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Oregon Daily WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6. 1993 EUGENE, OREGON VOLUME 94, ISSUE 75 Living in the lime(stone) light Pt*j*e tay *>* PMfcfty Alana Feldman, a senior line arts ma/or smoothes her limestone block before etching a drawing Feldman will use a grease pencil tor the drawing and etch it with mine and Posters target parents owing child support j Deadbeat parents owe $500 million dollars in support payments in Oregon By Daralyn Trappe Emerald Associate Editor _ "VV.iiiti'd posters may conjure up images ul Old West attempts to round up bank mbliers hut a new twist on this method ul locating i nminals will likely help many < hildren in Oregon I he t hild Support Program of the state's Adult and Kami I v Services has issued posters that have tnfonua lion idanit parents yyho have negler ted to pay i hild support AImiiiI MI.001) people in Oregon .ire identified hy AI S as ’ absent parents" who are behind ill payments |'he first posters hx us on 1-4 ol the worst offenders About 1 t 1 posters ol eui h of tile I t parents yyent out Ml late l)e» ember to i iMintV distru t attorneys otlii es. Sup port I nlort euient Division olfit es and various advoca i y groups I hese parents owe a total ol more than S-tOM.iltxi to their i hildren. said t lien Jaeger. AI S pole i y analyst These 14 are either people yye i an t Iih ate or people we have located and then they've disappeared, hu ger said. Hie posters are up hi many oltues already Many have photos, and all have physual descriptions, the last known or i upat ion and address, and a brief state ment uImiiiI the payment problem |anger said the National ( hild Support Kntoriemeu! Agein v began the poster program two years ago and has used it successfully ever since Several states now Turn to WANTED Page / ASUO officials will attend Inauguration j Invitation catches Bobby Lee, Karmen Fore by surprise By Tammy Batey Fme*aid Associate £d<io* When ASUO President Bob by Lee first received a crisp white invitation in ttie mail asking him to attend President elect Bill Clinton's inaugura tion. he had his doubts "I didn't believe it even though it said it was an offii ml invitation. ' Lee said 1 thought it was just a generic invitation But the invitation is indeed official and Ian* said both he and ASUO Vim President Far innn Fore, who was also invit ed. plan to attend. Lee said they won’t use inci dental fees to pay for the trip hut will use money from their parents They're also working with (.errv Moseley, vice--pro vost for academic support and student services, to determine flow much money the Universi ty can shell out so they can at tend the event At presstime on Tuesday. Moseley said he was willing to buy plane tickets that day for Lee anil Fore to ensure they can go to the 52nd Presidential In auguration. Turn to ASUO Page 3 Student commits suicide during break jAli Earl Ferguson allegedly shot himself in the head with a 12-gauge shotgun By Matt Bender lme<ald Reporter __ A University student committed suit ide by shooting himself in the head with a 12-gnuge shotgun in his Eugene apartment during Christmas break, according to police reports. Ali Karl Ferguson, from Anchorage. Alaska, was found dead in his quad apartment on the 1800 block of Harris Street by a next-door neighbor on the morning of Dec 27 Winn Cushman, who iived in the same quad as Ferguson, said he noticed Ferguson s door was open and that music was playing. Cush man said he got suspicious ami went into Fer guson's room and found his body. Polite don't know the exat t limn of death, lint FP1) Sgt Dennis (Inker stud the Ixidy tip pen rot I to lie fresh and that Ferguson probably died that morning or the previous evening No one in the area reported hearing any shots fired. Baker said Ferguson, 20. was an avid ImkIv builder and is listed in the University Student Dire* lory as a psyc hology major According to polite reports. Ferguson was last seen on Christmas Kve Baker said Ferguson left a personal note to his mother, hut the note did not give police any dues about why he committed suicide. Friends ant) neigh (tors of Ferguson told po lice that they did not know why he took his life. Baker said. According to polite reports, fellow residents in Ferguson’s apartment com plex described Ferguson os tpiiet and with drawn. WEATHER The sun might j*-ek out briefly today, but expet t mostly cloudy skies and i old weather through the end of the week. High 18. low 25 MAN'S BEST FRIEND ANDALUSIA. Ala (API A ! g tnav be mans best friend, but nol iwci-s sarilv an inmate s When Jason Davis was arrest''.! Ness Years Kve un drunken-driving charges he was a< i ompanied by his small mixed-breed dog. The hour was late w hen troopers brought Davis and Ins dog to the jail Covington County Sheriff Wilbur Milt hell said the (ailer didn't know what to do with the dog. so Davis was permitted to keep it in the cell Hut ome behind bars, the dog bit two inmates. Mitchell said He said they were |us! nicked while playing with the dog, but were treated at a hospital as a precaution SPORTS Kl. PASO. Texas (AP) - The John Hancock Howl s overnight rating w js h-ss than hop'd for by its sponsor but the game in which Havlor defeated Arizona i!0-15 ouldrew the Change Bowl The Ham (x k Bowl ended up w ith a 4.5 rating compared with the Orange Bowl s 4 1. )ai k Mahoney, lohn Hancock Financial Service* spirts marketing exe< utile had said before the game that he hoped its rating would equal last year s number of fi t) when Illinois and UCLA played. 'Considering we had two institutions from smaller mar kets. those numbers are good.' said co-director Tom Starr