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BRIEFS >News Diggingfor facts One UCO undergraduate recently attended a national research competition. ✓ Page 4
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UCO softball split a doubleheader with the Southeastern Savages April 20, ending 2-1 and 4-6. ✓ Page 6
TODAY IN HISTORY In 1967, Colorado Governor John Love signed the first law legalizing abortion in the United States. It was limited to therapeutic abortions that were unanimously agreed upon by a three physician panel.
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THURSDAY •
APRIL 25, 2002
UCO student named Fulbright scholar BY j ERA STONE
application including an essay "They have a fully-funded on her career goals, Heit said. first-year abroad program in "We gave out about 100 Austria," Savage said. CO has a new Fulbright applications, and only 3 people Savage also plans on pursuing Student Grant winner completed them," Heit said. her women's studies minor in walking among us, though After the UCO advisory graduate school. not for much longer. group interviewed Savage, her Dr. Rudi Nollert, UCO Shawna Lyn Savage, German application was sent to the associate professor of German major senior, will leave for National Fulbright Committee. and chairman of department of Germany in September. She is "They picked out twice the modem languages, literatures and one of 960 students worldwide numbers of the grants available, cultural studies, said Savage's that received this year's Fulbright and sent those applications to advantage is that she is an Grants for graduate study abroad. the host countries," Heit said. interdisciplinary student. "I hope to teach German Savage filled out a second "She has the literature and someday, and it's an amazing application in German to send culture background from her opportunity to be able to live in to the Germany Fulbright German major, but she also has a Germany for a year," Savage said. Committee, Heit said. very strong analytical and writing "I feel like a kid getting ready Savage said she figured out in background from her women's for Christmas." Shawna Savage high school that she wanted to studies program," Nollert said. Savage will be a teacher's teach German. Savage said her family is sad assistant in Nordrhein Westfalen, "A slow interest of the to see her go, but is very proud of Savage plans on attending the Germany from September 2002 culture arose through the different her. Bowling Green State University's through June 2003. "They know it's a great projects I did in high school, so I two-year German master's opportunity for me," Savage said. "I'll be there working with the started taking the language," program when she comes back professors and creating that great Savage said. from Germany. link that I'll be able to use See SAVAGE, Page 5 throughout my career," Savage said. The Fulbright Program was established in 1946, said Dr. Siegfried E. Heit, UCO Fulbright Program advisor and professor of humanities and philosophy. Heit said Sen. J. William Fulbright, who was a Rhodes Scholar, envisioned the Fulbright program as an opportunity for students from different countries to study abroad. "That way we can create a better understanding among the future younger generations and prevent costly future wars," Heit said. More than 140 countries participate in the Fulbright program, and more than 225,000 people have been awarded Fulbright grants since 1946, Heit said. Savage is the second UCO student receiving the Fulbright award, Heit said. In 1998, another German major, Theresa Little, was awarded. PHOTO SERVICES "It definitely reflects well on the quality of the German program on UCO campus," Heit Sharra Hardy, editor of the Bronze Book, and Rhonda Bowden, UCO director of student said. publications, present President Roger Webb with a copy of the 2001-02 Bronze Book April To enter the competition, 23. The yearbook is now being sold on campus. Savage filled out a long
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