The Vista March 28, 2002

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BRIEFS >News Old Faithful The steam outside the Nigh University Center may soon be gone. ✓ Page 13

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>Review Men in drag The new film Sorority Boys runs amok with toilet humor and fraternity stereotypes. ✓ Page 12

TODAY IN HISTORY In 1974, a streaker ran onto "The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson" set. Censors at NBC decided to run the clip with the lower half of the television screen blacked out to prevent an 'X' rating.

QUOTE OF THE DAY "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." — William Arthur Ward

WEATHER Thur.

BY MICHAEL LARSON

Senior Writer

ull-time university employees can apply for three free hours of summer classes as part of UCO's summer tuition waiver program starting April 8. Anitra Dugar, employee relations manager for the department of human resources said all UCO faculty that receive benefits can-apply for tuition. Their children and spouses are also eligible for the waiver. Kristen Ford, Administrative Assistant to the president, said President Roger Webb plans to continue funding for the faculty tuition waiver program despite recent budget cuts. Dugar said, "So far President Webb has funded it every year." Graduate Oklahoma residents currently pay $211.80 for three credit hours at UCO, plus fees. . During fall and spring semesters, full-time faculty and

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their children and spouses can apply for a six credit-hour tuition waiver. However, graduate students may not receive their threehour tuition waivers this fall. Gerry Cherry, grant writer for the College of Graduate Studies and Research said, "We don't know if the program will have funding for this fall." Since spring 2001, graduate tuition waivers were available to.formally-admitted graduate students living in Oklahoma who also maintained a 3.5 GPA. The student cannot be receiving other financial aid. "We're trying to pick up a few people who need help going to school and aren't getting any help." Cherry said she will find out when UCO's fiscal year ends on June 30 whether or not the administration will continue the program. She said, "It's all subject to funding." •

PHOTO SERVICES

Jazzin' it up! The UCO Jazz Lab attracted a large crowd on its opening

night March 13. The UCO Jazz Band (far left) was one of many bands which performed that evening.

Newspaper theft sparks investigation

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THURSDAY • MARCH

Tuition waivers available in April for UCO employees

>SpOrb Get in the game UCO organizations show their sports enthusiasm in intramural sports competitions.

BY ZACH E. NASH S taff Writer

y 9:00 a.m. March 14 an estimated 4,000 issues of The Vista were stolen off distribution racks and dumped into trash cans throughout campus. UCO DPS was dispatched to the Administration Building on a report that a person was stealing the newspapers. The suspect was apprehended and released after questioning. The suspect's information was turned over to Jarrod Noftsger,

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Vice President of Student Services, after DPS decided no criminal charges could be filed. Noftsger was unavailable for comment on any possible disciplinary actions being taken. "This is a typical reaction to what is perceived to be bad news by people trying to prohibit others from finding out about news. What they don't understand is that it draws more attention to the paper," Clark said. Jeff Harp, director of DPS, said that it would be in the best interest of the justice system to allow the university to handle the

situation. "Had the newspapers been posted with a price then it would have given us the room we needed to file a criminal charge," Harp said. According to statistics on the Student Press Law Center's web site, the theft of The Vista's newspapers is the tenth free college paper to be censored in this way since the beginning of March. "The theft of newspapers is a hard case to prosecute because rarely do you catch them in the act," Clark said.

Besides the printing costs and intrinsic value to the staff writers and the editors there was a potential loss of advertising revenue that could affect the paper's future advertising budget. "We haven't had any businesses complain so far. Hopefully the controversy prompted students who normally don't read the paper to pick up a copy," said Tay Gavin advertising manager for The

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