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Policy scrutinized

Dr. Katherine Gage has called for a review of UCO's "common area damage" policy in response to vandalism at Murdaugh Hall. ✓ Page 14

'Sports Honors all around UCO eight baseball and four softball players are named to the All- Lone Star Conference team. v Page 8

TODAY IN HISTORY In 1941, the Federal Communications Commission agreed to let regular scheduling of TV broadcasts by commercial TV stations begin on July 1, 1941. It was the start of what would become network television.

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."

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UCO receives $4.1 million art donation

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CO may need to build a museum to house the $4.1 million art donation received April 30. This is the largest single gift in UCO's history.

The Melton Art Reference Library donated the Melton Legacy Collection of European and American Art to the university's College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD).

The collection contains 60 pieces from Thomas Moran, El Greco and George Roualt. The works explore various art movements from realism, romanticism, symbolism and impressionism.

The collection was obtained during the lifetime of Howard

and Merle Melton. Howard was an Oklahoma City businessman. The artwork hung in their home.

"Their collection developed over the years," said Melton's daughter, Suzanne Melton Silvester.

After they died, the collection was displayed at the Melton Art Reference Library in Oklahoma City.

Silvester oversees the library and decided to donate the work after a request from UCO associate professor William Wallo.

PHOTO BY NATHAN DUNN Silvester said she thought it was a good idea. She wanted to Art donor Suzanne Melton Silvester talks with reporters during the formal presentation of artwork to UCO. The gift is valued at more have the collection in a place than $4.1 million. where students and the community could benefit.

Six of the works were on 30 in Evans Hall. About 60 "My parents were always display at the formal presentation donors, and they had a great of the collection to UCO April See GIFT, Page 15 sense of community."

Program changes despite Graduate Council rejection

BY JERA STONE

Staff Writer proposal of modification for the UCO guidance and counseling master's program was sent to the State Regents Board for Higher Education despite rejection by the UCO Graduate Council Curriculum Committee.

"It hasn't happened in probably 15, 20 years," said Dr. Karen Dowd, associate vice president of academic affairs.

"This was a situation where it was appropriate for this office to make the decision to send this on to the Board of Regents," Dowd said.

"The proposal had merit," Dowd said.

The modification, which reduces the required hours for the guidance and counseling master's degree from 50 hours to 33 hours, has been approved by the Board of Regents, said Dr. Don Betz, provost and vice president of Academic Affairs.

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Dr. Don Betz The Curriculum Committee of Graduate Council oversees proposals on new graduate programs or modifications on existing programs, said Dr. Amy Carrell, chairwoman of the committee.

"We present our recommendation to the Graduate Council, the council then votes

to accept or reject our recommendation," Carrell said.

"We had a number of concerns about the program changes they were proposing, so we rejected it."

The Graduate Council unanimously supported the rejection, Carrell said.

A rejection letter was sent to the College of Education on January 23, and the proposal was resubmitted, with changes, to the Graduate Council in February, Carrell said.

"The soonest we could have looked at this proposal was in the March meeting," Carrell said.

"The same day the proposal came to the Graduate Council for reconsideration, from what I understand, that proposal also went to the associate vice president for Academic Affairs."

Dr. Narasinga Rao, Dean of College of Graduate Studies and Research, reported at the Graduate Council's March 12 meeting that the proposal had went on to the Board of Regents, Carrell said.

The Curriculum Committee had again rejected the proposal at the same meeting according to the meeting report.

"It had gone to the Board of Regents without council approval," Carrell said.

"That's the subversion of academic integrity and shared governance."

Dowd said, "All proposals, whether they are endorsed or not endorsed by the Graduate Council, come to this office."

Betz said on April 29 that the proposal didn't reach the Academic Affairs office in February, but in late March or early April.

Betz said the Graduate Council was working from incomplete information when they rejected the proposal.

"That was unfortunate," Betz said.

"They probably would have approved it now that more information is available."

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WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS SUMMER?

"Stay here, work, go to school, and probably get drunk a lot."

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Committee's decision shouldn't have been overridden "Building my legal nurse consulting business and going to summer school." '

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hen the administration ignores a decision made by a governing body, one that is set up for the purpose of making such decisions, it is a slap in the face to that body.

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and policy that the administration can do whatever they want in regard to this committee and possibly others as well.

The administration may be legally allowed to circumvent the committee's decisions but that doesn't make it acceptable. Disrespect such as this deserves no tolerance. •

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"Staying here and working "Working." at the golf course."

point of being on the committee or even having one at all?

Why haven't other committee members resigned? If they believe that they have been wronged, they should react. Resignation would have more impact than just voicing concern or writing a letter. Anything short of resignation shows the administration that the committee is willing to play their game. This would set a precedent

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LETTERS Reader takes issue with public's view of journalism s a former employee of The Vista and a current employee of a major metro daily newspaper, there are a few matters that bother me concerning individuals and their views of the press.

Journalists are passionately dedicated to a quest for truth.

We seek it tirelessly and report it fairly, concisely and without bias. It is not the journalist's job, however, to determine what is true. We simply compile

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information from all sides and angles and present it to our readers, while giving them the all-important job of determining their version of what is true or right.

Some students, as well as faculty members at UCO, have a grave misconception of how journalism actually works. Even more scary, is the notion that journalism has become a money, or ratings hungry industry that adds fuel to . the

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A UCO student reported losing a blue plastic check book.

Alarm-Intrusion Apr. 26, 8:24 p.m.

A UCO vehicle was involved in a traffic accident. • Editors Note: Information reported in Police Briefs is taken from UCO's Department of Public Safety log, which is an open record available to the public upon request.

rapid fire of commercialism that is consuming American society.

Thomas Jefferson, considered the father of our country, often struggled with the harmful things written about him in the press. Alas, he overcame the criticism and was quoted as saying: "If it were Jeft to me to decide whether we should have a government without a free press or a free press without a government, I would choose the latter."

In this world, there are people called by what some believe to be a higher power, to serve their society... most notably, members of the clergy or educators. The money is not that great and the headaches and pressures sometimes deem the job futile.

I venture to add journalists to the list.

Frank Smyth, an independent journalist on Wednesday, April 24, 2002, addressed a group of journalists at The Oklahoman and told them of his adventures during the Gulf War. He told how Iraqi soldiers imprisoned him for 18

days and how he listened as one of his colleagues, a French photographer was shot execution-style.

"I never had the chance to grieve," he said as tears fell from his eyes. "It was three years later before I actually realized how much I was affected."

If that's not a calling, I don't know what is.

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COUNCIL: Betz says council has recommendation function continued from page 1 Betz said the Graduation McCarthy said.

Council, like all other committees "It was just so late in order to on campus, functions in get it in to change for next fall's program," she said. recommending capacity.

McCarthy said the "A non-acceptance of a recommendation is not a modification makes the program violation of the procedure of the more inline with other graduate programs in the Advanced Graduate Council," Betz said.

According to the Graduate Professional Studies department, Council's March 12 meeting which all have 33 or 34 required report, Carrell made a motion hours.

The change would enable asking Rao to request Betz to students to attend the Graduate complete the Faculty meeting in April "A non-acceptance of master's degree to explain the faster, responsibilities of the a recommendation is McCarthy Graduate Council. The not a violation of the said. motion was unanimously "If they seconded. procedure of the want to take Betz said he didn't further attend the meeting, but Graduate Council." courses, those later sent a letter to courses will respond to that request. still be "We just simply —Dr. Don Betz offered," she reminded them of the UCO provost and said. process and also their vice president of Dr. Jerry recommending power," Academic affairs Chandler, Betz said.

Dr. Joann McCarthy, professor of guidance and chairwoman of Advanced counseling, said the change will Professional Services, said help Oklahoma teachers who appropriate corrections were made enrolled in the program to get an to the proposal before it was sent extra pay raise.

"If you get additional hours to the Office of Academic Affairs above the master's degree, you get in February.

"Each time it came back from a step-up pay raise," Chandler the Graduate Council, they just said.

"This way they'll get two pay asked for more information,"

raises by doing the same hours," he said.

McCarthy said she thinks the change will raise the enrollment in the program.

"It will allow more public school teachers to enter the graduate program to be school counselors," she said.

Oklahoma schools have a severe shortage of school counselors, McCarthy said.

The modification, which was proposed because of suggestions from faculty members that teach the classes, will be in effect this summer, said McCarthy and Chandler.

Carrell resigned from the Graduate Council at the Graduate Council's April meeting.

"It's the principal," she said.

Carrell said the Graduate Curriculum Committee, made up of professors of different colleges, is given the responsibility of strengthening graduate programs on campus.

The Curriculum Committee spends hours combing through the proposals prior to making recommendations at the monthly meetings, Carrell said.

"The proposal we are talking about had been rejected twice, yet it appeared on the April Board of Regents agenda," Carrell said.

"The precedent has been set, and it's not a good one," she said.

"That's the concern of every member of the Grduate Council and should be the concern of every member of the faculty." •

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YEAR IN REVIEW Top stories from the 2001-02 school year who had been president of UCOSA since spring 2001, The Vista approved the expenditure on two events in August. The money Aug. 20, 2001 was part of UCOSA's budget, and Interior structural problems left the organization with less prolonged the exterior funding than expected for the renovation of Old North, and remainder of the fall semester. forced the building's occupants to relocate.

The Education Building and Nov. 6, 2001 the library made room for the After 14 years of serving Old North offices until the Oklahoma's higher education, restoration could be completed.

Chancellor Hans Brisch announced his retirement.

In 1987, the State Regents Sept. 13, 2001 Board drafted Brisch as Terrorists hijacked two Oklahoma's higher education airliners and crashed them into chancellor. the World Trade Center in a coordinated series of attacks Sept. 11 that brought down the Dec. 6, 2001 twin 110-story towers. A plane A campus-wide student poll also slammed into the Pentagon, raising fears that the seat of revealed at least 22 percent of government itself was under sexually active UCO singles used neither birth control nor attack. contraceptives last time they had sex. The anonymous poll, conducted Nov. 29 – 30, quizzed Oct. 25, 2001 students, 193 men and 241 UCO Student Association women, on their sexual activity.

(UCOSA) House of Representatives met to decide whether President Brian Downs Jan. 17, 2002 misappropriated $6,000 during An international student and the summer semester. Downs, FROM THE ARCHIVES

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UCO alumna were killed in a traffic accident Saturday, Jan. 12 in Logan County when a moving train hit their car. Dead are Eni Korbeci, 21, Albania, and See Khee Goh, 23, Malaysia.

The women were driving west on Logan County road when their vehicle stopped on the railroad tracks. A 111-car freight train struck the vehicle and dragged it 89 feet, according to Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports.

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Feb. 5, 2002 Falling ice presented a new threat for Oklahoma residents recovering Feb. 2 from an ice storm that left around 149,000 electric customers across the state without power — some for over a month.

Students in the Communications Building watch news footage of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. Classes were cancelled shortly after noon that day.

dumped into trashcans throughout campus. The theft was believed to have been sparked by a story in that day's issue of The Vista about two former UCO football players who were charged with posting March 28, 2002 sexually-explicit pictures of a On March 14, an estimated female student on the Internet 4,000 issues of The Vista were and on campus. stolen off distribution racks and

April 25, 2002 Senior German major Shawna Lyn Savage was named winner of a Fulbright Student Grant. She is one of 960 students worldwide that received this year's Fulbright Grants for graduate study abroad.

Savage is the second student in UCO history to receive the award. •

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SPORTS

UCO Sports looks back on a semester in transition COMPILED BY VISTA SPORTS STAFF

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restling champions, LSC titles and coaching changes highlighted an eventful semester that could go down in history as a strong transitional period for UCO sports.

BRONCHO WRESTLING Headlining the UCO sporting world was the Broncho's wrestling program's record breaking year that led to the Division II national championship.

From March 12...

"The 2002 Bronchos wrestling team, which broke the school record for wins, will be coming home victorious from the NCAA Division II National Championship after claiming its 13th national title in school history March 9.

the two-day event."

The wrestling squad ended the season 15-1 on a 15-game win streak. The Bronchos also took the National Duals title during the season.

The display marked a return to the top spot for PHOTO SERVICES a historically Muhammed Lawal was one of four national champions during the Broncho's title run in 2002. strong wrestling program that looks poised to UCO wrestling finished on top make a run once again in 2003. of the nation with 128 team points defeating their main rival BRONCHO BASKETBALL No. 2 North Dakota State's 116.5.

The men and women's hoop The Bronchos also boast four programs didn't make news on the individual champions and seven floor going 10-16 and 13-13 All-Americans of the eight respectively, but rather off the national qualifiers competing in court.

The men's head coach of 15 a new head coach that ended with years, Jim Sewart resigned and former Midwest City Coach Terry later took a job as the assistant Evans.

From April 9... coach for the Nebraska women's "UCO named former Midwest basketball team.

From there the UCO Athletics City Coach Terry Evans as the department organized a search for new head coach of the men's basketball program in a news conference at Hamilton Field House April 5.

Evans, 31, is a former college basketball standout at the University of Oklahoma and was chosen from a field of 41 applicants for the job."

Evans made a point to assert his desire to recruit more Oklahoma based high school students. He later made good on that when signed four Oklahoma based players.

The new coach will most defiantly give new life to a program that has sputtered in PHOTO SERVICES recent years.

Jason Prichett is one of three returning starters next season.

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Star Conference with a low 1.58 ERA." The Bronchos not only had good pitching, but April Ferrall broke the school record for home runs and UCO was able to win 12 in row at one time.

Four softball players were named to the All-LSC North Division team.

The Bronchos were a surprise, but with the season almost in the books (any regional bid withstanding) the energy produced will hopefully carry on into a successful 2003.

continued from page 6 BRONCHO BASEBALL The Broncho Baseball team has been in the headlines quite a bit. They dominated the diamond this season going 42-6.

Though they weren't able to win the Lone Star Tournament, they were ranked as high as No. 2 in the nation at one point.

From April 23...

"Defending LSC North Division Broncho baseball champs did it again when they dominated a doubleheader against the Southeastern Savages to win the LSC title for the second straight year with an 18-2 conference record April 17."

The team also had many individual performances including the first no-hitter in over 10 years.

From March 12...

"Kyle Dover pitched the first no-hitter in recent school history and the Bronchos broke out of a hitting funk to crush NebraskaKearney in a doubleheader at Broncho Field, March 10."

Eight Bronchos were also named to the All-LSC North Division team.

At one time the Bronchos won as many as 14 in a row and went 21 1 during a stretch.

The regional championships still in limbo, any Broncho appearance will in no way take anything away from the monstrous season.

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BRONCHO GOLF Led by Dan Drake and Todd

Courtney Cole stares down a Dayton the Bronchos were able baserunner during a game earlier to drive past the competition in in the season.

the LSC Championship beating the defending champion accomplishments so far this Cameron Aggies. season is the fact that their team From April 30... pitching is No. 1 in the Lone "Central Oklahoma captured

the Lone Star Conference golf championship with a 54-hole score of 870 over the defending champion Cameron Aggies' 880 at Garland, TX April 23.

Drake and Dayton tied for fourth in individual play and earned first team All-LSC honors. Matt Norgaard ranked sixth and took second team AllLSC honors.

LOOKING FORWARD Broncho athletes were able to stay in the Lone Star headlines with multiple player-of-the-week awards and fiercely competitive teams.

Broncho Athletics can only build on this "transition year" that hopefully left mediocrity in the past and moves to a future that's limitations are only restricted by their desire to reach a higher standard. •

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David Jones and the Broncho

The Broncho softball team silenced many critics after they were chosen to finish four out of six teams, but actually excelled going 31-12 and finishing runner-up in the LSC Tournament.

From April 9...

"As of Apirl 1, UCO ranks second in the LSC North Division softball standings and holds the best overall winning percentage outside of the conference.

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SPORTS LSC picks eight Bronchos

Softball gets four All-LSC nods

BY DARA LAWLESS

Kyle Dover received an honorable mention. •

BY DARA LAWLESS

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CO baseball led North Division teams with eight men placed on the AllLone Star Conference First team while head coach Wendall Simmons won Coach-of-the-Year April 28.

Simmons obtained the honor in his 11th year at UCO leading the Bronchos to a 43-8 record this season. His ball club possessed 12 players that received various honors in the LSC. UCO pitcher Ricky Belk won his second straight pitcher-ofthe-year award for his 10-1 record and 3.09 ERA this season.

Bryan Coy had a .394 batting average while leading the conference with 71 runs and 30 stolen bases.

Seniors Anthony Reed, Rothy Briggs, John Rogers, David Jones, and junior Barrett Whitney also made the first team. First baseman Justin Carroll placed on the first team with a LSC leading .441 average and 60 RBIs. Pitchers Joe Neal, Kirk Gore, and catcher Travis Davidson earned second team places and

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one Star Conference runner-ups Central Oklahoma softball had four players earn spots on the North Division 2002 All-Conference first team April 28.

Senior pitcher Jennifer Chavira also received the North Division Newcomer-of-the-Year award along with first team honors with a .325 batting average and a 1.99 ERA on the year.

Catcher April Ferrall took the honor with her .460 average, leading the LSC with a UCO school record 12 homeruns.

Sophomore Shauna Perry was also placed on the first team at shortstop with a .331 average, 27 RBIs, and five homeruns. Senior Juile Cyr placed as an outfielder with 36 RBIs and 1 .5 doubles.

Jessica Kirby received second team honors with a 1.95 ERA this season while Junior second baseman Jordan Wheeler earned honorable mention. •

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Evans signs another Bomber "I'm exremely happy to have Sports Writer Steven join our he 2002-03 men's basketball program and look team may look like a reunion for him to come in of head coach Terry Evan's next year and two-time Class 6A state really help us,"

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champions after he signed former Midwest City star Steven Alexander April 28.

Alexander will transfer from Seward County Junior College where he averaged ten points, six rebounds, and five assists a game.

said Evans. "He is an outstanding player who can do a lot of different Steven Alexander things on the court and I'm excited about having him come to

UCO." Alexander, a 6'4, 200pound guard posted 13 points, seven boards, and six assists a game his senior year as a Bomber.

Perhaps Evans is looking to rebuild a college team from the ingredients of his successful high school teams, and if success finds him, more power to him. •

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Schmitt leaves UCO for West Virginia Wesleyan

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rtist in residence Richard

Schmitt is leaving UCO at the end of the spring semester for a job at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, W.Va. He taught two classes this spring, Fundamentals of Creative Writing I, and Writing the Novel.

"I was brought in ... a special position because they must have had a poet in the fall and she crapped out and didn't come back," Schmitt said.

An award-winning novelist, Schmitt is on the artist-inresidence circuit, and teaches his classes as part lecture and part writers workshop.

He said he was hired for the spring 2002 semester and was told he would be welcome to apply to stay on for the fall. As the end of spring semester came closer, Schmitt said he heard nothing from the administration.

Offers soon began arriving. A week after he accepted an offer from a private college in West Virginia, he still had not heard from UCO's administration about the fall semester application.

Schmitt said he heard there were "budget problems."

Liberal Arts Dean Timothy Baughman was not available to comment on the status of faculty hires, or on the hypothetical lack of funding.

Schmitt said "I like the people here very much, and I wanted to come back." He has lived on the East Coast all his life, and wanted to move west, he said.

James Dolph, a teaching assistant in the English department at UCO, and a graduate student working toward a master's degree in English with emphasis in creative studies took Schmitt's novel writing class.

"This has been the absolute best experience of my academic career, at least in terms of learning

writing," Dolph said.

He said he would have taken another class under Schmitt in the fall, "and the semester after that, and after that ... absolutely."

Katherine Dewey, a teaching assistant in the psychology department at UCO, and a graduate student working on her master's degree in contemporary literature also took the class.

"Richard has deconstructed everything I have learned about writing and [literature] criticism. I have learned so much about the art of the novel — what works, what doesn't work. [The novel writing class] was so much fun. We all want him to stay. There is a shortage of good professors here," Dewey said.

Betteanne Palmer, also a graduate student, said "My writing has gotten so much better ... He helped me see the connection between reading and my own writing. I read like a writer now. I hope I can [study under him] again

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Shelly Reeves, a senior broadcast communications major, said, "This class has given me the opportunity to write in a way that I thought I was not capable of. The class has also provided me with invaluable feedback from my peers of all ages."

Reeves said Schmitt taught her "that there is no crying in writing."

Schmitt's award winning novel, "The Aerialist" is based on stories he heard from circus performers near his home in Sarasota Florida, which is the circus' winter quarters.

To do his research for the book, he said "all I had to do was just call up someone and ask 'what's it like when you ...'"

However, some things required personal experience, he said. "[I did] as much as I could without getting killed."

And other things are borrowed from the author's life and immortalized in his book. The dog was real. "It was a dog I had for a long time," he said.

Schmitt earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C. in their low-residency MFA program, which includes two Pulitzer Prize winning authors as faculty.

His first year out of school, he taught high school English in Florida for one year.

"That taught me good teaching habits," he said. "You have to have

plan A, B, C ... because whatever you plan they can torpedo in a second."

"I go with everything mapped out on a legal pad," he said.

He said he knows how the class went by how well he stuck to what was on the pad, without having to actually refer to it.

His creative writing class scored an 8 out of 10 on his scale of success, he said.

The novel writing class was a 7 because there was the normal problem with the writers "getting sick of it," he said. But he said he thought the class was amazing because some students came with novels completely written.

In 1995, after his year teaching high school, he began teaching workshop-type classes. He has taught at colleges and universities in Charleston, S.C., Asheville, N.C., Sewanee, Tenn., Edmond, Okla., and now he'll be going to Buckhannon, W.Va. The West Virginia job comes with the possibility of tenure, which could work into a long-term job. That's good, he said, but he would like to have been able to stay here because "the people are so nice."

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University of Tulsa students run to UCO for charity running all the time," he said. Nigh University Center by 7 p.m.

Two vans will accompany the He said he runners. One will drive behind the chose to Senior Writer runner while the another drives to e n d wenty students from the next runner's starting place.

University of Tulsa (TU) are Herrera estimates the coming to UCO Saturday — the run will take 16 on foot. run hours. They The students are running 105 a will miles in the Route 66 Relay to raise U C 0 money for the Special Olympics after he Summer Games in Stillwater May drove the 15 –17. _ route and UCO Participants will take turns was at running in two and a half-mile convenient location. increments. Each person will run "It seemed like a good a total of five miles said run place to end it." organizer and TU senior He expects the relay will Michael Herrera. raise $1,000 for charity. He "Someone asked each runner to try to will be raise $100 through friends and businesses.

The runners consist of students, leave faculty and community members.

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"I want this to be an annual 66 last year.

Herrera modeled this run after event."

The group will present the one that took place in Texas.

Several civil servants ran from official check at the end of the run to the Special Olympics. The Houston to San Antonio.

Since that event four years ago Special Olympics Swim Team will he has wanted to organize a similar greet the runners at the Nigh University Center. Anyone who one in Oklahoma.

He will attend graduate school would like to greet the runners can at Texas Tech University in the fall meet there.

"We'd love to have people there and hopes to organize a run there when we finish the run." • next year.

GIFT: Collection will be housed on campus continued from page 1 people attended the presentation.

The centerpiece is Thomas Moran's "Venice at Sunset" from 1898 which is valued at $1.5 million.

Silvester said she will visit the gallery and is glad that it is at UCO. "My mother once told me that we never really owned these

paintings, we just leased them.

They are meant to be shared with the world," she said.

The collection will be housed at the Central Museum of Art, said Dr. Christopher Markwood, dean of the CAMD. CAMD plans to create the Melton Legacy Collection Gallery. •

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U

CO English professor Sandra Mayfield received the Sponsor of the Year award April 26 for her work with the English honors society Sigma Tau Delta.

The award was given at the annual Sponsor Appreciation Banquet put on by the President's Club. Mayfield was chosen out of all the sponsors nominated by their student organizations.

"It was a real surprise to me," Mayfield said.

She has spent four years of sponsoring Chi Gamma, UCO's chapter of Sigma Tau Delta.

This year, Mayfield was also elected by Sigma Tau Delta to serve as Southwestern Regent for the organization.

Mayfield will work on networking the 90 chapters in Arkansas, Arizona, Oklahoma and Texas and represent the southwest on a national level.

"The southwest region has a

Dr. Sandra Mayfield certain amount of money for helping chapters nominate students for scholarships," she said.

Mayfield will also have influence over Rectangle, an annual publication of poetry, short stories and essays from Sigma Tau Delta members.

Earlier this year, Sigma Tau

Delta held a faculty appreciation brunch for the English faculty.

Last year, Sigma Tau Delta held an English presentation during Stampede Week for incoming students interested in the College of Liberal Arts English major. The organization plans to have a similar presentation this fall.

This year about 20 members attended Sigma Tau Delta meetings.

"Our membership fluctuates every semester, usually between 20 and 30 students. We try to keep our members involved in Sigma Tau Delta as long as they're here at UCO." To join Sigma Tau Delta, students must have completed at least 12 hours of English credit and have a 3.0 overall GPA and a 3.25 average in their English classes. Members must also pay a $30 lifetime membership fee. â&#x20AC;˘

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Festival of the Arts ends with lower attendance Festival spokeswoman Crystal Radcliff said organizers estimate Associated Press 700,000 attended the event this OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ year, compared with about The weather was perfect for the 800,000 last year. final day of the 36th Festival of She said art sales were strong the Arts, something organizers this year, although a total was not would have liked to see earlier in available Sunday evening. the week.

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Radcliff said the festival will send out about 3,000 applications to artists for next year's festival.

Selections will be made in October, she said.

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Radcliff praised everyone who helped put on the festival. â&#x20AC;˘

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STRANGE STORIES Ohio woman declares love for convicted serial killer FROM WIRE REPORTS Associated Press

HOUSTON (AP) — A 50year-old Ohio woman says she is not a "flake" because she fell in love with convicted rail-riding serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz.

"I'm well-educated, middle class. I own my own house. I own my own truck," said Nancy Resendiz of Cleveland, who legally changed her last name to that of the Mexican citizen with a long criminal record.

"I don't condone anything he's done. But there is a human being in there and I just happen to love that human being," she told the Houston Chronicle for its Sunday editions.

Nancy Resendiz said she began writing to the convicted killer after he was sentenced to death in May 2000 for the murder of Houstonarea physician Claudia Benton, who was beaten, stabbed and raped in her home just before Christmas 1998.

Maturino Resendiz, also called

the "Railroad Killer," is linked by confessions and evidence to at least 12 other killings across the country, including one in Lexington, Ky. The Mexican citizen crisscrossed the United States aboard freight trains, earning his nickname during a nationwide manhunt that culminated with his surrender in July 1999.

The couple writes each other often, and Nancy Resendiz has made five trips from Cleveland to visit Maturino Resendiz in prison in Livingston, Texas.

"He has a very loving and caring side to him," she said. "He's a very affectionate person. He is silly and has a sense of humor."

LYNNVILLE, Indiana (AP) — The transformation of one of the state's largest abandoned coal mines into a wetland is relying on an unusual ingredient — about 1,200 truckloads of turkey manure.

At least that's what Indiana Division of Reclamation officials

are banking on as they roll up their sleeves and plug their noses in southeastern Indiana.

"There's no doubt about it, it will take your breath away," Steve Herbert, the agency's assistant director for restoration, said about the dlrs 5.2 million project. "Even a quarter of a mile (kilometer) away, it will bring tears to your eyes."

The turkey manure — with its high nitrogen content — will be used to fertilize the wetlands, which are designed as a passive treatment system to purify acidic mine run-off water.

Turkey manure "used to be a liability, but these days it's almost an asset," said Roger Seger, partowner of Wabash Valley Produce in nearby Dubois.

Seger's store is selling 30,000 tons (27,300 metric tons) of it to the state at dlrs 15 a ton (metric ton) for the project, said Jeff Bussing, the project manager for state contractor Koester Contracting Corp. of Evansville.

In recent years, building wetlands using turkey or chicken manure has proven an effective method to purify water on abandoned mine sites in Illinois and other mining states, said Mick Ahrens, a natural resources

specialist with the federal Office of SurfaceMining in Alton, Illinois.

"When it comes out, it should be good water," Ahrens said.

"Turkey manure is one of those things that's cheap, but it's very good for these. You can use commercial fertilizer, but this is a better product."

Reclaiming the half-century-old coal processing site is a daunting task. Like many of the remaining 1,400 unclaimed sites in Indiana, the water flowing from it is so acidic that no aquatic life exists.

An estimated 20 million gallons (75 million liters) of acidic water will need to be treated and drained. The work, which is being paid for by the federal abandoned mines fund, started April 1 and is expected to take at least six months.

When completed, the 300-acre (120-hectare) site is designed to have three wetlands areas with plants such as cottontails.

Wildflowers and cypress trees will be planted in between where planners hope turkeys, muskrats and rabbits will roam.

treasured item — a blue velour bag containing his wife's remains.

Family members said someone broke into Vad Stein's Paterson home on April 18 while he was eating with them at a nearby diner.

They returned to find his bedroom ransacked and noticed that several items were missing, including the bag.

Stein, 84, would not discuss the theft. His daughter, Bonnie, said he always kept the bag nearby after his wife, Mina, died three years ago at age 76. The couple was married for 56 years. "(The theft) is a shame because he was just getting on with his life without her," Bonnie Stein told The Record of Hackensack for Friday's editions. She said family members have posted fliers around the city, offering a reward for the bag's return.

Paterson authorities said they have no knowledge of theft because the family has not filed a report with them. Bonnie Stein said the family has discussed the matter with police, but were told that little could be done. •

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For more information, contact Jalal at 974-2377.

Media Arts will present the One-Act Play Festival at 8 p.m. in the Pegasus Theatre of Liberal Arts Building. For more information, call 974-5511.

• The Nepal Student Association is holding a board • The UCO Swing Dance Club is holding a meeting meeting at 2 p.m. in the Business Building, Room 203. and dance at 7 p.m. in Room 202 of the Nigh University Center. Dance lessons will be offered. For For more information, call Prakash at 715-2752. more information, call Danny at 974-4010.

• The UCO Men's Soccer Club is holding a practice at 5:30 p.m. at the Fire Station Soccer Field. • The Toastmasters Club is holding a meeting at 1 • The UCO Bahai Association is holding devotions p.m. in Room 320B of Nigh University from 10 to 10:30 a.m. at the Edmond Bahai Center, Center. For more information, call Michael 321 E. Campbell. For more information, call Diba at at 359-2702.

557-5420.

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• The ROTC will hold an awards • The Rock-U will hold a weekly meeting at 6 p.m. ceremony at 2 p.m. in the Troy Smith in the Thatcher Hall lobby, for more information, call Lecture Hall of - the Business Johanna Howard at 974-4255.

Administration Building. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call • A student written opera 4 Welder's Dilemma will Lt. Souter at 974-5170 or 974-5166. be performed at 7 p.m. in the Mitchell Hall Theatre.

For more information, call Luke Hadsall at 974-2545.

• The Department of Theatre, Dance and Media Arts will present the One-Act Play Festival at 8 p.m. in the Pegasus Theatre of Liberal Arts Building. For more information, call 974-5511.

• The Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship is having a meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Nigh University Center, • The School of Music will present the Room 304.

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o long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye.

I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye."

Sappy show tune lyrics aside, the time has come for the fall semester's final issue of The Vista and my final column as editor in chief. To my loyal readers, I thank you. All three of you.

No, I mean it.

All right, maybe I don't mean it, but who cares? I certainly know that I don't.

Is this hunk of apathy due to a gnawing sense of senioritis?

Perhaps, but since I'm only graduating from The Vista and not from UCO (yet), that is probably not the case here.

School's almost out and I'm eagerly planning a one-week trip to Europe this summer. I guess that's just about enough to make anyone apathetic about school.

Since I probably won't get this chance again, I will make the most of this space to thank some people who have really helped me as editor in chief this semester. If you are not the kind of person who likes to listen to thank you speeches or shameless plugs, too bad. It's my column, so there (insert raspberry sound here).

Prepare for more sappiness, for it follows forthwith. ,

Shawn: thanks for being my support system, bodyguard, volunteer wire editor, and latenight food delivery service for this past year. I couldn't have done this without you.

All journalism department faculty, especially Dr. Terry Clark and Rhonda Bowden: thanks for all of your encouragement, as well as criticism toward the entire staff. That extra push now and then really helped morale and kept us motivated.

Nancy Brown and Sherry Sump: you two are real gems.

Thanks for keeping all of us organized and for all the little things you do that go unrecognized.

Tay: thanks for keeping me (somewhat) sane this semester.

Your organizational skills were highly appreciated. You will go far.

Sharra: thanks for letting me rant and rave to you. You're a pretty cool chick. Good luck next semester (yes, I DO think you're nuts for agreeing to another semester, but...).

Brad Pemberton: your selfless gift meant a lot to - everyone here.

Stay in touch when you hit the road.

To The Vista staff: thanks for an excellent semester. You guys really hit the ground running, and we all overcame many obstacles to produce an outstanding publication. I expect to see more awards on the shelf after next year's Collegiate Media Convention. Good luck, guys.

Dave: thanks for saving us from the bad guys in New Orleans and for all of your advice.

Jayna: Thanks for all your help.

You're a great friend.

Am I supposed to be sad now?

"I'm glad to go, I cannot tell -a lie..." •

Beth Hull's column appears every Thursday in The Vista.

You can reach her via e-mail at stanggirl70@yahoo.com .

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Out & About Live Music • Pepperoni Grill, 3300 S. Broadway, is presenting Larry Fantastick with the CDS Band from 7 to 10:30 p.m. every Saturday. For more information, contact Larry Funches at larryfunches@prodigy.net

Special Events • The Omniplex and the Kirkpatrick Planetarium, 2100 N.E. 52nd St., will present The Search for Life in the Universe narrated by Leonard Nimoy through May 26. Show times are Tuesdays through Thursdays at 3 p.m.; Fridays at 3, 6, and 8 p.m.; Saturdays at noon, 2, 4, 6, and 8 p.m.; and Sundays at 2, 4, 6, and 8 p.m. Admission to the Omniplex is $7.50 for adults, $6 for seniors, $5 for youth and $5 for children. For more information, call 602-6664.

• The Oklahoma City Zoo will present Close Encounters of the Bird Kind through June 16 at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays, and 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. For more information, call 424-3344.

• The OmniDome Theater at the Omniplex will present the film Cirque du Soleil Journey of Man through May. For showtimes and ticket information, call 602-3663.

• The OmniDome Theater at the Omniplex will present the film To Be an Astronaut through October 18. For showtimes and ticket information, call 6023663.

Theater • The Pollard Theater, 120 W. Harrison in Guthrie, will present Chicago through May 12. For ticket information, call 282-2800.

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• The Jewel Box Theatre will present You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown through May 11. Tickets are $6 to $12. For more information, call 521-1786.

• The Oklahoma Children's Theatre will present The Three Musketeers at 10:30 a.m. weekdays and 2 p.m. on Saturdays through May 3. For more information, call 951-0000.

• The Dinner and Murder Mystery Theater will present Solve your own murder mystery with five-course meal at 6 or 7 p.m. daily at 1841 N.W. 15th. For ticket information, call 524-7676 or e-mail

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Exhibits • The Oklahoma City Museum of Art will present Dale Chihuly: An Inaugural Exhibition through August 4 inside the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center at 415 Couch Dr. Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and students, and free for children under 5. The hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursdays, and 1 to 5 p.m. on Sundays. For more information, call 236-3100.

• The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History in Norman, 1335 Asp, is presenting Exhibition: Birds in Flight, a collection of stop-action photographs by Russell Hansen through August 4.

Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m.on Sundays. For more information, call 325-4712.

• The Oklahoma City National Memorial will present A Shared Experience: 04.19.95- 09.11.01 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 1 - 6 p.m.

Sundays starting April 19.

• The Myriad Botanical Gardens will present

Vanishing Pollinators: Photography by Carll Goodpasture through June 16. Admission is $4 for adults, $3 for seniors and students and $2 for children 4-12. For more information, call 297-3995.

• The UCO College of Arts, Media and Design will present Spring 2002 Student Juried Art Show and Sale through May 11 in the Donna Nigh Gallery of the Nigh University Center. For more information, call Zina Gelona at 974-2432. •

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

Prices: Classified ads cost $3 for the first 25 words and $.12/word thereafter.

PAYMENT IS DUE WHEN AD IS PLACED. Classified Display ads have same deadlines and prices as regular display ads. Call 974-5549 or 974-5916 for additional info.

NOTICES ENGLISH CLASSES at the Edmond Language Institute We teach English as a Second Language and are conveniently located on the UCO Campus at Thatcher Hall.

PHONE: 405-341-2125 *9 LEVELS Intensive Training *NEW SESSION every 4 wks *PRIVATE TUTORING available *PREPARATION for TOEFL ENGLISH LANGUAGE CTR (Adjacent to UCO) ESL for Internat'l Students * Prepare for University study * Prepare for the TOEFL * Succeed in a stress-free atmosphere 348-7602 info@elcok.com www.elcok.com

SERVICES DENTAL PLAN $11.95 per month single; $19.95 family. No deductibles, no claim forms. Includes Vision, RX and chiropractic plans. Affordable health and life plans also. Call Michelle at 340-4998.

RENTERS- Get $10,000 coverage for $17-$22 per month! Great auto rates for good students too. Call Michelle at 3404998 for free quote.

DO YOU THINK you might be pregnant and need a free confidential pregnancy test or someone to talk to? Call Birth Choice of Edmond at 330-2111.

TYPING, $1.25/page, all formats. Call Sarah at 359-1696, 4-7pm weekdays or anytime weekends.

TERM PAPERS, book reports, resumes, letters, $2 per double spaced page. Please allow 48 hours notice. Call Janet Helton at 405-413-0168.

LICENSED home daycare, 2 FT and 1 PT openings. Accepting kids age 1 and above. Very near UCO. Affordable rate.

Call Marcia at 715-1802. Reference available.

EMPLOYMENT $1500 WEEKLY potential mailing our circulars. No experience required. Free information packet. Call 203-683-0202.

FAST LANES is now hiring carwash attendants, lube techs, cashiers, sales reps.

We offer complete training, advancement opportunities, great pay. Apply at 2220 S Broadway in Edmond (across from Taco Cabana).

COFFEE CREEK Golf Course needs grill/beverage cart help. Flexible hours.

Full or part time, 340-4653.

CELLULAR CONNECTIONS, PT telemarketing, make your own hours.

Hourly + commissions. Call 348-8884.

FRATERNITIES * SORORITIES CLUBS * STUDENT GROUPS Earn $1000-$2000 with the easy Campusfundraiser.com three hour fundraising event. Does not involve credit card applications. Fundraising dates are filling quickly, so call today! Contact Campusfundraiser.com at (888)923-3238, or visit www.campusfundraiser.com WILLING TO EDUCATE highly motivated individual for rewarding career in financial services. Fax resume to 1-877895-6021 or call toll free 1-877-895-6021.

EDMOND FAMILY needs aide for boy with autism, evenings and weekends, extended summers hours. Special Ed or Speech Path major preferred. Excellent English required. Professional training provided. 359-1696 or 922-4032.

CONSTRUCTION WORK Immediate openings PT/FT, no experience required. Hard work, good pay. Framing experience a PLUS. Edmond area, call 824-8954.

GREAT after-school job Mon-Fri 2-7:30, Sat 8-5, no Sundays. Call Jim for info: 341-9594, 627-4268, 715-1942.

EVERGREEN Community Services has Home Mgr II position open in Norman area. Supervisory exp & minimum of 1 yr exp working with developmentally disabled adults required. Also hiring direct care staff for evening, night & weekend shifts. No exp necessary, will train. M/F's needed for Norman, NW OKC, SW OKC, Bethany, Choctaw. Apply Tues-Fri 9-3 at 7725 W Britton Rd, OKC, OK 73132.

405-720-1192.

THE ATHLETE'S FOOT in N OKC is accepting applications for PT employment. 15-20 hrs/wk evenings, Saturdays & mornings. No retail experience needed. Call 848-3232.

FIRST CHRISTIAN Church Child Care Ctr is needing full & part time teachers and van drivers. Morning and afternoon positions available. Will work with school schedule. Apply at 206 E 1st, Edmond. ***FITNESS*** OKC marketing firm is looking for 5 energetic and enthusiastic people for PT/FT and summer work. Call 843-5650.

SUNBEAM Family Services, a 3-star child development center has FT openings for teachers and assistants for infant/toddler groups. Excellent benefits.

Call Mary at 685-2404. EOE

NEED FT veterinary hospital attendant, if you love animals and people. Apply at 2826 W Britton Rd, OKC. Grooming a PLUS. MAINTENANCE help needed on acreage and at business, 20-40+ hours.

Call 427-1080.

PART TIME, flexible hours, for receptionist and dispensary. Apply at Central State Academy, 8494 NW Expressway, OKC. PART TIME front desk/ receptionist, all shifts available, including early morning, afternoons, evenings and weekends. Apply in person only. Edmond YMCA, 1220 S Rankin.

PINNACLE FITNESS has a PT position available for our early morning front desk from 4:30-8:30am M-F. Applicant should be enthusiastic, people-oriented, VERY dependable and have some college experience. Please apply in person between 2-5pm through April 30. No Calls please. Located at Memorial & Penn (between Toys R Us & Hobby Lobby.).

FT AND/OR PT receptionist needed.

Responsibilities are answering telephone with multi-lines, basic computer skills w/light typing, greeting clients, filing and other office duties. Must have pleasant personality and be able to interface well with clients in the office as well as on the telephone. This job works well for students as they are allowed to study during office hours if workload permits.

Salary is $6.25/hr. Please fax resume to: 340-5707 or mail to 237 N Broadway, Edmond, OK 73034.

EL CHICO of Edmond is now accepting applications for servers with open availability. Apply Sunday thru Thursday 2-4pm at 2601 S Broadway.

WORK at a great place. The Northside YMCA and Bethany YMCA need energetic and responsible staff for our membership services desk. Call Don at 789-0231.

PT SALES and other duties, 15-30 hrs/wk. Ideal for student, Mom or 2nd job.

Call Ms Roberts at 946-7853 for appt.

Apply any location, Gingiss Formalwear.

SANTA FE Cattle Co is now hiring for all positions. Apply anytime at 3830 S Broadway in Edmond, 844-0909.

HIRING ALL POSITIONS! No experience needed, training provided.

Bartender PT, servers open availability, bussers, asst mgr trainee, hosts.

Applications available everyday after 5:30pm. Shogun Steakhouse of Japan, Northpark Mall @ NW 122nd & N May, OKC. 749-0120, Lee or Yasushi.

HAVE A PASSION for FASHION? PT sales position now available for an energetic team player. Apply in person at KOKOPELLI 15th & Bryant Edmond

FOR RENT 1 & 2 BEDROOM APTS, Duplexes & Townhomes, Kennedy Place Apts, 1010 N Kennedy, Edmond (Across from UCO), 341-7911. Visit us on the web at: www.kennedvplace.com Welcome Students!

ONE BEDROOM apt, kitchen appliances furnished, gas & water paid. NO PETS! Located near UCO, 1217 N Roosevelt, $325/mo plus deposit, 341-9651. ,

STUDENT SPECIAL AVAILABLE Walk to Class One & two bedrooms Call Kristy at 348-0720

SUMMIT CONDOMINIUMS 11500 N May Avenue OKC, OK 73120 Distinctive Alpine style condos for lease: Current Special 1/2 Off 1st Month on Efficiencies Efficiencies $325/mo, 1 bed w/loft $475/mo, large 1 bed 1 ba $425/mo, small 1 bed 1 bath $395, 2 bed 2 ba $525/mo.

Most units feature built-in oven & m/w, refriigerator w/icemaker, dishwasher, stackable w/d, fireplace, patio/balcony. All units are total electric. To inquire about current availability contact us at 286-3300 or 326-7271.

PERSIMMON RIDGE duplexes, 2 bed, 2 bath, 1-car garage, w/d connections.

Includes all appliances in kitchen. 800 N Chowning, call 348-5112.

TRI-PLEX FOR RENT * 2 bed, 1 bath, new carpet and paint, $575/mo * 1 bed, 1 bath with study, $450/mo * 1 bed, 1 bath $425/mo Across from UCO Call 341-5878 or 361-4869

FOR SALE GETTING MARRIED? Need a dress?

Size 12, never worn/altered, simple dress with accented beadwork. Slip and hanging bag included. Call 755-7817 for more info.

MACINTOSH G3's, Apple Performa, Apple Printer, Epson Color Printer, Panasonic Fax, ScanMakerIII, Apple Scanner. For details call Rebeca at 8439696 or email: Repecca@Thinkingcap.com 3 BEDS: 1 king $50, 1 queen $40, 1 regular $30, all in excellent condition.

Also microwave $25 and brand new lawnmower $75. Call for more items, 3413015.

BRAND NEW wedding dress, size 12, never worn, couple changed minds. White, spaghetti straps, decorated, long train, beautiful. $450 OBO, 330-3037, ask for Cheryl.

1991 TOYOTA Camry, 5-speed, 4-door, $1500, 974-5702.

1994 SR-50 Honda scooter. Great gas mileage, $750, 359-9471.

1989 TOYOTA COROLLA, 5-speed, 4door, $1800, 405-216-9461.

BOOKS CASH FOR BOOKS ARCHIVES BOOKS 1914 E 2nd St, Edmond 348-6800

PERSONALS HELP! I have recently developed many enemies, and I'm looking for a food taster.

Benefits include commission and small fragments of anything I choose to eat.

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