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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2002

Football coach fired after 34 years

by Daniel Holdge dh@thevistaonline.com On Nov. 18 head football coach Gary Howard and his staff were relieved of their duties.

Athletic director Skip Wagnon made the announcement following a meeting with UCO President Dr. Roger Webb, Howard and assistant coaches Chuck Bailey, Duane Dirk, Mark Howard and Bill Massey.

"Everyone associated with or who follows Bronchos football can appreciate the outstanding job coach Howard has done down through the years," said President Webb. "I too appreciate his work and wish him the best.

UCOSA chalk act heads to administration for approval

The Bronchos finished off their season last week with another disappointing loss to Tarleton State, 34-27 at home. All the Bronchos six losses came by eight points less this season. The players were obviously hurt and confused after hearing about the news.

"I didn't know until the meeting when coach told us that afternoon," said running back Tarik Abdullah. "I was hurt by it so much, he's like a father to me. It's a bad situation, like breaking up a family."

Howard finishes his career as the leader in win in Oklahoma history, with a 162-105-6 record in his 34 years as a Broncho coach. He came to UCO in 1968 as a

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Coach Gary Howard

dance major and bigger classes would be bad because we would not get the individualized attention we need from the instructor."

Eli Schauer, dance and engineering freshman, said, "Along with the individualized attention in dance, I came out because with a physics major you need all the help you can get from your professors to succeed."

Quentin Pratt, english and philosophy senior, said "The state has enough money to pay for a millionaire's fishing store but not for education. Now that's ironic!"

Chelsye O'Donnell, preeducation sophomore at Rose State, said, "I think a lot of changes need to be made as far as where our education dollars Photo by Rebecca Martin are spent and the way that things are run. The level that the Educators, students and administrators protested at the capitol Nov. 19 in Oklahoma state government response to the special session called that neglected to include education as holds education is very low. part of the session.

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Protest reacts to special session

by Timber Massey tm@thevistaonline.com Student protestors waved signs and sang folk songs on the front steps of the State Capitol Nov. 18 in support of education, while state legislators spent $9.8 million to delay Department of Corrections furloughs until April.

The UCO Chapter of Young Democrats sponsored the protest, lead by President Jim Epperson, due to education being left off the special session agenda by Governor Frank Keating.

"Because of budget short falls our public schools cannot continue to support the increased enrollment that they are seeing.

Increased tuition rates will put the burden on students that are trying to improve their lives," Epperson said.

"This budget crisis is causing our citizens, who are trying their best to improve themsleves, and our professors, who are trying their best to improve others, to take the burden of the budget crisis."

Epperson announced the formation of a new statewide organization, "Students for Higher Education." He said the organization will be a grassroots campaign aimed at helping legislature reform education.

He said the organization will recruit representatives from state colleges and universities to help energize students on their individual campuses.

"We want to make a difference and we want to be part of the solution. We need people to be involved in the political debate."

J.P. Jordan, UCOSA president said he attended the protest because he believes in the cause of education.

Jordan said, "Whenever students get together and actually voice their opinions it is a very positive thing and it causes people to think. Whether,people think it is a positive or a negative thing is not as important as the fact that it gets people thinking."

Malinda Fry, political science junior, said, "We heard about the protest and we came because we don't want higher tuition. We think that UCO does a good job the way that it is now."

Daniel McKay, history graduate, said, "I am for anything that is for higher education."

Jimmy Witcosky, dance and marketing junior, said, "I am a

Charles Harris, engineering senior at Oklahoma City Community College, said, I am paying for my education myself and it is getting harder and harder to do. Politicians are the new mafia and they funnel their money through the prison systems."

Dave Esterling, a retired Air Force Master Sergeant who has lived in Oklahoma for 58 years, said he was glad to see students standing up for education. He said that regardless of the issue politicians are out for politicians, not for the people.

"I think any public money that was spent on the dome, including the dedication, should have been spent on education. If there were more educated people in Oklahoma then we would not be facing these problems right now."

Individuals or student organizations that make chalk drawings on anything other than sidewalks could be fined if administration adopts a new UCOSA recommendation.

The "Sidewalk Chalk Act," which reinforces existing university policy, confines chalk drawings to campus sidewalks.

Drawings are not allowed on other objects such as electrical boxes or the sides of buildings, said House Speaker Jake Winkler, the author of the resolution.

Also, no banners could be hung on statues.

An individual or student organization found to be in violation could be fined up to $100, Winkler said. They would have 24 hours after being notified by Campus Life to clean up the artwork before a fine could be levied.

UCOSA President Jordan said he believed administration would view the resolution positively. Determining what fines could be levied and if they would be levied at all would be up to administration, he said.

Campus Life Director Blake Fry said to this point graffiti hasn't been a serious problem. He said he has not yet had to fine any individual or organization.

"Right now I don't have any plans to start fining people unless it becomes a problem," Fry said.

"I'm glad to hear that students here have a concern about the appearance of their campus."

Kate Thrift, Senate president pro tempore, said having the original artist clean up the artwork rather than have a UCO staff person do it would save the university money.

An abundance of artwork on non-sidewalk surfaces during freshman rush week in September inspired Winkler to write the legislation.

"The intent of the bill is to keep the campus clean and conducive to a good learning environment," Winkler said.

Jordan said UCOSA is always soliciting ideas for ways to improve the campus. Winkler said he and Jordan tour the campus twice a month to get original ideas for legislation.

fp@thevistaonline.com "It's 24 million people against me," said Jim Yardley, Houston Bureau Chief for the New York Times of his life as a journalist.

Yardley came to UCO campus on Nov. 19 to give students a glimpse into that life.

Yardley, who has worked for the New York Times since Oct. 1997 covers Texas and Oklahoma for the publication.

Yardley grew up being exposed to the newspaper world. His mother was an editorial writer and his father was a columnist and book critic.

With his exposure to newspaper life and his own love of reading and writing, journalism was a career that he fell naturally into.

Yardley worked at various smaller newspapers including the Aniston Star and Atlanta Journal-Constitution before going to work for the New

York Times.

Yardley considered the

question of how it felt to work intertwined. at the New York Times, which "Culture seeps out everyis largely considered one of the where," he said. most influential newspapers in "We are all a part of it." the world, among Pulitzer He was the first to admit Prize winning journalists and the life of a journalist is hard certain preswork. sure.

When he Working was covering the "If you love what there doesn't Fort Gibson you do, then each day define who will be fulfilling and the school shootyou are," he hard work that comes ings, he said he said. with being a journalist had two and "If you half hours to will be rewarding." don't end up interview people working for and write a Jim Yardley the New York story Houston Bureau Chief for Times, it does"Whatever the New York Times n't mean that you do, you your career is have to do it lacking." remarkably He said fast," he said. the important "You are not thing is loving what you do. going to write Shakespeare in "If you love what you do, two and half hours." then each day will be fulfilling Yardley said one of his driand the hard work that comes ving forces as a journalist was with being a journalist will be his own curiosity. rewarding."

"You write what you are He said whether you are interested in, and chances are, working in New York, others will be interested in it as Chicago, Los Angeles or here well." in Oklahoma, everything is Yardley's own stories range -

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from intense coverage of the Enron scandal to a beer-drinking goat who was the mayor of a small Texas town.

Yardley is currently in the process of "stretching his own comfort zone" as he is being assigned to Beijing, China.

"I always thought if I wanted to be a foreign correspondent, I would want to go to China," he said.

Now he is getting his chance and will spend three to five years in China as a correspondent for the New York

Times.

Yardley, who on average produces 120-130 stories a year, said he will probably not have a printed story from December 2002 - Dec ember 2003 as he will be undergoing training for his upcoming move.

"I'm terrified and excited," he said.

Yardley said life as a journalist was a balancing act.

"You live and you learn," he said.

"If you aren't in to what you do, don't do it."

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Jim Yardley, Houston Bureau Chief for the New York Times, spoke to students Nov. 19.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2002

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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

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The first successful flight was made in a hot air balloon when Frenchmen Francois Pilatre de Rosier and Francois Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, flew for 25 minutes above Paris for a distance of some 5 1/2 miles.

tampus Quotes What are your thoughts on Coach Howard and his staff being fired?

Cartoon by Chris Maupin

After thirty-four years with the University of Central Oklahoma, head football coach Gary Howard was relieved from his duties. This comes after he and his staff was fired last year and then re-hired the day after.

With a 79-40-1 record in the last eleven seasons alone, Howard has accomplished a great deal as captain of the team.

But 34 years is a long time and now it is time to stir up the program, get new ideas, a new play book and a new attitude.

He has had many great seasons on Wantland Field and has had

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"It's like breaking up a family. He does alot. I want to know why."

TARIK ABDULLAH junior physical education

"I think there are many factors that play a part in the program. Maybe they should look at them."

COURTNEY COLE junior psychology

My Turn Kyle E. Houts UCO Freshman Student Political Science and Broadcasting Major

The Day of Judgment came for Democrats on the nationwide scale when midnight rolled around on Nov. 5, 2002. Yes, it was indeed "Black Tuesday" as the liberals took a huge blow by losing many seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.

However, one election still remains for the open in Louisiana but this will soon be resolved with a runoff election to be held on Dec. 7.

How did they do it? (You may ask.) What was the secret of their success? Why was it such a huge victory for the Republican Party when historically it should have led into a greater liberal control? The answer is simple and true. The republican candidates ran on their elections in support of the President's agenda. After Sept. 11, this nation saw the light in a newer and more reasonable way. Americans saw that this nation needed to put its priorities straight and build back our military instead of making cut backs in Armed Forces that made us even more vulnera-

ble than we were before the attack. Also, everything that President Bush saw as a true need for a nation, he put on his agenda and sent that agenda to Congress where nothing got done because of a liberal "nay" voting delay tactic.

This was in total disagreement with the American people; the Republican candidates saw it and took a huge advantage of this situation. It was incredible. You can also thank the great lib-. eral loss to the "memorial rally" held in Minnesota for former Senator Wellstone. That event was supposed to be a memorial service for Senator Wellstone but was turned into a Democratic rally with huge support coming from former President Bill Clinton and his cronies.

So what will happen now, Kyle? What is the first thing that will change now that republicans have control over the House, Senate and White House? The first thing you'll see come alive is appointing qualified judges into necessary positions. This has been a major asset to the President's agenda and will probably be taken care of the second everyone is sworn in. After which, we will later see great efforts to make Bush's tax cut permanent.

Yes, now that the Republicans are in control, the kitchen table issues are out the way and the real needs for America are going to be back on the "to-do" list.

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"It's sad. Not good for the team."

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"If you don't win, you go."

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"I think they need a change."

KATHLEEN DOTY junior general studies

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"I think it sucks. A wrong step, there's no one leading the team."

"I think it's kinda sad they dropped him at the end of the season."

MOHAMMED SHAHID

NAKEISHA MCGEE junior political science

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a positive impact on students and players alike. The day after he was relieved from duties the current players made one last drive with the administration to reinstate Howard. Students gathered outside the administration building in hopes of swaying the decision.

The winds of change are hitting UCO one employee at a time.

We live in a state with Stoop's Troops only a short drive away and that sets expectations for the surrounding university teams.

The new blood may be what the campus needs to live up to such expectations and produce a team that demands an audience.

"Considering how long he

"I think it's a shame. He

worked, I'msuprised they fired him instead of asking for his resignation."

ought to be recognized. He won a couple of national championships."

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BRIEFS International AIDS and malaria costs Uganda a billion dollars ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) AIDS and malaria are costing Uganda more than US$1 billion a year in lost wealth and ruining the health ministry, the country's president said Monday.

The AIDS epidemic costs Uganda US$702 million a year while malaria costs the East African nation US$348 million a year, President Yoweri Museveni told a meeting of African health ministers in Entebbe, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the capital Kampala.

Uganda's gross domestic product is about US$6 billion.

"All these costs we incur are both direct and indirect. Comparing it with how much we earn from coffee, this loss is several times bigger," Museveni said.

He did not elaborate, but a Ugandan health ministry spokesman, Paul Kaggwa, later told reporters that the costs include the loss of trained and working age workers to the two diseases, funeral costs, productivity lost when workers are ill and drug costs.

Uganda is one of the countries worst hit by the AIDS epidemic in the world and has about 1.2 million HIV positive citizens.

In October the health ministry announced that more than 947,552 people have died of AIDS-related illnesses since the disease was first diagnosed in the East African nation in 1983.

Health ministers and other government officials from 14 countries are meeting as members of the Commonwealth Regional Health Community for East, Central and Southern Africa that gathers every three years.

Assailant takes 25 children hostage MADRID, Spain (AP) An armed man is holding 25 children hostage at a school near Barcelona, officials said Monday.

Police are negotiating with the assailant at the school in the town of Hospitalet de Llobregat, a town hall official there said.

The official declined to confirm news reports that the man is armed with a knife and the children at the Casal de l'Angel school are 12-year-olds.

The Interior Ministry office in Barcelona said details were unclear but the motive appears to be money. A spokesman said the area around the school had been cordoned off. The rest of the school has been evacuated, town hall said.

Ambulance crews were in the area to help parents in distress.

Hospitalet de Llobregat is an industrial town just south of Barcelona.

Russia to allocate US$97 million to anti-terror fund MOSCOW (AP) The Russian government will allocate an additional 3 billion rubles (US$97 million) for fighting terrorism next year, the finance minister said Monday.

Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said the government would economize on other articles of the 2003 budget in order to come up with the sum, according to the Interfax and ITAR-Tass news agencies.

Kudrin made the announcement after meeting with the leaders of the four pro-Kremlin factions in the State Duma, the lower house of parliament.

After the Duma passes the 2003 budget, it "will pass a resolution instructing the government ... to economize and put the money thus saved into this program on a quarterly basis," Interfax quoted Kudrin as saying.

Eight killed in fresh violence in India's Kashmir as new state assembly members take oath of office SRINAGAR, India (AP) Police said eight people were killed Monday in fresh violence across India's strife-torn Jammu-Kashmir state as newly elected state lawmakers were sworn into office.

In Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu-Kashmir, the speaker of the state legislative assembly administered the oath of office to 87 lawmakers who won their seats during elections held in September and October.

Two militants, suspected of belonging to the Pakistan based Jaish-e-Mohammed group, were killed during a shootout with police in the Punch district on the India-Pakistan border, a police official said on condition of anonymity.

He said the militants were crossing over into Indian territory from Pakistan.

Two other suspected rebels were killed in nearby Udhampur district, the police official said.

Meanwhile, the four other people were killed in gunbattles in remote areas of the Himalayan province, police said. There were no other details available.

The Jaish-e-Mohammed is one of more than a dozen Islamic militant group fighting Indian troops since 1989 seeking independence for Kashmir or its merger with Muslim dominated Pakistan.

India accuses Pakistan of training and funding the rebels, who enter Indian territory and attack security forces and civilians.

Islamabad denies the charge and says it only offers diplomatic and political support to the militants.

New Turkish Foreign Minister is expert on Arabs ANKARA, Turkey (AP) Turkey's new foreign minister, Yasar Yakis is a career diplomat and a rare Arabist in the Turkish foreign service who was once named as a possible candidate to head the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

Yakis, 64, who speaks Arabic fluently, was Turkey's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Syria and Egypt.

Tall with gray hair and soft-spoken, Yakis helped found the Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party in 2001 after his retirement from the foreign service. He was a deputy chairman of the party, which swept elections on Nov. 3.

Yakis was on a plane on his way to Madrid, Spain from a visit to Athens, Greece, when Prime Minister Abdullah Gul announced his Cabinet list Monday and named him foreign minister. Yakis was accompanying Justice party leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan on a tour of European capitals, to seek support for Turkey's European Union membership bid.

Yakis needs to tackle several crucial foreign affairs issues, including Turkey's EU membership, uniting the divided island of Cyprus and possible U.S. strikes on neighboring Iraq.

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DPS seeks accreditation

by Fawn Porter fp@thevistaonline.com UCO's Department of Public Safety (DPS) is taking measures to become accredited by the Oklahoma Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP).

"We're in the process of rewriting our policy manual to conform to the guidelines of OACP," said Jeff Harp, DPS chief of police.

OACP accredits all police forces, but not many in the state have sought accreditation, Harp said.

"Out of 115 departments who have pursued accreditation, only seven have achieved it," he said DPS Assistant Chief Ted Jones said the reason DPS is aiming for accreditation is to show they operate on a higher level of professionalism.

Jones is personally over-seeing the policy re-write.

Jones said they are revamping basically everything a police force does.

"Everything from the way we conduct ourselves, to uniforms, to firearms, to training is being re-written," Jones said.

Harp said Accreditation is a two-year process. UCO's DPS has been working on the process for 20 months and are releasing the first set of new policies next week.

The first set of new policies involve the mission statement, a definition of the organizations, the role of DPS, management

direction and contractual agreements.

"All 40 new policies will be released by April. We will then live with them to see if they are feasible," Harp said.

"By this time next year, we hope to be accredited," Harp said.

In reality, the closest whales MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) Schoolchildren statewide get to Michigan is the salty St. Lawrence estuary along recently were told that Whales and dolphins swim in Lake Quebec, which is home to Michigan thanks to a publica- some beluga whales.

But when Harris called tion that got its information Studies Weekly Inc., which from a Web site apparently crewrote the article, she said an ated as a joke.

The mistake isn't amusing editor stood behind the story's accuracy. to 462 teachers "I've lived here all who subscribe to my life there are no "Michigan whales in Lake Studies Weekly," which is pub"I've lived here Michigan," Harris lished by Utah- all my life there recalled telling the edibased Studies are no whales in tor.

In a retraction postWeekly Inc. Lake Michigan." ed on its Web site, Muskegon Studies Weekly says it fourth-grade -Deb Harris got its information for teacher Deb 4th grade teacher the story from an Harris read the Internet site. article aloud to "We at Studies her pupils.

Weekly want this to be "It's funny, but it's really not," Harris told a lesson to you," the apology The Muskegon Chronicle for a said. "Not all Web sites are true, and you cannot always believe recent story.

The article states: Every them. When researching, you spring, the freshwater whales should always look for a reliable site that has credentials (proof and freshwater dolphins begin their 1,300-mile migration of truthfulness)."

Studies Weekly publications from Hudson Bay to the warmer waters of Lake have a circulation of 1.2 million Michigan. There are several readers in third through sixth locks along the route, but the grades nationwide.

Harris said she used the whales forge a water path each experience to teach pupils the year."

Harris caught the mistake importance of double-checking facts and not plagiarizing othwhile reading to her pupils.

"Oh, my goodness!," she ers' work. said. "There are no whales in Michigan."

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UCO Journalism instructor receives award for lifetime achievement in public relations

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secretary, board member and Shadow Day, Career Day and Zenith Award Chairs.

Kelsey said, "I was tremendously honored and humbled by the award."

She said the award had even more meaning because she left the active practice of public relations eight years ago to teach.

"The honor is doubly appreciated since it recognizes teaching as a valuable component in preparing students for public relations careers," she said.

Lori Imel, Secretary for UCO PRSSA said, "Ms. Kelsey has been a wonderful professor. It was because of her that I decided to minor in public relations. She is always giving of her time and willing to help."

Other former UCO students to win awards on behalf of their companies' public relations projects were Dustin Pyeaatt, Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Holly

Jill Kelsey, UCO journalism instructor, recently received the 2001 Paul E. Dannelley Harmony Award for lifetime achievement in the public relations profession.

Kelsey received the award from the Oklahoma City Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (OKC PRSA) at their Upper Case Awards event at the Petroleum Club in Oklahoma City.

The award is given to a longtime member of the public Relations profession for their outstanding achievements in the field.

Kelsey is the Journalism Department intern advisor, and sponsor of the UCO chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (UCO PRSSA). She's been a PRSA member since 1980 and accredited since 1983. She served as

State OU cheating cases double; Internet blamed NORMAN, Okla. (AP)

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Journalism instructor Jill Kelsey teaches her Principles of Public Relations class Nov. 20.

Mangham, Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency, Maurissa Buchwald and Julie Claggett, Express Services Inc. and Yvonne Anderson, Association of Central Oklahoma Governments.

Kim Rolin Holding, a UCO 1998 public relations graduate, received the OKC PRSA

Chapter's Outstanding Young Professional Award.

Danielle Ezell, professional advisor to the UCO PRSSA Chapter, received an Upper Case Award and an honorable mention for work done by her firm, The Bluestocking Group.

China's new leader as cautious and enigmatic as ever BEIJING (AP) China's new leader spent his first day atop the world's most populous nation the same way he spent his decade-long wait as heir apparent _ revealing little, careful not to upstage his predecessor, President Jiang Zemin.

The official media on Saturday provided few additional clues about Hu Jintao, the enigmatic former engineer who was named to lead China's all-powerful Communist Party through a time of sweeping economic reform and social upheaval.

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Hu, who built hydroelectric stations before entering politics, has vowed to adhere to Jiang's policies of opening the economy and broadening party membership while keeping tight control of politics.

Hu appeared calm but cautious in his brief, mostly televised appearances after taking China's helm. He never spoke longer than a few minutes, sticking closely to prepared remarks and offering no off-the-cuff comments or other glimpses into his personality.

It's a cautious style that Hu has followed since being picked in the early 1990s as Jiang's successor by Deng Xiaoping, the late supreme leader who launched economic reform and also installed Jiang.

Keeping his personality and politics a mystery to outsiders was key to his rise in a system whose political landscape is littered with

the wrecked careers of former heirs apparent who offended their patron or were linked too closely to a policy failure.

Hu is expected to take over the presidency in March from Jiang, who ruled China for 13 years following the 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square.

The makeup of the Standing Committee means Hu, like Jiang before him, will have to wait years to emerge from his predecessor's shadow.

Hu was the only member of the previous seven-member Standing Committee re-elected this week. The others, all but one of them in their 70s, gave up their seats.

The new leaders inherit Asia's fastest growing . economy, with trade and foreign investment headed for record highs this year.

But Chinese also are looking to them to solve daunting problems chronic corruption, growing gaps in wealth and mounting layoffs as state industries seek profitability.

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The number of University of Oklahoma students caught cheating has more than doubled in the last two years, say school officials who think the Internet is behind the surge.

"What we're seeing is a nationwide phenomenon that's being discussed by a lot of academics," said OU assistant Provost Greg Heiser.

"The latest reports are showing that students are about as honest as they've always been. The Internet is what has changed."

In 1999-2000, 92 cases of academic misconduct were reported.

That rose to 204 during the 2001-2002 year.

Heiser said dishonesty is not the main reason for the increase.

Instead, he said, a generation is arriving at college that has never written a report or other assignment without use of the Internet. Heiser said there's also an element of insecurity since many students think the words found on the Internet express their thoughts better than they can do it themselves.

"Our experience is that a student will find a sentence, paragraph or page from a document on the Web, and cut and paste it into their own paper without an attribution," Heiser said. "With the click of a mouse, the download ends up in their paper."

However, Heiser said students often do not realize that the Internet also makes it easier for professors to catch students trying to get by on somebody else's work. He said professors can type in parts of a student's paper and search the Web for any instance where each phrase had been used.

OU students caught plagiarizing can receive failing grades, have notes attached to their student files or be suspended or expelled.

Heiser said expulsions are rare.

"We believe in second chances," he said. "More than 99 percent of cases are when students make one mistake, and they won't make a second."

Renovations have helped to increase downtown convention business OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Just a few years ago, downtown Oklahoma City had one hotel and an outdated convention center.

A wave of hotel development has the city's convention bureau looking at brighter times.

If all the anticipated development is complete, downtown hotel rooms will number more than 1,200, a bragging point expected to pump up convention business.

Steve Collier, executive director of the Convention and Visitors Bureau, said bookings the past several years have been slow. However, with the influx of new hotel rooms and the city's downtown improvements, he's having success booking conventions such as the National Square Dance Association, which is expected to draw 10,000 people in June.

Other large bookings include the Freewill Baptist convention in 2010, which also will bring in thousands.

"We measure our success by what we book in the future, not what we did last year," Collier said. "The year we start to see the fruits of our labor will be 2003."

In 1993 voters passed a temporary five-cent sales tax that added attractions, including an expanded convention center and construction of the Ford Center arena, the SBC Bricktown Ballpark and Bricktown Canal.

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STRANGE STORIES, Man declares sovereign nation in Elko ELKO, Minn. (AP) An Ojibwe man has declared a piece of land in this tiny town a sovereign nation, opened a strip club and pledged to fight anyone who tries to mess with either.

"There ain't no way on God's Earth that they're going to stop me," said Al LaFontaine, 82, of St. Paul.

It's not the first time LaFontaine has said that.

In 1959, he offered to sell a third of North Dakota to the Soviet Union and he's put forth a variety of schemes to build casinos on land that he's bought and declared sovereign.

As an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain band of Ojibwe in North Dakota, LaFontaine said he received a document that gives him land rights in place of a parcel on the band's reservation.

He said that entitles him to make the Elko land his own reservation. Elko is south of the Twin Cities, just off Interstate 35.

"This is my pilot project,"LaFontaine said. "What I'm doing in Scott County, I'm going to do in every major city in the United States."

Good luck, experts say.

"It's not up to him to declare it as a sovereign reservation," said Mark Anderson, an attorney with Jacobson, Buffalo, Schoessler Magnuson, which represents many Midwestern Indian tribes.

LaFontaine once sued Anderson over a previous investment deal involving Indian gaming at the Prom Center in Oakdale.

The U.S. Interior Department can establish new reservations. But the process takes years, and a state's governor must agree with the plan, which has stymied a Hudson dog track proposal for years.

In the meantime, LaFontaine's strip club _ which has no name but was formerly known as Circus Circus is driving some locals crazy.

"It is frustrating," said Andrea Poehler, city attorney of Elko.

Managing the typical lawsuits surrounding strip clubs is easier, she said, than "dealing with LaFontaine, who is really coming out of left field."

Until about a year ago, the building that formerly housed Glenno's Pizza was innocuous as things get in Elko, population 472.

Then Minneapolis resident Emad Abed began transforming it into what he calls a classy strip club, complete with cushy lounges and a catwalk. The city shut Abed down on a building code violation.

In October, shortly after LaFontaine bought it for $1 plus "considerations," notices appeared on the doors, saying the owner was immune to laws restricting liquor and gambling. It warned federal and state officials not to interfere. The doors opened Nov. 1.

"I'm in a fight that I love," La Fontaine said. "They have a lot of money, but I have knowledge. And I'm not a giver-upper."

Man dies after hit by club apparently used to smash mailboxes LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) A man died after he was struck in the head by part of a golf club that was being used to smash mailboxes, police said.

Brian J. Brinker, 21, was pronounced dead at 12:45 p.m. CST Sunday at Bryan-LGH East hospital about 12 hours after he was injured, Police Capt. David Beggs said.

Socialist Leader Francesco De Martino dies ROME (AP) Francesco De Martino, a Socialist leader who tried to unite Italy's political left, died Monday in Naples. He was 95.

De Martino, who was named senator-for-life in 1991, died at home, said Daniele Unfer, a spokesman for the Italian Socialist Democrats an offshoot of the defunct Socialist Party.

De Martino led the Socialists until he was replaced by Bettino Craxi, the long-serving premier and a major broker in the coalition politics that shaped Italy's governments in the late 1970s and much of the 1980s.

Born to a middle-class Neapolitan family, De Martino was a university law lecturer before joining the anti-Fascist resistance during World War II. After the war, he joined the Socialist Party and was elected to Parliament in 1948.

De Martino became party leader in 1963 when he tried unsuccessfully to stop a split by hard-line leftists opposed to the Socialists' entry into a coalition government with Christians Democrats. He lost the leadership of the party a few years later when several moderates left.

In 1971, De Martino regained the leadership and held it until 1976, when he was ousted following the party's poor showing in national elections.

That year De Martino's son, Guido, was kidnapped and then released after 10 days. Shaken by the abduction, De Martino retired from active politics.

Under Craxi, the Socialist Party became embroiled in the Clean Hands corruption scandal that shook Italian politics in the early 1990s. Craxi went into exile and the party collapsed.

Brinker had been in the back seat of a car while the front passenger was swinging the club out the window at mailboxes in northeast Lincoln, Beggs said.

A piece of the golf club broke and struck Brinker in the head, causing a "puncture-type wound," Beggs said.

The 23-year-old Lincoln man who was swinging the club was arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault, pending a review of the case by the Lancaster County attorney's office.

The 22-year-old Lincoln man who was driving the vehicle was not cited or arrested.

The others in the car said they had hit three or four mailboxes before the club broke, Beggs said.

Police do not know which part of the club struck Brinker.

Beggs said police have confiscated the vehicle and would obtain a warrant to search it for the club or other evidence.

Funeral home offers to keep genetic piece of dearly departed WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) An Iowa funeral home business is offering to keep a genetic piece of departed loved ones.

James Fullerton, owner of Fullerton Funeral Homes, said the uses for DNA data are almost endless _ but the window of extracting opportunity is limited. Once a body is cremated or embalmed, taking DNA is difficult if not impossible.

"We are basically the last chance for a family to preserve the DNA of a loved one," said Fullerton, who has branches in Charles City, Mason City, Rockford and Rockwell. "With the possible benefits, we feel they need to know about the services."

For $295, the funeral home will take a blood sample and have it stored at Des-Moines based DNA Connections. Once the sample is received, a team extracts the DNA and stores it for up to 25 years.

At this time, only the family will get information about the sample, said Steven Whitehead, CEO of DNA Connections. The company stores the samples in St. Louis, Mo., and has provided its services to a few hundred customers in 23 states, Whitehead said.

The recent explosion of genetic data following the Human Genome Project has made possibilities for using the DNA almost endless, Fullerton said.

But the thought of funeral homes extracting the double-helix troubles some.

Since the process is so new and its path so uncharted, some medical ethics experts worry that DNA testing and storage poses privacy and safety issues.

Currently, DNA data can help identify genetic predispositions to certain hereditary diseases and settle paternity disputes. A number of uses could arise as the technology and the understanding of DNA evolves.

"There are so many unanswered questions about DNA," said Robert Weir, director of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. "We learn something new almost every day."

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"I can see that there would be some benefit," he said. "But you have to consider the right of the person after death."

Whitehead believes a day will come when people dead or alive will have their DNA on file for use in a number of ways.

"Right now, we're riding over the frontier in a covered wagon," he said. "But we'll be riding in a jet airplane soon."

Man jailed for urinating in front of courthouse GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) A man was arrested on charges that he urinated in front of the Westmoreland County Courthouse as he was on his way in to plead guilty in a drug case.

County Judge Debra Pezze indefinitely postponed the Friday hearing for Gregory R. McBeth, 26, of Rostraver, because he appeared to be intoxicated.

Instead, McBeth was jailed by District Justice James Albert, whose office is also in the courthouse, on citations for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct. When Albert asked McBeth why he would come to court drunk, McBeth said simply, "I don't care." He wasn't charged with drunken driving because authorities say his mother drove him to the courthouse.

Westmoreland County Park Police arrested and cited McBeth after a woman said she saw him urinating near a flagpole in the heavily traveled square in front of the courthouse at about 9 a.m.

McBeth remained jailed Saturday, but could win his release by posting a $700 bond to cover the fines and court costs he potentially faces, officials said.

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by Mark Schlachtenhaufen dent named "Nita." She gave ms@thevistaonline. corn UCO students learned about social and economic problems besetting postwar Yugoslavia from an award-winning filmmaker from Kosovo.

Some students in the Serbian province attend class in buildings without water or electricity as depicted in ''Students," an episode in "Life of a Land," a 15part serial film produced by Kosovo filmmaker Avni Abazi.

"The truth is this film," Abazi said.

UCO students screened the episode that portrayed the very real problem of professors abusing their power to have sexual relations with female students.

In March, the American State Department honored Abazi for making a civil society and democracy-building serial "Students" helped to decrease the number of sexual harassment cases in Kosovo, Abazi said.

"It used to be a very big problem," he said.

The film was completed in April, Abazi said. He said he is honored to have Americans view his work.

"I'm presenting Kosovo," Abazi said.

"I can tell them what is the true Kosovo."

In "Students," a male faculty member at a Kosovo university was administering an entrance exam to an attractive female stu-

what seemed to be excellent answers to his questions.

But the professor said she sounded like she was unsure of her answers. He said that if she were to give him a call sometime he would reconsider his decision to not admit her into the medical school.

Nita and another student overcame their fear of retaliation and they told the dean about the professor's actions.

Abazi used a television reporter to reveal that though the war ended three years ago, Kosovo still has much rebuilding left to do. The reporter stood in a building on the campus that had no water or electricity.

Abazi said $200 million in funding earmarked for electricity just disappeared. Despite the multitude of problems, the general mood on the campus was good, the reporter said.

Journalists and filmmakers in Kosovo have limited freedoms, Abazi said. They can document social problems, like prostitution, drugs and a lack of housing, but issues pertaining to politics are off limits, Abazi said.

Many politicians are well aware of Abazi's reputation as someone who seeks to tell the truth about life in Kosovo, which has a population of about two million.

"They are very afraid of me," Abazi said half jokingly.

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By Jennifer Brown OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A federal lawsuit that alleges an Oklahoma coffin monopoly could change the way Oklahomans shop for caskets.

Ponca City resident Kim Powers, who sells funeral supplies via the Internet, is challenging a state law that prohibits her from doing business with Oklahomans because she does not have a degree in mortuary science.

Oklahoma and 10 other states allow only licensed funeral directors to sell caskets. Opponents of the laws say they create a casket cartel and take away a consumer's right to search for the best deal.

Powers, president of Memorial Concepts Online, has sued the State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors in federal court. A trial, expected to last three or four days, began Monday before U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot.

Powers' attorneys, paid for by the Institute for Justice in Washington, D.C., claim the law violates her right to earn a living.

They also say it makes no sense to require someone who sells caskets to obtain a funeral director's license, which in Oklahoma requires two years of college, a one-year apprenticeship and the embalming of 25 bodies.

"It is akin to requiring someone who wants to be a bus driver to be a licensed airline pilot," attorney Clark Neily said in his opening statement.

But Joseph McCormick IV of the Attorney General's Office, which is representing the funeral directors board, said the Oklahoma Legislature created the 87-year-old law to protect grieving consumers from fraud.

Powers studied journalism and education in college, worked as a real estate agent, sold life insurance and eventually got a job with a funeral home in Ponca City.

She sold funeral plans to people who wanted to plan their own service and pay for it before their death. Powers had a certificate from the state Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors to perform that job.

But when she launched her own business, with partner Dennis Bridges of Knoxville, Tenn., she was not allowed to sell caskets to Oklahomans.

Residents of most other states can purchase her caskets, which she says are less expensive than those in funeral parlors.

The Institute for Justice, which won a similar case in Tennessee in 2000, said some funeral homes put a 600 percent markup on caskets.

Similar laws were struck down in the last few years in Mississippi and Georgia. States that allow only licensed funeral directors to sell caskets are Maine, Vermont, Delaware, Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Minnesota and Idaho, the institute said.

In Oklahoma, violation of the law is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail and a $5,000 fine.

About 490 businesses in the state handle arrangements for the 33,000 or so people who die here each year. The average Oklahoma funeral costs $5,500, not including the plot and grave. That's slightly higher than the national average of $4,700, the institute said.

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Abazi said no harm has come to him as a result of his hard-hitting journalistic style. "The Life of a Land" was the first film of its kind to be made in Kosovo, he said. The country is still being rebuilt; a lack of money limits the number of filmmakers capable of producing a full-length film.

Albanians are hard workers, Abazi said. But companies are afraid to invest in Kosovo so soon after a war.

Life in Kosovo is getting better, Abazi said. The presence of United Nations peacekeepers has helped to stabilize the province.

They arrived soon after North Atlantic Treaty Organization military action forced Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic to surrender.

In 1999, Serbian forces were battling the Kosovo Liberation Army, fighting for independence from Serbia. Ninety percent of Kosovars are Albanian, six to seven percent are Serb, Abazi said.

In March 1999, NATO intervened to keep the war from spreading.

Abazi has also written and acted in film and in theater. He will be working on two new projects, one about war, another about art students from culturally diverse backgrounds. Art is their common language, Abazi said.

Abazi is the director of the Association of Culture and Art Development in the Balkans.

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The International Student Council is holding an International Graduation Reception and Dance from 7 - 10 p.m. Nov. 22 in the NUC Ballroom C. The dress is semi-formal and the event is free.

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Monday The International Student Council holds weekly meetings at 4 p.m. every Monday in the Nigh University Center, Room 322. For more information, call the International Office at 974-2390.

The UCO Catholic Student Center holds a rosary at 12:10 p.m. every Monday by Broncho Lake. Rosaries are provided. For more information, call Carl Erickson at 341-6300.

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Funeral home offers to keep genetic piece of dearly deceased WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) An Iowa funeral home business is offering to keep a genetic piece of departed loved ones.

James Fullerton, owner of Fullerton Funeral Homes, said the uses for DNA data are almost endless _ but the window of extracting opportunity is limited. Once a body is cremated or embalmed, taking DNA is difficult if not impossible.

"We are basically the last chance for a family to preserve the DNA of a loved one," said Fullerton, who has branches in Charles City, Mason City, Rockford and Rockwell. "With the possible benefits, we feel they need to know about the services."

For $295, the funeral home will take a blood sample and have it stored at Des-Moines based DNA Connections. Once the sample is received, a team extracts the DNA and stores it for up to 25 years.

At this time, only the family will get information about the sample, said Steven Whitehead, CEO of DNA Connections. The company stores the samples in St. Louis, Mo., and has provided its services to a few hundred customers in 23 states, Whitehead said.

The recent explosion of genetic data following the Human Genome Project has made possibilities for using the DNA almost endless, Fullerton said.

But the thought of funeral homes extracting the double-helix troubles some.

Since the process is so new and its path so uncharted, some medical ethics experts worry that DNA testing and storage poses privacy and safety issues.

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Study finds diet may offer benefit against cholesterol

By Daniel Haney CHICAGO (AP) Multitudes swear by the high-fat, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet, and now a carefully controlled Duke University study backs them up: Low-carb may actually take off more weight than low-fat and may be surprisingly better for cholesterol too.

For years, the Atkins formula of sparing carbohydrates and loading up on taboo fatty foods has been blasphemy to many in the health establishment, who view it as a formula for cardiovascular ruin.

But now, some of the same researchers who long scoffed at the diet are putting it to the test, and they say the results astonish them. Rather than making cholesterol soar, as they feared, the diet actually appears to improve it, and volunteers take off more weight.

Still, the number of overweight people studied this way is small, and the research does not examine possible long-term ills or advantages, including how long people keep the pounds off So for now, the researchers say that much more research is necessary before the Atkins diet can be given an across-the-board endorsement, but at least they believe it is safe enough to take into much larger studies.

At least three formal studies of the Atkins diet have been presented at medical conferences over the past year, and all have reached similar results. The latest, conducted by Dr. Eric Westman of Duke University, was presented Monday at the annual scientific meeting of the American Heart Association, long a stronghold of support for the traditional low-fat approach.

Westman, an internist at Duke's diet and fitness center, said he decided to study the Atkins approach because of concern over so many patients and friends taking it up on their

own. He approached the Robert C. Atkins foundation in New York City to finance the research.

Westman studied 120 overweight volunteers, who were randomly assigned to the Atkins diet or the heart association's Step 1 diet, a widely used low-fat approach. On the Atkins diet, people limited their carbs to less than 20 grams a day, and 60 percent of their calories came from fat.

"It was high fat, off the scale," he said.

After six months, the people on the Atkins diet had lost 31 pounds, compared with 20 pounds on the AHA diet, and more people stuck with the Atkins regimen.

Total cholesterol fell slightly in both groups. However, those on the Atkins diet had an 11 percent increase in HDL, the good cholesterol, and a 49 percent drop in triglycerides. On the AHA diet, HDL was unchanged, and triglycerides dropped 22 percent. High triglycerides may raise the risk of heart disease.

While the volunteers' total amounts of LDL, the bad cholesterol, did not change much on either diet, there was evidence that it had shifted to a form that may be less likely to clog the arteries.

"More study is necessary before such a diet can be recommended," Westman said.

"However, a concern about serum lipid (cholesterol) elevations should not impede such research."

No single study is likely to change minds the issue, especially since an initial weight loss is hard to maintain on any diet.

Some answers could come from a yearlong study being sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. That experiment, being directed by Dr. Gary Foster of the University of Pennsylvania, will test the Atkins

Lawmakers convene to approve prison funding OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A $9.8 million plan to stop the Department of Corrections from furloughing its prison guards is on the Legislature's special session agenda.

But bailing out other state agencies affected by the state's $291 million budget shortfall will have to wait until next year when Oklahoma's newly elected Legislature meets.

Members of the 48th Legislature are scheduled to convene one last time Monday afternoon to appropriate emergency funds to avoid the unpaid furlough of corrections workers.

Furloughs were ordered in September to help offset a cut in the agency's budget.

The Oklahoma Public Employees Association has said furloughing prison guards could jeopardize public safety as well as corrections workers and inmates.

Gov. Frank Keating said the emergency funds will come from revenue accumulated in state coffers at the end

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In the meantime, the heart association's president, Dr. Robert Bonow of Northwestern University, said the organization will reconsider the Atkins diet as more research results become available.

"Having our top academic centers look at this is wonderful," he said. "We are still dealing with small numbers of patients.

We just need more data."

Dr. Sidney Smith, the heart association's research director, said it was a surprise that the Atkins diet did not raise LDL cholesterol. "One small study like this flies in the face of so much evidence. We can't change dietary recommendations on the spot," he said.

Dr. Alice Lichtenstein, a nutrition expert at Tufts University, said she thinks too much is made of the amounts of carbohydrates and fats in people's diets as they try to shed weight.

"There is no magic combination of fat versus carbs versus protein," she said. "It doesn't matter in the long run. The bottom line is calories, calories, calories."

Among other reports at the meeting: The heart association updated its guidelines on fish consumption, urging people with documented heart disease to eat one serving of oily fish, such as salmon, each day.

A 12-year follow-up of Harvard's Nurses Health Study found that women who increased their consumption of fruits and vegetables had a 26 percent lower risk of becoming obese.

Researchers from the University of Michigan found that older women who are overweight or have had frequent weight swings have impaired blood flow to the heart.

"Professors Picks" a new Art Club exhibit, opened Nov. 18 in the Art Club Gallery in the Art Building.

"Professors chose work from students in their classes representing the best work of the semester," said Kelly Farrar, Art Club president.

She said every kind of art is on display

including ceramics, sculpture, painting, drawing and prints.

Michelle Selby, photography sophomore, has a woven textile piece in the exhibit.

"This is the first time I've ever had any art exhibited," she said.

Selby said this is the first time she has taken weaving and she likes it so much she is taking advanced weaving in the spring.

This helps students see what kind of classes they can take and the work they would do,"

of the 2002 fiscal year that was not appropriated by lawmakers.

Approval of the spending plan would postpone the furloughs until April. But the Corrections Department will still have a $27 million funding shortfall because of the state's rising inmate populadon.

Gary Jones, executive director of the OPEA, has recommended a series of costcutting measures, including authorizing the early release of 3,600 inmates and returning 1,150 prisoners from private to state-operated prisons.

Jones said the new Legislature may also have to consider a variety of revenueraising measures. He said Oklahoma ranks 50th among the states in the amount it spends on government.

Newly elected lawmakers, including 17 new House members and eight new members of the Senate, will be sworn in Tuesday. The Legislature convenes its regular session in Febniary.

Dec. 1 is deadline to get on no-call list OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Oklahomans must enroll by Dec. 1 to get on the state's first no-call telemarketing registry, Attorney General Drew Edmondson said Monday.

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Art Department chairman, Dr. Bob Palmer, said, "What I put in the show represents a strong image and skilled students work."

This is the first time a show like this has taken place, Farrar said.

"It's a great way to showcase the best student work," Palmer said.

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by Daniel Holdge dh@thevistaonline.com Many of the current Broncho players are obviously upset by the news released Monday, and now they want some answers.

On Tuesday, many of the players marched from the Hamilton Field House over to

the Lillard Administration Building to speak to school President Roger Webb, get some answers they are looking for and make a plea.

To the player's dismay though, President Webb was out of his office at an off-campus meeting at the time they went to speak with him.

"We just wanted to speak with President Webb and see if some of these assistant coaches could come back with us next year," said junior split end Dee Dee Carter.

The team is hoping that former defensive coordinator Duane Dirk could have a chance at becoming the new head coach

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More football players wait outside Lillard while team leaders went inside.

of the Bronchos.

Many of the players feel they need someone from inside the program to step in and take over.

There are 18 starters returning from last year's team, many who contribute in big ways.

The team feels they are ready to contend next year and just want a coach from last year's team to help them get there.

"We came here as a team and this had absolutely nothing to do with the coaches. We just wanted to let Dr. Webb know how we feel,” said Carter.

The players really had a problem with how the whole situation happened.

They were confused how there was no inclination of this happening until is was too late on Monday.

"The whole thing was sprung on all of us, the players and coaches. I wake up and read in the paper (The Daily Oklahoman) that coach is working and figures he is going to stay, and then this happens, it just seems wrong," said Carter.

The players are still hoping to speak with President Webb sometime soon and get those answers.

Until then they will just have to wait and see what moves the administration will make in fill-

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Awards were being passed out in volleyball this „week and a bunch of UCO athletes were in line to receive one.

The Lone Star Conference North Division champion Bronchos dominated the AllLSC North Division Volleyball Team that was released Monday with four first-team selections.

Also Mark Herrin took Coach of the Year honors.

The Bronchos captured their second straight LSC North title this season and are 30-6 heading into the NCAA Division II playoffs that begin this weekend in Canyon, Texas.

Named to the seven-player first-team unit were senior outside hitters Alma Brahimaj and Lexy Fortner, junior setter Stacey Meek and junior middle blocker Tori Walker, while senior middle blocker Katy Wallace was a second-team pick.

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Fortner earned first-team recognition for the third straight season and has 488 kills with 421 digs on the year.

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Wallace, a three-time secondteam pick, has 218 kills, 305 digs and 96 blocks.

Herrin has directed UCO to the second-winningest season in school history behind only the 32-win team of 1994 that made the school's first-ever appearance in the national playoffs.

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defensive coordinator before moving to head coach nine years later in 1977.

"I'm proud of what I was able to accomplish during my career here in particular over the last 11 years," said Howard in a statement on Monday.

"We won a lot of football games and had a great deal of success. I had a great group of coaches helping me and I certainly appreciate their efforts over the years."

Three of Howard's assistants have been with the Bronchos for at least 13 years.

Secondary coach Bailey was a 19-year veteran, defensive coordinator Dirk and offensive coordinator Massey had each been at UCO for 13 years.

Gary's son, Mark Howard had been the offensive backs coach for two years.

Now Central Oklahoma must search for a successor, which will begin immediately.

There are hopes that a new coach can be named by Christmas and start by Jan. 1.

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Coach Howard had been with UCO football 34 years.

OU one away from ultimate goal WACO, Texas (AP) Oklahoma didn't let one loss completely undo its season, and now the Sooners are just one victory away from what they insist was always their first goal.

By rebounding from their loss with a 49-9 win at Baylor on Saturday, the fourth-ranked Sooners (9-1, 5-1 Big 12) set up this weekend's showdown at home against Texas Tech for the Big 12 South division title.

'Nobody likes to lose. That was a bitter taste," said Quentin Griffin, who had 205 total yards and four touchdowns against Baylor.

We wanted to come back and get it back together. This was a good start."

Oklahoma lost control of its chance to play for the national championship after a 30-26 loss at Texas A&M the previous week that dropped the Sooners from first to fourth in both The Associated Press poll and Bowl Championship Series standings.

The Sooners remained fourth in the new AP poll Sunday. The new BCS standings come out Monday.

'It was important to have a good showing to just show people that because we lost one game, we haven't lost our focus, our edge or whatever we have to have," said defensive back Derrick Strait, who had two interceptions against Baylor.

"We are another step closer to having a chance to win the —

South and the Big 12 championship," Sooners coach Bob Stoops said. "That is primary first and foremost on our mind."

Texas Tech (8-4, 5-2) eliminated Texas from Big 12 contention with a 42-38 win Saturday.

Next weekend's Texas TechOklahoma winner goes to the Dec. 7 league championship game against No. 16-ranked Colorado.

The winner there is assured a berth in one of the four BCS bowls.

Oklahoma has won all 12 of its games against Baylor, the last four years by an average margin of 36 points.

Griffin had his sixth straight 100-yard rushing game, with 152 yards on 17 carries in three quarters.

He scored the first two Oklahoma TDs and got his other scores when the Sooners had touchdowns on their first three possessions of the second half for a 42-3 lead.

The Bears (3-7, 1-6) played their final home game under coach Kevin Steele and lost their sixth straight _ a stretch in which they've been outscored 271-30.

Steele, who remained for the rest of the season after being fired Nov. 3, is 9-35 overall and 1-30 in the Big 12.

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minute of the first half after Aaron Karas completed passes of 14, 15 and 28 yards to Robert Quiroga.

On the next play, Strait stepped in front of Marques Roberts in the end zone for an interception he returned 52 yards.

Oklahoma ran out the final 16 seconds, but right after halftime had three scoring drives of 91 seconds or less.

Nate Hybl had a 40-yard touchdown pass to Anrwone Savage, who three plays earlier had returned the second-half kickoff 54 yards.

Griffin scored on a 25-yard run and then a 1-yard plunge one play after being dragged down a foot short of the goal line'by Matt Johnson on a 61yard gain.

In the fourth quarter, Strait intercepted a pass by backup quarterback Greg Cicero and returned it 75 yards for a touchdown that made it 49-3.

Basketball is back and the UCO women are hoping to have a turn-around banner year.

The Bronchos look to some experienced newcomers with its returning players to form a team that can be a force in the Lone Star Conference North Division race in 2002-03.

The Bronchos return four letterwinners, including one starter, from last year's 13-13 team but gained five veteran transfers.

Veteran head coach John Keely is eager to see how the pieces will fit together in UCO's bid for success this season.

"We've got a lot of new players but they've all got a lot of experience and they're all going to help us," said Keely, whose team opens the season on Nov. 22-23 at the Northeastern State Classic. "I think we've got a lot of talent but we've got to see what will fit us and find some chemistry."

Two of UCO's returning players will provide key leadership, with senior guards Tawni Meek and Bethany Hawthorne back to direct the team.

Meek will be in her fourth year as the starting point guard and has 250 career assists to her credit as UCO's top floor leader, while Hawthorne will also see plenty of time at the point.

Two other returning letterwinners expected to play a big role this season are sophomore forward Lindsay Young and junior guard Erica Bramlett.

The 6-foot Young picked up valuable experience last year and will provide much-needed inside help this winter, while Bramlett is ready to become an impact player with her outside shooting ability.

Senior guard Summer Wafford was at Texas A&MCommerce last year, while junior forward Kari Edge came from Southwestern Oklahoma, and their experience of having played in the league will be vital.

Wafford averaged 10.2 points and 3.7 rebounds a game a year ago in earning honorable mention All-LSC South Division honors and she's

major contributions from junior guard Laura Hamilton, junior forward April Woods and freshman forward Amber Robertson.

Again UCO's primary goal will be qualifying for the LSC Post-season Tournament, something that's eluded the Bronchos the past five years.

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"The fear was that if they up their recruiting efforts to offset dwindling numbers of high raised standards they would have school graduates over the two fewer students because less studecades ending in 1999, a study dents would be eligible," Maxey by five leading educational insti- said. "But what has happened tutions reported Monday. over time is that indeed a greater That helped schools maintain share of the high school graduates are going to college." their academic standards, accord- The report said schools are ing to researchers who produced "Trends in College Admission marketing themselves a wide vari ety of ways: visits to high schools 2000."

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District Judge Willard Driesel said the law could unfairly cost gamecock breeders their livelihood or their freedom. His order means authorities in Choctaw, McCurtain and Pushmataha counties cannot enforce the ban until a later hearing on the law's constitutionality.

No hearing date was set.

The ruling was a victory for breeders who filled the courthouse in Idabell and had sued

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Special Events The Omniplex will present The Captain's Gala an sneak preview of Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit 7 p.m. Nov. 22 at 2100 N.E. 52nd St. Dress is period costume/black tie a meal will be served in the style of the 1912 voyage of the Titanic. Director James Cameron will be present at the event. Tickets start at $100 per person. To reserve tickets call 602-3676.

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"She's doing well. Her spirits are good. She sounds like she's doing much better," said spokeswoman Sarah Magazine.

Swift will head home to Williamstown to recuperate for the next few days. Her official schedule for Monday and Tuesday has been cleared.

Swift had planned to attend a Republican Governor's Association meeting in California at the end of the week. That trip has been canceled, Magazine said.

Swift, 37, was hospitalized Friday night after suffering from headaches and nausea. Doctors recommended she be admitted for observation and were treating her with fluids and rest.

Doctors found no bacteria present in her cerebral spinal fluid, which means she does not have the more serious bacterial meningitis.

There was no transfer of power when she entered the hospital.

Swift is the nation's youngest governor and the first female governor of Massachusetts.

The Republican was originally elected lieutenant governor and named acting governor in April 2001 when Paul Cellucci was appointed U.S. ambassador to Canada. She did not run for election and will leave office at the end of December.

Swift became the first U.S. governor to give birth while in office when she delivered twin girls in May 2001 and now has three young children. Her oldest daughter is 4.

Investigators find no apparent mechanical problems in either plane involved in deadly mid-air crash FAIRFIELD, N.J. (AP) Investigators have found no mechanical problems in the two planes involved in a fatal mid-air crash near Essex County Airport last week, a federal official said.

"This is preliminary information," Terry Williams, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, said Monday. "We're in the early stages of the investigation."

Williams said the on-site wreckage inspection had concluded, and that debris and other traces of Friday's crash would be removed the same day.

The agency plans to have an air-traffic control specialist listen to tapes from the airport's control tower.

Investigators also plan to interview the controller who was working at the time of the crash, but it was not known when that would take place. A preliminary crash report may be posted on the NTSB's Web site by the middle of the week.

The planes collided when a pilot practicing touch-and-go landings in a Mooney Cadet approached the same runway as a man who was bringing his Piper Lance in for a landing. The pilots _ Bulent Bolukbasi, 48, of West New York, who was flying the Mooney, and Paul Disarro of Milford, who was in the Piper _ were killed in the crash.

Graffiti artist in Corvallis sprays homage to mobster CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) A graffiti artist in Corvallis has been leaving a mysterious calling card all over town: a spray-painted portrait of Frank Nitti, a notorious Chicago gangster from the Prohibition Era. Pictures of Nitti have been painted on various locations in downtown Corvallis, and police don't know why.

One possibility is gang activity. In some parts of the country, members of the Bloods youth gang have adopted the names of wellknown mobsters, including Nitti. But such a link seems far-fetched in Corvallis, said Capt. Gary Boldizsar of the Corvallis Police Department.

"I suppose it's possible, but it's highly unlikely," he said.

Boldizsar's looking into a possible connection to ecoterrorist groups, but that, too, has proved a dead end so far.

Nitti, known as Frank the Enforcer, was the muscle behind Al Capone's criminal empire. After Capone went to prison, Nitti was thought to have taken over the Chicago mob, and was cast as the nemesis of heroic G-man Eliot Ness in TV's "The Untouchables."

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The new law bans the breeding, raising, selling or transporting of gamecocks for fighting.

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To take place through Dec. 2, student organizations and area business drop-off locations include the UCO Academy of Forensic Science, which is working with the Edmond Tag Agency and Fields Jewelry to collect non-perishable food.

Other UCO organizations and Edmond businesses participating are the Student Dietetic Association and Kohl's Department Store, the Hispanic American Student Association and Karen Moore Studio and the Hope Center, and the UCO American Society of Interior Designers and the Edmond Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Edmond Chamber of Commerce.

Event organizers said it's events such as this that most benefit those in need during the holidays.

The Oklahoma City American Box Company has provided the businesses with the boxes needed to collect donations free of charge.

For more information about the UCO WinterGlow food drive, contact Blake Fry, UCO director of Campus Life at 974-2619.

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