Oregon
DAILY EMERALD
Tuesday. October 30. I WO
h'ugenc. Oregon
Volume l>2. Issue 45
Briefly
Both candidates in the
race for Oregon House
District 41 strive for simi
lar goals in the area of
school finance and prop
erty taxes.
But when it comes to
abortion and how to re
form Oregon’s tax sys
tem, incumbent David
Dix and his challenger.
Marie Bell, offer voters a
choice.
See story. Page 3
The Oregon debate
team usually places
among the nation's top 10
teams, but now they’re
No. 1 in the country after
winning one of the Pacif
ic Northwest's largest
tournaments this week
end
See story. Page 6
Internationally re
nowned environmental
scientist Dr Norman My
ers will speak on campus
today about "The U.S.
Stake in the Global Envi
ronment," The lecture
will look at the character
and extent of American
economic anti security in
terests in environmental
fat tors around the world
See story. Page 5
The Saturday Market
is nearing the end of its
21st year, offering a spe
cial mix of food and craft
booths and entertain
ment
See story. Page 7
Sports
Oregon moved up
three notches in this
week’s Associated Press
Top 25 football poll as
the Ducks check in at No.
22.
Seeatory. Page 12
University student
Amy Hope is incensed
about fraternities that
send their members into
Autzen Stadium to save
an inordinate number of
seats before Oregon foot
ball games. Who can
blame her after what she
went through at the Oct.
20 Arizona State-Orogon
game?
See ’From the Side
lines.' Page 12
Lottery receives
needed support
By Robert Weber
Emerald Reporter
Oregon's Sports Action Lottery received a much
needed boost over the weekend when an amendment
prohibiting sports lotteries was dropped from the nm
niblis crime trill that was passed try Iroth the House
and Senate.
The amendment would have prohibited stale offi
cials from operating a lottery game based on point
spreads of National Football League. National Basket
ball Association and Major league Baseball games Or
egon is currently tbe only slate that runs such .1 lottery
game
U S Rep. Peter UeLazio said nothing pertaining to
Sports Action was inc lulled in the 1 rime bill passed in
Congress, and added that more Ilian 'HI percent of the
"horrible" bill was gutted
DeKa/.io was joined by State Kep David l)i\ in prais
ing the decision to drop the amendment, but was
quick to add that the lottery game still faced .111 uni er
tain future
The guiding fori r behind the amendment In ban I hi*
lottery game was U S Rep |ohn Hrvant of Texas, who
had the amendment attached to the hill on liehall of
NFL owners
"Bryant said that he would definitely he hack.” De
Fazio said at a press conference at the Kugene Hilton
Monday afternoon
DeFazio said that he and the other supporters of the
lottery game would use the next two years to build
support against another attempt to prohibit the game
l)ix. the chief sponsor ot the Oregon bill that created
Sports Action in stressed the importance of the
game to the state's i olleges and universities
"(Sports Action) is a good, fun way to produce rev
enue for something that needs revenue." I)ix said
lie called the NFL owners "greedy thieves" for
threatening to withhold Super Howl tii kels and possi
hie new franchises from congressmen that didn't sup
port the amendment
He said that it was made quite obvious to him by
NFL officials that Portland would never receive a NFL
franchise if Sports Action continued in Oregon
DeFazio expressed his outrage at the NFl.'s attempt
to curb the lottery game by attacking NFL Uommis
sinner Paul Tagliabue's reasons for opposing it
"Tagliabue says that it will corrupt the game vet
millions of dollars are bet on Ni l. games legally every
Sunday afternoon in Reno and Lis Vegas, DeFazio
said "I believe that the NFL wanted a i tit ot the ai lion
if it ever expanded beyond Oregon They have no pri\
ilege to stand upon
Fall studies
freshman Su/.nmw Archer enti ties up on her studies amid the fall
ing leaves of an autumn's day.
Photo hv Amiri- Kanieri
Survey backs shutdown of Trojan plant
Greenpeace study finds power plant not cost-effective, replaceable
By Don Peters
Emerald Associate Editor
A Greenpeace-sponsored sur
vey says state Ballot Measure 4.
which would close the Trojan
nuclear power plant, would not
have the predicted disastrous
power supply effects opponents
claim.
hen Stump, the Pacific
Northwest coordinator of ener
gy and atmosphere campaigns
for Greenpeace, said a program
making Oregon more energy-ef
ficient would more than make
up for the power loss from clos
ing Trojan.
"The opportunities for sav
ings are enormous," Stump
said "We need to start imple
menting renewable resource
policies."
The report, written by Ar
nold P Pickett, (.'lark \\
Ceilings and Amory B. l.ovins.
details how today's advanced
technology, if used properly,
could "meet the world's future
energy needs while minimizing
the environmental impact
Many of the renovations are
simple. Stump said Lighting
in the United States currently
accounts for roughly 25 percent
of all energy output By chang
ing 15 billion incandescent
bulbs to compact fluoresi ent
lamps. <>() percent less energy
would be used, the report says
By moving toward these cost
effective programs, Stump said
there would be no need for
building new power plants
"If we don't pursue this,
we're going to have to build
new plants." he said "Every
year a nuclear power plant op
erates. 5.500 pounds of tiip>li
level waste is produced. We
i an't afford that environmental
ly We have alternatives
Stump said replacing indus
trial electric motors with tech
nologically advanced ones
could save as much a 100.000
megawatts annually roughly
the output of too power plants
Since there are 114 nuclear
power plants in the nation.
Stump said the program could
eventually phase out nuclear
energy
"It will i ost money to hu\
these things, hut it i osts less to
save than to build new power
plants " he s.iid
Turn to TROJAN. Page 8
Ken Stump