JULY 30, 1998
THURSDAY
INFODOME
ENROLLMENT
Minority recruitment up 4
Library more friendly 9
MADAM PRESIDENT
REVIEW
Are we ready? 6
Saving Pvt. Ryan 10
MILLENIUM BUG
EMPLOYMENT
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Y2K solution sought 7
Summer job info 11
The Student Voice Since 1903
Parking lot emergency call boxes faulty
Business college receives milliondollar donation
By Kenneth Freeman
By Eric Gates
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ost students walk UCO's parking lots with a certain sense of security. But that security may have been compromised last week. Reporters for The Vista found that call boxes in the parking lot northeast of the Liberal Arts Building had not been working for at least 32 hours. UCO's Department of Public Safety was unaware of any problems. "We run tests on those call boxes weekly and submit a report to the physical maintenance plant," said Ted Jones, assistant chief for the UCO Depaitment of Public Safety. Jones said he believes weekly testing to be adequate because over 75 percent of call boxes on campus are used daily. In addition to call boxes, officers patrol the parking lots to make sure students are safe. "We notify officers at each shift of areas that we know that we are having problems with, and they increase their patrols of those areas," Jones said. Without prior knowledge of a defective call box, patrolling officers are limited to visually spotting a student in trouble or a crime in progress. "We may find one or two (faulty boxes) at most in a month. But that is
oMichael Jordan, $1 millior is just a drop in the bucket But a $1 million donation tc the UCO College of Business is cause for celebration. The UCO College of Busines s should have the university's second endowed chair, thanks to an anonymous $1 million donation. "The endowed chair is a great deal for the university because the whole gift will be used to Hughes further the college," said Nancy Hughes, executive director of the UCO Foundation. Hughes explained that the university will use the money received from the donation to apply for the chair. The university minimum foi establishing an endowed chair $250,000, and according to Hughes. that is how much the College of Business will use. This amount will then be matched by the Oklahoma State
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Thermometer? One UCO construction worker doesn't need any gage to tell him it's hot outside. (Photo by Takeshi Oriyoji)
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UCO graduate named one of 2,000 recipients of Fulbright scholarships By Pat Royka Stan/titer
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heresa Little said she was just lucky. However Dr. Siegfried Heit and Dr. Amy Carrell, UCO's Fulbright counselors, said it takes talent, scholarship and just plain hard work to receive a Fulbright fellowship. Little is one of approximately 2,000 grantees from the United States who will travel abroad during the 1998-99 academic
year. She is one of only 100 to be awarded the fellowship as a teacher's assistant under the Fulbright program. "I'm really excited about all of this," she said. "I've never lived outside Oklahoma. It's the chance of a lifetime." While abroad, Little will receive a $700 monthly stipend, health insurance and travel expenses. Little will depart Oklahoma the end of August, enroute to Nuremberg, Germany. There she
will teach English at the Hansachs Gymnasium, a German high school. She expects to return July 1999. Little graduated from Putnam City North High School in 1992. She spent the next six years at UCO, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in English and German in July 1997. She also completed a bachelor's degree in music at UCO in May 1998. After hearing of the program from another student, Little
decided she should apply. "There's a whole lot of paperwork to be filled out," she said. "I needed and received recommendations from several professors." She expressed a great deal of appreciation to UCO's symphony orchestra conductor, Dr. Ralph Morris, who provided one of her recommendations. Other recommendations came from Carrell and Heit. "I'm thrilled to see one of our students awarded this fellowship.
It's the first time in memorable history," Carrell said. Little also expressed gratitude to Dr. Rudi Nollert, professor of German. "I'm button-popping proud tc have had this exceptional you'll woman as my student," he said. Little currently earns a living as a professional violinist playing at weddings an receptions, and gives piano an violin lessons. Upon her return from Germany, she plans ti attend graduate school.