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`Happy-faced angel' Friends remember Jill Temple's enthusiasm, positive outlook on life By Sandi Craig
SlaffWriter sea of bright, yellow happy faces decorated the dorm room of Jill Temple and symbolized who she was, according to friends of the UCO sophomore, who majored in special education. Temple, 20, died June 10 at Baptist Medical Center, the day after her 20th birthday, due to complications from an infection following surgery May 22 for a brain tumor. Temple was diagnosed with the tumor earlier this year, according to friends. "She just wanted to make it to her 20th
birthday," said Jamey Keffer, "She was also a very a senior theatre arts major. active member of the "We discussed it the other Resident Hall Association day and we think that it was and worked as my such a Jill thing for her to assistant for about a make it to her 20th birthday. month," said Stephanie That's our Jill—that if she Buzzard, administrative was going to die, she was assistant at Auxiliary going to turn 20 first," said Enterprises. Alicia Henthorne, a freshman "Jill spent a lot of time vocal music education major. helping out with her Temple was a residential younger brother's assistant (RA) in West Hall elementary class," said during the 1997 fall semester Buzzard, whose daughter Jill Temple and part of the 1998 spring was in the same class. semester. However, she had to resign "It's real sad when you lose a person, because of her illness. because she did so much for so many
people," Buzzard said. Henthorne said Temple was involved in everything and she was all about making this campus better—especially the dorms. She was a real big supporter of the dorms." All the RAs agreed that she had the most school spirit. "Everyone in West Hall, if they did not know Jill, they knew of Jill. She was the most visible and most involved," Keffer said. "I was an RA at the same time and wt. were sort of a team—we worked together and planned things together," Keffer said "She had the most energy of anyone I
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Enrollment numbers continue downward trend at UCO Rising economic problems in Asia have caused a decrease in international student enrollment this summer, said Dr. Ronald Paddack, director of the International Office at UCO. Enrollment is down from 1,052 last summer to 951 students this year. "This decrease is largely attributed to the economic crisis in Asia," Paddack said. "The countries most affected by this turmoil, like Malaysia and Thailand, are our best feeder countries," he said. According to UCO enrollment statistics, other nations like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal have seen only minor changes in enrollment figures. "I don't believe the Indian subcontinent will play a major role in the overall change of our statistics, even with tensions due to their recent nuclear activities," Paddack said. The graduation of a large number of international students
Eastern Europe and some from the Middle East. A majority of the international students at UCO originate from Taiwan, which has a total of 262 students this summer. "You've got to remember that our figures of enrollment are very close to OU's, even with the absence of certain programs like engineering or medicine, and absolutely no recruitment budget," Paddack said. "This can be attributed to the successful recruitment efforts of the International Office," he said. According to Paddack, the university is optimistic about Fall 1998, since there has been a significant increase in applications from new European countries. "We will continue to be eager for the economic crisis in Asia to be resolved as we have enjoyed such wonderful students from the affected countries," he said. '4(
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Paddack this spring, and students working full-time in the summer has contributed to the overall decline, Paddack said. "It is going to take some two to three years before the Asian problems are resolved so that we can see increases in students from those countries. However, last semester we had students from 90 countries," Paddack said. In recent semesters, there has been an influx of students from
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One day she told me with her glowing eyes that ill Temple, a sophomore UCO student, died on the morning of June 10. Her death was a after having the surgery she would regain her shock to everyone who knew her. I have normal physique and would be able to do the stuff known Jill for one year. She and I worked together that she had always wanted to do. At that time, I at West Hall. She was a person who made people realized how precious she was. But her dream never came true. happy to feel alive. After having a successful surgery, she had I called her "Jumping complications that led her to eternal life. Jack" because she never She is the second friend I have lost sat still for a minute. in the past two months. Another People called her "Happy UCO student, Faraz, from Face" because she loved Pakistan died in April 1998 happy faces. Her room [Jill Temple] was an because of brain hemorrhage. was full of happy face inspiration for all Although I didn't know him products, from pillow personally, Jill reminded me of his cases to the telephone set. of us death. Although the happy face I do remember the day when I was designed to cheer told her about Faraz's death. She people after the Vietnam —Syed Abdullah looked into my eyes and said, War, personally, Jill was "Are you trying to scare me? Just the true happy face. It was Spring 1998 when she broke the news forget it, I'll be fine." She was an inspiration for all of us because of that she had a brain tumor which was affecting her physical growth. Although it sounded like bad her courage, faith and ability to show people how news, she was confident about her surgery. She to live a short life with endless memories. We will miss you, Jill, the happy face. May God resigned her position as a resident assistant at West rest her soul in peace. Hall so she could have more time and energy for the major surgery. She wanted to have that surgery as soon as possible because she .wanted her life —Syed Abdullah back. UCO student
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Jill Temple (front) with some of her West Hall friends: (from left) Missy Young, Annie Workman, Jamey Keffer, Anita Thomas, Brandi Fennell. (Photo provided) know—just always really peppy and always willing to do anything," Keifer said. Temple made an impact on the lives of her friends. "I was in a one-act play and Jill had a dance to go to that night," Keifer said. "It's hard to get anyone to attend those. I was extremely and'I told her to wish me luck. I came off the stage and was shocked to see her standing there in a formal black dress. She had left her dance to come and see me perform. She made me feel important—she made me feel loved." In return, everybody loved Jill and she gave it all right back, Henthorne said. "Jill had a ferocious love of life," said Keffer. "She wanted to go to Frontier City and ride the roller coaster before her surgery and her mother was terrified that any jarring motion, turn or shift would cause problems," Keffer said. "Jill said, 'Mom, what do you think can happen—it's been 20 years and it's not going anywhere,"' Keffer said. "I think that's how she kind of dealt with it—she kind of joked around," Keffer said. "Before she went in for her surgery, she made me promise her that Cooper Ames, our campus minister at Wesley, would say her funeral. "She would say 'If I die' and I would say `Jill, you're not going to die.' But if I do, just in case, I want a yellow casket and promise me Cooper will say my funeral.
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Will there be boo-hooing?' She didn't want it to be sad," Henthorne said. "Jill taught me a lot about persevering with a good attitude and she always encouraged me— no matter what," Henthorne said. "Jill's death is most definitely a huge, huge tragedy, but her life and her coming into our lives was the best joy—the best Thing that anybody could experience and I think that if we carry Jill on and continue her attitude and continue her happiness and wear our happy faces, then she will smile down on us," Henthorne said. She was like our little happy face angel that came into our lives and she spread cheer wherever she went, Henthorne said. Henthome said she sang "This Day" at her friend's funeral. "It's a song that tells about how you basically like to live your life as if it were your last day—`This day let us share love, let us share God before this day is gone,' and I think it just totally represents Jill," Henthorne said. During the funeral, as family and friends sang along with the band as they played the Beatles' song "I Want to Hold Your Hand," bright yellow happy face balloons floated inside the chapel. Happy face stickers lavishly decorated the white casket that held her petite five-foot body. Even though she collected many things in her life, her collection of friends was the largest, because she managed to collect friends wherever she went. -4(
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your fellow students seem a little more crabby or disheveled lately, don't be surprised. Many of them 21aim they don't want to be in :lasses during this summer term, and a large number of them say they feel overwhelmed, according to a poll conducted by The Vista this week. Blame it on the first day of classes—which began at 8 a.m. curie 8, with hailstorms and ended with a tornado warning. Or chalk it up to an advanced ease of late-spring fever. Whatever the reason, many students don't seem eager to participate in the educational process. Of 150 students polled this week, only 20 said they were excited about returning to classes. Many of the rest said they wished they were anywhere other than school. "Believe me, if I didn't have to be here, I wouldn't be," said Jim Parks, senior. "I'm making up a class I messed up in last semester, so I can graduate. So I guess it's my fault I'm here. But I sure wish I wasn't." Parks said he had attended f
summer classes in the past because he wanted to "be on track" with his degree. Yet, he said he feels this summer session is different than the others— especially in the area of student courtesy. "Usually summers are fun. But a lot of (other students) this time don't seem to want to even talk to anyone. They've been kind of grouchy this week," he said. If students are as unagreeable as Parks claims, it may be due to workload. Several students, such as Jan Rutledge, junior, claimed they simply didn't have the time to do all the assignments instructors are requesting this summer. Some said they were surprised at the workload because they had mistakenly believed that instructors make classes more relaxed during summer sessions. Others said they weren't surprised at the work, but still feared the multiple assignments would be too large of a challenge. Danna Pittman, senior, said she was feeling tired and overwhelmed. She said she is attending three courses, and arrives at UCO at 7 a.m. for an 8:10 a.m. chemistry class and lab.
"It's really way too early for science," she said. "I'm taking three classes and they all have a lot of work. School's going to be hard but I'll manage." Yet Pittman wasn't alone in admitting she felt stressed and sleepy this term. Other students, such as Jason Barry, junior, said he felt unhappy about going to summer school, but mostly because it conflicts with his rest and work schedules. "When you work 40 hours a week and go to school 15 hours per week, it gets to be a pain," said Barry, an Oklahoma City bartender. "I get home after 2 a.m. so when you're getting up in the morning to go to school, that's pretty early." Still other students said they were not happy to be in school for a different reason: they're not sure how to dress for class. Kim Chancellor, senior, said what was making her unhappy about returning to school is that the Liberal Arts Building classroom she sits in from 8:10 to 10:20 a.m. is too cold. She and other students from the class have resorted to bringing light jackets and layering their clothing to help them make it through the early-morning class.
Dr. Sandra Jennings, associate professor of management, lectures her "Fundamentals of Management" class outside the Business College Tuesday. (Photo by Jim Hulsey)
"It's blazing hot outside and the classes are freezing cold," Chancellor said. "It makes it too hard to concentrate." Some students, such as David Jackson, sophomore, said they loved going to school in the summer because the classes are more concentrated and end quickly. "Six credits for one month. How can you beat it?". Jackson, said. Across campus, professors claim there are many more enthusiastic ones like Jackson. Dr. Kurt Hochenauer, assistant professor of English, said the students in each of his three classes seem very pleased.
"They all seem eager to return to class. I mean that," he said. "I always find students who take class in summer tend to be the more overachieving type who like to study. And I love teaching in the summer because of it." Hochenauer is teaching three classes including an English survey and freshman composition classes, with 25 students in each. Dr. Mary Monfort, curriculum and instruction professor, said her students seem similarly enthused, though her classes are comparatively small. She is teaching one class this month with about 10 students.
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Lilith Fair Summer tour of all-female artists is traveling anti-family rally, says columnist
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omorrow, June 19, marks the beginning of something called Lilith Fair. The thing is billed as a music tour, with all female bands traveling from city to city to empower women. But what is it really? What is it compared to other cultural events? What about those companies sponsoring the tour, and the charities reaping the benefits of donations given by those involved in the tour? Some would say the tour is nothing but a crusade of bitter, loveless women and lesbians. It's not. It's worse than that. Look at the name of the event—Lilith Fair. The persona of Lilith, in every ancient document referring to her, is an evil creature whose reputation gets worse as the centuries pass. She is very often refen-ed to as a demon. Her favorite pastime seems to be stealing or killing newborn babies. Could it be, as I've said before, that modern feminists see the right to murder babies through abortion as their greatest triumph, thus giving them the desire to associate themselves
Adam's first wife until with the character of Lilith? Lilith is also portrayed as a somewhere between the eighth vampire or succubus—a female and tenth centuries, in a satirical demon who visits men in their work called the "Alphabet of sleep, causing nocturnal Ben Sira." Is this tour, which will include emissions, which she uses to produce more demonic off- no male artists, being billed as a sexist event? Of course not! spring. Remember the Again, a Promise Keepers perversion of the rally last year, woman's role where men as childgathered to bearer. Lilith is...a perversion of the discuss Many ways they women woman's role as child-bearer. could be will object better to this, —Steven E. Wedel fathers, saying that husbands, Lilith was the brothers, etc.? first wife of That was called Adam in the Old Testament. They will say she is sexist...maybe because they were called a demon because she was pro-family and Lilith is not. Just created at the same time as a thought. One of the big sponsors of Adam and therefore she was equal to him, and that could not this tour is Levi's, the jeans be tolerated by a patriarchal company—the same company that withdrew their support of society. The truth of the matter is that the Boy Scouts of America when Lilith is older than the Old the scouts stood firm on their no Testament—she can be traced homosexuals policy. What does back to ancient Sumer where she their corporate sponsorship say was an antogonist to the goddess about their social values? Manna. She is not mentioned as Nothing good.
One dollar from every ticket sale on the tour is supposed to go to a local charitable organization, with other donations being made by those on the tour. Who are the organizations being supported by the followers of Lilith? Planned Parenthood, the organization at the forefront of the abortion movement, is one of the recipients. Again, the relationship to the ancient persona of Lilith as baby-killer is obvious. LIFEbeat is another group benefiting from the tour. LIFEbeat, according the Lilith Fair web site, is, "...the American music industry's response to the international AIDS/HIV crisis." Once again, what are the primary ways of contracting AIDS/HIV? That's right boys and girls, promiscuous sexual behavior and intravenous drug use—two forms of immoral behavior that, if avoided, greatly reduces the chance of contracting the disease. But these people, it would seen, rather have their fun now—have sex with whomever or whatever they please, and
shoot drugs—and then take a pill to cure their AIDS. No responsibility, just a cure for the results. Maybe Lilith Fair will do some good for a few women who are truly repressed or abused. Most likely it will only serve to widen the gap between men and women and further hamper their ability to communicate with one another. Of course, men will be blamed for that, too.
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tudents trying to strike up conversations with each other this week only had to say one word— "Tornado!" But for all the talk about the four tornadoes which caused thousands of dollars in damage in Oklahoma City and Edmond June 13, few UCO students claim they came into direct contact with the twisters. Instead, most said the closest they came to the funnels—which destroyed boats at Lake Hefner and bumped cars at Frontier City—was by watching them through televised storm coverage. "All we had was Channel 9 (KWTV still on the air) and that's all they showed for most of the night," said Michelle Golay, junior.
"I thought it was very interesting watching the tornadoes form. I was glad I wasn't pait of it." Yet, not all students' experiences were of the unscathing variety. A respective few said they had to face the tornadoes head-on and cope with the damage brought by winds of 100 miles per hour or more. Rhonda Trullinger, senior, said she was at home alone near the Nichols Hills area when a cyclone cut a path through her neighborhood. She said her home first lost power, then she lost her composure as she headed to the bathroom for protection. "I'm new to that area and had never been through anything like that. I was scared and had a hard time remembering the safety (precautions) I was supposed to take," she said. "I thank God for saving me." Trullinger said her home only suffered minor damage but her
trees were toppled, and her tool shed simply disappeared. "There's not a trace of it anywhere. We looked around the neighborhood, but we couldn't even find pieces," she said. Oddly, Travis Richardson, graduate student, said he found pieces of what could be a shedlike structure in his front yard. He said he probably lives only two miles from Trullinger but does not know her or her family. "I'm not saying it's hers but it could be," Richardson said. "All I know is it wasn't there before the storm, and after the tornado went through there were big chunks of (metal and wood) in our front yard." Trullinger said the color of her missing shed does not match the description of the one found in Richardson's yard. However, she noted she would be eager to see it and possibly put an end to the mystery. No other students asked had
stories as curious as Trullinger's. However, several claimed their properties suffered similar fates. Some shared stories of power outages which lasted two days, while others said their neighborhoods resembled scenes from the movie Twister "My neighborhood is a wreck," said David Jones, graduate student, who lives near Britton Road in northern Oklahoma City. "We had a lot of tree damage at my home but not much else." Jones said he was not home at the time the tornado hit but is not new to strong storms. He said he had already suffered through two tornadoes in his lifetime before Saturday. "I was very surprised. I never thought a tornado would come over the lake (Hefner)," Jones said. Still other students told stories of confronting the storm while on the job.
Preston Bobo, sophomore, said he was working at a movie theater near Quail Springs Mali when word of an approaching funnel cloud began spreading. Bobo said he felt lucky that the cloud passed overhead without touching down because the theater was packed with nearly 380 patrons who were watching first screenings of Six Days, Seven Nights. "We had to interrupt the movie and tell everyone about the (storm), but we didn't shut the movie down completely," Bobo said. " It was (frantic) but the show must go on." And Nicole Nutter, senior, said she was not hurt by the storm which whipped over her work at Holiday Inn in Edmond. But she was very frightened. "We had to call all the guests and tell them they had to go to the shelter," she said. "I've never been in something like this before. It was pretty scary." -4
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EDMOND PUBLIC Schools are in need of school bus drivers. Please call 3402962. CHEMISTRY TUTOR and Geometry tutor needed for high school students. Best if you can teach both, but proficiency in either may be sufficient. Earn $100/mo! Teach as few as 2 sessions per week. Call 340-4391. You must record name & phone number! PART TIME NANNY Reliable, non-smoker with own transportation wanted Tuesdays and Thursdays starting in August for fouryear-old and infant. References required. Call 359-1359. VISUALLY IMPAIRED couple (students) looking for someone to drive them to and from work and to run a few errands each week. The pay is good. Must have dependable transportation and proof of insurance. Please call 844-1742. 01: Ri \ I
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ummer is in full swing and most international L3 students have either gone back home or taken the semester off to work full time. The Bangladesh Student Association however, is working overtime to entertain the students at UCO. The association put together a variety show on June 13. The night featured song and dance performances, comedy acts, poetry recitals, a magic show for children and a short drama play. "We have this sort of a variety program on TV back in Bangladesh, so we tried to do it like that," said Mohammed Hussein Manik, former UCO ident and program organizer. ,,anik also wrote and directed
the drama. The program was sponsored by the Bangladesh Cultural Associations of Norman, Oklahoma City and Edmond. Also, members from the Bangladeshi community in Oklahoma helped raise money for the event. "It took us three months to put this show together," Manik said. "I wrote the play three years ago and wanted to do it before but didn't have the opportunity . for it." The program began with a group singing Bangladeshi folk songs, accompanied by a harmonium, tabla and keyboard. Children participated in the magic show and received gifts for their cooperation. The program included a one-on-one question and answer session with couples from the audience.
Budget office personnel have parided their hours to meet need of processing data and formation in time for the Regents . July 1 deadline, said Daniita Kennedy, budget assistant. The budget is on the tentative agenda of the Board of Regents of Oklahoma Colleo.es
"I believe that the evening was a success and the audience enjoyed it. Although it could be a lot better with a bigger budget," Manik said. "We plan to do something for the fall as well, but next time the program will be a lot shorter." -4
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