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BRIEFS >News Jazz workshop A musician/composer will hold a free workshop and performance Nov. 1. ✓ Page 13
>Sports Second win
Broncho football defeats Bacone Warriors, 45-7, to score their second win. ✓ Page 8
>Features Rememberance Chasing off spirits and cemetery feasting are part of Days of the Dead celebrations. v Page 10 & 11
TODAY IN HISTORY In 1512, the Sistine Chapel's ceiling paintings by Michelangelo were shown to the public for the first time.
QUOTE OF THE DAY "I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." — Thomas Jefferson
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THURSDAY •
NOV. 1, 2001
Ethics committee decides; drops charges BY SARAH BLOUNT
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Staff Writer
he UCOSA House of Representatives voted Monday, Oct. 29 to drop all formal charges of constitutional violations against President Brian Downs. Downs faced the possibility of three charges, stemming from funding he authorized over the summer. "There has been no moral breach of obligation or embezzlement of funds," said Todd Rivers, ethics committee chairman. The ethics committee met Thursday, Oct. 25 and Sunday. Oct. 28 to investigate subpoenaed evidence from the offices of Campus Life and Student Services. The committee presented their findings to the House, which voted to drop all charges. Although the resolution has
Say cheese... Benny Douglass, UCO plumber pops his head out of a manhole located east of Evans Hall Oct. 30. With restoration and trenching going around the site, Douglass and Mid-Continental Restoration were called out to inspect pipes that run to the boiler room. The pipes run underground across campus connecting the different buildings together. During the winter, the areas above the pipes are usually free of snow.
PHOTO BY LEITH LAWS
been tabled, the possibility of to the Senate. Jason Vaughn, President Profurther investigation will remain open. However, the House is Tempore, said the UCOSA now concerned with ensuring office has had a lot of problems that this doesn't happen in the over the last three years. "We haven't future. really had a "This investigation president that has brought to light "There has been follows the rules reform that will be beneficial," said Tyler no moral breach of very much." He said they are Tully, Speaker of the obligation or in the process of House. writing "Downs had done embezzlement of constitutional nothing that hadn't funds." amendments to been done before propose to the him," Rivers said. Floor Leader and Senate. —Todd Rivers Tully said voting Speaker's Appointee ethics committee to send charges of Travis Brown moved chairman Down's "innocent to table the resolution indefinitely; the House then mistakes" to the Senate would have to include charges against passed the vote unanimously. "-It was the opinion of the other UCOSA members, Chair that this was in the best including Vaughn. The ethics committee interest of UCOSA," said Deputy Speaker JP Jordan, on investigated 13 charges of misuse the decision not to send charges of funds, including $6,000 spent
on a UCOSA brunch and Caroline Spine concert, which left UCOSA with approximately $400 for their operating budget. Some of the charges presented by the ethics committee were for less than $10. The Constitution does not set a minimum amount for the required two signatures. "Other members who serve executive roles look like they didn't follow rules," Tully said. "There are a lot of inconsistencies." The Student Activity Board reimbursed UCOSA $1,100 for their portion of the brunch. Stampede Week gave UCOSA $2,000 for participation in the concert, Vaughn said. Vaughn said both the House and the Senate are seeking ways to avoid procedural errors in the future. See UCOSA, Page 3