The Vista Sept. 30, 1999

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SEPTEMBER 30, 1999

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ROTC cadets sharpen their skills at military exercises during the weekend

By Robyn Lydick

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camouflage-covered arm appears over a 10 foot by three foot pile of branches.

The hand tosses a blue grenade and the soldier bolts, running for her life.

A chorus of voices chants "get out of there, get out of there!"

M-16 fire cracks in the distance.

This is all in a Saturday morning's work for the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps.

Thirty-four Cadets from UCO, Langston, Southern Nazarene and Oklahoma Christian universities camped out Friday night and began military exercises Saturday morning.

Most of the cadets had never practiced the skills before.

"This is a first exposure for most of the cadets, said Maj. Eric Bernstein.

Using a range supplied by the Edmond Police Department, —Photo by Shauna Hardway cadets practiced rifle marksmanship, running through Cadet Lynn Crouch dangles from a repelling tower as an a grenade course and rappelling. instructor helps her correct her position. UCO cadets trained The cadets arrived at the with the Army ROTC officers Saturday.

police range damp from the night before.

"You'll get to see all their gear spread out to dry," said Capt.

Dale Russell.

"We were concerned with the rain," Bernstein said.

"We expected an inch or two an hour. Luckily, it slacked off," Bernstein said.

"Otherwise, we would have had a pond where we were camped."

"Yeah, our tents are canvas," one cadet said. "Do you know what happens to a canvas tent in the rain?"

"Don't ever touch the tent wall," said another cadet.

Some cadets were fulfilling a duty, while others were looking forward to the training.

"I have better places I could be," said Cadet Chris Bailey. "I could be in Las Vegas with my girlfriend celebrating her 21st birthday."

Bailey, a criminal justice major, said his girlfriend understood.

"Half of her family are cops and the other half are military."

The exercise was designed to show the ROTC cadets what

army life is like and to teach soldiering skills.

To begin the day, the cadets ran a hand grenade course, while another cadet team was firing M16 rifles on a target range.

Another important skill is rappelling, hopping down a vertical surface supported by a rope.

UCO is Sgt. 1st Class Robert Williams' last assignment.

Williams is a 27-year veteran of the army.

"I'm going home to Broken Arrow."

Williams has taught army mountaineering in Alaska off and on since 1985.

He was at the police range to teach rappelling.

Each of the cadets had a practice run down a slope before the group climbed up a more than 60-foot tower on the site.

Williams demonstrated how to tie a seat, the pelvic support system for the rappel ropes. He emphasized the importance of a tight seat.

Soon the cadets would learn by experience.

Cadet Lynn Crouch came off

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Illegal parking pays big for Auxiliary Services

By Trent Dugas

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he mistake of parking illegally on the UCO campus is big business for Auxiliary Enterprises and Parking Services.

Last school year, July 1, 1998 to June 30, 1999, Auxiliary Enterprises earned over $235,000 in parking fines. From July 1 to now, Auxiliary Services

has earned over $45,000.

These numbers reflect parking-ticket fines paid by staff, faculty and students.

Leon Fourcade, parking services manager, said they are only able to collect about half of all parking tickets issued.

He said his parking staff issues an average of 100 tickets a day throughout the year.

The amount of parking fines issued on campus is not a result

of the lack of parking space, Fourcade said.

In fact, Fourcade said UCO does not have a parking space prOblem.

This semester, Parking Services has issued over 13,500 parking permits with over 12,000 of those going to students.

Currently, there are approximately 6,000 parking spaces with about 4,500 of those going for students.

"Even though we have lost, in construction, over 200 parking spaces, we still have, even at our busiest times, 400 empty parking spots," Fourcade said.

Fourcade, and other officials from Parking Services, do extensive research and stay abreast of parking issues.

He said they inspect parking situations by driving around campus at different times on different days and studying the

ratio of students to parking spots.

But the basic fact remains the same, he said. As long as there are empty spaces on campus, there is no need for more parking spaces.

If UCO decides to build a structure on a parking lot, or the parking spaces on campus start filling up completely, then Parking Services will explore the need for either a parking garage V See Ticket, Page 3

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Earthquake: campus organization offers information President Frank Lin hit the country DisasterRelief.org . earthquake, said Eric Hsu, TSA at 715-3073 or Eric while its citizens The Chinese Red Cross will vice president.

Stattitites Hsu at 330-1933 for slept. send $6,000 worth of relief There are 267 students from CO students affected assistance, officers The area supplies and $10,000 for disaster Taiwan enrolled this semester,

by Taiwan's said. suffered 7,500 aid, it said. said officials from the UCO earthquake can find TSA has posted aftershocks. Six The Japanese government will International Office. assistance through the UCO earthquake news in were major be sending temporary housing "We've not heard of any lost Taiwan Student Association every building on tremors units, it said. family members yet," said Dr. (TSA). campus to keep measuring up to "If students need help finding Ronald Paddock, International The association met students informed, 5.4 on the their family, have problems or Office director.

Wednesday, Sept. 22 to organize representatives said.

Richter scale. just have questions, they can Chances of finding survivors and discuss outreach to UCO's The strongest As of Sept. contact our association," said drops sharply after the first 72 students needing assistance earthquake to strike 27, the Frank Lin, TSA president. hours, rescue experts said in a contacting their families in Taiwan in the past earthquake was The association is making report by DisasterRelief.org .

Taiwan.

13 years hit the responsible for every attempt to discover if Taiwan businesses and Students searching for country on Tuesday, 2,092 deaths students need assistance, said schools began to re-open on information on missing family Sept. 21.

Monday, Sept. 27 while it —Photo provided and 8,712 TSA officers. members can call a Taiwan The earthquake injured "There may be students who mourned its dead, said reports After the earthquake, earthquake assistance registered 7.6 on the Taiwainese, said have lost family or property," from the Christian Science thousands of victims were organization at 011-886-2-2308- open-ended Richter reports from the said Dr. Xiao-Bing Li, TSA Monitor. pulled from the ruins of 7111, ext. 2511, said TSA scale.

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Taiwan has 80,000 newly fallen buildings. representatives.

Striking at 1:47 of Taiwan. homeless citizens, it said.

Students can also call TSA a.m. local time, it There TSA students are were 23 people still missing, wearing yellow ribbons in the report said. memory of and prayer for VIS Over 11,500 city blocks the earthquake victims, had collapsed with 12,000 Lin said.

Vol. 101, No. 10 (USPS 661-700) ISSN: 1084-9149 buildings completely "We will wear the Editor In Chief Jarrod Briley Writer T. Dehan demolished, said government ribbons for at least one Associate Editor Maria Crane Writer Ercilia Zolkwiewicz reports. month," he said.

Mng. Editor Stephanie J. Eggeling Sports Editor J.W. Reagor Central Taiwan was the It is to remember the Copy Editor Celie Rabalais Sports Writer Justin Villines hardest hit, with 98 percent people who have died and Advertising Mgr Wendy Werber Photographer Shauna Hardway of its buildings affected. for the loss of their Ad Sales Carmen Gore Photographer Chieko Hara Writer Trent Dugas Photographer Tony Oltmann The country has been I survivors, he said. —Photo provided Writer Julie Jordan Cartoonist John Luny declared "in a state of "I just hope that our Writer Facaitte Kinslow Webmaster Shauna Hardway emergency by President Lee students' families are Recently dispossessed Taiwa nese Writer Robyn Lydick Circulation Shane Pratt Teng-Hui", said reports from children suffer the streets afte r the okay," said Dr. Albert the Christian Science recent earthquake.

Joseph Boquet, UCOTSA Director of Student Publications Dr. John DeSanto, APR Monitor. co-sponsor.

The Vista is published as a newspaper and public forum by UCO students, Over 23 countries have come However, no UCO students "I know it must be stressful semi-weekly during the academic year except exams and holiday periods, to Taiwan's aide, including have contacted the organization being over here, half a world and on Thursdays only during the summer term, at the University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N University Dr, Edmond, OK 73034-5209.

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Cellist on cello string budget raise money to perform in France

By T. Dehan

StaifiNriter The UCO Cello Ensemble plans a trip to France in the fall of 2000.

The ensamble was invited to perform in the International Cello Festival in Bourges, France.

The festival will be conducted

by Dominique de Williencourt.

The ensemble is planning a fundraising program to raise money for the trip.

Dr. Tess Remy-Shumacher, Dr. Sam Magrill and the UCO Cello Ensamble will perform several pieces, including Mendelssohn's "Sonata in D for Cello and Piano."

Remy-Schumacher a UCO assistant professor of music is dedicating this recital to Jacqueline due Pre and Eleonore Schoenfeld. Both of whom are Remy-Schumacher's former cello professors.

This concert is the first in a series of performances at UCO,

arranged by Remy-Schumacher The concert will be help at 8 p.m., October 1 at the Y-chapel on campus, behind Mitchell Hall.

Tickets are on sale for $10.

They are tax deductible and available through the music department.

For more information on this performance or others, call Dr. Remy-Schumacher at 974-5650, or the music department at 9745004.

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Continued from front page the rappelling tower to a harsh reality.

She turned upside down, called possuming, and screamed.

"Oh, shit, it hurts!"

"This is why you have an extremely tight seat," counseled Williams. "If you lose control it will hurt."

Crouch regained control fairly quickly and bounced down the tower in the three required jumps.

Crouch had one thought when she turned upside-down.

"I hope Holmes can catch me."

Cadet Jacob Holmes was on billet, securing the rope for Crouch.

"I thought it would be cool," Crouch said. "I thought it was going to be fun."

Other pleasures brought her out.

"I came out for the guns."

Right behind Crouch was Cadet Anne Stendersen. She came down in three picture perfect hops.

"It was cool," the Norway native said.

Stendersen said she wants to join the military when she returns home.

Master Sgt. Jeffrey Stokes had advice for the cadets.

"Keep your feet in front of you. If you do not," Stokes said, his voice rising into a sing-song, "you will get splinters."

Simultaneously, Williams was ordering the cadets to "get off my tower, quit bunny hopping."

Bailey said he joined ROTC to push himself.

On Saturday, the cadets did exactly that.

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Money from the parking tickets and permits go toward Continued from front page operating the parking services or lot, Fourcade said. office and department, paying "You have to look at whether salaries, buying uniforms for the it's worth building a parking student employees, equipment, garage or you want to have people start using the outlining Officials say parking areas. It's an issue of convenience and what the parking is students' university is going to settle for." problem Whether or not more parking computers and the cost of space is developed, parking fines making the permits. will remain constant unless Whatever is left over from the parking violators change their parking fines and permit habits. Fourcade said parking revenue, goes toward paying off fines are prevalent on every existing parking lot bonds, campus in the country.

Fourcade said.

UCO is among the lowest in A.K. Rahman, director of Oklahoma for parking fines and auxiliary services, said there is permits. Fines range from $5 for not a parking problem on no permit to $50 for stolen campus. permits. Permits cost $20 a Parking fines and nonsemester or $40 a year for existent parking problems fall on students, faculty and staff.

the shoulders of the students. He said the imaginary parking problem is because students do not want to walk the distance or they show up three minutes before class and expect to park next to their classroom.

Rahman said every day about 400 empty parking spaces exist north of Ayers. Available parking spaces are north of the Commons and east of Wantland Stadium.

To relieve the perception of a parking problem, Parking Services has reconstructed the hours of operation for faculty and staff parking.

Any valid permit holder may park in faculty and staff parking spaces after 3 p.m. instead of the previous 5 p.m.

This does not include 24-hour faculty and staff parking.

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Dusty light smokes

By J.W. Reagor

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moke in the main hallway of Communications Building prompted firefighters to return to campus Sunday night at approximately 11:30 p.m.

It was smoke from a light ballast said Captain Jon Meely of the Edmond Fire Department.

"There was no fire," Meely Said.

"We just show up and go to work," Meely added jokingly.

When light ballast reach a certain age, they tend to smoke, Farrell Rosson, assistant director of facilities management said.

"There is no real danger of a

fire," Ro bson said.

UCO campus police were first on the scene, but left soon after firefighters arrived.

D.P.S. dispatch officer K. Hayes was not authorized to give detailed information.

"It was nothing big," said Officer Hayes."

This was the second fire alarm within a two - day period for the Communications Building.

The building was evacuated Friday, Oct. 24 when smoke from a broken compressor belt was drawn in through the air conditioning system and circulated through the building, said Battalion Chief Lloyd Fitzgerald.

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KCSC opens sister station in McAlester

By Trent Dugas

KCSC paid $130,000 for the repeater station which came from grants and donations.

Clark and Wanda Bass from McAlester donated $50,000 for the project so the residents can listen to classical music, Ferguson said.

"It was a nice thing for the Bass family to do," Ferguson said. "It's hard to find people to Photo by Shauna Hardway donate that kind of money without any financial return."

A control panel at KCSC. The UCO Wanda Bass attended statoion opens a sister station in the McAlester station McAlester on Aug. 27. ceremony by herself. will allow residents and Her husband Clark died in June surrounding rural residents to V See Radio, Page 5 pick up KCSC on their radio.

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esidents of McAlester Oklahoma can now experience the soothing sounds of UCO with one key missing.

UCO's classical music station, KCSC, opened a repeater station in McAlester with over a 35 mile radius, signal capability.

In return, McAlester's mayor Dale Covington, awarded UCO President Roger Webb a key to the city.

The station actually started sending signals on Aug. 27, but the celebration ceremony was held on Sept. 22 in which Webb received the key.

Brad Ferguson, director of KCSC, said the repeater station

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Radio Continued from page 4 before the new station opened.

Wanda said she is thrilled with the new station and said before her husband died, he encouraged her to continue with the project and see it finished.

She said everyone in her family supports her decisions to donate money. The Bass family has donated money throughout McAlester to benefit the

community, and the radio station is no exception.

"Music touches my soul and moves my heart," Wanda said.

"It is an emotion and I am so grateful to the university for giving McAlester the opportunity.

"I feel privileged to help the community and people of McAlester," she said.

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everyone can relate to.

The local cable station did carry KCSC's feed on one of its channels but recently dropped it.

Wanda said now everyone can listen to classical music for free thanks to UCO. The other portion of the money came from a grant by the Public Telecommunication Facilities Program.

Ferguson said the process of relaying the music to the repeater station is simple.

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He said the satellite dish on the southeast corner of the Communications Building sends the digital signal to a satellite in the sky and then the signal is sent to the repeater station in McAlester.

Larry Iverson, chief engineer of both stations, said the station on campus produces 100,000 watts, while the repeater station is only 1,000 watts.

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UCO musicians find fame at State Fair

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Two UCO students lived to tell about the experience.

Austin Speer, a music major, and Robby Melendez, a business major, are members of Oklahoma City's Sub Roza.

They performed for almost 20,000 people at the State Fair Arena Sunday.

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Rather than play one song, stop and play another song, Sub Roza will segue one tune into the next.

"We are working out our original song 'Awakening' into `Muddy Jesus' and back into `Awakening,'" Speer said.

The reality of winning the KRXO competition did not set in until later, Speer said.

"I knew it was going to happen sometime," Speer said.

"But we didn't hear anything for a long time.

"I'm glad it didn't fall through."

Advertisements for the concert featured sound bites of Sub Roza's music as well as Creedence Clearwater Revisited's music.

"Hearing our music on the radio was a weird feeling," Speer said.

"You hear your music when you play," Speer said. "But hearing it on the radio is like

really hearing it for the first time."

Sub Roza has opened for national touring acts before, including one of their idols, Ian Moore.

"We travel to Texas to see his shows, so he recognized us," Speer said.

With influences reading like a canon of blues guitarists old and new, Sub Roza has a mix of sounds.

Speer lists Jaco Pastorius, John Patitucci, Jack Bruce of Cream and Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath as personal influences.

Speer also played cello in the Oklahoma City Youth Symphony and Youth Orchestra.

"We offer something a little different," Speer said.

Speer does not find it easy to define the Sub Roza sound.

"It's rock, blues and jazz with Latin elements with a touch of the Austin sound," Speer said. 4

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Students see stars Iggy talks Pop Grandfather of punk...

By T. Dehan

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hat do Harrison Ford, Gweneth Paltrow, and Humphrey Bogart have in common? Several of their films will be shown for free to UCO students and the general public, this semester.

The films put on by the English Society are free, but the popcorn, soda, and candy will be sold at the theater. The event is to raise money for the English Society.

Shakespeare in Love, a fictional account of the creation of Romeo and Juliet, starring Gweneth Paltrow, was the first in a series of films to be shown at Pegasus Theater on September 24th. Paltrow's performance earned her an Emmy.

The film series began last fall and due to the enthusiastic response, will be continued, said Tim Bradford, President of the

Bradford said During the fall semester several other

By Ben Werner films will be played to CollegePress' help raise money for the English society. o say that Iggy Pop is a Blade Runner, a cult master of shock is an classic starring Harrison understatement.

Ford will be shown, This is, after all, the loony October 13th. The who was cutting his chest on Adventures of Baron Von stage decades before Marilyn Muchausen, on Manson thought to count his Wednesday November scars.

10th, and concluding the This is the man who wouldn't semester film series is Casablanca, starring think twice about exposing Humphrey Bogart and himself on stage when the Ingrid Bergmen, will be moment overtook him. He's the shown Wednesday man who used to pick fights with November 17th. All of his audience, documented on the shows begin at 7:30 1978's "TV Eye" live album, on p.m. at the Pegasus which you can hear the beer Theater in the Liberal Arts bottles smashing upside his head.

Building And he's the man who has "We are trying to offer a little admittedly done more drugs than something for everyone, and we most pharmacies can stock in a would like to think of our month. offerings as both intelligent and So there's a tendency to think entertaining." Bradford said <

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"My hope is that with the growth of the campus, this series will grow too. Perhaps someday it will include more experimental and foreign films, but for know, we feel that these are the best offerings for our environment."

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Crazy, huh? Yeah, well, believe it, Pop says.

"Shall I try to convince you otherwise?" he retorted by phone recently. "Shall I try to convince you that I really care about what I read in the morning papers? If I sing for Greenpeace, will you make me a star?

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arol Roberts and Patty McKibbin, members of the First Christian Church in Edmond, had a vision for the community, so they started a free breakfast program.

The idea began when to the two women were having a brunch. They knew of another church that served dinner, but their own church would be occupied by different events in the evening, so they decided to serve breakfast.

When Roberts and McKibbin, co-directors of the breakfast program, first put the program together, people didn't think it would go over well in Edmond because of the high economic status.

"I had to make people realize that as long as a community is growing, we needed something

like this," church, Roberts said. while a lot After of them raising money have no and buying connection equipment, to the the breakfast church at program all. started in May T h e of 1990. program is T h e also part of breakfast is t h served community Monday service Friday from program, 6:30 - 7:15 which some a.m. There high school are no forms students to fill out and participate —Photo by Tony Oltmann the meals vary in. Some each day.

Bill Harrison places sandwiches into sacks. The food is gathered a r e In the

by First Christian Church in Edmond and distributed to people volunteers, basement of while others throughout the Edmond community. the church, are required approximately six volunteers A total of 85 - 90 volunteers to help with the program. greet the commuters for an early work in the breakfast program.

Also with the breakfast, a sack Some are members of the breakfast. lunch can be provided with two

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The lunches are optional.

The meals are not funded by the church. Money or food is donated by members of the church or community.

Roberts says that this has grown beyond what they expected.

"I think one of the reasons it's so big is the fact that it's very direct and loosely organized," Roberts said.

In the past nine years, many people have come and gone through the program.

"The most interesting people are the ones whose background we don't know," Roberts said.

Roberts also said the breakfast is beneficial to a lot of single parents who are also students.

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`Broadway Tonight' series kicks off fall season

By Robyn Lydick

St/I/UMW The Broadway Tonight theater series has been held over for a second season at UCO. "Lo .st Highway: The Music and Legend of Hank Williams" will open the 1999-2000 season at 8:30 p.m. Oct. 1 in Mitchell

Hall.

Ticket holders are invited to a western-style barbecue from 6 to 8 p.m.

The fall portion of the Broadway Tonight series rounds out with "Smokey Joe's Café" on Oct. 21, "Forever Plaid" on Nov. 1, "Young King Arthur" on Nov. 5 and "Patti Page — The

Singing Rage" on Dec. 11.

Members of the UCO Jazz Band will perform in the last show.

"We felt that we should incorporate students with the professionals," said Lee Rucker, director of jazz studies. "It is more edifying for the students."

The series will return in the

spring semester with "Tap Dogs" on Jan. 18, "Anything Goes" on Jan. 25 and "Edgar Allen Poe — Once Upon a Midnight" on April 10.

Tickets are $25 Student tickets are $12.50.

Dropping by Mitchell Hall before the show may pay off for students without evening plans.

"If students come half an hour before the show and there are tickets left, I'll let them in for $5," said Jon Finch, special events consultant for UCO. For more information on productions or tickets, call Mitchell Hall after 1:30 p.m. at 974-3375.

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• Max Chambers Library will host Banned Books and Censorship in Colleges program between now and October 22 on the second floor of the library in the Northeast alcove. For more • RHA will hold a general information call, Gwen Dobbs at meeting at 5:30 p.m. on 974-2874.

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Cafeteria, to discuss Homecoming Events. All students living on campus is invited to attend. All dues have been paid by activity fees. For more information call, Jared Busby at 974-4529.

✓ Zeta Phi Beta, Inc. will meet 8:20 p.m. on Oct. 3 in the UCO Commons Apartment's Clubhouse. Topic discussed will be business and professional attire. Refreshments will be served. For more information • SIFE will meet 2 p.m. on call, C.C. Shockley at 974-6382 October 1 in the College of or Keisha Coleman at 434-6246.

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12 to 12:50 p.m. on October 5 in • President's Club will meet the Max Chambers Library, Room 226. For more information at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 5 in the call, Gwen Dobbs at 974-2874.

University Center, Room 202.

Presidents of all campus ✓ New Life Tabernacle will organization are asked to attend. host a Bible History and For more information call, Allie Foundation program at 7 p.m. on Martin at 359-2999.

October 4 in the Education Building's break room. For more • Career Development and information call, Kaitlyn Collins Placement Services will hold a at 715-0517.

Resume Writing class at 2 p.m.

Oct. 5 in the University Center, ✓ ACEI will host a Room 320 C. For more Scholastic Book Fair Oct. 4 to 8 information, call Elizabeth between 8 and 8 p.m. in the Waner at 974-3346.

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Wednesdayat Broncho C orral. For more infor • Career Development and mation, call Khalilah Placement Services will hold a Watson at 974-4281. job search at 2 p.m. on Oct. 6 in ✓ Chi Alpha Christian the University Center, Room 320 C. For more information, call Fellowship wi 11 meet at Elizabeth Waner at 974-3346. noon every Wednesday in Room 108 in the University Center. ✓ Psi Chi and Psychology They will hold prayer and Bible Club will hold a bake sale study. For more information, call between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Oct. 7 Charlie Bunn at 203-1188 or ein the Education Building's mail ucochialpha@juno.com .

Lobby. For more information ✓ Chi Alpha Christian call, Jennifer Bigheart at 9745484.

Fellowship will meet at 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays in the Y• Career Development and Chapel. The fellowship will Placement Services will hold a conduct praise and worship Interviewing program at 2 p.m. services. For more information, on Oct. 7 in the University call Charlie Bunn at 203-1188 or Center, Room 320 C. For more e-mail ucochialpha@juno.com . information, call Elizabeth • Japan Student Waner at 974-3346.

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being. That's where I put my faith in humankind.

"Of course, usually these things put me in mental hospitals."

Indeed, the deeply blue "Avenue B" plays like the sort of long confessional a new inmate at Bellevue might recite, an anguished, weary autobiography from a man who has hit middle age and lost just about everything.

Consider this line from its opening tone poem: "It was in the winter of my 50th year when it hit me/I was really alone, and there wasn't a helluva lot of time left."

From there, the ongoing catharsis revolves around women, though it's hard to peg who really burned Pop the worst _ or if there is more than one heartbreaker at play.

There's his "Nazi Girlfriend," who has an insatiable sexual appetite and, naturally, a predilection for the extreme and torturous. There's "Miss

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Argentina," whose French is perfect, "and so is her butt."

There's the lost love of "She Called Me Daddy," who reads Cosmo all day long and giggles like a little girl. There's the tough chick who rides "Motorcycles," but we really can't say much about her in print.

Only Iggy meets these kinds of women. And his troubled relationships with them have made Pop, 52, intensely reflective.

Not surprisingly, the music on the new album is deliberately quieter, occasionally verging on adult mainstream, especially in the crooning self-criticism of the title track.

There are a few storming exceptions _ namely, a weird cover of "Shakin' All Over" and the all-Spanish "Ya Yo Habla Espanol" _ but for the most part, this is territory that is new to the wild man who once fronted the Stooges.

"I thought it would be interesting to do some music that

didn't depend on noise," he explained, adding that during the making of "Avenue B" he overdosed on Sinatra's saloon albums and Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks."

"That really reflected the mood I was in. I've always had a weakness for quieter music and always felt I would have a great feeling of satisfaction if I could master it _ if I could hear a tune and make it walk around without having to press the fuzz button."

"There's that moment in every artist's life when you think about that time when Granny will say, "Hey, give us a song, Sonny!'

Well, what could I offer? I started to think about that: What am I going to do before I pass on that asserts who I was?"

Of course, many would argue that just because Granny can't hum "I Wanna Be Your Dog" or "Lust for Life" doesn't mean Pop hasn't achieved immortality.

The Stooges, whose 1969 debut and "Fun House" follow-up

SEPTEMBER 30, 1999 a year later preceded the punk explosion and whose 1973 return "Raw Power" represents the hardest edge of glam-rock, have yet to be rightfully placed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but it's fairly certain they ultimately will.

Meanwhile, Pop's solo songs, especially from David Bowieproduced albums such as "The Idiot" and "Lust for Life," have proved immeasurably influential, with traces cropping up routinely in countless garage bands as well as literary touchstones (the Scottish writer Irvine Welsh adores him).

He even scored a hit earlier this decade with the catchy "Candy," a duet with B-52's singer Kate Pierson. And his acting career, while certainly not the most sterling, has a few sparkling moments, notably in "The Crow II: City of Angels."

"But all of that is always talked about," Pop remarked. "He leaps, he writhes, he dances, he crashes. ... I'd like to be remembered for more than that. Everything else I do tends to get downplayed."

Hence, his constant repetition of Sinatra and Dylan, icons of the 20th century, while ensconced in his New York apartment in virtual solitary confinement, he says. One

Bo part or an

almost gets the sense that Pop the mad seeker might have deliberately put himself in these inevitably destructive situations merely to reap some creativity from it.

He bristles at the thought. "It doesn't go down like that. I mean, sure there have been times when it's like, "OK, you broke up with me, but I'm gonna get a song out of this. I'll still be getting royalties when you're fat and 50.' ... But I don't place myself in those situations."

Still, he added: "Where there is no life, there is no song. At this point in a career, you usually get your middle-age rock star resorting to newspaper headlines or various causes and spewing out bad music. I didn't want that."

But how will Pop's fans react to this somber direction? True, they didn't come out in droves for his last two efforts _ the typically raw "American Caesar" (1993) and "Naughty Little Doggie" (1996) _ but that doesn't mean they're ready for a kinder, gentler Iggy.

"I think one beauty of my position is I've never been modern," Iggy says this is bad, Iggy says that's good "Personally, it's the only way to go."

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Quayle abandons quest for presidency

By Dick Polman

StailWriter As the flow of money slowed to a trickle, as the crowds thinned, and as it became obvious that his name was still a punch line in the American mind, Dan Quayle had no choice but to face the fact that his quest for the presidency -- and his bid for political redemption -- were inescapably dead.

And he did so Monday, departing the Republican race, abandoning his pursuit of social conservatives, recognizing that he would never soar as high as his dreams with so much baggage weighing him down.

"There's a time to stay and there's a time to fold. There's a time to know when to leave the stage," Quayle said at a news conference in Phoenix. " I was facing a campaign where the front-runner would have up to $100 million to spend, and an unprecedented front-loading of the primary system made the task for me of winning the nomination of my party virtually impossible."

As a number of friends and allies said Monday, it wasn't easy for him to admit all this.

Quayle was a onetime golden boy and rich man's son who had always lived well and beaten the odds -- winning an Indiana HOuse seat at age 29, toppling a legendary Democratic senator at 33, becoming one of the youngest vice presidents in history at 41 -- and he was having trouble accepting the fate that had befallen him in 1999.

In particular, it was incomprehensible that he was

being driven from the Republican race by George W. Bush, the son of his former boss, the same guy who was just a campaign aide during the first Bush-Quayle bid in 1988.

In those days, after all, George W. was just a semi-successful oil man, whereas Quayle was an eight-year Senate veteran with a dash of gravitas, someone who had earned his stripes on defense issues and job training.

He resented the fact that here he was, the Republican candidate with the greatest depth of experience, and still he had to beg for money while this newcomer sucked it all up.

Last month in Iowa, whenever Quayle would run into party regulars and journalists, he would demand to know why all this was happening.

Then he would trudge to yet another evangelical church, where he had hoped to find a friendly crowd, and maybe 30 people would show up, half of them pledged to somebody else.

But Quayle's flameout is easy to understand.

The George W. Bush phenomenon in part can be attributed to a Republican hunger for a new face and a clean and centrist slate. Quayle, on the other hand, was a reminder of the bad old days -- and notwithstanding his 52 years and the new gray hair above his ears, he was still seen as a callow youth, as America's preeminent punching bag.

"In politics, you can come back from almost anything -except ridicule," said Rich Galen, who served as Quayle's Senate chief of staff. "He had

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He didn't have the discipline, or the self-confidence.

"And never mind (George W.) Bush's money. The reason why Iowa and New Hampshire are still important, as early campaign states, is that it doesn't require a lot of money to do well there.

"The most important resource is time, and that's the same for everyone. Dan had plenty of time to talk to people about his message. But he could not get people to accept him as a messenger."

During his five months as a presidential candidate, he delivered serious speeches -- on relations with China, on tort reform -- yet his poll numbers never moved, and his "negatives" (the percentage of people who view him unfavorably) remained the worst of any GOP contender.

And in hypothetical generalelection polls, he was getting trounced by the much-maligned Al Gore, which perhaps was the biggest insult of all.

"Republican voters have been shying away from him because they are just afraid that he can't be elected, that he will be tagged again as a buffoon," said Steve Roberts, an Iowa activist and former state party chairman.

"And in a way it's too bad, because he's a better candidate than he used to be. Looks better, sounds better. I told him recently, "Hey, I hardly recognize you,' but the thing is, other candidates don't have that baggage. This rush to George W. is something we haven't seen since Eisenhower in 1952."

Unfortunately for Quayle, the buffoonery has become part of the culture -- the time he misspelled potato at a spelling bee; the Letterman jokes about

how the Secret Service was getting tired of bathing him; the ineloquent episodes ("The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. ... I didn't live in this century") One Washington think tank, the Center for Media and Public Affairs, monitors the jokes told by late-night TV comics, and tracks the prime targets of ridicule; for six straight years, 1989 to 1994, Dan Quayle finished in the top five. It's not just comics: In New Hampshire, a standardized fourth-grade quiz asks the question, "Do you know the name of the senator from Indiana (that the senior George Bush) chose to be vice president?" And the quiz offered a clue: the word potato.

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Armstrong's walk on the moon. passage of time?

How is it that the other giant leap For decades, none of the Thirty years have not dimmed of 1969 _ the birth of the Internet researchers who built and tested our collective memory of Neil _ could be so obscured by the that first Net connection have been able to recall the exact date Quayle years since he attacked Murphy of the transmission. Although the Continued from page 13 Brown, the TV character, for Net has been the subject of innumerable articles, books and notion that he was defeated by being a single mother.

Social statistics have documentaries in recent years, his own image.

His pollster, Kellyanne documented the advantages of none has been able to establish a birthdate for the mother of all Fitzpatrick, said Monday: "He two-parent families.

Candice Bergen has said networks. was trying to talk about serious Ultimately, it was the death of issues, but campaigns have Quayle was right, and family values are now a staple of both one of the Net's founding fathers become issue-free zones. that brought the date to light.

It's all about personality. parties.

Said conservative analyst Based on that recently reAmerica seems less interested in Marshall Wittman: "In a sense discovered documentation and choosing a president than in he was a prophet, but in politics, new recollections by individuals choosing its next game-show one is often a prophet without on both ends of that first host." communication, I'm pleased to Some Republicans who honor in his own time."

Now, Steve Forbes will press say that for the first time the subscribe to the baggage theory feel bad about Quayle, and seem his case that he is the sole Internet has a real birthday _ Oct. eager to talk him up now that conservative with the money to 29, 1969. fight George W. Bush.

Actually, it has two birthdays _ he's out.

As for Quayle, he is not eager one that's passed and the one next They contend that his rookie mistakes as Bush's 1988 running to endorse anyone (he says he'll month. And therein lies a bit of a mate -- the errors that defined support the party's nominee); for political problem. Given the his image -- could have been awhile, he will probably ponder propensity for endless debate among historians and Net-geeks minimized if Bush's staffers had what might have been.

He sought to wear his past of longstanding, it's quite possible been more supportive.

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"The truth is nobody paid much attention to it," said Doug Engelbart, the computer visionary who oversaw one end of the early network back in '69. "It was more like "Well, OK, they brought in the motor so we can get our vehicle running.' It was just part of getting the plumbing to work."

The basic outline of the Net's Genesis story is clear: The first node of the Pentagon-funded Advanced Research Projects Agency network (ARPAnet) was installed in the lab of a UCLA computer-science professor, Leonard Kleinrock, on Labor Day weekend of 1969. If you want to get technical about it, what happened is this: A specialized computer called an "Interface Message Processor" (IMP) was installed in the lab. That machine, a battleship gray Honeywell Model 516 minicomputer (the size of a refrigerator) would act as intermediary between the lab's mainframe, a Scientific Data Systems Sigma-7, and the nascent network. On Sept. 2, the UCLA team succeeded in moving data back and forth from the Sigma-7 to the IMP, which stood 15 feet away.

What followed is slightly less clear. Approximately one month

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The two labs _ in Los Angeles and Menlo Park _ were linked by a leased 50-kilobit-per-second dedicated phone line that enabled both voice and data traffic between the two labs. As many of the researchers who were present at both ends recalled, the first data communication between the two labs' host computers occurred "sometime in October." Five years ago, as these pioneers prepared to gather in Boston for a 25-year reunion, I spoke to a half-dozen of them and came away with the distinct impression that "sometime in October" would be as close as we'd ever get to the truth.

Prior to that 1994 anniversary, Jon Postel, who went from UCLA to become the Net's ultimate keeper of names and numbers, told me: "You have to understand the context. Here we were doing this little research project that involved a few computer scientists. There wasn't any thought that we were exploring this brave new world or inventing it." -1(

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Bronchos attempt to continue streak Donner has sat out the last two games with an injured hamstring, but he is probable for Sportsititifer this week's game.

Donner rushed for a careerhe Langston Lions high 208 yards on 32 carries in have not beaten UCO the season-opening win over in 26 years.

If the Bronchos continue their dominating play this Saturday, it will be 27.

The Bronchos have a The Bronchos lead the 12-game road winning overall series 31-5-1.

UCO head coach Gary streak and have Howard is 16-0 against the won 17 of their Lions. In 1995 Coach Howard became UCO's alllast 18 time winningest coach with games. a 30-26 win over the Lions.

Langston is 1-2 on the season, having lost their last two games.

The Lions are led on offensive by quarterback Emporia State.

Theordore Johnson, who has Sophomore tailback Greg completed 21- of 44 passes for Briley picked up where Donner 227 yards. left off. Briley has started the last Linebacker Joe Johnson leads two games for the Bronchos. the defense with 25 tackles and a Briley is the number three sack. leading rusher in the LSC UCO's senior tailback Reggie

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averaging 116 yards per game.

Briley has 348 yards and four touchdowns on 59 carries for the season.

Sophomore quarterback Brett Manning has been impressive the last two games completing 29of-46 passes for 364 yards and three touchdowns.

Senior split end Todd Barnes has been Manning's top receiver, with 12 catches for 156 yards and one touchdown.

Senior flanker Alton Lusk continued to show his all around skills.

Lusk had 134 all-purpose yards in four plays.

After three games Lusk already has 431 all-purpose yards.

The Bronchos have a 12game road winning streak and have won 17 of their last 18 games.

Kickoff is set for 2 p.m. on Saturday at W.E. Anderson Field in Langston.

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19th career interception and the single-game record for punt return SportsWriter yards with (121) in a 42-14 victory Central Oklahoma cornerback at Midwestern State.

Johnnie Jones has been named Jones leads the conference in Lone Star Conference North interceptions and punt returns, and Division player of the week for the ranks among the leaders in the NCAA Division II in both. second time this season.

Jones set UCO records with his

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Soccer league honors McAllister Central Oklahoma Fullback Kristen McAllister has been named lone star Conference Defensive Player of the Week for her role in two UCO wins last weekend.

McAllister, a sophomore from Weatherford, Texas, keyed OCR's defensive efforts over the weekend as the Bronchos posted back - to back shutouts over Dallas Baptist and Missouri Southern.

UCO gave up just six shots in Saturday's 7 - 0 win over Dallas

Baptist and did not allow Missouri Southern a shot in rolling to a 10 0 victory Sunday.

The Bronchos, 8 - 1 and ranked 17 in NCAA Division II, open Lone Star Conference play Thursday at Southwestern Oklahoma in Weatherford.

The Bronchos will return home after a three game stretch to face Harding. Game time is set for 3 p.m.

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The are 8 - 1 on the year.

They will travel to Weatherford Oklahoma to meet intrastate rival Southwestern Oklahoma in the

LSC opener.

They will then travel to Canyon Texas to take on West Texas A&M Sunday at 2 p.m.

West Texas A&M was picked to finish second in the LSC this season, while UCO was picked fifth and SWOSU tenth in the ten - team league.

UCO romped to a pair of easy wins in the Spectrum Classic, outscoring Dallas Baptist and Missouri Southern 17 - 0 in the two day event.

The Bronchos have outscored their opponents 35 - 11 this season, having won three matches by six plus goals.

UCO has also won five one goal decisions this year.

The team is 6 - 0 at home this season and has won eight straight at Tom Thompson Field dating back to last year.

Coach Mike Cook is now 107 - 32 - 1 in his seventh year as a women's soccer coach. He was

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Broncho sports require support

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here is an amazing group of college athletes at the University of Central Oklahoma.

With sensations like Jonnie Above: Alma Brahimaj, number 8, lands another kill in the Sleep Inn Invitational.

Jones, Alton Lusk, Kim Brown and Adriana Crovador, the fact Below: UCO Senior Jamie Lane battles for control of the ball goes without saying. against Missouri Southern last Sunday.

I attended three events this --Photos by Chieko Hara past weekend and saw nothing but pure team dedication.

The energy level from both the volleyball and the soccer teams was nothing short of professional athletic quality.

I also attended the first home football game against Angelo State.

I watched and cheered when Evan Luttrell kicked a 41 yard field goal securing victory in an intense contest.

To say the least, I stepped out of the shoes of both editor and reporter and became a loyal fan and supporter.

The same is true for the volleyball team.

For the sheer joy of the competitive spirit I am loyal spectator. When you see Alma Brahimaj spike the ball in the face of her opponent, and you watch the earth come to full kill; you must remind your heart that it has ceased to beat.

At times I feel as if I may be part of a privileged few that is so dedicated to my school's athletic program. The crowds at these events are made up of mostly empty seats. Where are my peers?

This is disappointing considering the aptitude of these teams. We brag about the fact that we have two athletes that were chosen as players of the week. We also rave about our three sports that rank in the top 20 of conference division standing.

I pray you show your teams this support by your attendance at these events.

The audience is decisive of the performance. It's a contract between your school's athletes and you the student. Remember to play your part of the game.

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Reader says science, theology are personal choices To the Editor: I would like to agree with some of the things Dr. Richter stated in her article concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools.

First of all, it is vitally important, as she said, for us to remember exactly what science is and what its job is.

Science is never absolute, and it works by experiments. When you strip any scientific statement down to the bone, it will always end up saying (and I am paraphrasing C.S. Lewis here) something like "we boiled this stuff in a pot for 20 minutes, and it did such and such."

Even limited to providing nothing more than strong probability, science has proven

invaluable to mankind.

But if you want to see where science's job ends and religion's job begins, imagine that every natural secret in the universe were uncovered and explained through scientific exploration and experimentation. There would still be the questions "why is the universe here?" and "is there a point to the whole thing?" for us to answer.

That's where people really begin to have a problem with science. They feel that the evolution theory is replacing their religion's answers to those questions with statements like "the earth is here because of an explosion caused by nothing but remote chance."

I think when you consider

what a flimsy amount of evidence there is to support evolution, (Dr. Richter agreed to this) it becomes doubtful whether or notit is moral to present evolution as an explanation for existence at all.

Would it not be better for public schools to leave this question of where we come from and where we are going to personal reflection? If someone decides they want to explore the scientific route, then those channels are always open in higher education. The same is true with creationism.

I am basically saying that we should recognize the sensibility of the issue.

I do not think attempting to explain this sort of thing is the

duty of science.

Just because the questionable evolution theory is the best thing science has to offer in the way of answering the question "how did we get here?" is no reason to tell children of all backgrounds that it is a belief they should embrace.

Something I am puzzled by more than anything is the way evolution was presented to me (in) grade school.

We spent multiple weeks covering the subject as a fact, and there were never any disclaimers given noting the chance that the evolution theory might be and if fact, probably is, largely inaccurate. This theory of evolution was stated in the same way the movements of the solar

system were explained—as fact.

I wonder if this is the case in grade schools now? It would be interesting to hear. Maybe my teacher was just a very zealous Darwin fan.

If "separation of church and state" is what people decide they want, there should be a "handsoff' rule to this issue altogether in public schools.

In this way, scientists and creationist can send their children to the same schools and tell them point-blank whey they get home where the universe came from.

Sincerely, Bobby Marcum English/Music Junior

Vista content a big dissapointment says reader To the Editor: I have just finished reading the September 21st copy of the Vista. First, let me say that I am very disappointed in the content of the paper. I believe that the main purpose of a university paper should be to cover the local news on campus.

The two stories on the front page were not breaking news,

they had both been in the Oklahoma several days earlier. I do not think they need to be the lead stories.

The biggest disappointment was not one single word about the terrific football game that UCO won on Saturday! There were a lot of people at the game and it was one of the most exciting that we have seen. Not

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only was there no coverage of football, there was not any mention of UCO sports at all!

There were sports articles but they did not pertain to UCO. A positive note would have been to mention the new band uniforms. The band looked and sounded great on Saturday! A few pictures of the game and the band would have been a nice addition to the paper.

Looking through the twenty

pages of the paper, I find twelve negative-news articles and thirteen "filler" articles that are from other cities around the U.S. Reading this issue seems more like a tabloid than a newspaper of our campus. I realize that sometimes news can be negative but I don't believe that we need to fill the paper with stories that give UCO a poor image. Also, why do we need writers hired by the Vista if the majority of

articles come from the College Press Writer? There are a lot of positive things happening on campus but the Vista staff doesn't seem to be covering them. I think the Vista needs to stick a little closer to home and start reporting on the good things happening at UCO. Sincerely, Janet Hostetler Benefits Officer UCO

Confederate flag a discrace, should not fly over government buildings, columnist says

By Heather Migdon

Collegepress es, you know which one I'm talking about.

But if you don't, just take one look at the state capitol of South Carolina where in the year 1999, despite decades of civil rights . battles, the Confederate flag still flies.

That's right.

The next millennium is right around the corner, but little children, government officials, and anyone else who happens upon that state capitol building is greeted by the flag of a non-

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existent nation: the Confederacy.

Of course, South Carolina's state capitol is hardly the only place one can find a Confederate flag.

Sadly enough, the flag adorns windows as decoration in many dorms and fraternity houses. The flag can be spotted on bumper stickers, license plates, T-shirts and pickup truck antennas.

But I'm more troubled by a state capitol's embrace of such a repulsively racist symbol.

If I were a resident of South Carolina, I'd be very upset that my tax dollars went to a government that would place a

flag that represents the very antithesis of everything this country is supposed to stand for right next to our nation's flag.

"Wait!" you say. You're just dying to correct me. You want to tell me that the flag has nothing to do with race, that the South Carolinian government just wants to commemorate their history.

Yeah, Right.

Next you'll be giving me your "The-Civil-War-had-nothing-todo-with-slavery" speech.

I really can't stomach hearing all those tired arguments yet

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Presumably, anything flying over a state capitol building deserves our allegiance. The flag of a nonexistent nation hardly rises to that level. our union rather than cease the inhuman practice of human bondage.

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