HEALTH
Fighting depression
Antidepressants, which help hold sero
tonin in synapses, have Ijeen found to
be effective in the battle with depression
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SPORTS
Tennis loses to USC, UCLA
Erwan Kergroachpicked up the meti’s tennis
team s only win of the weekend, beating 12th
rankedJean-Noel Grinda of UCLA
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MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1998
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Crime still
a problem
on campus
According to an OPS official,
the number of bicycle thefts per
capita is high in Eugene, and
the campus area is no exception
By Jesse Sowa
Community Reporter
Campus crime continues to be a problem
at the University, and there are a number of
things students can do to protect themselves
and their property, according to one police
official.
Robert Guse, a campus safety officer at the
University’s Office of Public Safety, snid one
of the biggest problems on campus is bicy
cle theft.
Guse said Eugene was third in the United
States in bicycle thefts per capita a few years
ago.
“Make sure your bike is locked,” Guse
said, adding that it is best to only use cables
to secure components of the bicycle and not
the frame.
If your bicycle is stolen, there is only about
a 10 percent chance you will get it back, Guse
said. And the best way to raise your odds of
getting your bike returned is to engrave your
bicycle’s serial number on the bicycle, reg
ister the bicycle with OPS and keep the num
ber in your home in a secure place.
“Try to put [the number] in a couple dif
ferent places,” he said.
Guse suggests using a code police will be
able to use to identify your bicycle and re
turn it to you. This code includes your dri
ver’s license number and the two-letter ab
breviation of the state where the license was
issued.
“Any cop will know how to use that num
ber,” he said.
OPS has an engraver for student use avail
able in its office on East 15th Avenue.
According to OPS report figures, the
number of robberies (excluding thefts) on
campus in 1994 was three; there were four
in 1995 and two in 1996. There were 12 ag
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Biology symposium
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LAURA GOSS/Emerald
Allen Orr speaks with other geneticists at a symposium discussing ecology, evolution and the theory of speciation Saturday
in Willamette Hall.
Scientists discuss speciation
Scientists gathered Saturday to
discuss experiments they have
conducted to determine how
different species developed
By David Ryan
Freelance Reporter
It’s a reproductive thing.
That’s what biologists from around the
country talked about Saturday. Scientists
met to discuss the process by which dif
ferent species are created at a mini-sym
posium held by the University biology
department.
Specifically, they gathered to discuss
the results of speciation experiments they
have conducted on fruit flies, crickets
and sunflowers.
Mike Lynch, a biologist at the Univer
sity, talked about the traditional concept
of speciation — that different species are
created when they are separated by geog
raphy.
“We’ve always known that you had to
have geographic separation,” Lynch said,
“but the big question is that you know
something still has to happen evolution
wise. You can separate [organisms], but
they don’t change. You bring them back
together and they’re still going to be the
same.
“So the big question is: What is it that
changes so that when you bring two dif
ferent populations back together they’re
not the same species?”
The answer seems to be getting clearer.
Alan Orr, a biologist at the University
of Rochester, said, “I think there’s clearly
been dramatic progress in both the plant
and animal world. In the old days there
was lots of theorizing and very little ex
perimental testing.”
But now there are many experiments,
Orr said.
“We actually did experiments to test
these theories so that very quickly a lot of
these theories have fallen by the way
side,” he said.
Part of the batch of experimental evi
dence presented at the symposium in
volved a process called Interlocus Con
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Hemingway, Bostic want ASUO government to ‘grow up’
TheASUO
Executive
candidates
are pushing
to integrate
duplicate
programs
By Kristina Rudinskas
Student Activities Reporter
Mark Hemingway and Farrah Bostic said
they want the associated student govern
ment to grow up. Running for ASUO Execu
tive is just one way they plan to clean house
in the ASUO.
"Even when good people get elected, they
don’t get to do very much,” said Bostic, the
vice presidential candidate. Bostic has been
publisher of the Oregon Commentator for
two years, managing editor one year and a
staff writer for one year. She has held a cam
pus talk show on KWVA and worked on the
Associated Students Presidential Advisory
Council.
Presidential candidate Hemingway
would like to think of his elected office as a
"benevolent dictatorship.” Hemingway has
served as editor of the Oregon Commentator
for two years, as a representative of the Pro
grams Finance Committee and as Promo
tions Director of the KWVA.
“It’s a tyranny of the minority when only 8
percent of the population votes. The govern
ment itself is worthless,” he explained. "All
it is good for is enabling programming. The
people in power assume they have a man
date from the students.”
Hemingway and Bostic propose limiting
incidental fees and trying to develop a zero
percent benchmark for student program
funding.
"We want to push people to integrate pro
grams that are duplicating themselves,”
Bostic said.
Hemingway and Bostic said they also
want to educate students about the inciden
tal fee that funds student programs. They
suggest mailing students a copy of the stu
dent fee budget. They also want to educate
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ASUO President and Vice President candidates
a::
ASUO
ELECTIONS
Farran Bostic
Marc iiemingway ana harran bostic are candidates tor the
ASUO President and Vice President respectively. The primary
elections will be held Wednesday and Thursday.
EMERALD