, other classes and faculty members in Constitution Hall Tuesday, Oct. 5.

ent, there were a number of reoccurring themes.

“Any common denominator among great leaders…is a desire to help people,” Henry said. Ideally, that should

be the main goal of public servants.

Following this line of thought, Henry said, “They were great communicators.” Great communicators in that they were capable of clearly con-

veying a vision and important information with their constituents.

“Sometimes you think you are clear and concise with people,” Henry said, but yet somehow that message can be lost in translation.

Henry is also “a big believer in the power of one.”

He named a number of mega enterprises that were started by one, maybe two people. A lot of them came from the minds of college students, like Facebook, FedEx and Google. FedEx originated from one undergraduate’s term paper. Google was started by someone pursuing their doctorate.

And yet because of those ideas from a few people’s minds, millions of people worldwide have been affected in how they connect with other people and how they gather information.

Henry then presented students with some leadership principles that he found to be particularly useful.

“I have developed a rudimentary group of principles,” he said, and assured students that though they were commonplace, they had the strength

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“I’ve just been reading about all the stuff, and am thinking about going to the walk on Saturday.”

“I work at a hospital and we all wear pink T-shirts and our badges have the breast cancer ribbon.”

“This afternoon, I’m dying a piece of my hair pink with the rest of my sorority.”

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First Amendment

SO TO SPEAK

By Ryan Costello / Senior Staff Writer Drawing lines is a difficult practice.

To determine what actions fall on each side of justice is a challenge when there is leeway, and impossible when there is simply no space for a grey area.

Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will have to do precisely that when the case of Albert Snyder v. Rev. Fred Phelps comes is heard.

Phelps, the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., has earned a reputation for himself and his family of followers by picketing soldiers’ funerals with signs bearing messages like, “Thank god for dead soldiers,” or “You’re going to hell.”

Snyder is the father of Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq in 2006, and whose funeral was one that the Westboro church targeted.

A month after his son’s funeral, Snyder found a post on the Phelps’ website that drove the grieving father to sue Phelps for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Snyder was first awarded $5 million in damages, but the original ruling was overturned by a federal appeals court, and now it is up to the nation’s highest court to rule on the suit.

The first amendment grants a sacred right to citizens; the ability to speak freely is not only a cornerstone of the American way of life, but is also taken for granted when compared to the censorship and opinion stifling that is the norm in China, North Korea, and other oppressive countries across the globe.

But are there limits to the right it establishes?

Slander and libel are both unprotected forms of speech, but it has already been determined that the Phelps’ claims of damnation are no more than extreme opinions.

Also important is whether the Phelps are being granted such power that they are infringing on the liberties of others.

A previously established precedent provides some perspective.

Jerry Falwell, an evangelist that offered similar extreme opinions to those of the Phelps clan, was awarded damages in 1988 when Hustler Magazine published a parody about him.

The claim Falwell made against the magazine, intentional infliction of emotional distress, was the same as Snyder’s against Phelps.

As much pain as the Phelps flock inflicted to the Snyder family, deeming what is and is not protected as free speech is not an exact science.

Taking away rights is a slippery slope to navigate, but there must be a place in legislation for compassion.

“I’m going to attend some of the activities that are hosted, like the Pink Mixer on Friday.”

“Nothing, unfortunately.

If someone asks me about breast cancer, I can tell them about it.”

“I got a breast cancer bracelet at Ann Taylor Loft, where I work.”

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NY Times

By Jessica Bruha / Contributing Writer

Conversation and the warm aroma of coffee drifted through the cold, air-conditioned ballrooms of the Nigh University Center Monday morning in anticipation for the arrival of New York Times correspondent and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Anthony Shadid.

The event, “Consequences Not Intended: Reporting on America’s War in Iraq” began at 10 a.m. It was a free event open to the public.

Shadid, an Oklahoma native, spoke

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The death of a boy at the hands of his father opened the door to killing ... ” about his experiences as a Baghdad Bureau Correspondent. He has been covering the war in Iraq for nearly eight years.

He set the tone almost immediately after stepping onto the stage with a story that defines the war in Iraq more than any other he said. He spoke about the death of a 15-yearold boy, one of three people killed during one of the first U.S. military raids in June 2003, which began the insurgency in Iraq.

“Wild thorns grow among the tombstones,” Shadid said, describing the town in which the death of

the boy occurred. The boy’s death set in motion a chain of events that began once the U.S. military set foot in the town he said. Mourners at the funeral blamed the death of the boy on Sabah, an accused informant for the U.S. military, Shadid said.

Sabah was the next link on the chain of events set in motion. Since the town’s tribe believed he was an informant, they gave his family two choices, kill or be killed. Sabah’s father and brother killed him the next morning, Shadid said.

“Even the prophet Abraham didn’t have to kill his son, there was no other choice,” Shadid said, recalling the words of Sabah’s father.

“The death of a boy at the hands of his father opened the door to killing,” a preacher said who sympathized with Sabah’s family, Shadid recalled.

The consequences of this chain of events that unfolded in 2003 are still an issue in 2010. There is still as much chaos, vengeance, anger and confusion today as there was seven years ago, he said.

Shadid explains this story more in-depth in his most recent book, “Night Draws Near.”

After spending eight years covering the war in the Middle East, Shadid now questions what it was all for. While Saddam Hussein was one of the world’s most sinister dictators, he never had anything to do with Osama Bin Laden and al- Qaida only came to Iraq after we helped

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NEW YORK TIMES WAR JOURNALIST VISITS UCO, RECIEVES BRONCHO SPIRIT AWARD

New York Times writer and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Anthony Shadid, answers questions at a luncheon on Monday, Oct. 4. The event held in the Cherokee room of the Nigh University center was hosted by the American Democracy Project. Dr. Terry Clark, journalism professor and director of the Journalism Hall of Fame, awarded Shadid with the Broncho Spirit Award.

bring them there, Shadid said.

“What price did Iraq have to pay for him to go? What price did this country have to pay for him to go?”

Shadid said. Iraq has now been without electricity and clean water for seven years, unfit conditions for living in the desert.

There have been democracies in the Middle East in the 1940s and

1950s, but Shadid believes it will take time before the insurgency in Iraq is over and has a stable government again. A government cannot be established by another country though, there is still too much fear and anxiousness, Shadid said.

“Every person [in Iraq] has a relative or friend killed,” Shadid said.

Since the raids started in 2003,

there has been constant trauma in Iraq and you can feel that every day as a reporter, he said.

Turkey is involved in negotiations right now and the Kurds are pressing demands in Baghdad that could upset things and create a backlash.

“The war is not over. It will not end for a long time,” Shadid said.

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HENRY

DEFINING MIDDLE CLASS AMERICA

to carry leaders through whatever task was before them.

In closing, Henry reiterated that these principles were nothing fancy, nothing new.

He questioned students to see if they could name the last five Heisman trophy winners, or the last five Academy award winners for best actor. No one in the room rattled off the answers.

He said that while these people may be materially successful, they did not touch the UCO campus personally, so why remember them?

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“Brad’s Eight Principles of Leadership:”

• Believe in yourself • Be willing to take a risk

[Don’t] suffer paralysis by analysis.”

• Turn liabilities into assets

He then asked if students could think of five professors that have helped them out, or even just five people that had been nice to them. All of sudden, that task became easier.

“It’s the little things that make a difference,” he said.

Lauren Sickels, a LOT freshman reflected on the governor’s talk.

“One of things that really intrigued me was his humble nature toward leadership. Although he is a powerful leader in Oklahoma, he is able to view this with a down-to-earth perspective.

He spoke of a list of eight traits to successful leadership and each was not only simple to follow, but each had a sense of humbleness to them. It was quite refreshing to see such an attitude, especially in politics.”

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Dr. Amanda Miller, assistant psychology professor talks about the definition of being middle class.

By Cody Bromley / Staff Writer As usual, the two political parties are clinging to a familiar buzzword that resonates with Americans all over the country: “middle class.”

Both parties cater to the “middle class” in their rhetoric, but surveys show more and more people identifying themselves as part of that group despite large variances in income.

“That’s a very smart rhetoric,” Dr. Amanda Miller, assistant psychology professor, said.

She believes that the politicians use it as a rhetorical tool.

“A lot of the time in sociology it doesn’t matter what is real, it matters what people think is real. Because that is how we’re going to behave. So it doesn’t matter if I’m middle class or not, as long as I think I am, that’s how I’m going to respond,” said Miller.

“There’s two ways we can measure social class. We can measure it from an economic perspective or we can measure it from a behavioral perspective,” she said.

“If you measure it economically, there’s four components,” Miller said. Those four components are income, wealth, education, and occupational prestige. Miller said that sociologist measure these things for one person relative to other people.

For an example, Miller cited her husband and his parents.

“His parents have associates degrees and he has a bachelor’s degree, but that doesn’t mean he moved up in social class,” said Miller. “In 1973, when they got their associates degrees, about 25% of people had them. Now a bachelor’s degree puts you in the top 25% educationally. So he had to get more education to stay at the same social class level.”

“When someone is a college student, obviously their income and probably their wealth is going to be very low compared to other people, so we might want to look at education got them to measure their social class.”

“There’s also a behavioral way of measuring what middle class means, and that’s a lifestyle factor,” Miller said. Taking this approach, sociologists have to investigate what kind of people a person spends their time with, what activities they do, what food they eat, how they practice a religion, and how many kids they have. The list is expansive, and it makes the results “fuzzy.”

“It’s behavioral dimension that is fuzzy. It’s a fuzzy way of defining social class, but I think it’s a more interesting way,” Miller said.

In another example, Miller compared a truck driver and a teacher. She hypothesized that while both people might make a similar amount of money and have a similar amount of wealth, they would lead very different lives and might self-define themselves as different classes.

Early definitions of the term “middle class” can be found in the 1951 book “White Collar” by sociologist C. Wright Mills. In an early chapter, Mills explains what middle class used to mean.

“Throughout the whole of United States history, the farmer is the numerical ballast of the independent middle class,” Mills said in the book.

The evolution of middle class to the way Americans might recognize now is fairly recent based on the timeline of the book.

“In the early nineteenth century, although there are no exact figures, probably fourfifths of the occupied population were selfemployed enterprisers; by 1870, only about

one-third, and in 1940, only about one-fifth, were still in this old middle class,” Mills said in the book.

The famed sociologist also wrote that the rest of the people in the 1940s earned their living by working for the two to three percent of the population who owned forty to fifty percent of the private property in the United States.

Mills’ statements about middle class hold true 60 years later. Miller said, “At least 80 percent of us define ourselves as middle class.”

A Pew Research Center survey had 91 percent of its 2,413 respondents identify themselves as a member of the upper-middle class, middle class, or lower-middle class. The summary for the report said that there was a lot of variance in the respondents.

“Some 53 percent of adults in America say they are middle class. But within this self-defined middle class, there are notable economic and demographic differences. For example, four-in-ten Americans with incomes below $20,000 say they are middle class, as do a third of those with incomes above $150,000,” the report said.

“We have really, really low class-consciousness sin the United States. We have very little idea about our own social class, and where we fit in, and how that impacts our life,” Miller said.

A congressional research service report from 2007, using figures from 2005, would place people with income ranges between $36,000 and $57,660 as being in the middle of total yearly income by a five way population split.

From the data in the congressional research service report, the national “middle income” may be defined, but there are other reasons for which people consider themselves middle class.

Miller has her own hypothesis on middle class self-definition.

“I can go to home to my fancy neighborhood, and I saw, ‘Okay, the Jones are doing a little better than we are, but the Smiths are doing a little worse. I’m right there in the middle,’” she said.

Comparing Oklahoma to the rest of the nation, the state tends to sit in the lowest percentiles for wealth. New Census data puts Oklahoma on the map with the 16th highest state poverty rate at 16.2 percent. The 2009 median household income was $41,664, which is $8,557 below the national median income. Putting this number into the context of the congressional research service report, the median income fits right into the middleincome range. Still, Miller said Oklahomans find a middle class identity.

“I would argue that most Oklahomans would say they are middle class because the real numbers don’t matter that much, it’s what we think about ourselves that matters,” Miller said.

From this, Miller said that in her field she and her colleagues “always define people. We don’t let them self-define because we’re so bad at self-defining.”

“There’s a social desirability about middle class,” she said. Miller paints a picture of a Goldilocks social status where people find themselves in a level of comfort that’s not too poor, but not too elite. Inside that Goldilocks class structure, the American dream sits.

The American dream may be built on the idea of living a middle class life, but the definition of middle class, just like dreams, is largely self-defined.

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Health

SEX STUDY SHOWS TEENS USE CONDOMS MORE OFTEN THAN ADULTS Knowledge and open discussion are the paths to societal change that lead us away from viewing sexuality prirmarily in negative terms and viewing sexuality as part of a life that is wholesome and pleasurable

-Dr. Joycelyn Elders

By Jack Chancey / Staff Writer As America’s teens continue to be inundated with a culture of sex and selfimage, patterns of sexual behavior are surely to change.

To study this, a team of researchers at Indiana University conducted the nation’s largest sex survey since 1994.

Titled the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior (NSSHB), the study is a comprehensive look into the sexual behavior and condom usage of 5,865 adolescents and adults ages 14-94. The research was published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, as a series of nine individual articles.

According to Indiana University, “This survey is one of the most expansive nationally representative studies of sexual behavior and condom use ever conducted, given the 80-year span of ages,” Michael Reece, director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion, said. “These data about sexual behaviors and condom use in contemporary America are critically needed by medical and pub-

lic health professionals who are on the front lines addressing issues such as HIV, sexually transmissible infections and unintended pregnancy.”

The researchers say they believe the findings will be of use to the general public and health professionals. The study shows nearly one in four Americans use a condom during sexual intercourse (one in three if single). Casual sexual partners are twice as likely to use condoms as relationship partners. The study also found that men and women are participating in a greater variety of sex acts than before. This was done by allowing participants to choose from over 40 different sexual acts such as anal, oral, partner masturbation, and female-female. While vaginal intercourse is still the most common sexual activity, researchers have found that sexual events do not always include intercourse but might just include partnered masturbation or oral sex.

According to Indian University, “People are often curious about others’ sex lives,” Debby Herbenick, associate di-

rector of the CSHP, said. “They want to know how often men and women in different age groups have sex, the types of sex they engage in, and whether they are enjoying it or experiencing sexual difficulties. Our data provide answers to these common sex questions and demonstrate how sex has changed in the nearly 20 years since the last study of its kind.”

Unique to this sex survey was the inclusion of adolescents from the age of 14 on.

According to Indiana University, “Many surveys of adolescent sexual behavior create an impression that adolescents are becoming sexually active at younger ages, and that most teens are sexually active,” Dr. Fortenberry said. “Our data show that partnered sexual behaviors are important but by no means pervasive aspects of adolescents’ lives. In fact, many contemporary adolescents are being responsible by abstaining or by using condoms when having sex.”

Additional Sexy Facts • There is enormous variability in the sexual repertoires of U.S. adults, with more than 40 combinations of sexual activity described at adults’ most recent sexual event.

• Many older adults continue to have active pleasurable sex lives, reporting a range of different behaviors and partner types, however adults over the age of 40 have the lowest rates of condom use. Although these individuals may not be as concerned about pregnancy, this suggests the need to enhance education efforts for older individuals regarding STI risks and prevention.

• About 85% of men report that their partner had an orgasm at the most recent sexual event; this compares to the 64% of women who report having had an orgasm at their most recent sexual event. (A difference that is too large to be accounted for by some of the men having had male partners at their most recent event.)

• Men are more likely to orgasm when sex includes vaginal intercourse; women are more likely to orgasm when they engage in a variety of sex acts and when oral sex or vaginal intercourse is included.

• While about 7% of adult women and 8% of men identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual, the proportion of individuals in the U.S. who have had same-gender sexual interactions at some point in their lives is higher.

• At any given point in time, most U.S. adolescents are not engaging in partnered sexual behavior. While 40% of 17 year-old males reported vaginal intercourse in the past year, only 27% reported the same in the past 90 days.

• Adults using a condom for intercourse were just as likely to rate the sexual extent positively in terms of arousal, pleasure and orgasm than when having intercourse without one.

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NORTH KOREAN THREAT ‘EXTREMELY DANGEROUS’

ASK NDREW

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In this June 27, 2008 file photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, the cooling tower of the Yongbyon nuclear complex is demolished in Yongbyon, North Korea, in a sign of its commitment to stop making plutonium for atomic bombs.

By Sangwon Yoon / Associated Press

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A.J. BLACK

wrangled with Washington over how to verify its past atomic activities.

The Institute for Science and International Security said the satellite images showed heavy construction and excavation equipment and trucks at the Yongbyon site and construction of two small buildings near the site of the destroyed cooling tower.

“It is unclear if the activity seen in this image represents preparation for construction of a new cooling tower or preparation for construction of other buildings or structures for some other purpose,” ISIS said.

North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Pak Kil Yon vowed at the United Nations last week that the North would strengthen its nuclear capability in response to what he described as hostile moves by the United States.

North Korea is believed to have enough weaponized plutonium for at least a half dozen atomic bombs.

The North’s plutonium was extracted over a number of years from spent fuel rods from its Yongbyon reactor.

In Tokyo, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell called for “clear signs from the North Koreans that they are prepared to take the steps that they’ve committed themselves to in the past” regarding denuclearization. He spoke to reporters in Tokyo before leaving for South Korea, where he was to meet officials Thursday.

Megan Lindsey: if you had your life to live all over again would you change anything?

I would only change the times that I got caught.

Christie Rawlins: Silk?

I used to work in a bar that had a special martini called the Silk Champagne, and I was notorious for selling it to all the ladies. My buddy, Eric Yates, called me ‘Silk’ one day and it stuck. So, now it is one of my many nicknames, including Blaction, Jackson, Edgewax, and my all-time favorite, Bones.

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The threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear program has reached an “extremely dangerous level,” an adviser to South Korea’s president said in comments published Wednesday.

It was not clear whether the comments by Kim Tae-hyo, President Lee Myung-bak’s deputy national security adviser, were based on new intelligence.

They followed a report last week by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security that satellite images from Sept. 29 showed new construction activity in the area surrounding North Korea’s nuclear reactor.

Kim’s comments were reported Wednesday in the JoongAng Ilbo newspaper. Kim confirmed to The Associated Press that he made the comments Tuesday at a forum on Northeast Asia, but declined to elaborate.

“The North Korean nuclear threat has, in reality, been accelerating and has now reached an extremely dangerous level,” Kim said.

North Korea, which has active nuclear and missile programs, conducted underground atomic tests in 2006 and 2009, drawing tough international sanctions in response.

South Korea, along with the United States, China, Japan and Russia, have been negotiating with the impoverished country since 2003 to get it to dismantle its nuclear facilities, which they consider a threat to regional security.

North Korea, however, pulled out of the talks last year amid an international row over its firing of a suspected longrange missile that the North said was a satellite launch.

“Should North Korea reduce the size of nuclear warheads and use them in actual battle, regardless of their accuracy, they will cause an unbelievable amount of damage,” Kim said.

Most security experts think North Korea remains unable to deliver a nuclear warhead on a missile, but it is believed to be trying to develop this capability and some observers think it may have come close already.

“Although the North Koreans carried out two nuclear tests, analysts in the West doubt that they have successfully loaded warheads onto missiles,” said Kim Tae-woo, a senior research fellow at the state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analysis in Seoul. “But I can say with certainty that they are extremely close.

They might have done so already.”

Presidential adviser Kim said that the North is operating not only its plutonium-producing Yongbyon nuclear facility, but also highly enriched uranium activities elsewhere in the country.

He also suggested that there is potential danger in the emergence of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s youngest son, Kim Jong Un, as his heir apparent.

The younger Kim made his public debut last week after being promoted to fourstar general and vice chairman of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea’s Central Military Commission.

He said Kim was 26 years old and was born on Jan. 8, 1984.

“Kim is young and lacks experience, so there is a chance that he might develop an appetite for yet another risk or be tempted to engage in provocation to prove himself to the outside world,” the presidential adviser said.

Little is known about Kim Jong Un. For the first time, state media reported Tuesday on him observing military exercises with his father.

Under a 2007 deal, North Korea agreed to disable its main nuclear complex in Yongbyon north of Pyongyang in return for 1 million tons of fuel oil and other concessions and in June 2008 blew up the cooling tower. But the disablement came to halt as the North

In this Feb. 14, 2008 file photo released by U.S. researchers who visited North Korea, researcher Siegfried Hecker, fourth from right, is seen in front of the area in which the drive mechanisms for the chopper of fuel cladding and the slitter for the fuel cladding were removed at the Yongbyon Nuclear Center in North Korea.

The threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear program has reached an “extremely dangerous level,” an adviser to South Korea’s president said in comments published Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010.

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Frank Kutilek: Is there really such a thing as a moderate tolerant Muslim? If so, how can you tell?

I would imagine that if there is such a thing as a moderate tolerant Christian, then there must be such a thing as a moderate tolerant Muslim.

I am not sure if I truly understood the nature of the question, so I did a little research on the Internet to see what I could find.

After typing your question directly into the Google search engine I encountered a series of not-so-moderate or tolerant extreme right wing websites. They each made a point to speak about the atrocities of the Muslim faith and the threat that it posed to the rest of the Christian World.

Next, I wanted to see how much of the world was Christian. So, I typed in “religious demographic map,” and clicked on the results for images. I expected there to be a diverse amount of religions on every continent, but the scholarly maps revealed that each religion was extremely segregated by region. When looked at from a historical perspective I noticed that the third world’s religious practices coincided with their past conquerors, and the developed or unconquered areas had their own dominate religion. Christians in Europe, Africa, and the Americas; Muslims in the Middle East; Hindus in India; Buddhists throughout the far East, and a few surviving indigenous religions scattered here and there.

The observable limitation of diversity in any one region forced me to consider how a person chooses a religion in the first place. After thinking about it for a bit, I realized that there are some instances where an adult will convert to another religion or a troubled person will seek solace and direction by turning their life around and following a new path guided by religious principles, but for the most part it is the children who are introduced to the religion of their forefathers at an early age.

Now, I can only speak for myself, but I remember being indoctrinated with Christianity from very early on.

As a child I was dragged to church and prayed before bed every night. I was baptized twice and believed that what I had been taught my whole life was the absolute truth and only way.

As a young man, I was pressured to feel guilty for questioning certain leaps of faith that did not make any sense to me. As an adult, I have to consider the possibility that if I had been born in another region, like the Middle East for example, I would most likely possess a completely different perspective. I might even have been born a Muslim.

So, my question to you is: did you have the chance to explore the infinite possibilities and find your own path; or were you like me and brought up subjectively in the well-intended yet misplaced arms of parents who were just doing what had been done to them? Well, it stops with me. As of now, I subscribe to the ancient Chinese saying that we should, “Look at children as candles to be lit and not bottles to be filled.”

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A protester throws flags and campaign posters of the Ktgyz Ata-Zhurt party into a fire outside its headquarters in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Wednesday. A mob stormed the headquarters of the leading political party in the capital of Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday, days ahead of a decisive parliamentary election in the Central Asian country.

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A truck rests upside down in a Bellemont, Ariz., driveway after a tornado swept through the small community west of Flagstaff on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010.

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OCT. 7, 2010 Homecoming

UCOSA MEMBERS KEEP BUSY

5K RUN, PARADE HIGHLIGHT HOMECOMING AGENDA

By Brittany Dalton / Contributing Writer Halfway through the semester, the UCO Student Association has faced a busy schedule, meeting three times to discuss changes at the university.

The Senate’s first meeting was an introduction for new senators to the organization and its workings. Dr. William Lamb, chair of the Student/Faculty Joint Taskforce on Equitable State Funding, also spoke to the group.

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he members discussed the creation of a Women’s Studies undergraduate and graduate program ... UCO only offers a minor in Women’s Studies.

Lamb spoke about the discrepancy between need and funding at UCO. Currently, UCO is operating at only 32.8 percent of its demonstrated need, making UCO the second-most unfairly funded college in the state. The only college more ‘unfairly funded’ in Oklahoma is Tulsa Community College.

A joint taskforce intended to address the issue of inadequate funding was created in the past spring semester, by both UCOSA and the Faculty Senate.

In the Senate’s second meeting, the members discussed the creation of a Women’s Studies undergraduate and graduate program. While many peer institutions including the University of Oklahoma currently already have such a program, UCO only offers a minor in Women’s Studies.

The Senate has decided to approve legislation which would create this program, in order to keep up with other local institutions. The legislation was approved by the House of Representatives and President Blubaugh.

It will go to Pamela Washington, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and Dr. Radke, provost, for further review.

In the second meeting, the Senate also passed the Student Activities Board Fresh Face Act of 2010. This act would remove organizations which no longer exist, and add new organizations to better represent the student body.

Ucommute is one of the organizations added; it was added because commuters are the largest demographic represented at UCO. At the third meeting, Senate members discussed State Question 744, and the effects its passage would have on UCO as an institute of higher education. Rebecca Burgin, from the One Oklahoma Coalition, spoke against SQ744 at the meeting, then afterward held a question-and-answer session.

David Jenkins, president pro tempore, will present a resolution against SQ744 at the Senate’s next meeting. The meeting will be held on Monday, Oct. 18.

This coming Saturday is the official kick-off to the 2010 “Broncho Up” homecoming celebration.

The name “Broncho Up” comes from a decision made by the homecoming student committee last spring. Courtney James, assistant director for campus activities and events, said that the name had the most UCO spirit from the different choices on the list and defined what it means to be a Broncho.

“It’s the one thing that really culminated it all together,” she said.

James has only been at UCO for five months, but her office is lined with posters and bronze and blue memorabilia.

Four of the posters on her walls advertised different aspects of homecoming week, but others showcased some of her earlier work from Western Illinois University. One of those posters displayed a breast cancer awareness event that took place at WIU involving a four-foot-wide pink volleyball. James is planning for the same event to take place at UCO next February.

The difference between WIU and UCO is vast, and she said that school spirit between the two schools is quantified in different ways, but Bronchos are proud of their heritage.

“Students are so proud to be UCO students,” she said. “Yes they’re proud of their individual organizations, but it’s really that one unifying factor of being a UCO student that brings the UCO population together. I don’t think you see that everywhere, because people can be proud to be in their sorority or proud to be in their fraternity, but very rarely are you on a college campus where people are honestly sincerely proud to be a Broncho.”

Some of the events taking place this year are new additions, but much of what will take place during the week is what have become homecoming week traditions. The homecoming parade, window painting and a 5K run are all making an appearance this year.

James was not here last year for the controversial library window painting, but said that of the sketches that have

Kick-off for the 2010 “Broncho Up” homecoming begins Saturday with Girl Talk, featuring Kevin Ruddolf at Plunkett Park. Other events will take place during the week.

been turned in so far, she does not believe there will be any problems.

New to homecoming week 2010 is the homecoming carnival Wednesday night, the bonfire set to take place Thursday night, and the daily Broncho Jeopardy sessions in the Nigh University Center.

Another new part of homecoming is the “Broncho Cup” trophy. James described the trophy as four-foot-tall “mini-Stanley cup.” The award would be a traveling trophy passed between homecoming winners year after year.

“Our hope is we’re going to get it this one year, and have it for the next forty,” she said.

This year, the parade will take place 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 16. The parade will work its way around University Drive, turn onto Ayers, Broadway and then finish on Main. James said that 60 floats have been entered into the parade this year, with only four from Greek organizations.

“I’m really excited to see the parade because it’s literally going to be a huge collaborative effort of everyone on campus,” James said. “It’s going to be so many different people, so many different student organizations, people from all sorts of cultures and backgrounds. We have Cycling Club coming, to G.A.T.E. coming, to Student Programming Board

coming. It’s just going to be really cool because we have so many organizations working together for the same thing.”

Homecoming week festivities will finish up after the parade with a tailgate party. There will be free food as well as performances by musicians from ACM, all starting at noon just west of Wantland Stadium. The football game will start at 2 p.m. at Wantland Stadium.

“Homecoming is a huge expression of UCO’s pride. It’s a really fun and cool event to be a part of,” James said.

With the exception of the 5K run, which costs $15 per entrant, every other event is free to UCO students. Homecoming shirts will be available in the Campus Activities and Events office starting Monday morning for $5. Not quite free, but James said the price is strictly covering the cost of production.

For students interested in volunteering to help with homecoming festivities, James said they are still looking for some volunteers. She said students can email homecoming@uco.edu for more information.

For up-to-the minute homecoming news and alerts, the homecoming committee has setup a Facebook page (http:// www.facebook.com/ucohomecoming) and a Twitter account (http://www.twitter.com/ucohomecoming).

GIRL TALK TO BRING PARTY TO PLUNKETT

By Elizabeth Hillin / Staff Writer

Get ready to dance it out this weekend with mash up master, Girl Talk. As part of UCO’s homecoming celebration a free concert will be held at Plunkett Park Saturday evening. Doors open at 7:00 and the opening acts for the concert are Kids at the Bar and Kevin Rudolf.

Girl Talk is DJ Greg Gillis, a Pittsburgh native who works as a biomedical research engineer by day and a mash up electronic music wizard by night. Gillis is known for his high energy live performances that invite crowd participation. He mashes together recognizable hit songs with

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David Jenkins, President Pro Tempore of UCOSA, plans to present a resolution against State Question 744 at the Senate’s next meeting, Monday, Oct. 18.

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Student Gov.

Gregg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, will bring his dj skills to UCO for a one night party.

his body moving beats. What is created is an unforgettable dance party.

Audience members should not be surprised to find themselves wet from sweat and wrapped in toilet paper after the show.

The live performances have been known to include “tp” bombs throughout the crowd. Last New Year’s Eve in Chicago, Girl Talk came out with a two-story, fiveroom house equipped with flushable toilets. Earlier this year at Nocturnal Fest in Texas, a giant hair dryer sprayed the crowd with toilet paper.

The next stop on the tour for Gillis will be at Moogfest in Asheville, N.C. Girl Talk

moved crowds in the past at major festivals like Bonnaroo, Coachella and Austin City Limits and recently at Lollapalooza.

The latest album from Girl Talk, Feed the Animals, was released in 2008 and can be found on his label’s website, Illegal Art. The website said the fourth album continues his sonic evolution towards his party-infested live shows.

It includes materials collected from two years of live shows.

For the album, Gillis edited together a seamless album that combines 300+ samples.

Gillis told Billboard.com that Feed the Animals has been developed around his live set, something that has been ever evolving over the

last two years.

“For the final editing process, I probably worked eight hours a day, Monday through Friday, for about three months,” he reported.

“I worked very hard to make it sound like I didn’t work hard.”

Gillis has spent this summer working on the follow up album set to release early next year.

Opening for Girl Talk will be Oklahoma’s own Kids At The Bar. The party will continue with Kevin Rudolf. Kids At The Bar is the musical project of Oklahoma City’s DJ and producer Rad and studio producer/engineer Matt Buckley. Their mixture of electro, punk, hip-hop and rock will start the show off just as big as it will finish.

Kevin Rudolf is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Rudolf is currently signed to Cash Money Records/Universal Republic.

Born in New York City, he is currently based out of Miami, Fla. Rudolf’s debut single, “Let It Rock,” was released in late 2008 and reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100.

This show is en route to be one of the best performances on campus thus far. Get those dancing shoes on and be ready to kick off UCO’s homecoming celebration Saturday night at Plunkett Park.

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By Michael Collins / Sports Writer UCO’s football team will be looking to put back-to-back wins for the first time this season this Saturday against Eastern New Mexico University. The Bronchos are fresh off their thrilling win against East Central University and the Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds are coming off an 11-point loss to Southwestern Oklahoma State University.

For the Bronchos, their offensive game plan this week should be focused on exploiting the Greyhound run defense. With Josh Birmingham averaging close to 110 yards a game rushing, and the Greyhound defense giving up over 200 yards a game on ground, this could be a huge day for Birmingham. Birmingham also has eight touchdowns on the season thus far, so he could possibly reach the double-digit mark in touchdowns with a good game.

The strength of the Greyhound defense could prove to be tricky for the Bronchos young quarterback Ethan Sharp. Their defense only allows 190 yards a game through the air, and has been an opportunistic defense so far this season. For the young Sharp, who has almost 1,200 yards and 11 touchdowns passing this season, this game will be a true test of his maturity.

For the UCO defense, it is the same old story when it comes to the stat sheet. And while some people say stats do not lie, the Broncho rushing defense is a little inflated due to the powerhouse running teams they have faced so far this season. On the ground the Bronchos are giving up 198 yards a game, through the

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UCO wide receiver Greg Everidge runs touchdown in last weekend’s 31-28 win over ECU. The Bronchos are currently 2-3.

air they only give up 192 yards a game. They have forced opposing quarterbacks to throw seven interceptions so far this season. The

defensive front for Bronchos has also had 21 tackles for loss, and four sacks.

Stats only go so far in determining ball

games though, what really will decide this game are turnovers, time of possession, and the individual match-ups. Teams that win the turnover battle are never out of a game, even though it is possible to lose a game and commit less turnovers, it is highly unlikely for a team to get blow out when winning the turnover battle. Time of possession so far this season is a wash for the Bronchos, they are almost dead even with opposing teams. Even though Birmingham bangs out yards left and right, the Bronchos are a spread offense that likes to run a fast break-type of offense. So while they will never probably dominate this category, they can do their best to keep their defense off the field as much as possible.

On a positive side note, the Broncho redzone offense has been pretty good so far this season. They have scored 88 percent of the time they have entered the opponent’s 20yard line. Seventy-one percent of the time they have produced touchdowns. While that might not seem to be to impressive, in contrast, the Broncho defense is surrendering points only 76 percent of the time when teams line up in their red-zone.

It must be an Oklahoma thing this year; all the state schools have a flair for the dramatic.

OU, OSU, and UCO have all encountered multiple games this season that were not decided until the final minutes. Good teams or bad teams, it does not matter, this game will probably come down to the wire. If the Bronchos can keep their mistakes, to a minimum they should be able to assert the will against the Greyhounds.

From bronchosports.com

BEAVERTON, Ore. (Oct. 5) – Central Oklahoma earned a spot in the men’s basketball rankings Tuesday when the Bronchos came in No. 18 in the Division II Bulletin Preseason Top 25 Poll.

UCO has seven lettermen back from last year’s 22-7 team that won a third straight Lone Star Conference North Division championship and made the NCAA Division II national tournament for the fifth time in six years.

Defending national champion Cal PolyPomona topped the poll, followed by Findlay and St. Cloud State. Two other LSC teams made the rankings, with Tarleton State coming in No. 8 and Midwestern State No. 13.

UCO will play both those teams at home during a three-day span this season, hosting TSU on Jan. 6 and MSU on Jan. 8.

The Bronchos of eighth-year head coach Terry Evans are led by returning All-American Dauntae Williams, while Shane Carroll, Tyler Phillips and Brent Friday were all part-time starters last year.

UCO begins practice on Oct. 15 and will meet Oklahoma City in an exhibition game Nov. 4 before playing an Alumni game Nov. 6. The Bronchos open the season Nov. 12-13 at the High Desert/South Central Challenge in Las Vegas, taking on No. 19 Central Missouri in the second day of that event.

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Division II Bulletin Preseason Top 25 Poll 1. Cal Poly-Pomona 2. Findlay 3. St. Cloud State 4. Indiana (Pa.) 5. Florida Southern 6. Bellarmine 7. Bentley 8. Tarleton State 9. Grand Valley State 10. St. Joseph’s 11. South Carolina-Aiken 12. Rollins 13. Midwestern State 14. Seattle Pacific 15. Metropolitan State 16. West Liberty 17. Merrimack 18. Central Oklahoma 19. Central Missouri 20. Alabama-Huntsville 21. Drury 22. Virginia Union 23. Philadelphia 24. BYU-Hawaii 25. Mount Olive

Dauntae Williams (above) leaps in the air to catch a rebound in a game in 2009. The Bronchos are ranked 18th in the nation in the 2010-2011 Division II preseason poll.

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Sports Column

By Chris Wescott / Sports Editor In week four of fantasy football, team Kenny Powers suffered a devastating and humiliating defeat at the hands of team Vic is Inevitable. It was not the score that was so devastating, my team lost 92-82, it was the nature in which they lost.

Going into the Monday night football game between the New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins, team Kenny Powers trailed by seven points, with a player on each team left to play. My opponent had Wes Welker (wide receiver, New England) and I was starting Ronnie Brown (running back, Miami). Exciting right? Not so much.

The Dolphins decided to play stupid and trust the arm of Chad Henne to beat the Patriots. How’d that work out for you Miami? Oh, that’s right. New England dominated and won the game 41-14. A little advice to you Miami for the next time you are contemplating having your quarterback, Chad Henne, win you the game through the air; don’t. Run the football instead.

Thanks to the whopping four points scored

by Brown, and the seven scored by Wes Welker, I came up short. But the worst thing to come out of the loss was the fact that it dropped my team to 2-2 and pushed me two games back of first place. Had I won, I would have been in first place in my division with a pretty easy schedule ahead.

At 2-2 through the first two weeks, I find

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THE CLICK FOR GLORY: TOUGH LOSS myself searching for answers. By-weeks are

McCoy (Philadelphia), is questionable with

Philadelphia Eagles running back LeSean McCoy (25) is tackled by Jacksonville Jaguars safety Courtney Greene (36) in the first quarter during an NFL football game in Jacksonville, Fla., Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)

starting soon and my bench players will replace my starters periodically. But it’s not just the strategy of moving players around that has me worried.

One of my starting running backs, LeSean

a rib injury. Which leaves my running back corps, who were already thin, starving for a playmaker.

C.J. Spiller (Buffalo) should get more carries this week with former starting running

back Marshawn Lynch getting traded to the Seattle Seahawks on Tuesday. Before you ask, I do have Lynch on my bench. He has a chance to find himself in Seattle, but it may take a week or two.

Ronnie Brown will sit this week out as Miami is on a much needed by. So my rushers are stretched thin. I may drop my second game in a row, moving me to 2-3. Ouch.

I have placed waiver claims on a few players that may help bolster my running back corps. Aside from that, I am just having to weather the storm. Perhaps a trade is in the near future. Team Kenny Powers always keeps its head on a swivel, looking to improve each position.

This week I play a team who will be stocked at talent at the wide receiver position with Miles Austin (Dallas) and Roddy White (Atlanta). While Tom Brady (quarterback, New England) will be sitting due to a by week, my opponent still has Donovan McNabb (Washington) as a backup.

In order to win this week I will need above average performances from several key players, including Spiller, Drew Brees (quarterback, New Orleans) and Reggie Wayne (wide receiver, Indianapolis).

Team Kenny Powers is at a cross roads and turning point in my inaugural season of fantasy football. My team will either push through the adversity in front of it and win a few games in a row, or I could be in for a long stretch of losing in the near future.

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RICHARDSON, Texas (Oct. 4) – Central Oklahoma’s Chris Robbs has been named Lone Star Conference North Division Special Teams Player of the Week for his performance in helping lead the Bronchos to a 31-28 come-from-behind win over East Central last Saturday.

The sophomore place-kicker scored seven points in the victory, hitting all four extra point tries and his lone field goal attempt.

Robbs nailed a career long-tying 45-yard field goal on the final play of the first half to cut what had been 14-0 and 21-7 deficits to 21-17 and he added two second-half PATs as UCO completed the comeback.

It’s the second time this season that Robbs has won the weekly award. He ranks fifth in the league in kick scoring with 33 points, having hit 18-of-19 PATs and 5-of-6 field goals.

The Bronchos, 2-3 on the year and 1-0 in North Division play, go to Eastern New Mexico for another LSC North contest this Saturday afternoon.

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