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Popular professor Bourdette resigns

By Dustin Pyeatt StaffIritek fter 16 years of teaching, and nine years at UCO, sociology professor Dr. John ourdette is leaving.

Why is such an active, long-standing fixture of the sociology and criminal justice department leaving?

Bourdette said, it is because he was denied full professorship.

Bourdette blames this on politics. "The good ol' boy system that rewards people for not saying anything," he said , "you make waves, then your career is in jeopardy."

There were two jobs for full professor, and two applicants said Bourdette. According to Bourdette, both he and the other instructor who was denied are older veterans who speak their minds.

"The university needs to look at their whole promotions policy, the criteria that goes into promoting people," said Dr. Bourdette.

Dr. Bourdette said he will miss his colleagues, the students and the sociology program at UCO. He said UCO is the only university in the state that offers a 4year program that trains people to be drug and alcohol counselors.

"I've put a lot of time and energy into this program," said Bourdette, "it's going to be hard."

Dr. Clifton Warren, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, said that the faculty voted on the positions and that everyone was equally strong.

"He is outstanding in every way," said Warren, "I have nothing but the highest regard for him and his work."

Warren added, "I'm very sorry he's leaving."

According to Bourdette, "it's time to do something else."

That something else may be in Silver City, N.M., where he plans on opening a drug and alcohol treatment facility for Hispanic and Native American

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Andrew Naylor,(right) residential life coordinator, and Jamey Keller, assistant coordinator of West Hall, feel samples of carpet to be placede at the University Commons during the apartment tours Monday - Staff photos by Negeen Sobhani

Todd Duncan,(left) Director of Campus Residential Life, shows Yohei Suzuki, theater senior, the living room area of a two-bedroom University Commons apartment during a tour on Tuesday afternoon.

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Bookstore has OK to sell UCO logo on merchandise

By Trent Dugas StaftWriter

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CO does not receive royalty fees for the use of it's logo or title from anyone wanting to use it including the bookstore on campus.

Though the bookstore, owned

by Barnes and Noble, does have permission from UCO to use the logos and title, they do not pay a licensing fee or royalty fee.

The bookstore sells anything from shirts and hats to notebooks and pencils with UCO's logo and title on it.

UCO does receive a percentage of the money that is acquired through all general sells in the bookstore, but is not making any money for the direct licensing fees from the logo.

In the contract with the bookstore, UCO is guaranteed a certain amount from all sells and

also a percentage from all sells.

Between one to five years, UCO is guaranteed $400,00 every year. They also receive 10.5 percent of net sells up to $7 million and 11 percent of net sells over $7 million.

UCO could receive royalties from the vendors, manufacturers and the bookstore for the use of the logo. But UCO bookstore manager Bob Campbell said if royalties were sought out by UCO the prices on merchandise in the bookstore would increase.

"We are the official bookstore of the campus and we are expected to sell imprinted logo products," Campbell said.

"We do have a contract with the school to operate the bookstore and part of that operation is the clothing department."

Campbell said he was not aware that the bookstore needed permission to use the logo. He said

he has around six or seven vendors that he uses to make the products.

The licensing issue comes into question after the recent passage of Senate Bill 589 by the Oklahoma Legislator.

The bill makes it a felony by Oklahoma law to produce merchandise with logos or titles on it without permission from the organization. The bill also makes it a misdemeanor to sell the merchandise.

The new law would also make it easier for authorities to confiscate anything used in the process of counterfeiting. That includes merchandise, machines

and transportation equipment.

Under the new bill, anything that bears a trademark, label, term, device, trade name, design or word without written permission is punishable by law.

UCO does not have a coordinator on campus to deal with trademark or licensing issues.

Those duties are left to Dr. Bill Wiseman, director of public relations.

Wiseman said federal law protects UCO from counterfeiters but this makes it easier to enforce those laws.

"Under federal law there are certain hurdles you have to jump

and hoops you've got to go through to protect the copyright laws," Wiseman said.

"But it remains to be seen because it is federal area and federal government preempts our law and you can't really change what copyright laws are but maybe we can make it easier for institutions of higher education:' Even though the bookstore has permission to sell the merchandise, the new law would also protect UCO from manufacturers who do not have

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Facilities Management uses natural gas van to save environment

By Ann Jayne

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n Thursday, April 22, UCO celebrated Earth Day. Various groups presented information to students about how they can help keep the air and water clean, as well as preserving other natural resources and animals, such as the manatee.

UCO's Facilities Management has been doing their part to promote clean air since 1993.

That is when they purchased their first vehicle that runs on compressed natural gas (CNG).

Carl Shorn, a mechanic II for

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Bourdette said he also hasn't ruled out teaching again. He said there is a small college located near Silver City where he hopes to try and start a bachelor of arts program in drug and alchohol counseling.

"I love teaching," said Bourdette, "education should be fun."

Bourdette is a graduate of Oklahoma State University, where he earned a B.A. in Animal Science, and both a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. in Sociology.

He sponsors many organizations including Horizons Unlimited, Tomorrow's Alchohol and Drug Councelors of America, the Gay Alliance for Tolerance and Equality, and Alpha Kappa Delta.

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Anderson said many car dealerships offer alternative fuel cars for purchase. She said the cost is about $2500 more, but the state of Oklahoma and the federal government offer tax credits and deductions to offset the extra expense of the vehicles.

To help businesses provide CNG, Anderson said Oklahoma offers a $100,000 tax credit toward the installation of a CNG station.

"Oklahoma has some very progressive alternative fuel legislation and tax benefits," Anderson said.

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"It is a balancing act like so many other things in life," Wiseman said.

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Yvonne Anderson, a coordinator for the Association of Central Oklahoma Government (ACOG), said CNG usage will help "reduce our dependency on foreign oil and clean the air."

Anderson said the mission of ACOG is "to advance alternative fuels, alternative fuel vehicles, and the building of the alternative fuel infrastructure."

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"We are in the process of getting a Fuelmaker here coupled with a cascade tank system," Shorn said.

The cascade tank system contains nine CNG tanks in a frame compressor. The tanks are filled to 3200 psi with CNG, then the vehicles utilize the CNG tanks.

In addition to their fleet of CNG vehicles, Shortt said UCO also has a brand new "electruck," a golf cart-size vehicle that runs off electricity.

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"The CNG van goes everywhere," Shortt said. "Most of the other CNG trucks are used around campus."

Shortt said the CNG used in the campus vehicles lasts about one week, which is equivalent to about six gallons of gasoline.

Besides helping keep the air clean, CNG is also more economical than gasoline. Shortt said CNG costs between 60 to 65 cents per gallon equivalent.

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Student protest shuts down University

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MEXICO CITY - Students opposed to a tuition hike from 2 cents per semester to about $70 closed parts of the largest and oldest university in the Americas in a protest Tuesday.

The student "strike" quickly turned the National Autonomous University of Mexico into a political battleground over Mexico's slashing of the modern welfare state in favor of global economics.

Most of the 200,000 university students at the UNAM, as the school is known, saw their classes canceled. Likewise, the university's affiliated high schools scattered across the Mexican capital were shut down Tuesday, with tens of thousands of students affected.

Leaders of the strike claimed that only a half dozen of the university's 36 departments and high schools had voted against the strike and were open for classes.

Access to the sprawling UNAM campus in southern Mexico City was open, but most departments there were closed. No serious

incidents of violence were reported.

Still, thousands of students who showed up at the campus appeared deeply divided over the decision by student leaders to close the school in an attempt to pressure university officials to repeal their March 14 decision to raise tuition. The officials have argued that the university badly needs new funding sources due to federal cuts.

The UNAM receives nearly all of its $1 billion budget from the federal government. Prior to the hike, the tuition had been frozen since 1948. Two other attempts to raise it over the last decade failed after student protests.

"This is an issue with national political importance and we should not be so preoccupied about getting behind on our classes," said Flor Natalia Garcia, 22, a strike supporter who chastised a group of medical students worried about graduating on time.

"This is just part of the beating the Mexican people are taking from the raising of prices and the end of subsidies," she said.

But even those opposed to the

tuition hike said there was something strange about students taking themselves out of classes.

"We're opposed to the hikes, but this is not the way to pressure university officials," said Fernando Palacios, 22, a medical student.

"By boycotting classes we're only hurting ourselves."

National political figures also began taking sides on the issue, with government officials supporting the tuition increase and opposition leaders criticizing it.

Groups of students in favor of the strike wore black-and-red ribbons and carried handmade signs quoting the likes of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara.

One read: "I want the university to look like the people" - a reference to the goal of open access for all that the UNAM has traditionally championed.

Meanwhile, those opposed to the shutdown wore gold ribbons and held up mass produced signs handed out by university authorities proclaiming: "We want classes."

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Governor declines graduation speech OLYMPIA, Wash. (CPX) Gary Locke, governor of Washington, canceled his engagement to deliver this year's commencement speech at The Evergreen State College after he learned his words would be followed by an audio-taped message from a prisoner sitting on Death Row for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer.

Locke, a supporter of the death penalty and a former prosecutor, initially said he would speak despite the message from Mumia Abu-Jamal, whose freedom is being pushed for by celebrities and opponents of capital punishment who believe racism affected the outcome of his trial.

Though the exact nature of Abu-Jamal's 10-minute taped message is not clear, it is expected to address the issues of racism in the criminal justice system and the death penalty.

Locke, who was backed by police groups when he was elected in 1996, is up for re-election next year.

He withdrew from the Evergreen State appearance after police groups urged him not to speak.

"I cannot, in good conscience and out of respect for law enforcement officers throughout our state and nation, participate in this year's commencement exercises," the governor said in a statement.

"This has been an extremely difficult decision for me. I am honored that the students selected me as their keynote graduation speaker.

"I applaud and respect the students' efforts to develop a graduation ceremony that includes a diversity of views."

School officials and students who supported the juxtaposition of speeches from Locke and AbuJamal said they were disappointed by, but respectful of, Locke's decision.

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Student journalists win 6 of 8 awards

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urrent and former University of Central Oklahoma public relations students won six of eight Zenith awards presented by the Oklahoma City Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). The awards were presented on April 22 at PRSA's Zenith Awards banquet held at the Bricktown Brewery in Oklahoma City.

First place winners were Colby Grieser, Tamara Schones, Marta Sereno, and Kristi Steely for their Goodwill Industries of Oklahoma public relations campaign; Dustin Pyeatt for public relations writing; and Leslie Wells in the potpourri category. An award of merit was earned by Tim Dehan, Jennifer Hegeman, Kim Rolin Holding, Darla Kupka and Michelle Williams for their Enterprise Square learning center campaign.

Rachel Davis won an award of merit in the potpourri category.

Oklahoma State University, University of Oklahoma, and University of Central Oklahoma had a total of 22 entries in the Zenith competition. Other winners were, all from the OU, were: Cynthia Post, Zenith award in the publications category; Meredith Holmes, award of merit in public relations writing; and Natalie Lawrence, award of merit in publications.

The statewide Zenith Award competition was introduced in 1998 to recognize outstanding work by public relations -4 students.

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Harriet Robinson, chief of Microbiology and Immunology at Yerkes Primate Center in Atlanta, developed the vaccine, made with harmless components from SHIV — a blend of parts from and SIV (monkey HIV immunodeficiency virus).

The vaccine marks "a significant and promising step" toward the development of an effective AIDS vaccine, the study said.

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virus over a 62-week period, during which a series of three SHIV challenge infections were administered. "The containment was remarkably effective, preventing detectable levels of virus in blood post-challenge," the study said.

"This holds promise for the development of a vaccine capable of seriously reducing viral replication and thus stemming the transmission of AIDS," Robinson added.

In a three-year study, Robinson compared combinations of three different vaccine approaches and two different delivery methods.

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Hafer Park. A sign up sheet is meet at 5 p.m. in the Heritage posted in Howell Hall and 'V The Residence Hall attendants are asked to bring Room of the University Center to install new officers Association will meet from a side dish. For more and elect a historian. For noon to 5 p.m. May 1 on the information, call 773-9556. more information, call Jason south lawn of the cafeteria.

Harris at 340-5702. ✓ The International There will be food, live music, games and rides open to all Student Council will host a '• The Black Student students, faculty, staff and trip to Dallas and Six Flags.

Association will hold their their families.

Sign up at the International annual picnic from noon to 4 Office, space is limited. For • Reception for departing more information, call Jason p.m. at Stevens Park behind Homeland. For more professor Dr. John Bourdette Harris at 340-5702. information, call Tiffany will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 ✓ The Raven Society is Bellard at 974-5160. p.m. April 30 in Room 211 of the Liberal Arts Building. hosting a Poetry Contest.

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Hours of waiting in fear on a day of lost lives, lost innocence

By Laura Vozzella

CollegePressWriset LITTLETON, Colo. - Carly Croft's first concern, as she ran for her life, was a cream puff, freshly baked in home economics class. Her mother, a receptionist for an orthodontist, took care to switch the office phones to the answering service before rushing off to learn whether her child was still alive.

Inside the school, two teen-age misfits violated the most basic of human standards - laughing as they took the lives of 12 students and a teacher, before killing themselves. As bloody survivors began to stream out of Columbine High, the horror of a school day gone terribly wrong began to sink in: "Did I tell my parents I love them?"

"Will I ever see my child again?"

Long hours passed before answers arrived. In the end, even the lucky ones those who made it out alive or were not in school that day - had lost friends and innocence.

Tuesday, April 20, began badly for Tina.

The 16-year-old had quarreled with her longtime steady, who lives in the basement of her parents' house. Ken White had stayed out late the night before, and Tina was miffed. On top of that, she was late for school. When she finally arrived, she muttered that it was looking like a lousy day.

If Ken was upset, he also was determined to make the most of the spring weather. A 19-year-old car salesman and drag racer, he took off for Lake Dillon for a day of fishing with his dad.

In the choir room, Tina was preparing to shake off the lovers' quarrel. An alto, she and the rest of the choir were warming up with scales, getting ready to practice music for several concerts and graduation, less than three weeks away.

Senior Brandon Reisbeck strode in, yelled, "There's people shooting!" and disappeared.

Coming at the height of senior prank season, from a student known as a bit of a jokester, the warning was shrugged off. But seconds later, the sounds of stampeding, shrieking students convinced the choir.

Tina stood up, spilling the sheet music onto the floor.

"Should I pick it up?" she stood wondering. "Should I grab my purse?"

Inside the handbag were keys to her white 1999 Chevy Cavalier, a graduation gift. She quickly snapped out of her indecision, abandoning music, purse and keys for the safety of a nearby office. She was one of 60 people, all students, who crammed into a space meant for two desks and not much more. Someone shut the door and switched off the lights.

On the other end of the building, Carly and her classmates had finished setting the tables in home economics class and were about to delve into the cream puffs they'd just filled with ice cream.

The fire alarm sounded, a drill the class thought, and the teens groaned that their treats would get soggy before they'd get back.

A few students stuck their pastries in the freezer. Carly took hers, plate and all, at the suggestion of a substitute.

Once outside the building, Carly noticed some students running and thought they

were trying to catch up with friends. Ahead she saw some kids jumping over a fence.

Among them was a heavyset friend not known for scaling chain link.

"I can't get over," the girl wailed.

Why are you trying to, Carly wanted to know. And why are you crying?

"There's a shooting."

Carly threw down her plate and halfeaten dessert and tried to climb over. She couldn't get a toehold. Her feet wouldn't fit into the chain link. She removed her sandals and climbed over barefoot.

She glanced back at a cream-colored piece of glass with blue flowers, sitting incongruously in the grass. Thoughts of the plate and her home economics teacher tugged at Carly as she started a limping run across a park to the public library and safety.

"I hope Miss Inman doesn't get mad at me."

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Continued from page 10 office. Leslie Croft recognized the voice of the doctor's wife, but she couldn't fathom what she was saying.

"I don't know if you've heard," the woman said, "but there's been a shooting at the school."

She stood up, intending to drive to her house, which backs up to the school. Then she remembered she had no car.

Croft had carpooled that day for the first time in her life. An office assistant volunteered to take her home. Surely, Croft thought, Carly will be there.

The only people at Croft's house were police. A SWAT team swarmed the back yard and stood atop of the roof for a bird's-eye view of the campus.

Up at Lake Dillon, 70 miles west of Denver, Tina's boyfriend hadn't had a bite in 2 hours of fishing. His dad, Ken White Sr., had caught just one, a rainbow trout.

Ken Sr. went to the truck for a can of chew or a cigarette and flipped on the radio. He heard the news and hollered.

Leaving their lone catch and tackle behind, father and son sped off, Ken Jr. at the wheel of his

1998 GMC truck. Both men had cell phones, and they both made calls. Ken Jr. called Tina's but found no one home. Ken Sr. reached his wife, but she knew nothing more than what they'd heard on the radio: eight confirmed dead, one girl shot nine times in the chest.

Leslie Croft, the receptionist, made her way to Leawood Elementary School, along with hundreds of other frantic parents.

She spotted some of her daughter's friends. "Have you seen Carly?" she asked. None had.

A man announced from the stage that parents could check a list of names, collected as students arrived and signed in. Croft pored frantically over the six pages laid out on a table, looking for her daughter's endearingly loopy penmanship. It wasn't there.

Inside the cramped choir office where Tina hid, someone finally got through to police, who said the shooters were students and still on the loose.

"You kids in there better shut up because we don't have the boys," an officer warned. "Keep as quiet as possible' Students struggled to muffle their agony. A few freshmen girls

had the most trouble.

"I can't breathe' one moaned.

"Oh my God, we're gonna die."

Some of the older students tried to quiet them with stern warnings.

They directed students not to make any more phone calls, fearing that the noise could cost them their lives.

Alison Brock, who often comforts fellow students as a peer counselor, couldn't help this time.

The 181,year-old senior had fainted. Craig Nason, who plays the lead in all the school musicals, pumped her hand until she came to.

A couple of guys went to work trying to let more air into the stifling space, removing ceiling tiles. They heard more shooting, punctuated every now and then with whoops of joy, apparently from the gunmen. Then everything fell silent.

In the confusion of the Leawood cafeteria, another stranger greeted Leslie Croft with a hug, this one so tight it hurt.

Croft fought the urge to pull back from the woman and returned the embrace.

A priest approached and the woman turned to him.

Just then, Croft found herself

wrapped in another pair of arms, these thrown around her from behind. She recognized the babysoft skin at once.

As countless others still milled frantically about, the ordeal for one mother and child ended with a familiar embrace.

Time dragged on just as slowly for her, crouched in the choir office, daring not to whisper. Four or more hours passed. Suddenly, loud bangs broke the silence.

More shooting, they feared.

More bombs.

Tina heard voices.

"Go look under there," one said.

"Check over there."

The words would have heightened her terror, except the voices were deep.

These were men, not students.

They were there to help, banging down doors along the way.

A pounding came directly on the choir room door.

"Open up," a man said. "Denver police?'

"It's OK," an officer said. "It's over now."

Officers told the group to follow a particular path out of the building, single file, because the school was booby-trapped with explosives. And don't look around,

they added.

The last direction proved impossible to follow. As the students jogged through the hallway, they saw destruction and death all around. Bullet holes and glass littered the corridors, and a foot of water was in the cafeteria, where the sprinklers had gone off.

Outside the school, Alison, the girl who'd fainted, ran upstairs and had to jump over a dead student.

Nearby she saw another body. It was her best friend, Rachel Scott, struck down as she'd tried to flee.

Alison froze. This couldn't be.

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Craig, who hours before had pumped the woozy Alison's hand until it hurt, pulled her away. They had to keep moving, toward the bus that would take them, the last group of children to make it out, to the gymnasium where their loved ones waited.

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NATO military leaders, who met over the weekend at a summit to celebrate the alliance's 50th anniversary, stressed there was still a chance air power alone would succeed in their Kosovo campaign.

Draskovic distanced himself from official Belgrade policy in a surprise move, effectively calling on President Slobodan Milosevic to cooperate with the international community to halt NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia.

"We cannot defeat NATO," Draskovic told CNN. "We have no right to have such ambitions, and we must realize the fact our world today is very often drummed by them, the law of power instead of power of law."

In another interview, on

Belgrade-based Studio B television, which is controlled by his SPO party, the former fierce critic of Milosevic called for "those who are ruling the country" and "so-called patriots" not to "lie to the people and finally tell them the truth."

The truth, Draskovic told Studio B, is that "we are alone.

NATO is not facing collapse, Russia will not militarily help Yugoslavia, and international opinion is against us."

In the Studio B interview, Draskovic called for the deployment of a United Nations force in Kosovo, a solution so far rejected by Milosevic, who has accepted only the presence of non-armed observers.

Without mentioning Milosevic's name, Draskovic called on "people who are ruling the country" to "face reality" and "tell people clearly... what will become of and what will remain of Serbia in 20 days if this dreadful bombing goes on."

He later said he spoke in the name of the Yugoslav government, but there was doubt as to how representative his

comments were.

"To what extent he reflects the leadership in Belgrade has always been an open question and I don't intend to speculate on it," U.S. State Department spokesman James Rubin said.

Meanwhile, ICRC president Cornelio Sommaruga said Milosevic had agreed to allow Red Cross relief workers to return to Kosovo and to visit three US soldiers captured by his forces last month.

Speaking after a meeting with Milosevic, Sommaruga said the Serbian leader was "very positive" about the return of the ICRC to Kosovo and "opened for us all possibilities to work according to our rules in Kosovo."

He said Milosevic told him that Yugoslav forces would try to keep Red Cross workers safe but that he added, "we cannot guarantee safety from the bombing" by NATO warplanes.

The ICRC chief also met briefly with the three US servicemen captured by Yugoslav forces near the Yugoslav-Macedonian border last month.

The relief organization later issued a statement saying that Yugoslav authorities had authorized a full ICRC visit to the three soldiers on Tuesday.

In Washington, a NATO official said the alliance would step up its military strikes this week and focus on Serb forces that have carried out repression against Kosovar Albanians.

An alliance official said Serb forces active in Kosovo will have to endure a nightmare as lethal, low-flying Apache helicopters embark on search and destroy missions.

German General Klaus Naumann, one of NATO's top military commanders, said in Washington that NATO's decision to update its assessments on ground force options was intended as a message to Milosevic that "we are prepared to see it through."

Naumann said NATO leaders still believed they could to achieve their objectives through their air campaign. He said: "We're not in a position where we have to say, 'We can't do it."'

In Moscow, Russian Foreign

Minister Igor Ivanov vowed to ignore a NATO oil embargo against Yugoslavia and branded any alliance sea blockade illegal, only applying to ships of the 19 NATO member states.

"The decision to impose any sanctions or embargoes against other countries can only be made by the UN Security Council," said.

Atomic Energy Minister Yevgeny Adamov also said Moscow would regard as a terrorist act any NATO bombing — even accidental — of Yugoslav nuclear installations.

Nevertheless, the international community strove to keep Russia on board crisis talks as envoys from the Group of Eight countries — the G7 most industrialized western countries plus Russia — prepared to meet this week to prepare talks among the G8 foreign ministers on Kosovo.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott also arrived in Moscow for talks with Russian special envoy on Kosovo, Viktor Chernomyrdin.

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Expert advises students to think twice about committed relationships

By Kelley Garry

CollegePressWrites We're inches away from summer — the only time of year with its own sound track — and everyone's mind is slowly drifting into that carefree slacker mode.

You're lucky if you can make it through campus without being decked by incoming projectiles.

(Hey, this isn't Albania!)

In a certain way, summer means freedom. For college couples from distant hometowns, summer can mean big Clinton-style trouble.

Are you monogamous or polygamous? Do you date other people or stay committed? Will most couples make it through the summer intact? That's what we asked students this week. We wanted to know, from what they've seen and what they've experienced, what their best advice is for couples planning to spend the summer apart. Being bourgeois romantics, we thought if the couples called and e-mailed each

week, they'd make it.

We were wrong.

Most students suggested their comrades split up and forget it for the summer. Wouldn't that make the last day of school one dramatic cryfest? Well, here's what students had to say.

Lindsay, a senior at Louisiana State University, says she doesn't think most couples will last through the summer. "They'll move on with their lives. This little thing should end with the semester. It won't last a lifetime."

Jerry, a senior at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, says it's rare that a couple will still be together in the fall, but it's possible.

"If two people care enough about each other, they can make it work," says Jerry. "The reason they break up is they are not as committed as they think they are -- their relationship is not as solid as they thought it was."

So Jerry's advice is to take a hard look at the relationship. "If

are more long-term oriented.

They see the value of patience and planning for the future.

The men don't see it quite the The reason they same way," she says. "I just break up is they are don't know what they're up not as committed as to."

With all this depressing talk they think they are — of doomed relationships, we their relationship is decided to consult Ted Lobby, our friendly clinical social not as solid as they worker and family counselor, thought it was. to get his take on the situation.

He said that his information is somewhat skewed because he only sees students when things there is any doubt about anything, are not going well in their lives. anything at all, it won't workout," Still, he adds, there is something says Jerry, "There has to be total he has noticed lately. honesty."

"It's almost a tend." he says, Katherine, a senior at "More and more students are Metropolitan State University in opting to split up before the Minn. agrees that most summer. heterosexual couples will be "There is less long term kissing their relationships goodbye thinking," says Lobby. "More in May. But she thinks it has less living in the day,' the immediate to do with distance and more to do future. And parents encourage this. with gender differences and They don't want (their children) to expectations. "The women I know be connected to just one person."

And even if a couple is less efficient and waits to see what happened over the summer, Lobby says if there's that general disconnect, the relationship will most likely end.

Andy's situation unfortunately seems to bear this theory out.

Andy, a sophomore at the University of Minnesota, and his girlfriend went back to their respective hometowns. They kept in touch – for a while.

"Everything went well until the Fourth of July," says Andy. "Then I realized that we weren't going to be together in the fall."

Andy says the distance gave him time to reflect on the relationship and see that for many reasons, it wasn't meant to be.

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Cricket cries for America as country's citizens sleep

By Trent Dugas

StaffiVrikor During the night in my bedroom I can hear a cricket echoing against the walls. The cricket cries.

The cricket has been there for three days now. The sound is irritating.

I cannot sleep so I creep out of my warm bed and make my way to the living room to watch television. CNN has the horrible pictures.

Twelve teenagers and one teacher murdered in their high school. Littleton Denver. I have never heard of Littleton.

Two teenagers are responsible for the killings. They were armed with guns, grenades and bombs.

The killers were engulfed with hate. In disgust, I turn the channel to MSNBC. Death is being ordered.

The United States Government is waylaying Yugoslavia with a bombing campaign from the air.

Civilians and military

personnel are killed

by U.S. B-2 Stealth Bombers from miles in the sky.

A cowardly distance in the sky.

The next news story shows yet more pictures of Bill Clinton.

Even though we are bombing Yugoslavia, Mr. Clinton has continued his golf game. He has also continued his travels to raise donations for the Democratic presidential race in 2000. No remorse.

I wonder how he can order death in Yugoslavia and then go play golf and try shamelessly to raise money for the presidential race.

Now I understand.

The next story is from NBC's Katie Couric.She asks one of the teenagers that was in the

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Columbine High School if he heard anyone pleading for their life. No responsibility.

They show four other teenagers crying in the camera.

I switch the channel back to CNN.Pundits discuss prayer in schools. There is no God in school and there should not be God in school, one of them says. No atonement.

Who do we answer to if there is no God in school I ask myself.

Nowhere in the constitution does it say that church and state should be separate.

More pictures on CNN from Columbine. Victims are huddling around each other praying on school grounds.The station breaks to commercial.

"Blood Bath" is scrawled across the screen.

Death, chaos, murder, guns, target practice and blood is advertised.

The commercial is geared toward teenagers. Video games.

I quickly turn off the television.

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Another web-site; the U.S. Government is prosecuting parents all across the country for spanking and discipline their children.

Another web-site; the U.S. Government is prosecuting parents all across the country for beating, starving and abusing their children. I turn off the computer.

Then I pick up the dictionary and randomly open it and point to a word with my eyes closed.

I try to educate myself by doing this everyday.My cold fingers land on the section for the "I" words.Ironic is the word my finger is on.

I wonder.

The hardwood floor chills my feet.I clamber back into bed to warm up.

An echoing from the cricket still echoes against the walls.

The cricket continues to cry.

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One web-site draws my attention.Mr. Clinton has appeared on television six times in the first week of coverage on the killings in Littleton.

He is taking cover from the previous headlines of the Yugoslavia wars and the China conspiracy of stealing nuclear technology.

Mr. Clinton is spewing rhetoric about new gun legislation being needed because of the killings at Columbine High School. No shame.

I thought people kill people, not guns. Every time I have seen a gun discharge, whether it is on television, at the movies or in real life, a person was holding it in there destructive hands.

Another site says the United States has enacted over 20,000 gun laws.

I wonder if we can legislate ourselves into a safe, snug cocoon. I doubt it.

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After murders, beautifu Colorado now associated with death

By Jarrod Briley

Staff:Wes Colorado.

In a few horrific minutes, the meaning of the word changed.

No longer does it evoke images of snow-capped mountains jutting from the landscape — stony jewels, reaching into the heavens further than the mind can imagine.

Instead, images of death come to mind — teachers and students huddled in closets and under desks, waiting for the hand of death to rest upon their shoulders.

Twelve of them didn't have long to wait. They were murdered by two students — rogue youths determined to kill as many people as possible before ending their own lives.

But who is responsible for these atrocities? Certainly, the young men who indiscriminately murdered 11 of their classmates and a teacher. But what about their parents?

The argument that they are free of blame because they were ignorant of the young men's actions is unacceptable. There were numerous early-warning signs of the massacre.

The New York Times, after the massacre, reported that police said, "...sawed off shotgun barrels and bomb-

making materials were clearly visible in one of the young gunmen's bedroom."

Had that young man's parents taken a few minutes of interest in their son's life, poked their heads into his room and seen the weapons, it is conceivable that the murders may have been prevented.

The young man's father said he felt a rapport with his son, and that he knew what was going on in his life at all times.

Obviously not.

He then said he had done a sufficient job raising his son, and that he was a "finished product."

A person, regardless of their age, is never a "finished product." Everyone requires the occasional shoulder to lean on — a skill the young men's parents, apparently, were not adept at.

And the parents surely had some indication that their sons were troubled.

The young men dressed in black, flaunted Nazi symbols, and had criminal records. Not exactly model youths. Yet, one

of them was considered to be a "finished product."

Disgraceful.

But the parents are not alone in their irresponsible actions. The young men's teachers and peers are also to blame.

During an interview after the massacre, one student admitted to hurling food and insults at one of the young men about nine months before the shooting. Many other students admitted to seeing or participating in similar behavior.

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It is this lack of attention to the youth's obvious behavioral problems, and their peers cruelty, that contributed to the death of 12 people.

However, most people do not seem to understand this. Instead, they choose to blame guns — "no guns, no murders," seems to be the popular sentiment.

When I hear this, I am reminded of something my parents always told me: "If you want something bad enough, you'll find a way to get it."

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Yes, it is truly a mystery. The gunmen obviously just woke up one morning, were bored, and decided to break the monotony with a dozen murders.

The fact that the two young men were the repeated targets of their peers cruelty, didn't have anything to do with it.

It has also been reported that the young men had made a video for a class project. It depicted people in trench coats pretending to gun down athletes in the school hallways. They wanted to screen the video for their classmates, but were not allowed.

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It's crunch time: too much to do in too little time. And if you're like most, you're far too busy to take a break, or even take your eyes off computer screens or books.

But while this is a crazy time, remember this. In roughly two weeks many of you won't have the chance to grab each other's tongues any more. You'll be graduating and stepping into a whole new crazy world, where tongue grabbing is probably illegal anyway.

So until that time, try to make the best of your days at UCO. Try to take your eyes from your books and look around.

Remember that what you see for the next few weeks will soon only be memories. Try to enjoy what time you have left, even if it's crazy.

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stunned beyond belief when I read the stinging cheap shots volleyed at the Oklahoma oil and gas industry and Oklahoma oil and gas royalty owners under the guise of spanking Governor Frank Keating.

It is very obvious that staffwriter

Dugas has no clue about what he is trying to talk about. This is evident by the aimless ramblings of his article and a thesis so convoluted and unorganized it was difficult to determine what the point is that he is trying to make.

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about doing a little research so that he might become somewhat enlightened to the facts about the plight of such an important Oklahoma industry he so irresponsibly trashed, before he issues a retraction and apology in the next issue of this paper.

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