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THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2005
Education college receives new name by Tynesia Omopariola Staff Writer
The College of Education faculty recently voted to rename the college to better represent the degrees offered. The name change to the College of Education and Professional Studies is effective
immediately. Dr. Judith Coe, dean of the college, said the name is more inclusive and better represents the programs in the college. "We wanted to get input from different services and offices because a name change takes a lot of planning," Coe said. Stationery, catalogs and the Web site will be affected by
the change. Coe said the name change was first introduced in a strategic planning meeting last spring, and a college committee created a task force to get the project together. Each member in the task force set out to look at other education colleges with similar programs. The new name ideas were sent out to the
faculty and staff for input. Faculty and staff members at a spring meeting voted from a ballot of five suggested names, and the vote narrowed the choices down to three. An official ballot was created to choose one name, and university President W. Roger Webb and Dr. Don Betz, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs,
approved the name. Dr. Donna Cobb, assistant dean of the college, said she was also pleased with the new name. "It was real difficult trying to find a name that suited all eight departments, and I think we found one," Cobb said. The international education honorary society, Kappa Delta
Pi, will sell T-shirts with the new name displayed. A reception for the name change will be at 2:30 p.m. March 7 in the foyer of the Education Building.
Tynesia Omopariola can be reached at tomopatiola@theyistaonline,com,
`Video Vigilante' pleads innocent
Sparks fly...
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Brian Bates' bail was increased from $4,000 to $6,000 by Joseph Wertz Senior Staff Writer
Bates says on his Web site that he has been falsely charged and that investigators have a grudge against him. Bates videotaped the July 2002 arrest of Donald Pete by the Oklahoma City Police Department, during which Pete was struck more than two dozen times with batons. Police said the use, of force was needed because of Pete's non-compliance and attempt to destroy evidence by eating marijuana. • Bates' bail was increased from $4,000 to $6,000 during the arraignment. Judge Hall told Bates to return April 28 to schedule a preliminary hearing.
Brian Bates entered a plea of not guilty during an arraignment held in front of Oklahoma County Special District Judge Russell Hall. Three charges of pandering were filed against Bates on Feb. 23 for allegedly paying a prostitute to have sex in a predetermined location. Bates is known publicly as the 'Video Vigilante' for videotaping street prostitution. Bates says he is an activist and uses the tapes as a deterrence to prostitution by making them avail- Joseph Wertz can be reached at able to police and media. jwertz@thevistaonline.com.
Shooting victim to be released from hospital by Michael Robertson Staff Writer
Photo by Naomi Takebuchi
Joseph Daun, chair of the Art Department, welds a table March 8 at Wantland Hall. The table will be a part of an exhibit at Untitled Artspace in Oklahoma City in June.
A UCO student that was shot and paralyzed this winter will be released from the hospital next week. Boyke Suryo Buono, 25, has been at OU Medical Center since he was shot in the neck by an unknown attacker in January while driving on Lake Hefner Parkway. Buono's brother, UCO student Boya Sudibjoi, 26, said Buono is paralyzed from the neck down, with the exception of the ability to move his biceps and hands, though not his fingers. He said Buono can talk and his mental abilities are intact. "He's normal, but the bullet is still inside his neck," Sudibjoi said. He said Buono was supposed to be released from the hospital
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UCO student translates at Nagano Special Olympics ■
An international trade junior will receive internship credit for recent trip by Michael Robertson Staff Writer
UCO student Matt Mashore translated his love of Japanese culture into a trip to Japan working as a translator for the Special Olympics. Mashore spent Feb. 18 through March 2 in Nagano, Japan working as an intern. Mashore said he got the internship through his regular job as a loan executive at Midwest Trophy in Midwest City, which donates the Special
Olympic trophies and the Special Olympic torch. "All the different sponsor companies donate something, and I guess I was sort of donated f r o m Midwest Trophy," Mashore said. Mashore, 21, said he is a junior international trade major with an emphasis on the Japanese language. "And really, I was going to go anyway, because we needed to send someone from the company that could speak
Japanese," Mashore said. "But I decided to make it an internship, since I was going to be gone from school."
"They asked me what I thought about Nagano, and I told them I thought it was wonderful." - Matt Mashore
Mashore said he worked answering telephone calls in Japanese and translated cell phone instructions for everyone in the office who received a cell phone.
"And, basically, I did everything in the office that they needed me to do," he said. Mashore said he worked about 20 hours a day in the beginning, then 12 hours a day as his time in Japan went on. "And I worked for free, too," Mashore said. He said he earned an hour of college credit through the trip. Mashore said one of the most exciting moments of the trip was attending an event with former President Bill Clinton, Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi and Crown Prince Naruhito.' "I was in the same room with them. I basically got to listen to them speak, but I can't say that I met them," Mashore said.
He said another exciting part of his trip was being on television. "They wanted to interview someone in English. They asked me what I thought about Nagano, and I told them I thought it was wonderful, and I liked the people," he said. "And that was my five second TV spot." Mashore said this wasn't his first trip to Japan. He spent three months there last summer, and six months there the year before. "I started studying (Japanese) when I was in high school, and I took some college
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CAMPUS ANNOUNCEMENTS ■ "The Big Event," a day of service, will begin at noon April 9 by Broncho Lake. Registration is going on for team leaders. To register as a volunteer or team leader, visit the "Big Event" tab on UCONNECT, or call Derek Burks at the Volunteer Center at 9742621. ■ Volunteer team leaders are needed for Big Event, April 9. For information, contact the Volunteer Center at 974-2621 or e-mail dburks@ucok.edu . ■ Applications are available for the Presidential Partners Kirkpatrick Leadership Awards and Rothbaum Achievement Awards at the UCO Foundation Office, Rm. 102 of Evans Hall; Student Affairs, Rm. 213 of Lillard Administration Building; or from any dean's office on campus. Applications are due March 21. ■ Donations are being accepted for a campus-wide clothing drive for the `MCA domestic abuse shelter. The clothing drive will run through March 11, and donations should be dropped off at Rm. 201 of the Human Environmental Sciences Building. ■ UCO's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance will help taxpayers with their federal and state tax returns from Feb. 1 through April 12 in Rm. 347 of Thatcher Hall. For information, contact Dr. Mary Sheets at msheets@ucok.edu or at 974-2834.
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