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CAMPUS CORNER Spotlight on ...
Briefly Speaking
John Chandler
BY J.L. MORRISSEY Assistant Editor
John Chandler prefers his coffee hot, strong and in his hand as he zigzags through the Student Center solving issues as they arise. He oversees more than a dozen fulltime employees in various areas of the Student Center. Chandler is supervisor of Auxiliary Enterprises and Services and is charged with the assuring the smooth operation of the mail room and food services including the cafeteria and Rose Café. Chandler is an Oklahoma native and grew up on his family farm in Slaughterville. After high school Chandler “went to work in the oil fields, roughnecking” and he continued to “work off and on” in the industry for six years.” He also spent three years as a helicopter
mechanic for the National Guard. “If I didn’t like something, I’d quit. I was single and I could do what I wanted,” Chandler said. However in 1980, Chandler married and his wife, Pam told him “that he needed to get a real job.” “I didn’t know that the two had to go together,” Chandler joked of a marriage and a job. The year of 1980 turned out to be a pivotal year for Chandler because in addition to marriage he also began his career at RSC. He began as a maintenance worker, and then worked as a woodworker for the physical plant. He spent time in shipping and receiving and supervised the aquatic center before finally making Auxiliary Enterprises and Services home in 2001. When Chandler isn’t making the rounds within the Student Cen-
Habitat for Humanity The student senate is seeking volunteers to help with their annual Habitat for Humanity project 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Friday, April 24. The deadline to sign up is 5 p.m. Friday, April 3. For more information or to volunteer call Student Activities at 733-7376.
(Photo by J.L. Morrissey)
ter he likes to “go fishing.” If time permits he will take his lunch hour to drive over to Lake Draper and just relax. It doesn’t matter what’s biting or even if he catches anything. “It’s my chill out time. It’s my time and I can do what I want and then I can come back to reality,” Chandler said.
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Image facilitated by Connie Myrick, coordinator of Career Services and Job Placement, Dr. Sally Cohea, Student Success Specialist, Carla Robinson, coordinator for Student Success and Erica Alvarez, coordinator for Special Populations; and Keeping It All Together presented by RSC Professors Monique Bruner and Michelle Yelle. Women’s issues-themed booths were sponsored by REI Women’s Business Center OKC; RSC Wellness Center; ALPHA Business Solutions, LLC; YMCA; the LRC; ZONTA; and OU Women’s Studies Program. After a potato bar lunch, Senator Constance N. Johnson, who was concerned with women’s issues “from birth to death,” closed the conference by emphasizing the need for women to take an active role in politics by “lobbying your local politicians.” She stressed to the members of the audience the importance of registering to vote and then actually voting each time an election presented. She said the only people that care about women’s issues and will do something about them are other women or men who have been encouraged by women.
RSC women leaders, Monique Bruner and Michelle Yelle explain in thier breakout session that women need to “claim their space.” (Photo by Chelsea McIntire)
Student Senate coordinates successful blood drive Student senate sponsored a blood drive in cooperation with the Oklahoma Blood Institute on March 25. The event took more than three weeks to plan and over 75 people donated blood. Twelve donors passed out. “It was the largest turnout for the student senate sponsored blood drive,” said senator Phillip Cox, vice chair of the blood drive. “I was surprised by the number of staff that turned out for the event. I also found it interesting that the most popular reason noted on the sign in sheet for donating blood was love,” Cox said.
By Alan P. Olschwang
ACROSS 1 Lanterns 6 Elicit 11 Fathers 14 Numbskull 15 Animal toxin 16 Sales agt. 17 “West Side Story” heroine 18 Slur over 19 Raw mineral 20 Start of a quip 22 Triumph
23 Fox chaser? 24 Ocean speck 26 Of poor quality 29 Spoiled kids 32 Blaze the trail 33 Part 2 of quip 37 Bobby of the Bruins 38 DOA sites 40 Coffee server 41 Part 3 of quip 43 Manitoba tribe 44 Gray and Moran
45 Lists of candidates 47 Donkey calls 50 Long, narrow inlets 51 Set the pace 52 End of quip 59 Publishing grp. 60 Concerning bees 61 City on Baranof Island 62 Dine 63 Doggie catcher 64 Range of the Rockies 65 Superlative ending 66 Martin of “Apocalypse Now” 67 Borneo ape, briefly DOWN 1 Peru’s capital 2 First grandfather 3 Actress Sorvino 4 Fingered, in a way 5 One way up 6 Special occasion 7 Mark for removal 8 Part of UNLV 9 Morse message 10 Honorable retirement title 11 Slink about 12 Eagle’s nest 13 Exhausted 21 Tofu source 25 Draft org. 26 Coagulate 27 Queen of Olympus 28 Justice Warren 29 False 30 Decisive defeat 31 Vigoda or Burrows
The senate conducts drives twice a year, once in fall and once in spring semesters.
(Photos provided by Phillip Cox and Alex Funston)
33 Disney sci-fi flick 34 Mongol’s tent 35 Shade source 36 Persons 38 Western lawmen 39 Kyoto sash 42 Vocal pitch 43 Register operator 45 Female sib 46 Stops in open water 47 Above it all 48 Picture puzzle 49 Alter to fit 50 Talk and talk 53 Moonfish 54 Sage 55 Foundation 56 Blues singer James 57 Sacred image: var. 58 Caroled
Solution from 3/27/09
SIFE Students in Free Enterprise will host “Discussion of Ethics in Job Searching” noon - 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 7 and Wednesday, April 8 in the Professional Education and Training Center Room 108. Refreshments will be provided. Identity Theft The FAA Credit Union will host a free Identity Theft Seminar 2 p.m. Thursday, April 16 at 10201 S. Western in Oklahoma City. The credit union will share information on how to prevent identity theft and the warning signs. Space is limited to 50 attendees. To reserve a place call 682-1990 extension 1102 or email jamie@ faaecu.org. Brighton Beach Memoirs RSC’s theater department will perform Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs” 7 p.m. Thursday, April 16 - Saturday, April 18 and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 19 in the H.B. Atkinson Theatre. Dinner theater will be offered 6 p.m. Thursday, April 16. To make reservations for dinner theatre call 736-0313. Tickets to show can be purchased at the door. Seniors 62 and older, students, faculty and staff are free with ID. NonRSC students with ID are $2 and general admission is $3. For more information about the production call 7337430. Visual Arts Series RSC will host a Student Art Exhibit April 20 May 7. For more information call 736-0313. Pegasus RSC’s annual literary and art magazine, Pegasus, will be unveiled Tuesday, April 28. A reception honoring the students will be held as well. For more information call 736-0313. PTK Phi Theta Kappa will host an Oxfam Hunger Banquet to raise awareness about climate change, poverty and hunger 6 p.m. Thursday, April 30 in the Student Center main dining room. The students will also be collecting donations for Oxfam America. In conjunction with the event, PTK and BSA will be collecting canned goods for the local food bank. To reserve a place at the table or make donations contact Kristin Hahn at khahn@rose.edu or Racheal Price at rprice@ rose.edu.