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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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PROTEIN SHAKES ME IN ALL THE WRONG WAYS By Josh Hutton / Staff Writer In the era of narcissism, it seems as though everyone and their dog is pounding protein shakes in the name of boosting their sex karma, but is too much of a “good thing” going to make your kidneys explode? Yes, yes it is. Before working out, many muscle-bound dandies start their ritual by consuming a protein shake. A sweet smorgasbord of whey, creatine, and fear-inducing brand names fill the gym biosphere (á la NO-Xplode, All The Whey, and Crush Direct). Many of these powders and shakes boast over 50 grams of luscious protein. What was the daily amount of protein a human was supposed to consume? Well, that would be 56 grams total. So before you start sucking Crush Direct down like it is oxygen, attempting to make your shirtless mirror pics more appealing, consider the following contention: if an individual gets over 30 percent of their calories from protein, the good thing puts a massive strain on the body. Kidneys process the protein, so when it is overused, the organ goes into overdrive. This can eventually lead to kidney failure. The only reason there is a brand bearing the name NO-Xplode is to dope the consumer into thinking, Ah, thats wonderful! My kidneys won’t explode! Many men much stronger than myself would argue that simply taking the protein in moderation would prevent kidney shrapnel from tearing all vital organs to ribbons. Limiting the intake to around 20 grams a day would be a superb decision. The kidneys would be grateful, however the rest of your sleek self is still going to cry vengeance. Muscle Milk, for example, contains a baby dose of protein, only 22 grams per serving. The issue with Muscle Milk is the unusual ingredients. The product contains a noteworthy amount of heavy metals, such as cadium and lead. Heavy metals take a substantial amount of time to pass, indicating that many protein drinks could be toxic to the body after repeated use. Basically, protein shakes are the double-whammy of bodily destruction. Seeking a quick fix to fitness needs has never found lasting results, risking the state of your internal health, to carve a more appealing body for Facebook photos is absolutely masochistic. Aside from that, how can you respect yourself while drinking All The Whey? The best way to get that sweet protein is clinging to the natural. Instead of guzzling Crush Direct, guzzle tuna; and instead of letting toxins cut a rug in your body, throw a spinach party. Stick to the real deal, and leave the synthetic proteins on the shelf.
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FOUNDATION SUPPORTS OUTREACHES, RENOVATIONS
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The UCO Foundation is renovating Old North. It is expected to be completed in approximatelty 12 months. The foundation is a nonprofit organiztion.
By Cody Bromley / Staff Writer A little known fact is that just 32 percent of UCO’s annual operating budget comes from the state of Oklahoma. That is where the UCO Foundation comes in, an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to support UCO. The foundation offers scholarship assistance to eligible students as well as assistance for faculty, activities on campus and programs at the university. Money for the foundation comes from many places: alumni, community members, corporations and outside foundations. “We’ve got lots of exciting things in store for this year,” Phil Fraim said, UCO alumnus and chairman of the board of trustees for the foundation. Ann Dee Lee, coordinator of public relations and marketing in the development/foundation office, said one of those exciting things the foundations is working on is the CHK|Central Boathouse on the Oklahoma River. The boathouse would be home to UCO Women’s Rowing team, and it would also house a live music venue and art gallery. “The plans to build it were announced
last summer, and we’ve already received something like $3.5 million,” Lee said. The foundation is trying to help build that whole environment in Oklahoma City to make it into a destination where “art meets the river,” and to have Central to have a big part of that. The fundraising for this project is ongoing, and Lee said that construction would not start until the money is raised. Besides the completion of the boathouse, the foundation will also be focusing on community involvement, such as an event in April called Music in the Metro, and a fundraising event at the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club, which is set to raise $100,000. Fraim said that putting this year and next year together might just be the most successful fundraising years in the foundation’s history. The foundation is also working on programming to reconnect with past UCO students. “On the 23rd of this month, the foundation is working with the alumni foundation, and we’re going up to Enid,” Lee said. The foundation is sponsoring
an event that they are calling “Broncho Roundup.” “We have learned through our research that there are, believe it or not, over 500 people in the Enid area who are alumni of UCO. The president and different faculty and staff are all going to load up in a bus, and head up there and tell them what’s going on with UCO. [They are going to] remind them of their connection; tell them of all the interesting things that are going on with ACM, Forensic Science, Center for Transformative Learning,” Lee said. Another one of the foundation’s projects is the construction of Old North. “When they had first started work on it, they had hoped that the money that was given to them through the bond issue would be able to take care of all the issues of redoing Old North. Once they got into it, they discovered that there were a lot of mechanical and technical things that needed to be brought up to code that were simply not there when the building was built,” Lee said. In the case of Old North, this meant things like air conditioning and an elevator would need to be built in order to make the building up to code. The solution that was decided on was to use the bond money to build an annex behind Old North, and let its modern day amenities bring the rest of the building to code. Lee said that the initial ideas of what they wanted to do were all wonderful, but they could not be accomplished and they had to use the bond money to simply bring it up code. The construction of this additional building is expected to be complete in approximately 12 months. In addition to all the work on campus and in the community, the foundation has several scholarship opportunities to offer to UCO students, including some new ones for this year. The “Dr. Stan Hoig Endowed Memorial Scholarship for History” and the “Dr. Stan Hoig Endowed Memorial Scholarship in Mass Communication” are two newly endowed scholarships that will be offered this year. The scholarships honor the life and work of longtime UCO journalism professor, Dr. Stan Hoig. Applications will be available on the foundation Website starting December 1.
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TUITION Kok said, “International students who enroll in 12 or 15 credit hours will pay an additional $240 to $300 more in comparison to last year’s total tuition cost.” Even though the tuition increased, the international enrollment has gone up and is estimated to continue to stay up. “I believe that UCO’s new tuition rate after the increase will continue to attract many international students to our campus,” he said. Students also need to remember the scholarship and financial aid programs. Kok said they provide scholarship opportunities for prospective and current students to help support their financial
need and to come and seek advice from international advisers early on if they do come across financial issues, and asks them not to wait until the very last minute before the enrollment deadline. “International students are always welcome to come and seek advice from international advisers if they have any questions or concerns in regards to their financial issues while pursuing their education at UCO. All of us here at the International Services team have always placed student success as the center of our mission.” Kok also said to look into the departmental notice boards for scholarship opportunities in the department of study.
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CONCERT electro-acoustic music and teaches at Portland State University as well as Nora Ponte, who is the Professor of Composition and Director of Electronic Music at the University de Puerto Rico. Featured in Monday’s concert is Ponte’s “Falling,” a threeminute piece that is heavy on piccolo and piano interaction and will be performed by UCO faculty members Emily Butterfield and Sam Magrill. Also featured is Miksch’s “There is No Rose of Such Virtue,” a choral piece reminiscent of Josquin De Prez, a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. Miksch’s piece will be performed by the UCO Concert Chorale. UCO Graduate Sarah Henderson, who currently sings with the chorale and has in the past joined the chorale to perform in several locations in Italy and with the Manhattan Symphony at Carnegie Hall, looks forward to performing in the concert. “I am very excited for this experience,” Henderson said. Mackenzie Rogers, a junior majoring in vocal performance
and chorale member, discussed performing the works in front of its creators. “All of the music has been written in the last ten years,” Rogers said. “We will be performing in front of our composers.” Magrill, who is going to the conference along with the UCO Concert Chorale, seems just as excited as Henderson, Rogers and the rest of the choir. He is eager to meet the writers of these original, new pieces that the chorale is performing. “The choir is getting good. The UCO Choir will be performing with some of the top choral groups in Minnesota,” Magrill said. “It’ll be exciting at this conference to meet these composers.” The College Music Society Composers’ Concert promises to be a unique opportunity for people who want to experience cross-cultural sounds and innovative music. “It should be a good concert Monday night,” Magrill said.
Rick Mitchell visits the University of Oklahoma Sept. 17 for KOCO Channel 5, “On the Road College Tour.”
By Cody Bromley / Staff Writer On Friday, Sept. 17, KOCO Channel 5 will be on campus broadcasting live their 5 and 6 p.m. newscasts from Broncho Lake as part of their 2010 “On the Road College Tour.” Sponsors of the event, like Chesapeake Energy, McDonald’s and Love’s Country Stores, will be providing food, fun and music before and between the newscasts. “For six years we have done a tour of cities around Oklahoma. This year we decided to make it a college tour,” Brent Hensley, general manager for KOCO Channel 5, said. UCO is the last stop on this year’s “On the Road College Tour.” Earlier in the week, the news crew made stops at other nearby universities. They have already made stops at Oklahoma City University, The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Baptist University, and tonight they will be stopping by Oklahoma State University. Eyewitness 5 chose UCO to be one of the tour stops because of the university’s positive student image, and because of its proximity to the Oklahoma City metro area. “We’ve had a number of members on staff that have graduated from UCO.” The Channel 5 anchor team will spend the afternoon on the campus for several activities, including a Q&A session with UCO journalism and communications students. Jessica Schambach, Paul Folger, Rick Mitchell and Bob Irzyk will be there, as will all the other reporters and meteorologists viewers have come to know and see on KOCO. Hensley said that they are also looking forward to each university’s unique offerings as well. On Tuesday, when they visited OU, KOCO dropped in on a political science course taught by university president Dan Boren. It is things like this Bronchos can expect to happen this Friday. Additionally, a UCO broadcasting student will serve as a “student reporter” for the day, and will have their stories run on the air, and other UCO students will assist with the set up and production of the newscasts. Hunter Scott, senior broadcasting major as well as anchor and producer of UCO’s News Central, has been selected as the student reporter. “I’ll actually be turning two stories for the day. One for the 5:00 show, and another for the 6:00 broadcast,” Scott said. “It’s going to be a lot of highlighting the communications building and the work we do.” But perhaps the most exciting part for Scott will be delving into the real world experience of a KOCO newscast, especially one done away from the studio. “Not a lot people get to see that,” Scott said. “We get to see live shots, but those are really basic.” Students and anyone in the surrounding community are invited to come to the Broncho Lake area of campus as early as 3 p.m. to enjoy the pre-show festivities. Among those festivities will be free food from McDonald’s and live music from Chesapeake Energy’s corporate band, ShalePlay. Chesapeake’s compressed natural gas helicopter featured on the TLC channel show “American Choppers,” will also be onsite.
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HERMINE REAPPEARS PEGASUS TO TAKE PART IN NASA EVENT Hermine‌until we meet again. Or will we? Tropical storms are named from lists created originally by the National Hurricane Center and now maintained by the World Meteorological Organization. These lists rotate every six years, so the last time the Atlantic had the possible chance of seeing Hermine was in 2004. Hermine made landfall in Massachusetts in 2004, but there was no significant damage and no deaths due to the storm. Hence, Hermine returned to the Atlantic rotation of names in the 2010 storm season. Hermine also made appearances in 1980 and 1998. In 1986 and 1992, the amount of storms were not enough to reach the letter H on those years’ lists. Hermine’s path was different and made landfall in Texas this time and then headed north to Oklahoma. The death toll from 2010 Hermine stands now at 6, five persons from
Texas and one from Oklahoma. The exact numbers for damage costs are being determined. Hermine’s visit happened days after the five year anniversary marking the costliest storm in U.S. history, Katrina. Does this mean we will we see another storm named Katrina in 2011? No, that is because they retire names of storms that cause so much damage or devastation that is viewed as â€œâ€Śinappropriate for reasons of sensitivityâ€? to use the name again according to the NHC. The WMO meets annually to decide any change of names in the lists including retiring of names. Will Hermine be considered for retirement? Since the lists were first used in 1954, there have been 73 names retired. Because only female names were used until 1979, the first male name retired was David, in that same year. The WMO added Katrina to that retired list of names. The replacement name the WMO chose for Katrina is Katia.
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Dr. Charles Cooper, adviser to the Pegasus Astronomy Society and members will attend the NASA-related Even “International Obserbe the Moon Night Sept. 18.
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sky gazing. Although they are still gathering members for this year, on average the sociFor those who have ever questioned the ety will have 15-30 members. Members also validity of the Man in the Moon, pondered benefit from a variety of telescopes, including the moon’s cheesy consistency or just could both Meade brands. not get Pink Floyd’s album “Dark Side of the “The club has two Meade telescopes. We Moon� out of their heads, UCO’s Pegasus Ashave the Meade Dobsonian and the Meade tronomical Society is ready to satisfy. six-inch refractor telescope,� Cooper said. The Pegasus Astronomical Society will be Observational venues provided by UCO participating in the NASA-related event “Inhave been varied. The Pegasus Society has ternational Observe the Moon Night� on Satample opportunity to view astronomical urday, Sept. 18 from 6:00 to 11:00 p.m. at events during outings to nearby sites includ- Tropical Storm Karl has formed in the northwestern Caribbean, heading on a path exPlunkett Park. ing Lake Arcadia and Wood- pected to take it over the Yucatan Peninsula.The storm has maximum sustained winds The event is associated ward. Though originally of about 40 mph (65 kph). To view the NASA event in with the Night Sky Network, designated for the biology the story, scan this tag: a NASA-sponsored organizadepartment to research bats, tion that helps educate the the Pegasus Astronomical public through a network of Society has taken advantage amateur astronomy clubs. of the Woodward location for Students will learn about the its observations of the night “dark side of the moon� or the sky, building permanent surother side of the moon that veillance structures for their we do not see because of the studies. moon’s slow rotation due to “There’s a piece of land tidal forces between the moon UCO owns up near Woodand the Earth. ward,� Cooper said. “They Dr. Charles Cooper, adviser built two domes and a to the Pegasus Astronomical twelve-inch reflector in both Visit the website at http://www.nasa.gov/centers/godSociety has been fascinated dard/news/features/2010/moon-night.html domes.� with telescopes and the stars On Saturday, in conjuncsince childhood. tion with NASA, the Pegasus Astronomical “All my life,� Cooper said, recalling when Society plans to share their passion with the his interest for astronomy first arose. “I was a community at large. Though they anticipate kid. My grandpa had bought me a three-inch fair weather, the Pegasus Astronomical Society refractor telescope.� has a contingency plan for stormy skies. UCO is supportive of both the Pegasus As“If there is inclement weather, we decided tronomical Society and its adviser. Cooper has to host a talk in Room 159 of the MCS buildled the astronomical group for several years at ing,� Cooper said. the request of the UCO administration. The event is not only for students, but open The dean of the college found out I had to the community. Students can expect from bought a telescope,� Cooper said, “and put me the Pegasus Astronomical Society an evening in charge of the club.� of stargazing and views of the moon. Since its inception in 2001, the Pegasus “This is a public event, and everyone is welAstronomical Society has worked steadily to come to come,� Cooper said. gain members and increase opportunities for
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‘NOOKSTUDY’ SOFTWARE MAY NOT COMPUTE FOR SOME
NOOKstudy, a digital textbook reader by Barnes & Noble, makes some textbooks available on your computer. The software is not available on mobile devices
By Cody Bromley / Staff Writer Earlier this semester, the UCO bookstore in synchronicity with hundreds of other Barnes and Noble-based university bookstores began offering NOOKstudy textbooks on its real-life as well as digital bookshelves. NOOKstudy is not the first offering of digital textbooks, but the new eTextbooks are notable in that they have the support of Barnes and Noble’s large number of bookstores spanning many schools. The program is called NOOKstudy. It takes its name from Barnes and Noble’s own book-sized eReader called “NOOK,” but do not expect any compatibility with that device or others like it. NOOKstudy is not compatible with Linux-based netbooks and computers, Apple iPhones, Android based devices, iPads, or Amazon’s Kindle either. “We haven’t had a whole lot of feedback from students because I don’t think they really know about it,” Brenda Raimondi, manager of UCO’s Barnes and Noble Bookstore, said. The service and software provide users with a way to interact with learning materials in new and exciting ways. Users can jump quickly to any page just by typing it in, search the entire text of the book to find a single word, or select a font style and size to suit their reading. Users also have the ability to make notes, and add highlighting with the click of a mouse. Students who buy their books as eTextbooks can save upwards of 70 percent off the cover price by doing a digital rental, but the program is not without its caveats. Users who wish to use NOOKstudy need to first go to NOOKstudy. com and install the free program and create two accounts (one for Barnes and Noble and another for Adobe). The program is only compatible with Windows based PCs and Macintosh computers. Macintosh computers must be running an Intel processor, which boils down to it being made in the last four years, and users must also be running Macintosh OS 10.6 “Snow Leopard” to be able to
use NOOKstudy. On the support Web site for NOOKstudy, Barnes and Noble moderator Jeanne Belin posted a discussion topic addressing the issue of the NOOK eReader not being able to access NOOKstudy materials. “The ability to interact with educational content is much more complex than interacting with recreational content,” Belin said in her post. “Hand-held devices like the NOOK and other eReaders make it cumbersome to add notes and highlights - functions that students and faculty use regularly, and to easily to flip back and forth within an eTextbook.” The post goes on to also explain that the titles purchased will only within NOOKstudy since it alone has functions built in to “support the unique characteristics of eTextbooks.” Belin’s comments weren’t entirely accurate. The only problem here is that copyright protection software has been employed to keep users from actually getting all benefits of the service. Users who downloaded any of the free eBooks, as well as any trials of the available textbooks can find where the files are being stored on their computer and see for themselves. The files used by NOOKstudy are in formats readily supported by eReaders and mobile devices alike. One of the formats used is “ePub,” a relatively new and open format embraced by Amazon and Apple for their online bookstores. NOOKstudy uses ePub for books as well as other non-textbook files. Digital textbooks are Adobe PDF files. These two formats are compatible with Apple’s iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch devices running iOS 4.0 or higher, Amazon’s Kindle, and especially Barnes and Noble’s NOOK. The only thing that makes these files not work with all of these devices is the copy protection that Barnes and Noble have employed. On their own, the files would not work outside of NOOKstudy.
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Whatever had been done to these files, they were rendered useless outside of Barnes and Noble’s walled garden. The reason the copy protection is there is to ensure that users are not violating rental agreements. Users who pay for the digital copy of a text rent their books for a period of time. Take for an example a copy of the current MLA style guide, a trademark necessity for English courses. This is a book that is used for more than one course across multiple semesters. With NOOKstudy, users would only pay 70 percent of the cover price to rent the book for 180 days. But what happens when time expires? Goodbye digital notes, digital highlights, and most of all goodbye books. Users could renew their rental, but another 180 days and another rental fee would mean that they paid 140 percent of the cover price to not own a physical copy. Beyond extending functionality to mobile devices, and digital rentals, the service has more pros and cons. If curious about the “cons” to using NOOKstudy, just check the support site. One user had posted that her digital textbook did not include access to files that were normally included on a CD with the regular edition of the textbook. Without the data from the CD, the user was unable to complete regular homework assignments. Students taking courses that require a code packaged with a regular textbook for an online homework resource, like ones used in language and math courses, could also be left in the dark without codes. The NOOKstudy website says it in their FAQ that extra materials like codes and CD’s are not routinely part of the deal, but students should heed similar warnings before going completely digital. There are other rules for using NOOKstudy too. Users can only access a book from up to two computers. This might not mean much to most people, but this also means users cannot just pop over to the library and access their book online whenever they want to. Publishers also have strict limits on users abilities to copy text from the books, or printing pages of the text. Furthermore, the program has a function that allows users to import class materials into NOOKstudy. But once materials get into the program, they become stuck. Users who depend too heavily on NOOKstudy could find themselves in a hard spot if computer misfortune every struck. For students who regularly take their books to class, the laptop would be a new permanent addition to the book bag, along with all the other books that were not available digitally. Ultimately, NOOKstudy is just another way, along with buying used and renting, to get books cheaper from the bookstore.
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A.J. BLACK I have a confession to make. I don’t always follow the rules. For the most part, rules are a good thing. They can keep disenchanted wives from poisoning their rotten husbands, children off the street and blindly protect the special interests of big business. Even still, there is a great appeal in breaking the law. Civil disobedience is embedded into the social fabric of our great American culture. I can only begin to imagine the original American bad boy revolutionaries sitting around in a dark and muggy basement thinking of ways to subversively deface the state. The image of a small bunch of radicals fighting against tyranny and oppression never fails to get me going. If our Anglo founders had chosen to just sit around and take it all day, then we would be slowly sipping on tea and munching on crumpets instead of having this conversation.
“While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” The thing that our wealthy, white, land-owning, forefathers understood is that a law or a rule does not necessarily make something right or wrong. Many of the rights and freedoms that we often take for granted began by an organic movement of a few people that decided something wasn’t right and that they weren’t going to take it anymore. A revolution has never come from the majority; it begins when a few people take action, and then progresses from there. With enough numbers we could change the world if we wanted to, it has already happened many times throughout history. A major obstacle in the way of people coming together is the stigma of difference, but maybe none of us are all that different. In fact, I imagine that there is quite a bit we could all agree on. The funny thing is, that even our extremely polarized two-party political system often agrees on several issues. For instance, neither party advocates huge deficits, high taxes, inflation, war, a weak dollar, unemployment or special interests, and yet it is so. As a nation, or even as a university, we the people invest our confidence into a limited amount of supposed leaders whose job it is to make sound decisions that benefit those they represent. A representative democracy or a Republic is meant to be a reflection of the populous. Most of us do not have the time or patience to be fully informed about every fiscal policy, foreign relation or economic projection. We place our trust in the idea that our professional politicians will be knowledgeable and ethical in legislation and policy. So, as a people, we do not create the laws, our legislators do. We do not vote on bills, our bureaucratic officials do. We do not create money, wage war, raise taxes or manipulate markets, our institutions and governments do. The problem is in the lack of accountability. Most every official these days is just doing his or her job. A quick public apology and everything is okay again, but sorry doesn’t shine a person’s scuffed up boots. It is not about Republicans or Democrats, Nobamas or Socialism; it’s about the fact that we are all in this together. So, in closing I would like to share a quote by Eugene Debs for you to reflect on, “While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” Can I get an amen? - Light it Up, A.J. Black
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Riot police take cover next to a barricade placed inside the general cemetery after a march marking the 37th anniversary of the 1973 military coup in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. Gen. Augusto Pinochet assumed power on Sept. 11, 1973, in a coup supported by the United States that toppled the elected government of Salvador Allende.
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The makers of high fructose corn syrup want to change their image with a new name, corn sugar, on labels.
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UCO TAKES ON INCARNATE WORD SATURDAY By Michael Collins / Sports Writer After an impressive win last week against Tarleton State, UCO’s football team will play their first road game of the season this Saturday against the University of the Incarnate Word. Incarnate Word is a school based out of San Antonio, Texas. They are new to the Lone Star Conference, and have only been playing football for a few seasons now. This season, Incarnate Word is 0-2 against the state of Oklahoma, and the Bronchos will look to keep that streak alive. The Cardinals of Incarnate Word will be led by their head coach Mike
Santiago, who has coached at the highest levels in college football and spent time as a scout for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. A position that might be finally settled for the Bronchos, quarterback, is definitely not settled for the Cardinals. They have played Thomas Specia, a senior transfer quarterback, and two sophomores, Paden Lynch and Eric Massoni. Between all three of them they have a total of two touchdowns through the air. The Bronchos could possibly face all three in a rotating circus-type deal. This game is looking like a trap game for the Bronchos. The Bronchos play Midwestern State next
weekend, a team that has given the Bronchos trouble the last few years. With the Cardinals losing to an NAIA team in Langston University, and fellow LSC member Southeastern Oklahoma State, it could be very easy for the Bronchos to look past the Cardinals. A few weeks ago, another Oklahoma team looked past an opponent and it almost cost them a shot at the national title. That team was the University of Oklahoma, when they played Utah State and ended up winning by seven. A player who could be in for a big day is Josh Birmingham. After the stunning performance Ethan Sharp put on last week, it would not be a
shocker to see them only put six to seven guys in the box and try and shut down the newly-found passing attack of the Bronchos. The passing defense for the Cardinals has been lacking so far this season, with their run defense not doing too much better. If the Bronchos do not jump out to a crazy lead and pull its starters, Birmingham could possibly reach 200 all-purpose yards. For the Bronchos defense, their pass defense has held up pretty well this season, and if it were not for the Pitt State run game, their rushing defense would be ranked much higher. Tucker Cason and Turner Troup will lead the front seven while Creadell Pennon, who had a huge
game last Saturday, should provide the secondary with stability. With all the attention going to those three guys, players like Anthony Anderson, Keno Meadows and Kerry Wallace could have some open gaps to make some big plays. This Saturday, the Bronchos should go to 2-1 on the season. Hopefully the term “trap” won’t have to be mentioned in any postgame speeches. The speech should go something like this, “Good game, we played hard and we were the better team.” That is, if everything goes according to plan because in college football, “anything can happen on any given day.”
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VOLLEYBALL OFF TO GREAT START By Trey Hunter / Contributing Writer The UCO Lady Bronchos have faced their share of adversity over the past two seasons, but not even a team bus breaking down can stop them this year. The Lady Bronchos team bus broke down on the way home from their tournament in the Angelo State Invitational in Angelo, Texas. “It was hot. It was about 95 degrees with no air conditioner, high humidity and we had to wait for them to send us another bus,” head coach Jeff Boyland said. They won two of their four matches in the tournament defeating Lubbock Christian University 3-1 and Texas A&M International
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University 3-0, making their overall record for the season 6-3. The bus trip is typical of how things have gone for the Lady Bronchos over the past two years. They had two straight injury-plagued seasons in 2008 and 2009. They had two losing seasons, the first in 16 years. However, Boyland does not blame the lack of success on his team. He blames it on bad luck and injuries and is enthusiastic about the potential for 2010. “It wasn’t their fault. We suffered a lot of injuries last year having two knees blow out. The year before we lost two outside hitters before the season even started,” Boyland said. “I was probably more proud of my
team in the past two years than I have been in the previous six that I’ve been here.” The Lady Bronchos returned four seniors who have helped out immensely towards the early success this season. Zuela Adom, outside hitter from Euless, Texas, is one of the top players in the Lone Star Conference. She was an All-Lone Star Conference selection and won the LSC Newcomer of the Year Award in 2009. She leads the team in kills with 139 and is what Boyland calls the “highlight reel player.” “She jumps real well. She can grab the rim and she is only 5-foot10-inches tall,” Boyland said. “She’s a senior who is probably the high-
light reel player on the team.” Defensively, the Lady Bronchos are lead by senior outside hitter Kristen Wilson and junior libero, Ginger Gowen. Wilson was an AllLSC player in 2009 and along with Adom, is one of the best players in the conference. She ranks second on the team this season in digs, with 123, and takes on the responsibility of being the team captain. Gowen, the junior from Edmond leads the team in digs with 173 and is quickly becoming one of the better defensive players for Boyland. Conference play gets under way on Sept. 18 as the Bronchos travel to Kingsville, Texas, to take on Texas A&M University-Kingsville. The
conference could be up in the air due to the widespread talent around the league. “There are a lot of teams that are real close,” Boyland said. “An injury here or there could decide everything.” With the luck the Lady Bronchos have had over the past two seasons, they are hoping to finally avoid the injury bug and fight for a chance to win the conference. They will have to avoid adversity, but players like Adom, Wilson and Gowen will not let a broken down bus get in the way of continuing the program’s storied success.
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CLICK FOR GLORY: TROUBLE AHEAD By Chris Wescott / Sports Editor Despite starting two players who scored zero points, team “Kenny Powers” nearly took their week one matchup. Sadly, my fantasy team lost 75-74 in a last-second, down-to-the wire contest. At one point, I had a 40-point lead that lasted well into the late Sunday games. But the inability of two of my players to score even a point allowed my opponent to make an epic comeback and seal the one-point victory. I learned some things along the way however. Don’t read into player hype. If a player hasn’t performed and is on rough terms with the head coach, he most likely isn’t going to get the ball. Kenny Britt for example, the Tennesse Titans’ wide receiver. I also learned to trust my gut. I second guessed starting Derrick Mason (wide receiver, Baltimore Ravens). I figured his touches would be limited in a crowded wide receiver depth chart. They were limited, but he scored two points to Kenny Britt’s zero. Had I started Mason, I would have won the game. But I digress. Third, I learned not to be a homer. C.J. Spiller (running back, Buffalo Bills) is a rookie, and my Buffalo Bills are just bad. Well, our defense is pretty good. But the offensive line and quarterback are, how do I put this lightly? Sub par at best. My decision to start Spiller, fueled by homerism, was based on his big play capabilities. Which, in time, will prove to be some of the best and most consistent in the NFL. However, he is a rookie and it is hard to get anything going when five defenders hit you in the backfield almost immediately following the snap. Yikes. Now to the positives. Drew Brees (quarterback, New Orleans Saints) didn’t light up the scoreboard. Looking back at my draft and having time to break down the situation, I might have gone with Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew instead. But there’s no use dwelling on the past. Despite him not having an all-star day, Brees kept me in contention and has the potential down the line to win me some fantasy football games. My running back depth chart proved its
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Tennessee Titans running back Chris Johnson (28) runs on a 76-yard touchdown run against the Oakland Raiders in the first half of their NFL football game at LP Field in Nashville, Tenn., Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. Oakland Raiders defender Kamerion Wimbley (96) pursues.
worth. Even though Spiller disappointed me big-time, LeSean McCoy (Philadelphia Eagles) and Ronnie Brown (Miami Dolphins), put up decent numbers. McCoy only saw 12 touches, but he totaled 82 yards and a score. Good for 13 points. Ronnie Brown scored me 14 points (scoring is different for different league settings). My final positive: Reggie Wayne (wide receiver, Indianapolis Colts) still has it. The aging veteran scored me 15 points in week one, catching seven passes for 99 yards and a touchdown. In week two, I play team “supperwrays” who has the incredible Chris Johnson (running back, Tennesse Titans). While the rest of his team is underwhelming, stocked with solid, yet not highly productive players, Johnson alone is a fantasy force to be reckoned with. I’ve discovered just how addicting fantasy
football is. I check in daily on my team for new updates. I also continue to learn how to tweak lineups and add players to make me more competitive. As I prepare for week two of the fantasy football season, I look to the waiver wire and free agent pool for solid depth and possible starters. I find three of possible help to me. Kenny Britt is a disappointment, but I want to keep him on my bench for now. This leaves me searching for a new starter at wide receiver. I drop Josh Cribbs (wide receiver, Cleveland Browns) and put a waivers claim on Nate Washington (wide receiver, Tennessee Titans). When you put a claim on a player who is currently on waivers it means you have to wait for them to clear waivers before you are awarded said player. Much like in the real life National Football League. If multiple teams
put a claim on a player, the player is awarded to whoever has the lowest waiver order number. In real life, the player is awarded to the team with the worst record. My waiver order number is 4 of 14. I also dropped bench players Dustin Keller (tight end, New York Jets) and Golden Tate (wide receiver, Seattle Seahawks) and put claims on both Brandon Jackson (running back, Green Bay Packers) and the Carolina Panthers’ defense and special teams. Nate Washington proved why Tennessee can win without Kenny Britt. The wide receiver scored 14 points in the home opener. His 10-point projection for week two has me taking a good look at possibly starting him, if I am awarded him waivers. Brandon Jackson is a no-brainer. Green Bay’s starting running back Ryan Grant is now out for the season. So Jackson will step in for Grant and receive the bulk of the work. Even though the Packers are a passing team, they will need to run the ball at some point and Jackson is projected to score 15 points in week two. With Spiller scoring zero points in week one, Jackson might be a solid starter for me moving forward. The Panthers’ defense intrigues me. My starter at defense/special teams is Pittsburgh. Not bad, but they didn’t score a lot of points last Sunday. Like a good general manager, I’m always looking to get better. Carolina’s defense finished week one with nine points and is projected for 12. The Steelers’ defense is projected to score only five points. If these moves are approved and I get these two players and defense, I could end up scoring much more points this week. If projected correctly, my three new acquisitions would hypothetically net me 37 more points than my current starters at those positions. Those points would go a long way in getting me my first win of the season and helping me on my road to the championship.
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The only player Chris Wescott was awarded off of waivers was WR Nate Washington.
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