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TUITION GOES NORTH By Chantal Robatteux / Staff Writer
Edmond firefighter, Brian Olea, carries a positive pressure ventilation fan from the University Apartments on Tuesday, Sept. 14. The Edmond Fire Depament responded to the call after a stove overheated and began to smoke.
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SMALL CAMPUS FIRE NOT SERIOUS By Brittany Dalton / Contributing Writer A small fire at the University Apartments caused Edmond firefighters to be dispatched this morning. ”We received the call at 10:35 a.m.,” Captain Mark Little said. “It was a stove fire,” he ex-
plained. “Initially we thought the fire was at the Commons across the street, then we noticed smoke coming from the corner apartment here.” Jeong Min-Young, a UCO student, was cooking a pot of beans in his apart-
ment. “I forgot to turn off the gas,” MinYoung said. “My pot was burning.” Little notes that the fire was a minor stove fire. “It just got too hot and started smoking,” he explained. “There was no damage.”
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KING ON CAMPUS CHORALE AND FACULTY COMBINE FOR CONCERT By Chantal Robatteux /Staff Writer
The “Passport to Canada” program at UCO is hosting several events throughout the fall semester; one of which is a guest speaker and author Thomas King. King is a well-known author in Canada, as well as a politician, radio host, professor and Native American advocate. He will be visiting UCO for three days. His first visit will be in the Communications Building at 11 a.m. in Room 120 on Sept. 20, 2010. King will be reading part of his best-known children’s tale, “Coyote Sings to the Moon.” After that, King will move on to the ground floor of UCO’s library at 2 p.m. There he will discuss and read from his latest project about the history of native people in North America. The next day at 3:30 p.m., King will revisit the Communications Building in Room 120 for a screening of the film “Medicine River,” and he will be answering questions as soon as the screening is over. The last day of his visit at 6 p.m. on Sept. 22, he will be in UCO’s Pegasus Theater to introduce his keynote address “The Stories We Tell.” The “Passport to Canada” programs are free of charge. King is the son of a Greek mother and Cherokee father. He worked as a photographer and photojournalist in New Zealand and Australia in 1964 before returning to the United States in 1967. King immigrated to Canada in 1980 where he worked in native studies at the University of Lethbridge. During this time he started to write serious fiction. His first novel, “Medicine River,” which he will be showing at UCO, received critical praise and was made into a CBC film. Also, two of King’s books were nominated for the “Governor General’s Awards,” One of them was the children’s book, “A Coyote Columbus Story,” which was published in 1992. The second children’s book, “Coyote Sings to the Moon,” which will also be featured at the UCO visit, was published in 1998. He also wrote and starred in the “Dead Dog Café,” which aired on CBC Radio from 1997-2000. King also wrote a detective novel, called “Dreadful Water Shows Up” in 2003, but he wrote that under the pseudonym Hartley GoodWeather. King was the first Native Canadian to deliver the Massey Lectures in 2003.
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Tuition has gone up at 25 public colleges and universities, including UCO. Since the enrollment at UCO has gone up and there is more demand for professors, not to mention the economy and budget cuts, the tuition increased by 5.5 percent this fall semester for the whole student body, including the international students. Timothy Kok, the assistant director for International Services has been working at UCO since June 2007. He said the tuition increase of 5.5 percent is effective starting fall 2010. Kok said, “I do believe that with inflation and the rising cost of utilities, supplies and others, it is just reasonable for UCO to increase the tuition to cover the increase of fixed costs needed to provide a quality education for our students.” He added that since UCO is a public university, international students pay more tuition than Oklahomans because some of the university’s funding is provided by the state tax dollars, and the international students and non-residents have not paid in that many taxes. “The parents and students who live and reside in Oklahoma established their residency here and have been contributing tax dollars from their income which would be considered for the resident tuition rate. Since international students are considered non-resident (non-tax paying residents) in Oklahoma, it is reasonable in my opinion for them to pay the higher tuition rate though the tuition at UCO is still considered to be one of the most attractive and reasonable in the region,” Kok said. The rising cost of commodities could also be a factor for the increase. “I personally do believe that tuition increases are common in order to continue to maintain a high quality of education with small classes, personalize…[the]…learning environment for our students. Tuition increases occur around the state and country. I am sure it is a common phenomenon in many countries around the world, which would like to continue providing a great quality of education to their students,” he said. Also, with 5.5 percent of an increase, it is estimated that only about $20 per credit hour increased for international students.
Dr. Emily Butterfield prepares for her concert on Sept. 20 where she will be playing the concert and alto flute, as well as the piccolo.
By Ethan Larsh / Staff Writer UCO will put on the College Music Society Composers’ Concert featuring music faculty and the UCO Concert Chorale at 7:30 p.m. in Mitchell Hall on Monday, Sept. 20. The College Music Society, an international umbrella music association consisting of about approximately 10,000 members, will be having their 53rd National Conference at the Marriott Minneapolis City Center on Tuesday, Sept. 24 in Minneapolis, Minn., in which the UCO Concert Chorale will perform. The concert will showcase original three-minute solo compositions and choral works from composers who teach in colleges from around the world, and is a teaser of the concert that
will be performed on Sept. 24. Dr. Sam Magrill, UCO’s Composer-in-Residence, organized the concert and believes that students who go to the concert will get a varied taste of original music. “It gives you a sense of what is going on nationally,” Magrill said, discussing the different regional influences represented in the concert. “It gives you a sense of what is going on all over the country.” Selections in the concert include works for chorale, as well as solos for piano, tenor, soprano, flute and piccolo. Composers featured in the concert include educators such as Bonnie Miksch who composes acoustic and
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