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Terror drill trains responders at East Hall UCO Cheer squad and Porn and Dance team win the Division II national championships.
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East Hall was the site of a mock disaster drill on April 11. Students volunteered as victims during the two-day event on campus.
Exercise simulates dirty bomb explosion â– For two days firemen, police and volunteers created a scene of disaster. by Caroline Duke cd@thevistaonline.corn At 5:30 p.m. April 11, a mock "dirty bomb" explosion at East Hall signaled the beginning of a national training exercise for first responders. As part of the overnight mock bio-chemical attack scenario, cars were buried under rubble and wounded" students were strewn across the ground, some pinned down by "shrapnel," to create a scene similar to those during the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the Sept. 11 attacks. Rescue organizations from across the country converged on the UCO campus to learn how to respond to man-made disasters, like terrorist "
acts, and natural disasters, like the May 3 tornado. Members of the U.S. Fifth Army, the Oklahoma National Guard and the U.S. Marine Corps were on hand for the exercise, said Gary Gleason, public information officer for Rescue Training Associates (RTA). Area hospitals and local firefighters also participated in the event, although Gleason said some firefighters came from as far away as Anchorage, Alaska. The majority of firefighters were from Edmond and Oklahoma City, he said. In addition to the students that lay injured on the lawn, some students were placed inside the building in "safe spots." Firefighters responded to the affected students, who each mimicked a victim of disaster. One "victim" complained of her eyes burning as a firefighter escorted her away from the scene. Volunteer nursing and forensic
science students from UCO set up triage to tend to the "walking wounded," nearly 125 student volunteers, after they were rescued by the firefighters. Gleason said this exercise was the third of its type hosted by RTA, a Florida-based company that provides training to first responders for urban search and rescue. Two other events were held last year in Miami and Connecticut, he said. The vacated dorm was partially demolished several days before the exercise to serve as the location of the simulated explosion. Charlie Johnson, University News Bureau director, said the building will be torn down and removed, and the land may be used for more student housing or classroom space. "We don't have an immediate plan for it," he said.
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Members of the Edmond Fire Department exit the decontamination tent at the East Hall drill.
East Hall serves as classroom for rescue crews
Nested reporter depicts scene at ground zero
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UCO Campus Life office and Volunteer Center are accepting donations for Oklahoma troops leaving for Iraq. - Page 5
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td@thevistaonline.com EAST HALL, April 12 The eastern end of East Hall was demolished. An '88 Oldsmobile and a white Firebird lay under tons of smoking rubble. Small fires burned along the side of the building. On the lawn outside, students in gym shorts and tank-tops wandered around gashed and bleeding. Shrapnel and ash surrounded their wounds. At the center of the wounded sat a bombed out Toyota, its remaining door splotched with dripping blood. "Exercise artificialities." That is what both Jon Hanson, former. Oklahoma City Fire Chief, and Gary Gleason, Public Information Officer for Rescue Training Associates, called the parts of this simulation which differ from the real thing. "Exercise artificialities," like
UCO tennis teams struggled in the Broncho Intercollegiate Invitational April 12.
Editor's Note: Vista reporter Mark Schlachtenhaufen was a volunteer victim, one of the "walking wounded," in the mock terrorism drill held April 11 at UCO. This is his first-hand account.
Photo by Tina Fowble
5:40 p.m. — "Welcome to hell," our host quipped as someone passed our position. The words fit the scene. Fire trucks arrived. Clouds of gray smoke came from a topless, charred, burning car parked near the section of East Hall collapsed by the blast effects from a "dirty bomb" detonated just moments ago. I stood on a patch of grass in the shadows of East Hall, near a doorway I would soon enter. About an hour earlier I entered Central Cafeteria, the staging area for the volunteer vic-
Volunteers, portraying victims, wait for first responders to rescue them during the terrorism drill April 11.
see Ground Zero page 4
Liberal Arts Student Symposium will feature NASA official J. Milton Heflin, 1966 alumnus. - Page 5
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East Hall's fate still undetermined
"Can you believe that this used to be a worthless parking lot and dorm?" Cartoon by Chris Maupin
The administration has no clear plans for the future of the East Hall dormitory lot, which is halfdestroyed, looming temporarily over a valuable plot of land. Of all the purposes an empty lot the size of East Hall's foundation could serve, the best is not a specific one, but one very general. By building a multi-purpose building filled with classrooms of different shapes, sizes and applications, UCO could effectively cushion itself from future classroom overflows: At the same time, it would create a haven for classes that don't necessarily lend themselves to any particular college. These classrooms could be used to hold seminars, breakout sessions, symposiums or any variety of purposes. A multi-purpose building could be constructed a few semesters in the
future, after UCO recovers from slashed budgets. Since its purpose would not be clearly delineated, as was the case of the Wellness Center and the planned expansions to Wantland Stadium, it may be difficult for the administration to pass a similar referendum to raise money with a student fee. However, if its construction were to be kept tastefully low in price, or paid for by the use of conventions by private users, the additional classroom space could yield a significant "bang-for-thebuck." In light of increasing tuition, it would be foolish to leave East Hall's lot vacant for long. With its convenient geography, it should be put to an application as flexible as UCO's future is uncertain.
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Quote of the day There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is there is very little about which one can be certain. - W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
Letters to the editor the insulated environment. It is the perfect haven for UCO's serious undergraduates. I discovered Evans Hall with a friend last week. He had an important algebra test on the horizon (I am his official tutor) and we were sick of the library. We walked around campus for a few minutes before accidentally wandering into this gorgeous sanctuary. It appealed to both of us immediately. We settled in and began to whisper about prime factorization, content to occasionally gaze in awe at our surroundings. But Evans Hall is forbidden. We had been in the building for perhaps five minutes when a blonde, but graying, woman with
To the Editor, Well-hidden on UCO's campus is the ideal retreat for busy students. Luxurious and quiet, Evans Hall has everything the student needs. Large oak tables and comfortable, high-backed chairs keep visitors engaged during long homework sessions. Heavy velvet curtains and high-vaulted ceilings make them feel like royalty as they hammer out biology definitions. Soft couches provide a great place to nap between classes. A small, ancient library sets the perfect mood for studying. Best of all is the silence - soft, yet impenetrable. The quiet wraps around those working in
a tailored suit and an efficient haircut came into the holy place. 'Are you two just doing homework?" she asked, obviously not pleased by our presence. We nodded, a little confused by her hostility and her demaning reference to education as "just homework" - on a college campus. "Students aren't allowed to work in here," she continued in a superior voice. "This room is to be used only for alumni meetings and university business. You need to leave. Do you know where the library is? You're welcome to study there instead." We were baffled. Here was an empty room, obviously not being used for any "university busi-
ness," obviously the ideal setting for "just homework." Our tuition money is being used to maintain the splendor. And yet we were not invited to partake. A student's presence in Evans Hall is a clear threat, perhaps only understood by the skeletons in the closet and the administrators maintaining vigilant protection of its austerity. But to whom are students a threat? To the dust, to the velvet curtains? I guess most college students are irresponsible and have an insatiable craving for destruction. Inviting them to study at Evans Hall without a chaperone must be like handing a can of spray paint to an eighth grader. The temptation to sell the furni-
ture on eBay for pot money, or to write one's name in urine on the curtains just might prove too strong for undergraduate flakes. Who knows what else they might do? So I can understand why Evans Hall is a sacred place, forbidden only to the high priests. The eraser crumbs of diligent students will upset the karma of the building. But instead of asking faculty to rudely dismiss students from the sanctuary, perhaps UCO should just lock the students out. Perhaps the prohibition should be made public by written proclamation on the door, monthly reminding alumni that UCO considers them worthy
from protesction from lowly undergrads. Perhaps UCO should post a full-time, uniformed sentry with a gun. Any number of possibilities exist to keep Evans Hall untarnish and to keep its carpets free from footprints not belonging to the chosen few - because, as we all know, UCO must maintain its distance from those learning in it. Evans Hall will always illustrate the marked superiority of those who have completed the race over those still running. Sharon Fitzsimmons Senior Math/English
Choice Voting gives students representation, reason to vote guest opinion by John Russell Editor's note: This was first published in the Oregon Daily Emerald. With student government elections under way, young people across the country are being asked to vote for student representatives. But many times this plea is answered with a more difficult question: "Why should I vote? It doesn't count." While sometimes seen as a sign of apathetic young people or a lament about the limited powers of student governments, examining this statement can reveal a deeper political problem. One of the basic ideas of democracy, that the people vote and then receive representation, is not being realized by the current political system. Rather than expressing apathy, students are being realistic about how much impact their vote has. Under the current winnertake-all plurality voting system used in most U.S. elections, a candidate who wins a bare 51 percent majority can receive 100 percent of the representation. As
many as 49 percent of votes do not lead to a voice in government. For these people, their votes do not count. But a new political reform idea gaining momentum on college campuses can ensure that all votes count and all voters are represented. Choice voting, a form of full representation, was passed overwhelmingly last month by the Associated Students of University of California-Davis. Instead of just marking one candidate on the ballot, the system allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference. These preferences are then used to award seats. If there are 10 seats to be filled, a candidate needs the support of about a tenth of students to win a seat. If there are five seats, a candidate will win with the support of 20 percent of students. Choice voting dramatically increases the chance that a ballot will lead to representation. If a smaller group of like-minded voters prefer a candidate, they can win at least one seat. Also, if
a voter's first choice is not strong enough to win, their second choice is considered. Ranking candidates ensures that more than 90 percent of ballots lead directly to representation when electing 10 seats. This is significant for student governments, where elections are often dominated by a particular campus group. The winner-takeall system allows a dominant group to win a vast majority of seats. Under choice voting, smaller student groups can consolidate their support and win representation. The typical result is a more diverse student government representing more views. Harvard, Princeton, University of Illinois, Carleton College and Vassar all use choice voting or another form of full representation. Even more schools use instant runoff voting. On the international scene, the United States and Canada are the only major democracies still using winner-take-all exclusively for national elections, and nearly all British universities elect stu-
dent government personnel with choice voting. While the low voter turnout of 18-24-year-olds in national elections is seen as a crisis, these numbers are just as compelling in student elections. Each spring, there is usually an article or editorial about whether student government elections really matter. But under the winner-take-all electoral system, student governments don't represent enough of the students, and therefore, students don't vote. Implementing choice voting and providing representation to all students would help reverse this trend. Winning a seat at the table is a powerful incentive to care about the decisions made there. A recent graduate of the University of Iowa, John Russell is the student outreach coordinator at the Center for Voting and Democracy. For more information, visit http://www.fairvote.org/schools/ studhome. htm.
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Participants from various departments searched for UCO nursing students wait for the victims after they've Rescue personnel were fingerprinted before going inside the building during the mock disaster drill. gone through the decontamination tent. victims inside East Hall on April 11.
Drill, from page 1 the banners of corporate logos pasted across one wall of East Hall as if to say, "This disaster brought to you by..." Or like the College of Business, cooking burgers, laughing and talking with each other over a picnic spread. And the bleachers set up for spectators, though most of them sat on the piece of land that rolls up the north side of the Physical Plant. A man walked by before the event and asked if there was "gonna be an explosion or something." He suggested we jump the fence and pretend to be looters. 5 p.m. - A call came in to 911 that there was an explosion at East Hall. No more details were given. The exercise was initiated. The fire department knew they had to assume it could be anything: biological, chemical, even radioactive. They set up control some distance from the building, downwind, on Ayers. Hansen said this is the smartest option. They passed the first test with flying colors. Men donned their suits and waited for the Oklahoma City Fire Department. The police and fire departments cordoned off University Drive and Chowning Avenue.
For many people this fear was a very real sense of the future and for them everything depended on how well, despite the "exercise artificialities," the rescue crews could perform. Two firefighters moved in, mostly to survey the scene. They were in full gear with tanks and masks. Their suits provide some protection from various chemical and biological weapons. In the best conditions, a firefighter in top shape can work for forty minutes. There is no protection from the radiation of a "dirty bomb" except, in the words of one of the military civil support crew, "distance." One key rule for the evening was minimizing future casualties. This meant not helping victims until they know it's safe to do so. Eventually, the "walking wounded" will be led off in a blind man's line, a chain of arms on shoulders, by one of the firefighters. Since they won't know for certain the extent of the danger, only small crews will come on-site to carry off the immobile. 6 p.m. - The order came out for the National Guard Chemical Team to go in. They brought all their own toys and soon a complete lab was set up on the field north of the Physical Plant. It would be hours before they located the suspicious milky substance in a busted amber bottle and then one-hour to process it and discern possible threats. In the meantime, the victims recovered from the site were ushered through a decontamination tent, This was essentially a temporary shower room that operated off of a fire hydrant, complete with a gasoline-powered water heater. There was a roller to send the paralyzed, or victims suspected of having back injuries, through on boards. Once they finished there, the nursing students took over, reassessing the victims, doing any other necessary triage and sending them on to whatever hospitals can take them. At this point in the exercise, the volunteer vic-
tim's job was over . 7:30 p.m. - It was time for the initial entry team to go in. This was not a rescue squad. Their job was to get information, going through each room with a chemical sensor and enough men to ascertain the condition of any victims. An elaborate spray paint marking system was used to tell the next crews where to go, what to do and what kind of threats they could face. The team also used a search-and-rescue dog, who was experiencing a disaster scene for the first time. The Edmond Fire and Rescue initial entry crew was obviously excited, and shouting was their only volume. Their voices shook with emergency. They accidentally pushed each other in their hurry to get in. Hansen said initial entry is like "mainlining testosterone." A team of evaluators, in blue shirts and yellow helmets,
watched, patiently asking the anxious squad of firemen what they were going to do. "You can only go one way. Which hall do you follow?" An "exercise artificiality." "They missed a victim," said Hansen. This doesn't mean failure, this means the crew has learned something. They then retrieved a paralyzed victim from the building on a door, even though the doorways were collapsed inward. They went through a routine of moving the victim on and off of the board every time they passed though a doorway. As Bob West, one of the two firefighters here that worked the 2001 World Trade Center bombing, said, "Until you get your hands on stuff and actually do it you don't know." Every person used the word "invaluable" to describe the training.
Throughout the night the firefighters and military were given other specific missions, almost more engineering than typical rescue work. They performed "liftouts" where they removed the floor of a second story room to gain access to a blocked room below. They sawed through pieces of the rubble and moved in heavy equipment to dig though the concrete. 9 p.m. — The Navy-University of South Florida robotics team was deployed. The main robot was a two-foot long rugged black box on tracks. It had a low-light black and white camera and three other full-color cameras. These models can be outfitted with infrared cameras to find carbon dioxide. There are other robots that can tell oxygen saturation and pulse rate by touching trapped victims. One such Navy robot is currently deployed in Afghanistan
searching caves and performing surveillance that would be dangerous for humans. A massage team was on hand to take care of the human rescue workers. Wayne Barlow, of the Massage Team, explained that Critical Incident Stress Management found that firefighters, a traditionally macho close-mouthed group, are, "more likely to go to stress management if they could get a massage." 10:30 p.m. - A crew of rescue workers "breached," or made a door from an inside wall. They drove through it with threepound hammers, relieving each other to avoid exhaustion. In the dorm hall, everything was covered in a fine array of concrete dust, paint chips, with doors periodically to the left and right. The flooring and walls and doors were amazingly typical under the dust - like West Hall or
anything built around the same time. It was the standard architecture of public use. Then the hallway ended abruptly, as rebar, bent and splayed like rope ends, framed the naked sky outside; a massive concrete mountain of slabs and boulders, smoke still lazily ascending in the halo of the gas-powered work lights. The exercise was as much spectacle as practice tonight because, for many people, this hallway was a kind of imagined timeline. The mundane falling inexplicably to disaster and the light past the naked rubble was not some higher power, but human beings with training and limited public resources. For many people this fear was a very real sense of the future and for them, everything depended on how well, despite the "exercise artificialities," the rescue crews could perform..
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Ground Zero, from page 1 tin-is about to be thrust into the front lines in the war on terrorism. Upon entering, a UCO DPS officer directed me toward a man wearing a yellow hard hat. He was standing beside a table, where one by one, rescue workers and journalists were fingerprinted electronically. The new technology is used to ensure that appropriate personnel are where they should be during a disaster. Someone said victims didn't have to be fingerprinted, that we just had to fill out a form. I had already done so, but complied gladly anyway. I turned in my form and took a seat on a cafeteria table, surrounded by other victims. Like me, they wore a luminescent yellow sticker with a "V" written in pen across it. Not far away, more victims were getting fake wounds, symptomatic of exposure to a
chemical agent. A group of nursing students waited to be taken to a location near "ground zero." One of the rescue workers in the room was of the four-legged variety, a Doberman tolerating all of the activity like a trooper. While I waited to be deployed, I talked to a woman sitting across the table from me. She said that she was a teacher at UCO. During our conversation, we talked about how humans have an organ donor program that helps others after we have died. I said although East Hall was "dying," through the disaster training exercise it would help others after it was gone. About an hour after I arrived, we were led out of the cafeteria. We walked alongside East Hall, down a sidewalk between the abandoned three-story dorm and Ayers Street. As we passed the end of the building, we were told
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"Leg injury. Possible spinal cord injury," one of them said. "He's not critical. Let's move on. We're moving on, but someone will be here shortly," said a man kneeling beside me. His words and clam, reassuring demeanor comforted me. I nodded. Someone standing by the "body parts" spray-painted a symbol on the floor. At some point, I was asked if others were nearby. Minutes later, someone else entered the room and announced my presence. I told him I had already been helped. Instructors pointed out the error. Seconds later, someone spraypainted an identifying symbol on the floor beside my head. I felt good. They were all professionals, but they were learning; that's why they were there. Soon, the team returned and cautiously lifted me onto a door they used as a makeshift stretcher. I was carried down the hall and out of East Hall, into the decon tent, learning along the way that the team members were from Edmond. Both myself and the "stretcher" were rolled through the decon tent, over a "conveyor belt," and I came out the other side, still dry, and full of gratitude, both for the first responders and for the fourlegged hero who had just rescued me from "ground zero."
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Keynote speaker to address Columbia disaster at symposium by Caroline Duke cd@thevistaonline.com
The Chief Flight Director for Johnson Space Center will be the keynote speaker at the Liberal Arts Student Symposium, "Ad Astra Per Aspera," which means "to the stars through difficulties." J. Milton "Milt" Heflin will give the keynote address, titled "When We Have a Bad Day, We Go Fix It: The Loss of Columbia and Her Crew," at 5 p.m. April 16 in Pegasus Theater. Heflin served as Chief Flight Director to the Space Shuttle
Columbia, which was destroyed upon re-entry Feb. 1. He is also currently chief of the Flight Director Office at Johnson Space Center. He has served as flight director for 20 space shuttle flights and as lead flight director for seven of those missions. Heflin graduated from Central State University (now UCO) in 1966, with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and math. He began working at NASA that same year and has served as ground test vehicle engineer, team director during
the Apollo Program, lead recovery engineer and flight controller. In 1995, Heflin helped establish and manage the Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Project Office, which played a vital role in the construction of the International Space Station. In 1984, he was recognized by UCO as a "Distinguished Former Student," and was one of 30 former students to receive the Broncho Award in 1990. NASA awarded him the Certificate of Commendation in 1990 and the Exceptional Service Medal in 1991. Two years later,
Support drive collects items for troops by Summer Pratt sp@thevistaonline.com A campus-wide support drive will be held through April 18 to collect personal care items for the 45th Field Artillery Brigade, leaving for Iraq on May 13. Donation boxes are located in buildings across campus, including the Nigh University Center, the Liberal Arts Building, the Business Administration Building, the Education Building, Howell Hall, the University Suites, West Hall and Central Cafeteria. Frauna Ridenour, Campus Life program assistant, said the drive's goal is to gather supplies from UCO faculty, staff and students to make care packages for the troops. Suggested items for donation are: travel-size lotion, sun screen, bar soap, toothpaste, Tylenol PM, disposable razors, batteries, stationary, moist towelettes, calling cards, deodorant, stamps and energy bars.
Christina Gilmore, assistant director of Campus Life, encouraged people to give generously to the troops. "The little things that remind them of home help them get through the day," she said. Gilmore said the soldiers don't get to shower very often, so items like moist towelettes can provide a much needed source of refreshment. She said they came up with the idea to send care packages to the soldiers after the son of Patti Johnston, the Campus Life secretary, was deployed. Johnston said, "When I told my son about it [the support drive], he was really humbled that the university would be thinking about them." Ridenour said care packages can also be sent to the friends and family members of UCO faculty, staff or students who are serving in the war. To have a care package sent, those interested can call the Volunteer Center and provide them with the soldier's mailing information. For more information, call 974-2363 or 974-
he received the Outstanding Leadership Medal from NASA. As a result of the success of the first repair mission of the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, he was co-recipient of the nation's highest aviation award, the Robert J. Collier Trophy, and was recognized as Count-down Magazine's Honorary Astronaut of the Year. "Being involved in [the repair mission] has been the most satisfying part of my career," Heflin said. "I'm expecting the second most satisfying [part] to be getting us back to flying again." He said his immediate response to the Columbia disaster was "one of shock and numbness." "Because of the position that I am in, every crew that we fly, I feel a personal attachment to," he said. "When something like this happens, it just reminds me of how unforgiving traveling to and from and being in space is," Heflin said. "We will never take all of the risks out of it." "I've been here for all three of the times that we've lost astronauts involved inside their spacecraft," he said. He said the first was in 1967, when three astronauts died in a fire during a launch pad test for Apollo I, and the second was the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. He said, "I know this is a very risky business."
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J.Milton Heflin, the current Chief Flight Director for Johnson Space Center and 1966 graduate, will come back to UCO as the keynote speaker during the Liberal Arts Student Symposium April 16. He was honored in 1989 and into the Oklahoma Aviation and 1993 as Aviation Week & Space Space Hall of Fame. Technology Aerospace Laurel "Being inducted into that and Laureate and, in 1997, was Hall was very special for me and inducted into the Aviation Week something that will be very diffi& Space Technology Hall of cult to beat in years to come," he Fame. said. A year later, he was inducted
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UCO teams win in Daytona by Brad Frizell bf@thevistaonline.com After spending April 3-6 at Daytona Beach Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Fla., the Broncho porn and dance and cheer squads brought home national championships. The cheer squad won their second straight National Cheer Association title while the porn team came back from a second place finish last year to win their first National Dance Association (NDA) championship. Brandy Copeland, three-year porn and cheer coach, said, "These teams both have the biggest hearts of any I have ever coached. They
are all hard workers, love what they do, sacrifice a lot, and love the University of Central Oklahoma. Together, this combination brought them, the university, the state, as well as myself a national championship title." Competing against 14 schools in Division II the cheer squad barely pulled off the win by .04 points with a score of 8.68. Cheer captain Lara King said, "It's really great winning back-toback championships. How many teams ever can say that?" Porn walked away with their win outscoring opponents each night by .20 or more. With the highest score recorded in the NDA
for the past two years, UCO porn and dance took the NDA championship with 9.37. Pom captain Abbi Rinderknecht said, "It was rough last year riding back on that plane with our cheer sisters and their championship trophy had us feeling like we should have had ours. This year we went in with that feeling in our heart and we were not going to leave with out that trophy." Both squads competed in the early nineties, took a seven-year hiatus from competition and started competition again in 2000. In Division II cheer and porn 35 teams make preliminaries and 17 teams make finals.
Heroic performance in cheer team victory by Brad Frizell bf@thevistaonline.com Cheer team member Nicole Meadows paid a high price for her team's national championship, but completed a routine despite mouth injuries in the finals of national competition April 4. During the cheer routine some of the cheerleaders are thrown up ""4 "lef6 the air. When the ''flyers" come down, they are caught by teammates called "cradlers." One of these cradlers was Meadows. When the flyer came down, her elbow hit Meadows in the mouth. "Nobody knew what had hap-
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what she did for this team." When the routine was over, she ran off the mat to her coach and the paramedics. The paramedics put her teeth back in and rushed her to the emergency room. These past few days have been intense for Meadows with going in and out of dentist's and oral surgeon's offices. After three root canals and some teeth being relined, the worst part looks to be over, though there is the possibility of braces. When asked if all this was worth it Meadows replied, "Yes, definitely."
The UCO Intercollegiate Invitational tennis tournament ended on a sour note for the Broncho tennis team with the men 16sing both of their matches and the women earning a split in their two April 10-11. The tournament ended its three-day run on Saturday with matches having taken place at four different sites in the Edmond area. UCO's women defeated East Central 5-1 in their first final match. Stephanie Johns defeated Summer Nelson 6-3, 7-6, Sarah Bowman defeated Lisa Britrow 57, 6-2, 1-0(10-7) and Jennifer Jones beat Erin Hubbard 6-3, 62. They also picked up wins in two of the three doubles matches. The men's team almost picked up a big win against Northwest Missouri losing 5-3. Henry So defeated J. Sanchez 7-5, 6-4, Gregg le Sueur defeated L. Panera 6-0, 6-1, and Mouhcine Guettabi beat A. Harvat 6-2, 6-2. The women fell to Incarnate Word 5-0 in their late match and the men lost to Wayne State 5-2 in their early match. Next up for the UCO tennis team is the Lone Star Conference Championships in Wichita Falls, TX on April 17.
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Women split with ECU in close contests by Ryan Jameson rj@thevistaonline.com The UCO softball team split a Lone Star Conference North Division doubleheader with East Central April 11 winning the second game 6-3. Lauren Moore had a run-scoring single in the seventh inning of the first game to bring UCO close at 6-5. The come-back rally fell short after Moore, as the Bronchos left
the bases loaded to end the game. Moore went 4-for-4 with Kamesha Smith and Lyndsey Miller taking two hits each. The Bronchos rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the second game, scoring twice in the top of the seventh to force extra innings and winning it in the eighth with three all-important runs. Miller knocked in Smith and Lindsay Tripp with a double to right field. Moore made it home on an
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