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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2003
Spring schedules Art Show... to be posted online, not printed by Kim Roberts Staff Writer Beginning with the spring semester, enrollment schedules will only be online and no longer be printed. As spring enrollment approaches, Central students will no longer be able to highlight and dog-ear printed class schedules. "[Saving money] was one aspect of it, but when the [printed] schedule of classes comes out, it's almost out of date," said Jerry Legere, assistant vice president for enrollment. After it's printed, departments sometimes change courses in the schedule, he said. "It's just not an up — to — date book, whereas online we can keep completely up to date," he said. Central is following the example set by other big schools in the state. Legere said that OU and OSU did the same thing a year ago, but Central wasn't ready at that point. He said that several people looked at the idea, and everyone supported it when the decision was made to go online in December of 2002. "There are several benefits. A lot of students are already used to enrolling online —
about 75% — and are already looking [at the schedule] online," Legere said. "If we had the printed schedule it wouldn't be out until about a week before enrollment, whereas it's already been available online since Sept. 11." "This way they can look at it a little more leisurely when they have to enroll," he said. However, some students are not happy with the change. "I really hate it. I'm a visual person, and I need to flip through and highlight. What if the intemet is down?" sophomore Kathy Shrock said. Legere said he doesn't expect anyone to be denied access on the internet. "The system may slow down, and it may not operate quite as fast when there's a high demand on it," Legere said. He said students will not be able to mark certain courses like in the printed version, but instead should write down the CRN number (class I.D. number) of any classes he or she is interested in. Students can access the new schedule by loying on to http://UCOnnect.ucok.edu , http://www.registrar.ucok.edu/sched, http://bronze.ucok.edu/registrar/sched or http://central.ucokedu.
Art students display their paintings for critique Oct. 21 outside the Art Building.
Support group helps students quit smoking, get healthy by Sherrod Wall Staff Writer A campus support group designed to help smokers learn how to release themselves from their habit will be meeting in the UCO Wellness Center Oct. 24. The group will meet at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. that day.
The group's moderator, Mark Brennaman, said the program will demonstrate how to start creating a clearer environment for smokers to live in to shift their outlook from quitting to what they are doing for themselves—starting down the path of a healthier life. "We will also discuss how a positive outlook can greatly affect the smokers ability to quit." He said.
Brennaman had been a smoker for 30 years before he quit 9 months ago. His experience drove him to help ease the pain of quitting for other smokers. "If a smoker approaches me, then ill share my experiences with them to help them quit," Brennaman said. According to Brennaman the addiction can be isolated into a dependence triad corn-
prised of physical, behavior, and psychological components. "While smoking, the physical aspect is our body's dependence for the chemical, nicotine." He said. Defying the bodies craving for nicotine is the least difficult part of quitting because the body eliminates the nicotine from the body in three days Brennaman said. "The hardest part of quitting is
removing the habit of smoking from your mind," he said. "Once you can change the habit and the way you think about yourself quitting is easier." Brennaman said that the behavior aspect is how the smoking habit blends with everyday life. Activities such as waking up and immediately smoking, talking on the phone and smoking at the same time, being stressed out and imme-
diately using a cigarette to allay inner turmoil are a few examples of this. "To break the habit, it is important to break each aspect down and figure out how you, individually, relate to them," Brennaman said. Brennamen suggests that smokers implement drastic changes in everyday routines that are normally correlated with smoking to help remove smoking from their minds.
Poet to lead workshop by Christina Purdom Student Writer Renowned author and poet Anita Skeen will lead a poetry workshop in the Chambers Library at 7 p.m. Oct. 23. The free workshop, sponsored by Friends of the Library, is open to all interested poets. Skeen is currently Professor of English and
Photo by Juli Barker
Dylan Park apartment complex on Chowning is under construction, to be completed Nov. 15.
New student apartments due for November completion by Rachael Tully Staff Writer A new student apartment complex is under construction and is due to be completed by the end of November. The Dillon Park apartment complex, located at 1017 Chowning, will house up to 144 Central students. David Aduddell, manager of Oklahoma Development Group, said Dillon's features will meet the needs of any college student. "The college trend of combination dorm and apartment living is growing," he said. "Dillon Park provides students with lots of space and special features." With the completion of one of Dillon's buildings on Oct. 15, many Central students said they
arc anticipating moving into the new living quarters. Chase Craig, freshman forensic science major, said he hopes to move into the apartments as soon as possible. "I live in the dorms, and I am tired of competing for a shower in the morning," he said. "The Dillon apartments are close to campus and will make parking a lot easier," Craig said. Missy White, freshman elementary education major, resides at Sleep Inn while the apartments are being completed. "I am so excited about the brand new apartments," White said. "I can't wait to sleep in a brand new bed, instead one that has already been slept on." Matt Kuker of Milestone Construction, project manager of
Director of the Residential Option in Arts and Letters Program at Michigan State University. She is the author of four volumes of poetry and her works have been seen in many literary magazines. The theme this year will be "The Place of Poetry." In October of 2002 Skeen held a similar workshop which focused on visual art and it's power to
influence poetry. This workshop produced the Murrah Poetry Project which displayed many paintings that once decorated the OKC Murrah Building along with poetry that was influenced by the paintings. Because seating is limited, the library asks that those who are interested in attending pre-register by calling 974-2946.
Chemistry Week stirs interest in science by Sherrod Wall Staff Writer
In conjunction with the site, said that the apartments Chemistry Week, the are fully furnished. Chemistry Department and "They also provide students Chemistry Club hosted severwith basic enhanced cable and al events this week to generate high-speed Internet access," he interest in the science. said. Chemistry Week was creDillon Park provides a unique ated by the American decor option for students, Chemical Society, which Dr. Aduddell said. John Bowen, faculty sponsor "Students can choose from four of Chemistry Week, said is color coordinating designs for like a governing body for scitheir unit," he said. ences. The apartments allow students "The American Chemical to choose between three and four Society provides a forum for bedroom units. They also offer chemists to talk about the scitelephone service, fully equipped ence that they are doing," kitchens, convenient parking, and Bowen said. washer and dryer units. Events were held earlier in Dillon Park's bill ties rent, tele- the week and will continue phone and utilities into one pay- through Oct. 24. ment. Chemistry magic shows Call 630-7110 for more infor- will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 mation.
p.m. Oct. 23 at the Nigh University Center. Chemistry T-shirt Day is Oct. 24 when everyone is invited to wear their favorite chemistry T-shirt. "Luckily I have one from the University of Wyoming that is pretty interesting and weird so I'm going to wear that one," Bowen said. Another Friday event is the "Dunk the Professor" booth. The 25-cent tickets for the event went on sale Monday. "All the students that feel like they've actually been abused by their professors in one way on another or treated badly on quizzes or tests — now's the time for revenge," Bowen said. The idea is to raise up enough money in quarters to get the professor of your choice dunked, he said. Bowen and a number of
other professors decided to participate in the event. "I've been especially nice to my students — this week we aren't going to have a quiz," Bowen said. "All the organic professors really get dunked." Events earlier in the week included Monday's "Element Day" where professors dressed up in costume as different elements of the periodic table and paraded 'through Howell Hall. "The whole idea is that you have to dress up in some kind of costume and students have to guess what you are," Bowen said. Periodic table cupcakes were sold Monday for 50 cents a piece. Dr. John Michael Ferguson took his students to the University Center Tuesday
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