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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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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.

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APARTMENTS Continued from front page He said the parking situation at UCO is not nearly as bleak as many student believe. "I don't think the parking situation at UCO is really that bad. And I think there are other ways around the problem besides building a parking garage, like taking away some of the faculty and staff parking and opening it up to student parking." The parking lot north of the library, where most students using the library normal parked, But Harris and other members of the UCO Student Association (UCOSA) cannot implement such changes on their own. They must make recommendations to UCO administrators, who then decide if the recommendations are worth pursuing. "We just don't have the money

or the power to say, 'OK, this is what we want to do. Lets do it.' We just can't do that," Harris said. Harris also expressed interest in the creation of 24- hour visitation rights for residential students. "I feel like their adults, their paying their own bills, and they should be able to have anybody over anytime they want." Harris has never held office before, but he is no stranger to student politics. He was the chief of staff at UCOSA for 2 years before deciding to run for office. "I wanted to have a leadership position, I know how things at UCOSA work, and I wasn't going to be running against anyone who I felt could do a better job" Harris said.

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Former state regent was pioneer in African-American graduate movement By Trent Duqas

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Meacham, dean of the graduate college, wanted to see her in his office. "Let me tell you what we've worked out," Dr. Meacham told her. "The new students of your race are all going to be enrolled in the education department. It is the only one which has accommodations that are suitable." Bewildered and confused, Hall explained to Dr. Meacham that she had no interest in taking education courses. Besides, she said she already had signatures from

ubye M. Hall awoke on the morning of June 1, 1949 knowing she would be among the first African Americans to enroll in Oklahoma University's (OU) graduate program. So Hall rushed to Norman Oklahoma and began enrolling in classes. Hall was a mother of three and had already earned her baccalaureate degree in English from Langston University. She had also completed a few graduate courses from the University There will be no segregation of Southern in any of my classes! California. Hall was looking DR. PRITCHARD forward to University of Oklahoma professor continuing on allowing African Americans to her education enroll in graduate programs in in Oklahoma. 1949 Before Hall could enroll, she said she the English and speech was told by the OU registrar professors. that she needed signatures She said Dr. Meacham told from the professors. her it was impossible to have So off she went. Dr. Green's signature Hall's first stop for an because he was in Boston enrollment signature was that day. with Dr. Kaufman, English Hall said she showed professor, in Kaufman Hall. Meacham the unique Pritchard immediately signed signature on the enrollment the enrollment form. form and he said she would "I'm a damn Yankee!" Dr. have to see President Cross. Pritchard said. "There will be Since Cross was not in no segregation in any of my Evans Hall that day, Dr. classes!" Meacham explained the She then made her way to situation to the vice her speech professor Dr. president. Green's office. The vice president assured "I'm supposed to be in her that the education college Boston today, but I stayed would be suitable for her but here instead, just in case any she would be subjected to persons of your race came to heckling by the enroll in my classes. Here let undergraduates because one me sign that form," Dr. Green of her courses was an said. undergraduate class. Thinking she was finished, She said she told the vice she returned to the registrar's president and Dr. Green she office. She was then told Dr. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

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could handle the heckling, so the vice president told the dean, "Let's give her a try." The next Monday morning when she arrived to school, Hall found that there were signs on all the bathroom doors in Kaufman Hall noting which facilities were for "Colored Only." When Hall arrived to class she said the same "Colored Only" signs were on the desks. Dr. Green and two other white students came to her rescue. To lessen the tension, they sat in the desks that were marked "Colored Only." The next day, the signs were not on the desks. Another problem soon arose. Where would Hall, and other black students, eat? To accommodate them, the Student Union made arrangements to have a steam table with food taken to the third floor. A segregated dining hall had been set up to serve the black students at school. By the time Hall's classes had been dismissed, the steam table of food was gone leaving her without a meal. So Hall said she decided to bravely make her way down to the regular cafeteria line so she could be served. To her surprise, no one objected or seemed to care. Rubye Hall went on to finish her master's degree. Hall retired from teaching in 1976 and was named a State Regent in 1974. She was then elected chairman of the State Regents in 1979. She has been inducted into the African-American Hall of Fame, Langston University Hall of Fame, Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame and the Higher Education Hall of Fame.

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Anniversary marks first African-American graduate students By Trent Dugas StaffWriter

he 50th anniversary for African-Americans enrolling in graduate courses at Oklahoma universities is May 31. The Oklahoma State Regents is recognizing Rubye M. Hall as one of the first AfricanAmerican students to enroll in a graduate program at a state universities. They are also recognizing the former state regent for her pioneering efforts and "strong leadership" for handling civil rights issues in the late 1970s. In the late 1940s, the State Regents recommended passage of a bill that would stop discrimination against African Americans. The Regents formed a committee consisting of six deans from the University of

Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University. The committee studied the effects African Americans would have in Oklahoma graduate schools. In a statement written by the committee in 1948, they concluded, "to attempt to maintain complete segregation of the races in graduate and specialized education would cost so much it would seriously cripple our higher education PA, program." The Oklahoma Legislature heard the call and responded with bill 405. In 1949, House Bill 405 was signed into law and put an end to segregation in Oklahoma public graduate colleges. Before the bill was signed, African Americans were not allowed to enroll in graduate

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courses in Oklahoma public universities. In 1950, the U.S. Supreme Court also heard the call and responded by allowing African Americans to enroll on a desegregated basis in any Oklahoma state college and university program. Dr. Clyde Jacob, graduate college dean at UCO, said the

State Regents should be commended for recognizing such an important gesture. "I think the recognition does have significant implications for African Americans today for several reasons," Jacob said. "First I think it sends a signal that this occasion is important to the point that the State Regents are willing to recognized it. "And secondly, I think it sends a signal that there are expanding opportunities and it provides some degree of encouragement for young African Americans today." Jacob said there are expanding opportunities in graduate education in a variety of fields. 50 years ago, when African Americans were beginning to enter graduate school their choices of study were limited.

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ANNIVERSARY Continued from page 4 did go through it and perhaps no way I could say that was a spectacular feat that just can't understand. Not authority of the majority, it is a there were worse situations than that. But we need to look beyond that. It was a very ugly part of our history perhaps that we need to focus on today and tomorrow and what opportunities that are ahead for young people. "They should be encouraged and offered extended opportunities. Granted, there is

inequities do not exist in this country. We all recognize that inequalities to some degree still exist and it is just a matter of life in America, but the bottom line is that young people have a tremendous amount of opportunities today to enter graduate programs in a variety of fields for more than they did 15 years ago." UCO has 134 African American students enrolled in graduate program for this spring semester. That One of the things I think number compares to 1,901 they lost on our collective white students in UCO's graduate program. psyche is that America Out of the 134 African is not only the melting pot American students, 100 are but it is a country of women and 34 are men. pluralism now. Barry Lofton, director of multicultural student —BARRY LOFTON services, said letting director multicultural student services minority students enroll in graduate college in 1949 • -..,,,•-.

encouraged fairness in our society. "This lets minority students know they are good enough to enroll in graduate school and it also lets them know that they are not inferior and they are smart enough to go acquire the same opportunities as everyone else," Lofton said. "Like anything else, if you are denied something over the years, constantly oppressed and denied then in your mind you start to believe that you are not good enough or you don't belong or you can't handle graduate school. "It's amazing but it was part of that era during that time. What really dumbfounds me about that era, or any era where people where oppressed, is that they were not allowed certain things just because of the color of their skin. That is something I

because of my character or not because of my actions or whatever but because of simply, I might be red, black, brown, yellow and I am not allowed to get a piece of the American dream or a slice of the American apple pie." Lofton said America has come a long ways and still has a long way to go in order to achieve equality. Major Addison Jr., vice president of institutional advancement at Langston University, said he met Rubye Hall at the Oklahoma State Capitol last year and said she was a wonderful person. "One of the things I think they lost on our collective psyche is that America is not only the melting pot but it is a country of pluralism now," Addison said. "It is no longer a country of

pluralistic society. "But it is not only them (African Americans who were denied access to graduate schools) that were being oppressed but it is the Irish who came to America, the Eastern Europeans, Italians and Polish people. It just so happens that the blacks were brought to this country in shackles as slaves and so we have had a harder time being accepted." Among the first applications from African Americans that OU received 50 years ago included zoology, commercial education, social work and one applicant wanted to study medicine. The Director of the Oklahoma City branch of the NAACP said the movement in 1949 greatly enhanced the civil rights cause. He said the situation in 1949 was felt all across the country.<

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UCO summer courses prove going to school can be fun By Ann Jayne

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ave you ever wished you could glide across the ballroom floor like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers or boot scoot like John Travolta and Debra Winger? Maybe you would like to know how to defend yourself, or work Omar Sharif's bridge column? Or, are you a senior who is worried about interviewing for a job and would like to know a few tricks to spice up your resume or negotiate a decent salary. If you fit into one or all of the above categories, the UCO Center For Learning and Professional Development may be able to help. From now through August they are offering a variety of non-credit courses designed to help students improve anything from your health to their home. "What I want to promote are classes people can join now or join in June," said Linda Earls, the director for the Center For Learning and Professional Development. If dancing is your thing, students can choose from four different dance classes. The first style is ballroom dancing, which includes the fox trot, rumba, waltz, and cha-cha. They are taught by Graham Kine. Classes began April 22 and continue through the end of June. They are Thursdays from 6-7:50 p.m. The cost is $40 per person or $65 per couple. Students can still enroll in this session or wait until July when another session begins. The second session will continue through August. "Once you learn basic ballroom, you can learn swing and become comfortable in any type of dance environment," Earls said. If you want to get in on the swing dance craze, those lessons began last week; but you can still enroll in them. They are offered through June 8 Harry Reese teaches the

swing dance class on Tuesday. Western line dancing classes, taught by Marilyn Williams, begin May 5 and continue through June 9. They are on Wednesday evenings from 5:306:30. The cost for swing and

western classes is $40 per person or $65 per couple. Students who would like to be a little more exotic may take belly dancing classes also being offered. Students will not have to apply it to jumping out of cakes

at bachelor parties, unless they choose to. "It's really more for exercising and fitness," Earls said. For $40, Soraya Al Muisri will teach you how to tone your torso on Thursdays from 7-8

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Continued from page 7 Chi Ch'uan is being taught by Graduates or anyone Mickey Sherman. searching for a new job may "It's a Chinese exercise want to invest $50 and enroll in system," Earls said. "It's good the professional development for the mind and body." class. Tai Chi classes are on Earls said it teaches you Tuesday and Thursday from "how to get the job you really noon-12:45. The class costs $30 and continues through June. What I want to Students who want to learn how to defend promote are classes themselves may take "Practical S elf- people can join now or Defense" which will be join in June. offered on three Saturdays during the summer. —LINDA EARLS The class will be taught by Jeri Van Director Cook from 9 a.m. to 4 Center for Learning and p.m. on June 12, July Professional Development 10, and August 14. •W:•1%. ,v im The cost is $30. "It involves hands-on want." participation and teaches Class participants will learn students how to defend interviewing skills, career themselves," Earls said. planning, networking, how to The defense class is for men write resumes, conduct job and women of any age and searches and negotiate salaries. physical size. The class is offered "It's a good, basic self- Saturday, June 12, from 9 a.m. defense class," Earls said. to 5 p.m. They will be offered

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Evergaldes devistation continues despite slight rains By Tessie Borden

CollegePressWriter FORT LAUDERDALE, Ha. A scant weekend rain was too little to quell the wildfire raging in the Everglades - yet too much to let firefighters put it out themselves. After a night of trying, firefighters finally were able on

Sunday afternoon to ignite backfires they hope will meet up with the wildfire and put an end to it and its obnoxious plumes of smoke. U.S. Highway 27 was reopened Sunday afternoon. But the stretch of Interstate 75 known as Alligator Alley remained closed. In their battle against the fire

that has consumed some 70,000 acres of Everglades, firefighters turned to thousands of tiny pingpong-size balls filled with flammable chemicals. On Saturday, they dropped them from a helicopter along US 27 and the Alley, hoping to spark a fire. But the grass was too wet from squalls that traveled across South Florida.

"We attempted it, but we stopped because conditions got to where it wouldn't burn," said David Stull, operations specialist for the Division of Forestry. "It was getting too damp at that time and they couldn't get the fire going." On Sunday, things dried up enough to let them fight fire with fire.

About 12 fire crews monitored the fire overnight, then on Sunday sent the helicopter to drop 7,000 pingpong balls between noon and 4:30 p.m., expecting to drop another 500 after 5:30 p.m. "It looks smoky, but it's burning where we want it," said Ben Morgan, a park ranger with Everglades National Park.

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The Wesley Foundation is offering a 12-Step Codependents Anonymous Recovery Program at 12:10 p.m. Tuesdays in the Wesley Student Center, 311 E. Hurd St. For more The Japan Student information, call Margaret at Association will meet at 2 p.m. 359-1749 or Cooper Ames at every Tuesday in Room 213 of 341-5450. the Liberal Arts Building. Free lessons in Japanese will be Chi Alpha Christian given. For more information, call Fellowship has praise and Takaaki at 844-0312. worship service at 7:30 p.m. every Thursday in Room 116 of Toastmast6rs Club, an the University Center. For more organization devoted to information, call Charlie Bunn at enhancing public speaking skills, 848-6620, or e-mail at meets at 1 p.m. every Thursday ucochialpha@juno.com. in Room 322 of the University Center. The Catholic Student For more information, call Center invites students to watch Yoanna Ganeva at 844-3275. "Must See TV" from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursdays in the center, 321 Alcoholics Anonymous will Clegern Ave. For more meet at 12:10 p.m. every information, call 341-6300. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at Wesley Foundation The Catholic Student Campus Ministry. Center invites students to attend For more information, call Student Mass at 9 p.m. Dr. Margaret K. at 359-1749. Thursdays in the center, 321 Wednsday at Broncho Choral. For more information, call Khalilah Watson at 974-4365, or e-mail at bigarmlady@hotmail.Com .

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Though overshadowed by recent shootings, school violence declining For a nation that reeled from a series of schoolyard killings last year, the images from Colorado on Tuesday were all too familiar - wounded youngsters, worried parents and grim-faced police surrounding a building where someone was randomly, ruthlessly gunning people down. Early reports, while sketchy, added one more familiar element: The shootings are being blamed on a group of student outcasts who seemed deeply obsessed with violence and death. Experts say the schoolyard slayings of the past two years shouldn't overshadow an overall decline in schoolyard crime, but they acknowledge an emerging pattern in which each case has notable similarities. That pattern, the experts say, may be the key to preventing future violence. "Schools are still the safest places for kids to be," said June Arnette of the nonprofit

National School Safety Center. "But there are things that we can do to prevent some of these incidents." The horrendous school shootings of the last two years belie the popular impression that school violence is linked to gang or drug activity on innercity campuses. Instead, the mass shootings occurred on rural or suburban campuses. Each of the incidents involved alienated young men,

beliefs, ranging from Gothic fantasy to white supremacy. Around the country, the so-called Experts say the Gothic style of dress and schoolyard slayings music is popular among some teens and young of the past two years adults who identify with shouldn't overshadow its components of an overall decline in romantic angst, alienation schoolyard crime. and even depression. But a number of self-styled Goths say they would never have anything to do "Most of these kids withdraw with violence or Nazism. Perhaps more importantly, at and might become anti-social, least one terrified student at the but then go on to live normal Colorado high school told lives after high school. It's part reporters Tuesday that one of of the adolescent experience." Those involved in earlier the shooters said he was taking school shootings had some revenge for past mistreatment. Kids who have been other things in common, marginalized have "an elevated however. News reports indicate risk of becoming violent," said they had showed a strong Delbert Elliott, a professor and interest in violent films, specialist in youth violence at nihilistic music and video the University of Colorado in games.

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The connection to violent media is subject to debate. Parents of three students killed last year in West Paducah, Ky., have filed a lawsuit blaming the slayings on violent computer games, Internet pornography and a Leonardo DiCaprio movie that depicted a similar shooting on screen. Others have blamed the relative ease with which the students were able to obtain powerful firearms - in some cases stealing them from parents or other relatives. But experts note a final, significant thread: Those involved in earlier shootings had expressed violent intentions long before they acted them out. "In several cases, they had communicated (those intentions) to other students, who didn't take them

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seriously," said Arnette. The 15-year-old freshman accused of killing four people, including his parents, in Springfield, Ore., had joked about blowing things up and shooting people, friends told investigators and news reporters. The 14-year-old charged with firing on members of a prayer circle at a West Paducah, Ky., high school - killing three and wounding five - had warned friends that "something big" was going to happen a few days earlier. Boys accused in the other incidents had written poems or diary entries about death. "One thing schools need to do is work with students on breaking the code of silence," Arnette said. "They need to make them feel comfortable reporting this kind of thing, by

making them feel responsible for the safety of themselves and their friends." There were 42 violent deaths reported at schools across the country last year, according to figures compiled by the safety center. The figures rose from the previous year, in part because of mass shootings that left 12 dead and 44 injured at schools in Oregon, Mississippi, Arkansas and Kentucky. Last year's total was still down from a historic peak of 54 violent deaths in the 1992-93 school year. And this year, only nine killings had been reported before Tuesday. The decline in violence this year may have been at least partly due to lessons learned from last year's shootings, according to Arnette and other school safety experts.

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west of the Rockies, it has gotten hotter, much hotter in Southern California. But it is cooler in the East especially the Southeast - and the lower Midwest. It's cooler nationwide mostly because late summers and falls have been cooler. Winters have actually been warmer. There's been nothing subtle or variable about precipitation in the nation. It's been hard to miss. Nearly the entire country except for slivers of Idaho, Washington state and Oregon has been wetter. Much wetter. The United States has been getting ninetenths of an inch more precipitation every decade since 1966. And each month is moister than it used to be, with the fall far wetter.

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Lobbyists blast congress; call for more financial aid WASHINGTON (CPX) House Republicans are floating a plan to increase federal grants to college students from low-income families that could score the GOP major brownie points with a young voting bloc that typically aligns itself with the Democratic party. The GOP's $1 billion plan would add $400 to the $3,125 maximum a student can get each year under the government's Pell Grant program and is expected to be one of the driving forces behind this year's debate over how to fund education in fiscal 2000. The Clinton administration has proposed a plan of its own - one that would add a lesser amount, $125, to the grant maximum. Other increases proposed by President Clinton

- of 50 percent or more in notes, the average student some categories - are mostly graduates $12,063 in debt. "The President says he for teacher training, aid to colleges in predominantly wants to make vital Hispanic communities and investments in a time of GEAR UP, a new college prosperity," said Anthony Samu, president of the USSA. preparation program. Over the last few months, "Is there any better college lobbyists and student investment than making activists have blasted the college truly available for all White House for its lackluster those who wish to obtain a support for several core college degree?" student-aid programs. Republicans are seizing the They're quick to point out opportunity to win over that the Pell Grant's spending students concerned about their power has dropped pocketbooks and to take a dramatically over the past two swipe at Clinton at the same decades. time. Their plan meets the $400 According to the American Student Association, the grant increase college lobbyists maximum Pell Grant would pushed for after getting a look have to be raised to $6,000 to at the White House's proposal match the coverage it afforded a few months ago. students in 1980. "The president once again Today, the association also has listened to his pollsters,"

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UCO softballers wrap-up soggy season Rain washed out the final game of the 1999 softball season for UCO on Saturday afternoon as the Bronchos were preparing to play the third-place game in the Oklahoma City Invitational at the ASA Softball Hall of Fame Complex. UCO went 3-2 in the twoday tournament that was held in a constant drizzle, going 2-1 on Friday and splitting two games Saturday to make the consolation finals. The Bronchos were set to play St. Gregory's in the third place game, but heavy rain

and lightning forced the final games of the tournament to be cancelled. "It's the kind of disappointing to get your last game if the season rained out but there was no way we needed to be out there playing in those conditions," said UCO coach Genny Honea, whose second Broncho team finished the season 23-23, "We had pretty good tournament overall, though we probably gave one game away, but the kids played hard and gave a good effort."

"It was a frustrating season in a lot of ways, especially with some of the injuries we had, but we accomplished some things and we've got several good, young players coming back so I'm looking foerward to the future." UCO opened tournament actions Friday with a 10-3 rout of Southwestern, then follwed with an 8-3 win over Oklahoma Baptist before ending the day with a 10-5 loss to St. Mary's. The Bronchos droppped a dissappointing 5-4 dicision to Oklahoma Panhandle

Saturday morning, but rebounded with a 6-3 win over SWOSU in what turned out to be the final game of the season. Laura Blain picked up the pitching win the tournament opener, giving up six while striking out five. Stephanie Biggs and Renee York went 3-for-3 with a run batted in. Biggs also had three stolen bases. Freshman Jami Akin earned a pitching victory against OBU, fanning eight and scattering six hits while adding an RBI and a double at the plate. Biggs, Terra

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UCO baseball finishes regular season play By Ryan Haley Sports Writer

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UCO • travled to Monticello, Arkansas Saturday where they dropped both games of a doubleheader5-6 and 5-9. The Bronchos were held to just seven hits in the first contest with Rod Richardson picking up the only extrabase hit. Richardson finished the game a double and an RBI in a 1-for-1 effort. On the mound, Jay Eddlen recorded the loss to drop to 1-3 on the year. In the second game, Justin Knowles led the way at the plate as he went 1-for-3 with a home run and an RBI. by Eric Spruill On the mound, Daryl StudentWriter Williamson got the loss to eremiah Constant and drop to 3-1 on the season. Claude Davis were UCO returned to action on dominating forces on Saturday for a single game the mat for UCO wrestling which they won 8-4. team this year. Constant a 197 pound junior earned All-American recognition after being crowned National Champiion

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in his weight class this year. He picked up a 31-4 record on the way and also won 25 of his last 26 matches. Constant also set a single season Broncho record with 23 falls. Davis, a freshman heavyweigtht took fifth place in the National tournament and gained All-American recognition despite joining the teqam only a month beforehand. Davis finished the year with a 16-6 record and was unseeded entering the tournament. Constant a Yukon product, came to UCO from Garden City Community College, where he he went 65-2 during his career and was national runner-up his freshman year. While Yukon High School Constant had a record of 89-5 and was an All-State pick as a senior. He then went on to place

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Student says to gays and lesbians, 'maybe its time to go to OU' I am writing this letter in response to the Student Bill of Rights failure to pass recently. When is it that a person finally deserves to be treated with the same respect and legal rights as all Americans can be? From what I have taken from the statements concerning the bill by UCO's political body, it is when

you are heterosexual and Christian. I have the greatest respect for anyone who stands by his/her religous choice and hives by it. But, to use religion as a tool to control other's who do not fit into your convenient stereotypes as a "good" person is not only hypocritical, it is pure

cowardliness. My question is how can a statement such as, "we know that UCO gay's and lesbian's face discrimination" be followed by statements such as, "but because as Christians we are unable to vote in favor of the bill." Are we less than you, if so how? And if you know that a group of students, the same

students that the senate and house represent, are being harassed how is it Christian to turn your head. Does this mean that anything or anyone that doesn't fit into your "personal choice" of religions does not have any rights? I wonder since the Muslim's, and Jews, and

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Buuddhists who all don't fit into the Christian belief system should be excleuded from your thoughts when people attack them? And there is religious discrimination at UCO also so lets not pretend there isn't, but alas we know since the "choice of religion" is protected they will have an avenue when somone does something against them. I would dare any of you to seriously sit and think about what it is like to be gay on a campus. Going to a class hearing faggot jokes and queer this and queer that, and how this group of guys thinks its cool to go "roll a queer" on Saturday nights, or a dyke should be raped for she deserves it. Or try forming a gay, lesbian, and bisexual group only to have the posters that you put up get ripped down. And then imagine going day to day on campus afraid that if someone finds out that you are gay they might find it fun to beat you up, and please don't pretend that you the readers don't know what I am talking about with that one. Try it and you will not like it. Then try to be the same student who hears that because of people being Christian I can't have anyway to stop this. The main message I took from the article in The Vista concerning this was that if your gay your wrong and not a Christian you must never accept gays or lesbians as anything other than people who make a sinful "choice" and must be treated as unequals, and that it is okay to treat them as less than human as you are because they are. All should remember that if this group of people use religion to hide their personal prejudices, then how can they represent a student body when the student body is not made up of just Christians, when this seems to be what they rule by. I urge all gay, lesbian, and bisexual students to consider that we are not wanted at this university and never will be and maybe it is time to go to OU where there seems to be more of a respect given to vast diversity of student and is not ruled only by one group's religious ideals. —Shawn Kidwell

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Sha i ows sh remain Shadows on the wall. The afternoon sun casts the pattern of a chain link fence on a low concrete wall in downtown Oklahoma City. And woven in the chain link pattern, like creatures caught in a spider's web, are the silhouettes of flowers, of wreaths, of tiny crosses, of ribbons, of teddy bears. April 19, 1999-- four years later, and the bombing memorial is under construction. But in the chain link fence around the site, Americans still bring their silent sacrifices, tying and tucking them into the two-block long fence along the western side of the crime, casting more than just shadows in Oklahoma City. The fence is the real memorial-living, changing. There are still the pictures of children, of daughters and daddies who died there. Still bells, and poems, and shirts, and other offerings. Signs that say "Happy Birthday." Now there are license plates too-Not just Oklahoma, but Vermont, Florida, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California, New Hampshire. Alabama-all tied or wired to the fence. The fabric of the fence becomes a quilt, a quilt that brings tears from visitors. The most common sight is someone wiping an eye, or using a handkerchief. "I found myself wanting to put something on the fence,' a visiting expert in trauma says quietly. "I felt like I'd lost something and by putting it on the fence, I'd find it again." She's just explained the fence better than anyone. The shadows lengthen of chain link offerings on the wall. The sun will go down, but the shadows won't disappear.

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Student defines sexual orientation out of dictionary Scott Markowitz, along with Jon Sellers and Geoffrey Fillmore, obviously do not know the definition of sexual orientation, so I'm going to define it for them. Sexual orientation, according to the American Heritage College Dictionary, is defined as "The direction of

one's sexual interest toward members of the opposite, same, or both sexes." So, adding sexual orientation to the student bill of rights does not add a "special category for gays and lesbians," as Markowitz claims. The whole purpose of the student bill of rights and

having sexual orientation included in it is so that people can live their lives without the threat of fear and intimidation. Speaking from personal experience as a gay male, everyday of my life I live in that fear. I live wondering if just because I'm a gay male, and

for no other reason, if I'll be the next Matthew Shepard. I wonder if someone will find my body tied to a fence post just because I was gay. That is what this whole debate boils down to. It's not special rights, it's equal rights. It's allowing gays and lesbians to finally be

included in that famous phrase from the Declaration of Independence, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, because right now, we're not. —Mark Underwood history museum studies, senior

UCO Representative says Student Bill of Rights pointless I am a member of the UCOSA House of Representatives and I am responding in regards to the April 15th article of the Student Bill of Rights and to the April 20th letter to the editor. The Student Bill of Rights was the pointless piece of legislation in the fact that it was simply a poor copy of the student handbook. In the entirety of the bill I could find no rights listed that are not already listed in the student handbook. The sexual orientation clause had no being in my decision on the bill, I will not vote for an ambiguous bill that, in the current form, would have no effect on

student life other than publicizing the authors. As to the author of the "Spineless Jellyfish" letter.(sic) I am offended that you personally attacked because you assumed to no(sic) the reasons why I voted on a bill, being called a bigot by someone that I have never met tends to make me believe that you are prone to rash stereotypical decisions, so in view of this short coming I will make allowances. If you are upset at the decisions that are made in the House then maybe you should start attending meetings. It is very easy to condemn from the sidelines.

I personally want to thank every member of the House of Representative(sic) for having the courage to have made their own choice no matter what that choice was. Finally to the student body if n(sic) issue exists that you have strong feelings for, one way of(sic) another, please call a representative of(sic) join the House. We also have class and work on top of UCOSA so we do not have the time to conduct surveys on every issue, and we are very bad at mind reading. —Christopher Gulley freshman, political science/German

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