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1997 Art Exhibit by UO Craft Center Staff Opening Reception: Friday Feb 7,5-7 pm Show Dates: Feb 8-16 weekdays 1 lam-5pm weekends 1-4pm Fir Room, Erb Memorial Union, U of O Craft Center 346-4361 Place your WEDDING/ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT in the Bridal Guide. Fri, Feb 14. Call 346-4343 or fill out this form and l stop by Suite 300, EMU \ Deadline: TODAY, 1pm ZQJeddinglCjnyayement CAnnouncements for ODE use only. Name:_ Phone:_ Address:_ Payment Method: cash/check/credit card #_ Information to be printed in announcement Bride’s Name:_ Bride’s Hometown:_ Bride's Major:_ Grooms Name:_ Grooms Hometown:_ Grooms Major:_ Wedding date (if engagement, tentative wedding dale): _ Location of wedding:_ Additional info?_ If you would like to include a photo, please write your name and phone number on the back of the photo and attach it to this form. You may pick up your photo after it runs on February 14. NO MATTER HOW FAR YOU TRAVEL, YOU’RE ALWAYS CLOSE TO CAMPUS. Oregon daily emerald ’ now on the world wide web J r1 f_r ^ N your quick guide to news from around the world Oregon court rejects cap on campaign gifts 1 SALEM — Voter-approved limits on the amount of money that can be contributed to politi cal candidates were struck down Thursday by the Oregon Supreme Court. In a unanimous ruling, the court said restricting maximum donations to $500 for statewide candidates and $100 to legislative contenders violated rights of free speech and expression contained in the Oregon Constitution. “It takes little imagination to see how many political contribu tions constitute expression,” the court said in its opinion by Justice Michael Gillette. Gillette compared making cam paign contributions to the right of a citizen to buy a newspaper ad vertisement backing a particular candidate or cause. The court also overturned pro hibitions on contributions by la bor unions and corporations to candidates or political commit tees. At the same time, the court up held the law’s voluntary cam paign spending limits. The ruling, by removing restric tions on individual donors, elimi nates the need for supposedly in dependent campaigns. Proof that SATs don’t have all the answers 2 It’s the mantra of the SAT: Check your work. Apparently, the testers didn’t do it carefully enough. The College Board made a mis take on the math portion of the exam, and it was a 17-year-old from Peterborough, N.H., who recognized it. As a result, the scores of up to 45,000 high school students who took the Scholastic Assessment Test last fall will be boosted as much as 30 points. The math por tion of the test is worth 800 points. “We made a mistake. We screwed up,” Brian O’Reilly, di rector of the SAT program, said Thursday. Colin Rizzio, who took the test Oct. 12 along with about 350,000 other college-bound students, found the flaw in the multiple choice answers to an algebra problem. The algebra problem used the letter “a” to stand for a number. The test writers intended for stu dents to assume that “a” is a posi tive number, in which case the correct answer is C. However, if you assume that “a” could also be a negative number, the correct an swer is D: “Cannot be deter mined.” AOL customers endure another system crash 3 NEW YORK — A week after agreeing to give frustrated cus tomers refunds for bad service, America Online suffered more outages while trying to upgrade its system. Customers nationwide were unable to log on to AOL begin ning shortly after 5 p.m. EST Wednesday because of an outage at the company’s Vienna, Va., equipment center. Some users were able to log on by 6:30 p.m., and the problem was cleared up by 7:30 p.m., AOL said. The trouble began as techni cians upgraded computer soft ware Wednesday as part of the company’s drive to accommodate the recent surge of members. Dur ing the software overhaul, the AOL system stopped accepting log-ins, spokeswoman Tricia Primrose said. The service was down again Thursday for what AOL said was a scheduled 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. EST software upgrade, but some users still couldn’t get in as late as 8 a.m. AOL has said in the past that it is normal for there to be some lingering disruptions after its sys tem is taken down for mainte nance. Can you keep a few... It doesn’t have to be dirty to be good. Sweet Secrets? \ Special gifts for special lovers and friends VIDEOS • TOYS • GIFTS • LINGERIE 1166 South A Springfield, 726-6969 Open 24 Hours (Almost) Mon-Thurs 10-7 • Fri & Sat 10-9 Open Sunday 12-5 13th & Lawrence* 683-1300 The Oregon Daily Cmeraldis published daily Monday through Friday during the school year and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. 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