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Are you and anyone you know being affected by the unemployment crisis?

Three faculty and staff members were awarded for their service to transfer, commuter and nontraditional students.

The School of Music and Fine Arts and Design will perform “A Night at the Opera Workshop: A Night of Classics” from Nov. 9-11.

UCO Rugby capped off its season with a 59-7 defeat at the hands of the No. 2 Arkansas Razorbacks.

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CANS FOR When Taylor Hildendbrand arrived at UCO, he already had a passion for volunteering and had done extensive work with Habitat for Humanity.

During a retreat before college, he was introduced to a new budding organization called Cans for Africa. The idea had been brewing for a few years, but it did not take off until Hildenbrand took on the challenge.

“CFA didn’t start with me, but the collection of cans took off with me. I took it from being a really great idea to being a baby organization,” Hildenbrand said.

“From this infant baby stage I really tried to develop…awareness on campus…and we’re still working on awareness with the community.”

After developing the core ideas, the organization grew

AFRICA

By Valerie Sebestyen / Contributing Writer

into a process of collecting cans and raising awareness.

The idea behind the organization is to help Africa specifically. The cans are used for organizations and entrepreneurs in Africa to help their economy grow and hopefully settle some disputes in the long run. Hildenbrand is thankful for his engagement in the UCO community through can collection for the organization, and in turn helping those across the globe.

“We have anywhere from 150,000-300,000 cans stored currently waiting to be cashed in to help with the organization that we’re currently working with, Kiva. I think the fourth biggest hill is Edmond…our hill of cans,” Hildenbrand said.

Hildenbrand could not do all of the work by himself, which is why he needed someone else to help him organize and continue the organization when he graduates. Billy Elles just happens to be that individual. Elles heard about Cans for Africa through an information booth set up on campus selling shirts. Elles, after buying a shirt, was interested because he liked the idea of collecting cans to exchange for money, rather than flat out asking for money.

“We just throw away cans, and don’t even think about the fact they’re worth something. It’s an easy process you can always engage in,” Elles said. In essence, Cans for Africa recycle for a profit and then donates the money to philanthropy in Africa.

This year, the money is going to fund different entrepreneurs in African villages to help start businesses to provide jobs and resources.

This will hopefully spark something long term for their economic future, and stimulate job growth so people may earn a living genuinely.

To get out the word of the baby organization, Elles explained that Cans for Africa works with other organizations to raise

awareness.

“Last year we worked with Student Programming Board and Broncho Buddies to set up pop can booths and contests. We sell drinks in cans and have people recycle them when they’re done drinking them. They get a cool drink, and at the same time help people in another country. It’s great.”

Elles and Hildenbrand are excited for the future of the organization, and both have expressed their passion towards helping the less fortunate, especially in this college student friendly way.

To get involved, students may attend a G.I.V.E. meeting and speak to any executive members. Following the meeting on Oct. 24, subsequent meetings will be held every other Sunday at 8 p.m. in the Murdaugh Hall lobby.

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FALLIN PREPARES STUDENT FULFILLS DREAM, TO TAKE OFFICE JOINS PEACE CORPS

DID YOU KNOW? Oklahoma is home to roughly 200 man-made lakes, more than any other state in the USA. The state has 2,000 miles of shoreline and over one million surface-acres of water.

Last week, a little more than one million Oklahomans flocked to polls around the state to cast their ballot for governor. At the time polls closed, news stations were predicting the election as a win for then Congresswoman Mary Fallin.

As results came in from the precincts, the results confirmed that Fallin would indeed by the first female governor of the state of Oklahoma.

Governor-elect Fallin will assume her office on Jan. 11 of next year, but with 65 days between now and then, the campaign still has work to do. Alex Weintz, spokesman for the governor-elect, said over the phone that the campaign is working on its plans between now and then.

“The next step for the governor-elect is to build her transition team so that she can make sure that we’ve got a staff in place and we can hit the ground running in January when she’s sworn in as governor,” Weintz said.

Part of the plans to hit the ground running include tackling some of the bigger issues Fallin promised to conquer during her campaign.

“The first is addressing our economy,” Weintz said. “What can we do to make the economy better and create jobs? We’re in a recession and Governor Fallin ran on the platform that she was going to make Oklahoma more business friendly, create

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Mallory Varner, a senior humanities major is departing in June to serve with the Peace Corps.

By Brittany Dalton / Staff Writer This summer will mark the fruition of a lifelong dream for one of UCO’s own.

Mallory Varner, a senior majoring in humanities, has been accepted into the Peace Corps and will be leaving shortly after graduation.

“My tentative departure date is June 2,” Varner said. “I am going to Bolivia, Belize or Peru…it depends on what country needs me most.”

Varner speaks a little Spanish, but is not fluent.

“That’s okay though,” she said. “The process is that you spend three months in the host country, and in that time, you focus on the culture and integration. By the end of the tour, I’ll definitely be fluent.”

Varner’s category is farming and agriculture.

“I have a fairly substantial background in farming which focuses mainly on families’ production, for feeding just their family. I have worked with a few organizations in farming.”

Varner also volunteers at the Food Bank of Oklahoma.

“As long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to join the Peace Corps,” Varner said. “I started the application process my senior year of high school at Choctaw. But I realized that I would need more marketable skills.”

Varner noted that for her, helping others is

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PUZZLING FADS

By Josh Hutton / Staff Writer History defines generations by philosophies, religions, conquests, but more than any other factor, generations are defined by fads. From the powdered wig to the Chia pet, mankind loves hopping on the good ole’ bandwagon.

Our grandparents were into The Lone Ranger and war propaganda, our parents were into moon boots and the Bee Gees, and we were into flesh-eating Cabbage Patch Dolls, and the epitome of 90s culture, Pogs. How did the wacky game of Pogs arrive on the scene?

The past is a tad bit gray on the origins. Some contend that the game had a precursor played by the Japanese in the 13th century, but most fad historians believe it arose from a Hawaiian subculture. They got bored of riding waves and catching rays all day, and decided to start stacking the paper caps from their POG (Passion Fruit, Orange, and Guava) juice bottles. Naturally this was absurdly mundane until someone hit the pile with a rock, and TAH-DAH, the slammer was born. Eventually, some flight attendant took the game back to the continental United States, so yes, Pogs started in a way very similar to AIDS. Once it arrived onto the Nirvana-loving, Quentin Tarantino-quoting 90s scene, all of us cross-eyed beautiful young’uns lapped it up like a parched beagle with a mouthful of peanut butter on a brutal July day. It seemed like the fun would never end. Well, until school districts across the states saw it as a form of gambling, so the powers that be did what they always do best: ban joy- much like they did with Surge soda, Carrot Top, and most recently Four Loko.

Since the Pog collapse of 1995, there have been several attempts to rule the fad realm. For example, Tickle Me Elmo, Giga Pets, Pokemon and now Justin Bieber. The problem is that all fads suffer from the same fatal flaw. They are really stupid. So according to the transitive property, children are also stupid. That is why when we reach adulthood, we purge our childish ways by growing beards, wearing vests and getting tramp stamps.

Fads are an enigma. A pointless, whimsical distraction, that in the grand scheme of life makes just about as much sense as fraternities. So while you are feasting upon your microwave dinner, beware of flashy commercials with relentless jingles.

There is nothing worse than a lifetime filled with remorse for all the ridiculous trends we subscribed to.

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TO WRITE LOVE KICKS OFF

By Emily Davis / Contributing Writer UCO’s chapter of the national organization, To Write Love On Her Arms, kicked off their first campus meeting last week, and has “hope” for the organization’s future on campus.

UCO student Kellen Hodgeson brought TWLOHA to UCO, and has high expectations for student response to the organization on campus.

“At UCO, we have the counseling center and things like that, but there’s no group on campus that’s outwardly seeking out those students that are hurting or that are struggling with things like depression, or anxiety or self-injury.”

The mission statement for TWLOHA is, “a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide.

TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also invest directly into treatment and recovery.”

“That’s what were here to do, to reach out to those students and let them know that they’re not alone, and that their friends and fellow students are here to support them and hold them up…to spread hope and show all of them that hope is out there and that help is real and that recovery is possible,” Hodgeson said.

Dr. Tamara Reeves is the adviser for TWLOHA, and also works with students who are dealing with mental health issues, as well as substance abuse. Reeves said that this organization can really benefit the campus because the counseling center is not where students typically turn to first.

“We’re not the first line people that students talk to, it’s other students...really it’s your friends and classmates that are going to be able to determine if you’re having those symptoms (depression, suicide), and they can serve as a bridge to get students to the help that they need on campus,” she said.

The reason behind Hodgeson starting the chapter on campus is because of past experiences he’s had in dealing with suicide.

“This summer, I lost a fraternity brother to suicide and I had already brought the chapter here at that point, but that was even more inspiration to do the best that I could with this on campus, and spread it across UCO,” he said.

Students who attending the organizations meetings will also have the opportunity to join. Members will get QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) training, as well as training in other areas of mental health. In addition to the training, members will be raising awareness across campus.

“It serves as a small task force of students that can help people get to the resources available, to help raise awareness, and provide community service opportunities specific to mental health,” Reeves said.

While there is another organization on campus that deals with substance abuse, TWLOHA is the first group that deals with general mental illness, filling a void for this type of group on campus said Reeves.

Although the group is in its infant stage on campus, Reeves said there are big plans in the works for the organization. A couple of weeks ago, Reeves said the group set up a booth to help with a book called “Six-word Memoirs.” TWLOHA officers set up a booth and had students sum up their life in six-words.

Reeves said many students participated in the project and that some of the entries will be published in the book.

Hodgeson and Reeves both have high hopes for what TWLOHA can bring to UCO’s campus.

“I hope that we are able to decrease the stigma attached to mental illness on campus. A lot of students don’t want to talk about it; they definitely don’t want to talk about suicide, which I think [will] increase the statistics on our campus of the number of people that suffer through it or end [up] being successful at it,” Reeves said.

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‘FRIENDLY’ FACULTY, STAFF RECEIVE AWARDS

Brandt Smith, coordinator of Commuter Student Services, said the awards were distributed Thursday to Dr. Douglas Hurt, Dr. David Bass, and Nathan Woolard.

Smith graduated from the Univeristy of Oklahoma in May this year with a degree in Human Relations and has been with UCO for 11 days.

By Chantal Robatteux / Staff Writer During UCO’s Commuter, Off-Campus and Nontraditional Student Week, three faculty members were honored for their service to these student groups.

Any commuter, nontraditional or transfer student was able to nominate any faculty or staff member.

“The award is a nice trophy, a card from us thanking them for reaching out to this particular population and we also [prepare] a basket of cookies for them,” Brandt Smith, coordinator of Commuter Student Services, said.

He said there are three separate awards: the “Friend of the Commuter” award, the “Friend of the Nontraditional Student,” and “Friend of the Transfer Student.”

There were also other events during the Commuter, OffCampus and Nontraditional Student Week.

One was Broncho Jam, which took place Wednesday and featured live music at the Jazz Lab. Thursday, they distributed the awards, and Friday they went around to all the departments for Faculty and Staff Appreciation Day. This year’s award recipients were: Dr. Douglas Hurt, History and Geography – Friend of the Nontraditional Student; Nathan Woolard, Transfer Student Support Center – Friend of the Transfer Student; Dr. David Bass, Biology – Friend of the Commuter Student.

Douglas Hurt, an associate professor of geography, has been at UCO for six years. He is a cultural-historical geographer.

Hurt said, “I teach classes like regional geography of the world, historical geography of North America, and geographic skills.”

He said it was a very nice surprise to receive the award and

PEACE CORPS something she is passionate about.

“I chose the Peace Corps because it’s more personal. I get most of my enjoyment out of helping others. I try to volunteer whenever I can.”

She mostly dedicates her time in educational ways, such as tutoring students, proofreading essays or helping students study for tests.

“The satisfaction I get is the look on other people’s faces, once they get this notion that they’re worthy and that someone else cares for them. I get gratitude from seeing someone else’s face light up after we’ve come through a lifechanging event together, or after we’ve cried together.”

After her three months in the host country to immerse her in the culture, Varner will have a 24-month commitment.

“Most volunteers actually end up extending their stay,” Varner said. “I may, it depends on how I feel about it when the time to decide comes.”

If given the choice, Varner would go to either India or the Middle East to volunteer.

“I would like to go and help work for women’s rights there,” she said. “I would promote the idea that women are not second-class citizens.”

Varner noted that volunteering is a great way to give back to a community.

“I definitely think there is a loss of touch with humanity, in our genera-

tion,” she said. “But volunteering gets down to the basic levels of human need. Our survival is based on one another. Our happiness is based on one another. And through volunteering, you can actually feel that connection.”

Though many people feel more generous around the holidays, Varner believes there should not be a set time to volunteer one’s time to help others.

“Time should not orient when caring and compassion exist,” she said.

She added that there are many small ways a person can volunteer to make a difference in someone’s life, such as volunteering time with a teen help hotline.

“It’s just talking,” she said. “Even though it doesn’t seem like much, you probably brightened their day. There’s more to it than giving money, or getting your hands dirty.”

Dr. Siegfried Heit, professor of humanities and adviser for the Fulbright scholarship program, agreed.

“There is something young students can do, they can work in third-world countries, they can teach.”

“It takes dedication and commitment,” Heit said. “What is great about the Peace Corps is that the people are dedicated, and committed. Because the pay is not that good, and the conditions are not always the best.”

Though publicizing the benefits of volunteering could be helpful and could urge others to participate, it may

also have its drawbacks.

“I think publicizing volunteering is kinda contradictory,” Varner said. “Volunteering should be out of the goodness of one’s heart, not to get attention or praise.”

Heit added that the monetary value is not the value that should be gained from volunteer experience, and likens it to the job of professors.

“We don’t see it in dollars and cents, but we can see the progress we make,” he said. “It’s not about the money, it’s about helping students, or other people, reach a new understanding, and a new appreciation.”

The opportunities to serve are available on any level, and it is just a matter of seeking them out. Varner believes everyone should at the least, apply to be a part of a volunteer organization, be it domestic or international.

Heit agrees. “I think every student should consider a year of service on a local, community or international level.

A year, or maybe two or three.”

“We should individually seek these opportunities out,” Varner said. “We need to individually have that desire to reconnect with other people. And it makes a difference when you volunteer. You’ll feel better about yourself, and you’ll also make others feel better about themselves.”

completely unexpected.

“You never know who is knocking on your door, but I didn’t think that it would be folks delivering an award. It’s always nice to get recognized for your work, of course.”

Hurt said it was Candace Carollo who nominated him. “[She is] one of our geography alumni who graduated last summer.”

He said she was working full-time on campus and attempting to complete her geography degree.

“Because of her work commitments, she took several independent study classes with me. One of them was a research project on tourism in Cambodia,” Hurt said.

He added she spent several weeks in Southeast Asia and thanks to her project, she has been asked to discuss her research findings in several classes on campus and has also presented her work at a geography conference.

“I was able to guide her through the process of completing her independent research, encourage her to present her findings in an academic environment and be a sounding board as she considers her future employment and graduate school options,” Hurt said.

His award is in his home office.

Hurt said, “I wanted to share it with my family and my kids enjoyed playing with the balloons that came with it.”

He said many aspects of his job, like most other faculty at UCO, are not visible to students.

“It’s always nice to be recognized for your hard work and I’m very happy to have some small role in the success of our geography majors and alumni,” Hurt said.

He thinks supporting students with varied backgrounds and life demands while working with them on a one-to-one basis is one of the things UCO does very well.

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You never know who is knocking on your door, but I didn’t think that it would be folks delivering an award. It’s always nice to get recognized for your work, of course.”

“If we can’t take the time to listen to their needs and help our students prepare for the future, then why are we here?”

Hurt said.

Woolard is the transfer counselor and communications coordinator and has been working at UCO for three years.

Woolard is also teaching American national government and is a Success Central adjunct.

He said he was very surprised because he was out of his office last week and did not know about any award; he found out about through the interview request for this article.

Woolard said, “I have been out of the office this week and found out via [the reporter]. A little confused as to what it was.”

He added he does not know who nominated him and that he will display the award in his office.

“There’s an actual award? Awesome! I’ll put it in my office on display when received,” Woolard said.

He added he is very appreciative of the award.

Woolard said, “It is definitely a surprise. I really hope that transfer students feel comfortable on the UCO campus and that is what our office intends to provide. I would even suggest my partner, George Anaya, is more of a friend to transfer students than I. George really goes out of his way to provide a great environment to transfer students all the time.”

He joked that receiving the award may affect his career.

“I may carry it around with me in the halls just to remind my colleagues,” Woolard said.

David Bass, a professor of biology, who has been working at UCO for 26 years, received the third award, the Friend of the Commuter award. Bass is also the coach of the UCO sailing team.

He said, “It’s always nice to be recognized,” and said that UCO’s sailing team nominated him.

Bass said he received cookies and a trophy. “[The] cookies were the best part; [I] can’t eat the trophy,” Bass said.

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THOUSANDS FLEE FROM INDONESIA’S MOUNT MERAPI

WITH BY PHOTO BY BINSAR BAKKARA

A volunteer directs residents flee their homes as Mount Merapi releases volcanic material into the air in Cangkringan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 1, 2010. Indonesia’s most volatile volcano unleashed its most powerful eruption in a deadly week Monday, spewing searing clouds of gas and debris thousands of feet (meters) into the air. There were no immediate reports of new casualties.

time,” said Surono, a state volcanologist.

The overall toll since the eruptions started Oct. 26 climbed from 138 to 141 after more bodies were found on the mountain, the National Disaster Management Agency said.

Authorities have cleared people from a danger zone that is now 12 miles (19 kilometers) from the peak and are preventing them from returning. Nearly 280,000 people have jammed into emergency shelters they say lack enough toilets or clean drinking water.

Experts say the biggest threat to Yogyakarta isn’t from the sky but rather the Code River, which flows into the city’s heart from the 9,700-foot (3,000-meter) mountain. The river could act as a conduit for deadly volcanic mudflows that form in heavy rains, racing at speeds of up to 60 mph (100 kph).

Black volcanic sludge has already inundated one city neighborhood that slopes up a hill just above the river. In Romomangun, the mud burst the riverbanks and poured into buildings.

Indonesia, a vast archipelago of 235 million people, is prone to earthquakes and volcanoes because it sits along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” a horseshoe-shaped string of faults that lines the Pacific Ocean.

A.J. BLACK I have a fever, a sickness, and my prescription of cowbell is almost out of refills. Life may be a series of addictions, and there is nothing sexy about denial. We as a people are doomed to destruction from the moment of our inception.

Doomed to slowly decay and deteriorate right before our very own eyes, but that is no reason to throw ourselves a pity party.

I have recently been diagnosed with Senioritis; a terrible affliction that affects both the mind and the body of a student on the brink of graduation. Because college isn’t a place you go to, it is a lifestyle, and I don’t want to grow up just yet.

We are taught to anticipate the milestones of a lifetime, to always look forward to the next rite of passage, like the feeling you had as a kid, impatiently waiting to find out what secrets are hidden behind the brightly wrapped paper underneath the Christmas tree.

I remember the first time I drove- legally. It doesn’t feel like yesterday though. It feels more like a lifetime ago. A freshlylaminated license to drive, then a fresh pack of cigarettes, my first beer at a bar that i.d.’s, and finally the insurance reduction rate that comes along with the ripe age of twenty-five years old.

We are expected to decide what we want to do with ourselves. Should we go to graduate or law school? Or maybe teach? Should we move to the hills, become an obscure hippy writer and stock up on guns, beans, rice, and water or maybe just finish our degree program in the Liberal Arts and become a bartender, like Tom Cruise in “Cocktails.”

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he gift and curse of being human is our incompleteness. The story is never over until it is over, whether there is a fat lady there to sing about it or not.

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By Sarah DiLorenzo / Associated Press Trains, buses and rented autos were crammed with Indonesians leaving a bustling, ash-choked city of 400,000 at the foot of Mount Merapi, which roared again Monday with explosions of volcanic gas and debris.

Authorities put Yogyakarta on high alert but haven’t ordered evacuations of the university town some 20 miles (30 kilometers) from the peak. Many residents are leaving on their own, and neighborhoods on the edge of the city looked like ghost towns, houses shuttered, some with laundry still hanging outside.

“What choice do we have?” asked Sukirno, 37, as he sped away with his wife and their 8-year-old daughter on a motorbike, saying they would join relatives far away over fears the ash would harm their health.

The city’s airport was closed yet again Monday, adding to the crowds at train and bus stations, and ash hung so thickly in the air that breathing was painful and clothes stunk of smoke after any time outdoors.

“My parents have been calling ... saying ‘You have to get out of there! You have to come home!’” said Linda Ervana, a 21-year-old history student who was waiting with friends at a train station in Yogyakarta.

After days of failing to get tickets — long lines stretch all the way through the main hall, some people sleeping on their luggage — they decided to rent a minibus with other classmates.

“It feels like that movie ‘2012,’” said her 22-year-old friend, Paulina Setin. “Like a disaster in a movie.”

One of the world’s most active volcanoes, Merapi has erupted many times in the last century, killing more than 1,400.

It revived two weeks ago and a significant eruption Friday launched hot ash and pyroclastic flows down the mountain slopes that claimed nearly 100 lives, its deadliest blast in 80 years.

Concerns about airborne ash after Friday’s eruption prompted many international airlines to cancel flights to the capital, Jakarta, but all were flying again Monday. White House officials said President Barack Obama still was scheduled to arrive Tuesday in Indonesia — his second stop in a 10-day Asian tour.

On Monday, Merapi shot clouds of gas and debris up to 3,000 feet (1 kilometer) in the air as ash and pyroclastic flows poured down its slopes. Scientists worry the series of eruptions hasn’t eased pressure inside the volcano and instead proves Merapi is unpredictable.

“Based on what we’re seeing now, it could erupt again any

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The funny thing is that no matter what we choose, we ultimately end up in the same place. So why do anything? The gift and curse of being human is our incompleteness. The story is never over until it is over, whether there is a fat lady there to sing about it or not. Our situation on Earth does not change, regardless of whether our soul is saved or destined to an eternity reserved for damnation and torture.

To be human is to grow old, to live and to die, and in between, strive toward the pursuit of an unobtainable perfection of the self. To only seek pleasure and avoid pain is the path of creatures that aren’t conscious of their ultimate demise. Our date with destiny may be the very reason to do anything at all.

The fact that perfection can be pursued but never obtained is the rhythm to the dance of life. Each goal, accomplished or not, inevitably leads to the next. The possibilities are infinite within our finite existence, and that is a beautiful thing.

So what should we choose to do? Settle down, get married, find a stable job and wait out the rest of our days living vicariously through our offspring? Maybe finance a practical car and an economical house with a garage for our car; or perhaps just fall asleep wherever we find ourselves by the end of the night and then wake up without anything left but our irresponsibility, and the residue of a memory about a time that held promise.

The truth is nobody is going to love you for your potential forever. Eventually, we all have to get old, but that doesn’t mean that we have to give up or give in.

-Light it up, A.J. Black

A woman flees as Mount Merapi releases volcanic materials into the air in Cangkringan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 1, 2010.

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Venezuelan indigenous protest in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday Nov. 8, 2010. Indian communities held a protest march demanding that the government of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez move ahead with demarcating and recognizing their traditional lands.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, right, argues with an Indian official as he tries to get members of the traveling press pool to cover the expanded bilateral meeting between President Barack Obama and India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, Monday, Nov. 8, 2010.

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Kevin Eckard, associate professor of voice and director of opera, plays the piano during a practice session for the “Opera Workshop: A Night of Classics” at 7:30 pm, Nov. 9-11 at the UCO Jazz Lab.

By Chantal Robatteux / Staff Writer The School of Music in the College of Fine Arts and Design will perform “Opera Workshop: A Night of Classics.”

The concert will be held Nov.9-11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Jazz Lab. The tickets will cost $5 for everyone, and attendees are asked to pay in cash or check.

Kevin Eckard, associate professor and director of opera at UCO, has been working at UCO for six years.

Eckard said, “It’s basically a series of Opera scenes based on composers of the classical period. For example Mozart, Haydn, Gluck, Handel, Cimarosa; just a lot of different composers.”

This is the fifth year this event has taken place.

Eckard said, “I implemented the opera workshop, but they have been doing opera productions here before.”

This concert will be performed by a variety of students, from sophomores all the way up to graduate students who are vocal performance majors and vocal music education majors.

They are all part of the Opera Workshop class.

They take excerpts from a bunch of different shows.

“You get just bits and pieces of a lot of great work as opposed to an entire show, so it’s a little bit shorter, but you still get to understand what the music is about and you can see whether or not that is something you’d like to see more of.

[You get to think about] whether you’d like to see a whole show of the “Magic Flute” or “The Marriage of Figaro” which are in this one actually,” he said.

He added this gives people a chance to see different styles of music, and some of it is in English, and some of it will be in the actual language it was written in.

This concert will last about two hours.

Eckard said the students are doing this for a grade, but they mostly do this class for experience of moving on stage and singing opera.

“It is a lot about experience and stage experience,” he said.

One of the performers is Patrick Borror, a senior at UCO. Borror realized he wanted to do music late in high school.

His parents were both musicians, and from there he got more into it; he even quit sports for music.

“It started with musicals and choir, and as I got older, my voice progressed and I kind of stumbled into opera,” Borror said.

He said he has done this workshop before.

“It’s a good opportunity to get exposure to a few different operas at once, that way you get an idea of what different operas sound like,” Borror said.

He will be doing two scenes.

He will be doing one scene in the “Magic Flute” by Mozart, and the other scene he will be playing is the “Marriage of Figaro,” by Mozart as well.

Borrow said, “We spend most of the semester working on it in class, but it does take quite a bit of time outside of class to pull it together. It is a group thing but most of the work needs to be put in outside of class to memorize your piece.”

He added they will get two dress rehearsals and then they will go on stage Tuesday.

Borror said the concert has been shortened to two hours this year; last year it was three hours long.

Borror agreed with Eckard and said this is a good place for first-times to be exposed to opera.

“You get to see some of the highlights of different operas, I think this is a good place for younger people to be exposed to opera if they haven’t,” Borror said.

Another performer is Sarah Henderson.

Henderson is getting her master’s in vocal performance.

This is her sixth year at UCO; she received her bachelor’s from UCO. She said when she first came to UCO, she was originally a Spanish major and music minor.

Music grew on her and allowed her to express herself even more so than Spanish did.

Henderson said she got into opera in her junior year when she first got involved in the opera workshop.

Opera is now her favorite.

“It’s so expressive, so emotional, it’s amazing that you can convey so much in one song even,” Henderson said.

She is taking part in this concert because she has only been in three operas since she has been at UCO, and this is just one more opportunity to get experience.

“I’m going to be in two different scenes, the first one is L’Infidelta Fedele, by Cimarosa, and the second one I’m going to do is from Mozart’s “Magic Flute,”’ she said.

Henderson said they have the class two times a week, but outside of that, she has practicing probably an hour or two a day.

She also agreed with Eckard and Borror.

“It gives you a good introduction of what opera is, it introduces you to different styles, different languages, and it’s all a relaxed environment. There’s going to be English, Italian and German [in this concert].

She added that her aunt had never heard opera before and came to last year’s show. “[My aunt] said she never knew what opera could be, or how diverse it could be, so this introduces [the audience] to different types,” Henderson said.

Predicting politics

By Jessica Bruha / Contributing Writer Additional reporting by Kory Oswald / Editor-In-Chief

UCO is hosting a “Predicting Politics” seminar for students across the state from Nov. 10-14.

The course will be taught by James Campbell, the current department chair of political science at the University at Buffalo State and the University of New York. Campbell will also give a free lecture on campus, open to the public at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 11 in the Pegasus Theatre.

The course and lecture series will examine the development of forecasting U.S. national elections and evaluate the success of models used in recent elections, including the 2008 presidential election and the 2010 midterm congressional elections.

This seminar is part of the Oklahoma Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program (OSLEP), a program dedicated to helping students in higher education develop scholarship and leadership abilities. The program is sponsored by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and administered by the University of Oklahoma.

OSLEP will provide books, meals and housing at no cost to students for the duration of the course. However, students must pay tuition through their own university, based on their university’s expenses for tuition. The grades used in the seminar will be “S” and “U” for satisfactory or unsatisfactory performance.

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Oklahoma Governor-elect Mary Fallin gestures to the crowd during a victory party in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010. Fallin becomes the first woman governor of the state of Oklahoma.

ate jobs and get our economy back on track. So I know one thing she’s immediately going to do is look at things like our rules and regulations, the tax code and things like that and find ways that we can basically make Oklahoma a friendlier place to do business.”

Weintz said that the campaign believes that by doing those things, that they will create jobs, grow the state’s revenue and generally become a more prosperous state.

“Another thing is routing the budget,” Weintz said. “Mary’s got to, at a time where there’s a massive budget shortfall, balance that budget and she’s going to do that without raising taxes. And that’s going to mean finding ways to eliminate government waste, and ways to make government run in a way that is smaller smarter and more effective.”

Fallin still holds her responsibilities as a congresswoman until the end of the congressional term, and as House Democrats work to organize a “lame duck” session of Congress to convene next week, Weintz said Fallin’s presence in Washington at that time has yet to be determined.

“That’s something that will depend on what they’re voting on and her schedule in Oklahoma, but her focus right now is on being the next governor and putting together a team so that she can effectively run the state in January,” Weintz said.

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allin still holds her responsibilities as a congresswoman until the end of the congressional term, her presence in Washington at that time has yet to be determined.

Republican newcomer James Lankford won the governorelect’s old spot as the 5th district Oklahoma representative to Congress last week, and Weintz says the governor elect was pleased with the outcome.

Moving forward, Weintz said that beside using this transition time to prepare for January, the campaign is using this time to say thank you.

“Our campaign offices are still open, Weintz said, “and what we’re still focused on really is thanking the people that did support us. So for the people that put out yard signs, people that volunteered their time, for people who volunteered their money, what we’re doing is sort of tracking those people down and telling them how much we really appreciate it. Obviously none of this could have been possible without them.”

Currently the campaign is in a phase where they are saying thank you, rather than asking for more help, but as they move forward Weintz says they are still looking for the best ideas possible to create jobs and to cut government waste.

“Our email address is what it’s always been, info@maryfallin.

Election and campaigns scholar James Campbell will conduct the “Predictorg, so for anyone who has got good suggestions for us as we ing Politics” seminar on Nov. 10-14 at University of Central Oklahoma. move into the transition and then into the governor’s office we Spots for the seminar course are now polling data. Now the class reviews data welcome their input,” Weintz said. unavailable. Enrollment ended Oct. 27. from the recent elections, including The class size was kept small in order to hundreds of polls conducted over only encourage discussion and debate. a few weeks.

For those interested in courses in this In the case of a presidential race, the field besides the lecture series, UCO’s class would forecast the results of the own Dr. Randall Jones teaches an upper Electoral College, a process that requires division Election Forecasting class. large amounts of polling data. In doing In the course, students forecast the re- so, the class has to determine thirty-day sults of elections using polling data and averages for the polling data. political betting markets.

“Some of the most successful predic“The fact that these betting markets tions of the Electoral College two years exist, because in the beginning they ago were using the thirty-day average,” didn’t, that’s why [predicting elections] Jones said. is so accurate,” Jones said.

Campbell’s free lecture, “A Political When Jones first started teaching a Odyssey: What Happened and Why,” class on predicting elections, the In- will give insight to November’s midterm ternet was not the resource for polling elections. The lecture will take at 7:30 data it is now. Instead, the class would p.m. on Nov. 11 in the Pegasus Theatre go to the library and read through older of the Liberal Arts building.

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By Michael Collins / Sports Writer

Anthony Anderson(33) chases down a running back earlier in the season.

Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A.

With the season almost over, what excites you heading into the off-season?

Having an opportunity to really focus on weak points that I had to deal with during season. I feel that the off-season isn’t a time for rest, but a time where the most work and preparation must be done.

What are you expectations for these last two games?

I expect us to play at the best of our abilities. Off-season may be approaching, but we have to and will play the last two games as if we were in the playoffs, never giving up.

If you weren’t playing football, is there any other sport or activity you could see yourself doing?

It’s really hard picturing myself doing something other than football, but if not, I’d probably be a lot more involved on campus in organizations and activities. I try to be involved now, but football almost always comes first.

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Broncho Football

BRONCHOS DROP 5TH STRAIGHT

By Michael Collins / Sports Writer This past Saturday, the UCO Bronchos lost to Southwestern Oklahoma State University 31-24, yet another close loss for a team that has seen its share of close losses. This loss marked the fifth time this season the Bronchos have been beaten by seven or less points.

It does not matter whether it is the Bronchos finding ways to lose the game, or other teams just finding a way to win, the result has been the same all season.

If you were at the game or just looked at the stats, the one thing that has to jump off the page is the total yards by both teams.

Southwestern edged out UCO 415 to 403 yards respectively. It is the way the yards were earned that is shocking. Southwestern rushed for 297 yards on 43 carries, which is almost seven yards a carry. UCO only rushed for 135 yards on 35 carries. Southwestern effectively took the soul out of the UCO defense; that is what running the ball can do. For fans of the Broncho chuck-and-pray offense, maybe after seeing the ground and pound Bulldogs run up and down the field, you will see why many people think Josh Birmingham maybe ought to get a few more carries.

I know it is hard to fault an offense that has looked as good as UCO has this season, but with as bad they have played on defense this season, the best defense for UCO would be no defense. They need to keep the ball out of the other teams hands because every time they get it, they’re going to score.

With all that said, the Bronchos still had a chance to win the game against Southwestern.

With just minutes left in the game, and the Bronchos down by a touchdown, Ethan Sharp led his troops down the field. The Bronchos faced third and five when Sharp hit Daniel Morrell in the end zone, only to see the pass negated by a holding penalty. Sharp threw two straight incompletions and the game ended with the Bulldogs running out the clock.

Birmingham had another big day. He rushed for 102 yards on 24 carries. He also added two rushing touchdowns. Birmingham has been about the only thing to cheer for this season for the Bronchos. Every week, there are two things that can be counted on, Birmingham is going to get at least 100 yards and a few scores, and UCO is going to lose a close game.

Sharp was also “sharp” no pun intended, he finished the day 23 of 38 for 268 yards and a touchdown. More importantly, he was not sacked. Just a few weeks removed from a concussion, protecting the quarterback was obviously a big priority.

While the Bronchos have only one game left, it will be important for them not to pack it in. It is clear to see this is not a bad team, they need to prove to themselves they can win. This offseason is going to be crucial, and it starts Saturday, right after the game. Getting a win against Angelo State University will send this team in the direction they want to go.

Game notes: Former University of Oklahoma receiver Carter Whitson, who played quarterback in the first game of the season this year for the Bronchos, had five catches for 85 yards. Also, former Oklahoma State receiver Artrell Woods continued his comeback with a 56-yard kickoff return to set up a Broncho touchdown in the third quarter.

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By Trey Hunter / Sports Writer

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he UCO Rugby Club closed out their season Saturday with a 59-7 loss to the No. 2 University of Arkansas Razorbacks.

The game was mostly controlled mostly by the Razorbacks.

UCO suffered a few key injuries during the week and it played into the hands of Arkansas.

“In the first half we just weren’t as intense as we have been all year,” team president Frank Adams said. “We played really sloppy defense and they took advantage of it.”

There was not much of difference in the two halves. UCO scored their only points of the match scoring on a try and converted their extra try.

Field position and time of possession seemed to be the main keys for Arkansas.

“We have to give it up to Arkansas. They were clearly the better team,” Adams said. “They took advantage of our mistakes and controlled field position the entire game.”

Don Harrison, senior, was named the Bronchos’ “Man of the Match.”

“It felt great to be named the man of the match for the first time in my career,” Harrison said. “I feel like I played well and my teammates felt the same.”

“Harrison played great,” Adams said. “He showed a lot of heart out there and he deserved it.”

The Bronchos will hold scrimmages and practices throughout the rest of the semester. They will not hold open tryouts during the fall or spring semesters, but they do encourage former athletes to attend scrimmages for more information.

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RUGBY CLOSES SEASON

The UCO Rugby Club finished their season on Saturday Nov. 6. The club will continue holding scrimmages and practices throughout the semester, former athletes are encouraged srimmages for more information.

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BRONCHOS WIN IN WEEKEND ALUMNI GAME PHOTO BY PHOTO SERVICES

Shane Carroll sparked a 3-point onslaught that gave Central Oklahoma a comfortable halftime lead and the No. 18-ranked Bronchos went on to race past the Alumni team 111-85 in a Saturday night exhibition game at Hamilton Field House.

Carroll made all six of his treys and scored 20 of his 23 points in the opening 20 minutes as UCO seized a 63-48 lead and the Alumni group that featured the 2008 and ’09 Lone Star Conference North Division Players of the Year got no closer than 12 in the second half.

Five players finished in double figures for the Bronchos, who defeated Oklahoma City 93-82 Thursday in their exhibition opener. UCO travels to Las Vegas, Nev. Next week to open the 2010-11 season with two games in the High Desert/South Central Challenge.

“It was a good test for us and I thought we played pretty well overall,” UCO coach Terry Evans said.

“There were a lot of good players on that Alumni team and they made us work, which was what we needed.”

All-American Dauntae Williams – last year’s LSC North Division Player of the Year -- led the Bronchos with 24 points and six rebounds. Carroll finished with 20 points, while Carl Curry added 13, Javvero

Baker 12 and Jarrod McDaniel 12.

UCO ended up with 19 treys, shooting 54.3 percent (19-of-35) from long range and 54.1 percent (40-of-74) overall.

Lance Harper (2009 LSC North POY) paced the Alumni with 24 points and 10 rebounds, with Sam Belt (2008 LSC North POY) chipping in 21 points and 12 rebounds and Brian Walker 13 points and five assists.

The Alumni led 6-3 early after a 3-pointer by John Neal, but Carroll and Curry had two long-range bombs apiece in a rapid-fire 26-5 run that put the Bronchos on top 29-11 barely eight minutes into the game.

UCO led by as many as 22 (35-13) in the first half before the Alumni crawled within 15 (63-48) at the break and Walker opened the second half with a 3-pointer to make it 63-51.

It was a still a 12-point game at the 13:53 mark when Belt made one of two free throws, but back-toback layups by McDaniel and Brent Friday pushed the lead back to 16 at 75-59 and the Bronchos coasted in from there.

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Tyler Phillips (right) faces off against an alumni player in the two teams’ exhibition game Saturday night.

The current Bronchos toppled their predecessors 111-85.