THURSDAY
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
NEW VP
SEPTEMBER 10, 1998 COLUMN
Ron Bogle named VP 6
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ACCREDITATION
Scholarship offers credit...9
College gets program 26
MORNING AFTER PILL
RESEARCH
FDA gives approval 10
1998 Colloquium 27
The Student Voice Since 1903
Splish, splash... UCO students Nigel Harris, computer science major, and Hardy Homburg, psychology/computer science major, take advantage of the Labor Day sunshine. (Staff photo by Sara Morrell)
Presidents Club resist request to dissolve By Mark A. Schneberger StaffWriter
We serve an important function on campus. We're staying here. —Kim Smith Presidents Club president
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last minute attempt by members of the UCO student government nearly succeeded in eliminating the university's Presidents Club last week—and with it, the holiday hopes of several area children. But a group vote by Presidents Club members, Sept. 1, to keep the club intact, ensured that needy tikes will get a party
they'll long remember this winter. "I think it was a vote that all members cam be proud of," said Presidents Club President Kim Smith of her group's solidarity vote. "We serve an important function on campus. We're staying here." In their first regular meeting of the 1998-99 academic year, club members were told that the UCO Student Association (UCOSA) had encouraged the group to disband. The club is made up by the presidents
and representatives of all UCO sanctioned organizations. Smith said she was approached "at the last minute" by UCOSA President Derrek Belase and Speaker Dale Archer, who told her the club was duplicating the role of one branch of student government and should be dissolved into the student senate. But disbanding the Presidents Club likely would have forced the cancellation • See PRESIDENTS CLUB, Page 4