Volume 117, Issue 3
the VISTA “Our Words, Your Voice.”
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Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Campus Crime Rises, Safety Ranking Decreases Vy Luong
@vy169 Online Editor
The University of Central Oklahoma has dropped from the ninth safest campus in the nation to the 19th safest campus for 2018 in a study from Alarms.org based on crime statistics. Alarms.org created the ranking using the most recent data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting and the Campus Safety Security Survey put out by the U.S. Department of Education. The safe score was calculated by analyzing crimes reported by universities, including rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, motor vehicle theft and arsons. Also factored into the safety score were violent and property crime rates for the cities in which the schools were located, and the number of law enforcement offiContinued on Pg. ?
University of Central Oklahoma Officer Tiffany Stephans finshes up preparations to continue scouting campus on Jan. 27 outside of Old North. While UCO was previously ranked as the ninth safest campus in the nation, but is now ranked as the 19th safest according to Alarm.com. Crime rates are also up at the university, which has contributed to the ranking. (Gerald Leong/The Vista)
Betz Announces First Amendment Day in Recognition of Free Speech Lauren Morris @TheVista1903 Reporter
University of Central Oklahoma President Don Betz has declared April 25, 2019 as First Amendment Day on campus. Students Erin Barnett and Trevor Stone worked with Mass Communication Department Chair Mary Carver and E.K. Gaylord Endowed Chair of Journalism Ethics, Joe Hight to plan activities for the day. They received a $6,000 grant from nonpartisan program 1 for All to design the
A marble slab depicting the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia. University of Central Oklahoma President Don Betz declared April 25, 2019 as First Amendment day in recognition of the importance of free speech on college campuses. (Provided/dcwriterdawn)
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event. Betz and Miss UCO, Shelby Love, have agreed to partake in the day as well. “It’s a total education of what the First Amendment is. It’s a campus-wide, not just one-building-wide, type of approach,” Hight said. The event also coincides with the start of the 50th year of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame. Part of the day will include inducting the 49th class into the Hall of Fame. After the induction ceremony, attendees would to a march from the Nigh University Center to the Mass Continued on Pg. 8
BRONCHO SPORTS
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