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Brawls and boozers keep Duck fans away
Rich Brooks and tho Oregon foothill
team were "hangin' In November"
Saturday Ixifori! they played UCLA,
hoping for a potential howl berth But
where were all the student fans "hangin' "?
Hod the weather !>een truly awful, had
the game meant nothing, hud the opponent
From the
Sidelines
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why the student section was only hall lull
Ilul none of those reasons seem In excuse
Saturday's fan apathy. The weather was
chilly, but it was nothing out of the ordi
nary for a November afternoon in l-.ugenr
The opponent. UCI.A. was a brand name
Irani, and the game's outcome would deter
mine the Due ks' postseason future
The fact that only 4.100 of 6.00S student
tickets w'ere even picked up epitomizes the
fan apathy existing on campus This indif
ference has forced athletic department offi
cials to examine what can lie done to im
prove student support,
"We re concerned as to what mav happen
if students continue not to show up." said
Sandy Walton, the senior associate athletic
dins tor In charge of financ ial management
"Two years ago, students would line up at
Gate b two hours early just to get the best
students seats, now. the interest among stu
dents seems to be pretty dismal
Walton said she is so concerned that she
exports to spnak with ASUO President Bob
by Leo on the subject
Hunt Holsapple, ticket manager for the
athletic department, said ho Is perplexed by
the lack of student fan attendance
'It seems like the students haven't really
grasped on to this team, may!*: tx>eauso of
the bad start.'' Holsapple said "But this
loam is. on the whole, bettor than some of
the past bowl teams "
Several students suid a "just-in case" atti
tude prevails on campus
"I wasn't sure if I was going to lx- able to
go to the game, so I picked up a ti<ket just
in case 1 did a lot of studying instead and
never went to the game," senior Karen
Wiedmunn said "But I don I know why
more students don't go to the games "
"Some students pit k up three and four
tickets in case their friends forget to gel
tickets,'' senior bison |ones suid "Then the
weather gels had or someone gets si. k and
the\ end up rro! going
Several students suid many people do not
attend games due to alcohol abuse and vio
lente in the student srx lions
"It's disgusting." senior (.all Caballes
said I went to o game and was vomited
on. so I'm not going ha< k to the student sec
tion l‘d go though, if I were sitting in a re
served scat”
"I was in the student section two games
ago," senior Molly Brewer said, and there
was alcohol and pot all around me The
people were rowdy and fights broke out I'll
still go lo games because I'm friends with
one of the players, but it's easy to six; how
many people don't go because of the vio
Icnce.”
Allhough there is u no-alcohol policy that
allows security to check all containers
brought into Autzen Stadium, boda hugs are
easily concealed Once students are in the
stadium, little Is done to curtail their alco
hol consumption
It would seem unrealistic to pluco a Iwn
on boda Iwgs in the stadium, us it would re
quin* funs be frisked to enforce this rule.
Neither the students nor security would be
eager to implement a ban that would re
quire the frisking of every person who en
ters Autzen Stadium
But il may be time for students and the
athletic department to voluntarily establish
an alcohol-free student section On the sur
face, it sounds stupid - an alcohol-free zono
in a non-alcohol stadium. But more stu
dents might go to the games if they could !*•
assured of watching the game In peace .uth
er thun deal with violent and drunken be
havior going on around them.
Or mavbe the athletic department should
just establish an "alcohol zone " II security
isn't going to enforce the alcohol consump
tion rules, maybe there should i>e a section
of Autzen specifically set aside for drinking
1 propose to set aside Section 5 for next
year's home games for all of the students
who wish to drink If they complain they're
getting the crappy seats, I'd argue they'd be
too drunk to see the game anyway.
And even if my experiment is a flop and
no student chooses to sit in Section 5, it
wouldn't really he that big of a deal. No one
sit* there anyway.
Erick Studonicka Is a sftorts reporter (or
the Emerald.
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Men open
basketball
season
The Oregon njpn's basket
ball team opens Its season
with an exhibition game to
night against the Canberra
Cannons at 7:05 p.m. In
McArthur Court.
The game will not count
toward season standings and
should l)e a good tune-up for
new head coach Jerry Green's
team Tonight's game will be
the first game at McArthur
Court for Green, who took
over Don Monson's position
last spring.
Oregon's lineup has not
changed much from last
year's 6-21 team.
The brightest spot for the
Ducks is the return of senior
Antoine Stoudamire, who
has boon picked by many
publications as a possible
All-Pacific-10 Conference
player Stoudamire averaged
20 points for the Ducks last
year.
Also of note is the return of
center Bob Fife. Fife redshirt
od last year after a preseason
head injury.
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