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APRIL 27, 1999
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New student leader wants to improve campus experience By Jarrod Briley
suggestions as guidelines for their proposals to the UCO StaffWilier administration. aniel Harris, Harris would also like to sophomore in reinstate some former UCOSA marketing and recently programs, which he feels were elected vice president of the UCO beneficial to UCO. Student Association (UCOSA), In the past, UCOSA met said he is determined to make periodically with the students and several changes to UCO policy. department heads of the various He has five goals that he colleges on campus. They would believes will improve campus life discuss the issues that are for all students. important to them and listen to o Equal student representation their suggestions on ways to on every UCO committee better the university. o 24-hour computer labs in Although such meetings were dorms not held last year, Harris hopes to o 24-hour computer labs for all reinstate them. UCO students Harris also addressed the o 24-hour visitation rights for volatile issue of student parking dorm residents spaces, or lack thereof: ° Improve student parking Since the destruction of several UCOSA cannot implement hundred parking spaces — to programs or changes to UCO make room for construction of policy on their own. They must UCO residential apartments — make recommendations to many students have voiced administrators, who then decide if concern over increasingly crowded parking lots, Harris said. "I wanted to have a "Parking is going to become more of an issue leadership position, I during this next year, when know how things at the apartments are completed," he said. UCOSA work... "And when they (UCO) begin construction on the —DANIEL HARRIS wellness center that is going to be another issue, UCOSA depending on where they vice president elect build it and how much parking it's going to take away." • Harris would like to see a they are worth pursuing. solution to the problem, but Harris said he had not decided admits that any long term solution which goal he would strive to — such as the long- debated, but implement first. never materialized construction of However, he seemed most a multi-level parking garage, is interested in ensuring that all not likely to occur in the near UCO students are well future. represented. He suggested that And he doesn't believe that UCO Student Association that is necessarily a bad thing. members (UCOSA) place suggestion boxes throughout V See APARTMENTS campus. UCOSA would use the Page 2
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—Staff Photo By Negeen Sobhani
Rubber ducky, you're the one... Dr. Gloria Caddell, biology professor, and Dr. Bill Caire, biology professor, participate in the New Plains Publication Group's duck game as part of Earth Day celebrations held on campus. Game contestants had to answer questions about poetry to win a prize. The Earth Day celebration was sponsored by UCO's Earth Day committee and was held last Thursday around Broncho lake. For more photos, see page 20.