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THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2003
Saddam has missed 'final chance,' Bush tells Congress Dana Milbank & Mike Allen The Washington Post
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The numbers of students in some College of Liberal Arts classes next fall could fill seats in auditoriums.
Fall classes enlarge by Jim Epperson je@thevistaonline.com The current UCO budget cannot support the growing freshman class and the College of Liberal Arts must increase enrollment to 160 students in six sections, said Pamela Washington, assistant dean of College of Liberal Arts. In the fall 2003 semester four sections of history and two sections of political science will be open to 120 students. Enrollment will expand in increments of 10 until it reaches the limit of 160. Washington said there is not enough money to spend on additional students and a 5 percent increase in enrollment is projected. The College of Liberal Arts is drawing
resources to accommodate a 7 percent increase. Dr. T.H. Baughman, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, said, "We're not eager to do this, but we have to survive. And we have to offer these classes." UCO is still small in relation to Oklahoma State University (OSU) and the University of Oklahoma (OU), Baughman said. It is not uncommon for OU and OSU classes to be four or five times bigger, he said. "Our average class size is going to be smaller than most universities in the country," Baughman said. David Koehn, assistant vice president for Administration of Financial Services, said tuition covers 36.9 percent of students' costs. The other 64 percent comes from state
appropriations and small gifts. The faculty who will teach the larger classes were picked based on lecturing skills and power point usage. They will go through faculty development to learn techniques to deal with large classes. Student mentors will aid professors by taking roll, passing and gathering papers and tutoring small groups, Washington said. General education sections will move into the larger classrooms, such as LA 225 and CB 120, Washington said. English composition classes will increase from 24-26 students. Washington said they will keep English and communication classes small because of writing and speech assign-
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WASHINGTON--President Bush took the nation to the edge of war with Iraq Tuesday night, declaring in his annual State of the Union message that Saddam Hussein had missed his "final chance" by showing contempt for U.N. weapons inspections. The president, addressing a joint session of Congress and a nationwide television audience of tens of millions, stopped short of committing to war. But he provided a long list of allegations of the Iraqi president's efforts to thwart the inspections and left no doubt that he was ready to part ways with allies who want to give inspectors more time. "The course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others," the president said. "Whatever action is required, whenever action is necessary, I will defend the freedon, and security of the American people." Bush devoted nearly half of his hour-long address to other matters, proposing $400 billion for a Medicare prescription drug benefit, $10 billion in new funds to combat AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean, and $6 billion for a "Project BioShield" to develop new vaccines and treatments for bioterror agents. But at a time when many senior White House officials consider war with Iraq all but inevitable, Bush's most anticipated remarks dealt with
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United Nations reports Iraq not fully cooperative by Mark Schlachtenhaufen ms@thevistaonline.corn Editor's note: Information was taken from the UN inspection report and website www. un.org. United Nations weapons inspectors told the Security Council Iraq is not fully cooperating and that serious questions about its alleged disposal of bioweapons remain unanswered. On Jan. 27, through the UN, the world heard for the first time an in-depth third party account of Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Saddam Hussein must now fully cooperate. If his response is not soon and complete the United States
Jonathon Acosta makes his way up the stairs of the Education Building to the Speech and Hearing Clinic on Jan. 29.
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reserves the right to take action. UN Secretary General, Kofi A. Annan, and other leaders said the process should be given more time, up to several months. Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix presented a 60-day report on the progress of the UNmandated inspections designed to disarm Iraq. Blix said Iraq must do more to prove it has no nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. Iraq is cooperating by allowing UN inspections, but the Bush administration says Iraqi scientists with information about President Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction are refusing to be interviewed out of fear of retaliation. Portions of Iraq's 12,000-page
weapons declaration of Dec. 7, 2002 are inconsistent with its declaration of 1991 after the Gulf War, Blix said in his prepared statement. In 1991, Iraq claimed "with little evidence" that it destroyed its entire cache of bioweapons, Blix said. Iraq said it destroyed "a few tons" of the highly toxic nerve agent VX in the summer of 1991. Blix said the UN has information showing Iraq produced more VX than originally declared and an Iraqi document indicates the quality of the nerve agent was better than previously reported. Blix also said the UN believes some of the VX was weaponized. Iraq has not fully accounted for some VX precursor chemicals,
Blix said. In 1996, the UN destroyed large biological weapons facilities, he said. Blix said Iraq is also not cornplying with the UN's request for it to allow aerial surveillance flights to be conducted by American U2 spy planes. Baghdad has agreed only to conditional flights. UN inspectors recently discovered chemical rocket warheads southwest of Baghdad. Iraq claimed they were overlooked, part of 2,000 warheads stored there during the Gulf War, Blix said. "This could be the case. They could also be the tip of a submerged iceberg. The discovery of a few rockets does not resolve, but rather points, to the issue of
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several thousands of chemical rockets that are unaccounted for," Blix said. At another site, inspectors have also found a small quantity of thiodiglycol, a mustard gas precursor, Blix said. Iraq declared it produced 8,500 liters of anthrax, a biological warfare agent, destroyed in the summer of 1991, Blix said. "Iraq has provided little evidence for this production and no convincing evidence for its destruction. There are strong indications that Iraq produced more anthrax than it declared and that at least some of this was retained after the declared destruction date," Blix said.
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UCO rallies to bring Major League Soccer to Edmond by Caroline Duke cd@thevistaonline.corn An exhibition game will be held March 29 to survey the community's interest in hosting a Major League Soccer (MLS) team. If attendance is high at the game, a season ticket campaign will begin, said Vice President of Express Sports Debray Ayala. He said he expects MLS will require an approximate base of 6,000 or more season ticket holders before they choose Edmond. If that base is reached, he said, the outcome looks good. UCO President Roger Webb said talks began last summer about the possibility of bringing an MLS team to Edmond. Several architects and engineering firms have already looked at campus and stadium facilities, President Webb said. Ayala said the university is working in a joint effort with
Express Sports Inc. "If it all works out, the team will play out of Edmond at Wantland Stadium," he said. Charlie Johnson, University News Bureau director, said Wantland Stadium would need to be expanded to accommodate 16,000 people. In addition to expansions, new seating, a new press box, new lighting, and a new surface would be installed. "All the improvements would be the kind of amenities that would be desirable there, like nice restrooms, spacious concession areas, a more attractive entry, and ticket boxes," he said. President Webb said, "Major League Soccer is interested in having a stadium that they would call 'soccer-specific.'" He said MLS does not want a huge multi-purpose stadium, although the stadium would still be used for UCO football.
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Dance students can now apply for a scholarship established by Design Chairman Dr. James Watson in honor of his mother. — Page 3