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THURSDAY March 26, 1998
UCO's the place to be, says newly named VP attempt to have a transformation of student life and participation at UCO." resident Roger Webb Gage, who holds a doctorate announced the degree in student perSonnel appointment of Dr. administration from Oklahoma Kathryn Gage as vice president State University, said she will of student services begin her tenure as Monday, calling the vice president with job a. "key three main focuses position" for the in mind. university's future. The first focus, Gage, who has she said, is in served as interim recruiting new vice president since students, followed January, said she is by the retention of looking forward to existing students. making changes at Finally, Gage UCO that will said she wants to Ga ge enhance campus enhance campus life and promote the school at life. the same time. "I want to see things going on "We're in a big era of at UCO so people in the change," said Gage. community as well as on campus Webb•said Gage's personality can think of us as the place to as well as her background are be. well suited to the position. Gage said student input will "She brings an abundance of be an important part of her energy and enthusiasm to the planning strategies. office of Student Services ;" he "Nothing will happen unless said. we know what people want," she "This is a key position as we said.
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Hacker's obscenities "very embarrassing," says UCO official By Mark Schneberger No11Wriler Does the letter "0" in the abbreviation UCO stand for obscenities? It did for a while recently, due to the efforts of a computer
hacker who broke into the school's Internet server before spring break and changed the university's home-page greeting to read like notes from a racy novel. Lee Kessinger, Computing Services director, said a hacker
somehow gained access to the school's server March 10 and changed the main text on the home page to a slew of fourletter words. He said the university was ,made aware of the changes by a student in Enid, but feels certain
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many people read the statements, which included sexually explicit language. Kessinger said his department has no idea yet who hacked into the system, but believed the work was probably done by a UCO student.
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"It's hard to say who could have done it, but it is probably a student, because students have more time than anyone to do this type of thing," he said. "We're looking for the person
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