Oct
No. 9
VISTA
Tuesday Edition
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Blood donations needed; AIDS blamed for woes By Debbie Martin The Oklahoma Blood Institute is sponsoring a blood drive on the CSU campus Wednesday and Thursday. Blood donations may be made in the Council Room, 4th floor, at the University Center. Donation hours will be from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. each day. "The Oklahoma Blood Drive at CSU is for the entire campus community," said Stephanie Hill, campus coordinator for the Oklahoma Blood Drive, and the representative for high school/college relations. Hill said that the Oklahoma blood banks have been at a critical low, which she believes is a direct
You're getting sleepy Dr. Roy Bellows proved Thursday evening at the University Center that the mind can do "strange" things when hypnotized. Some of the ways Bellows proved this was by making volunteers believe their shoes were telephones, telling some male volunteer they were go-go dancers, and telling one girl she was stiff as a board, after which Bellows proved by standing on her (below).
result from misinformation on AIDS that is circulating amongst the public. A person cannot contract AIDS from donating blood said Hill. "Three-hundred pints of blood are needed daily," said Karen Rhodes of the Oklahoma Blood institute when she spoke to the Student Senate Sept. 23. CSU has been averaging one hundred and fifty to two hundred pints of blood at past drives. To spark more interest there are many competitions. CSU and the Oklahoma Christian College will be competing against each other this year as they have in the past. CSU won the blood drive competition last spring for the first time.
(Below) Amy Stanbery
supports the weight of Bellows while under hypnosis. (Left) Don Novey (with arms up) and Michael Hawkins do a partial strip-tease while they are made to believe they are go-go
dancers.
Vista photos by Tom Gilbert
Ryan: No policy yet to handle AIDS cases By Jennifer Kavanaugh There is no official policy for handling cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) here on campus, according to Dr. Dudley Ryan, vice president of student services. No cases have been reported on campus as yet and Ryan said he feels confident the Board of Regents of Oklahoma Colleges will work with the Oklahoma State Health Department to for-
mulate a specific policy in the near future. "AIDS is a virus, no different than the flu," said Ryan. "Residents with the flu are made to stay in the Student Health Center until they are no longer contagious." Depending on the State Health Department's recommendations, the public may or may not be notified about AIDS on campus.
By Italia Carson
when turning in applications last April. "I made two trips to Tulsa to get my escort so we could take the pictures," Selders said, "because it meant so much to both of us to be in the calender. Now I wish it could be erased and redone for the other girls' sake." The problem, according to Dr. Ray Tassin, chairman of the journalism department, apparently involved a lack of time and organization. "The deadline for the
Calendar girl pictures cause flap
"Shock" was the general consensus from six of the twelve 1985-86 CSU calender girls when asked about their first reactions concerning this year's calender. "I thought it could have been a lot better," said Torree Selders, Miss July. "A calender girl is supposed to represent beauty, but the way it came out it didn't flatter the girls at all." Selders, along with 13 other o calender hopefuls, had high hopes
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photographs was June 1, but the photographer didn't bring in the photographs until the middle of June." Tassin explained. "When she did bring them in, they were unusable because of technical deficiencies." At this time all the calender girls were called back for weekend retakes. This task fell on the shoulders of Dr. Woody Gaddis, photography instructor. "We were a month late so we asked Dr. Gaddis if he would reshoot the pictures in a few days," Tassin continued. "It was either reshoot or not have the calender and I felt that we should have a calender because not all the pictures were bad." Tassin said that he claims responsibility for the freedom he allowed the student photographer. "I should have monitored her a little closer and that's my fault," he said." The other side of the controversy concerns swimsuits worn by a few of the calender girls for their photographs. "It bothers me about the
photographs, but the dress code was entirely up to the girls," Tassin said. "We try to go by what the AAUW (American Association of University Women) says is proper women's attire for the campus." Miss August, Tohnia Singleton, said her reason for wearing the suit was to repeat the theme of the first picture taken of her. "The first picture was taken by a swimming pool and we were told by the (first) photographer to wear bathing suits," she explained. "So, when we were told that the photograph needed to be taken again, I just thought we were going to do the same thing." Singleton says she refuses to sell the calenders despite the requirement that each calender girl selected sell at least 100 calenders. "I refuse to sell them. They're so disgusting and vulger," she said. "I wish we could have seen the pictures beforehand," she continued. "I would have taken it again. It's not fair to tell someone it's an honor and then humiliate them for the whole year. It
shouldn't be that way." Singleton is not the only calender girl refusing to sell the required 100 calenders. According to Singleton, the sorority Alpha Gamma Delta voted to nix the selling of calenders by their calender girl representative, Tiffany Thomas, Miss November, because they felt that the calenders were "immoral." Some of the calenders girls expressed an understanding for the problems encountered. "I'm dissapointed in the calenders, but I can understand them running out of time because of this girl," said Miss January, Debbie Rector. "It wasn't Gaddis' fault," said Miss March escort, Alan Childers, a photography major. "He (Gaddis) was doing the journalism department a favor. The original photographs were 10 times worse because of the angles they were shot at and the contrast," he continued." Plans next year may call for new sponsors to put out the calendar.