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>News Measuring intelligence Psychologist and author Dr. Daniel Goleman will present a session March 26 on Emotional Intelligence. ✓ Page 4
>Sports Players honored Three UCO students were recently honored as Lone Star Conference Players of the Week. v Page 6
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jera Stone says the DVD release of 80s flick Say , Anything is as endearing as when first released. v Page 9
TODAY IN HISTORY In 1794 Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, a device which allowed 50 pounds of cotton to be cleaned a day, compared to the pound a day ratio existing before Whitney's invention.
Their preliminary trial has been set for April 2. Staff Writer Both were arrested last October he Oklahoma County after an Oklahoma County judge District Attorney's office has granted a search warrant on their filed charges against two Edmond apartment. The UCO Department of former UCO football players after they were accused of posting Public Safety (DPS), along with sexually-explicit pictures of a the Oklahoma County Sheriff's office, served the female student on the warrant Oct. 12, Internet and on 2001. campus. "Until a Retrieved from the Darvin Vincent conclusion is made suspect's apartment Hall, 20, and Jason were a camcorder, Eugene Phenix, 21, are about their case, VHS tapes, computer both charged with one disks and a computer felony count each for they are off the tower. The publishing the victim's equipment was then pictures, telephone team." logged as evidence numbers, and home. and taken to the address on various web —Gary Howard County's computer sites— a violation of UCO head football investigator so that section 1953 of the coach data could be Oklahoma Computer retrieved. Crimes Act. The victim claimed that the They are also charged with misdemeanor stalking for posting two men videotaped and took fliers on cars and buildings around pictures of her during the spring . the UCO campus containing the 2001 semester in her Commons victim's private information. apartment while working on a BY ZACH E. NASH
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class project. She told DPS that she was unaware at the time that there was film in the camera. According to a DPS search warrant affidavit, on Sept. 11, 2001 the suspects' apartment was broken into and the suspects believed that the victim was the one who did it. The victim had approximately 30 calls on her phone after her information was wrongfully posted.
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on the web sites and was advised by DPS to change her phone number. Both suspects played football and have been suspended from the team until after the trial. "We go by the Athletic Department's policy. Until a conclusion is made about their case, they are off the team," UCO head football coach Gary Howard said.♦
UCO to modify enrollment, ID numbers by early April
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Former football players to stand trial in April
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THURSDAY • MARCH
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ew UCO student identification (ID) numbers will be mailed to the students around spring break. The counters of the computer terminals near the admission and enrollment office are being replaced with new cabinets. These are some of the changes students will see due to the changes in enrollment procedures effective for the summer and fall semesters, starting April 8. The new ID will be a systemgenerated number, which begins with an asterisk symbol and is followed by eight numbers; said Jerry Legere, assistant vice president for enrollment management and registrar. "Students will need to memorize that number because that will be the basis for transacting all university business
effective the summer term," Legere said. "That ID number will not be given out over the phone, so if they forget the numbers, they'll have to come in 'with a picture ID," he said. Armed with the new ID numbers, students will be able to enroll for summer and fall classes online, Legere said. "They'll need to change their PIN number from the six digit birth date to something else the first time they log on," Legere said. Enrollment dates for students will not be based on classifications and last names PHOTO BY ELISE CARR any longer, Legere said. Auxilliary Services lead carpenter Glenn Hightower measures a "What we are going to do is cabinet in the temporary shop located in East Hall. The new cabinets to do it strictly by credit hours," will be placed in the Nigh University Center to improve the Legere said. enrollment area. Students with more credit hours will be allowed to enroll students. On any given day, four assigned, he said. first, beginning with the graduate different time blocks will be See CHANGES, Page 3