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cross campus this week students are filing back into classrooms. Some are talking about their Christmas, some about New Year's. Most just want to know why their vacations are already over. This winter break was shorter than most. From December 17 to January 10, there is a three week break. Last year UCO had four weeks of vacation between semesters. "The idea," said Jerry Legere, assistant vice president of enrollment management, "is to get students out early in the spring so they could get a jump on summer jobs." Legere was the chair on the University Calendar Committee that made the current schedule. The committee consisted of 11 faculty and administrators and student Allison Martin. Many students feel their opinion has been ignored. "After a fall semester with no fall break, I'm a little burnt out. Now they go and cut a week of out Christmas?" said junior Randy Rothwell. Regardless of popular opinion, the schedules are already set. Usually the committee has the schedule decided a year and a half in advance. Martin, the lone student representative, has graduated since helping determine the current schedule. Student Services traditionally elects a student for the committee. "We could just cut the break altogether, spring break too. Then we'll be out of here in mid-April," said UCO sophomore Alison Payne. Another Calendar Committee will meet this spring to discuss future schedules. 40
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Facing the future... As the year 2000 dawns and the sun rises over the UCO campus, our mascot stands steadfast, ready to face whatever challenges this era brings. The Broncho statue is located in front of Hamilton Field House on the north side of the campus.
eginning this semester students are paying a newly structured fee to fund the campus' new Wellness Center. The old facility fee consisted of a $20 flat fee plus $2 per credit hour. The new plan calls for $4.30 per credit hour with no flat fee. The new plan costs less for those taking fewer than nine hours but slightly more for each additional credit after that. According to the new rate, nine credit hours will cost an additional $1.70. Fourteen credit hours will cost an extra $12.20. Taking 18 credit hours will cost students $21.40 more under the new system. This restructuring should generate an extra $67,000 for the project. With the projected opening date of fall 2001, some students are concerned they are paying for something they will never get to use. This is not the first time the university has asked students to prepay for improvements. Students in the early 1990's paid similar fees to fund the Max Chambers Library addition which opened in 1997. "One problem with this sort of project is that people who don't necessarily get to use it are the ones paying for it," said Keith Weber, research assistant to the president.
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WELLNESS Continued from front page Most upperclassmen will have graduated by the projected opening date. Those who remain in the area will still have the
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opportunity to enjoy the new facilities. "Membership will be open to those in the Alumni Association," Weber added. Whether the alumni will have to pay to use the facilities has not yet been decided. Students will have free access. The new Wellness Facility will contain a weight room, a running track, basketball courts, handball courts, locker rooms, food service areas, classroom space, student services, and administrative offices. The new Wellness Center will be located on campus, but an exact location has not yet been decided.
Vol. 101, No. 29 (USPS 661 700) ISSN: 1084-9149 Writer Jamie Walker Editor In Chief Celle Rabalais Managing Ed Trent Dugas Sports Editor J. W, Reagor Copy Editor Robyn Lydick Sports Writer Justin Villines Photographer Landon Salyer Advertising Mgr Carmen Gore Ad Sales Angela Baggs Photographer Chieko Hara Ad Sales Tim Heitzman Photographer Tony Oltmann Writer Jarrod Briley Cartoonist John Luny Webmaster Shauna Hardway Writer Stephanie Eggeling Circulation Shane Pratt Writer Allison Franklin Mike Greer Technical Director Trent Dugas Writer Writer Fachaitte Kinslow -
Dir. of Student Publications „Dr. John DeSanto, APR The Vista is published as a newspaper and public forum by UCO students, semi-weekly during the academic year except exams and holiday periods, and on Thursdays only during the summer term, at the University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N University Dr, Edmond, OK 73034-5209. Telephone: (405) 974-5549. One-year subscription rate $12. Periodicals postage paid at Edmond, Oklahoma 73034-9998. The Vista's Editorial Board meets once a week. Editorials represent the views of the majority of the Editorial Board. Opinion columns, reviews and commentaries represent the views of the writer and not necessarily the views of The Vista Editorial Board, the Department of Journalism, UCO or the Board of Regents of Oklahoma Colleges. Cartoons represent the views of the artist. The Vista is not an official medium expression for the Regents or UCO. "POSTMASTER": Send address changes to The Vista, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, OK 73034. LETTERS The Vista encourages letters to the editor. Letters should address issues and ideas, not personalities. Letters must be typed, double-spaced with a maximum of 150 words, include the author's printed name, major, classification and phone number. Non-students must include title and daytime phone number. Letters are subject to editing for libel, clarity and space, or to eliminate statements of questionable taste. The Vista reserves the right not to publish submitted letters and does not publish anonymous letters. Address letters to: Editor, The Vista, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, OK 73034-5209 or deliver in person to the editor, Communications Bldg, Rm 107. Letters can be sent via e-mail to thevista@hotmail.com . • The Vista is online at http://www.libarts.ucok.edu/journalism/vista.html . This publication is printed by The Edmond Evening Sun, 123 S Broadway, Edmond, OK 73003.
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Dog days... Freddy (right) and Christopher (left), a pair of Bonnie Swansons, tour the campus early Monday morning. Their owner, Dan Swanson, walks them regularly around UCO's grounds.
UCO students can bowl for dollars Profits benefit local children By Jamie Walker
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he giving season is over for most children, yet so many are still in need. Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) of Oklahoma City are seeking the support of UCO students by participating in the organization's largest fundraiser, "Bowl for Kids' Sake" on February 26, 2000. "My goal for UCO is to raise $10,000 through this fund raiser," said Deanne Boston, Big Brothers Big Sisters community relations director. BBBS are in the process of setting up "Party Days" for businesses and organizations involved in Bowl for Kids' Sake. Each Party Day will be designed for a two-hour bowling session to raise money for children unmatched with a Big Brother or Big Sister. The Party Day set for UCO students will involve teams of five members taking flat pledges or cents per pin. Each team must meet the requirement of seven pledges of $5 or a pledge of $35.
Teams may be represented by individuals, organizations, or businesses. "Students only need to get names, addresses and phone numbers of the people pledging. BBBS will bill them after the Party Day, said Boston. Boulevard Bowl in Edmond is reserved for UCO Party Day on February 26, from midnight to 2 a.m. BBBS will pay for two games, free pizza from Mazzio's and free drinks for all who participate. Team captains will receive a free T-shirt and team sponsors will receive a free sweatshirt. Participants who sign up ten sponsors will receive a free Tshirt and those who sign up 25
sponsors will receive a free sweatshirt. Prizes are awarded to all participants meeting the required pledges for each category. For example, $1,000 in paid pledges will receive a 13" color TV, $1,500 in paid pledges will receive a DVD player and $2,500 in paid pledges will receive a trip for two to Las Vegas (hotel and airfare). Prizes will be awarded according to paid pledges received on or before July 1. "All money from Bowl for Kid's Sake will go towards matching children from singleparent homes with positive adult role models in the Oklahoma City metro area," said Boston. "BBBS funded this project 45 years ago in hopes it would not only support the children in need, but also bring the community closer together. As tradition goes, the fundraiser has been a big help to the children in need," said Boston. For more information on organizing a team or donating pledges, contact BBBS at 9438075.
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instructional elements. Morning classes of preservice teachers in the intermediate math methods course teach basic math skills to children from a nearby alternative school while afternoon classes tutor children from the community in an after school program. Since the math lessons are provided to students by students, the services are free of charge. "It's really a win-win for our students and for the Edmond community," Wall said. At the beginning of each semester students from the alternative school and those in the after school program are given a battery of tests to asses their strengths and weaknesses in math. "This way we are able to tailor individual programs to students targeting their needs," said recent UCO graduate Ladine Kunnanz, who was involved with the TIMES program as an undergraduate
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CO students who like to attend parties may get a chance to do so during class this semester. Professors may sign up through UCO's Student Health Center to have a new interactive CD-ROM game presented to their classes. "Alcohol 101," as it is called, allows students to experience the party scene in a controlled, educational environment, said Misha Mowdy, UCO Health Educator. Members of Boosting Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students (BACCHUS) give the presentations, which are aimed to help college students make informed decisions about drinking, Mowdy said. "Alcohol 101" was recently developed by the University of Illinois in partnership with the Century Council, a national, nonprofit organization funded by America's leading distillers that fights alcohol abuse.
According to Mowdy, testing for the program took place in 1997-1998 and involved more than 13,000 students on more than 55 campuses nationwide. In a typical "Alcohol 101" presentation, a BACCHUS presenter controls the program on a computer and the program is projected onto a transparency screen.Then the presenter discusses with the class what information they would like entered into the program. "Name, age, gender, weight, attitude and appetite at the time of drinking are factors that must be considered," Mowdy said. After the information is entered into the program, the "student" the class has created is shown at a virtual party. From the party, this "student" can enter into a variety of rooms and situations. The presenter usually asks the class where they would like to go at the party, Mowdy said. A highlight of the program is the virtual bar, where drinks are selected with varying alcohol contents for the "student" to consume, Mowdy said.
In the course of the presentation, students learn about blood alcohol content (BAC) are how BAC levels change with the number of drinks and time elapsed. The BAC estimator also provides information on the REYOUNIV probable mental and physical Pt" effects of different BAC levels and indicates how long it will take for BAC to return to .00. If the presenter types in additional information, the program shows the class how the same drinking scenario affects different people and how food affects BAC, Mowdy said. "'Alcohol 101' is user friendly, dynamic, creative, non-threatening and fun," said Vicki Gardner, coordinator of the Alcohol and Drug Program at Coastal Carolina University. "It is the most exciting, original instrument for use in alcohol education I have seen in this decade." "Alcohol 101" presentations —Staff photo by Chieko Hara last about an hour, Mowdy said. Misha Mowdy, employee of the Student Health Center, Professors can sign up by 4, demonstrates the Alcohol 101 program. calling 974 2317.
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A BRIEF LOOK AHEAD • Buddhist Learning International Society (BLISS) will hold a general meeting with elections at 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 14 in Liberal Arts Building Room 216. For more information, call Terry Loh at 341-9166.
• International Student Council will meet at 4 p.m. every Monday in the International Student Office. For more information, call the International Student office at 974-2390.
TX Files will meet at 7 p.m. every Thursday in the Education Building, Room 206. VBaptist Collegiate For more information call, Desi Ministry will meet at 7:59 p.m. Simpson at 330-6972. every Thursday in the Baptist Student Union. For more • Buddhist Learning information, call Charles, Janay International Society (BLISS) or Cindy at 341-1232. will hold study groups at 7:30 p.m. every other Tuesday V Baptist Collegiate starting Jan.11 in Liberal Arts Ministry will meet everyday at Building' Room 216. Wayne noon in the Baptist Student Stein will be the guest. For Union. The meeting, titled, more information, call Tomo "Noonday," is student led. For Koizumi at 974-4093. more information, call Charles, Janay or Cindy 341-1232. News items for publication in Around Campus must be • Latter-Day Saints submitted at least one week in Student Association will meet advance. Forms are available in at noon every Monday and The Vista office, Room 107 of Wednesday at the Latter-Day the Communications Building, Saints Institute at 417 N. and should be typed or print. University Drive. A Tuesday Information will not be evening class is offered at 7 accepted over the telephone. p.m. For more information, call Items may run for two weeks Dave Whitney or Connie prior to the event depending on space. Killpack at 359-6688. -
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Online College offers option for distance learners Internet taught classes By Jarrod Briley
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eeking to improve the Oklahoma higher educational system, the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education recently developed the Online College of Oklahoma (OCO). Costing $8.7 million for the next fiscal year, OCO was funded through allocations granted to the Regents by the state Legislature during the 1999 session. OCO will allow students throughout Oklahoma to enroll in about 600 courses and 35 degree programs offered by various Oklahoma colleges and universities. Students can complete classes via video-taped class sessions, the Internet and audio recorded class sessions. . One or all may be available depending on the university, said Laura Callahan, Regents public relations director. Currently, universities throughout Oklahoma offer classes in some electronic form, be it the Internet or taped courses. UCO focuses on, but is not limited to, College of Education courses, said Stacy Meiser, UCO
distance education coordinator. The UCO distance program began several years ago with the introduction of a one-way teacher to student video feed. Students telephoned in any questions they had regarding the material. As convenient as that was, the university later decided to replace the technology with twoway teleconferencing and
recently created a system called ONENET. The new system allows students to request classes through UCO. Long Distance Learning employees then search the UCO system for the desired class on a list of several available courses. Tuition is paid directly to the university offering the electronic
course. However, if a student enrolls in classes at more than one university, billing can become a convoluted People are having process, Callahan said. increased difficulty Regents plan to boil the balancing their work billing down to a single payment plan in the near and family life ... future, she said. Regents developed the idea for OCO about a year ago after realizing that the — Laura Callahan population distribution of Oklahoma was changing. Regents Public Relations No longer is there an Director abundance of young and mobile people willing to live and work in one location and travel to yet another to place-bound," she said. receive their education, Callahan "People are having increased said. difficulty balancing their work The population of Oklahoma and family life and they don't is composed of a gradually necessarily have the time to increasing number of working travel to the nearest college or adults with families who do not • university." want to, and often cannot, travel To monitor the progress of more than a few miles to get an OCO and other electronic education, she said. a A learning programs, the state ,,,rowax.r This presents a problem for ‘k:WAlt,•erel,CA , Legislature created the Virtual those who live outside the ring of Learning Task Force. Oklahoma universities, The task force will "examine concentrated in the central part of issues related to virtual —Staff photo by Chieko Hara the state, Callahan said. universities and on-line "Demographics show that the Students can now take UCO approved Internet classes in the education," according to the population of Oklahoma is comfort of their own home. Regents. , becoming older and increasingly z-
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eginning in mid-January, UCO will offer non-credit courses and continuing education classes to LJC0 faculty, staff, students and senior adults. Starting in their second year of service o students, as well as professional adults and senior citizens, Education for Success las increased numbers of classes and attendance. Serving the currents pring semester, JCO has included professional . levelopment classes, including ntroduction to web design, leadership for successful living, stress at work, creative moblem solving and many others.
"We feel anyone who is looking for certification in a job will find these classes very useful," said Linda Smith, program manager for coordination and development. General Education classes are also available offering classes such as Internet for Beginners, Interior Design and Decoration and Introduction to Feng Shui. Hobbies and recreational classes are available to UCO students and faculty, as well as senior citizens. "All classes are discounted $10 for the UCO family," Smith said. "Senior citizens interested in more than one class may choose to join the O.W.L. Program." The Older-Wiser Learners Program (O.W.L.) is designed for senior citizens 55
years and older. Those joining one or more class are encouraged to take advantage of UCO's discount, which includes enrolling in any three O.W.L. programs and receive the least expensive class free. Education for Success also holds classes involving health and wellness, including massage therapy, aquacise for health and fitness and many more. Practical personal self-defense classes will be offered in mid-February, which all UCO police officers must attend. "Most classes are returning from last semester including Bellydancing.This is one of our cornerstone classes where it continues to hold up and is very wellattended," Smith said. The nursing department will include
free lectures to UCO faculty, staff and students over women's health-hormone replacement, humor and health and holiday preparation for health. Education for Success is looking into extending their children programs. As of this semester, UCO offers one Experiencing Life lab for home-schooled children. This lab meets twice a month. Although classes are taught by UCO faculty, the department is still unknown because students are in search of receiving credit for classes, which these do not. UCO faculty, staff and students are encouraged to get involved in theses courses. Those interested may pick up a schedule in University Center Room 404 or call Linda Smith at 974-2543.n
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The following is a list of events • The Misfits will perform taking place in Edinond and the Jan. 14 at Tower Theater. metro area for the week of Jan. Tickets are $16.50 and are 13-21 available at Choice Music. Doors open at 7 p.m. For more MUSIC: information, call 521-1199. V Oklahoma Community READINGS: Orchestra will • The Book Beat Book perform Shop will hold open poetry Symphonasaurus 3 p.m. on Jan. readings at 7 p.m. every third 16 in Mitchell Hall located on Thursday starting on Jan. 20. the University of Central For more information, call 681Oklahoma's campus in 2394. Edmond. Tickets are $15 and school • Prairie Moons will hold age children will be admitted open mic poetry readings at 8 free with a ticket-holder. p.m. every Thursday in For more information, call Norman. For more information 340-3500. call 321-4438. • Trout Fishing in America will perform in concert at 10:30 a.m. Jan.14 and 7 p.m. Jan.15 at City Arts Center. A songwriting workshop will be held at 10:30 Saturday. For more information, call 9510011. • Keep the Blue Door Alive Benefit will start at 5 p.m. on Jan. 16 at the Blue Door, 2805 N. McKinley Ave. The Red Dirt Rangers, Eric Sarmiento, Joel Melton, the Suburbillies, Mary Reynolds and Bob Childers are scheduled to perform. Tickets are $15 at the door. The show is all ages. For more information, call 5240738. • The Pistol Arrows will perform Jan. 14 at Othello's in Norman. There is no cover. For more information, call 3292353.
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hen I was in the fifth grade, I played for the Ardmore Optimist Club's Bulldogs basketball team. The first night of practice I almost broke my thumb. All I recall of that moment was an out of control bounce pass that ended with two colliding bodies and considerable pain. I did not stop playing. Basketball was my life and there was nothing that would stop that. Christmas of that year was exciting because I woke up to see a basketball goal under the tree. My father promptly attained a custom-made pole, cement, post-hole digger and a level to erect the statue to my budding career. Dad neglected to pour a cement slab so I played basketball with my family in a worn spot in our two-acre yard in Dickson, Okla., near Ardmore. My sister, 5 years old at the time, loved to watch my father and me hoop it up. She would even beg us to let her play, even though 'we knew that it would take all of, her strength to even hit the rim with the ball. She
finally made a basket' and alarmed the entire neighborhood. My mother thought she was hurt the way she burst through the door screaming. I couldn't help but laugh. Dad had the most graceful fade-away-jump shot. With the touch of a gentle summer breeze he would set the ball in motion and arch it into the bottom of the net, Swish! It was music to my ears. The following year he coached our team. I had a career high of eight points. However I did lead the team in rebounds and assists. I guess that was not bad looking back. It still makes me chuckle. I heard it rumored once that parents live their dreams through their children. No matter how old their son or daughter gets they usually want them to succeed where they may have fallen short. My father was an all-around athlete. I would wear his letter jacket and wish that I were as amazing an athlete as he. Dad lettered in football, track, basketball and baseball.
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emptiness and loss when I realize that there are players that graduate from college and close a chapter of their lives that they worked on since they were I live my dreams through the in fifth grade. Sometimes amazing athletes its the end of a well written novel. You are left wanting here at UCO. . more. I live my dreams through the amazing J.W. Reagor athletes here at UCO. I am Sports Editor inspired daily by their drive The Vista and determination. I feel the disappointment, excitement, and heartbreak. I used to cry because I was never the athlete that He never lost his passion for there is no cheering in the press my father wanted me to be. basketball. He passed it on to box. There are times that I feel Now I rejoice because I see my sister. Actually she is a the pain of an injured player. people daily who fit the bill for better athlete than I ever Most of all I feel the me. I get to tell their story. Oz dreamed of being. I was 115 pounds and barely over 5 feet tall my freshman year of high school. That counted me out for football, even though I had dreams of being a wide receiver when I was younger. That also deleted basketball from my agenda, even though I gained inspiration from Spudd Webb. Any man that short with a jump like that must be hiding wings. Now I have the privilege of writing about the game. I stay as involved as the players of the sport. I catch myself yelling when
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Keith Grimwood, left, and Ezra Idlet pose with a guitar painted by artist Beans Barton. The duo will perform this weekend at City Arts Center.
we will find ourselves in airplanes reading books and find word combinations that really excite us and we'll grab the other one and say, 'listen to this, man.'" While the band approaches music with their tongues firmly in cheek, they are serious when it comes to why they do what they do. "The Spice Girls are an event, Ricky Martin is an event, and I don't mean to put them down, because certainly those events with the people who sing the songs you grew up with and perform the dances that are so beautiful and these great high ideals, they're important to have," Idlet said. "At the same time, Keith and I are song writers, we are in love with songs. "Songs are short novels or word pictures of time in a way we feel qualified to express. So songs are our main focus in comparison to the event. It's a little bit more intimate." Intimacy with fans is a strong point with this band. "You come to a Trout show and you are engaged from the stage, by the songs, by the patter between the songs," Idlet said. "After we get off the stage, we are
the duo. Oddly, Idlet was not a Bob Dylan fan. "I never really was a Bob Dylan fan until we opened up for him in Little Rock. I never really got it, really, his voice is whiny, and his lyrics were really deep and full of images. They didn't move me," Idlet said. "That was not the path I traveled, but when we saw him live and got to play for him and then we got to go sit and listen to him, there was a power there. It was just phenomenal and it was most obvious when it was just him and a guitar. It was really easy to see why people were so attracted to what he did. Why his songs were so powerful— just him and his guitar." TFIA also writes children's music, but there is no greasy kid's stuff here. "So often in children's music, cheesey little synthesizer with a drum machine playing cute songs about how to save the world or how to respect yourself or how to tie your shoes or drink milk or brush your teeth. "We're not interested in that, we want to be uplifted and entertained and given a little bit of insight, but I don't want to be taught or preached at." TFIA will perform two concerts. The children's concert will be at 10:30 a.m. Jan. 14. The family show will be at 7 p.m. Jan. 15 at City Arts Center. A workshop about music survival will be held at noon Jan. 15. City Arts Center is located at 3000 Pershing Blvd. on the fairgrounds. For tickets and more information, call 9510011. ,66
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