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Do you think street preachers should be allowed on UCO campus?

UCO student offers Capoeira to other UCO students starting April 3 at Plunkett Park.

An Edmond native is one of two soloists who were featured in UCO symphony orchestra’s spring concert.

Dauntae Williams recently was named NCAA Division II Basketball Player of the Year.

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UCOSA LEGISLATION DEFUNDS ORGANIZATIONS PHOTO BY GARETT FISBECK

By Cody Bromley / Staff Writer On Monday, the UCOSA senate voted to enact legislation that would cut the entire budget of four student organizations.

UCOSA House Bill 10 – 203, also known as the “Student Organizations Appropriations Act of 2011,” removes all fiscal year 2011-2012 funding for Housing Activities Council, Robotics Club, Student Art Association and PGA Golf Management Student Association.

Darrell Potter, sophomore funeral service major and Alpha Lambda Delta senator, alerted The Vista about the legislation after doing his own research on the matter.

“I had things I wanted to find. I wanted to get the yeas and nays of Prop 1, and who is getting money and how much they asked for.

Those were the main two things. I wanted to look and see if there was any correlation, but there was not.”

But looking over the spreadsheets provided on the UCOSA Senate website, Potter found four groups who would be without Student Activity Fee funding for the next school year, among them HAC. Katie Kastl, freshman public relations major, is treasurer of HAC and senator for the Suites Hall Council (a bronze level organization that receives an official recognition but not university funding). Kastl said that when the agenda and bill were distributed at the meeting on Monday she found it odd that HAC was missing from the list of organizations receiving funding.

“I voted no just because HAC wasn’t on there,” Kastl said.

After the meeting Kastl went to speak with Sherri Edwards, hall director for the University Suites and advisor for HAC. “When I went and talked to Sherri we realized there was no funding for HAC, ” Kastl said.

When the bill was brought to the floor, Kastl said it was not made clear that it would remove funding

David Jenkins, president pro tempore of UCOSA, looks over the GCCA budget requests in the UCOSA office yesterday. Four student organizations will not be receiving SAF funds in the fall as a result of the passage of HB 10-203.

for four of the governing bodies recognized organizations, and though there was a call for debate nobody did. Instead, the bill passed by a voice vote.

The reasons for why the groups lost their funding varies by group.

For the Robotics Club, UCOSA President Pro-Tempore David Jenkins said it was a matter of paperwork.

“I had emailed the adviser and said, ‘Hey you need to sign this.’

Technically, if I’d gone strictly by the rules, I wouldn’t have even emailed the adviser,” Jenkins said. “The adviser never came to sign it, so that was an easy appropriation to do.”

Jenkins said HAC’s budget cut was not a paperwork issue, but a rules issue.

“On that one, in the past the SAF had funded Rock the Block, which

is basically a fundraiser. Whether it’s a fundraiser for a student organization, or for an outside group, if there’s an event paying for that we can’t pay using student activity fee.

That’s illegal to do,” Jenkins said.

The decision of the General Conference Committee on Appropriations is backed by the Student Activity expenditure guidelines which says, “… Funds shall not be used as donations or contributions to members, speakers or any other organization including charities or fund raising events.”

Jenkins said that the GCCA looked at HAC’s other non-fundraising events requested, but still decided to not allocate any funds.

“There were other priorities in funding,” Jenkins said.

Potter expressed his fear that the defunding of HAC was related to RA

opposition to Proposition 1. Jenkins, co-author of the SAF increase bill, said that this was not the case and that the Suites Hall Council, Murdaugh Hall Council and HAC all voted in support of the SAF increase.

Of the other organizations being defunded, Robotics Club voted against the SAF, Student Art Association voted for, and PGA Golf Management Student Association was absent the day of the vote. Jenkins agreed with Potter’s findings that there was no correlation between organizations that opposed the increase and funding cuts.

Instead, with a small amount of funds to work with, Jenkins said that they have had to crack down on rules for the budget this year, and that also includes Senate attendance.

According to the Student Organization Financial Handbook, published by Student Affairs and publicly available on the UCOSA Senate website, “funds are restricted to only those organizations that send representation to UCOSA Senate meetings. Each organization must meet attendance requirements established by UCOSA to receive funding.”

In the UCOSA Senate’s own rules, the section about absences also covers this.

“Any violation from this section will be taken into account during consideration of budgetary procedures for student organizational funding.”

Of the four groups losing budgets, HAC and Robotics Club had both fulfilled attendance requirements while, by UCOSA’s own record, PGA Golf Management Student Association and Student Art Association had missed every senate meeting to date.

In the newly passed legislation, a total of $119,698 is allocated to groups who did not meet UCOSA’s attendance standards. This accounts for 32.1 percent of all GCCA allocated funds.

Inter-Fraternity Council and Homecoming Activities Board, two of the highest funded organizations both had more five absences each last semester, which by the senate’s own rules which makes their senators subject to dismissal.

Jenkins said that there is not a single hard and fast rule for determining whether or not a request will be granted, but instead a myriad of things.

Organizations who did not receive funding in the GCCA budget can still potentially receive funding from the Student Activity Board when they meet at the beginning of next fall. The board allocates money not spent in the last fiscal year, and is open to all “Blue-level” organizations including those who did not apply for GCCA allocations.

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He has worked on racecars. He has dressed as a bear. He has been in nearly every state over a hundred times and he happens to work in the basement of Murdaugh Hall.

Bill Harpster is that man, and he has run the campus bike repair shop, Cycology, for the past year.

Harpster worked at Al’s Bicycles in Edmond before joining UCO after hearing about the school’s desire for an on-campus bike repair shop.

“As the bicycle program grew they decided it would be nice to have a mechanic to maintain the bikes, and also the police bikes,” Harpster said. “The idea that was shot around, and again this is all before I got here, was, ‘Hey, why don’t we have bike shop that the students can come down to. You can promote riding bikes to school instead of driving cars.

You got a flat tire, you need air, bingo, there’s a bike shop right here. So, that’s how the bike shop came to be. Other campuses have bike shops on them, and some of them are retail bike shops. We’re a non-profit bike shop.”

Harpster, who is originally from Pennsylvania, used to work as a truck driver with his wife. While unloading his truck in Texas, Harpster herniated two discs in his lower back. He did not report his injury to his comBill Harpster has run the campus bike repair shop, Cycol- pany until he was in Oklahoma City, where ogy for the past year.

the company told him he needed to stay until he was fully healed – a process which took eight months. By pure chance, the Harpsters were already prepared for life in Oklahoma.

“Ironically,” Harpster said, “my wife and I had bought land out between Luther and Jones about a year or two before this accident, just for retirement. You know, we get old and retire this might be a handy place and if not, eh, we have ten acres of land in our hip pocket.”

While recovering, Harpster returned to working on bikes and soon found a job at Al’s Bicycle’s and then eventually at UCO. Before he knew it, he was living in Oklahoma for good.

Harpster began working in a bike shop as a child.

“I was twelve years old, it was one of the few places I could get a job, and they only had me there on Saturdays. Primarily, it was mostly a shop boy, restock the shelves, play around like that.”

After a few years, Harpster left that job to pursue something more exciting.

“I left that job to go to a motorcycle shop who was racing sprint cars and he needed someone in the shop and a sprint car mechanic,” he said. “Being a kid about fourteen years old, ‘You can work on race cars and motorcycles? I’m out of here!’ So, that went on for

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TOILING OVER OIL Ryan Costello / Managing Editor Future energy may well be a thing of the past.

Barack Obama’s commitment to reform energy policy on Wednesday may have been little more than an exercise in futility.

Not that it’s a bad idea to reduce the country’s dependence on an increasingly unstable oil industry in Middle East, but certain powerful voices in the American political community believe that further exploration into alternative energy would strangle status quo energy producers like domestic oil and coal, who in turn show their appreciation with financial thanks.

Case in point: after Obama’s address to the nation outlining his plan for American energy, which would include a onethird reduction on foreign oil dependence and an uptick in the production of domestic energy, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kent.) and Sen. John Cornryn (R-Texas) were quick to refute the president’s plan.

Cornryn leads the nation in money donated by energy producers, having received $1.9 million in campaign contributions in the last decade. McConnell isn’t far behind, with $1,147,558 coming from energy companies in the same decade that he repeatedly voted to defund alternative energy research, and against reducing oil consumption and alternative fuel vehicle production.

Their rebuttals were inspiring, if inaccurate. “[The Obama administration has] done just about everything it can to keep our energy sector from growing,” McConnell said.

Same song, different verse: Enter Cornryn, stage left.

“It is time for the president to recognize the damage his policies are having on the economy, take his boot off the neck of domestic energy producers and unlock our domestic energy potential,” Cornryn said.

Of course, domestic energy has survived and even thrived even after the knee-jerk reaction, including an off-shore drilling moratorium, that followed one of the world’s worst manmade disasters when BP’s Deepwater Horizon exploded last year.

Thirty-nine new shallow water-drilling permits and seven deepwater permits have been approved since tighter regulations were imposed following the spill, Obama noted.

But if alternative energy gained traction, the oil underneath American soil, which accounts for just two percent of the world’s supply, might become obsolete.

Not if types like McConnell, Cornryn can help it.

It’s about making choice for the American people. Which is more important? Party lines and short-term survival, or the search for a plan that could preempt an American energy crisis.

“Yeah, cause it’s free speech. “I think it’s right to have You have a right to say what freedom of speech.” you want as long as you’re not hurting anyone else.”

“It opens people’s mind and gets them out of their comfort zone.”

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Opinion

CAPOEIRA OFFERS NEW WAY TO EXERCISE PHOTO PROVIDED

By Josh Hutton The Brink

Junior UCO Kinesiology student, Will Rose will be teaching capoeira classes to UCO students starting April 3 at Plunkett Park. Capoeira is an African-Brazilian martial arts style sport that incorporates music and dance.

By Jennay Lutomski/ Contributing Writer Will Rose, a junior UCO kinesiology student, will be teaching capoeira classes to UCO students starting April 3 at Plunkett Park on campus.

Capoeira is an African-Brazilian martial arts style sport that incorporates dance and music, according to Rose.

Rose learned about capoeira while living in England. He watched a group playing, was interested and asked about it. When he returned to the United States, he wanted to join a group teaching capoeira. He did not find very many groups. His first instructor, Curtis Pierre, of New Orleans and Rose’s current in-

structor, Jawanza Sankosa, of Texas have been teaching him the art of capoeira.

Oklahoma only has three groups practicing and teaching the sport, so Rose is aiming to raise awareness about the art by starting a new group on the UCO campus.

Capoeira classes will be 1 to 3 p.m. every Sunday on campus at Plunkett Park.

“Capoeira is used to evade situations, to know your surroundings and to move through them,” said Rose, “It increases strength, agility and muscle control.”

Rose is currently the only instructor for the UCO class. He said he is comfortable teaching 20-30 people in an

introductory class. More classes will be added if needed.

Capoeira classes are available to anyone interested. It is suggested to wear comfortable, work-out clothes with a shirt that can be tucked in because some of the moves require being upside down, said Rose.

It is a new option available on campus starting Sunday. Students who attend the first class will receive April classes for free.

Normal pricing for classes is $45 per month or $12 per class.

Rose said he “plans on attendance being a slow-going process. People have to see what it is first.”

Campus Events

5K RUN TO HONOR FORMER TULSA FOOTBALL PLAYER Friday Night Lights 5K run and walk is dedicated to the memory of Wilson Holloway, who died in February after a three-year battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

By Sharon Burgress / Contributing Writer The first Friday Night Lights 5K run and walk will be Friday at Wantland Stadium in honor of former Tulsa University football player Wilson Holloway who died in February after a three-year battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

“The course will start at Wantland, go through the pretty parts of campus, and end at back at the football field,” Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) vice president Julia Crocker said. “We wanted to remember Holloway by ending the event under the Friday Night Lights.”

Participants may register from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 2831 in the Nigh University Center, or on site between 5:00 and 6:30 p.m. before the event. The cost is $15 for any one with a student I.D. card from any university, and $20 for all other registrants. Each participant will receive a free T-shirt and refreshments.

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We wanted to remember Wilson Holloway by ending the event under the Friday Night Lights.”

-Susan Parks

“I just kind of went about my life and did everything I wanted to do and didn’t let (the disease) slow me down,” Holloway said in previous interviews.

All proceeds from the event will go to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Local sponsors include UCO’s Student Association (UCOSA), OU Medical Center, OK Runner, Avalon Correctional Services in accordance with SAAC member Daysha Harak, and SAAC co-chair Angel Vick’s father Dr. Tracey Vick from the My Dentist office in Edmond.

Holloway, 22, was a former student at Oklahoma Christian School in Edmond and was signed with the Tulsa University football team in 2007. He redshirted that fall but fell ill during off-season workouts.

“Holloway played for Tulsa for three years as #71,” Crocker said. “During his senior year, he had to take a medical leave of absence from the team to focus on treatment.”

After the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Minnesota Timberwolves Feb. 16 in Minneapolis, basketball all-star Blake Griffin learned that his high school teammate and long-time friend had died. At the funeral, Griffin gave the family the trophy that he won at the 2011 NBA Slam Dunk Contest Feb. 19.

“It was hard for me to believe because in my mind it was like ‘OK, so when (Wilson) gets better it’s going to be all right,” Griffin said. “You never think that’s going to happen to you or somebody you know or somebody that’s that close to your age.”

The Student Athlete Advisory Committee consists of two representatives from each sport at UCO. They meet twice a month to discuss upcoming events and how they can continue to support each other. The committee has held numerous other events for charities, such as Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Make a Wish Foundation.

“Last year, we did a few ‘Pass the Bucket’ fundraisers at UCO basketball games,” Crocker said. “We raised about $2,000 for a Broncho basketball player who was injured in a car accident.”

“If people aren’t criticizing you, you’re doing something wrong,” my Uncle Max told me two years ago at some Hutton family bonfire amidst a whitewash of white noise. His words cut through the crackling, dead branches – rose above the clattering gums of distant relatives; rattled my skull with a sense of divine truth.

In fact the moment was so holy, my eyes glossed over – leading the next words from my uncle to be, “You might want to do something about that marshmallow.”

Brief anguish over a ruined desert aside, I walked away on enlightened feet and laid claim to a rare victory for one who earns his bread through creation. I have surrounded myself with some of the most ambitious and talented people I could call friends. Their views and abilities force me to view this wildly spinning planet in challenging ways. However, to stick out in a crowd of 7 billion people who have to not only flirt with the edge – you have to dance with the brink in dark rooms, drink from it, lie with it – until your life becomes a balancing act.

Often the most intelligent, abstract men and women lose their bout with the brink. Look at Hemingway, whose brains ended up in his orange juice. Look at Van Gogh, whose mutilated ear met refusal by a prostitute. Look at Virginia Woolf, who strolled into the River Ouse with stones in her pockets.

Most of us put our beloved famous figures on ridiculous pedestals, yet become enthralled when they fall from their throne. We feed off the tragedy. It fills the same morbid need as staring into open caskets and busted windshields of crashed cars.

On this campus, a group of creative writers meet on Monday nights – reading from their plays, poetry, or short stories and their courage meets the tiniest crowd.

I’ve been to Open Mic Nights at the University Center and watched as aching students lose their voice and impact for all the television sets blaring.

This column acts as a reminder to the trailblazer that all artists have got to starve. This is a reminder that critics are often snarling, fickle beasts who love nothing better than turning on an artist – making waves in an effort to sink their teeth into more readerships. The criticism of your peers and family: let their words act as a choir of angels. Even when your dearest responds negatively, your work inspired a response. The sting needs to equate success. Know your limitations and look to destroy each. Musician Spencer Krug said, “All fires must burn alive to live.” Embrace your unique madness, your eclectic tastes, your eccentric behavior, and be ready to burn through yourself at any time.

Leaving your old ambition in ash, and moving forward towards the trophy challenge.

Register NOW for BCLI! August 12-13, 2011 www.uco.edu/BCLI Deadline to register is May 6, 2011 • Registration is FREE for student organization leaders.

• Because space is limited, organizations are asked to send only one representative.

Contact Student Organizations office for more information: 974-2625 studentorgs@uco.edu

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Associated Press

OBAMA SETS AMBITIOUS GOAL TO REDUCE U.S. OIL IMPORTS

By Julie Pace / Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to show the public he understands the burden of rising gas prices, President Barack Obama set an ambitious goal of reducing U.S. oil imports by one-third by 2025, and vowed to break through the political gridlock that has stymied similar initiatives for decades.

“Presidents and politicians of every stripe have promised energy independence but that promise has so far gone unmet,” Obama said Wednesday during a speech on energy at Georgetown University.

“That has to change. We cannot keep going from shock to trance on the issue of energy security, rushing to propose action when gas prices rise, then hitting the snooze button when they fall again,” he said.

Obama touted a series of initiatives — some new, but many he’s previously announced — that he said would boost domestic oil production, increase the use of biofuels and natural gas, and make vehicles more energy efficient. And he embraced nuclear power as part of America’s energy future, despite increased safety concerns following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan that severely damaged a nuclear power plant there.

Obama said he is determined to ensure that nuclear plants in the U.S. are safe, and has ordered a safety review of all facilities that will incorporate lessons learned from the crisis in Japan.

The president spoke against the backdrop of rising gas prices following unrest in the oil-rich Middle East. Gas prices in the U.S. have shot up 50 cents a gallon this year, reaching a national average of $3.58

President Barack Obama gestures during his speech on America’s energy security, Wednesday, March 30, 2011, at McDonough Gymnasium at Georgetown University in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

a gallon last week, according to AAA’s daily survey.

Republicans have blamed Obama’s policies for the rising gas prices, pointing to the slow pace of issuing permits for new offshore oil wells in the wake of last summer’s massive Gulf of Mexico spill and an Obama-imposed moratorium on new deep-water exploration.

The president struck back at that criticism Wednesday, saying his administration has approved 39 shal-

low water drilling permits since new standards were put in place last year, and seven new deep-water drilling permits in recent weeks.

“So any claim that my administration is responsible for gas prices because we’ve shut down oil production might make for a useful political sound bite, but doesn’t track with reality,” Obama said.

Obama said a significant part of his plans to cut U.S. oil imports would depend on further increases

in domestic production, and he pledged to develop new incentives for companies to speed up oil and gas production on current and future leases. An Interior Department report released Tuesday said more than two-thirds of offshore leases in the Gulf of Mexico are sitting idle, neither producing oil and gas nor being actively explored by the companies who hold the leases. The department said those leases could potentially hold more than 11 bil-

lion barrels of oil and 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

Even if Obama’s efforts can reduce U.S. demand for foreign oil, experts say that’s unlikely to bring down the cost of gasoline, since oil is priced globally and increased demand from China and other developing nations continues to push prices up. A longer-term energy strategy, he said, would also depend on boosting the use of alternative energy sources, including natural gas and biofuels.

“We have to discover and produce cleaner, renewable sources of energy,” Obama said. “And we have to do it quickly.”

Obama called for the construction of four new advanced biofuel plants in the U.S. within the next two years. However, advanced biofuels — fuels made from nonfood sources such as wood chips, switch grass or plant waste — are still in their infancy and cannot yet be made in amounts similar to corn ethanol. Congress has directed more money to research and development of those fuels in recent years as some critics of corn ethanol have linked the diversion of corn for fuel to rising food prices.

The president also ordered government agencies to ensure that by 2015, all new vehicles they purchase are alternative-fuel vehicles, including hybrid and electric.

Obama has previously set a goal of putting 1 million electric vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015.

Administration officials said Obama’s plans would require significant spending on research and development, though they offered no cost estimates.

Campus News

ONLINE CHAT CONNECTS NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENTS TO CAMPUS

By Brittany Dalton / Staff Writer Friday, April 1st, the Office of Commuter Services will be sponsoring an event, in coordination with the Nontraditional Student Association, geared toward the nontraditional students on campus.

There will be online podcast meetings at both noon and 7 pm that day, to work around nontraditional students’ schedules.

“The meetings are being held online, because physical meetings haven’t worked out in the past,” Rachel Parks, coordinator of Com-

muter Services, said.

Parks explains that the classifications of a nontraditional student are many. A nontraditional students, as Parks explains, could be any student who is over the age of 25. Additionally, students who have previously attended college and are returning after time out of school, can be considered nontraditional.

Students with families, and students who commute are two other groups that can be classified as nontraditional.

“The word ‘nontraditional’ as it relates to students covers a broad

demographic,” Parks said.

According to Parks, the online meetings are an effort by the campus to assess the needs of these students, among other things.

“We also are trying to see if these students would like to plan events, provide these students with a forum,” she said. “This is just one step in trying to give these students a voice.”

Parks said the care given to these off-campus students is very important in maintaining a positive campus atmosphere. “Nontraditional students make up a great popula-

tion of the university, so they need just as much attention as those students living on campus,” she said.

Students interested in participating in these meetings can access the meetings at http://ucolive.wimba. com. Once there, students will select the “participant login” option, enter their name, where they will then be directed into the lobby.

From the lobby, students will scroll down to the “UCOMMUTE meeting room” option, where the online discussions will take place.

For more information on the UCOMMUTE, use your phone to scan this barcode.

Use the Google Search app for iPhone or Android or other QR barcode scanner to scan this barcode

NEWS WITH A FLASH

In this March 30, 1981 file photo provided by the White House shows President Ronald Reagan waves just before being shot outside the Washington Hilton in Washington. Washington policeman Thomas K. Delahanty, who was shot; and secret service agent Timothy J. McCarthy, who was shot in the stomach. (AP Photo/U.S. White House, File)

Jed Smock, president of The Campus Ministry USA, preaches to a crowd of UCO students Wednesday. Jed Smock and his wife Cindy smock travel the country, sharing their religious and moral views with students.

(Photo by Garett Fisbeck / Photo Editor)

Ed Rowe, an electrician with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, is taken to an ambulance with injuries after being pulled from inside a hollow concrete support column near the Charles Street T station in Boston March 30, 2011. Rowe was working on an elevated trolley track near the station when he fell between the tracks. (AP Photo/The Boston Herald, Mark Garfinkel) BOSTON GLOBE

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SPRING CONCERT SHOWCASES EDMOND NATIVE Music and finance student Delara Hashemi is one of two soloists who where featured in the UCO symphony orchestra’s spring concert. She performed Charles Griffes’ ‘Poem’ for the concert. major, unsure whether she wanted to pursue a career in music.

“I was pretty lost for a while in college,” she said. “I knew that I loved music and never wanted to let it go, but I was unsure.”

So Delara settled upon a major in finance, but could not set aside music. This semester, Delara decided to major in music and finance.

She acknowledges that the life of a music major isn’t always easy, particularly a music major also majoring in finance.

“In my free time aside from music, I work, do finance homework, and play around town…if I get the chance,” she said.

Seven hours of practice is nothing unheard of to Delara, and in fact something she describes as a “regular occurrence” with other students she knows. Nor is the seven hours of work the same across degree plans.

By Brittany Dalton / Staff Writer In her free time, you can usually find Delara Hashemi at the Starbucks next to campus on 2nd street. Not only an avid Starbucks customer, Delara is also one of two soloists who were featured in the symphony orchestra’s spring concert Tuesday night.

Delara, who plays the flute and piccolo, performed Charles Griffes’ “Poem” for the concert.

She has been playing the flute since the 6th grade, although she has also played a range of instruments in past years.

“I had only a few piano lessons when I was around eight,” she said. “My freshman year I played alto saxophone, soprano saxophone and clarinet when all the jazz doublers were gone. It was a blast!”

Delara can also play piccolo. Although she does not describe her parents as musical, she received her first flute from a family member.

“My cousin gave me my first flute because she wasn’t going to play it anymore,” she said.

Her high school band director, Mike Lowery of Edmond Santa Fe High School, is whom Delara considers her most influential teacher.

“He instilled a driving work ethic for practicing and making black blobs on a paper mean something, have feeling,” she said.

Though Delara is skilled in a handful of instruments, she says she’s “not bad” at saxophone, but expresses a wish to better learn the clarinet.

“If I could go back and start on another instrument or learn another, it would be, hands down, clarinet,” Delara said. “It is the most beautiful, somber, mellow, rich and ethereal

UCO finance student, Delara Hashemi, is one of two soloists who were featured in the symphony orchestra’s spring concert on Tuesday. Music graduate student Isaiah Brown was also chosen to perform.

woodwind instrument. So much expression can be felt from a single note, its richness can literally ease your pains. As it sings, you can relate and together with music you are relaxed.”

She also believes she’d like to learn piano, believing it should be a mandatory skill for

students to learn.

“It is a beautiful thing to be skilled in, much of life can understood through the piano as well as all music,” she said.

Delara wasn’t always a music major, encountering a crisis that may be familiar to most college students. She began as a finance

To Delara, seven hours barely scratches the surface of the practice necessary to excel in her music. To a student majoring in another subject, seven hours of work may take care of all the coursework for that week.

She doesn’t mind, and gives an intriguing fact: “Most doctors start out as music majors,” she said, explaining that both doctors’ professions and music require a great attention to detail, that other individuals may not possess.

“But once that level of attention to details is reached, it is remarkable what kind of musicians people become,” she said. “One of my goals, is an incredible attention to the detail: that is where all the beautiful musical moments lie to me, in the subtleties.”

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BEHIND THE TRUTH OF APRIL FOOLS’ DAY

By Christie Southern / Staff Writer There are many theories behind the origins of April Fools’ Day, also known as All Fool’s Day. Some see it as a celebration related to the turn of the seasons, while others believe it stems from the adoption of a new calendar.

In medieval times, much of Europe celebrated March 25, the Feast of Annunciation, as the beginning of the new year. Pope Gregory XIII ordered a new calendar in 1582 (the Gregorian calendar) to replace the old Julian calendar.

The new calendar called for New Year’s Day to be celebrated Jan. 1.

Many countries like France adopted the new calendar but according to a popular theory, many people either refused to accept the new date, or did not learn about it, and continued to celebrate New Year’s Day on April 1.

Other people began to make fun of them,

sending them on “fool’s errands” or trying to trick them into believing something false.

This practice began to spread across Europe.

Another popular explanation was given by Joseph Boskin, a professor of history at Boston University. He explained that the practice began during the reign of Constantine, when a group of court jesters and fools told the Roman emperor that they could do a better job of running the empire. Amused, Constantine allowed a jester named Kugel to be king for one day. During his short reign, Kugel passed an edict calling for absurdity on that day, and the custom became an annual event.

This explanation was brought to the public’s attention in an Associated Press article printed by many newspapers in 1983. It turned out Boskin made the whole thing up.

It took a couple of weeks for the AP to realize that they’d been victims of an April Fools’ joke

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CYCOLOGY two years, then he got caught for kidnapping. Yeah, he got slammed for kidnapping, blew up his own motorcycle shop in an attempt to cover up whatever he was trying to cover up, who knows.”

After that, Harpster held a few different jobs, including working in a glass factory and building bikes for department stores. Eventually, he found a job as a bike mechanic for a shop on Penn State’s campus.

While working with bikes in Pennsylvania, Harpster participated in several bike races, though not as a racer.

“We would have mountain bike races, and we might have 150, 250 people show up, racing through the mountains,” Harpster said.

“Now, I didn’t race. My job was to dress in the bear suit and get out in the woods, because when you get in the woods, you don’t know where you’re at. In these days, there were no such thing as cell phones or GPS or anything like that. It was like, ‘ride, just ride through the woods. When you come to the big rock, bear left, that’s your first. Then on up the mountain you’ll come to a ‘Y’, the bear will tell you which way to go.’ So I’d be up there, and I’d direct them up this hill. Then they’d say, ‘now when you see the Indian, he’ll tell you where to go.’”

Eventually Harpster left work in bicycles to see the country as a truck driver, something he describes as a “sabbatical” from what was his current life. In all, Harpster said he has 20 years of bike experience.

In the time Harpster has worked on bikes, he says the biggest change has been in the variety of bikes offered.

“It used to be what was called a 10-speed English racing bike with drop bars, or you got a cruiser, or this fabulous new machine called a mountain bike that was coming out. Well, now there’s mountain bikes, tri bikes, touring bikes, cruisers, flatfoot technology, batterypowered, you know, different wheel sizes. It’s just, everyone’s clamoring for a dollar, all the manufacturers.”

At the end of the day though, it’s the little things about the business that keep Harpster happy with his work.

“A mom, or a dad, or a single parent, doesn’t matter, comes in. You got a six-year-old kid who is getting their first bike. That’s cool, that’s cool. Christmas time, you know, what you’re doing is going to be the showboat of Christmas. So I get to do that Christmas time 50 times over. I’m not there to see the kid, but I see the parents and I know.”

themselves.

Many different cultures have had days of foolishness around the start of April or end of March. The Romans had a festival named Hilaria on March 25, the Jewish calendar has Purim and the Hindu calendar has Holi, the Spring festival, where people play jokes on one another and smear each other’s faces with colors and flower extracts.

April Fools’ Day is observed throughout the Western world. Practices include sending someone on a “fool’s errand,” looking for things that don’t exist; playing pranks; and trying to get people to believe ridiculous things.

The victims of these jokes are known as “April Gowk.” Gawk is another name for cuckoo bird.

The French call April 1 Poisson d’Avril, or “April Fish.” French children sometimes

tape a picture of a fish on the back of their schoolmates, crying “Poisson d’Avril” when the prank is discovered.

Portuguese celebrate a similar festival as April Fool’s Day on the Sunday and Monday before Lent season, where people throw flour at their friends.

Last year, Starbucks announced the fake introduction of two new drink sizes, the “Plenta,” a hefty 128 ounces and the “Micra,” a tiny two ounce cup in celebration of April Fool’s.

Search engine giant Google temporarily changed its website to Google, Kansas redirecting all of its searches to Topeka after buzz that the city of Topeka wanted to change its name to Google.

Similarly, the web video site Funny or Die renamed itself “Bieber or Die” for the day. All videos on the site featured the Canadian pop star.

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Despite their proximity to the Equator, Mount Cotopaxi in South America and Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa are both snow-capped year-round.

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UCO Golf

BRONCHOS PLACE 2ND IN DALLAS

By Chris Wescott / Sports Editor The Central Oklahoma men’s golfers needed a final-round rally and a three-under-par 67 showing by Josh Creel to finish second in the Dallas Baptist Patriot Invitational at the Golf Club of Dallas on Tuesday. UCO stretched their season total to nine top-five finishes. It was their eighth time this season to finish as one of the top two teams.

UCO shot a two-over 282 to finish the two-day, 54-hole tournament with an 847 total. The Bronchos’ stellar performance fell just five shots shy of winner Abilene Christian. The tournament held a 20-team field.

Oklahoma City University finished third at 853, followed by Oklahoma Christian University with an 857 showing and Texas Wesleyan who rounded out the top five with a score of 869.

The Bronchos got even-par 70s from senior Colby Shrum and junior Baer Aneshansley. Sophomore Dillon Rust shot a 75, while junior Andrew Green shot a 79. Shrum finished 10th

in the medalist race at 211 and Green tied for 13th at 214.

“We played pretty well (Tuesday) and gave ourselves a chance to win the tournament,” UCO head coach Dax Johnston said. “We weren’t as consistent as we needed to be and that hurt us, but we were in position on the back nine and just came up a little short.”

UCO had two golfers compete in individuals, with junior Derek Franco shooting a final-round 73 and red shirt freshman Chris Muriana netting a 74.

The Bronchos will be in Edmond next week for the first and only time all season, hosting the UCO/KickingBird Classic Monday and Tuesday at 8 a.m. at KickingBird Golf Club.

The Bronchos have finished 1st place in a tournament six times this season and are eyeing the Lone Star Conference tournament crown. The LSC tournament takes place in San Antonio, Texas on April 18-20.

Dallas Baptist Patriot Invitational Golf Club of Dallas Dallas, TX TEAM Colby Shrum- 70 Baer Aneshansley- 70 Dillon Rust- 75 Andrew Green- 79 INDIVIDUALS Derek Franco- 73 Chris Muriana- 74

UCO Baseball

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Central Oklahoma’s baseball team lost to powerhouse St. Cloud State on Monday and falls to 11-18 on the year.

From Broncho Sports A mistake-filled fourth inning allowed No. 8-ranked St. Cloud State to take control and Central Oklahoma was unable to answer as the Bronchos dropped a 10-2 decision Monday afternoon at chilly Wendell Simmons Field.

UCO added the game to the schedule just last Friday and trailed 2-1 through three innings before the Huskies turned four hits, three errors and three walks into eight runs in breaking the game open.

SCSU didn’t score again, but the Bronchos managed just one more run and finished the game with only four hits. The Huskies, who entered the game with a 2.19 team earned run average, improved to 12-2 on the season while dropping UCO to 11-18.

“We put the players in a tough situation, but we expect to compete in every game we play,” head coach Dax Leone said.

“Playing a fresh team today after a conference weekend series

wasn’t ideal, but that’s the cards we were dealt. We’re a better baseball team than our record indicates.”

Ryan Schoonover had two of UCO’s four hits, including the first one in the third inning when he followed a Mike Boyle walk with a double down the left field line to pull the Bronchos within 2-1.

SCSU came back with its eight-run fourth to go up 10-1 and UCO’s only other run came in the seventh on Tucker Brown’s RBI double.

Ryan Wagner and Mac Gordon pitched well in relief for the Bronchos, with Wagner giving up four hits and one unearned run in 3 2/3 innings and Gordon allowing two hits in 1 2/3 shutout innings.

UCO is back in action Tuesday, hosting Southern Nazarene at 2 p.m.

UCO catcher Mac Gordon prepares to throw a runner out at second earlier this year. UCO is 11-18 in 2011.

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Dauntae Williams

ZERO THE HERO Central’s Dauntae Williams was named NCAA Division II Basketball Player of the Year by the Basketball Times

By Michael Collins / Sports Writer After helping his team capture 30 wins for the first time in school history, UCO’s Dauntae Williams was named NCAA Division II’s Basketball Player of the Year by the Basketball Times.

The Bronchos fell short of their lofty postseason goals this year when they lost to Midwestern State in the South Central Regional finals, but Williams’s body of work this season was by far something exciting to watch.

“This is a great honor for Dauntae and one he’s very deserving of,” UCO coach Terry Evans said. “He can do about anything on the court and we asked him to carry a big load for us this season.”

The load coach Evans referred to never seemed to bother Williams. He scored when needed, he was able to dish the rock when double teamed, and more importantly he rebounded and played defense, all those tools are what made him the best player in Division II ball this year.

Williams averaged a team best 20.9 points per game this season with a single game high of 37 against East Central. He also led the team in rebounding and assists this season with 6.5 boards per game and 3.7 assists per game.

The numbers alone do not do Williams enough credit. While he led the Bronchos in scoring in all but nine games this year, his leadership abilities trumped his scoring numbers. Every time you thought the Bronchos were heading for a trap game, he pushed and pulled his team through the fire.

In basketball, sometimes the ability to make your teammates better is a far better judge of talent, and Williams proved this year he

could handle that as well.

Williams was Lone Star Conference North Division Player of the Year for the second consecutive year, took MVP honors in the LSC Tournament and was an all-tournament pick in the South Central Regional.

A six-time LSC North Division Offensive Player of the Week winner during the season, Williams finished fifth on UCO’s singleseason points list with 689. He ranks 18th on the school’s career scoring list with 1,276 points, which is fourth-best among two-year players.

In a year that saw both major universities in this state, OU and OSU, have horrible seasons by their standards, it’s only fitting that the lone bright spot in college basketball terms was UCO and Dauntae Williams.

After starting his college career in the JUCO ranks at Seminole State, Williams was able to not only perform well, by thrived in his two years as a Broncho.

Williams will be leaving a big hole for the Bronchos to fill next season, and while they have some very capable players that will be looking to step into his shoes, it’s hard to imagine seeing another season like this for a while. If the returning UCO basketball players can take anything away from their time playing with Williams, hopefully it will be his drive and spirit. Although Dauntae was by far the most talented player this year, that doesn’t mean he didn’t work for everything he got. Whether it was being the first to the gym or last to leave, Williams drive to be the greatest paid off in a big way this year, not only for himself, but for his team too.

PHOTO BY GARETT FISBECK

UCO’s Dauntae Williams was named Division II Player of the Year by the Basketball Times. He led the team with 20.9 points and rebounds with 6.5 per game.

UCO Baseball

CENTRAL’S DOMINANT DUO

By Trey Hunter / Sports Writer Oklahoma State transfer Uriah Fisher has stepped in and provided a powerful arm at the top of Central’s rotation. With him and Jordan Stern, head baseball coach Dax Leone could have a powerful pitching staff on his hands.

Fisher has carried UCO since debuting nearly six weeks ago. He is only 1-3 through six starts, but his ERA is extremely low at 1.95. He is also second on the team in strikeouts with 29, just behind Stern who has 37.

Fisher is from Clinton, Okla., where he won a state championship in football. After high school he moved to Stillwater to play for Frank Anderson and Leone at Oklahoma State. Not happy with his role as a Cowboy, Fisher decided to join Leone in Edmond and transfer to Central.

“Fisher [is] long and lanky and he uses his 6-foot-6 frame to really get a good downwards motion towards the plate,” Leone said.

“It really helps him strike guys out. He has a powerful arm and has helped us since he got here from Stillwater.”

Jordan Stern transferred to UCO for his se-

nior season after seeing limited playing time in his first four years at Texas Tech University.

He was an All-District player in high school in Plano, Texas.

His ERA is high (4.39), but he leads the team in innings (41) and strikeouts (37). He has also received almost no run support. He has a powerful fastball and like Fisher, uses his tall frame to drive the ball to the plate.

He looks like a thicker, shorter, right-handed Randy Johnson, with his long curly hair sticking out of his hat. During off days, Stern can be seen delivering baseballs to the umpires and he always carries at least three balls in each of his back pockets.

“Stern is a guy who has big league stuff,” Leone said. “He is another tall righty who can dominate games. He has a chance to pitch at the next level and I really like the experience he brings to the team coming from Texas Tech.”

The Bronchos could have a dominating combination with Fisher and Stern. Neither is enjoying great run support this year, but they have definitely kept UCO in games. The Bronchos have yet to put it all together. They have pitched well at times and have hit well at

PHOTO BY GARETT FISBECK

Right-hander Jordan Stern delivers a pitch during a game earlier this season.

times. However, it seems like they never do it at the same time.

“We have the talent,” Leone said. “We just have to put it all together and start winning games. It’s our first year in this program and I’m proud of what we’ve been able to do since I got here. All of our guys have worked hard and if we can put it together, we could be

pretty dangerous.”

Yesterday’s game against Southern Nazarene University was cancelled due to weather.

They will host a single game against conference rival Abilene Christian University (1711; 10-8 LSC) at 2 p.m. Friday and will host a double-header on Saturday beginning at 1 p.m.

Contact Teddy Burch t: (405) 974-5123 e: tburch2@uco.edu