UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
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APRIL 22, 1999 EARTH DAY
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AROUND CAMPUS
LETTERS
Fun activities and more.„.8
UCOSA was right 18
WE'VE GOT MOVIES
GREEK WEEK
Cookies Fortune 15
What a party 19
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UCO approves women's study minor By Ann Jayne Staffiffriter
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f you have ever wondered how women fared or expressed themselves in past times, you will soon get the chance to learn. "Women in Culture" is a new class being offered in the fall semester. It will be taught by Dr. Siegfried Heit, professor of humanities and philosophy. The course will be offered from noon-12:50 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. "It examines the role of women," Heit said. "It starts with the earliest cave drawings, goes to the Mesopotamia and Greek eras, through the Old Testament and up through the modern age." The class was first taught in the spring of 1997. There were 35 people enrolled in it and more than 40 were on a waiting list to take it. "Women in Culture" is apparently arriving at the perfect time. On Wednesday, April 14, the UCO Academic Affairs Counsel approved a new women's studies minor for UCO students which includes this course. This new minor is an 18-hour interdisciplinary program. Although it is based in the English Department, the minor can be applied to any major, from athletics to biology to accounting. "It's interdisciplinary in the
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Pressing event... President Webb welcomes members and new inductees of the Journalism Hall of Fame at the University Center last week. Nine top Oklahoma journalists were honored last week at the induction ceremony which featured a dinner and awards. The inductees were: Jack Brannan, foreign political investigative reporter; Dennie Hall, retired UCO professor; Philip Morris, Southern Living magazine
editor-at-large; Gaylord Shaw Newsday senior correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner; George F. Tapscott, WWII combat photographer and Daily Oklahoman assistant chief photographer; M.J. Van Deventer, editor of Persimmon Hill magazine; and Riley Ward Wilson, Tulsa World. Special honors went to the late Claude V. Barrow, Daily Oklahoman oil editor, and Lucia Loomis, columnist.
Chartwell's sponsors Kosovo charity drive By Jarrod Briley Starner Chartwell's Dining Service, in cooperation with Feed the Children, a national charity for children, is sponsoring a charity drive for the Kosovo refugees. Chartwell's employees have placed several large boxes, labeled "We Care: Care boxes for Kosovo," in buildings throughout the UCO campus. Students are encouraged to donate: ° toilet paper, facial tissue and
paper towels ° personal hygiene items ° non-perishable foods Any items that we ° soap (Chartwell's employees) ° over-the-counter medical cannot send to Kosovo supplies will be given to a local ° baby care products charity, like the Salvation ° new clothes Army..." The contents of the boxes will be collected Friday. Chartwell's Valerie Wolf, employees will take the goods to Chartwell's the Oklahoma City branch of food service director Feed the Children. The goods will then be sent to Kosovo and used clothing, will not be sent to • distributed to refugees. However, some items, such as Kosovo.
"Any items that we (Chartwell's employees) cannot send to Kosovo will be given to a local charity, like the Salvation Army," said Valerie Wolf, director of food services for Chartwell's. She continued, explaining why the people of Kosovo were chosen as a philanthropy project instead of a local charity.
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