THURSDAY, JUNE 27,1991
Tern'll Brandon
Cavs pick
Duck star
Former Oregon point guard Ter
rell Brandon was selected by the
Cleveland Cavaliers as tin' 11th
pick overall in the first round ol
the National Basketball Associa
tion draft on Wednesday.
Brandon, last year’s Pacific-10
Conference player ol the year who
left Oregon after his junior season,
was the fourth underclassmen se
looted in the draft.
He was the second point guard
taken, after the New Jersey Nets
chose Ceorgia Tech's Kenny An
derson with the second pick
Cleveland had the last lottery
pick m the draft All 11 teams that
do not make the playoffs are eligi
hie lor the lottery pick
The Cavaliers had problems at
the point guard position last year
after starter Murk I’rit e was in
jured early in the season After
Price's injury, Cleveland was
forced to sign former Portland
Trail Ble/er Darnell Valentine to
lil! tho void
Hr.mdon led the I'm -10 this past
season with a 2li fi-point per-gatne
average, a school record and the
third-highest average m confer
ence history.
Hrandon also set school records
in seven other categories, includ
ing most points in a season (74fi)
and most :t() plus-point games in a
season (nine).
Hrandon is only the fifth first
round draft to come from Oregon
situ e and the first suit e Hlair
Rasmussen was picked In Denver
in the first round in l‘»Hr>
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tbn. University students Andrea Langst/urf. MoJh
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Ramey concludes 29-year career
By Chris Bouneff
E mtirald Ni Editor
The Walton Uomplex officii t>! UniV'
sity Housing Director Marjory Ramey is
decorated much tin' same as tl inis boon
for tile last night years
On one* wall hang several pt< turns
from recent vacations, and on the oppo
site wall a huge calendar stroll hes frum
floor to ceiling An antique desk sits
against the third wall, and in the middle
is a large table show! a-.jin; small i oiled
ables
On Friday they will all he gone, sig
Haling tin- end of Ramey's term
Alter 2t) years at University Housing,
the past eight as dim tor, M> year old Ka
mev Is retiring She will he replaced by
Michael liyster. housing director at Indi
ana University of Pennsylvania
Hut age is not what pushed Kamo to
retirement Instead, she said the tim- has
come to move on from the job she origi
nally didn’t want
" The reason I'm retiring Is that I think
it's time tile department has someone
with a whole new set of prujudic i s " Ka
mey said
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UNIVERSITY
ROUSING
Kf'iito uy Jf
Rutirinx Housing Dm* tor Margo Raim) ‘ to umpu* in Vii.-i. when frrshmon urn- rr
quirt*! to Ini' in thr ilorim ant! .ill resiilmits worn subji* I to .1 < Ultro
Ramey became a< tin^ housing director
m I'm) after I)nn Willi.nils moved from
till! post to his present position ns Uni
versitv vice president She said she
didn't intend to apply for the open job
Ramey said she first realized she want
ed the position while being Interviewed
by a reporter about the changes Ramey
Turn to HOUSING. Pago 8
Briefly
LOUISVILLE. Kv (AIM
Zachary Taylor died of natu
ral causes, not arsenic |<oi
soning as a writer spec
ulated, a medical examiner
said Wednesday
"It's not borderline. He
was not poisoned," Ken
tin kv Medic a I Examiner Dr
Ceurgo Nichols said after re
viewing tests on the 12th
president's remains.
Nichols said trac es of ar
senic a naturally occurring
element wort; fount), ))u!
tovols tor |>oisontr»g "would
h,ivo boon at least 200 if not
rnuylx' thousands of limes
higher "
International
KUWAIT CITY (AIM On
the final day of martial law
in the emirate, Kuwait on
Wednesday c ommuted the
death sentenc es of 2't people
convicted of collaborating
with Iraq, changing them to
lift? in prison
The action was prompted
by appeals from world lead
ers. diplomats and humani
tarian agencies, said ku
wait's ambassador to the
United Nations. Mohammad
Ahtilhasun
Crown Prim e Saad Ah
dullali al-Sahah, the martial
law governor, issued the or
der ori the last day of his
military authority. M.irtial
law expired at midnight
Wednesday, four months af
ter it was imposed following
tin' liberation ol Kuwait by
allied fort es
Regional
SALKM.Ore (AI *) Kh/
abeth Diane Downs may not
be going bill k to a New Jer
sey prison now that court
hearings on her reipiest feu a
new murder trial are over, a
state; official said Wednes
dav
(Corrections Department
spokesman Koltev l-ldridge
said the Oregon child killer
would bo sent out of stall!
hut not ni ( essarilv but k to
New Jersey
Downs, |T>, has been si-rv
ing a term ol life plus SO
years in Now Jersey lor the
10H.'! shootings that left one
of her children dead and two
wounded
Downs was transferred to
New Jersey in 1tlH7 from the
medium set uritv Oregon
Women's Corns tional Cen
ter in Salem