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Oregon Daily THURSDAY, JUNE 4,1992 EUGENE, OREGON VOLUME 93, ISSUE 169 Sports accepts its new budget cuts _i Bill Byrne: No one should feel sorry for athletic program's 2 percent cut next year By Colleen Pohlig EroerakJ Depone' The Slate Board of Higher Education's decision to slim down state intercollegiate sports at Oregon's three main universities an; being met with compliance and a sense of opti mism. "No one should fool particu larly sorry lor us in relation to what is happening to the rest of the University." said Athletic Director Bill Byrne. "We have to take our share of the cuts just like evurvone else The athletic programs .it the University of Oregon. Oregon State University and Portland State University will undergo several changes beginning l<t«2-*):t, under the board's May 22 adoption of a debt it-si|ueiv ing program. The three schools will cut athletics 2 portent in l!i92-9:i, freeze spending the next three years and try to raise an extra S2 million per year from grants, the Oregon Lottery and ticket surcharges Athletics programs are pressed by rising costs for sports scholarships and dimin ishing revenues under the Turn to SPORTS, Page 5 Law clinic’s success may endanger funding □ Political enemies angered by work on envi ronmental law issues By John Higgins Emerald Contributor_________ Students and professors in the University luw school's environ mentul law clinic have won soverul cases dealing with pollution, land use and other environmental issues since the clinic opened shop 17 years ago However, every case has a loser as well For example, in 1984 the clinic succeeded in getting the Bureau of Lund Management and the U S. Forest Service to stop spraying aerial herbicides on their Oregon lands because the agencies sub mitted an illegal environmental Impact statement. Last March, the clinic battled Oregon pulp mills to limit the amount of certain chemicals the mills released into rivers The mills lost, and the Stute Environmental Quality Commission be came the first slate agency in the country to set such limits. Turn to LAW. Page 5 Ah, rats! I'nao By Ucnw Simn* Andy Jeffrey and pel rats Sha-Sha and Shami take an outdoor study break The rats keep Jeffrey, an architecture major, company during his long studio hours SMART DUCK Track athlete Bob Gray is one of more than 50 Duck athletes recognized for aca demic achievement. See SPORTS, Page 9 REMEMBRANCE Three years after the violent demonstra tions in Tiananmen Square, Chinese students talk about the undying spirit of democracy. Sn DEMOCRACY, Page 4 REAL WORLD What do new gradu ates want? A brand new car. What do they need? A job! SaaSUPP, Pag* 58 Cheap fares keep travel agencies busy □ Students wait in line for hours to buy inexpensive tickets since airline fare wars began last week By Lisa Miliegan Emerald Associate Editor ____ _ About six people chutled and read outside All Ways Travel in the EMU Concourse Tuesday. Although some said they had been waiting outside the office for an hour and a half, most were in good spirits A few days before, tho line was twice as long But they know that at the end of the wait, they'd bo ubiu to purchase airline tickets for half tlx: normal rale. Graduate student Alla Lohtonen said she was going to purchase a ticket for her sister, who will fat visiting from Finland. Although the cheap fares don't apply to overseas travel, Lohtonen wanted to purchase a cross country ticket. "Nobody from my family has over been hero except for me." she said. Lines at local travel agencies have been common since airline fare wars began last week. After American Airlinos slashed Its lowest fares by 50 percent last Thursday. Northwest, United and Delta Airlines quickly followed suit. Through June 5. passengers can buy tickets for travel in the txinimenu! United Stales at the cheaper rates. PhoU) br P*5i*» Students wait in tins outside of All Ways Travel on Tues day to taka advantage ol cheap airline lares Tho c ut fares are only available for travel completed through Sept. 13. Tho lowest faros, which ore nonrofundablo, require u seven-day advance and a Saturday night stayover Now. the lowest advance purchase round-trip fare be tween Los Angeles and Now York is S200. compared Turn to TRAVEL. Page 4