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Oregon Daily WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1993 EUGENE, OREGON VOLUME 94. ISSUE 125 f*olo by Ja** Btr'9 f/re victims and their triends talk to officials Monday outside of a fire-gutted house that was rented by three University seniors Fire burns house late Monday night j Smokers’ carelessness may have started blaze By Jake Berg Oregon Etner&kJ Three University seniors were sitting at Taylor's College Side Inn listening to tnusii Nlonda\ night when someone ran in and told them that their house was on fire "I was like, 'Nice joke."’ said Kristian Hansen, a 22-year-old senior It wasn’t Hansen and senior room mates fcgen Mo«, 21. and Mil hue I Hoopaugh. 22. quit k |y ran to their home to find the street lined with fire depart Turn to FIRE. Page 5 Prnxooy Ja»« 8*9 This couch was ona ot many Items destroyed In the tire. Education network set to transmit j Statewide broadcast system will make long distance education possible By Scott Andre I-rum a simill television sluciio in the northwest corner of knight Uihrary, .1 professor simultaneously lei.lures students in Ontario. Mend. Coos Hay. Kosehurg and Medford Near the end of 1 lass, the students 1 all in quest ions to the professor, who in turn provides answers and clarifies nnv points of 1 onfusion. A scene from the far-off future of higher edu< utiou in Oregon? Not quite educators 1 .ill it "distant e od\n ation and lilt' technology required to make it a reality is already in pint e in the form of |;|) N’t. 1 Oregon's slateyvide telei innmunu alums sy stem Here at the University , administrators and ediu alors are considering using I I) Nf-ri to teach students in distant 1 orners of the state, hut ohstai les remain A statewide network l-.slahlished hv the Oregon Legislature in 1<ihiI and funded by lottery money LI) NFT consists of two television broadcast networks and an on line computer information network. Every community college, four year college and university in Oregon tan receive and transmit on the system. 'It provides ns with the opportunity to open up act ess to people who normally wouldn't have educational resources in their community, said Jon Knot. I I) NIT coordinator tor the Oregon Stale System of Higher education HI) NKT's two television networks are the key to providing mi reused access to higher odu< atom Network I is a satellite-transmitted, broadcast quality Turn to NETWORK. Pago 3 UFO believers not alone as group discusses experiences j Organizer says meetings provide educational service to those interested By Jake Berg Francesco Fagliaro paused fora moment in the middle of his opening presentation and. leaning over the podi um where his crossed arms rested, he looked into the 40 pairs of eves before him "How many of you have seen a 1 K() or know someone who has seen a UFO?" he asked the group assembled in a comer room of the Eugene Puhlic Library on a Satur day in January. The onlookers fro/e for a moment, and then, cautious ly. a dozen raised their hands halfway. After glancing around to the rows of [Miopia behind them, the hand-rais ers let their arms extend all of the way I'agliaro smiled, and the dozen let their raised hands return to their laps or notepads The people came here to listen to I'agliaro, the orga nizer of tins unidentified flying objod contat t group, and to hear theories and stories from the other two speak era. i'agliaro, who owns n Kugene bag-making < oinpany. brings people together every six to uighl weeks |o talk about I U-'Os. with one of thu goals Iming to < omfort those who hove hud possiblti UFC) exponent os I !•• said people urtr more at ease being surrounded In those who may behove, rather than question. Ul'O tales "Nobody's going to come out in publii and say. 'Yeah. Turn to UFO. Page 4 WEATHER Increasing clouds overnight should produce light rain throughout the southern valley today. Highs near hO JUST A REMINDER Today is the last day to pay tuition without a SSO late fee. Payments are collected in the EMU Ballroom KEEPS COMING, AND COMING, AND ... ULYSSES. Neb (AP) - The coi» gave birth to three calve*, and vetennan an Frank FJutein thought she was done. But they kept (arming and coming. After helping deliver quintuplets;. Ekstein looked up the animal science record books. The odd* of call quints, he found, range 'anywhere from a high of one in 15 million births to a real low incidence of one in 60 million births ' Ekstein has delivered two sets of triplets in 18 years of practice This time, he said. T thought she was probably done after three But I went hai k to re-examine and I kept finding more.' There were four males and a female One calf died at birth. SHUHIP Stephanie Warren, a two-year starter for the Oregon volleyball team, has been dismissed from school for academic reasons, the school announced Monday A native of Gresham. Warren paced the team in kills with a 156 average last fall and was s»* ond in digs Two years ago as a freshman, she was named to the all Pacific-10 Conference freshman squad and pit ked up Oregon s Newcomer of the Year Award Warren, who would tie a |unior next fall, plans to reapply for admission to the school in the future