UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
TUESDAY
SEPTEMBER 1, 1998
LETTERS
SPORTS
Women defended 4 477/147.7
DEAD ROOMMATES
Volleyball begins 16
TAU KAPPA EPSILON
Don't count on them 12
Frat's 100 year bash 20
STAMPEDE WEEK
ENTERTAINMENT
Week in photos 14
One Hit Wonder 23
The Student Voice Since 1903
Child Services continues to seek funding for daycare By Madhumathi Krishnamurthy
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CO Child Services Center is still striving to obtain funding to launch their Daycare Facility, Preschool lab, and Diagnostic/Treatment Center programs, said Mary Montfort, professor of curriculum and instruction. UCO's Women's Caucus supported the program in an earlier interview with The Vista and recognized the need for day care on campus. The caucus also suggested that the day care should take assistance from the Department of Human Services (DHS). Designs for the center include a multidiciplinary or interdiciplinary approach to the delivery of services. The center proposes the consolidation of various departments involved with the special needs of children. This includes the existing speech and hearing, reading, math and counseling clinics. Montfort plans to raise $3 million from children's foundations in Oklahoma City in order to build the facility. The campaign was set up as a result of a survey conducted in April 1998. Response to this survey was overwhelming Montfort told The Vista in an interview in spring 1998. "There hasn't been much development since and we are still trying to get the money to set up the programs," Montfort said. In the campaign booklet the proposed center said that approximately 12 degree programs with 1,600 students will benefit from the development and implementation of the treatment plans. The booklet also said that the center would be one of a kind among American universities and provide graduate students a model practicum as well as a priceless service to families throughout Oklahoma. <
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Top gun... Cadet Cody Hollenbeck, battalion commander, takes to the air to make a save during a game of volleyball at the ROTC's Welcome Back Barbecue last Friday. The campus ROTC organization provided free hamburgers, hotdogs and other picnic foods to students, faculty and staff. (Staff photo by Sara Morrell)
New program recognizes graduate students' works By Madhumathi Krishnamurthy StaffWiller
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CO's Graduate Office has received a $10,000 award from President Roger Webb's office for a proposed new program for graduate students. Innovative Projects, a subcommittee of the Graduate College
Planning Group, established a Graduate Research Conference to give graduate students the opportunity to submit, present and publish papers in a public forum. The piogram resulted from a campus-wide strategic planning process initiated last year by President Webb. Committees throughout campus were asked to submit proposals.
"It will give students a chance to get their papers published and put it on their resumes," said Dr. Jan Hardt, assistant professor of political science and chairman of the sub-committee. "We're hoping for a good response from students, but we need help from faculty to encourage students to
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