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BRIEFS >News The light fixtures are being replaced in buildings across campus with new lights to conserve energy and reduce the glare on computer screens. ✓ Page 4

>Sports UCO volleyball coaches and players host camp for teenage girls. ✓ Page 8

>Features Dr. Law, professor and chair of humanities and philosophy, doubles as William the Conquerer. ✓ Page 3

TODAY IN HISTORY 1936 – The first Oscar Mayer Wienermobile rolled out of General Body Company's factory in Chicago in 1936.

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Stuffwise we are not a lean operation We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case.

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Jimmy Cornelius, Chris Sanbion and Chris Scovill smoke inside Bennigan's Restaurant on July 16.

Businesses have until July 31, unless the Creek County District Court strikes down the anti-smoking legislation.

BY CALEB GERMANY

Staff Writer Many Edmond restaurants have

BY JOANNA WEISER Staff Writer

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non-smoking area" or go non- have been issued. smoking or smoking altogether.

Most Edmond–area restaurants A lawsuit filed by the Oklahoma said they plan to be non-smoking Restaurant Association attempts by July 31. About half of the to block the new rules. A federal individual restaurants have already judge in Tulsa sent the case back banned smoking. to Creek County District Court on A select few facilities may Friday. remain smoking according to the No injunctions that would delay laws. the implementation of the rules See SMOKING, Page 5

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banned smoking since Gov. Frank Keating signed anti-smoking legislation, but the air has yet to clear.

The bill went into effect July 1, and the Health Department gave businesses 30 days to either construct a separate smoking area where "secondhand smoke is incapable of migrating... into a

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Destini Rogers, Miss Black UCO, was named first runner-up in the Miss Black Oklahoma Pageant on June 29.

This year's Miss Black Oklahoma is Moenike Sims of Tulsa.

As First Runner-up, Rogers would have the opportunity to serve as Miss Black Oklahoma if Sims was unable to fulfill her obligations.

With her award, Rogers received a $500 scholarship and a trip to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Conference July 6 –11 in Houston, Texas.

The theme for this year's pageant was "The Spirit of America," said pageant founder Clara Luper.

Pageant contestants had the opportunity to hear several speakers during the competition.

"We expose the young people

to many different successful people (during the pageant)," Luper said.

Luper said there were many applicants vying for the title, but only 17 finalists were invited to Douglas High School for the competition.

A sophoMore dance major, Rogers said that she hopes to start her own dance company after graduation to help young African Americans learn to dance.

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"For the next generation it will be better because they will not have to think about smoking so much."

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Soon non-smokers in Oklahoma will be able to eat in restaurants without worrying about killing themselves slowly because of the whiffs of second-hand smokes coming from the other side of the

do with those few thousand dollars if they were dying of lung cancer years down the road?

As for the smokers who will surely come out in packs to yell about their room. rights to kill themselves slowly in any Of course we are going to hear place they should choose to smoke, restaurant owners complain about the cost perhaps now would be a good time to kick of updating their ventilation system or that nasty habit. losing smokers' business.

If there truly are people out there who Perhaps the restaurateurs should thank are so addicted to cigarettes that they Gov. Keating and the lawmakers for couldn't even eat one meal without keeping them from inhaling more of the lighting up, they should probably take this deadly smoke. After all, what would they chance to see how pathetic they truly are.

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"I work in a restaurant and I "There is new anti-smoking dont' think it is going to be a legislation? I don't smoke." big deal."

—CHRISTINA HORRIGAN

junior psychology major

—SCOTT SMITH sophmore engineering

There is a saying that too much of anything is not a good thing. And in this case, smoking has been proven to cause cancer and deaths, yet millions of people willingly put their lives and their families' and friends' lives in danger.

Think of all the people you've seen in restaurants who have to sit in smoking sections even with their young children in tow.

It is time somebody stood up and told them to stop killing innocent bystanders who do not wish to have black lungs to show for in 30 years.

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Law's medieval conquest links students with past

BY STEPHANIE NEASE

Staff Writer you know my reputation as William the Conqueror?" Dr. Stephen Law, professor and chair of the humanities and philosophy department, asked.

After 29 days of invigorating exploration around Europe, he returned to UCO just in time to teach his summer humanities class, Law said.

He was doing research for the "What to do in Europe" class he teaches each May, but he takes every opportunity to indulge his friendly obsession with his alter ego, William the Conqueror, he said.

For Oklahoma Humanities Council's "History Alive" program, he becomes William, Duke of Normandy (William the Conqueror, King William I of England, William the Bastard to D

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his enemies), he said.

Dressed like a 900-year-old fashion plate, from his helmet to his hand-sewn leather shoes, Law teaches fourth through 12th grade students about William's 11th century exploits.

"The kids love it," he said.

To be "medievally correct," Law handcrafted an authentic period costume. The chain mail armor shirt, called a hauberk, took four months of handwork, he said.

In the spirit of academe, Law sponsors UCO's Medieval Society, an organization dedicated to historical authenticity. Members participate in University of Oklahoma's annual Medieval Fair in full military regalia, he said.

On October 14, 2000, the 934th anniversary of William's conquest of England, a reenactment of the Battle of Hastings took place on the actual rain-soaked - battlefield in England.

Law and six Medieval Society members fought as the "Normani Rubricae" — Normans of the Red Earth — by invitation from the battle organizers, English Heritage.

The battle required completely authentic leather turn shoes, woolen tunics, conical nasal helmets, and fulllength hauberks, Law wrote in a Medieval Society memo.

The event involved about 1,500 participants from all over the world, and was televised throughout Europe, he said.

The "Normani Rubricae" were invited back to England for an encore performance in 2005, he said.

Whenever he's in Europe, Law said he likes to visit places

familiar to William, such as the Normandy region of France, where he was Duke.

He saw William's birthplace in Falaise, and the site of a fortified castle he built in 1060 in Caen, as well as the burial crypts of William and his Queen, Mathilde, also in Caen.

In the town of Bayeux, a 900year-old piece of cloth, a tribute to William, intrigues historians around the world.

The "Bayeux Tapestry," a woolon-linen embroidery pictograph measures 20 inches by 230 feet.

From left to right, it depicts a time-line of events leading to the Norman conquest of England in 1066. Law is involved in academic research on the tapestry, helping identify the landmarks stitched in eight colors of worsted yarn on the coarse linen.

When he visited Bayeux Museum this summer, he had an opportunity to lecture to the tourists on the fine art of interpreting the cartoon-like illustrations, he said.

The tapestry depicts Halley's comet, which "appeared in the sky on the 14th before the calends of May," and continued for a week, according to the AngloSaxon Chronicle, a journal kept from the year 890, until the 12th century.

A poster of a section of the tapestry hangs on Law's office wall, and he has the whole tapestry in a miniature pamphlet, he said.

While in Normandy, Law went to Omaha Beach on June 6, the anniversary of D-Day. He thought about what had happened on that spot where so much blood was shed. The cemetery there has 8,000 graves so no one will forget, he said.

In the foothills of the Pyrenees on the border of Spain and France, he visited Montsegur, a fortress on a high outcropping of rock, where more than 200 people branded as heretics by Pope

Innocent III were burned on a bonfire because they would not renounce their faith, he said.

He watched two busloads of pilgrims from Catalonia, Spain, build a bonfire on that very spot, and quietly observe the 600-year-old tragedy.

"I think it's part of my mission to help people come to terms with the intolerance of the past — the intolerance, the bigotry, the overconfident religiosity. I think spiritually, as individuals, it's important for us to confront what we have done. It's essential that we think about these things."

Law said his goal is to subjectively create in his students a sense of empathy for the past — to help them be able to see things from the perspective of the other guy.

"Like Voltaire said, Tcrasez l'infame!' Smash the infamy.

He wasn't calling for the end of religion, just the 'infamous' part,"- he said. "The part that makes it OK for people to massacre one another in the name of god."

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Buildings brighter because bulbs beam better

BY JOANNA WEISER

"It will help the students work," he said.

The work is part of the university's Performance Contracting Agreement with Johnson Controls, Inc., a company that works on design, manufacturing, installation and service of systems which control energy use.

"The Old fixtures use more energy and put out more heat," Johnson Controls project superintendent Jim Palovik said.

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UCO students will be seeing the buildings on campus in a whole new light as crews work to replace bulbs and fixtures throughout the college.

"I think it has made a big difference," UCO Information Assistant Roy Roland said.

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"The electronic valves use less energy, don't put out any heat and produce more candle power," Palovik said.

The incandescent light bulbs are also being replaced with slimmer, more efficient fluorescent ones, Palovik said.

The lighting retrofit is expected to cost $794,730, Facilities Management Director Bob Nall said. The University has no upfront costs. The money is repaid as energy savings accumulate. With the money the university saves in energy costs, they will be able to pay for the retrofit over the next six years.

"You get more and better lighting for less energy cost," Palovik said.

Palovik said that the retrofit was expected to take four months, but that it may be done sooner.

Two crews of six are working on the project. They have already completed work in Hamilton Field House, Murdaugh West, Administration, Department of Public Safety, the majority of the suites and commons and about 20% of Thatcher Hall, Palovik said.

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Poet Giovanni speaks

BY STEPHANIE NEASE Staff Writer Her name is in the Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History, right after Dizzy Gillespie.

At 59, Nikki Giovanni has survived Jim Crow and lung cancer.

As part of the Black Artists Movement of the 1960s, she gave voice to black America's struggle for racial equity through her poetry.

In a July 11 appearance at UCO, she spoke about receiving the first Rosa Parks Women of Courage 'I'm extremely Award proud to be a earlier this year. black American.

"When you get to be I recommend it my age, you to everyone." win things because they run out of Niki Giovanni poet people to give them to," she said to the packed room.

An English professor, Giovanni's credentials on the web site of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University said otherwise.

Her list of awards received over the past 32 years fills five printed pages. Her list of publications is 13 pages long.

She has Honorary Doctorate Degree Awards from 19 different universities.

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In her first collection, "Black Feeling, Black Talk" published in 1968, Giovanni exercised her unique voice in support of the civil rights movement and the concept of black power.

Although she admits the times were tense and serious and full of anger, she could see the humor.

"The first time I went to Stillwater, I was picketed by the Klan. I was impressed the Klan knew a poem," she said.

"When racists say, 'All y'all can do is sing and dance,' I just say, "Well, look at what we did with 'all that we could do!"'

"I'm extremely proud to be a black American. I recommend it to everyone," Giovanni said.

Before walking away from the microphone, she performed her upbeat poem, "Ego Tripping," one of her most widely-known works.

Giovanni shared the microphone with several black poets who regularly perform in the Oklahoma City area.

Among them, Patrice Wooten, Soul Secure, and Grace appear at 7 p.m. every Tuesday at The Lyricist Lounge, located in the Goldman Room at the Omniplex. Call 2352233 for information David Harris and Jamal Wiggins perform at Deep Deuce Jazz Café, 302 NE 1st, in downtown Oklahoma City. Call 210-0563 for dates and times.

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Businesses have until July 31st to comply with law

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A select few facilities may remain smoking according to the laws.

Bars that allow smoking throughout the facility may Adult Day Care X continue to allow smoking as long as ventilation standards are met,

and restaurants may offer outdoor X 5ingo Halls smoking facilities at least 25 feet 5owling Alleys from the main entrance.

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X Restaurants (50 or less) the next two weeks to see if the Restaurants (50 or more) X new rules will be overturned or not, said assistant manager Pablo X Campuzano.

Youth )6.1 00 rs) X He said the restaurant doesn't plan to keep a smoking section that compiled would adhere to the rules because it Adrienne's on 2nd Street, have outdoor smoking and eating would cost about $5,500 to bring Bellini's in Kickingbird Square, and areas and said they plan to keep up to code.

Taco Cabana on Broadway each them available to guests.

The building was built with separate ventilation for a smoking section, but it would require a door and a seal between a window and the wall to prevent any smoke from flowing into the non-smoking areas.

Campuzano said he doesn't think the ban will hurt business in the long run because it will affect all restaurants.

"Most of our business is nonsmoking," he said. "Smokers usually come out late at night."

John Bavare, general manger of Mackie McNear Steakhouse on 2nd Street, said he expects that more non-smokers will go out to eat when they won't have to deal with smoke wandering into the non-smoking sections.

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Budget cuts has Metro Transit cutting routes and hiking rates

BY MICHAEL LARSON

1990, our bus system hasn't really expanded at all. The city has grown Senior Writer a lot since then, but funding hasn't he streets of Oklahoma City allowed the us to grow with it." are narrow bands of concrete.

Now the bus system faces further Uneven plights of grassy dirt, obstacles as Oklahoma has slashed or shattered pavement in its budget by $528,000, spurning semblance of sidewalks run beside Metro Transit to raise it's $1 fare to them. $1.10 per trip and to discontinue Day and night, the car-less pace, some of its routes. going to work, the grocery store, or Those away from the bus system's the library. In summer heat they primary routes like North 23 Street sweat and in winter cold they must take the city by foot. shiver. Hours of their day are spent In July 2000, 21 year-old Ryan on what would have been, by car, a Kerr's car was stolen and left brief commute. totaled beside Northwest The car-less can request rides Expressway. Because he had no from friends or family or call a taxi theft coverage, the mangled car service, but what many of them now sits in his girlfriend's driveway, cannot do is rely on Oklahoma costing more to repair than it City's limited mass transit system. would cost to replace it.

Larry Hopper, principal planner Since then, Kerr has walked the for Metro Transit, said that aside three blocks from his parents' house from increased services to Edmond to work, and has relied on friends and Quail Springs Mall, "Since and family to get him anywhere

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"The complete and total lack of mass transit around here makes it hard for anybody who loses their car to remain a productive citizen," Kerr said.

"You can't get a nice job even if you have the credentials if you don't have a consistent way to get there. I've been stuck in fast food for just that reason."

Kerr said if Oklahoma City were to build up instead of out, like other cities try and do, transportation wouldn't be a problem.

Corin Marie Troxel moved to Oklahoma City in 1996 and started using the bus system in 1997 after her car was stolen.

Troxel, who lives near Meridian and Northwest 63, said she often has to walk for two-and-a-half hours to or from her job downtown when the buses aren't running.

"If I have to be somewhere on time, I'll leave three hours before hand and do this," she said, jerking her thumb in the hitch-hiking signal, "and get there."

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continued from page 6 She said she's been to four city meetings on public transit in the past. Oklahoma City has already decided what it's going to do with the bus system, so Metro Transit shouldn't bother holding the meetings, Troxel said.

Duane Goodguin has been without a car for three years, and depends on Oklahoma City's bus system to get to work each day. He plans his work schedule around the bus schedule.

He said the buses are comfortable, but unreliable.

Since many of the routes he takes run infrequently and under a limited time frame, he said having consistent work hours at a day job is essential.

When he can't ride the bus – on Sundays when the entire system is closed or in the evenings Goodguin walks two miles home from work.

Goodguin thinks the bus system's meager local funding is its downfall.

"These buses are not funded by the state like the buses in Chicago or Washington D.C. For a city

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trying to bring in the new systems in cities like Portland, millennium, we're certainly not Oregon, and Dallas, Texas as moving with the national trend of models for the similarly-sized Oklahoma City metro. bettering mass transit."

He said that Portland was Oklahoma City's bus service has secured a federal grant that would recently able to add 40,000 jobs to enable them to run the buses later their downtown without adding a through the day, but Hopper said single parking lot because of its they don't have matching regional advanced mass transit. systems.

Highfill said, "They funding. expect us to pay $1.10 Hopper said onefor a service that takes fifth of a penny added "We have a car you nowhere at onto sales tax would inconvenient times." allow Oklahoma culture here. Even He said Oklahomans City's bus system though cars are are paying $1.10 for a significant expansion. quarter's worth of He said for right expensive, a lot of service and contrasted now, the priority is Metro Transit with compensating for the people have come Dallas' DART train budget cut, which the to value that kind system, where he said bus service is pulling of convenie nee." $1 can get a passenger from grants. to any serviced area, Aaron Highfill is and $2 can get them president of —Gary Hopper an all-day rail pass.

Oklahoma City Area Metro Transit Though Metro Transit Rapid Transit (OCART), a two-year-old non- lost 8 percent of its subsidization profit organization which lobbies from the city, it was able to offset for public transportation interests. some of its losses with federal Highfill said Oklahoma City grants.

This year their projected budget spends less per-capita on mass transit than any other major city jumped from $17 million to nearly $18 million. in America.

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accountant for Metro Transit said a larger budget was needed for increased fuel prices, new parts, and to cover the rising cost of medical insurance for its 196 employees.

Hopper said Oklahoma's bus system faces no great political enemies and riles behind no champions of its cause, but instead faces an overwhelming public apathy.

"We have a car culture here," said Hopper. "Even though cars are expensive, a lot of people have come to value that kind of convenience."

He said one flaw of Oklahoma City's bus system is it only aims to serve the transit-dependant – people without cars or those unable to drive because of disabilities.

He said transit should be effective enough to attract what he called "choice-riders," or those who park their cars or walk to bus stops in order to avoid traffic or save gas.

Directors of Metro Transit are trying to accommodate the suburbs with a van service called Metro Link. Instead of running in set routes, commuters can call

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Metro Link and request to be picked up at a certain time and taken to a certain place.

Highfill said the Metrolink program shouldn't be considered mass transit since it is more of a "subsidized taxi-service."

Goodguin said the limited number of buses running routes is a source of anguish for him, and that most of the routes he takes only have buses once an hour.

"There's no such thing as being to work five minutes early," he said. "With these buses, you're either 30 minutes early or 30 minutes late."

Living in Oklahoma City without a car has proven more than just inconvenient for getting to work – for many, activites automobile owners may take for granted such as shopping or watching sports events may be difficult to do without a car.

Goodguin said, "The buses don't run at night, so it definitely cuts into your social life."

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SPORTS Youth volleyball camp going on 12th year at UCO ..44.NA4g

BY KELLEY CHAMBERS

Sports Writer

Roughly 50 middle school girls armed with kneepads and volleyballs have dug in at the Hamilton Field House gym and they're not giving it back, at least for a few days.

The girls are participating in a three-day summer volleyball camp hosted by UCO and held on campus.

Upon completion they will relinquish the gym to their high school counterparts for their own three days of instruction.

Coach David Herrin launched the camp after coming to UCO nearly 13 years ago. This is the 12th year for the camp.

The purpose of camp has been to help youngsters foster their skills in volleyball.

And as proof that the camp has been effective, Herrin said that several campers eventually came to play for him as college players at UCO. The camp is divided into two sessions by age and grade. Monday through Wednesday are reserved for middle school and Thursday through Saturday for high school participants.

Herrin said that the girls are given a solid base and taught

fundamentals though he stressed that it is not a beginner camp.

"All of them will be playing or trying out this fall at school," Herrin said.

From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each of the three days, players run through drills and practice their serves under the watchful eye of Herrin and his assistants.

The girls are congratulated on good serves and likewise kindly briefed on improving not so good serves.

Herrin is aided in his endeavor by a staff of aptly qualified assistants.

On all sides shouting positive reinforcements are assistant coaches Bill Hamiter and Randy Decker, former Edmond Memorial volleyball coach.

Also helping out is UCO star Tori Walker, and Emily Herrin, the coach's daughter who is a high school player.

Samantha Ball, 12, who will be entering seventh grade at Central Middle school this fall, has bounced back for her second summer at camp.

She began playing when she was nine.

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"They teach a lot. They're helpful," she said.

13-year-old Jenna Smith shared her friends sentiment when asked what she liked best.

"The coaches," she said.

"No doubt I'll come away a better player. They've taught us so many things."

Smith first began playing volleyball last year in the seventh grade at Cimarron Middle School.

This was her first summer at camp.

Both girls enthusiastically said that they planned to return next summer.

"If you want to be a better player, come here," Ball said before running back to join her group for a serving contest.

Herrin's response to the accolades and confidence for he and his staff as expressed by the girls was "awesome."

"We just try to have a mix of fun with some information they can take when they start PHOTO BY TINA FOWBLE their seasons," Herrin said.

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STRANGE STORIES Fireball out of nowhere in OK a large missile-type object with large flames flying across the sky," HENRYETTA, Okla. (AP) — Okmulgee County Undersheriff Police said Tuesday they still don't Eddy Rice said.

Authorities said they have no know what to make of more than 20 reports of a mysterious fireball in clue where the object landed.

"There is nowhere to even start," the sky.

Henryetta Police Chief Audie Rice said. "Usually people are pretty Cole said his officers have good about calling if they see exhausted their investigation into smoke, and we haven't had anyone the object, which streaked through call to report that."

The chief said the projectile the sky for about 10 to 15 seconds likely was flying 10 miles south of Saturday night.

Two minutes later, residents felt Henryetta. the tremors of an explosion.

"From what they tell me, it was a No G in Jury for Miami man pretty good boom," the chief said.

"The officers have done MIAMI (AP) — A man who everything they could do." won a new trial on federal gun Officers checked on planes at the airport and Tinker Air Force charges because his original jury had too many people whose last Base.

They even looked into whether names began with the letter "G" there had been a major truck has been acquitted.

Federal jury pools in Miami are accident on Interstate 40 that selected by dividing potential jurors threw something into the air.

There was no such accident and alphabetically by the first letter of none of the ideas got them any their last name and then selecting letters randomly. Anyone drawing a answers, Cole said.

"G" would have a large number of About 20 people called police Hispanic jurists.

Saturday night to report the flying Roderick B. Carter's attorney, object, which some said had a David 0. Markus, argued that his flaming blue tail.

"When we first saw it we client was denied a fair trial because thought it was a missile," said the jury pool was full of names such as Garcia, Gomez, Gonzalez and Henryetta resident Shirley Brown.

"It had a blue flame and a red Gutierrez, and did not offer a fair flame coming out of the back. It cross-sample of the community.

There were 21 people whose last was like a comet, but it was metal." names began with the letter "G" in Other residents called the the 38-member jury pool for Okmulgee County Sheriffs Office.

"Six people called with reports of Carter's first trial.

Of the 21, 14 were of Hispanic origin. The original 12-person jury seated had seven "G"-surnamed Hispanic members.

U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan granted Carter a new trial in May. A jury composed of six blacks, two whites and four Hispanics acquitted Carter this week in his second trial.

The 24-year-old had been charged with possession of a handgun by a convicted felon.

Dublin's picture from a set of photos shown to her by police.

Police filed a criminal complaint in Milford District Court on Wednesday accusing Dublin of lewd and lascivious conduct and assault and battery.

A hearing is scheduled for July 31 to determine whether the case should go forward.

replica was unbolted from the billboard and lowered to the ground.

"The little bandits were very innovative," said Gina Francis, a spokeswoman for the fast-food chain.

Francis said they left tread marks on the ground below the billboard, suggesting a truck was waiting.

"They weren't covering their hooves," she said.

Chick-Fil-A Cow gone missing The company has filed a police report with the Douglas County DENVER (AP) _ Call it urban Sheriffs Office. "It was hard to get a cattle rustling. straight face," Francis said.

A 150-pound fiberglass cow has Foot-licking man at it again Chick-Fil-A is also offering free been stolen from a Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwiches for a year for BOSTON (AP) — A Rhode billboard in Denver. information leading to the safe Island man convicted of licking the The cow, one of the company's return of the cow. The reward could feet of three female shoppers is mascots urging customers to "Eat be altered if a vegetarian assists in facing a fourth charge in Mor Chikin," was apparently taken solving the crime, Francis said.

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by Danny Peters

BY DANNY PETERS

Columnist I don't really have any pressing issues to spew off about this week. So I'm just going to write a hodgepodge of stuff. This is more of a ramble than a rant.

I'm graduating in December even though my last class is August 16. That means I'll have finished 124 credit hours in 3-3 1/2 years depending on how you look at it. The secret: intercession classes, weekend classes, summer school, and correspondence. If I knew then what I know now, I could have easily gotten a degree in less than 3 years. And that is without taking more than 15 hours per semester.

So now I'm going to graduate, find a real job (so they tell me) and pay off my $20,000 in student loans. It should be fun.

A semester or two after graduation I'll most likely start taking classes for my master's degree.

I was originally a Social Studies Ed. major. Then I read the Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson. I decided to take a couple of journalism classes to see what was up. I'd always been interested in writing anyway. I liked my journalism classes and hated my 3rd history class so I made the switch in majors. Plus, with journalism, I'd be able to graduate two semesters earlier.

I obviously am not after money; teaching and journalism being my careers of choice. The money careers always seemed too sleazy to me. The medical profession saves lives but burdens people with lifetime debt so that the doctors and pharmaceutical companies can become extremely wealthy. The whole idea behind the business profession is to get rich by ripping-off the other guy and your employees.

Being a teacher was the only thing I could ever think of that I would enjoy and make a decent

living at. I'll still probably teach eventually.

Since I'm almost done with my classes (one more month! ), I have a bad case of senioritis. I don't want to go to class. So oftentimes I don't. I'm having trouble at work (since I work at school). I feel like I'm not doing all I should be doing. I don't mean to be a slacker. I'm just in a bit of a funk. And on top of all this, I feel like everyone's out to get me.

Wait. No, that last part is just a part of my paranoia. I'm a very paranoidperson. I always think people don't like me or are mad at me. Sometimes I'm right. But usually I'm just being paranoid.

I've recently developed some sort of email fetish. I check my email at least ten times a day.

I'm not sure why. I don't even get very many emails. I have been getting a lot of links to see Britney naked or J. Lo in an orgy.

Email me for the links.

All I want to do is get in my car and drive away. I could use a good two weeks of solitude. If it weren't for things like class, job and money, I'd leave right now.

All I do lately is play chess. I can't help it. I play chess, I study chess, I read about chess, I work through chess problems.

It's odd that in this country most people think chess is for smart people and nerds. Most other countries don't have that attitude.

It says a lot about this country that physical games are respected and mental games are not.

Whatever.

Well, I'm sorry that I didn't have anything stimulating to write this time. It just wasn't happening. Next week's column will be my last. I'll do what I can to pull out something that people can get mad about.

I'll go ahead and write some of my less common views.

I think churches should be taxed. They are a business. Do you think that money really goes to God? If so, then we should tax God. I think schools should not be funded by local property taxes.

This just keeps the rich educated and the poor uneducated.

The idea of putting the Ten Commandments in schools and state buildings makes me want to puke. The fools who spout this crap need to learn about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

How's that?

Have a nice day.

18, 2002

Campus Events Thursday • UCO Jazz Lab will present Smilin' Vic & the Soul Monkeys at 8 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Cover charge is $5. For more information, call 359-7989.

• UCO Jazz Lab will feature Chris Hicks at 8 p.m.

Doors open at 6 p.m. Cover charge is $5. For more information, call 359-7989.

Saturday

• StrawHat Music Theatre will present Swinging on • UCO Jazz Lab will present The Groove a Star, a lyrical Tribute to American Life from the Merchants at 8 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Cover 1920's through the 1950's. Shows run through July 27 at 7 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays at Mitchell Hall Theatre. Tickets are $11 for adults, $5 for anyone under 21 and $8 for senior citizens. For more information, call 974-3375.

Friday

Live Music • Edmond Parks & Recreation will sponsor Concerts in the Park from 7:15 to 8:30 p.m. through the summer. On July 18 Souled Out will present favorite songs of the past 40 years. All concerts are held at Hafer Park. For more information, call 359-4630.

• The Zoo Amphitheater will be hosting The Hollyweird World Tour featuring Poison, Cinderella and Faster Pussycat August 4. For more information, call 800-511-1552.

Special Events • The Omniplex and the Kirkpatrick Planetarium will present IMages of the Infinite: Hubble Space Telescope. For show times and ticket information, call 602-3761.

• The Sky's the Limit Ranch Inc. will be the beneficiary of this years Monty Roberts' Join Up demonstration. The demonstration will take place at 7:30 p.m. August 20 at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds show arena. For tickets or information, call 317-1639 or 1-888-826-6689.

• The Omniplex will host Caring for Family Treasures-Photos, Paper and Books. The seminar will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. July 27.

The seminar is free with a paid Omniplex admission. For more information, call 602-6664.

Theater • Synchronicity Theatre Company and Freede Little Theatre will be presenting Born Yesterday from July 12 to 27 at Civic Center Music Hall. For ticket information and show times, call 297-2264 or

charge is $5. For more information, call 359-7989.

Tuesday • Campus CoDA will be holding their weekly meeting at 12:10 p.m. The meeting will take place at the Wesley Foundation, 311 E. Hurd in Edmond. For more information, call Ruby at 341-3113.

logon to www.okcciviccenter.org .

• Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park's 2002 season continues with All's Well That Ends Well, which runs until Aug 4. Call 340-1222 for show times.

• The Dinner- and Murder Mystery Theater will present "Solve your own murder mystery" with five-course meal at 6 or 7 p.m. daily at 1841 N.W. 15th. For ticket information, e-mail dinnerandmystery@aol.com or call 524-7676.

• Lyric Theatre will present Grease from July 23 to 27 at the Civic Center. For tickets and show times, call 524-9312.

Exhibits • The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History in Norman, 1335 Asp, is presenting Exhibition: Birds in Flight, a collection of stopaction photographs by Russell Hansen, through August 4. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. on Sundays. For more information, call 325-4712.

• The City Arts Center is featuring HANDS ON: Pop Art, an exhibit for kids and kids at heart. It will run through August 10. For more information, call 951-0000.

• Daily life through art is the focus of de Shan and Emerging Artists, which will be displayed in the Kirkpatrick Galleries at Omniplex July 13 through Aug. 18. For more information, call 602-6664 or logon to www.omniplex.org.

• Students from the Respect Diversity Foundation will showcase their talents in the Respect Diversity Symbol Exhibit. The exhibit will continue until Aug. 2 in the Young Artists' Gallery at Omniplex.

For more information, call 602-6664 or logon to www.omniplex.org .

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POLICE BRIEFS Found Property June 18, 4:10 a.m.

A black leather checkbook was found in Howell Hall Room 221.

Larceny

to report a domestic incident.

June 26, 11:19 p. m.

July 3, 1:55 p.m.

A student reported harassment by Student-reported his wallet was July 8, 3:41 p.m. an unknown person who tacked stolen while attending class in the Officers went to General items to his door in Murdaugh Liberal Arts Building.

Education Building to take a Hall. report of a domestic incident.

Minor Accident

June 20, 1:46 p.m.

A Library employee reported money stolen from her unattended purse.

A hit-and-run automobile accident was reported in lot S/9.

A blue Nissan was damaged.

June 21, 11:56 a.m.

5 ZIP disks and 3 African statues were stolen out of an office in Nigh University Center.

Domestic July 7, 5:34 p.m.

A guest of a Commons Apartments resident came to DPS

Lost Property

Harassment

June 24, 3:38 p.m.

June 20, 1:18 p.m.

A Student reported that another student was harassing her.

June 25, 1:50 p.m.

A faculty member reported receiving a harassing e-mail from an unknown person.

impounded from a UCO parking lot.

June 20, 1:06 a.m.

An abandoned Mazda 626 was impounded and removed from the campus.

Burglary

June 24, 8:26 a.m.

A student lost a UCO Nextel cell phone.

Impound June 19, 1:49 a.m.

An abandoned Jeep Cherokee with an expired tag was

June 24, 4:14 p.m.

DPS officers investigated a person removing ceiling tiles to gain access to a locked room on the 1st floor of Nigh University Center.

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PART TIME work available in oil and gas office. Duties

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"When I moved here I used to bank at a bank that lacked in customer service. So I walked over to Citizens Bank and I've been with them ever since." Says Jim Watson, Professor of Design at UCO. "They treat you right like you're important to them. I appreciate their customer service."

Left to right: Bob Palmer,Professor of Art, Chair Department of Art at UCO; Sherry Poulson, Assistant Vice President and Manager at Citizens Bank UCO Branch; Jim Watson, Professor of Design, Chair Department of Design at UCO.

"Citizens Bank has great people. Their people greet you personally. I think that many banks have lost sight of customer service." Watson says. "Having the branch at UCO is so convenient, I'm in the building every day."

"I met my wife at Citizens Bank 29 years ago and we have banked at Citizens Bank for a long time." Says Bob Palmer, Professor of Art at UCO. "It was love at first transaction." Bob laughs.

"We have banked with other banks, but Citizens would always work with me. They go the extra mile for their customers. Their convenient and friendly service is what I value most. I appreciate the way the employees treat you like friends." Says Palmer.

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