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Please see LOBBY, page 2
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Report ranked OU out of the 179 think our law school could do better according to the survey.
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Immigration
officials drop their
case against Marina
Yereshenko.
Stephen Jones,
defense attorney for
Timothy McVeigh,
said the newspaper
broke into his files.
Colleges
to lobby
at state
Capitol
Speakers for Higher
Education Day will
start at 9:30 a.m. at
the Capitol.
O 1997 Publications Board. University of
Oklahoma All nghts reserved
By Justin Martino
The Oklahoma Daily
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Howeird
Howard Stern discusses
his upcoming movie,
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because her suspension from OU vio-
lated of her visa requirements.
David Hyde, sociology graduate
tranquility and safety of the university
• Yereshenko said she did make the
comment, but meant it only as a )oke.
• Yereshenko was arrested at her
Norman apartment on Jan. 6 because
her suspension violated her visa require-
ments The requirements state that she
must be in good standing with a univer-
sity to remain in the country.
• She was eventually released after a
10-day stay in an Oklahoma City jail cell.
student, said he was pleased that INS
officials choose to do the right thing.
unfair that OU didn’t really help her
out at all.”
Hyde, who organized a rally in
OU’s law school ranks highest
among the three law schools in Okla-
Shauna Izadi
The Oklahoma Daily
Tuesday, March 4,1997
The University of Oklahoma
Norman, Okla. —Vol. 81, No. 121
Single Copy Free;
Additional Copies 25 cents
By Alex Branch
The Oklahoma Daily
Marina Yereshenko will not be
deported from the United States.
Immigration and Naturalization
Service officials dropped their depor-
tation case against the former OU
Swing time
Christine Hrubik, music education freshman, swings in the sunshine Monday Today's forecast calls for a high of 59
degrees.
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Warm
Skies will be
partly cloudy
today.
Ranking scores for schools
of law and education
Law
Top five
1. Yale University
2. Harvard University
3. University of Chicago
4. Stanford University
5 Columbia University
Speed
OU tracksters
rewrite the record
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Education
Top five
1. Teachers College, Columbia Uni-
versity
2. Stanford University
3. University of California-Berkeley
4. Harvard University
5. University of Califomia-
Los Angeles
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OU community members, along
with representatives from colleges
across the state, will gather today
to celebrate Higher Education Day
at the Capitol.
Four hundred participants are
expected to attend the event. The
theme is “Oklahoma’s Students are
Oklahoma’s Future.”
“We need to thank the Legisla-
ture for the record amount of
money higher education received
last year, and remind them that
higher education still has financial
needs that need to be addressed,”
said Kathryn Jones, executive
director of the Higher Education
Alumni Council. HEACO and the
Oklahoma Student Government
Association are the sponsors of
Higher Education Day this year.
The general session starts at
9:30 a.m. in the House Chamber.
State Rep. Laura Boyd, D-Norman,
will be the keynote speaker. Boyd
said Higher Education Day is an
important event.
“Higher Education Day is a time
where supporters for higher educa-
tion across the state can let their
presence be known to the Legisla-
ture,” Boyd said. “That is impor-
tant concerning decisions and
polices as well as appropriations."
Boyd said she plans to speak
about taking a stand for education.
“I’m going to be talking particu-
larly about the fact that, at this
time, we still need a voice in the
public arena for higher education,”
Boyd said. “There’s been more
timidity this year in terms of saying
higher education is important."
Boyd said she will deliver her
speech from a legislator’s viewpoint,
explaining how legislators think,
what position lawmakers take and
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international student at her hearing
on Monday, said Rod Watson,
Yereshenko’s attorney.
“Marina is obviously elated,” he
said. “(INS officials) called me last
week and told me she wouldn’t be
deported. But she was on pins and
needles right up until the time her
case was called.”
Yereshenko, 22, of Tajikistan, was
not available for comment. Yeresh-
enko, who is attending the University
of Central Oklahoma, was arrested at
her Norman apartment on Jan. 6
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Andy Coats, College of Law dean, the law school is to add more clinical
said the school’s ranking should be studies.
higher, but the ranking was subjec-
accredited law schools in the United than that."
said. “We have a very energetic States. Lockard said one way to improve
young faculty.”
The college was ranked based on
student selectivity, faculty resources,
research activity and two categories tive.
of reputation.
OU considers ban
on halogen lamps
Some schools have
banned halogen
lamps in residence
halls.
Moore.
Emily Maples, social studies edu-
cation junior, owns a halogen lamp
campuses are taking action. Some and enjoys the extra light in her
schools have banned the lamps in
residence halls and even offered to
buy them from students.
Although University Housing has-
Coats said the school lost a feder-
al grant last year causing down-sizing
in the clinics.
One student said the law school
was just going through some
The reputation of a school was changes.
based on two surveys. One of the ’ -----------------------
surveys asked judges, lawyers and tinue to grow and improve, said
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Background on Yaroshenko's case
• Marina Yereshenko, a former OU
international student, was suspended
from OU in December for remarks she
made to administrators about a sexual
harassment suit she had filed with the
university After her suit was dropped,
Yereshenko told an administrator she
could solve the problem with a gun
• She was expelled from OU in January
by a disciplinary board for representing
serious threat to the security, well-being,
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NATION UPDATE
Gore admits to
making calls
from office
The vice president said Monday
that he solicited donations from
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Magazine ranks OU’s law and education schools in top 100
►The OU College of
Education is ranked
49th.
magazine ranked OU among some of said. “I feel happy about belonging to hiring partners to rank schools by Tina Izadi, first-year law student,
the top schools in education and law.
The OU College of Education is
__________ ______ Ninety-one percent of OU law
Joan Karen Smith, College of Edu- nine other schools for the 72nd rank- to get higher than that." said James graduates obtained employment
cation dean, said strong research was ing for academic programs. The lockard, second-year law student. “I within nine months of graduation,
key in getting the high ranking. Report ranked OU out of the 179 think our law school could do better according to the survey.
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room.
She said she doesn’t plan to give it
up.
"I am aware of the dangers with
n’t had any lamp fires, it’s taking pre- the halogen lamp, but I haven't expe-
cautions to prevent them. Assistant rienced any severe problems associ-
Housing Director Clarke Stroud is ated with my it," Maples said.
looking into possibly banning halo- "The main problem I have with it
gen lamps in the residence halls. He is that when I leave my window open
has been taking the necessary steps at night, bugs are attracted to the
to warn students of the dangers. light, they come in and fry. It makes
“We are aware of the problem for a real smelly room."
Tin Oklahoma Daily
THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT VOICE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
fession from the Oklahoma City
bombing defendant.
Stephen Jones, while denying that
the statement was in fact a confes-
sion, said: “There is no justification
whatever for this criminal act."
Morning News lawyer Paul Watler
said the newspaper “met the highest
ethical standards."
“We did not break any laws." he
said. “We have no fear of criminal
DENVER — Timothy McVeigh’s repercussions."
lawyer demanded an investigation Jones said that the newspaper
Monday of The Dallas Morning broke into the defense’s computer
News, accusing the newspaper of files and obtained hundreds of docu-
stealing hundreds of files from his
computer, including a purported con-
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Pasana Chularut, instruction psy- other schools?" Coats said. “It’s pret-
OU is a good school for students chology and technical graduate, said ty hard to compare schools."
wanting to be teachers or lawyers, she came to OU after a teacher in
according to U.S. News and World Thailand told her about it
Report. The March 10 edition of the
with halogen lamps. In fact, housing
put a flyer out several weeks ago to
warn students of the potential dan-
gers of the lamp," Stroud said.
'We also warned students, regard-
less of what kind of lamp, to not put
any sort of covering over or near
lamps. We encourage the safe use of
all lamps."
Some necessary precautions to
They can cause a fire, destroy avoid a halogen lamp fire:
your home and even cause death. • unplug or turn it off before leav-
The culprit — halogen lamps. And ing the room, and
OU is looking into pulling the plug. • do not leave anything on or near
These lamps are popular with col- the lamp such as clothes, towels or
lege students because they light up blankets.
an entire room at an affordable cost Several students are aware of the
But halogen lights also can be dan- problems with the lamp but haven’t
gerous and deadly. experienced severe problems.
They’ve been declared unsafe by “I haven’t had any problems with
consumer safety groups because my lamp, but 1 am very cautious, and
they reach dangerously high temper- 1 don’t leave anything around that
atures — resulting in fire hazards, could possibly catch on fire near it"
according to the OU President’s said psychology junior Cynthia
Office Consumer Safety Commis-
sion.
OU and several other college
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the country,” he said. “I think it’s tation was unnecessary.
OU officials were available to tes-
tify on Yereshenko’s behalf Monday,
but were not called, said Kim Hefty.
January to support Yereshenko, said OU press secretary. OU administra-
he spoke recently spoke with her. tors want to see Yereshenko continue
“She’s just happy to get to stay in successfully her education at UCO,
the country," he said. “She’s finally Hefty said.
getting settled in (at UCO). But it’s OU expelled Yereshenko but did
not the same as OU to her. All her not put any record of the disciplinary
friends go here.” action taken against her on her edu-
Watson said INS officials told him cational records at OU. Yereshenko
they thought the decision reached by has been banned from the OU cam-
“I’m very happy she gets to stay in OU was fair and that pursuit of depor- pus since Feb. 1.
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Lawyer: News story
based on stolen files
this department.” graduates who came from those
Smith said the recognition is long schools.
ranked 49th out of the top 50 gradu- overdue. Some students said the ranking homa. Tulsa University ranks 109th
ate schools in the United States. This is the first time we made it was OK, but could be better. and Oklahoma City University ranks
There are 191 accredited graduate in the top 50,” she said. “That puts us at above average but 162nd in academic reputation,
education schools in the country. The OU College of Law tied with shows that we need to work harder
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