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Betz promoted to new provost position

BRIEFS >News We want your blood The Oklahoma Blood Institure will hold a blood drive with the ROTC and the Student Nursing Association Feb. 8. v Page 3

>Sports Looking at the future UCO baseball and softball coaches discuss the coining season. ✓ Page 6-7

>Review viye la Francais! A Vista reviewer says watching Brotherhood of the Wolf in French gives the movie an authentic feel. v Page 4

TODAY IN HISTORY In 1964, The Beatles first arrived in the United States, greeted by a mob of screaming teenagers. Hundreds of police officers were needed to hold back the fans.

QUOTE OF THE DAY "One difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets." — Roy L. Schaefer

in charge." Several universities in Staff Writer Oklahoma have the provost ith a new title and a position including Oklahoma salary raise, Dr. Don State University and University Betz has been named of Oklahoma. the first provost in UCO history. President Webb said UCO was The position took effect Jan. 1 ready to have someone with the after State Regents Board of prestigious title because of recent Higher Education approved it in growth of school reputation and December. academic programs. "His official title is "I think it's good for the provost/vice university in its president of standing and its "He's continuing academic affairs," image," President said UCO President Webb said. to assume all Roger Webb. Betz said he is "He's continuing responsibilities happy to serve as the to assume all provost and takes the that he's had so responsibilities that responsibilities he's had so it's not seriously. it's not like he's like he's changing "I see it as a great changing jobs." jobs," President opportunity for the Webb said. institution," Betz said. Betz held the title "President [Webb] —Dr. Roger Webb of executive vice is sending a message, I UCO President president/vice think, to the faculty president of academic affairs prior that the institution is a full to the promotion. university player that would be "Provost is a title that is recognized throughout the commonly found in universities country." that had major academic Betz said he will be working programs," President Webb said. more closely with President Betz said "It's from the Latin Webb on strategic planning, and word `praepositus,' meaning first with other school officials on BY JERA STONE

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of contact with other institutions at the provost-to-provost level," he said. UCO has been dealing with budget cuts since the approval of the promotion for Betz. President Webb said he can't remember the percentage of the raise but it's not significant enough to be a burden. "Faculty members get promotions and raises," President Webb said. Examples being that some associate professors will be promoted to professors this semester, he said. Dr. Don Betz President Webb and Dr. Betz both stressed that the raise was fund-raising advocacy, approved prior to the statewide budget cuts. recruitment and retention. "This is a very high profile "This also clarifies the line of authority from the president," position and one that obviously the president didn't decide over a Betz said. "If the president is away or weekend," Betz said. President Webb said he had otherwise indisposed, then the responsibility for the campus been considering adding the provost position for a year. then goes to the provost." "Don Betz is a very successful As the executive vice president, Betz has substituted for and respected academic leader in the state," President Webb said. President Webb on occasions. "I think it's appropriate that "Provost is actually a much this university have a provost and clearer statement," Betz said. "From that position, it allows I'm pleased that Don Betz is our this institution to have new kinds first one," President Webb said. •

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tudents who have filled out the four-page Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA) packet know that it can be a chore. The process can be tedious and overwhelming for many students. That is why the Mapping Your Future Program is providing a live chat session from 6 – 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7 at www.mapping-your-future.org . Anyone with Internet access can join the chat. Financial aid advisors will be available during the chat to

answer questions about the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA). Kim Anderson, client relations specialist for the Oklahoma Guaranteed Student Loan Program, said the session is a good tool to allow students to ask questions or clear up any misconceptions they have. She said everyone has a different financial situation and their aid will be based on their situation. "Many think they can't receive any kind of aid or you have to pay money to get assistance with scholarships," Anderson said. "One of the most important steps in the financial aid process

is completing the application," said media contact for Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education Harve Allen in a press release. Sophomore Interior Design student Davida Hinkle has gotten the FASFA packet for two semesters, but has not filled it out because she did not know where to begin. "I filled out the easy part, but there are some parts I don't understand. The hardest part was trying to get all my mom's [tax] information and then getting all my dad's," she said. "The financial aid application can be somewhat confusing and

intimidating for some families," said. Oklahoma State Regents Chairman Joe Mayer. "The State Regents applaud information events like these that make it easier for students, parents and others to maneuver through the applications." The Oklahoma Guaranteed Student Loan Program and other state agencies participating in the Federal Family Education Loan Program sponsor the Mapping Your Future Web site. •

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OPINION ED TOR AL How SATISFIED ARE YOU WITH THE UCO ADMINISTRATION?

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Is the provost position really necessary for UCO? "Being a freshman it's been pretty easy so far."

"Everything's really slow, They won't send us our checks on time."

—TIFFANY MONTGOMERY

—MIYUKI NAGASAWA

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ice-President of Academic Affairs OU and OSU. Don Betz is receiving a pay raise It sounds like a case of "they have and a new title. one, so we want one." Yet President Webb says that he's not Webb thinks this is good for the changing jobs. university in its standing and image. Betz says that his new responsibilities Why? include working more closely with the Webb said that the raise was given President and with school officials. Are before the recent budget cuts. But in the we giving him a raise to do things he Jan. 24 issue of The Vista, Webb said that should already be doing? he was expecting the budget cuts as early UCO has never had a provost before, as October. but many other universities do, including Well, which is it?

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"They're fine, I guess."

"Fairly, I guess."

—AARON KNAPP

—HOLLY GOOCH

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Junior Psychology major

"I haven't had any problems at UCO... It has been a good experience for me so far."

"Some things, very. Other things, not at al . , like all the cars driving on the sidewalks."

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Did we 'really add this title just to add prestige? Isn't that pretentious? Aren't we better than that? Who really cares if OU and OSU have provosts? Since we've created a new position, does that mean that we are now going to have to hire someone to take Betz's old position? How much is that going to cost? Perhaps enough for a track program? It's enough to make one wonder. •

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Oklahoma Blood Institute is out for blood Feb. 8 BY LAURA BELLO

donors. UCO's Student Nursing Association and ROTC are he Oklahoma Blood Institute (OBI) will sponsor helping with the blood drive. Senior forensic science a blood drive from 9 a.m. to student Battalion Cadet for 3 p.m. tomorrow, Feb. 8 in front ROTC Chad Chapman said his of the bookstore in the Nigh Battalion is helping University Center. so they can be more Donors will "We also just involved in campus receive a free T-shirt activities. They will and cholesterol, iron, wanted to help hang up posters pulse and announcing the out." temperature checks. event around campus. Written cholesterol "We also just test results will be â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Chad Chapman wanted to help out," mailed to the donors. BathIli on Cadet, he said. OBI also offers U CO ROTC The OBI provides men a prostateblood to over 70 hospitals in 44 specific antigen (PSA) blood test to screen for prostate cancer for counties in Oklahoma. â&#x20AC;˘

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French language gives Brotherhood of the Wolf authentic feel Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan) and wolf-like monster that killed his faithful Iroquois almost 100 people in companion, Mani the Auvergne and "Director (Mark Dacascos), to South Dordogne the small town of Christophe Gans provinces of France Gevaudan to hunt before the French takes these y watching the trailers and the beast. While the Revolution. previews, moviegoers may residents of unsolved incidents Nicknamed "La Bite," get the wrong impression Gevaudan believe the Beast of about the recently-released the wolf is a demon and weaves Gevaudan was never Universal Studios film, sent from hell, de captured and its last Brotherhood of Brotherhood of the Wolf. While Fronsac and Mani attack occurred in the previews suggest that this is a learn that the beast 1767. the Wolf into a French horror film, Brotherhood of is only a small part Director the Wolf is more of an of a strange fast-paced, Christophe Gans action/adventure period film conspiracy that takes these unsolved mystery/adventure filled with suspense, intrigue and involves the incidents and weaves martial arts. aristocracy, religion film with beautiful Brotherhood of the Wolf Brotherhood of the Wolf is the and revolution. into a fast-paced, cinematography." story of a mysterious wolf-like As far-fetched as mystery/adventure beast that terrorizes the French the plot sounds, film with beautiful countryside between 1764 and Brotherhood of the cinematography. The —Sara Munn 1767, attacking and killing only Wolf is actually martial arts fighting on Brotherhood of women and children. King Louis loosely based on the the Wolf sequences are XV dispatches Gregoire de Beast of Gedauvan, an actual fantastic and blend seamlessly

into the plot with dramatic slowmotion bursts of action. There's just one aspect of Brotherhood of the Wolf that may discourage viewers— the movie is filmed in French with English subtitles. However, the success of Ang Li's

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he returning Lone Star Conference Champion UCO Bronchos are poised for another conference run and possibly a national championship in 2002. UCO is ranked 13th in the pre-season NCAA Division II poll and picked to finish first in the Lone Star North Division standings. They are returning seven starters, one first-team AllAmerican and four All-Lone Star Conference North Division players to a team that went 40-15 last year and made a run at the NCAA Division II Regional Tournament. "When you don't lose anybody pitching wise and we went 40-15 last year and we went to the regional tournament," Coach Wendell Simmons said. " We're expecting to be just as good or better again this year." The Bronchos are looking ahead to a tough Lone Star Conference. "I think the Lone Star North [Division] is going to be better than it was last year," commented Simmons.

The Bronchos are literally All-South Central Region armed for the heavy schedule. honoree. With a lot of emphasis on the Ace Ricky Belk heads a very strong pitching staff that returns pitching, don't rule out some four senior starters and a former excitements from the Broncho All-LSC North pick coming back bats. David Jones is a senior and from an injury prone season. returning starter who Belk went 14-0 hit .352 last season. with a 3.43 ERA Junior John Rogers hit and 108 strikeouts "We're expecting .346 with 10 homers earning him Allto be just as good and 57 RBIs earning American honors. him All-LSC North "He's a smart or better again Division honors at pitchers," says this year." third. Bryan' Coy, Simmons of Belk. another first-team All"He doesn't LSC North pick hit overpower, throws a —Coach Simmons .380 with 14 doubles slider, a good on the Broncho's and 47 RBIs at DH. change-up and his potential in 2002 He will make the fastball runs. He just move to right field this season. throws strikes." UCO hopes to see some Kyle Dover, Kirk Gore, Blake Honeycutt and Anthony Reed immediate production from some key transfers. Senior Justin join Belk on the staff. Dover was a first-team All- Carroll looks to start at first base. LSC North player in 2000, going He played the previous three 8-2 with a 2.35 ERA before seasons for St. Gregory's batting missing all of 2001 with a bone .395 with a combined 52 home chip in his elbow. Gore was a runs and 195 RBIs. Barrett second-team All-LSC North pick Whitney, a junior college transfer going 10-2 with a 4.62 ERA. hopes to add some power and Honeycutt went 9-5 with a 4.02 junior Steven Hutcherson look ERA and was named first-team to start at second base. "The players worked All-LSC and was a second-team

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SPORTS 2002 Broncho softball preview BY DARA LAWLESS Sports Writer

he UCO women's softball team returns with five AllLone Star Conference players, a bolstered pitching roster, and a new strategy for the spring 2002 season. Five women earned a spot on the All-Lone Star Conference North Division Softball Team for their performance last season. Freshman center fielder Terra Beachum batting .279 last season was chosen as a first team member. Making the second team were junior pitcher Jessica Kirby, freshman catcher Courtney Cole, senior first baseman Erin Crank, and sophmore utility player April Ferrell. Kirby was 13-10 with a 1.67 ERA and 101 strikeouts in 155 innings pitched. Courtney Cole, the only player to start in every game last season, batted .318 racking up 12 doubles, four home runs, and 24 RBI's. Erin Crank maintained a .355 batting average, leading the team with nine homers and 39 RBI's. Ferrell hit .218 along with 11

doubles while playing at third most exciting things about the team. base, catcher, and right field. UCO women's softball was Head coach Virginia Honea commented on how promising it predicted to finish fourth out of was to have so many solid players six teams in the Lone Star coming back. "We have a good Conference this spring. Coach thing in these returning players. Honea and her team want to These girls know what to expect make the top three. Changes in the championship and know what I expect of them." The Bronchos signed standout playoff bracket, such as a straight senior pitcher Jennifer Chavira as bye from the Lone Star Conference to regionals, a transfer from has given Coach Honea a Texas Wesleyan " When we step new strategy for this University in the season. "Instead of off-season. out on the field, worrying about watching Chavira proved every single game like last both a defensive we can compete season, we can afford to and offensive with anybody." make a few mistakes, as threat her long as we learn from sophmore year at —Coach Honea them and improve." Midlaifd on her 2002 Coach Honea firmly University where Bronchos states "When we step out she pitched a .74 ERA and batted .327 with 18 on the field, we can compete with anybody." With a gung-ho team homers. "I am probably most excited attitude and high morale, perhaps about our pitching staff. Jennifer they can improve on their 24-22 Chavira and Jessica Kirby are record from last season. UCO women's softball will both left handers with senior year experience and leadership ability, step out onto the field for the first but two different styles of time this year at the Southern throwing." Coach Honea Arkansas Classic February 9th confidently stated as one of the and 10th. •

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In the Bedroom gets high marks from Vista reporter

ery rarely these days do we get to see a dramatic film that doesn't scream "here is drama!" in your face. In the Bedroom, directed by Todd Field and starring Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson, is a film that is so subtle you almost feel numb when it's finished. The story is about an older couple in a small Maine fishing community who have to deal with their grief after their son is murdered. Nick Stahl, whom I've been waiting to see in a major film since The Man Without a Face, stars as Frank Fowler, the college-age son who dates an older woman, Natalie (Marisa Tomei), with two sons and a scoundrel of a soon-to-be ex-husband.

The title of the movie gave more painful to see Matt and the audience the impression that Ruth trying to go about their the story may happen "in the regular lives without verbally bedroom," but is actually from a bringing up the subject of their reference to an early murdered son. scene when the To some fisherman is "This is a movie of moviegoers, the explaining the seemingly lobsters to the little character-study emotionless faces of boy. Matt and Ruth do done through Despite what you not 'fit the typical may expect of the close-ups of grieving parents that film after watching people's faces and we imagine. It is the previews, the two brave of the director scenes shown in the their Field, who co-wrote movie trailer are just the script with surroundings." about the only Robert Festinger, to emotional outbreaks not throw tears and you will find in the screams at the —Jera Stone film. on In the Bedroom audience, and it The filmmakers works. It is precisely chose the route of not showing because of that, we feel the the strong emotions the Fowlers powerful ache when we see Matt felt after the tragedy struck. We and Ruth finally break the don't even get to see the scene silence and let their emotions when Matt (Wilkinson) tells erupt. Ruth (Spacek) about the death For people who have come to of Frank. It is somehow even expect action in every scene,

this 'slow-paced movie is my spine. I walked out of the probably boring. This is a movie theater wondering what Matt is of character-study done through thinking of doing. • close-ups of people's faces and their surroundings. It looks Log on to www.thevistaonline.com almost like a documentary 24 hours a day for campus news or to sound off on current issues. because we see people do real things and engage in actual dialogues without the distractions of background music or other loud noises. The hardest part about showing emotion on the screen is when you are trying to restrain it, but still make the audience feel something. Spacek and Wilkinson get high marks for a job well done. Over all, I'm quite impressed with the details of a film that depicts grief in a way that you aren't expecting. There are a few things I can complain about, such as Tomei's New York accent and the over two-hours running Go to www.thevistaonline.com time. The last scene of Matt and and post your thoughts in the forums. Ruth is a little abrupt, even though it gave me a chill down

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UCO graduate recalls teaching English in South Korea BY MICHAEL LARSON

Senior Writer

ike Neville is re-adjusting to student life at UCO after four years in South Korea. From the four teaching positions she held while abroad, she generated a considerable amount of money, but said the conversion from Korean currency, won, to U.S. dollars cut her savings nearly in half. With a UCO English degree, She coasts on her limited funds, contemplating her next career move. "No" one will hire me. I have no work experience in the United States," she said. "Being gone for four years wiped my credit history. I don't exist." Neville first heard about overseas teaching jobs from a web site called Dave's ESL (English as a

Second Language) Café. teaching adults, and I ended up in "Before I went, it hadn't crossed a classroom full of little kids who my mind, the thought of leaving spoke not a word of English." the country to teach elsewhere. Up She said she initially viewed the until then, I was confident I'd end job as a nightmare. The kids she up teaching high school was assigned to teach for the rest of my. life. were difficult to To this day, I have "To this day, I control, constantly trouble believing I got chattering or fighting have trouble on the plane." one another. Neville Neville had her mind believing I got on went to her boss for split between three help. Her boss gave countries: Japan, Korea, the plane." her a stick made and Taiwan. She said specifically for she ruled out Taiwan disciplining children. —Rike Neville and Japan because the "I couldn't believe UCO graduate and languages seemed too my boss wanted me to former English difficult to learn. teacher in South beat on kids." Korea Neville came up She secured her first job in Tae Hwa Dong, Ulsan, at a with a deterrent her mother had place called Easy English Land, once used on her, called the "kiss where she would work from mid- threat." 1997 to early 1999. "I had foul smelling purple "Before leaving, I did lipstick, and I told them if they everything I could to prepare for misbehaved or hit somebody, I would kiss them in front of everyone, and they wouldn't be allowed to wash it off for the rest of the day." . The rest of her time at Easy English Land went smoothly. Around this time she acquired a fluffy white dog named Noodle. Noodle was a gift from a coworker who accidentally killed her gerbil when he was drunk. "Noodle served as an excellent teaching tool. Korean students typically have trouble pronouncing the letter and they are used to pronouncing 'see' as `shee.' To get Noodle to recognize and execute tricks like "lie down" and "sit", they had to get their pronunciation correct, or he wouldn't respond." Her next job was a four-month

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KOREA: Unfavorable working conditions brought Neville back to United States continued from page 10 working 52 hour weeks." Neville and some of her coworkers were complaining about their work conditions. ECC responded by shutting off the heat to her apartment. "It was December in Seoul. My roommate and I were sleeping in gloves, shoes and layers of clothing and coats. My dog slept inside my coat up against me. They took our passports so we couldn't run away. It was one huge mess to get out of." When Neville did escape from ECC, she sacrificed a $600 deposit and her final paycheck. "When I left, I had pneumonia in both lungs and bronchitis. My dog had pneumonia and almost died. The heat in my apartment was off until February. My roommate stayed behind because she was too afraid of ECC to leave. With ECC, you sign the contract and they basically own you for a year."

People tell me good ECC's "Someone with a Ph.D. from exist, but I haven't heard of any Harvard isn't going to be teaching directly" English in Korea. Many of the She spent her final two years in people teaching in Korea are there Korea teaching at English Magic because they're not able to hold a Land in Mugeo Dong. job in their native There, she designed country." lesson plans, helped Although she had "When I left, I with the management, time during the last and worked to hold had pne umonia in six months she lived together the in Korea to learn the both lu ngs and disorganized company. language, Neville said Neville said a she became bronchi tis. My dog common problem in disillusioned with the Korea is foreigners lying had pne umonia idea. about their degrees in "Everyone I talked order to land jobs as and almost died." to would speak to me English teachers. in English, so it was "Companies would impossible for me to —Rike Neville send me diplomas and practice. Everyone UCO graduate and ask me if they looked wanted a free lesson. former English genuine. Sometimes I'd "At one point I got teacher in South write them back saying, into a cab and the Korea `this isn't a degree, this driver asked me if I only says they completed a class was in a hurry to get somewhere. I here." told him I wasn't, and he basically She estimates many of the held me hostage for two hours, teachers there used forged degrees. driving me around town practicing .

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"I got a lot of hate mail because people didn't want to hear good things about teaching there. Apparently they'd had negative experiences teaching in Korea, and thought I was lying to recruit people." She allowed the site to be mirrored under the condition her e-mail address wouldn't be given out. Neville is currently attending classes at UCO's education building, and plans to teach in Texas after this semester. She said she would like to return to Korea eventually, but would prefer to work under more favorable conditions. •

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A&M bonfire tradition on hold indefinitely, president says FROM WIRE REPORTS

"There will not be a bonfire in Bowen said he looked at three students were killed and 27 others injured on Nov. 18, 1999. The 59- issues: a professionally created 2002." Hundreds of students had foot-high, wedding cake-style safety plan, the cost and future stack of more than 5,000 logs legal liability. Cost alone was put gathered in a viewing area in an collapsed while under at between $1 million and $1.5 auditorium and in an adjacent million to resume the bonfire, he lounge area to watch the construction. announcement over large-screen The bonfire traditionally has said. "Our community wants a televisions. Some students were been lighted on the eve of A&M's football game against the bonfire," Bowen said. "I wish I passing flyers touting the return of the bonfire before his University of Texas, its archrival. could make it happen. announcement. Bowen plans to retire in June as Texas A&M president, leaving the future of the bonfire to his successor. "Every time we discuss any aspect of the bonfire, the families of the victims are forced to relive the horror of that day," Bowen said. "I am sorry that, today, we are adding to their sadness. I accepted responsibility for what happens at Texas A&M University. Today, I am exercising this responsibility." An A&M commission blamed the collapse on flawed construction techniques and the lack of adequate supervision of California has more financial and students assembling the stack. The report did not single out anyone professional development incentives for blame. than any other state to assist the starting A Bonfire Steering Committee, teacher in a new career. following Bowen's June 2000 directive that the bonfire would not return unless it was professionally designed and safely built, has been working since then to create a plan. Seventeen designs for the revamped bonfire were submitted to the committee. It narrowed You chose to become a teacher to make them down to three, which were a difference in the lives of children. reviewed by students and others, But when you choose your first teaching before choosing the finalist. position, shouldn't it be one that can make The design, which looks like the difference of a lifetime for you? the three-tier wedding cake-like shape traditionally used for California has just signed into law the largest education budget in the nation's history, bonfire, was submitted to Bowen. and many of the dollars are earmarked for financial incentives to make it easier for Like all the considered designs, it you to get here — and stay here, A variety of grants, bonuses, income tax credits and is 45 feet tall, with a 40-foot home loan assistance programs are offered by districts looking for the best and diameter, and has an interior derrick-like structure where all brightest teachers, logs can be secured. It is a singleAnd inside the classroom, you'll receive outstanding support from state-funded tier design and all its logs touch the ground, qualities that Bowen professional development programs. said were needed if bonfire was to continue. A campus-wide survey of students conducted last month Our commitment to education translates into real benefits for teachers: Starting salaries of found that 92 percent favored $34,000 to $44,000 for first year teachers; up to $19,000 in grants for education loans; no-moneycontinuing bonfire and 97 percent down mortgages with low interest rates; and other incentives for teachers in areas of high need. of those favored the wedding cakelike design. Of the university's We need you in California, It's easy to get here. nearly 42,000 students, about For more information, call toll-free 1-888-CalTeach 12,000 participated in the survey. (888-225-8322) or visit our website at A survey of 18,164 former www.calteach.com. students found that 72 percent believed the tradition should continue. •

horror of that day will never visit our campus again," President Ray Associated Press Bowen said. "My heart wanted to COLLEGE STATION, Texas continue the bonfire but I had to (AP) — Texas A&M University's let my brain make the decision." nearly century-old bonfire He said there are other ways tradition — on hold since a deadly Texas A&M students can show collapse in 1999 — will not be their school spirit. resurrected this fall, the school's The 90-year-old bonfire president said Monday. tradition was suspended after 12 "I'm still determined that the

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"We are doing some very you are looking for. Over the sea, exciting stuff," West said. "We are you have the same problem." Technological advances _ looking at a problem that was first especially high-powered computer looked at in World War II." processors _ have Thirty-seven allowed researchers to American solders make strides studying were killed in the "We are I ooking "sea clutter," he said. Persian Gulf in 1987 West uses when an Iraqi aircraft at a probl em that computers at OSU to fired two high-speed was first I ooked at recreate measurements missiles at the USS taken by fellow Stark. in World War II." researchers in wave Iraqi officials said tanks on the East the attack was an —Jim West Coast. accident. professor of "I take measured West said his electrical and surfaces and research eventually computer numerically recreate could prevent such an engineering, experimental results attack by giving radar Oklahoma State with a computer," he operators the tools to University said. "From there, we see incoming missiles. "The way most people think of can test existing electromagnetic this is radar clutter," he said. "If models developed to describe the you ever look at radar, you get scattering." • ground clutter that can mask what

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"But then one day a lady got on the bus and she said to me, 'Yesterday I rode your bus. I had just found out that I had terminal cancer and you made me laugh. So, please, don't ever stop."' Wilson, who says he would have gone into the ministry if he hadn't gone to Metro, considers his job almost a spiritual mission. "I love being a bus driver," he said. "Do you know how great it is to see a busload of smiling people? When I see that I feel like I've found my glory."

like feet." They complain their prepacked provided meals often include half-thawed frozen peaches, watery macaroni and cheese, greasy pizza and discolored meat. School officials say Schiller is limited in its offerings because the school lacks a cafeteria. "They're not good ... and every other day it's the same thing," said sixth-grader Brittany Ford, 11. The protest was sparked students in Antoinette Jones' eighth-grade history class after Jones urged students to take action, instead of just PITTSBURGH (AP) — complaining. Middle school students at Schiller "I told them to find a cause, Classical Academy are taking a document what they feel is bite out of history in an effort to wrong, document the steps they improve the quality of their will take to change it, and I told lunch. them they must be willing to The students, who were make a sacrifice," Jones said. inspired by civil disobedience in the Boston Tea Party and the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — have started their own revolt of A new hazard on the Coronado sorts. Golf Course honks, bites and Since mid-December, students chases people. have begun a boycott of the The course's management lunchroom and adopted the plans to transplant a teed-off slogan: "We won't eat if it smells goose if it can't live in harmony with golfers. "We can't have this goose attacking our customers," said Connie Adams, manager of the course in this Phoenix suburb. "But we definitely plan to not hurt this thing." The white goose isn't as committed to nonviolence. Lording over the seventh hole for the past week, its scorecard includes one woman treated by Take firefighters for a bite to the leg. a Thus far, course employees have responded by chasing the closer goose back to a neighboring park. look! But they'll move it to a park far away if the goose doesn't learn some manners, Adams said. They don't have to be so nice. Jim Warnecke with the -800-SOPADRE Arizona Game & Fish vinvvv.spri ngbreak.so pad re.com Department said the state protects migrating fowl, such as Canada geese that winter here. But domesticated geese that live here year-round can be relocated or euthanized.

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STRANGE: Rottweiler dies from eating 505 coins continued from page 14 REDKEY, Ind. (AP) — Siren the Rottweiler sometimes ate grass when she wasn't feeling well — but no one knows why she ate 505 coins. A veterinarian surgically removed the change, which totaled $23.28, from the 94pound dog's stomach Monday shortly before she died from copper sulfate poisoning. "I've always saved spare change in a big jar on the floor," said the dog's owner, Holly Tremaine of New Castle. "She's never bothered it before. 1 don't know why all of a sudden she got interested." Veterinarian Jim Wasson, who operated on the 7-year-old dog, said he had removed two or three coins from the stomachs of miserly mutts before, but never anything like the five pounds in Siren. "I asked other doctors if they had heard of anything like this," Wasson said. "One said he removed $40 worth of coins from a dog, but it was mostly quarters and amounted to less than 200 coins. This one might qualify for the Guinness Book of Records." Tremaine, who adopted Siren when she was seven weeks old, noticed Siren- was ill on Jan. 24 and took her to the veterinarian two days later. Wasson said that he first thought the dog had an upset stomach or gastritis. When the dog's condition didn't improve, Tremaine took Siren back to Wasson for more treatment Monday, when the coins were discovered in an Xray.

much Jell-O as households across the country, Jell-O spokeswoman Camille Rustige said.. The museum will be on display in Utah through March 5. "It depicts little snippets of Jell-O's history," Belluscio said in Thursday's editions of The Daily News of Batavia. The traveling museum includes several historical items from the museum in Le Roy. Le Roy, 25 miles southwest of Rochester, is the birthplace of Jell-O. The Jell-O Museum, in a century-old stone building, opened in 1997 marking the 100th anniversary of a simple dessert that has become an American icon. Like museums dedicated to Coca-Cola, Hershey's chocolate and Spam, the Jell-O museum highlights the dessert's versatility, artful marketing • and enduring popularity. Pearle Bixby Wait, a carpenter who dabbled in patent medicine, added fruit flavor to gelatin in 1897. His wife christened it Jell0. But Wait never found success with Jell-0. He sold the business to Orator F. Woodward, the richest man in town, for $450 in 1899. Within a decade, Jell-O was a million-dollar business. Jell-O left Le Roy in 1964 for a new factory in Dover, Del. During the unveiling ceremony Wednesday, Belluscio will present Utah Lt. Gov. Olean Walker with a large spoon used in a Jell-O advertisement and a plaque from the Le Roy Historical Society.

LE ROY, N.Y. (AP) — It wiggles, it jiggles, and next week Jell-O is going on the road. The Traveling Jell-O Museum is expected to be unveiled in Salt Lake City next week by curator Lynne Belluscio and company spokesman Bill Cosby. Utah is the museum's first stop for two reasons: international attention for the Olympics and Salt Lake City has the highest per capita consumption of the dessert in the world. It's also the official state snack. Households in Utah buy 21 servings per year — twice as

PARAGOULD, Ark. (AP) — Susan Nanke doesn't just like artichokes. She absolutely adores them. That's why she's been collecting them for 30 years. The Paragould resident's dining area is full of them. From painted pieces and plates to teapots and mugs, artichokes are everywhere — even on her wastebasket. Nanke's collection is so unique, it was selected to appear in the February/March edition of "Taste of Home" magazine. The periodical learned about

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College graduates feel effects of economic dropoff BY JAMES HANNAH

Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Jodee Zalar has a 3.6 grade average at Wittenberg University, studied in England and has completed several internships. She expects to graduate this spring with a degree in psychology. Zalar also is among thousands of concerned college seniors feeling the effects of a job market that has slumped with the economy. Zalar, 21, of the Cleveland suburb of Broadview Heights, said some

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Employers. They are also cutting — Santa Clara University in back on campus recruiting and that northern California has begun has left colleges looking for new "resume audits" in which student ways to help graduates land jobs. resumes are reviewed and improved According to the survey, the by college _officials to catch fewest opportunities for new prospective employers' attention. _ graduates appear to be with — Ohio State University's communications companies, business college took students to automotive and mechanical New York to meet with investment equipment manufacturers and banks and more trips are being financial-services firms. considered. The national — The University unemployment rate for of North Carolina at those between the ages "R's turning out Chapel Hill has begun of 20 and 24 was 9.6 to be a lot more holding "Networking percent in December, Nights," in which up from 6.9 percent the difficult than I about 30 area previous December. professionals in a "A lot of students anticipated." specified field are are looking at the job invited to meet market and thinking students. —Jodee Zalar there's just no point," — George Mason senior, association spokesman University in Fairfax, Wittenburg Jerry Bohovich said. University Va., uses newspapers "But there are still opportunities to find companies that have been out there." awarded contracts and calls them Robert Candage, who graduated to ask about possible job openings. from Wittenberg last semester with — Walsh University in North a degree in management, is waiting Canton is luring recruiters to tables while he job hunts. He said campus for "TGI Friday" job fairs companies appear to be waiting out with the promise of free food. The the recession. school waives its usual job-fair fee "I'm going to have to do the of up to $250 and hosts a reception same, just wait it out," said for recruiters. Candage, 22, of North Canton. — Cornell University in New "Obviously, I'm disappointed that York plans to have early 1990s the job market isn't booming. But graduates share with students how, you have to play the hand you've to find jobs during tough times. been dealt." Alex Ruiz, a 1990 graduate who College officials nationwide are now works for an Internet adjusting to cope with the tight job marketing company in New York market: City, is to be among them. After — Wittenberg has convinced graduation, Ruiz took several employers who have canceled temporary jobs before landing an college visits to conduct mock investment-banking position eight interviews with students. months later:

"That was more valuable than sitting on the sidelines and waiting for the perfect job to come up," Ruiz said. Alice Tenney, director of placement services at Wittenberg, said many recruiters have canceled campus visits, but that she has convinced some to come for mock interviews to give seniors practice. "This is not a year you can blow real interviews when you get them because there are not going to be as many of them," she said. Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble Co. is among companies that are scaling back on their campus visits. Spokeswoman Linda Ullery said the company will visit about 50 campuses this year, down from previous years. She did not know how. many campuses the company has visited in the past. At George Mason, company responses to mass e-mail inquiries about jobs dropped as the economy soured. So, the school began making telephone calls. "The shoe is on the other foot," said Pat Carretta, director of career services. "When times are fat, they call me." Christine Harriger, the school's manager of recruiting, scours newspapers for articles that indicate a company may be ready to hire and calls managers there. "It's a pretty warm reception. They know the economy is going to change. And people understand what our role is," Harriger said. George Mason also began Super Saturday last fall. Employers are invited to come to campus for mock interviews and to critique student resumes. •

POLICE BRIEFS Accident Jan. 31, 9:31 p.m. A student found his vehicle had been hit in the parking lot. The

an apartment in Broncho I on a disturbance at the physical report of a child having plant. difficulty breathing.

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Jan. 31, 9:08 a.m. A smoke detector was activated in a third floor room of West Medical Call Hall. Edmond Fire Department Jan. 28, 8:09 p.m. responded and determined a first A woman suffered an asthma floor heating unit had burned

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attack in the C wing of West Hall. EMSA responded and treated the woman.

Jan. 31, 1:03 a.m. A DPS officer was dispatched to

Jan. 28, 8:58 a.m. A UCO student was questioned about attempting to remove a book from the Barnes and Noble bookstore without paying for it. *

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Disturbance Jan. 30, 6:39 a.m. DPS officers responded to a

Editors Note: Information reported in Police Briefs is taken from UCO' s Department of Public Safety log, which is an open record available to the public upon request.

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Middle East studies enrollment up since Sept. 11 attacks FROM WIRE REPORTS

Associated Press ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — In a typical semester, about 45 students register for Cornell University professor Ross Brann's course on the Quran. This year, 145 students are taking it. A course about conflict between Arabs and Jews in the modern period has 75 students, more than twice as many as normal, Brann said. At Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, professor Virginia Tilley had students pleading to get into her class on Middle East politics, which immediately filled to its capacity of 27. Students knocked on her office door; some studying abroad sent e-mails asking her to make room for them. Until this semester, college students wanting to take a course on the Middle East or Islam never had to worry about waiting lists or how to persuade the professor

to let them into the class. Other upstate colleges and This year, any class that may universities are experiencing the help students make sense of same trend. cultural, political or religious At LeMoyne College in forces tied to the terrorist attacks Syracuse, a class on the history of can no longer be characterized the modern Middle East has at least 35 people that way. "Enrollments were wanting to take it. "I think t here is a sparking even before The professor turned Sept. 11," Brann said. away most vague aw areness sophomores, saying "I think there is a vague awareness that that this is an they would have more chances in this is an important importan t part of part of the world and future years. Syracuse it's worthy of study." the world and it's Cornell has an University will entire department worthy o f study." decide soon whether devoted to Near to start offering a Eastern Studies and is minor in Middle one of the few schools —R ass Brann Eastern studies. If professo r, Cornell that teaches the that is approved, University Syracuse would Arabic language, but its courses deal mainly with gradually add new courses in the language, religion, literature and subject, said Mehrzad Boroujerdi, ancient history of the region. The an associate professor of political university hopes to hire a scholar science. Boroujerdi is the only who specializes in the modern political science faculty member history of the Middle East, said who teaches regularly about the Brann, the department chair. Middle East and his only course

on the subject this semester is an honors seminar on Islamic communities that has a limited enrollment of eight students. The State University College at Oswego managed to offer a new class on the history of Islam for this semester. It wasn't arranged in time to make the main course listing, but 31 students signed up anyway. Faculty had tried to offer the course a few years ago, but fewer than six students signed up and the funding didn't materialize. When the planes hit the Pentagon and World Trade Center, the fall semester had already started. So this is the first semester that student interest in the Middle East is reflected in the demand for courses. Many students, like many Americans, typically know almost nothing about the Middle East, Tilley said. "They know vaguely that Israel-Palestine is a problem, and that Saddam Hussein is a

problem, but they don't know anything about Islam, or the politics of oil, or the colonial legacy that shapes so much of what goes on there," Tilley said. Many professors who are teaching about the Middle East said they have revised the curriculum in light of Sept. 11. Tilley said her class on Middle East politics will examine the underlying issues raised by Osama bin Laden and his terrorist campaign. Keith Watenpaugh, who teaches modern history of the Middle East at Le Moyne, said he expects students too will raise different questions this semester and that Sept. 11 will never be too far from their minds. "Usually the interest is more on the treatment of women," he said. "Now I think there will be more of an interest in political violence." ♦

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Out & About Live Music • The Fairgrounds Arena will be hosting Project Revolution, with Linkin Park, Cypress Hill, Adema, DJ Trip and a live DJ battle contest at 7 p.m. on Feb. 18. Tickets are $29.50. For more information, call 800511-1552.

Theater • Oklahoma's Children's Theater will present And Then They Came for Me: Remembering Anne Frank from March 5 - 15. Show times are Tuesday through Friday at 10:30 a.m. with Saturday and Sunday's show at 2 p.m. 'Tickets are $5 for adults and $4 for children. For more information, call 951-0000.

Special Events • The Civic Center Music Hall will be presenting Jerry Seinfeld from 7 to 11 p.m. on February 27. For

more information, call 297-2264 or 800-364-7111. • The Oklahoma City Zoo and the Botanical Garden are offering free admission every Monday in February. • The Omniplex and the Kirkpatrick Planetarium, 2100 N.E. 52, will present The Search for Life in the Universe narrated by Leonard Nimoy Jan. 12 through May 26. Show times are Tuesday through Thursday at 3 p.m.; Friday at 3, 6, and 8 p.m.; Saturday at noon, 2, 4, 6, and 8 p.m.; and Sunday at 2, 4, 6, and 8 p.m. Admission to the Omniplex is $7.50 for adults, $6 for seniors, $5 for youth and $5 for children. For more information, call 602-6664.

Exhibits • The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua, Norman, is presenting the exhibit Symbols of Faith and Belief: Art of the Native American Church through March 17. Museum

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hours are Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. -5 p.m. and Sunday 1 - 5 p.m. Tickets are $7.60 for adults, $6.80 for seniors and $6 for children ages 3 - 12. For more information, call 325-4712. • The Donna Nigh Gallery, located on the fourth floor of the Nigh University Center, is presenting Practical and Impractical, an exhibition of recent works by Larry Hefner and Jon Ulm Jan. 24 through Feb. 17. For more information, call 974-2432. • The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History in Norman, 1335 Asp, is presenting Exhibition: Birds in Flight, a collection of stop action photographs by Russell Hansen through Aug. 4. Hours are Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 1 - 5 p.m. For more information, call 325-4712. • The Edmond Historical Museum, 431 S. Boulevard, is presenting Unmentionables: Historical Garments Rarely Seen through Feb. 28. Hours are Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday 1 - 4 p.m. For more information, call 340-0078. •

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McAllister from Career Servic6 at 5 p.m. p.m. in Wantland Hall. Deadline to enter is in the Business Building Troy Smith lecture Feb. 8. For more information, call the hall. For more information, call Dr. Parrish International Office at 974-2390. • The UCO Catholic Student Center, 321 at 974-2812. E. Clegern, is holding mass at 7:30 p.m. • The UCO Catholic Student Center, 321 followed by confession at 7:15 p.m. For E. Clegem, is holding the rosary at 12:05 more information, call Carl Erickson at p.m. by Broncho Lake. For more 341-6300. • The UCO Bahai Association, 321 E. information, call Carl Erickson at 341Campbell, is holding morning devotions 6300. • The Art Club is holding a meeting from from 10 to 10:30 a.m. For more 11:30 - 12:30 p.m. in the Art Building, information, call Diba at 557-5420. Room 200. Door prizes and free pizza will be provided. For more information, call • The UCO Catholic Student Center, 321 • Alpha Lambda Delta is holding a Lynn Craigie at 521-0208. E. Clegem, is holding a Sunday supper at 7 meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Nigh p.m. followed by and "X" mystery activity. University Center, Room 116. For more • The Nepal Student Association is For more information, call Carl Erickson at information, call Ann Dee McClane at holding a board meeting at 2 p.m. in the 341-6300. 974-4233. Business Building, Room 203. For more information, call Prakash at 715-2752. • The UCO Catholic Student Center, 321 E. Clegem, is holding the rosary at 12:05 • The Management Club is having a • The International Student Council is p.m. by Broncho Lake and Cafe Scriptura speech day with guest speaker Carroll holding volleyball tournament from 9 to 11 at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call

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Carl Erickson at 341-6300. • The Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship is having a meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Nigh University Center, Room 304. • The College of Arts, Media and Design's School of Music is presenting the UCO Concert Band and Oklahoma City Symphonic Band at 8 p.m. in Mitchell Hall Theatre. Admission is free with a UCO ID. For more information, call the Box Office at 974-3375. •

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BUSY OKC office needs temporary PT help, $8/hr. Please contact Heather at 8424312.

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