The Vista Oct. 8, 1998

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UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

THURSDAY TEENLINE

OCTOBER 8, 1998 SPORTS; FOOTBALL

Hotline seeks volunteers...4

UCO vs. East Central 10

BAT CAVE

COUNSELING

UGC receives property 7

Depression screening 12

COLUMN

ENTERTAINMENT

You Heard It Here First 9

Movie review 17

The Student Voice Since 1903

Support mixed over addition of fitness center By Jarrod Briley Student(Ina

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f all goes according to plan, President W. Roger Webb foresees a fitness and wellness center being added to the university. The location and construction date of the fitness center are still being discussed. It is estimated to cost $7 million and will be funded by an additional $25 per-semester student activity fee. Webb said he doesn't believe the fee will go up, but said until the final cost of the facility (Above): Dr. John Barthell (center), UCO professor is determined there of biology, demonstrates to his entomology students was no way to be a technique for collecting insect specimens. Near sure. UCO's costume shop, he showed the hardworking Webb said he collectors how to strip moist bark off a tree stump feels that such a and remove tiny insects from inside of the bark. facility may be As part of the class's curriculum, students must turn crucial to UCO's in a collection of captured insects. future by allowing it to successfully (Right): One of Barthells' students drags a net If the students compete with other through Broncho Lake, hoping to find some aquatic universities. on this campus insects for his collection. Broncho Lake has many Webb said he is aren't interested, concerned that living organisms in it, ideal for scientific study. then we (the many Oklahoma Entomology is the study of evolution of insects, administration) universities, several among other things. won't do it (build with relatively small student the facility). (Staff photo by Sara Morrell) populations compared to —UCO President UCO's, already Roger Webb have fitness centers and are using them teaching future elementary teachers different teaching to draw students By Katie Hawk strategies, said Dana Craig, professor of mathematics. away from UCO. StaffWriter Craig said that students entering as freshmen since "I don't know of a university our size of 14 tudents majoring in early childhood, fall of 1997 as an education major, are required to to 15 thousand students that does not have one," says Webb. elementary, or special education are complete 12 semester hours in mathematics education. "There may be some out there, but I don't encouraged to attend a mathematics tutoring Whereas, the students were only required to take three know of one." program 2-4 p.m., every Thursday in Room 107 of the hours before fall of 1997. Most students interviewed were supportive Math and Computer Science Building. The tutoring will assist the students with the four "Mathematics Tutoring" is a program dedicated to • See MATH, Page 8 • See FITNESS CENTER, Page 3

Specimen experiment...

Math tutoring program helps future teachers

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