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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8,1997 INDEX Opinion Politics News Sports Classifieds Comics 11 CM Ifl CO O O TODAY Elvis Presley was bom on this day in 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi. Celebrations will take place in the EMU Aperture Gallery. INSIDE Comerback Kenny Wheaton decides to pass up his senior season in favor of the NFL Govemer Kitzhaber looks for an alternative Lane County prison site WEATHER Cloudy. High 50. Low 40. University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Court case could affect Oregon law ■ DEATH: The state’s law legalizing assisted suicide relates to two cases facing the Supreme Court today By Brad Cain The Associated Press SALEM — One of the drafters of Oregon’s 1994 assisted suicide law says he thinks the state’s medical community is ready to im INSIDE ■ The Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding assisted suicide for the court cases beginning today/6 plement the act. But it could be a year or more before legal questions surround ing physician-assist ed suicide are re solved. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear argu ments today chal lenging laws passed in Washington and New York that make physician-assisted suicide a felony. Though not directly related to Oregon’s law, the case being heard by the nation’s highest court ultimately could help deter mine whether doctors should be allowed to prescribe life-ending drugs to dying pa tients. Approved by voters in November 1994, Oregon’s assisted suicide law allows a pa tient to request a lethal dose of drugs if at least two doctors determine that the person has less than six months to live. The Oregon law was blocked from taking effect by U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan, who ruled that it failed to safeguard the rights of the terminally ill. Dr. Peter Goodwin, a Portland physician who helped draw up the assisted suicide law, said Tuesday he thinks the courts even tually will allow doctors to help their dying patients end their lives. When that day comes, Goodwin said, Oregon will be prepared to carry out the law. The state Health Division already has provisional rules in place to administer it, Turn to DEATH, Page 8 Keeping Fit MATHEW STIFFLER/Emerald Matthew Titus of Eugene lifts weights at the former Oregon West Fitness. The building’s lease was taken over by Better Bodies. Fitness center across from UO changes hands ■ EXERCISE: Members of Oregon West Fitness have several choices, including the center’s new owner By Eric Collins Community Reporter Students with memberships to Oregon West Fitness will still get their exercise this year, but the exercise may no longer be just across the street. Oregon West Fitness, formerly located on Franklin Boulevard across from cam pus, opted not to renew its Dec. 31 lease and has since been taken over and re opened as a member of Better Bodies Family Athletic Centers. “We are opening an upgraded facility that will add another location for all of our members to enjoy,” said Sharon Munyon, general manager of Better Bod ies. Munyon said all former Oregon West memberships will be honored at Better Bodies, and members may use any Better Bodies facility in Eugene. The problem for former members may be deciding whether to join Better Bodies or the plethora of exercise facilities around Eugene, all of which are also hon Turn to EXERCISE, Page 8 fifi We are opening an upgraded facility that will add another location for all of our members to enjoy. — Sharon Munyon General Manager, Better Bodies -„ Courtesy Photo The official poster for the University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Cele bration was designed by visual design student Elizabeth Morrow. Morrow designs winning poster for celebration ■ AWARD: The winner in the UO contest received $200 and got to work on a non-commercial project By Dana Williams Multicultural Issues Reporter A University visual design student won $200 for creating the official poster for the University’s 1997 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Elizabeth Morrow’s poster was chosen by the Coordinating Committee to promote events for this year’s celebration. The Cele bration will focus on how King’s vision has changed race relations in America, and how those changes affect the campus com munity, said Lyllye Parker, committee rep resentative. Morrow said inspiration for her poster design came from King’s words; she wanted the power of his speech to speak through her poster. This year’s theme, “Realizing the Dream”, comes from King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Parker said. Morrow said she wants her art to com municate the civil rights leader’s vision. “The [poster] design is a marker that shows the struggle for civil rights as a pro gression from what has happened to what is still to come,” Morrow said. Though Morrow already knows how she will spend her award, she was happy just to work on the project. "You spend so much of your time design ing things for consumers and capitalism, it’s nice to be able to do it for something I believe in,” Morrow said about her artwork. “When you design something, there is Turn to AWARD, Page 8
