MONDAY, OCTOBER 16.1995 INDEX Editorial 2 News Briefing 3 Stranger than Fiction 4 Sports 11 Classifieds 14 Crossword 1S TODAY Today is the first ilav of Homecoming Week festivities will lead up to the Oregon IV SI gome this w cekcnd INSIDE Women's vollcshiill team mm first Tat 10 match of the season Toiiay s Million Man Man h marks "day <>/ atonement arui reconciliation" 11 8 WEATHER Sh<<\\ tr\ \uth ht$h.\ m the ftO% Students organize Alton Baker restoration ■ CLEAN UP: Students work together to improve Willamette's waterways By Jennifer Carter Student Act^'t^s Htyxxttt* Alton Baker Park ts going native. Alxnit 100 students with ered Saturday to remove non native plants from the banks of the Willamette River and return the park to its natural state The restoration effort was sponsored by Streaimvalk. a pro ject that organizes students to work with the community to help improve waterways The project was organized by four University Americorps volun teers who will earn money for college through volunteer ser vice. Stream walk participants pulled ivy and non-native forms of blackberry bushes from stream beds, removed trasli and debris from the river and evalu ated the temperature and flow of the river Dave Mubin, executive assis tant president of the University, said he was pleased by the turnout at the event. Turn to CLEAN UP Page 6 Cat caper SMS*! I '■****I Liz Howell, a sophomore environmental studies major, holds a ladder for Jason Bell, a sophomore philosophy major, while rescuing a cal from a tree near Carson Complex The cat got down safely but the owner was nowhere to be found. City policies questioned after Rickies incident ■ CATHOLICS: A private >nve:.hgator f•*; charges against the city ol f uyene tor awarding pri/e money to Rickies By Regina Brown l.A . .e.e fit l inolions were mixed Roman Catholii t hurt li and amounted to Catholic hashing. 1 tin pop*', nuns and priests hold a i.iI place in our esteem, said Daniel Sullivan, a Catholic from Not! " lo ridicule him anti make fun of him is tanta mount to making fun of Martin 1.other King Jr Others believe the Kit kies apology, published in the Register' Cliinrd on Sept iiS, should have brought !um to CATHOLICS I1 nje M Student supports cancer-stricken mom ■ LIFE: An Emerald reporter shares her family s ordeal with breast cancer By Mara Stine HtQh& Education fteportw When I was 12-years-old. my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer after a routine mammogram In my simple way of looking at things. I knew that .is soon as her breast was surgically removed she would be fine What I didn't know was how scared 1 was to find im mom preparing her will at the age of 46. while waiting for surgery 1 also didn't realize how little sup port l gave her at a time when she was afraid site would die But 10 years later, as an adult, I offered her my support by walking by her side in the annu al Race for the Cure. Ijisi year the rate, which is one of 56 in the country, raised $4 million for breast cancer resea rch mother was one of 700 women to wear the pink visor reserved fot breast quicu iur* vivors a! this years race The remaining 17.300 women lo either walk, or run the threemile course wore pink signs in mem ory or celebration of loved ones who luittled the disease. On my sign, in the blank space under “In celebration of “I wrote. "MY MOM in hold, up ital letters Although my mom could have written "myself" on her sign she wrote the name of a friend fight ing (tie disease. Waiting to start walking while the runners took off. I read the sea of pink signs on the hacks in front of me Some had a list of names on them Others had pho tographs of aunts, sisters, moth ers and grandmothers pinned to them. One women held a blown up picture the size of a picket sign of her sister who died of breast cancer. Many of the signs had dates of birih and death under the names OfU* woman's sign said sim ply. "For all woman There were so many people waiting to start I couldn't sen where the river of runners and walkers began in front of me or ended behind me By the time we did get through the starting line, the runners who had started Imfore us had already reached the U-shaped curve of the course and were heading back. As the wave of women ( arried us along, I knew the runners were getting i loser bec ause the c fieers around us were growing louder. As a retired long-distance run ner. I moved ( loser to the medi an dividing the branches of the course to get a l»etter look at the runners last apprise fling the fin ish line The woman in the lead got closer and closer Everyone was screaming and yelling, encourag ing her as she kicked it in to the finish. That's when I noticed the tears welling up in mv eves. Since I Turn to LIFE, Page 6 Jerry’s kids Aft* acUnKXf rntt+nj Rally squad members perform new routines lor Duck basketball Ians at "Late Night With Jerry Green" Saturday at McArthur Court The basketball team performed a show at midnight that marked their first official practice.