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OUr Earth sponsored last semes-
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AIDS walk to raise money, awareness
escort the woman around cam-
pus.
telephone number, Seabourn
said.
Seabourn said all Safewalk
volunteers will carry identifica-
What Fifth Annual
OU AIDS Walk
Where: South
Oval, near the
Bizzell statue
When:
Registration at
11:30 a.m.
Walk at noon
This will be
the fifth annu-
al AIDS walk
at OU. About
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are
ciplinary action from OU.
Seaboum said the imperson-
ation was the first of its kind in
the Safewalk program.
How to recognize Safewalk
volunteers:
They will always:
Wear OU Housing shirts
Display safewalk badges
Cany cellular phones and flashlights
COURTNEY HENSON — The Oklahoma Daily
OU searches for three
Safewalk imposters
The three men told a
female student they
were escorts for the
Safewalk program.
Edward SpwncT
NEWS@DAILY.OU.EDU
OU officials are looking for
three men who impersonated
Safewalk employees. The inci-
dent happened late last month.
The OU Department of Public
The group of bicyclists they
joined was Critical Mass, a move-
ment of community bike rides
designed to promote the benefits
of bicycling. OUr Earth, a student
environmental organization, is
; a ride at 5:30 p.m.
last semester for Friday on Van Vleet Oval.
The group will meet on the
oval near Dale Hall and ride to
the Duck Pond parking lot on
” Brooks Street. Nguyen said the
ride should last about 45 minutes,
and refreshments will be avail-
know what we were doing, but he able at the end.
saw the people with bicycles gath- '-------------
tion, and signs posted in the res-
idence halls urge students to
make sure they are dealing with
Safewalk officials before accept-
Safety and University Housing ing their help.
and Food Services are looking
into a report that three men pre-
sented themselves as Safewalk
officers to a female student,
according to Josh Seabourn,
Safewalk resident director.
The woman was not iryured,
According to the Centers for
Disease Control, 17 percent of
AIDS victims reported through
Dec. 31, 1998, were between the
ages of 20 and
29.
The AIDS walk
is part of a
semester-long
series of events
leading to AIDS
Awareness Day
on Dec. 1. Other
events will
include AIDS awareness speaker
Seventeen percent
of AIDS victims are
between the ages
of 20 and 29.
Brian Hollowy___
NEWS@DA1LY.OU.EDU
The director of a two-mile
walk today for AIDS awareness
hopes to raise enough money to
fund a scholarship.
The scholarship could go to a
student active in AIDS aware-
ness, said Deborah Oranford,
director of the OU AIDS Walk.
Registration begins at
11:30 a.m. near the Bizzell statue
on the South Oval. The walk
begins at noon.
Participants in the walk may
either collect donations before the
Traviss Thomas, letters senior,
ering. We were riding around and participated in the three rides
met some high school students.
They asked what we were doing
and we just had them join in.”
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Critical Mass bicyclists
ride Friday on South Oval
The group is
sponsoring a ride
at 5:30 p.m. Friday.
Ann Hwter
ANN@DA1LY.OU.EDU
When bicyclists took to the roads sponsoring
of Norman 1— --------
Critical Mass, people joined as
they went along.
“One guy saw us in a group
and he just decided to join us,r
said Anthony Nguyen, meteorolo-
gy sophomore. “He didn’t really
about $1,200
was raised last
year, Cranford
said.
Sarah Howell, history senior,
‘ I awareness programs
are important for people in their
early 20s.
“I think it’s a good idea,”
Cross, Community Action, Sooner Howell said. “It’s important, espe-
Site, Norman Public Library, cially at a university.”
walk or simply walk to raise
awareness of AIDS i------
Cranford said.
' > Carter Hospice and Hospice of
issues, Central Oklahoma will be repre-
sented at the walk, Cranford
Eight booths sponsored by said.
CampusEvent
of the
groups need
volunteers,
Cranford
said.
“This is a good opportunity for said AIDS
students who want or need to do
volunteer work,” Cranford said.
Planned Parenthood, the Red
“1 think it’s (the
OU AIDS Walk)
walk. Many ticipated, and a good idea. ”
Sarah Howell
history senior
Hospice and
AIDS
awareness
groups will
be at the 250 people par-
Playing around
Canyen Ashworth entertains himself while his father, Kirk, returns
English papers while outside on the South Oval on Tuesday.
around campus during the
evening.
Safewalk can be reached at
325-WALK.
“We’re trying to do a little bit
more to keep campus safer,”
Seabourn said.
He said Safewalk does not
offer to escort students.
Safewalk officials will only help
students who call the booth or
Seaboum said, but if the men make their request in person at
identified they could face dis- the Safewalk booth, Seaboum
said.
An acquaintance of the
woman notified Safe walk of the
incident, Seabourn said.
Safewalk officials “think they Safewalk officials then filed a
were just trying to meet girls,” police report. The OUDPS is
Seaboum said. investigating.
The men were loitering out- Seabourn said the Safewalk
side the Safewalk booth in the program has escorted 114 people
Couch Center lobby on a Friday since school began.
night about three weeks ago,
, The program is staffed by four
Seaboum said. The booth was paid student assistants who dis-
closed at the time. patch the program’s 28 volun-
The men claimed they were teers when they receive
Safe walk officials and offered to requests.
Only people who pass back-
ground checks are considered for
She said the men were behav- positions.
Lisa Tiger, an AIDS quilt display ing suspiciously, and they even- The Safewalk program offers
and a tree of remembrance, tually asked the woman for her anyone calling its office an escort
Cranford said.
A portion of the money raised
at today’s walk will be used for
the other events.
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Chi, chairman of the Mainland tions.”
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OU students
with ties
to Taiwan
raise funds
Sarah Cavanah____
NEWS@DAILY.OU.EDU
When May Yuan, OU assistant
professor of geography, finally
managed to reach her sister Yuan
Yuan in Taipei, Taiwan, she gave
her sister quite a shock.
“She was getting ready to go to
work and preparing her daughter
for school,” May Yuan said. “She
was a little shocked when I told
her she didn’t have to go.”
May Yuan said she learned by
checking the Internet that all
schools and non-emergency work
had been called off for the day.
But without electricity, Yuan
Yuan knew much less about the
situation in her country than her
sister across the globe did.
“They have very little informa-
tion on the magnitude of the
event,” May Yuan said.
May Yuan’s family members
province.
Chinese President Jiang Zemin
said the disaster “hurt the hearts
after a 7.4 magnitude one killed of people on the mainland as the
Almost 3,000 people 3,276 people in 1935.
are missing.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Rescuers in
Taiwan scrambled through the
RECOVERING — Residents injured in Taiwan's strongest earthquake receive treatment at
Chinese people on both sides of the re^sopp^ ^"“X^h
China. “I hope we can work on this
“This would be a good begin- basis and make efforts together to
according to the Interior Ministry’s their way to provide assistance,
disaster management center.
About 4 million households were
still without power.
Taiwan is hit by dozens of
quakes each year, but most are
centered in the Pacific Ocean
east of the island and cause no
damage. Tuesday’s quake was
the island’s second deadliest —
central Taiwan early The bureau said the quake’s epi-
center weis in Nantou County, 120
miles south of the capital of Taipei,
where most of the deaths occurred.
Morgues filled with bodies and
officials appealed for donations of
, quilts and food.
Rescue crews from the United
States, Singapore, Japan,
Switzerland and Russia were on
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was a U.N. disaster assessment
team.
Taiwan’s political nemesis, the
communist regime in Beijing,
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the island it considers a renegade Tsiiwan Strait are as closely linked
sis flesh and blood.”
China’s Red Cross said it
The Taipei government
expressed cautious thanks.
still inside.
Taiwan’s Central Weather
Bureau listed the quake at 7.3
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high-rise apartment complexes U.S. Geological Survey’s estimate,
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Tuesday. Roads buckled in waves,
chunks of land rose to create new
hills, cracked buildings tilted at
crazy angles and a bridge was left
dangling in the air.
By Wednesday, 1,712 people bulldozers, cars,
were dead, more than 4,000 were
injured and almost 3,000 were
believed trapped in the rubble,
would provide $100,000 in disas- ning to improving ties,” said Su build up stable and peaceful rela-
ter aid and $60,000 worth of Chi, chairman of the Mainland tions.”
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“We’re pulling the dead out one
by one, but it’s hard to get an over-
all picture of the number of fatali-
ties,” said Chen Wen-hsien, a res-
cue official in the central city of
dark early today, working to Fengyuan, 30 miles from the epi-
unearth thousands of people center. He had to plug his nose
trapped under the debris of an with tissue after part of a building
earthquake that killed more than began shifting from an aftershock,
1,700 people. Hundreds more were releasing the stench of a corpse
reported missing.
More than 100,000 Taiwanese
were homeless after the 7.6-mag-
nitude quake toppled houses and magnitude,
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Death toll soars in Taiwan earthquake
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