Wagging tails and barking can be seen and heard from 7 to 8 p.m. March 11 in the Visual and Performing Arts Center during a screening of “Bassett Tales,” a film about how a dog training program was started at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center, a state maximum-security women’s prison. Dr. John Otto, a veterinarian at University Animal Hospital, produced the film.

“It’s a collection of stories — or tales — about how you start a dog program at a prison … ,” Otto said.

“The second half of the movie is a series of testimonials about how the program impacts different areas of our society and can help different areas of our society, including the offenders, the children of the offenders and that sort of thing.”

With just about anything there are pros and cons. Psychology Professor Jennifer Allen said the same applies to social media, but more specifically Facebook where, she said, the bad outweighs the good.

Allen said while research shows Facebook has been shown to help with communication, social connection, involvement within a community and charity, she said it is hindering the ability to carry on conversations in person.

“There’s two different types of communication: asynchronous communication, which, basically, there’s not an immediate feedback, and synchronous,” Allen said. “Synchronous is us having a conversation.

Students hoping to use their tax returns to pay for a spring break trip will likely pay top dollar this late in the game. Oklahoma City travel agents said almost all travel deals for spring break are booked solid.

“It’s a little late for spring break travel as far as getting any great deals,” said Toni Caldwell from Breakaway Travel Agency. “We can still do trips, but they’re not going to be a really great price.

“It’s just one of those things that you have to book early. Spring break is such a limited time and the whole state plus Texas has the same timing … therefore things just book really fast.”

Author LeAnne Howe’s baseball novel “Miko Kings” stands at the heart of a scholarly article published by OCCC English Professor Michael Snyder.

The essay entitled “Imagine Lennon as Choctaw Code Talker: Indigenized Beatles in LeAnne Howe’s Miko Kings” appeared in the Fall of 2014 in the Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.

Snyder said he has a passion for the Beatles.