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Oklahoma college students to face bigger tuition bill

By Stacy Brasher

StallWriter klahoma public college and university tuition rates for the 1999-2000 school year were recently raised 7 to 8 percent by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education.

The new tuition rates for regional universities, like UCO, will increase $3 per credit hour for freshman and sophomore levels, changing the rate to $49 per credit hour.

Upper level courses will now be $50, a $3 increase from previous years.

Oklahoma two-year colleges will increase tuition

rates by undertake minimal top $2 per priority initiatives. credit The tuition increase is part hour, costing $31.50. of the Regents' long-term plan Undergraduate courses at to have Oklahoma students Oklahoma State University pay one-third of their college and the University of costs.

Oklahoma will receive a $4.50 Currently, students pay addition to their lower approximately 26 percent of division courses, and a $5 their college costs. Taxpayers addition to upper level' pay remaining costs. courses.

"Oklahoma students pay This will bring next year's some of the lowest tuition and rates to $61 and $65 per credit fee rates in the nation," hour.

Chancellor Hans Brisch said.

The Regents estimated Oklahoma tuition and fees these increases would rank 41st in the nation at state generate a total of $14.6 comprehensive universities, million to help Oklahoma 44th at regional universities colleges and universities like UCO, and 29th at maintain their current level of Oklahoma's two-year programs and services and colleges.

"We must balance our desire to provide the lowest cost education possible with our essential goal of continuing to provide the best, most competitive education possible," Brisch said.

Before approving the tuition hike, the Regents held two public hearings for

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Noon fire scare empties building

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ccupants of the University Center were startled Tuesday when fire alarms rang throughout the building at around 12:20 p.m.

Capt. Chris Wooldridge of the UCO Department of Public Safety, said no pull boxes had been tampered with.

Everyone was evacuated and the Edmond Fire Department arrived within minutes.

Wooldridge said there was a glitch in the fire system that showed the entire building was on fire.

Wooldridge added that there have been some problems in the past with the fire system, and that Symplex, the company that maintains the fire system, was on campus repairing similar problems in another building.

Adlaide Burdett, director of the University Center, said that Symplex ran a test of the fire system on Friday, June 4, and the company is still working on it.

Although the alarm has sounded about three times since 1998, "when it sounds, it should always be taken seriously," Burdett said. <

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student input, and comments were gathered from mail and e-mail sources. The Regents also conducted a three-month series of campus visits for students to provide opinions on the issue.

The last tuition raise made by the State Regents' was in the fall of 1997.

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StaWriter of the University Commons apaments, Commons still under construction, will be available to prospective residents between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. today.

The tours are a follow-up to information mailed out recently to qualifying students, said Todd Duncan, director of campus residential life.

Part of the fence around the construction site has been removed and balloons will mark the entrance to the apartments, located north of the Max Chambers library on University Drive and Ayers.

A tour conducted last spring offered students a glimpse of the frame work. Today, students will be able to see walls, fixtures and a defined layout of the apartments.

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for the spacious layout, what the apartments will look like," Duncan said.

The 144-unit complex will offer 96 two-bedroom and 48 four-bedrooms apartments, housing a total of 384 students.

Each apartment will be furnished. Bedrooms will have full size beds, dressers and study desks. Living rooms will have sofas, end tables and coffee tables.

Kitchens will be supplied with table and chairs and builtin appliances, including dishwashers and garbage disposals. All units will have washers and dryers, two baths and independent phone lines .

A four-bedroom apartment will cost $1,450 per semester or $362.50 a month. A twobedroom apartment will cost $1,650 per semester, or $417.50 per month. All utilities will be included in the rent, with the exception of cable and

Students will get a good feel for the spacious layout, what the apartments look like.

—Todd Duncan Director of Campus Residential Life telephone.

To qualify for the apartments, students must be a second year student in good standing at UCO and have a minimum of a 2.0 GPA. Qualifying students can still reserve an apartment for the fall 1999 semester by paying an initial deposit equal to one month's rent. The deposit will be returned at the end of the contract.

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Yowell finished the year ormer UCO pitcher Dustin Yowell's wih a record of 11-1, 5-0 in collegiate pitching conference play and an career may be over but the earned run average of 2.88 and 2.12 against conference awards just keep teams. on coming.

Opposing The southpaw teams found it has picked up difficult to hit numerous off of Yowell, awards—The batting only Lone Star .238 against Conference him.

North Division Outfielder Pitcher of the Brian Arrant of Year, and he UCO also was was selected to named to the the South South Central Central Region Region Team Team, and was named to the and was a thirdDustin Yowell team pick on American Baseball Coaches the 1999 GTE Academic AllAssociation/ Rawlings NCAA America College Division Division II All-American Baseball Team.

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He has also proved himself teams to have more than one player on the Academic in the classroom .

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Jodlowski a third team pick, finished the season with a team low 74.5 stroke average.

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"We live far enough out of town that we can't hear the (tornado) sirens, so we were watching the television," Lovell said.

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The loss of electricity and a and smashed through it. warning from a neighbor that the The neighbor Lovell had tried to convince to take shelter survived storm was approaching put a little more urgency in the storm, but her property received much more damage than Lovell's.

Lovell's mind to head to the cellar.

Downed power lines kept the Lovell's trapped in their house for nearly a day.

Bible in hand, Lovell and her husband, Johnny, "We couldn't even get out of the driveway," Lovell said. led their two children into the cellar.

The process of removing debris from their property has been made tougher because After getting her children to safety, Lovell ran to a most of the debris doesn't even belong to them. neighbor's house to plea with her to take shelter with "There were parts of other people's houses in our yard," Lovell said. them in the cellar.

One month after the storm, Lovell counts her blessings.

The neighbor refused, opting to ride the storm out She said that she knows the tornado did not discriminate when it chose its victims. in her home.

She believes she knows why her family weathered the storm as well as they did.

"By the time I left to go back across the yard, the "The only explanation I have is that God has His hand on us." wind was blowing so hard I could hardly walk," Lovell said.

The minute the Lovell's closed the cellar door, baseball-sized hail began falling.

There was a moment of silence when Lovell briefly considered retreating from the cellar.

A cross at the First Baptist Church Then the deadly tornado hit. of Moore was left mangled. The "It sounded like everyone says it does," Lovell church served as Moore's said. command post after the storm.

"Just like a freight train. We could feel it rumbling across our house. You could hear everything getting torn up."

While in the cellar, Lovell tried to concentrate on keeping her children calm.

"My son was crying. He asked me to read something from the Bible," Lovell said.

Rather than read a passage, Lovell began singing gospel songs that her son knew.

Eventually, the 10-year-old began to relax and even began to sing along.

Remarkably, Lovell's house survived the storm, although there was a lot of exterior damage.

Their barns and sheds didn't fare as well. The structures were completely destroyed.

The contents littered the ground for miles.

The tornado brought heavy damage to the areas in its path. It was common to Mr. Lovell's truck was totaled when the largest tree on the property was uprooted see vehicles that had been tossed around like plastic toys.

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n s the May 3 tornado was pping apart his home David Henry, UCO senior, used his body to shield his wife from debris.

Minutes later he died when the deadly tornado hurled a car through his two-story Oklahoma City home.

As the car smashed through the roof, Henry and his wife Sandy lay huddled in a downstairs bathroom.

As the car was hurled through their home, David covered Sandy's body with his own. Sandy was left with only a few minor bruises.

As their home disintegrated around them, Sandy was able to spend her husband's last moments with him.

'It was very precious to me to be able to spend that time with David," Sandy said. "We had the chance to say 'I love you.— Married for 15 years, Sandy said that David was her true soulmate.

"We lived everyday for each other," she said. "There wasn't a day that went by that we didn't feel like we had shared with each other how much we loved each other."

"It was a very respectful relationship. A very loving relationship."

Henry, a senior purchasing and materials management student was to graduate in May 2000.

Henry attended classes at night and worked full-time during the day for Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OG&E).

Associate professor Russell Jones says that Henry was one of UCO's brightest students.

"He was exceptionally smart, exceptionally bright," Jones said.

Henry had enrolled in his final 12 hours just days before he died.

"I think David was destined for something beyond his job level at OG&E when he finished his degree."

"As soon as he got his degree, he was on his way," Jones said.

David will be missed by his family, his co-wrokers and by UCO, Jones said.

"His family lost a lot. His company lost a lot. The community lost a lot. The university lost a lot."

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By Jarrod Briley

ManagingEditor tornado is a relentless, swirling manifestation of Mother Nature's temper.

And on May 3, in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, she threw a hissy.

Two days later, Stephanie Eggeling, editorin-chief of The Vista, spontaneously decided that she and I should travel to Moore.

Spot news, the promise of countless stories just waiting to be told — neither of us could resist the temptation. After a few minutes of preparation — loading film into cameras and stocking up on pens and paper — we were on our way.

The drive to Moore was pleasant. The mood was light — we joked and discussed trivial matters, completely unprepared for the decimation we were about to witness.

As we approached the city limits of Moore, the air grew increasingly stale, and small pieces of wood and insulation could be seen lying alongside the road. It looked as if a child, in a fit of rage, had kicked over her doll house, splintering and scattering its contents.

Unmoved by the tell-tale signs of destruction, we pressed onward. Then we saw it — the nothingness that lie sprawled before us, thousands of homes and businesses reduced to rubble.

Our moods sank. It was not a promising picture.

It was strange to see destruction of such a massive scale, surreal — like watching a movie. Any second, I expected the pictures on the screen to flicker, the lights to come on, and everything to be the way it was before the storm. But the projector never faltered.

It looked like the movie was going to be an epic length feature, like it or not.

We arrived at The First Baptist Church of Moore around 2 p.m., a rock toss from the heart of destruction. Out of necessity, it had evolved from a place of worship, contemplation and prayer into a makeshift sanctuary for the recently dispossessed.

The church and a myriad of volunteer

workers provided hundreds of tornado victims with food, clothing and a shoulder to cry on.

One room of the church had been designated as the "counseling room." People in need of comfort were encouraged to enter and unload their concerns and fears, under the watchful eyes and ears of trained psychologists.

I kept my distance from that room. It wasn't my right to invade private moments of despair. But I couldn't help overhearing the lamentations of one elderly woman.

She was alone. Her husband had died several years earlier, and she had no family.

The tornado obliterated her home, destroying all of her material possessions.

She wept.

She was still crying as she exited the room.

The psychologist pulled the woman close, trying desperately to comfort her, but in vain.

The elderly woman had nothing — no possessions, no family.

She was alone.

Later that day, I walked through a neighborhood that had been annihilated by the tornado.

Many people wandered the streets, dazed looks on their faces, trying to make sense of a senseless event. Others sifted through the rubble that was once their homes, looking for anything that the storm may have spared.

More often than not, they found nothing.

I approached a man as he forced his arms into a mountain of debris. I asked him how he was going to cope with his loss. He answered me with a single word.

"Rebuild."

As the sky grew pale and the last rays of light nestled into the cradle of the horizon, Stephanie and I packed away our gear, loaded ourselves into the car and began the drive home.

In the mirror, illuminated by the faltering light, I watched as the victims of the storm paced the littered streets and stared blankly at what now existed only in memory.

,a the storm, UCO was left .wondering what could be done to help our neighbors that had been devastated by the powerful tornado.

The answer was to use its resources to create a drop-off point where UCO and the surrounding community could donate items to the storm victims.

UCO's effort soon became known as the "Help Center?'

The day following the storm, UCO used a storage room located on the fourth floor of the University Center to begin collecting items.

The generosity of UCO students, faculty and staff, as well as the Edmond community, was so great that it became clear the operation would soon outgrow the small space.

"The response was so overwhelming so quickly that we moved it to the Link," said Lynn Means, director of student activities and the "Help Center" coordinator.

People from all across campus also began donating their time to make the "Help Center" a success.

"We got on the phone and began ralying volunteers," Means said. "PLC (Presidents Leadership Council), the Greek system and the residence halls were the three big areas of students that really helped us out:' UCO's ROTC also played an integral role in the "Help Centers" success.

Because UCO was the only drop off point in Edmond for nearly two days, once the media began publicizing the "Help Center", the number of donations rapidly rose.

"Things began moving so rapidly, we were able to load trucks so quickly that we began taking trucks directly to Channel 4, Channel 5 or Feed The Children," Means said.

Means estimated nearly 150 students volunteered their time and more than 30 trucks were filled with donations.

She said that the fact the tornado victims were simply victims of chance is what compelled people to help.

"The tornado could have happened to any of us. It wasn't the underpriviledged, the physically challenged or the mentally challenged. It wasn't like you could point and say that wouldn't happen to me because I'm not in that situation," Means said.

"It could have happened to any us:'

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$150,000 to buy pianos, equipment for musicians

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he sound of money is literally music to the ears of UCO's music department.

The Board of Regents of Oklahoma Colleges recently approved $150,000 for UCO to purchase music instruments over the next four years.

Dr. Karen Carter, associate professor of music, said all the money will go toward musical instruments and music software.

Carter said that this is the first major purchase of this kind that the music department has made in five years.

She added that the music department also needs more space. She said that office and classroom space is needed.

Among other things, the music department plans to buy drums, saxophones , a timpani, and computer software.

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piano for events like concerts and musicals.

The music department also plans to buy three Boston pianos, drums, a string bassoon, a timpani, various saxophones, computer software and other symphonic and orchestral instruments. <

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The music department has considered using portable buildings to house the overflow.

New band uniforms are also in the works, Carter said.

The music department's first major purchase will be a nine-foot Steinway Grand piano, to be housed in Mitchell Hall Theater.

The department will use the

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JUNE 10, 1999

Twister leavffiligaring spirits

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rsaI walked through the devastation left by the historic tornado that vaged our state May 3, the realities were obvious.

Cars had been violently flung around as if they weighed no more than toothpicks.

Entire apartment complexes were reduced to nothing more than piles of Tree limbs lay naked, the bark cleanly stripped off.

The massive destruction seemed eerily similar to the war-torn images I've seen on TV from places like Beirut and Bosnia.

But, soon my shock gave way to pride.

I felt pride that in the midst of all this devastation I saw no tears. I saw only smiles on the faces of people who were simply glad to be alive.

It is the same pride I've felt while reading books on how the people of this state hung on when their land was nearly blown away during the dust bowl.

It is the same pride I've felt when reading about how Oklahomans refused to give up when the oil boom went bust.

It is the same pride I feel when I remember how Oklahomans came together as a family when Timothy McVeigh shattered our sense of security.

Oklahomans' spirits seem to be tested a lot. But we always come out on top. We are the best at picking ourselves up, dusting ourselves off and marching forward.

I feel pride.

Pride in being an Oklahoman.

Governor Keating says recent Vista column full of tangled rhetoric' Dear Editor, t is difficult to know where to begin to reply to all the misinformation and mistaken concepts in Trent Dugas's April 20 column accusing me of "robbing the poor to pay oil producers." Still, it's important to wade through Mr. Dugas's tangled rhetoric.

First, he wants to know if I will repeal HB 1003, now

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that oil prices are rising. If he had read the bill, he would know it contained an automatic cutoff clause; when oil prices rise above a certain level, the state gross production tax rate returns to its original 7 percent level.

The bill is essentially selfrepealing.

Second, Mr. Dugas makes the classic error of believing that life is a pie of neverchanging size, where

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legislative session. This is Finally, Mr. Dugas, who not about "robbing poor presumably drove to the people."

UCO campus in a car Third, Mr. Dugas wonders powered by gasoline and where the tax cuts are for wrote his column on a everyone else. They're on computer driven by natural the books, thanks to my gas-fueled electricity, thinks insistence last year that we the oil industry is made up cut personal income tax rates of a bunch of fat cats. In -- for the first time in 50 fact, Oklahoma's oil industry years, by the way. I have is primarily made up of lowasked for further income tax â&#x20AC;˘ See LETTERS, cuts this year. I'm sorry he missed that good news.

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Student on fire about smoking on campus am writing in response to Ryan C. Veer's article entitled, "Senior defends nonsmokers' rights, asks for action."

I personally am a non-smoker and I believe Mr. Veers is absolutely right in asking smokers to light up outside 100 feet of any entrance on campus.

Why? Well, first of all, on a daily basis, I am forced to hold my breath every time I enter a building. Authorities, along with smokers, should realize that some individuals are allergic to cigarette smoke. I have asthma,

I would also like to see smoking areas not be allowed within 100 feet of any entrance on campus.

—Melissa R. Griffin

Elementary Ed. Freshman

the trays AWAY from the doors?

0 Heavens- that they make it convenient for non-smokers! Yes, we love walking through thick, musty, clouds of toxic poison on our way to get an education!

Lastly, it is impossible for me to sit leisurely outside a building.

Sometimes while waiting for a class to start, I like to go outside and sit on a bench.

For example, just the other day I was studying outside the music building. I was perfectly fine where I was, when a group of people decided they needed a smoke, forcing me to literally gather my things together and

leave.

As a full-time freshman student here at UCO, I would like to tell Ryan Veers, no you are not alone on this issue. I, along with several students, agree with you.

We are willing to do whatever it takes to resolve this heinous problem. I also would like to see smoking areas not be allowed within 100 feet of any entrance on campus. This is not too much to ask of authorities, and they should take our requests seriously.

—Melissa R. Griffin Elementary Education Freshman

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Traffic comes to a stop for new signs

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our new stop signs were recently installed on Ayers.

UCO placed two near the University Commons apartments, hoping to alleviate any problems arising from the increased number of pedestrians.

The other two stop signs were placed at the intersection of Ayers and Chowning.

The City of Edmond installed them at the University's request.

These stop signs transform what was once a one-way stop, into a three-way stop.

"We've looked at it before, but we felt that with the new apartments and bus routes, it was time for the stop signs," said

Edmond Traffic Planner Tom Minnick.

The City of Edmond, according to Minnick, examined several factors to decide if an intersection, like Chowning and Ayers would warrant such a change.

One such factor was equal amounts of traffic on both streets, he said.

Past city investigations of Chowning revealed that it had the least amount of traffic.

Therefore, Ayers was left open to allow the majority of motorists to flow through he intersection.

But, recent additions to the campus resulted in the City of Edmond reevaluating the intersection. It was decided that the flow of traffic on both Ayers and Chowning had increased, and

a three-way stop was warranted.

The city also investigates the number of accidents at an intersection, and whether or not a stop sign would remedy those accidents.

Minnick said they usually look for at least five accidents a year before a stop sign is warranted.

There have been no accidents at the intersection during 1999, and only one accident in 1998, according to the UCO Department of Public Safety.

Another factor that may warrant a stop sign is poor visibility at an intersection, Minnick said.

"Overall, we simply felt it was in the best interest of safety to install the two new stop signs," Minnick said.

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