RHYTHM & REVIEWS
Student directs film
Jesse Lawler, a recent graduate from the
University, submitted the one-hour,
$12,000 movie for his senior thesis
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SPORTS
Pepsi Invitational
The track and field tournament at
Hayu’ard Field will showcase stars from
Oregon, ASU, Washington and Colorado
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FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1998
TODAY
A visiting professor
from St. Louis will
spectk about authors
on Europe at 4p.m.
in 228 Chiles.
WEATHER
Today
Mostly sunny
High 60. Low 42.
Saturday
Some rain
High 57. Low 40.
ASUO Election
AMANDA COWAN/Emerald
Sophomore Taylor Sturges and senior Jennifer Wilson process ballots Thursday night to determine the outcome of the election.
Primary sets election slate
The
results are
unofficial
pending a
Constitution
Court
decision on
a grievance
filed against
the elections
By Doug Irving
Student Activities Editor
Two ASUO presidential tick
ets survived this week’s prima
ry and will run in the general
election next week.
Kelli McCartan drew 687 pri
mary votes; Geneva Wortman
and Morgan Cowling drew 790.
Tamir Kriegel and Greg
Labavitch came in third with
409 votes, which knocked them
out of the race. Mark Heming
way and Farrah Bostic received
26 votes even though they had
dropped out of the race.
Eleven candidates won their
elections outright in the prima
ry — because they ran unop
posed, because they defeated a
single opponent or because
they earned such a substantial
percent of votes.
The elections board went
through more than 2,040 bal
lots Thursday night. That rep
resents about 15 percent of the
student population and a sig
nificant increase over last
Turn to ELECTION, Page 4A
ASUO
Executive
results
Two tickets for the
ASUO Executive
remain after the
primary election.
W Geneva Wortman
and Morgan
Cowling: 790 votes
■ Kelli McCartan: 687 votes
Shoah events
honor victims
of Holocaust
The week of remembrance will
include a one-bourplay about a
woman during the Holocaust
By Michael Hines
Student Activities Heporter
Remembering
the
“Anna” begins Sunday with the screams
of Gestapo sirens, a grim reminder of the
Holocaust.
And at 11 a.m. Thursday, sirens will also
sound in Israel for two minutes. The na
tion’s people will stand at attention, and
motorists will pull over and exit their cars
in remembrance of the
dead.
The play at the Uni
versity and the two
minute observance in
Israel both center
around Yom Ha-Shoa,
or Holocaust Memorial
Day.
The day is a recent
Jewish holiday that
has few established rit
uals. At the University, the Jewish Student
Union has a full slate for Shoah, the week
of remembrance.
It begins Sunday with a single, one-hour
performance of “Anna” in Beall Hall. The
2 p.m. play about the Holocaust, which
costs $5 for students and children and $7
for the community, is a representative sto
ry about the average Jewish woman who
has lost everything, including her freedom.
“I’ve seen it, and it moved me to tears,”
said Angela Favero, director of the Jewish
Student Union. “You really realize that she
was a real person."
The musical, which was written by
Robert Mix, will be performed by Patricia
Feltmann, a former member of the Eugene
Opera. Feltmann re-enacts the life of Anna
with the use of only a blanket, water, a
bunk bed and a broom as props. She relives
her marriage, questions the existence of
God under such horror, and then becomes
peacefully resigned to the fact that she will
die.
Turn to SHOAH, Page 4A
Fraternity officials planning ahead for a substance-free future
Greek members held
a press conference in
response to concerns
about alcohol abuse
By David Ryan
Freelance Reporter
Fraternity parties without alco
hol: paradox or potential reality?
In a press conference yesterday,
members of the University greek
system made the case that such
parties are on the horizon.
“Everyone thinks that all frater
nities do is drink,” said Rena Adel
stein, Panhellenic Council public
relations chair. “We’re holding this
conference to show that greeks re
ally care about alcohol.”
Those who spoke were chapter
officials who had adopted plans to
reduce the amount of alcohol at
their chapters.
One of the things that precipi
tated the press conference was a
recent television news story by
ABC’s “20/20,” which the Office
of Greek Life said “painted a grim
picture of fraternities and their
abuse of alcohol."
“We live in a media society that
focuses on bad news,” said Mike
Green, a speaker who tours college
campuses around the country and
talks to greeks about alcohol. "I
spoke at MIT because somebody
died there from alcohol poisoning.
Bottom line — it shouldn’t take a
death to hire someone like me. ”
It hasn’t taken a death at the
University. Green talked to a
group of about 5,000 mostly greek
students about alcohol abuse on
Monday.
“I’d say that al
cohol abuse is the
root of our prob
lem,” said Brian
Goodell, Interfra
temity public re
lations co-chair,
who spoke at the
press conference.
“I think we can manage it better. ”
The conference addressed the
plans of several fraternities to do
exactly that.
“Most [fraternity] houses that
are going dry are doing so because
[the national chapter] is making
them,” said Steve Lyons, presi
dent of the Delta Sigma Phi, who
also spoke at the press conference.
The sorority houses on campus
have been substance-free for years,
but in more recent times the Sig
ma Nu, Phi Delta Theta and Phi
Delta Gamma fraternities have
pledged to become substance-free
by the year 2000.
But the change wi 11 be gradual.
“The object is not to just strip al
cohol away,” Lyons said. “I think
it’s more of an option to wean peo
ple off it."
Delta Epsilon is going to vote
whether or not to go dry, while
Delta Tau Delta is participating in
an internship program where
members of the fraternity travel
across the country educating
chapter members on alcohol
abuse. Some fraternities follow a
program called Select 2000, which
involves a detailed campaign to
replace drinking with activities
that promote leadership values.
Elliot Dale, Interfraternity
Council president, talked about
the path fraternity chapters
around the country are pursuing.
“The most controversial part of
the program is substance-free
housing,” he said. “Some mandate
it, some have a council, some have
a conference. Overall, what we’ve
seen from this national trend is
that eventually all houses will go
substance-free.”