Oregon daily emerald., February 13, 1998, Image 1

RHYTHM & REVIEWS
Poems for Plath
* British poet Ted Hughes recently
Published a hook inspired by his
frte wife, poet Sylvia Plath
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SPORTS
Women win g|,
Oregon scores a Pac-10
victory against Washington St.
Thursday night at Mac Court
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1998
I—I
TODAY
Watch outfor
black cats, mirrors
and ladders, and
hai <e a safe Friday
the 13th.
WEATHER
Today
Showers
High 57. Low 41.
Saturday
Rain
1 ligli 55. Low 39.
MATT GARTON/Emerald
Adam Simpson, a senior fine arts major, takes his su ings at the car Thursday afternoon at the Designated Driver Shuttle Car Bash.
Car Bash a reprieve from romance
Students
unleashed
their holiday
aggressions
on a station
wagon to
raise funds
for the
Designated
Driver
Shuttle
By Doug Irving
Student Activities Editor
The roof was the first victim of
Valentine’s Day. Then the hood,
and the doors and the window
frames.
The car was a wreck by the end
of Thursday — sacrificed to the ag
gression and bitterness of Valen
tine’s Day.
The Designated Driver Shuttle
program organized the Car Bash as
a fund-raiser to pay off a loan. The
event centered on an increasingly
battered station wagon parked
Thursday and today near the cor
ner of 13th Avenue and University
Street.
The driver’s side had “For that
special someone” spray painted in
white letters. The passenger side
said “Let’s just be friends."
It cost $1 to take a swing at the
car with a 12-pound sledgeham
mer Thursday morning. The first
sledgehammer broke and was re
placed with an 8-pounder. The
weather quickly dropped the price:
two hits for a dollar, then four hits
— a “rainy day special."
“It’s very liberating,” said junior
Danoa Rochester, who had
slammed away at the car. “It’s just
a great way to take out all those ag
gressions associated with Valen
tine’s Day. Definitely worth a dol
lar.”
Only the rain came down hard
er than the sledgehammer. Even
so, the fund-raiser had attracted
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ASUO board
revises rules
on elections
The ASUO Elections Board
said it will no longer have the
power to address complaints
about the elections process
By David Ryan
Freelance reporter
The ASUO Elections Board announced it
had made changes in elections rules last
week. By removing confusing language and
grammar, the board made it dear that it did
not have the power to address complaints
about the elections process.
The changes resulted from controversies
surrounding the election of Bill Miner and
Ben Unger as ASUO president and vice
president, respectively.
During the 1997 ASUO elections, Miner
and Unger placed campaign posters on
trees and stop signs off campus, which is a
violation of ASUO elections laws and city
ordinances. Miner and Unger admitted to
posting signs off campus, but they were not
convicted of the violation because of con
fusion as to whether the elections board or
the University Constitution Court had the
authority to decide if local laws were bro
ken.
“There was a lot of debate on [Miner and
Unger] breaking the elections rules for
putting posters on trees and stop signs,”
said Christy Lorenzini, ASUO elections co
ordinator.
Usually, a hearings officer would be in
charge of dealing with any complaints re
garding ASUO elections. However, no
hearings officer was appointed in 1907.
According to the Constitution Court,
“The [ASUO] Elections Board addressed
the complaints, held informal Tact-finding
hearings, issued warnings when it felt elec
tion rules were being violated, made deter
minations that the rules had been violated,
and in some cases fined candidates when it
determined rules had been violated.”
Two petitions filed against the elections
board that were sent to the Constitution
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Retired English professor, 87, dies in local car accident
Carlisle Moore
was a strong
supporter of
the arts and
music in the
community
By Teri Meeuwsen
Higher Education Reporter
For 20 years, retired English professors
Carlisle Moore and Roland Bartel went out to
lunch every Tuesday.
“We just started it one day, and it was real
ly enjoyable,” Bartel said.
While they were both at the University,
they visited the Faculty Club, now known as
the Collier House. After they retired, they
visited restaurants downtown, including
Ambrosia, Mazzi’s and the West Bros.
“They were our favorites,” Bartel said.
But the Tuesday lunches will now only be
a memory for Bartel.
Moore, 87, was killed in a car crash Feb. 1
when the 1989 Toyota Camry he was driving
collided with an oncoming 1988 Jeep Chero
kee Laredo going south on Willamette Street.
His service was Feb. 11 at the First Con
gregational Church on East 23rd Avenue,
where approximately 300 people paid their
respects and said their goodbyes, Bartel said.
Bartel was one of the people who spoke at
the service.
“He had many friends,” he said. “He liked
to get to know them and know them well. He
was very congenial. He liked people, he was
always upbeat, he had a good sense of hu
mor and had a way to bring together the seri
ous with the light.”
Moore specialized in Victorian and mod
ern literature when he was at the University
from 1946 to 1975. He published many arti
cles in scholarly publications during his ca
reer.
"He was an authority on Thomas
Carlisle,” Bartel said. “He really enjoyed
light verse and composed some light verse
himself. He was very well rounded.”
Besides literature and prose, he enjoyed
theater and the musical arts, another of
Moore’s colleagues, Kingly Weatherhead
said.
“He was quite the theater goer,” he said.
“He enjoyed concerts and the arts.”
Bartel agreed.
"He was a strong supporter of the Mozart
Players, the Eugene Symphony, the Bach
Festival and the opera,” he said. “He really
enjoyed local music groups. He was very
generous to them.”
Moore was very generous with the Uni
versity as well. He and his wife Barbara de
cided in 1983 to set up a fund for an en
dowed professorship in the English
department, which now exceeds $500,000.
^ [Moore] was
always upbeat,
be bad a good
sense of humor
and had a
way to bring
together the
serious with
the light. D
Roland Battel
Former English professor