The Vista Oct. 31, 2006

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Former UCO employee to stand trial Dec. 11

George Tetteh

by Andrew Knittle Staff Writer Oklahoma County District Judge Ray Elliott set a court date Oct. 25 for a former UCO employee charged with five counts of fraud and one count of perjury, according to Assistant Attorney General Kim White.

Former UCO Risk and Insurance Coordinator George Tetteh will begin his jury trial Dec. 11 in an Oklahoma County courtroom. Oklahoma Cityarea defense attorney Richard Rice will defend him in court, according to court papers.

Tetteh had pled not guilty at his May 9 arraignment before judge Gregory Ryan.

White, who represents the state in the case against Tetteh, wouldn’t provide details other than to confirm that Tetteh was in court Wednesday and that the judge set a date to begin the jury trial.

“Tetteh was in court [Oct.

"Lone Star Conference Champs"

25], he had pled guilty and now he will go to trial,” White said.

Tetteh was arrested April 10, but walked out of county jail the same day after posting a $12,000 bond.

The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Workers’ Compensation Fraud Unit became interested in Tetteh after he filed for compensation in March 2003, claiming he had injured both hands while at work.

In an April 10 press release, Attorney General Drew Edmondson stated Tetteh continued to work rather than take time off to recover from his injuries.

“Oklahoma workers’ compensation laws state that individuals can receive temporary total disability payments for work-related injuries, or they can receive their full paychecks,” Edmondson said. “Mr. Tetteh attempted to receive both. We allege he illegally took in $5,494.93.”

Tetteh’s perjury charge stems from allegedly lying while under oath to investigators when questioned about the length of time he took off work following surgeries to his injured hands, the attorney general’s office said.

Promoted to risk and insurance coordinator in 2004, Tetteh was terminated

by UCO on May 5, nearly a month after his arrest.

Andrew Knittle can be reached at aknittle@thevistaonline.com.

by Vista photographer Travis Marak

Members of the UCO soccer team celebrate after winning the Lonestar Conference Championship, defeating Texas A&M Commerce 1-0 at Tom Tompson Field Oct. 29.

Colonel speaks about Iraq Soccer champs become focus for Webb's Leadership class

by Vista photographer Travis Marak

Lieutenant Colonel Fredrick Wellman speaks during the Passport to Egypt program Oct. 26 in Constitution Hall.

by Ivo Lupov Staff Writer If there was a media score sheet describing the most depicted political issues, the war in Iraq would probably beat any of the past and present internal political scandals. The news coverage of former Rep. Mark Foley’s letters to a minor boy would look like sound bites.

Since many office specialists often criticize or promote the way, the current administration is handling the Iraq situation.

Many who are up-to-date about Iraq question, “How many Americans have a clear view about the reality in the Middle East?”

With the idea to give first hand professional opinion,

Violence in Iraq

UCO Passport to Egypt program and Leadership Central sponsored a presentation on the war given by Army Lt. Col. Fredrick Wellman Oct. 26 at UCO Nigh University Center’s Constitution Hall.

During the ongoing local political campaigns, not many students or members of the community were interested in the problems in Iraq.

Not bothered by the lack of interest, the Army guest gave a full presentation followed by audience questions.

The discussion was about what works and what doesn’t in Iraq. Not challenged by any political critics, the Colonel was not afraid to give details about some military mistakes the command did after the end of the conflict’s first phase.

Lt. Col. Wellman, a 1987 West Point graduate with a Bachelor of Science in international relations, prior to his service in Iraq, took part in Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm and Desert Fox, earning him vast combat experience.

He was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from February 2003 to January 2004 as an Executive Officer of Air Assault.

In February 2004, he was deployed back as a Public Affairs Officer, served with the Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq, and took part in training, equipping, rebuilding and mentoring the new Iraqi Security Forces.

Currently Wellman

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by Desiree Treeby Staff Writer Recognized as a “real leader,” head soccer coach Mike Cook watched his team become champions of the Lone Star Conference Postseason Tournament.

They’re an “incredible team” with an “incredible coach,” President Webb said talking about the 18 – 3 team for his Lessons in Leadership class Monday.

Beating Texas A&M University-Commerce Sunday by one point named them tournament champions.

They also claimed the No. 1 title for regular season play.

“They’re a group of women who understand what it’s like to play as a team,” Webb said.

“They’re one of the great teams I’ve seen come through here.”

When one gets hurt or is having an off day, another steps up and they continue to win, he said.

Webb described Cook as having five essential leadership qualities that show as proof with his winning teams: commitment, focus, positive attitude, fairness and constancy.

Cook is also an “authentic leader,” who “brings others together to accomplish a goal.”

“One of the things I appreciate most about him,” Webb said talking about his positive attitude. “He’s always up and never down.”

When talking about Cook’s fairness and constancy, he said that people want to follow

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by Vista photographer Travis Marak

UCO President Rodger Webb speaks about the leadership head soccer coach Mike Cook exemplifies each day. individuals who are consistent.

Cook brings teams together, which impresses others that everyone on his team has a part and everyone contributes.

“If you’re going to be a leader . . . you got to be consistent,” Webb said.

“They’re a group of women who understand what it’s like to play as a team.”

Desiree Treeby can be reached at dtreeby@thevistaonline.com.

-President Webb

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DID YOU Henry KNOW THAT..

“Second string,” meaning “replacement or backup,” comes from the middle ages. An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke.

One in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.

An elephant’s trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles.

state of outlawed

Massachusetts Christmas.

In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls to 12.

In ancient Egypt, people paid their taxes in honey.

Infant are called

beavers kittens.

At its center, the sun has a density of over 100 times that of water, and a temperature of 10-20 million degrees Celsius.

Joseph Priestley not only discovered oxygen, but he also discovered ammonia, carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride, sulphur dioxide, and nitrous oxide. He was also the first person to isolate chlorine.

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.

Las Vegas means “The Meadows” in Spanish.

Disneyland opened in 1955.

Members of the Nazi SS had their blood type tattooed on their armpits.

Dominique Larrey, Napoleon’s chief surgeon, could amputate a leg in 13 seconds.

Frankfort, Kentucky, makes it against the law to shoot off a policeman’s tie.

If Texas were a country it’s GNP would be fifth largest of any country on earth.

In

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Mushrooms have no chlorophyll so they don't need sunshine to grow and thrive.

New York City's administrative code still requires that hitching posts be located in front of City Hall so that reporters can tie their horses.

future

Dear Editor, Regarding the story of Rep. Ernest Istook’s attacks on Governor Henry’s record of granted paroles, “Istook raps Henry on paroles” (10-172006), as a retired OHP trooper I felt compelled to set the record straight. Istook’s charges were nothing more than bogus rhetoric. After suffering four gunshot wounds in 1988, my assailant was sentenced to 310 years by a Creek County jury. Shortly after Henry took office the parole board made the huge mistake

making the grade

of recommending this criminal for parole. Gov. Henry did not overreact and deny the parole in knee-jerk fashion. He did his job, reviewed the case in detail, and then correctly disagreed with the board by denying the parole. Then, he called me and personally thanked me for my service and promised to never grant the man parole as long as he is our Governor. He has since replaced a few members of the board with people that possess good common sense.

Oklahomans must face the fact

that non-violent offenders will normally serve about a 1/3 of their sentences due to prison overcrowding. I have complete confidence that Brad Henry diligently reviews all cases and only grants parole to those who he & his staff truly believe are worthy of such release.

Furthermore, Henry sponsored ground-breaking legislation that has exponentially reduced the ability of dope cooks to produce methamphetamine and this legislation was adopted by over 20 other states in the U.S. Now

that is what I call leadership.

Istook’s attacks lead me to harbor the same feelings for him as I now have for Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. I’ll put Gov. Henry’s record up against Istook’s lengthy record in Washington any day of the week. Brad Henry is a good man and he is MY GOVERNOR. My intuition tells me that most Oklahomans will agree with me on this one.

Keep up the good work Brad !!

- Jack W. Horath Retired OHP Trooper

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Saddle-up, ya'll So does this mean that we are all gonna have to start riding horses more to get around???

If so, I am going to have to start riding more! Maybe even a little barrel racing if I get good enough!!! And another comment…this whole gas price issue is quickly changing the American view, if not world view, on the purchase of their next car. I currently drive a large suv, and if you have asked me a

few years ago if I ever thought of driving a Yaris or a Prius, you could probably have guessed my answer. But now that the prices look like they are going to continue going up, it is making sense for more of the population to buy these fuel efficient vehicles. I have been doing some research on the price savings and here is an example from the Toyota Hybrid Synergy Drive website: October 26, 2006

– New Jersey Gas Prices (www. zfacts.com): Regular: $2.04 Premium: $2.27 Average miles per year: 1 5 , 0 0 0 Current vehicles avg mpg: 1 4 mpg (large suv) Regular fuel – savings by buying hybrid: • Est annual fuel cost of driving current vehicle: $2,185.71 • Est annual fuel cost of driving a Toyota Prius: $556.36 • Est annual savings by driving a Prius: $1629.35 • E s t

annual gallons of fuel conserved if drive Prius: $798.70 Premium fuel – savings between • E s t annual fuel cost of driving current vehicle: $2,432.14 • Est annual fuel cost of driving a Toyota Prius: $619.09 • Est annual savings by driving a Prius: $1813.05 • E s t annual gallons of fuel conserved if drive Prius: $798.70 That is $1,629.35 that I could definitely do something else with!

CAMPUS QUOTES: Compiled and photographed by Alex Gambill and Kazuo Ogaya

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"Anything chocolate, Chocolate's just better."

"I'd say M&M's.

I just like chocolate."

"Candy corn. I guess because it's seasonal."

"I like caramel apples because they are sweet."

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Students get shot up for the flu Female Pharaohs of Egypt

by Abha Eli Phoboo Staff Writer

by Vista photographer Alex Gambill

Cathy Lennartz, nursing senior, gives Ben Lynch, biology sophomore, a flu shot on the second floor in the Nigh University Center Oct. 30.

by Abha Eli Phoboo Staff Writer To help immunize students, staff and faculty on campus against the flu this winter, the UCO N u r s i n g School Class of 2007 with the Student H e a l t h C e n t e r gave flu shots at Nigh University Center Oct. 30.

On Thursday, Nov. 2, they will be giving flu shots again from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30

a.m. at the Nigh University Center. The first 17 shots are free. After that, each shot is distributed for $20.

“We wanted to do a leadership activity that would also help the community. This time of year is the best for flu prevention,” said Joanna Elliott, nursing senior.

The American Association o f

Critical C a r e Nurses donated $200 and Integris Community Health

donated $500 to the nursing students’ effort. The nursing students donated the total amount to the Student Health Center to pay for 35 flu shots.

More people die of complications from the flu than from any other vaccine-preventable disease. Flu is also the seventh leading cause of death in America.

Flu is also the seventh leading cause of death in America.

Abha Eli Phoboo can be reached at aphoboo@thevistaonline.com.

Two females stand out in ancient Egypt: Hatshepsut, the first female Pharaoh or the queen who would be king, and Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh.

As a follow-up to the Oct. 12 visit to “Hatshepsut Exhibit” at Kimbell Museum, Texas, Dr. Theresa Vaughan discussed “Hatshepsut: The Female Pharaoh” in Pegasus Theater Oct. 25, followed by a reception. Dr. Margaret Musgrove continued the “Passport to Egypt” event with a lecture on “Cleopatra: The Last Pharaoh.”

The daughter of Thutmose I and Queen Ahmose, his principle wife, Hatshepsut had no brothers.

“She was raised as a woman of the court to be a principle wife, not a ruler.

Hatshepsut married her halfbrother, which was normal in those days,” said Dr Vaughan.

Ancient Egypt was not receptive to female rulers.At Thutmose II’s death, his brother, Thutmose III, became Pharaoh. Since the new king was still a child, Hatshepsut took over as regent.

“For the first five years, she was depicted was regent.

About five to seven years, something started to change and she took on some titles of the Pharaoh,” said Vaughan.

The symbols of the Pharaoh are: headdress, kilt, and false beard. Hatshepsut wore the headdress but her body form in the initial artworks of the period still had female characteristics.

“Since there is no ritual place for a female Pharaoh, Hatshepsut assigned her daughter Neferure as a god’s wife,” said Vaughan. “Her public persona then switched over to be completely male.”

Rewriting historical records, Hatshepsut claimed that Thutmose I had desired her to be Pharaoh, because she was the daughter of Amun. She took on the name of Maat-ka-re or “Truth is the soul of Re” to reassure Egyptians that “maat” mean-

ing truth would be preserved.

Hatshepsut’s reign was a time of prosperity and some say she probably was a competent ruler. After her transition was complete from queen to Pharaoh, artistic representations show her as a male. “She even wore the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, which the Pharaohs wore,” said Vaughan.

Statues of Hatshepsut show her as wearing a false beard and kilt also. “In public statues, she’s represented as male. In informal works, she’s still shown as a female,” said Vaughan. “She probably assumed the male persona as a symbolic role to be acted out.”

Hatshepsut was also the first female ruler to build her mortuary temple at Deir al-Bahari in the Valley of the Kings.

Her corpse was never found.

Thutmose III assumed power and had all public inscriptions of her name chiseled out.

“Recently, three mummies were found in Tomb 253. One is that of Hatshepsut’s nurse, and another has her hands crossed in symbol of kingship. Most people believe this is Hatshepsut’s,” said Vaughan.

“But we also received a call from the Cairo Museum saying her mummy was in the third floor of the museum.”

Of the ancient Egyptian women, Cleopatra is generally better known. “And she wasn’t even Egyptian,” said Dr. Margaret Musgrove. “She came from the dynasty of Ptolemy and was a Macedonian.”

After Cleopatra’s father died, she and her brother waged war for Egypt’s throne. Her brother was 11 and she was 18 and ready to speak for herself. She won Caesar’s favor after she presenting herself rolled up in a carpet before him.

“He was so impressed that he spent a year with her.

She gave birth to their son but he never acknowledged him,” said Musgrove. She named him Ptolemy Caesar.

When Caesar was assas-

sinated in 44 B.C., Octavian was named as his successor.

The Roman Empire was split between Octavian and Caesar’s general, Mark Anthony.

Anthony took the Egypt half of it and wrote to Cleopatra asking her to meet him at Tarsus.

“She made it clear that he had to come and meet her there, she wasn’t going to wait on him,” said Musgrove. “He went on the barge and stayed there for a year.”

What are Cleopatra’s charms that made Roman rulers stay for a year? Greek biographer Plutarch described her as not particularly good looking but with a powerful personality and a musical voice, able to speak many languages.

“Cleopatra was the only one in the Ptolemy dynasty who had taken the trouble to learn Egyptian,” said Musgrove.

In 40 B.C., Cleopatra gave birth to twins by Anthony but he went to Rome and married Octavia, Octavian’s sister. He returned to Egypt and married Cleopatra. This was a personal affront to Octavian, who conspired against him and waged war against Egypt.

Cleopatra then locked herself in a tomb and sent a message to Anthony saying she was dead.

As a result, he killed himself.

“Octavian wanted to capture Cleopatra alive for the parade in Rome. A captive queen is always impressive in a parade,” said Musgrove.

“But she outwitted him.”

Cleopatra’s famous suicide story has many variations. One says she ordered a basket of figs and there was an asp in it. Plutarch is evasive about how she killed herself. No one seems to know the circumstances of her death. The Romans, including Octavian, did later acknowledge her as having died a courageous and manly death.

“However, Cleopatra has taken on a life of her own, separate from the historical queen and final Pharaoh,” added Musgrove.

Abha Eli Phoboo can be reached at aphoboo@thevistaonline.com.

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Pakistani troops strike potential al-Qaida training center

AP Photo by Mohammad Zubair

Pakistani students from a religious group chant slogans during a rally held in protest against the Pakistani military airstrike in Bajur, Monday in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Pakistani troops backed by missile-firing helicopters killed an estimated 80 militants when they destroyed a purported al-Qaida-linked training facility near the Afghan border, the military said. The placard on right read as "The airstrike on Bajur area is the gift of Musharraf U.S. Friendship."

by Habibullah Khan AP Writer Pakistani troops backed by missile-firing helicopters on Monday struck a religious school purportedly being used as an alQaida training center, killing 80 people in what appeared to be the country’s deadliest-ever attack against suspected militants.

The country’s top Islamic political leader said American planes were used in the predawn strike against the school - known as a madrassa - and called for nationwide protests Tuesday, claiming all those killed were innocent students and teachers. Both Pakistani and the U.S. military officials denied any American involvement in the attack in northwestern Pakistan, less than two miles from the Afghan border.

Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan, a Pakistani military spokesman, denied reports that al-

Qaida’s deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, was targeted.

Anger over the missile strike scuppered the signing of a peace accord, expected Monday, between tribal elders linked to militants. The United States has urged Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to do more to stop militants from crossing from tribal regions into Afghanistan, where Talibanfanned violence has reached its deadliest proportions since the American-led invasion in 2001.

Musharraf, along with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, met with President Bush last month in Washington to address the issue.

Helicopter gunships fired four to five missiles into the madrassa in Chingai, Sultan said. The blasts tore apart the building and all inside, spraying body parts, blood and debris across a wide area.

An al-Qaida-linked militant

who apparently was a primary target of the strike had left the building a half hour beforehand, a Pakistani official said.

Sultan said initial estimates indicate the attack killed about 80 suspected militants from Pakistan and other countries.

Only three people all seriously wounded were believed to have survived, a hospital official said.

“These militants were involved in actions inside Pakistan and probably in Afghanistan,” Sultan told The Associated Press.

Sultan said the attack was launched after those in charge of the building refused warnings to close it down.

Among those killed was Liaquat Hussain, a Pakistani cleric and associate of alZawahri, locals and an intelligence official said. Another al-Zawahri deputy, Faqir Mohammed, was believed to have been in the madrassa

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and left 30 minutes before the strike, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was unauthorized to speak to the media.

In Islamabad, Qazi Hussain Ahmed an opposition political leader blamed the U.S. for the attack and said claims that the madrassa was a terrorist training center were “rubbish.” He claimed 30 children were killed; an Associated Press reporter at the scene said no accurate count or even identification of many of the dead was possible due to the mutilated state of the remains.

“It was an American plane behind the attack and Pakistan is taking responsibility because they know there would be a civil war if the American responsibility was known,” said Ahmed, who called for nationwide protests on Tuesday.

In Afghanistan, U.S. military spokesman Maj. Matt Hackathorn denied the U.S.

was involved in the strike.

“It was completely done by the Pakistani military,” he told the AP. Sultan said that no children or women were inside the madrassa when it was attacked and denied involvement by American or NATO forces in the raid.

Mohammed, the al-Qaida deputy who escaped the raid, addressed a crowd of 10,000 mourners at a mass funeral for the victims, criticizing Musharraf’s government and promising widescale protests.

“We were peaceful, but the government attacked and killed our innocent people on orders from America,” Mohammed told the rally as dozens of militants surrounded him, brandishing semiautomatic weapons. On Saturday, Mohammed denounced the Pakistani and U.S. governments and praised Osama bin Laden during a rally in the area attended by 5,000 pro-

Taliban and al-Qaida tribesmen.

Britain’s Prince Charles canceled a plannedTuesday trip to the border city of Peshawar, where protesters gathered Monday to denounce the airstrike.

Sultan said the army had no information that al-Zawahri, the al-Qaida deputy, had been in the area at the time of the attack. “It is all wrong, speculative and we launched this operation on our own to target a training facility,” he said. The Bajur-area intelligence official said word was spreading among locals in the area that al-Zawahri may have been expected at the madrassa, but he said the report was wrong.

Before burial, the remains of at least 50 people were laid on traditional wooden beds placed side by side in rows and covered with colored blankets. Locals walked among the beds and offered prayers.

“The government has launched an attack during the night, which is against Islam and the traditions of the area,” Siraj ul-Haq, a Cabinet minister from the North West Frontier Province, told the AP. Ul-Haq said he would resign in protest.

“We heard helicopters flying in and then heard bombs,” said one of the villagers, Haji Youssef.

Thousands of people traveled from nearby villages to inspect the destroyed madrassa, some crying and others chanting “Long live Islam.” The blast leveled the building, tearing mattresses and scattering Islamic books, including copies of the Quran.

In the nearby town of Khar, some 2,000 tribesmen and shopkeepers marched through the main street. “Death to Musharraf, Death to Bush,” the procession chanted.

The attack happened about two miles from Damadola, where in January a U.S. Predator drone fired a missile that purportedly targeted and missed al-Zawahri, but killed several al-Qaida members and civilians instead.

The attack coincided with Monday’s planned signing of a peace deal between Bajur tribal leaders and the military aimed at stopping militants operating in the area and crossing into Afghanistan.

U.S. and Afghan officials criticized a similar deal for North Waziristan, saying it could turn the area into a terrorist haven. Pakistani authorities say the deal returns power back to traditional tribal elders, but the military also stresses that it will crack down if militant activity resumes.

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Violence targets Shiites in Sadr City, Iraq “We are poor people just looking to make a living. We have nothing to do with any conflict.”

-Ali Abdul-Ridha

by Christopher Bodeen AP Writer

A bomb tore through food stalls and kiosks in a sprawling Shiite slum Monday, killing at least 33 people, while the U.S. military announced the death of the 100th servicemember in Iraq this month.

The 6:15 a.m. explosion in Sadr City targeted poor Shiites who gather there each morning hoping to be hired as construction workers. At least 59 people were wounded, said police Maj. Hashim al-Yasiri.

New details emerged about a U.S. soldier who disappeared last week, sparking a massive manhunt. A woman claiming to be his mother-in-law said Monday that the soldier was married to a Baghdad college student and was with the young woman and her family when hooded gunmen handcuffed and threw him in the back seat of a white Mercedes. The marriage would violate military regulations.

U.S. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley made an unannounced visit to Baghdad, where he met with his Iraqi counterpart, Mouwafak al-Rubaie, for talks on military and political coordination, the government said.

A commission to coordinate U.S.-Iraqi relations, especially military activity, was established in a video conference Saturday between President Bush and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who has issued critical statements about U.S. policy in the past week.

“The two sides discussed the work of the committee which agreed to by between the prime minister and the American president and is designed to coordinate development of the Iraqi security forces, expedite military training, reconciliation among Iraqis and the war against terrorism,” the statement said.

Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for the National Security Council, said Hadley’s visit was not a fence-mending effort to deal with strains between Washington and Baghdad.

“Absolutely not,” Johndroe said.

“This is a long planned trip to get a first hand report of the situation on the ground from the political, economic and security fronts.”

The area of Monday’s attack, a stronghold of the Mahdi Army militia loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, has seen repeated bombings by suspected al-Qaida fighters seeking to incite Shiite revenge attacks and drag Iraq into a civil war.

Ali Abdul-Ridha, being treated for head and shoulder wounds at a hospital, said he was waiting for a job with his brother and about 100 others when he heard a massive explosion and “lost sight of everything.”

The U.S. and Iraqi military have kept a tight cordon around Sadr City since a raid last week in search of an alleged Shiite death squad leader, who was not found.

Abdul-Ridha said the area had been exposed to attack because U.S. and Iraqi forces had driven Mahdi fighters who usually provide protection into hiding.

“That forced Mahdi Army members, who were patrolling the streets, to vanish,” Abdul-Ridha, 41, said from his bed in al-Sadr Hospital.

Falih Jabar, a 37-year-old father of two boys, said the Mahdi Army was responsible for provoking extremists to attack civilians in the neighborhood of 2.5 million people.

“We are poor people just looking to make a living. We have nothing to do with any conflict,” said Jabar, who suffered back wounds. “If (the extremists) have problems with the Mahdi Army, they must fight them, not us.”

The last major bombing in Sadr City occurred Sept. 23 when a bomb blew up a kerosene tanker, killing 35 people waiting to stock up on fuel for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The 33 victims in Sadr City were part of an overall toll of 80 people killed or found dead in Iraq on Monday.

October has seen rising civilian casualties and has been the fourth deadliest month for U.S. troops since the war began in March 2003. The highest was November 2004, with 137 killed, followed by 135 in April 2004 and 107 in January 2005.

The U.S. military identified the latest casualty as a Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 who died in combat Sunday in Anbar province, a hotbed of Sunni resistance.

In Baghdad, the Iraqi woman claiming to be the missing sol-

AP by Karim Kadim

Iraqis hold up bloodied clothes at the blast site in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City Monday, Oct. 30. The bomb tore through a collection of food stalls and kiosks, killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 50 others. dier’s mother-in-law said several of his in-laws put up a desperate struggle to stop the abduction.

The U.S. military has said the soldier was of Iraqi descent and that he was visiting family in the central Baghdad neighborhood of Karadah when he was abducted. It did not identify the soldier or give further details.

The soldier’s in-laws said his name is Ahmed Qais al-Taayie.

The woman, who identified herself as Latifah Isfieh Nasser, told The Associated Press in the family home in Karadah that her daughter, 26-year-old physics student Israa Abdul-Satar, met her husband a year ago and the couple were married in August and honeymooned in Egypt.

She showed an AP reporter photographs of the couple in Cairo.

Since a brief lull during Muslim holy days last week, violence has rebounded sharply, marring U.S. efforts to bring Sunni insurgents into a reconciliation process.

Political tensions deepened further Sunday when Vice

President Tariq al-Hashemi, the country’s ranking Sunni politician, threatened to resign if al-Maliki did not move swiftly to eradicate militia groups.

Mohammed Shaker, a key aide to al-Hashemi, said the threat was intended to send a message to the government over the rising sectarian violence. “We cannot live with this situation indefinitely,” he said.

He was joined Monday by a Sunni ally, Adnan al-Dulaimi, who threatened to withdraw the Iraqi Accordance Front from parliament and the Cabinet unless security improved.

“If current conditions continue, Iraq will be destroyed,” al-Dulaimi said.

Al-Maliki depends heavily on the backing of a pair of Shiite political organizations and has resisted U.S. pressure to eradicate their private armies _ al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army and the Badr Brigade, the military wing of Iraq’s most powerful Shiite political bloc, the Supreme Council for the

Islamic Revolution in Iraq.

The gunmen, especially those of the Mahdi Army, have been deeply involved in months of sectarian killings in Baghdad and central Iraq.

The militias have also infiltrated the predominantly Shiite security forces, who suffered around 300 deaths during Ramadan, mainly at the hands of Sunni insurgents but also in fighting between police and militia fighters.

At least 26 policemen were killed Sunday. In one attack in Basra, gunmen dragged 15 policemen and two translators off a bus at the edge of the city. Their bodies were found hours later.

Three other policemen were killed when a car bomb hit a patrol Sunday night in northeastern Baghdad’s Bunook neighborhood, police Lt. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said.

On Monday, unknown gunmen killed Essam alRawi, head of the University Professor’s Union and a senior member of the hard-line Sunni

group, the Association of Muslim Scholars. One of his bodyguards was also killed.

The association, which is believed to have links to the insurgency, has boycotted elections and other aspects of the political process that seeks to bring stability and end rampant sectarian violence.

At least 154 university professors have been killed since the March 2003 U.S. invasion, Education Ministry spokesman Basil al-Khatib said.

Hundreds, possibly thousands, more are believed to have fled to neighboring countries.

While sectarian hatred is blamed for some of those attacks, professors have also been killed because of past membership in Saddam Hussein’s now-outlawed Baath Party, or by students angered over poor grades or with other grievances.

news in brief KFC to use no-trans-fat oil in chicken NEW YORK (AP) _ KFC Corp. said Monday it will start using zero trans fat soybean oil for its Original Recipe and Extra Crispy fried chicken, Potato Wedges and other menu items.

The news preceded the Board of Health's first public hearing Monday on a plan to make New York the first U.S. city to ban restaurants from serving food containing artificial trans fats.

Consumer spending up 0.1 percent in September WASHINGTON (AP) _ Consumers kept a pretty firm grip on their wallets in September, boosting spending by just 0.1 percent, the smallest increase in 10 months.

The Commerce Department's report, released Monday, showed that consumers had a solid appetite for big-ticket goods such as cars and appliances last month but they cut spending on nondurable goods such as food and clothes.

St. Louis named most dangerous U.S. city ST. LOUIS (AP) - A surge in violence made St. Louis the most dangerous city in the country, leading a trend of violent crimes rising much faster in the Midwest than in the rest of nation, according to an annual list. The city has long fared poorly in the rankings of the safest and most dangerous American cities compiled by Morgan Quitno Press. Violent crime surged nearly 20 percent in St. Louis from 2004 to last year, when the rate of such crimes rose most dramatically in the Midwest, according to FBI figures released in June.

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Jumpsuits, music & Homecoming

by Nathan Winfrey Senior Staff Writer Popular rock band The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus will headline at this year’s annual Homecoming Concert 8 p.m. Nov. 3 in Plunkett Park.

“We decided on them because of their placement on charts like PureVolume and MySpace and Yahoo,” said Cassie Neahring, marketing junior and entertainment chairperson for the Student Programming Board, the organization sponsoring the show.

“At the time we selected them, their song ‘Face Down’ was the most-played song on PureVolume, the No. 6 mostplayed song on the Buzz and they are also high on all national charts,” she said.

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus now sit at No. 4 on the PureVolume charts, and their song ‘Face Down’ had more

than 14 million plays on their MySpace, as of Oct. 23. They’ve been nominated for Yahoo’s “Who’s Next?” a competition for rising bands that Hinder, a rock band that includes two UCO graduates, won last time.

“We went through nearly 40 different artists,” said Brooke Wilson, Student Programming Board adviser, of the selection process she and students went through to select The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.

The free outdoor show will include rock band Lorene Drive, rock punk electronica Madina Lake and pop rockers The Audition. Screamo band Dead Poetic were scheduled to play as well, but the band backed out of their tour.

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and The Audition are both signed with Virgin Records.

“They’re all in the alternative rock genre, but they all

have a twist to them, like one is more indie rock and one is more pop punk,” Neahring said.

“I think this will get UCO a lot of recognition because we do have the capability to bring big name bands and we want people to know that UCO does this for the students,” Neahring said. “I think the whole university should be really excited because this is a big deal, and the concert’s going to rock.”

“We are thrilled,” Wilson said. “Red Jumpsuit Apparatus will bring a large crowd to UCO’s campus.”

She said she expects an attendance of more than 1,000 people.

Students, alumni and parents are encouraged to attend and the event is open to the public.

Nathan Winfrey can be reached at nwinfrey@thevistaonline.com.

My Chemical Romance, 5 stars

by Nathan Winfrey Senior Staff Writer My Chemical Romance’s third studio album “The Black Parade” revels in fatalism with the gloom of Billy Corgan and the sweeping, arena-rock gusto of Freddie Mercury.

Released Oct. 24, their third studio album is a deliciously pessimistic, bone-crunching march of death with frontman Gerard Way spinning a baton in the lead. “The Black Parade” should remind America’s youth of what was like to own an album that made parents frown before the envelope was pushed to absurdity in the 90s by shock shtick clowns like Marilyn Manson and Eminem.

Theatric melodrama and ghoulish morbidity craft this concept album about the death of a cancer patient. The album begins with the beeping of a heart monitor in ‘The End’ and ends with the death rattle of raspy hidden track ‘Blood.’

Tracks like ‘Dead!’ and first single ‘Welcome to the Black Parade’ are some of album’s best songs. They seem like musical Frankenstein monsters, stitched together with pieces left over from their breakout second album, 2004’s “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge.”

“The Black Parade” is unique but has a very familiar sound, owing much stylistically to the hard-rocking anthems of the 70s, especially in third track ‘This is How I Disappear’ with face-melting guitar work from Ray Toro.

Mournful rock ballad ‘The

Sharpest Lives’ and slow-tempo widens their listening audience ‘House of Wolves’ sandwich beyond the angsty high school single ‘Welcome to the Black students they purport to cater to.

Parade.’ The bitter, demonWay sings about wearing carnival warble of ‘Mama,’ dresses and bringing weapons featuring Liza Minelli, shifts to school with lyrics like “Yer the album back into high gear never gonna fit in much, kid/But after uncharacteristically sol- if you’re troubled and hurt/What emn, heartbreaking ‘Cancer.’ you got under your shirt/Will ‘Cancer’ and a soft, poi- make them pay for the things gnant track that comes mid- that they did” in ‘Teenagers.’ He way through the album and will then looks back on the patient’s curb-stomp your heartstrings life of sin and contemplates the with lyrics like “Oh my agony/ afterlife in ‘House of Wolves.”

Know that I will never marry/ Their images splayed on Baby I’m just soggy from the magazine racks next to bands chemo/But I’m counting down like Green Day and Panic! At the the days to go/It just ain’t liv- Disco, My Chemical Romance ing and I hope you know.” inhabit a subgenre otherwise After the band adopted a more populated with self-important, mainstream sound for “Three mass-produced MTV fodder.

Cheers for Sweet Revenge,” Like post-“American Idiot” My Chemical Romance have Green Day, Way and compabeen heavily criticized by some ny situate themselves as the fans of their original, 9/11- voice of the disenfranchised inspired album “I Brought You teen, even though they’re pushMy Bullets, You Brought Me ing 30. But unlike Green Day’s Your Love.” Despite allega- 2004 anthology of uninspired tions as cookie-cutter, teeny- lyrics and pseudo-political selfbopper detritus, My Chemical love, My Chemical Romance Romance have deftly navigated avoid the rabid rasp of musicthrough the minefield of teen- gone-political by injecting age pop culture without falling their tunes with massive doses into the squirming cauldron of of absurdity and adrenaline. adolescent arrogance and post“The Black Parade” is a millennium, emo wrist-slashing. bombastic concoction of psyThe difference is in their chosis and musical ingenuity, approach. The black eyeliner, apologizing for nothing and wailing falsetto and macabre lyr- baptizing its listeners with the ics are in step with their contem- arterial spray of decapitated poraries, but the utter abandon bodies and the dust of skelwith which Way crafts his out- etons. It’s unabashed bombast landish songs with over-the-top and sadism with a wink, and violence proves My Chemical it’s fun from start to finish.

Romance don’t have any delusions about the kind of music ***** they produce. It’s their abandon Nathan Winfrey can be reached at of convention and refusal to take nwinfrey@thevistaonline.com. themselves too seriously that

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The musical comedy "Saturday Night" will debut Nov. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Mitchell Hall Theater. The show will run until Nov. 5 at 2 p.m.

by Steven Reckinger Copy Editor “Saturday Night,” a Broadway comedy based on the book by Julius J. Epstein, was written by a young theatre composer and lyricist by the name of Stephen Sondheim in 1953.

It was originally intended to be Sondheim’s musical debut, but complications transpired when the lead producer died, delaying the production until 1997.

The musical comedy will debut Nov. 2 through Nov. 5 in Mitchell Hall Theater.

“Saturday Night” centers on a group of Brooklyn guys in their early twenties trying to find dates over the course of three consecutive Saturdays during the spring of 1929.

Greg White, director of music theatre and producer of “Saturday Night,” said this is a fun and exciting production for musical enthusiasts.

“With Sondheim’s work, it’s more difficult to pull songs out of context,” he said. “It’s the complexity of

his music and his lyrics [they all fit together as a whole].”

Billie Thrash, UCO music professor and director of the musical, has been a Sondheim enthusiast since she first heard his work. She helped produce the first New York area revival of Sondheim’s musical “Follies,” at Paper Mill Playhouse, a theatre in Millburn, New Jersey, just outside Manhattan.

Prior to Saturday’s performance, Thrash plans to address Sondheim’s legacy to the audience.

“Saturday Night’ is a terrific show for university students to perform because the leading characters are age 16-25,” Thrash said. “There are only a few musicals that can offer such nice roles and good material that is designed for their age group.”

She said it’s a little different than the usual Sondheim, considering he wrote this as a young man starting in the theatre industry.

She said the actors had to spend some time with research and development for the 1920s era and the Brooklyn location. This means cleansing

themselves of current day adlibs and gestures and embracing a different regional dialect.

Chris Domanski, set designer, is using simplistic sets to designate the stage. The Brooklyn house, where the majority of the show takes place, will be the largest set. White said the rest consists of mostly doors that stress the characters’ need to get past certain obstacles along the way.

Sondheim is a pioneer of the American musical. His other credits include writing the lyrics for “West Side Story,” “Sweeney Todd” and “Into the Woods.”

The show will be Nov. 2-4 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 5 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for senior citizens, $7 for UCO staff/faculty and $4 for UCO students. For more information, call 974-3375.

Steve Reckinger can be reached at sreckinger@thevistaonline.com.

theVista Wellman from page 1 attends Harvard University to complete his MidCareer Masters of Public Administration in the Kennedy School of Government.

“What is the United States Army doing?” said Wellman.

“What are we learning and how are we adjusting?”

These are some of the questions every American is asking, he said.

“My goal is to talk a little bit about the cross cultural differences,” Wellman said at the beginning of his speech.

He said he was very fortunate to complete two different missions in Iraq. He said the first one was on the troop level and the second time he was working with the new Iraqi prime minister. This opportunity, he believes, gave him the unique chance to better understand the reality from two different perspectives.

Wellman said that every organization makes mistakes, but when the U.S.

Army makes one, it has the price of a human life.

“We are you,” said Wellman describing the basic American soldier. For him the army is a clear representation of the nation.

“We are the reflection of today’s society,” he said.

“The partnership between the Iraqi Army and the coalition forces is the key to solving the problems,” Wellman said.

He gave many examples of his interaction with the common Iraqis and their culture. For him, overcoming the cultural differences and working through them are key to completely win the trust of this nation.

Judging from his personal experience, Wellman said the U.S. Army quickly transformed itself and change some of its duties in the new environment of post-Saddam Iraq.

“There was no government,” he said. “We were the government.”

Trying to explain the U.S. military command policies, Wellman said that a deliberating army has a half-life before it turns to an occupation army.

“We are trying to extend that half life,” said Wellman, by working with the local people and rebuilding the country’s infrastructure.

The second part of his presentation pointed toward the media and its role in the war.

“The media is looking for bad news,” said Wellman referring to his commanding officer’s words.

“What is the media looking for?” asked the colonel.

“We have lost a perspective of what is news,” he said.

According to Wellman, the Army has lost the way to communicate with the media and sometimes the media is not doing a good job of reporting the actual news. For him, a good story is one that has positive, negative and neutral features.

“That is what the journalists are supposed to do,” Wellman said. “The big majority of the international media wants to get the facts right.”

He said he can’t change

2006 Homecoming schedule of events Tuesday - October 31 8:00 a.m.

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Adopt-A-Morning - UC 424 Window Decorations MUST be completed Halloween Candy Pass-Out - Broncho Lake Float Building Night

Wednesday - November 1 8:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

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Adopt-A-Morning - UC 424 OBI Blood Drive - 2nd Floor Nigh University Center (19th Hole) Lunch on the Lake - Broncho Lake Unity Fest - Hamilton Lawn (Rain: Constitution Hall) Bonfire Homecoming Elections end

Thursday - November 2 8:00 a.m.

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Adopt-A-Morning - UC 424 OBI Blood Drive - 2nd Floor Nigh University Center (19th Hole) Lunch on the Lake - Broncho Lake Philanthropy Donations Due - UC 201 Float Building Night

Friday - November 3 8:00 a.m.

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Adopt-A-Morning - UC 424 Breakfast on the Lake - Broncho Lake Cheer & Dance Competition & Awards - Plunkett Park (Rain: Wantland Hall) Concert - Plunkett Park

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5K Run/Walk Parade - Downtown Edmond Tailgate Party - West of Wantland Stadium Football Game - Wantland Stadium

the facts and by law he has to report the casualties.

“What matters to us is if a story is accurate or false,” Wellman said. “We make mistakes, we are humans,” he said. But if an incorrect story is published, it’s the Army’s fault, he said.

He also spoke about the insurgency and the ways the U.S. Army counteracts.

“We are fighting a very tough counterinsurgency forces,” he said. According to him, the military tactics based on post World War II and the Cold War periods with clear targets and enemies aren’t accurate for the Iraqi environment.

He said, the conventional way of war was only during the first part of the conflict where Saddam’s army were the ones shooting back.

“After that it quickly generated to insurgency,” Wellman said.

Some of the features that describe this way of combat are: -The more you protect your forces, the less secure you are.

-The more force is used, the less effective it is.

“The Iraqi culture is a culture of revenge,” Wellman said. If

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somebody attacks Iraqi families or ruins their honor, it’s most likely they’ll look for revenge by killing an American soldier.

“To win the war sometimes you have to do nothing,” the colonel said. For him, force isn’t the key solution for the post Saddam Iraq.

He said, another positive way to counteract the insurgency, he said, is to create economical opportunities for the local.

“You could never kill your way out of the insurgency, because there are always going to be more people.” Wellman said, “If you are looking for trouble you’ll always find it.”

The only thing the insurgency needs to do is to survive.

“They don’t have to win the battle,” Wellman said. “And killing an insurgent does not mean we win. They are still there.”

According to Wellman’s statistics, the current Iraqi forces have control over the -Lt. Col. Fredrick Wellman bigger part of the country.

“Our role is to support them,” Wellman said. Wellman’s analysis accurate.

Dr. Louis Furmanski, UCO political science pro- Ivo Lupov can be reached at fessor, who attended the ilupov@thevistaonline.com. speech, finds Lt. Col.

Campus Announcements Extension on last day to drop a class Students may now drop courses on the web until the last day to drop a class, so long as it does not involve a complete withdrawal (last enrolled class).

- Fall Semester

In person: Nov. 3 by 5 p.m.

Via the web: Nov 5 by midnight - Fall Block 2 In person: Nov. 27 by 6 p.m.

Via the web: Nov. 27 by midnight

Leadership Central Read & Lead Nov. 7 @ 12 - 1 p.m.

Nigh University Center, Rm. 302C Contact: Emily Overocker, 974-3589 Space is limited. Book and lunch are provided.

Holocaust survivor Michael Breston Nov. 9 @ 7 p.m.

NUC Grand Ballroom

Army ROTC Toy Drive Oct. 17 through Dec. 15 Football games next to seat sales Each college building Daniel Romero: 812-5753

Alpha Phi Alpha Zeta Sigma Miss Black and Gold Scholarship Pageant Nov. 11 @ 7 p.m.

NUC Constitution Hall Contact: Norman Markland, (580) 6476628

F/64 Society Club meetings Mondays and Thursdays @ 10 a.m.

Mass Communication Building, Rm. 104 Contact: Stephen Hughes, 974-5887

Winter Glow Nov. 30 @ 7:30 p.m.

University Center/Broncho Lake Contact: Cassie, (580) 401-4944 Santa photos, elf-telling stories, fake snow, contests, Carol-oke, free food

UCO Ethics Monthly meeting Oct. 31 @ 2:30 p.m.

College of Business Troy Smith Lecture Hall, Rm. 113 Contact: Renee Price, 204-6880 Pizza at 2 p.m.

Kenyan Student Association/Nigerian Student Association w/ Passport to Egypt Dinner and movie Nov. 1 @ 6 p.m.

Pegasus Theater Event and food are free Diversity Round Table and Homecoming Unity Fest Nov. 1 @ 6 - 9 p.m.

Hamilton Lawn There will be multicultural food and entertainment.

Blue and Gold Sausage Sale Through Nov. 3 Available products: -Sausage in 2 ½ lb. roll - $5.50 -Bacon in 3 ½ lb. package - $13 -Chicken strips in 5 lb. resealable package - $16 For information, call 974-3139 or email fredfieth@ucok.edu Purchases will be delivered the week of Nov. 13 Closed lot 44 - all housing lots - closed for Homecoming Friday, Nov. 3 at midnight and reopens after football Nov. 4.

All cars must evacuate or be subject to tow, according to UCO parking regulations.

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Deadlines & Prices DEADLINES: All classifieds MUST be submitted by noon Tuesday for the Thursday publication and Friday noon for the Tuesday publication.

Prices: Classified ads cost $6/day for the first 20 words and $.10/word thereafter. PAYMENT IS DUE WHEN AD IS PLACED. Classified Display ads (one column boxed ads on classified page) have same deadlines and prices as regular display ads. Call 974-5549 or 974-5918 for additional info.

Services

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OLIVE GARDEN - W. Memorial Rd. hiring servers. Apply in person between 2 - 4 pm M-F, near Quail Springs Mall. _____________________ PART TIME if you are outgoing, have some sales or customer service experience we will train you to be a formal wear consultant. 15 + hours per week. Work around your school schedule call Matt 751-1745. Tuxedo Junction, Quail Springs Mall. _____________________ LOOKING FOR A FUN, flexible job in a casual work environment with competitive pay? If you can work Monday through Friday between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., we have what you're looking for. Server and Cashier positions available. Come into McAlister's Deli today and apply within. _____________________

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If interested please call 340-5974. _____________________ LADY OF AMERICA hiring part time & full time sale staff & fitness staff. Apply at 122nd & Rockwell or call 773-3488 & ask for Patricia. _____________________ SEEKING EXPERIENCED baby sitter for 3 young children in Oklahoma City. Own transportation and references required. Call 810-1510. _____________________ PART TIME building attendant.

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10. Weaken; subdue.

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16. Regretted bitterly.

17. Prank.

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Junior running back Donyell Jones runs the ball against Texas A&M Commerce Sept. 30 in Wantland Stadium.

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by Matt Caban Sports Editor Rather than returning to their winning ways, the Bronchos watched a fourth quarter lead disintegrate as they fell 25-22 to the Southwestern Oklahoma State University Bulldogs Oct. 28 in Weatherford.

By losing its second straight game UCO dropped to 5-4 overall, 4-3 in LSC play and 2-2 in the North Division. Meanwhile, SWOSU improved to 5-4, 3-4 and 2-1.

Midway through the fourth quarter, the Bronchos saw their 22-12 lead begin to unravel. First, a 13 play, 80-yard drive capped off by a one-yard touchdown run by Bulldogs’ quarterback Jimmy Sangster with 7:34 remaining.

Moments later the Bronchos were stuck on fourth and six from their own 37. Rather than punt or attempt a long field goal, UCO called a fake punt run for senior kicker/ punter Jason Dixon. Dixon gained one yard before being brought down at the UCO 36.

UCO offensive coordinator Joe Dickinson said he agrees with the fake called by UCO head football coach Chuck Langston.

“When you win one you’re the hero, but lose one and you’re the goat,” he said. “And

this week we’re the goat.”

Six plays later, the fat lady got her cue as Sangster took a sixyard quarterback draw into the endzone for the clinching score.

Sangster had a total of three rushing touchdowns on the night.

UCO defensive coordinator Steve Patterson said Sangster used his six foot five, 255 lb. frame to score in short yardage situations.

“They let him sneak and he was able to push it through,” he said.

The Bulldogs built a 12-0 lead in the first half thanks to three scoring plays. The first was a safety when Joe Castle sacked UCO quarterback Ryan O’Hara in the end zone. This was followed up later in the first quarter

by Sangster’s first of three touchdown runs. The lead moved to 12-0 with Spenser Daniel’s 38-yard field goal with two seconds remaining in the first half.

Despite the deficit, the Bronchos stampeded out the visitors’ locker room and into the lead behind their own scoring trifecta.

UCO first scored a touchdown when redshirt freshman Jemelle Cudjo recovered a pitch by Sangster in the endzone. The defense continued to help, but this time it set up an offensive touchdown.

The Bronchos’ offense took over at the SWOSU 31 after a

four-yard interception return by UCO defensive back Burnell Smith. It marked Smith’s fifth interception of the season.

Freshman running back, Da’Marean Pullen scored a one-yard touchdown on the fourth play, earning UCO a 15-12 lead. Then, O’Hara connected with senior fullback Alex Aguilar for a successful two-point conversion.

UCO’s third and final touchdown came after Cudjo blocked his second kick of the game and junior defensive back Brandon Smith returned the loose ball 65 yards to score.

The lead lasted about six minutes before Sangster sparked the Bulldogs’ winning comeback.

Dickinson said the Bronchos’ offense didn’t play well.

“We gotta play better and coach ‘em better,” he said.

Patterson said there is a lot of football left to play, but that the team needs to improve as a team.

“We’re still running our scheme, but we’ve got to get better at the little things,” he said.

Next, the Bronchos return to Edmond to face West Texas A&M at 6 p.m. Nov. 4, at Wantland Stadium. The game will be UCO’s Homecoming and final home game this season.

Matt Caban can be reached at mcaban@thevistaonline.com.

Rutgers remains undefeated

by David Porter AP Sports Writer PISCATAWAY, N.J.— Rutgers' defense and special teams showed they can carry the Scarlet Knights when running back Ray Rice and the rest of the offense can't.

With the nation's secondleading rusher held in check by Connecticut (3-5), the No. 15 Scarlet Knights (8-0) held off the Huskies 24-13 on Sunday night to remain one of the nation's six undefeated teams.

Rice scored on a 5-yard run on the first drive of the

game, Manny Collins returned a fumble 11 yards for a score and Quintero Frierson scored on a blocked punt in the fourth quarter to seal the victory.

Rutgers can now turn its attention to its showdown with No. 5 Louisville a week from Thursday. The Cardinals (7-0) will face No. 3 West Virginia this Thursday night.

After Rutgers took a 17-0 halftime lead, freshman Donald Brown scored on touchdown runs of 65 and 8 yards for UConn.

Playing in place of regular starter Terry Caulley, Brown finished with 199 yards in his first college start, by far the most yards this season against Rutgers, which had been allowing 78 yards per game.

Rutgers needed the contributions from its defense and special teams because its offense was largely nonexistent in the second half.

The Scarlet Knights managed one first down in the third quarter and gained 75

yards in the final 30 minutes.

Rice came into the game averaging 161 yards, second behind Garrett Wolfe of Northern Illinois. But Rice finished with 79 yards on 22 carries, his lowest total of the season.

Defensive end Jamaal Westerman was instrumental in two of Rutgers' scores, forcing the fumble by Huskies quarterback D.J. Hernandez that Collins returned for a touchdown in the second quarter and blocking Chris Pavasaris' punt that led to Frierson's touchdown.

It was the second time this season Rutgers has scored touchdowns via offense, defense and special teams in the same game. The first came against Illinois on Sept. 9.

UConn was plagued by mistakes. A long kickoff return by Larry Taylor to the Rutgers 31 in the first half was erased by a holding penalty, and a fumble

by Hernandez near the end of the half stopped a drive that had reached the Rutgers 43.

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UCO wins Lone Star tournament, awaits potential NCAA regional

by Vista photographer Travis Marak

UCO junior goalkeeper Carly Fischer stops a shot in the second half of UCO's 1-0 victory over Texas A&M-Commerce Oct. 29 at Tom Thompson Field. The win made UCO the 2006 Lone Star Conference Postseason Tournamnet Champions. The Bronchos are awaiting word on a possible spot in this year's NCAA Division II playoffs in Denver.

by Matt Caban Sports Editor For the second straight year, UCO women’s soccer is the Lone Star Conference Postseason Tournament Champions thanks to a 1-0 victory over the Texas A&M University-Commerce Lions Oct. 29, at Tom Thompson Field.

UCO’s lone goal came on a penalty kick from sophomore forward Lacy Williams in the 43rd minute.

Williams was awarded with the spot kick after being pulled down by a TAMC defender in the penalty area.

“I was a little nervous and didn’t know whether to kick it to the left or the right,” she said.

Williams shot to the right past TAMC goalkeeper Amber Ramoz to score.

UCO head soccer coach Mike Cook said the goal helped settle the Bronchos down.

The remaining 45 minutes of the game featured both sides

fighting for possession and other opportunities to score.

Cook said the Lions were tough to beat because they played a disruptive style of soccer.

“They keep the ball in the air and kick it back and forth,” he said. “When you play a team like that it is easy to play like they do.”

The Bronchos made it to the LSC Postseason Championship finals after defeating fifth seeded Midwestern State University 2-1 in overtime on Oct. 27.

Williams, who was named tournament MVP also scored both Broncho goals in the semifinal.

She was joined on the all-tournament team by fellow Bronchos Sarah Addison, Tiffany Haines, Alli Miller and Melissa Terry.

With the regular season finished and another postseason crown in the bag, the Bronchos must next play the waiting game.

Cook said an NCAA committee will hand out bids to the national tournament on Oct. 30.

He said the top four teams in each

of the eight regions will be invit- Metro State (Colo.) and second ed to their respective regional. ranked St. Edward’s University.

“They’ll decide who’s in the UCO lost to both schools earnational tournament,” he said. lier this season and either team “Hopefully we’re in the top four.” could be an opponent for the Cook said the Bronchos will Bronchos at their regional. likely play their regional in Cook said the team is Denver if they are selected. He looking forward to maksaid the winner of that regional ing its mark at regionals. will move on to the Elite Eight “If we get a chance it in San Diego and the winner doesn’t matter who we play,” goes to the Final Four in Florida. he said. “We want another As of Oct. 24, the Bronchos chance at all of those teams.” were in third place in the Midwest Matt Caban can be reached at Region behind top ranked mcaban@thevistaonline.com.

Volleyball spikes into second

by Tiffany Batdorf Sports Writer Bronchos volleyball clinched a second place finish in the Lone Star Conference North Division with wins on Thursday and Saturday at the Hamilton Field House.

The Bronchos finished their last three home matches of the season on a winning note. They beat St. Gregory’s University on Tuesday, Texas A&M Commerce on Thursday and finally Southeastern Oklahoma on Saturday.

Bronchos v.

Texas A&M-Commerce Winning the match in three games, the Bronchos clinched their second place spot in the LSC championship.

The win gave the Bronchos a season record of 19-10 and an 8-3 conference record.

Cameron clinched the first place spot with its win over Southeastern Oklahoma on Thursday, and earned the right to host the LSC championship tournament beginning November 2.

“We did a good job serving and only had 13 hitting errors, so it was a solid performance all the way around,” UCO head volleyball coach Jeff Boyland said.

The Bronchos trailed in the first game 11-7 before a five point run. A final burst of three points by the Bronchos led them to the win.

Freshman Kelsey Reynolds had 14 kills and five blocks.

Senior Penny Wascovich had 11 kills and one error in 23 attacks.

Junior Katie Schult ended the match with eight kills and three service aces.

by Vista photographer Alex Gambill Junior Lacie Allen led the defense with 22 digs and four Freshman outside hitter Kelsey Reynolds hits the ball against aces.

Freshman Meaghan Texas A&M Commerce Oct. 26 in Hamilton Field House.

Wedberg had 34 assists, nine digs and four kills for the Bronchos.

With two kills from Wascovich and Reynolds in the stretch, the Bronchos came out on top with a 30-21 victory.

The third game was another close call for the Bronchos.

Allen came up big for the Bronchos with three aces on a 7-0 run, and a score of 2213 for the Bronchos to finish the game and win the match.

Bronchos v. Southeastern The Bronchos’ Senior Night Oct. 28 marked the final home game for UCO’s lone senior, middle blocker Penny Wascovich.

Wascovich is a four-year letter winner with nearly 800 career kills. Wascovich added her finishing touch to make a game-winning kill after receiving a perfect set from Wedberg.

The final kill also helped Wascovich set her personal record for kills.

“I couldn’t be happier about the way we played today and I’m especially thrilled about Penny’s performance,” Boyland said.

“She has meant a lot to this program and had a fabulous career as a Broncho.”

The four game win gave UCO its 20th win of the season. UCO has won at 20 matches each year since 2000.

With the win, the Bronchos moved onto an 180 record against Southeastern.

Allen also had a record night with 47 digs for the second most digs in a match in school history.

Allen only missed the record by two, which was set by Heather Devine in 1991 with 49 digs.

Ending the conference season, the Bronchos moved to 20-10 overall and 9-3 in conference play.

The Bronchos will play their

last match of the regular season Tuesday at Dallas Baptist before the conference championship.

The Bronchos will start the tournament against the LSC south division third place, Tarleton State at 5 p.m. Nov. 4 at Cameron University in Lawton.

“We have to remain focused on the task at hand and that’s winning the conference tournament and if we play like we are capable, we have just

as good as shot as the other five teams,” Boyland said.

Along with Wascovich three more Bronchos reached double figures.

Schult had 21 kills, Reynolds and freshman Kristen Wilson followed with 14 apiece. Wedberg finished with a game high of 65 assists.

Tiffany Batdorf can be reached at tbatdorf@thevistaonline.com.