The Vista Jan. 21, 2010

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Scholarship to South Korea

Reaccreditation

Free Classes

Students answer: What is the best way to help the people of Haiti?

Four UCO students leave in Feb. to bridge language gap between two groups in South Korea.

Nursing department focuses on reaccreditation from the NLNAC.

A look into what classes are offered for free in the Wellness Center.

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Students give back

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SENIOR GATHERS SUPPORT, STUDENTS FROM ACROSS STATE TO HELP HAITIANS “Students for Haiti” was organized by UCO student Dwight Clark, a senior political science major. The group is comprised of students from Oklahoma’s universities, high schools and elementary schools, as well as some teachers.

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The UCO hockey team suffered two losses this past week against ranked opponents following their upset victory over second-ranked Ohio. The No. 12 Bronchos split their series against No. 8 Arizona State and dropped their single game against No. 16 Minot State.

Last Wednesday night the Bronchos took the ice against the Sundevils and were immediately trying to comeback from an early 2-0 Arizona State lead.

BRONCHO MEN PUSH WINNING STREAK TO 9 Story on page 8 The UCO men’s basketball Bronchos continued their winning ways on Saturday, in a game that featured two teams headed in opposite directions.

UCO notched its ninth straight win 94-62, quieting a Southeastern Oklahoma State Savage Storm squad that has lost eight of its last 10 games.

Saturday night’s win didn’t start off quite as planned, as the Bronchos came out sluggish against the cellar-dwelling Savage Storm, who entered the game with a 5-10 record on the season.

After a three by junior guard Dauntae Williams put UCO up 9-7, the Bronchos missed nine of their next 12 shots, giving way to a 15-5 run by Southeastern that gave the Savage Storm their largest lead of the game at 22-14.

“We had been getting out to great starts (recently). I thought our guys played hard. I thought Southeastern came out and played really hard, and

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Dwight Clark takes donations for victims of the Haiti earthquake yesterday, Wednesday Jan. 20, 2010. Clark was in the Nigh University Center with blue buckets and posters, asking for any donations students were willing to give to the Haitian victims.

By Amy Stinnett / Staff Writer Students at the University of Central Oklahoma are collaborating with other students and teachers across the state to contribute to relief in Haiti.

Students for Haiti was organized by UCO student Dwight Clark, a senior political science major, in response to the images he saw on the news following the catastrophic earthquake.

“I just think we watch and we watch and we watch the news, and eventually you have to feel that pull. … We have to do something,” Clark said at a meeting held with other UCO students in the UCO Volunteer and Service Learning Center office.

“My initial response was to hop in my truck and drive to Haiti, but you know, logic kicked in, and here we are,” Clark said.

Students for Haiti is comprised of students from Oklahoma’s universities, high schools and elementary schools, as well as some teachers. Examples of their efforts so far include writing thank you notes to the aid workers, and collecting donations and raising awareness.

Clark is encouraging UCO students to donate what they can, be it time and/or money. Students for Haiti has set up tables in the Nigh University Center with blue buckets to collect donations.

Students are reminded that there are many mediums through which to make their donations, such as texting the word “Haiti” to 90999, which will automatically charge $10 to their phone bill. Online donations can be made at http://www.mercycorps. org/fundraising/studentsforhaiti.

The donations received at the Students for Haiti table will be given to the VSLC, who will write the check to Mercy Corps, the charity Students for Haiti has chosen to partner with.

Clark explained that the reason Students for Haiti chose to partner with Mercy Corps is because they already have feet on the ground. Donations will only help them in their relief effort.

“They have six or seven experts at emergency response that are just doing great work. So if we can help them, if we can provide funds, then they’re going to be able to do their job,” Clark said.

Students for Haiti is also hosting a concert called “Rock for Relief”, from which 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Mercy Corps. They are working with Okie Promotions to put this concert on, and are also looking for local Oklahoma business partners and the help of Oklahoma students.

“Rock for Relief” will be held on Jan. 29 at Picasso’s Café, located off of Walker and 23rd in the Paseo District of downtown Oklahoma City. The concert will kick off at 8 p.m. and wrap up around midnight.

“It’s a really nice venue. We’ve already got three bands booked,” Clark said.

Picasso’s Café has agreed to donate 5 percent of the total food sales the effort.

“They have stellar food,” Clark said.

Besides staging events, Students for Haiti has also created a Facebook group to encourage students to get involved in whatever capacities they can.

A few UCO students who have already volunteered their time and efforts are Kristen Collier, a ... continues on page 3

Life after college TOMORROW

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GRADUATION DAY TURNS SOUR FOR SOME SENIORS Graduate names left from program leaves administration wondering how to appease the students, if the glitch was a technological problem and how the problem can be avoided in the future.

By Ryan Costello / Staff Writer More weather at www.uco360.com

DID YOU KNOW? Harry Houdini was the first person to fly an airplane on the continent of Australia.

The end of the recent fall semester marked not only the passage of another term, but for some the culmination of a successfully completed college career. For a small, unfortunate group of graduates, that experience was one rendered incomplete by the slightest lacking detail.

The graduation resources department of academic advisement is still in the process of building bridges between students whose names were absent from the graduation program that was handed out to all in attendance.

One such student was Christa Copeland.

Copeland is now an intern at the Oklahoma

Gazette, and mulling graduate school after receiving her bachelor’s in advertising in the fall. Copeland recalls arriving at the ceremony and being greeted by a friend telling her that the program did not make any mention of a liberal arts graduate named Christa Copeland.

“I thought she was joking,” Copeland said.

As it turned out, Copeland’s name was indeed absent among the rows and columns of her friends and classmates.

“It’s disheartening. … You think, ‘God, I only put in four and a half years, and I’m $30,000 in debt. …’

You’d like to have a little keepsake,” Copeland said.

The rest of the graduation experience, the walk and the announcement, remained intact.

Dr. Rozilyn Miller, chair of the mass communication department, nonetheless sympathizes with the few that are yet to have their names listed in a UCO graduation program.

“You know, it’s very sad when someone graduates and (their) name is not listed in the book,” Miller said.

Over time, as more students approached, administrators realized just how much of a problem they had on their hands.

Was it a failure on the students’ part to submit their graduation applications on time? Was it a shortcoming by the faculty to correctly file students’ paperwork?

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SCHOOLS SUFFER, LAWMAKERS DON’T LEGISLATORS’ PAY STAYS STEADY AS BUDGET SHORTFALLS HURT THE STATE. The state budget is in a horrible mess because tax revenue isn’t coming in fast enough for the state to live up to the spending plan passed by the Legislature last year.

As a result some schools are closing shop one day a week so they don’t have to pay utility costs or buy fuel for the buses.

Elsewhere at least one school superintendent is swabbing out the toilets in the school bathrooms because he had to lay off all the janitors.

Meanwhile, state corrections workers — and workers at many other essential state agencies — are facing unpaid furloughs, which amount to unplanned, unscientific pay cuts and reductions in services to the state’s citizens.

Ready for a bit of inflammatory irony?

There are a few state employees who are completely immune from the pain.

They can’t be furloughed.

The state Legislature doesn’t get to vote on its own pay.

It can only vote to change the next Legislature’s pay.

They can’t have their salaries reduced.

And, by the way, they haven’t come to work in months.

They are the members of the Oklahoma Legislature.

The same lawmakers who passed the budget that the state isn’t living up to are financially immune to the effects of that failure.

So is the governor, who signed the budget.

So are other statewide elected officers. State Superintendent Sandy Garrett will get every penny she’s owed, while Tulsa Public Schools will be shorted by millions. Judges don’t need to worry that their paychecks will be light or there will be furloughs on the bench.

It’s wrong, but completely legal and pretty much beyond the control of the beneficiaries.

Even if they wanted to legislators couldn’t reduce their own salaries at this point. The state Legislature doesn’t get to vote on its own pay. It can only vote to change the next Legislature’s pay.

Nonetheless, it’s just inappropriate that legislators will not feel the actual paycheck pain of so many others who depend on state appropriations for their daily bread. ... budget shortfall — especially one that occurs while the Legislature stares at its navel and does nothing in reference to the state’s nearly $600 million “rainy day” fund, which was designed to deal with emergencies exactly like this one — represents a failure on the part of the top officers of state government.

Their job was to get the budget right. They didn’t.

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By Prakriti Adhikari/ Cartoonist

CAMPUS QUOTES

What is the best way to help the people of Haiti?

CHERYL BAUER

MARK THOMPSON

PATRICK HARREL

Unsure-Pre med

Freshman-Accounting

Freshman-International business

“Either making people aware of it because that way people that are able to give money can, or their time, they can, and that way you are helping in some sort of way.”

“Just trying to get them some kind of shelter I guess.”

“Donate money and pray for them.”

RAYMUNDO MARQUEZ

KAYLA CLIFTON

KAYLEE PEBWORTH

Freshman-Business administration

Freshman-Undecided

Freshman-Speeech pathology

“Just get the word out and “Prayer, food and money.” finding different ways of donating.”

“We could send our love.”

AS OF WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20TH: •

THE AMERICAN RED CROSS RECEIVED MORE THAN $24 MILLION IN U.S. TEXT-BASED DONATIONS FOR HAITI RELIEF.

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THAT IS ALMOST 20% OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS’S $122 MILLION TOTAL RAISED SO FAR.

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AUTHORITIES IN PORT-AU-PRINCE SAID THAT 72,000 BODIES HAD BEEN RECOVERED.

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THE DEATH TOLL IS ESTIMATED TO REACH 200,000.

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THE STATE OF FLORIDA REPORTED THAT 191 FLIGHTS WITH 6,836 PASSENGERS HAVE FLOWN INTO STATE AIRPORTS FROM HAITI SINCE JAN. 13TH.

TO DONATE, TEXT ‘HAITI’ TO 90999.

STANDARD CHARGES MAY APPLY

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Department Changes

SCHOLARSHIP TAKES STUDENTS

NURSING DEPT. FOCUSES ON REACCREDITATION

TO SOUTH KOREA FOR SIX MONTHS Those accepted will teach in Korea for six months under contract. Participants will have the opportunity to extend their contracts for one year.

All four participants will go through orientation together in Korea. After, they will be sent to different provinces when they begin teaching in March.

Naff said he will be teaching in Gyeong-ju. The others were not sure of what cities they were being sent to.

Currently, they are all waiting for their passports to arrive from the consulate stamped. They will be leaving on Feb. 2.

TaLK is a program new to the university.

“UCO began to offer the program on campus in December through the Centre for Global Competency,” Marco Rodriguez Linares, UCO’s coordinator of Centre for Global Competency, said.

It’s an ongoing program, Linares said.

Another recruitment session will be held

Danny Lindsendert, Jacob Tyler, and Lawrence Naff have bonded while readying themselves to their trip to South Korea. However, the three students will split apart while in the country to teach english to citizens living in the rural areas of South Korea.

“I think I’m going to learn a lot while I’m there,” Linsenbarth said.

He is also enrolled in 12 hours for the semester. Since Linsenbarth is participating in the TaLK program, he is attempting to get the program counted as an internship.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Linsenbarth said.

The Korean government will be paying for almost all the expenses occurred, during the program, Linsenbarth said.

The program will be beneficial for the careers of those who participate in the program, Linsenbarth said.

for fall 2010 at the university.

Those accepted in the program are being provided free housing, free meals, free round-trip airfare, sick leave, paid leave, overseas traveler’s health insurances, and other benefits from participating.

Participants also receive a stipend of $1,300 a month, Linares said.

“We encourage students to come by the Centre for Global Competency,” he said.

Dates for the fall session will be announced in the future. All participants are chosen by the Korean government.

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By Jenefar DeLeon Staff Writer

The UCO Department of Nursing is preparing itself for reaccreditation in February by the National League of Nursing Accrediting Commission.

Every year the department of nursing must go through an evaluation of its program. The NLNAC determines if the nursing program at UCO continues as it is, or may recommend changes to the program. In some cases, the program may fail the department and can take it out as one of the programs offered at the university.

If the NLNAC fails the nursing program at the university, local hospitals and faculties will not accept a nurse who is accredited from a university that has failed NLNAC standards.

The board of the NLNAC will visit the nursing department located in the Coyner Health Science building from Feb. 9 to Feb. 10. The department will also have a public meeting on Feb. 10 at 3 p.m. in the Coyner building for students, faculty and community members who have questions about the nursing program.

“We know we have a good program at UCO,” Linda Rider, chairperson/ assistant professor of department of nursing said. “It’s always a stressful time, but we have a prepared program and team.”

The NLNAC is an entity of the National League of Nursing, the first nursing organization in the United States. The NLNAC evaluates certified schools and programs throughout the nation.

The NLNAC became independent from the NLN in 2000. They operate and evaluate with an independent Board of Commissioners.

NLNAC’s standards are high. The criteria include an evaluation of the facilities,

faculty, equipments, curriculum and students’ opinions of the university.

Every year the UCO Department of Nursing has gone through positive results. At times recommendations are given, and they’re always taken seriously, Rider said.

UCO is always making sure that the program meets with NLNAC standards and hopes to continue on with the program, she said.

UCO has produced more than 2,000 qualified nurses since its first graduating class in 1972. The UCO Department of Nursing came to UCO in 1969 when Baptist Memorial Hospital joined with the university to establish the Bachelor of Science with a nursing major.

Rider said each semester the nursing program expects to receive about 750 students who are registered as nursing majors on campus, and twice a year expect about 60 students to register in the upper-division nursing program.

The program keeps growing more than expected, but the facilities are behind, Rider said. The program continues to provide nursing majors with qualified instructors and curriculum.

The department is currently offering an extern program; this will allow qualified nursing students to gain hands-on nursing experience at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Students will experience lab work and patient care.

Applications must be received by Feb. 15 or contact the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center at 405-4565156.

Students can also visit the department of nursing for more information about the nursing and extern programs, or can call at 9743848.

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Tyler said he didn’t enroll in any classes this semester due to his acceptance.

Everything was straightforward in the process. If students need help during the application process, assistance is available, he said.

Participants will be teaching 1-4 p.m., Monday through Friday, Tyler said. This will give them plenty of free time to do whatever they want to do, Tyler said.

“I would encourage people to try new things,” he said. “This is a good way to try something new.”

Linsenbarth is a senior, whose major is international business with a minor in Asian studies.

When he first heard about the program he was skeptical. But, a Korean Consulate who came to UCO, to speak about the program, from the consular’s office in Texas convinced him to apply, Linsenbarth said.

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By Tiffany Brown / Staff Writer

The New Year has brought with it a new opportunity for a group of University of Central Oklahoma students, who will leave for South Korea in February.

Four University of Central Oklahoma students will receive scholarships from the Korean government to teach English as a second language in Korea.

Jacob Tyler, Lawrence Naff and Danny Linsenbarth are among the students accepted.

They are apart of the Teach and Learn in Korea (TaLK) international program.

Naff is a fall 2009 graduate. He heard about the program a week before commencement, he said.

After he attended an informational session in December 2009, he decided to apply.

Naff said he was bit apprehensive after applying since he was confident he would be accepted.

“It gets more exciting every day,” Naff said.

Participants are not required to learn any additional languages to participate in the program.

“It’s not required that you know Korean,” Naff said Although Naff is fluent in Japanese, he only knows a few words in Korean, he said.

“I can pronounce what’s being written, but I can’t understand what’s being said,” Naff said.

People always ask him how can he teach if does not speak Korean, he said.

Naff compared teaching English to teaching Spanish.

In a Spanish class, some teachers will only speak Spanish, he said. You have no choice but to learn Spanish since it’s the only way to communicate.

Teaching English without speaking Korean will be a similar experience, Naff said.

It will give Korean students the opportunity to be immersed in the English language, he said.

The trip to Korea will give him the opportunity to learn from his students as well, he said.

The purpose of the program is to bridge the gap between Koreans in the city who speak English, and Koreans in rural areas who don’t, Naff said.

The majority of English-speaking Koreans are from cities rather than rural areas. Those accepted to the TaLK program will teach in the rural areas.

Tyler is a junior whose major is undecided.

Instead of sitting in a classroom being taught this semester, Tyler will also spend the semester teaching.

STUDENTS FOR HAITI UCO senior majoring in community health, Rita Jones, a UCO freshman majoring in psychology, and Kimberly Indergand, a UCO sophomore majoring in photojournalism.

These students will be working the table and putting up fliers around campus, as well as organizing students across the state in this united effort.

“Things are just getting worse and worse. … We need to help out our brothers and sisters in Haiti who are just devas-

Health Professions Career Fair Wed., Jan., 27 10-2:30 Howell Hall Atrium All UCO students come meet & learn about many graduate health programs.

Contact aewing2@uco.edu.

tated,” Clark said.

There are many ways UCO students can contribute to this relief effort.

If you are interested in volunteering, you can e-mail StudentsforHaiti@gmail.com for more information.

Vista Writer Amy Stinnett can be reached at astinnett@uco360.com.

Dr. Linda Rider, chair of the nursing department, holds the NLNAC guidebook. The department is up for reaccrediatation in February.

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GRADUATION DAY Perhaps it was neither. Perhaps it was no one person’s fault, but the result of a simple, if broad-reaching, technological glitch Looking into each case, they each shared one common thread: The students with missing names filed their requests while the banner on the university Web site was in flux.

“Based on when students applied for graduation … the (problems occurred) right around the time we changed the banner system,” said Dr. Myron Pope, vice president of enrollment management.

Students may recall when UCO’s Web site, which was used by administrators to store graduation applications, experienced a severe slowdown and eventually crashed when the banner’s software provider changed to its current vendor, SunGard.

“We had to run various processes to make sure it was working right. What we didn’t realize was that some names didn’t make the print list,” Pope said.

Pope has since been one of the primary liaisons to any stu-

dent disputes about the computer glitch.

“We’ve dealt with (student disputes) in different ways.

We’re talking to individual students to find out how to make things better for them,” Pope said.

For most students, that resolution is to have their names listed under the spring graduation program.

Pope, however, understands that to some, this doesn’t completely fill the void.

“Some students are first-generation college graduates. For them to be recorded in that program means a lot,” Pope said.

Though Pope laments that the missing names ever happened, he had to stop short of guaranteeing that this mistake would never happen again.

“You can never tell with technology,” Pope said.

Vista Writer Ryan Costello can be reached at rcostello@uco360.com.

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P H OTO BY BIS WAR AN JAN R O U T

A GLIMPSE AROUND THE WORLD

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A slum dweller is administered drops of polio vaccine at a health center at Saliasahi, Bhubaneswar, India, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010. India is observing National Immunization Day Sunday to eradicate polio. Every year, the country mobilizes more than two million health workers for an immunization day.

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Protesters from the London Guantanamo Campaign group, some dressed in orange jumpsuits and black hoods, hold a demonstration outside the United States embassy in central London, Monday Jan. 11, 2010, to mark the eighth anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. The demonstrators called on the US administration to ‘close down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp as soon as possible and ensure justice for all the prisoners held there.’

Soldiers check prices at a supermarket, accused of raising prices, in Caracas, Monday, Jan. 11, 2009. Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to seize businesses that raise prices as a result of last week’s devaluation of Venezuela’s currency.

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An elderly coal worker looks on at a firewood market in Amritsar, India, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. Dozens of people have died in cold weather in northern India.

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A GLIMPSE AROUND UCO

Kassie Elsten, a junior and French major, sits on a bench by Broncho Lake to read a book and listen to music.

Celeste Anne Davis paints at UCO’s booth at the home and garden show, at the Oklahoma City Fairgrounds, Sunday, Jan 16.

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‘LEADERSHIP UNIVERSITY’ INVESTS IN YOUNG PROS

By Tiuanna Harris / Staff Writer UCO puts more action behind the idea of being a leadership university by supporting the Edmond Young Professionals group. UCO is one of the primary financial contributors to the group started just two years ago.

According to Bob Ault, Leaders of Tomorrow coordinator and assistant to Central’s executive vice president, UCO has been a longtime member of the Edmond Chamber of Commerce and always looks to be associated and involved with leadership opportunities.

“UCO really enjoys and is proactive about being involved in what we call the ‘Leadership University,’” said Ault. “We are very intentional in our relationship with the chambers so we can create and take advantage of those leadership opportunities.”

The idea behind the Chamber of Commerce is to get people plugged into the business community and the community itself, and one young individual realized that it was not very user friendly for the younger professionals.

After coming up with an idea geared more

Bob Ault, leader of tomorrow coordinator and assistant to Central’s executive vice president. Ault has been on the board of directors of the Edmond Young Professionals group for more than a month.

for the younger members, UCO saw its involvement as a good fit due to its desire for students to be successful. UCO had a representative sit in on the initial board that developed the EYP. During the development process UCO decided to step up as a finical contributor to ensure the success of the pro-

gram.

“Funding is always a problem, but there comes a time when someone has to step up and say ‘I believe in this project enough to sign a check,’” said Ault. “UCO and Keller Williams Realty decided to become co-sponsors. We provide funding for annual opera-

tions for the council.”

The group targets MBA and grad students here at the university by attending the beginning of the semester orientation, as well as setting up a booth during the fall semester Broncho week. According to Ault they wanted to provide an opportunity, for not only UCO grads, but other young professionals, that they should be a part of.

“We want to show ourselves as an example in the community as someone who steps up and says ‘there are things wrong in the community and we want to help,’” said Ault. “We want to integrate as many people as possible into our network so we can make a positive change.”

Ault admits that the group does need to do better at recruiting more students at UCO, stating that it is a work in progress. According to Ault UCO grads are the prefect target group for the network and are looking for different ways to reach out to the group. He believes there are and will be plenty of opportunities for students to get involved with EYP and the community.

AWARENESS OF HEALTH CAREERS RAISED AT FAIR

By Jenefar DeLeon / Staff Writer The University of Central Oklahoma will host a Health Profession Fair on Wednesday, Jan. 27 at Howell Hall Atrium.

The event will be from 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

The event is co-sponsored by Pre-Med/ Health Professions Club and UCO Career Services “This is a great opportunity for anyone who is either vaguely interested or wanting to see what is out there in the medical field,” Suzie Ondak, UCO biology graduate said. “There will be different schools and the opportunity to see what they are offering all in one place.”

Participants will be from the OU Office of Student Affairs, OU College of Public Health, OSU Center for Health Science, NSU College of Optometry, UCO Speech-Language Pathology, St. Francis Hospital School of Medical Technology and many more.

Ondak said she has participated at the Health Profession Fair in the past two years, and it has helped her learn about other institutions and what they offer in the health profession.

Ondak is preparing herself to go to OU medical school. She said the Health Profession Fair is helpful and a great opportunity for students.

The Pre-Med/Health Profession Club who is co-sponsoring the event is a student organization focused on bringing about information over the health profession, networking opportunities and volunteer activities.

The programs involved in the Pre-Med/ Health Profession Club are pre-med, predental, physical therapy, medical therapy and plenty more.

The PMHPC has also hosted a canned food drive as a volunteer event during the months of December and November to help the com-

2009-2010 Student RCSA Call for Grant Proposals

Would you like to be rewarded for your research, creative and scholarly activities?

You could be awarded a ¼ time Research Assistantship for one or two semesters and be paid five hours a week at $9.75 per hour.

Would you like some help in paying your tuition?

You could be eligible for a partial Tuition Waiver for one or two semesters!

Would you like support for supplies and travel while engaged in research, creative and scholarly activities?

You could receive $500 for travel expenses, supplies or materials among other things to support your project!

Please call or visit: Office of Research & Grants: 974-2526, ADM 216 http://www.uco.edu/facres/student_research/rcsa.html

Application Deadline: 5:00 PM, Thursday, February 18, 2010

munity.

The Pre-Med/Health Profession Club meets bimonthly at noon on the first and third of each month in the Howell Hall Atrium.

To become a member simply fill out an application form, which is available at the monthly meetings and in the biology office.

Dues are $10 per year and $5 per semester.

Payment of dues allows you to be an official member of the PMHPC. Dues may only be paid through the club treasurer at club meetings.

The PMHPC hosted a panel that included Ondak at the last meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 19 to discuss the importance of networking, their personal experience in the health profession, and answer questions from the members.

The Pre-Med/Health Profession Club is another opportunity for students to join, Ondak said. The club is geared to help students to get on the right tracks of the health profes-

sions they are interested in. It provides guest speakers and events to help them learn more about the health field.

Additionally, the wellness center will also host a first aid class from 3-6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, in Room 104 at the wellness center for students who are interested in learning how to use an automated external defibrillator (AED) and/or to be certified in CPR/first aid.

The UCO Center for Outdoor Adventure Recreation (OAR) will also host a CPR/AED/ first aid class from 2 -5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 7, at the facility, which is located on the north shore of Arcadia Lake in Edmond Park.

This class is $30, and space is limited. To RSVP, contact Becka Johnson at 974-3143 or rjohnson59@uco.edu.

Vista Writer Jenefar Deleon can be reached at jdeleon@uco360.com.

CENTER OFFERS FREE TRIALS

By Ryan Costello / Staff Writer Bronchos will have free access to the UCO Wellness Center’s Group Fitness program through the month of January.

The program includes several classes geared toward providing a variety of unique methods of exercise and healthy living.

“The (free classes) give students an opportunity to come over and see if they enjoy them,” Ryan Wilson, a representative with the wellness center and occasional participant of the group fitness curriculum said.

The classes include more traditional approaches like indoor cycling, total strength, which works with both lower and upper body, and another class dedicated to abdominal and core techniques. The more unorthodox classes available are yoga, palates, tai chi, belly dancing, five animal kung fu, and Zumba, which utilizes Latin rhythms and dancing.

Several personal trainers and fitness instructors are devoted specifically to the classes of the group fitness program, and they bring in tow an impressive collective resume.

Together, the program’s instructors have several master’s degrees, decades of experience, and countless degrees of black belts, all dedicated to imparting knowledge of health, fitness and well-being to the starved minds and perhaps too well-fed bodies of UCO students.

“Our fitness staff is comprised of high-energy, highly motivated people that can keep you

motivated for the duration of a class,” Wilson said.

The benefits of the program’s array of classes? Aside from the obvious draw of reverting the dreaded “freshman 15,” the wellness center hopes to make the healthy lifestyle a more prominent facet in students’ priorities.

Wilson wants to see the scheduling of classes help students arrange their lives around exercise and health, rather than just “finding the time” to take care of themselves.

“Most people lack the motivation to work out, or find reasons not to exercise. What these classes do is help keep you concentrated, motivated, and fulfill your goals,” Wilson said.

At the end of the free access period, students can enroll in fitness classes for $4 per class, $30 for 10 classes, or even purchase full access to all classes for the entire semester for $50.

The common message of the entire fitness programs is accessibility. Classes are held Monday though Saturday, and several times throughout each day.

“Schedules are crazy between work, homework and school schedules,” Wilson said.

“Sometimes you come in here to work out, then think about a book you have to read or an assignment, then rush home.”

Perhaps with the group fitness program, students could stop and smell the roses, if not get a touch winded in the process.

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Hockey

PHOTO BY BRYON KOONTZ

UCO HOCKEY DROPS TWO GAMES TO RANKED OPPONENTS

Patrick Higgins (9) tracks down the puck in UCO’s overtime victory over the Arizona State Sundevils. UCO is now 16-10, their next game is Friday, 7:30 p.m. at Artic Edge.

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UCO did battle back, tying the game at two scores a piece. Arizona then took a 4-2 lead heading into the final period of play.

That is when the Bronchos went to sophomore goaltender Eric Murbach in net for the remainder of the game. UCO scored next making it a 4-3 game. However the Sundevils took advantage of Murbach coming in cold off the bench and scored two more times, defeating the Bronchos 6-3.

UCO newcomer Patrick Biron scored a goal and added an assist, while captains

Brian Thompson and Matt Cohn scored the remaining two points.

Thursday night saw the tides turn in Central Oklahoma’s favor. Although the two teams exchanged scores early and often, the Bronchos wouldn’t be denied at least one win against the No. 8 team in the nation.

Regulation ended in a 4-4 tie and sent the game to a five-minute overtime period. With a little over three minutes remaining in overtime, Jonathan Cannizzo scored the game winner, and the Bronchos moved to 16-9 on the year and won their 13th home game this season.

Alex Jackson, Erik Jansen, Casey Smith and Shawn Steggles all added scores Thursday night.

Riding the high that comes with beating a team with a higher ranking than you, the Bronchos leapt out to a 3-1 lead against No. 16 Minot State on Sunday. The visiting Beavers didn’t seem to know what hit them.

It wasn’t until the second period that Minot State hit their stride, scoring three unanswered goals to take the 4-3 lead.

The third period went scoreless on both sides of the ice, giving Minot State the 4-3 victory, despite UCO outshooting the

Beavers 44-18. Sunday’s victory for Minot State was their third in a row against teams ranked in the top 15.

UCO (16-10) will now try to bounce back at home against, Division II, Texas A&M University (13-4) Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Both games will be played at Arctic Edge Arena in Edmond. UCO holds a 2-0 series lead against the Aggies all-time.

Vista Sports Editor Chris Wescott can be reached at cwescott@uco360.com.

Women’s Basketball

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SUFFERS HEARTBREAKING 65-63 LOSS TO SOUTHEASTERN’S SAVAGE STORM

By Ryan Costello / Staff Writer The team recently received word that junior guard Kasey After using a five-game Tweed, who has been inactive win streak to gain a foothold since suffering a knee injury on the season, the women of in a Jan. 7 win against Eastern UCO basketball will have a New Mexico, will miss the new challenge to face: over- remainder of the season. coming adversity.

Aside from Tweed’s 25 minThe Broncho women utes a game and 48 percent fell to the Savage Storm of shooting touch, head coach Southeastern Oklahoma State Guy Hardaker thinks the team on Saturday, 65-63. will miss the injured Tweed’s A game that saw UCO fight intensity. back from a 19-point second“(Tweed) is our competitor. half deficit only to lose in the That hurts us because she’s the final seconds wasn’t the only one that would fight you every heartbreaking blow dealt to night, and if you’re in a dark the Bronchos this weekend. alley, you want her with you.

That hurts our team. There’s no doubt about it,” Hardaker said.

The void in UCO’s roster has put the onus of a successful season on the shoulders of two reserve guards.

For just the second time this season, senior Brianne Grisham and sophomore Savannah Hamilton were both in the starting lineup for the Bronchos.

Grisham provided six points, three rebounds and four steals in 29 minutes for UCO. Hamilton sparked a sec-

ond-half surge that nearly led to a Broncho comeback.

Hamilton’s 28 minutes of work resulted in game highs of 20 points, with 15 in the second half, and nine rebounds.

“She’s doing fine. I felt like (Hamilton) was a little soft in the first half, but I thought her play in the second half was much more aggressive, and we were little more aggressive,” Hardaker said.

Despite strong efforts from UCO’s reserves turned starters, the Bronchos were unable to overcome their early struggles against Southeastern.

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After Rose Anderson gave UCO its only lead of the game at 3-0, the Bronchos missed their next five shots, and were quickly doubled up by Southeastern at 18-9. A three

by Southeastern 11 minutes in gave the Savage Storm their first double-digit lead, 21-11.

Though UCO cut the lead to 33-25 to close the half, Southeastern opened the next half with a 17-6 run, increasing their lead to its largest at 50-31. The Bronchos battled back, scoring the game’s next 13 points to close within six at 50-44.

Southeastern would again nurse their lead to double digits, leading 61-51 at the 5:36 mark, but UCO would not disappear, as Hamilton scored eight points in a 12-2 run that tied the game at 63 with just 1:24 remaining. In the end though, it wasn’t enough, as junior guard Jordan Stark’s missed jumper at the

buzzer sealed a two-point Southeastern win.

Stark finished with seven points and nine rebounds on just 3-13 shooting. Christina Yarbrough finished with 11 points, and game highs in assists and steals with eight and five respectively. Rose Anderson scored eight points but lost five turnovers. Ashley Beckley contributed eight points in just 15 minutes off the bench in her first game back from injury. Reserve Alyssa Fuxa missed her second straight game due to injury.

The loss, UCO’s second in the last three games, drops the Bronchos to 10-5 overall and 1-1 in the Lone Star Conference.

Vista Writer Ryan Costello can be reached at rcostello@uco360.com.

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BRONCHOS STAMPEDE THEIR WAY TO 9TH STRAIGHT VICTORY AGAINST SEOSU The Central Oklahoma Bronchos are now 13-4 and 2-0 in the Lone Star Conference North Division.

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By Ryan Costello / Staff Writer they made some shots early,” said UCO head coach Terry Evans.

An undersized UCO team initially struggled to neutralize a Savage Storm frontcourt that included 6-foot-8 William Slones and 6-foot-7 Chibuzo Elonu. In the game’s opening minutes, the Bronchos starters, the tallest of whom being 6-foot-5 sophomore guard Tyler Phillips, tried to cover the larger Southeastern team one on one.

“We know we’re small. We know we’re going to give up some rebounds. We really just want to double them so they can’t play one on one in the low post,” Evans said.

“We couldn’t guard them at first, so we went zone. We just made them shoot threes, and it worked.”

After Evans made the adjustment, Southeastern’s shooters suffered a slump of their own, shooting just 4-13, and 0-4 from outside the arc for the rest of the first half.

Taking advantage of Southeastern’s struggles, UCO exploded for a 31-9 run that was keyed by 10 straight points from Phillips, closing the half up 45-31.

The second half belonged to the Bronchos, as UCO’s lead never fell below

13, but swelled up to 34 on a three by Keith Marks en route to a 32-point win in front of 750 at Hamilton Field House.

The win against Southeastern pushed UCO’s record to 13-4, including a 2-0 mark in the Lone Star Conference. After a less than ideal 4-4 start, the Bronchos have won by an average of 20.9 points per game during their streak, with wins by at least 16 in their last five contests.

“We know what we’re doing now. Earlier in the year, we didn’t really have an identity.

Now we know what we want to do both offensively and defensively. … We’re just playing much better right now,” Evans said.

UCO was lead by Phillips, who finished with a game-high 19 points. Dauntae Williams contributed another solid allaround effort, with 16 points, six rebounds, and a game-best six assists. Eric Cazenave scored 15 points and led the game with seven steals. Chris Rhymes netted 12 points, and Brent Friday finished with 11 points and four rebounds.

Vista Writer Ryan Costello can be reached at rcostello@uco360.com.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: UCO HOCKEY GOES 1-2 IN GAMES AGAINST RANKED OPPONENTS THIS PAST WEEK.

UCO forward Carl Curry (2) skies toward the basket for two points in the Bronchos’ 94-62 beatdown of SEOSU.

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