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He was scheduled to
visit in January, but
canceled because of a
snowstorm.
Execution record could be
set by state in 2000
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Student Action Network member
Brad Janzen participated in the
World Bank and IMF protests in
Washington.
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Desmond Tutu
speech
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Tuesday
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Lindsay Lillies, 6,
of Noonan, finds
an egg hidden in a
tree during an
Easier Egg hunt at
Reaves Park on
Saturday.
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Today:
Partly Cloudy
Hi 73, Lo 53
Tuesday:
Partly Cloudy
Hi 75, Lo 56
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OKLAHOMA CITY — The pace
of executions in the state of
Oklahoma is picking up, according
to Oklahoma Attorney General
Drew Edmondson
Reforms enacted in a 1995 state
law and a 1996 federal law have
speeded the appeals process.
Oklahoma executed six
Oklahoma inmates in 1999, which
was the most of any year since the
U.S Supreme Court reinstated the
death penalty in 1976
So far this year, Oklahoma has
executed four inmates
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DUBLIN, Ohio — After authorities
arrested a man suspected of stealing
a $17,000 tennis bracelet they asked
him to cough it up He did — literally
Police said Rudolf Nyari, 64, of
Hurst, Texas, had concealed the 9
1 /2 carat piece of jewelry by swal-
lowing it.
Nyari, traveling through Ohio on
Tuesday, was slopped by police
when employees at Leo Alfred
Jewelers noticed the bracelet missing
soon after he had left the store
After a search of his car turned
up nothing, police theorized that he
had swallowed it and obtained a
search warrant allowing them to
X-ray him at an outpatient clinic.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — The long
wait for a car tag reform bill is caus-
ing second thoughts among
motorists wanting to buy a new
vehicle or facing a deadline on tag
purchases
There are even signs that motor
vehicle sales are being crimped as
customers opt to hold off on pur-
chases in hopes of saving money
later in the year, dealers say
Oklahoma car tags are among
the most expensive in the nation and
legislation to change the system has
been a hot topic for two years
OU's Rick Park is congratulated by teammates Sean Murphy and Jason
Bartlett after his solo home run in the fourth inning against Oklahoma
State on Saturday at Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City. OU swept
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the heavily mess."
neighborhood, Miami fell quiet for
Easter celebration but was ■
under tight police control after
than 350 arrests Saturday.
“We will celebrate in tears," said
Sergio Perez, a Miami neighbor ot the
relatives who kept Elian for five gave them permission
tives. “We probably should have taken months until federal agents brandish-
a decisive action sooner.
WASHINGTON — Elian
Gonzalez spent a secluded Easter with
his father, insulated from the clatter in
two nation's capitals and a shaken
Miami over the armed raid used to
take him away.
“Finally,” said his father’s lawyer, decide
“some silence around them.
But criticism mounted over
Suspect coughs up tennis
bracelet at officer's request
A top Justice official said the only
regret was that authorities waited as
long as they did.
“We were forced into the action we
took by the intransigence of that fam-
ily,” Eric Holder, deputy attorney
general, said of the boy’s Miami rela-
When the students attend OU for a
tour, they usually stay in the residence-
halls with OU students and eat in
any of the students' questions and talk Couch Cafeteria,
to them about their fears of OU.
“I want the students I am going to
can make it and show
them someone who did, Roop said.
“1 want to target and recruit the best
most popular students. Going to all
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allowing them to meet more rural stu-
dents, Roop said. Roop said he expects
the rural student enrollment to increase
as a result of Sooner Scouts.
A major benefit of the program is
that it helps students from small schools goes
feel more comfortable with OU and
envision themselves at OU, Cook said.
“By someone they are familiar with
talking to them, then OU becomes real
and the possibilities and opportunities
become real, Cook said.
Drama students
will perform a
collection of plays
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Car tag bill causes drivers
to delay vehicle purchases
Pope calls for end
to racism, xenophobia
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High school seniors are narrowing
their college choices down. For many
high school students, their decision was
made easier by the help of OU students.
Sooner Scouts is a new recruitment
program that uses OU students as
recruiters, said Andy Roop, assistant
director of Prospective Student Services. Roop said. The Sooner Scouts
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ly freshmen and sophomores, visit high to them about their fears of OU. Roop said 70 percent of the people
schoolsand stay connected with thestu- “I want the students 1 am going to who visit campus usually attend (YU.
dents by writing postcards and calling visit to know they can make it and show The number of applications has
them. Fhe scouts usually target their them someone who did, Roop said. increased this year, Cook said. He said it
hometown school or schools in the area. “1 want to target and recruit the best is difficult to say if the scouts are the
Rennie Cook, assistant director of and most popular students. Going to all main cause of these improvements
of these schools allows us to showcase because of the changes in admissions
the Sooner Scouts program because he the university.” requirements.
said students are OU’s best tepresenta- The scouts eive the students a differ- This year OU increased its ACT
tives.
Commission by
President South African Nelson
Mandela.
Catherine Bishop, vice president
for Public Affairs, said Tutu, the 1984
Nobel Peace Prize recipient,will speak
about his experiences in trying to
unite South Africa.
Bishop said he will also speak
hbishop about moral courage in a person's life.
“He is a recognized figure of the
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VATICAN CITY — Capping a
grueling Holy Week schedule, a
weary
sounding
Pope John
Paul II
offered
Easter wishes
for peace in
61 lan-
guages and
called on the
world
Sunday to end racism and xenopho-
bia.
So many Holy Year pilgrims,
tourists and Romans turned out for
the pope's late-morning Mass in St
Peter's Square that by fhe time he
delivered his Easter message at
noon, the crowd, numbering close to
150,000, was spilling over into the
boulevard leading to the Vatican.
OU students help with recruitment
Sooner Scouts visit
high schools and talk
with incoming
freshmen.
Republicans critical of
ASSOCIATED Press government’s tactics, with congres-
sional Republicans calling the actions
akin to those of the communist
regime that the Cuban boy had fled
with his mother.
“This is a frightening event, that
American citizens now can expect that
the executive branch on their own can
on whether to raid a home,”
said -House Republican whip Tom
the DeLay of Texas.
said Nikki Sauer,
traveled to more high schools this year, psychology sopho-
more and Sooner
scout.
“For them, it
helped to see
someone who
to college
and made it at a
big school, Sauer
said. “It made it
more personal."
OU has already seen the effects of
the new program, Roop said. 1 he num-
The students share stories of their bet of campus tours increased this year.
experiences to give the high school stu-
dents the confidence to attend OU,
answer
comes back
Paul Dryden/The Daily
the Cowboys this weekend by scores of 5-3, 3-1 and 7-5. The Sooners
improved to 31-15 on the season, 14-7 in Big 12 Conference play. For
more coverage of Bedlam baseball, see Page 11.
r secured air base where the 6-year-old
still a city boy is staying, DeLay said he was
more “sickened" by the use of force and
said hearings were certain on Capitol
Hill.
“There was no court order that
t to raid the pri-
vate home of American citizens,"
ing guns burst through their door DeLay said, appearing on NBC s Meet
After a day ofraw anger, street fires before dawn Saturday and seized him. the Press. "This has been a bungled
and violence in the Little Havana In Washington, near the heavily mess."
Tutu, take two:
Archbishop to visit
Tutu will receive an honorary Reconciliation
degree in a convocation ceremony at
3 p.m. at Lloyd Noble Center.
He has received honorary degrees
from colleges and universities includ-
ing Harvard, Oxford and Columbia.
Tutu worked to bridge the gap
between black and white Anglicans in
South Africa as bishop of
Johannesburg, and later as arcl
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is finally of Cape Town.
coming to OU on Tuesday. His January In 1995, Tutu was
visit was canceled because of snow. the head of the
A representative from the Student Action Network
recently returned to OU after protesting at the meeting of
the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
Brad Janzen, history senior, went to the protest to stop
the controversial meetings. While the meetings went on as
scheduled, he said he felt his time there was not wasted.
“1 think it was a great success,” Janzen said. “We kept
four delegates from getting in (to the meetings).”
He was able to be involved in the protest because he
had friends who took part in a previous protest in Seattle.
Janzen helped plan the early stages of the protest, and
arrived at the protest site at 4:30 a.m. April 16.
“It started coming together bit by bit as we got down
there,” Janzen said.
He said protesters in his area were very successful.
“We had a strong barricade." Janzen said. “No one got
through."
Janzen said he didn't personally experience any violence
from police.
“The}- agreed not to attack our barricades if we didn’t
attack theirs," Janzen said. “1 personally didnt have any
problems."
He said he did witness some police violence.
“1 saw police shoving guys around with batons," Janzen
said. “1 saw some police Sunday evening pushing into
some crowds with force.
He said the majority of the chaos started after he left the
protest that evening.
“There was an incredible crackdown on civil liberties,"
Janzen said.
He said it was disappointing that police were protecting
the World Bank and IMF from the anger of the people.
“I was very angry because 1 feel that was a blatant
violation of our freedom to speak, " Janzen said.
He was also disappointed that so much of the city was
blocked off from protesters.
“1 was not able to get to one demonstration because the
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