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An independent newspaper
Volume 100, Issue 34
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Right-wing
tactics vital,
speaker says
Morse Chair lecturer Richard
Delgado explains how funding
of right-wing think tanks helped
form public opinion and law
By Tricia Schwennesen
Oregon Daily Emerald
Left-wing politicians are effectively usi ng
right-wing tactics to further their agenda,
Richard Delgado said.
“Folks on the left are looking at an extraor
dinary campaign through the right,” said Del -
gado, the 18th occupant of the Wayne Morse
Chair of Law and Politics. “They are rolling
back programs from the ’60s and the '70s."
Delgado said he and his wife, Jean Stefan
cic, uncovered an amazing network of connec
tions between conservatives and funding of
social programs. Their research is the topic for
the annual Morse Chair lecture on Wednesday
where Delgado said he will make suggestions
for how liberals can utilize conservative think
ingto promote a political agenda.
Delgado said he and his wife were aston
ished to find conservative money backing
right-wing think tanks that create campaigns
on multiculturalism, medical and tort reform,
immigration reform and English-only laws.
Delgado is the current Jean Lindsley Pro
fessor of Law at the University of Colorado
and the author of 11 books. He teaches class
es in civil procedure, civil rights and law
and medicine.“He is one of the founders of
new and significant ways of thinking of legal
problems called critical race theory," said
Julie Novkov, an assistant political science
professor at the University.
The Morse Chair is a commemorative seat
to honor the late Wayne Morse, aU.S. sena
tor and former dean of the University School
of Law. Appointees represent the qualities
associated with Morse — statesmanship, in
tegrity, foresight, independence and fearless
championing of the public interest.
Delgado was chosen for the Morse Chair
“because he exemplifies exactly what the
chair was set up to do,” Novkov said.
The free Morse lecture is open to the pub
lic and will be at 7:30 p.m. at the Eugene
Hilton, 66 E. 6th Ave. Delgado will also par
ticipate in a Colloquium on Affirmative Ac
tion today. It is open to the public at 2:30
p.m. in 129Grayson Hall.
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Jane Goodall, who has studied chimpanzees since 1960 and has become a champion of wildlife conservation, spoke at the Hult Center Thursday evening.
Goodall shares monkey business
The world-renowned
primatologist is in her
3Stb year of studying
apes and monkeys
By Felicity Ayles
Oregon Daily Emerald
A chimpanzee wake-up call
greeted the crowd at the Hult
Center Thursday night, but it
wasn’t a monkey.
Impersonating one of her
closest living relatives, as she
calls them, Jane Goodall, at the
Eugene stop ofhernationwide
speaking tour, began a lecture
to a half-full Silva Hall after a
standing ovation from an en
thusiastic crowd of about
1,000.
In 1900, Goodall began a 38
year study of chimpanzees
while living with them in their
home, Tanzania, East Africa.
That beginning sparked world
wide interest in the conserva
tion of the chimpanzee species
and prompted Goodall in 1977
to open tlie Jane Goodall Insti
tute, an institution committed
to research, education and con
servation of wi I d 1 i fe.
The event brought many en
vironmental groups to the
Unit Center to support
Goodall’s mission.
“She was doing original re
search before it was recog
nized, and she's got a special
place in my heart because of
it,” said Sue Mandeville, a
member of Willamette
Wildlife Rehabilitation, an or
ganization devoted to saving
wildlife through rehabilita
tion and public education.
Rick Gorman, a staff member
of the Native Forests Council,
said he was at the event be
cause the people there were in
favor of protecting the environ
ment.
“It’ssort of like preaching to
the choir,” he said.
Goodall began her study
with funding for only four
months and said in the begin
ning of the study, the chimps
were terrified of her.
"But soon they came to real
ize that I wasn't so frightening
after all,” she said.
The first exciting observa
tion came when she found that
chimpanzees can make and
Turn to GOODALL, Page 5A
Constitution Court reviews DDS case, rules withASUO Executive
The Designated Driver Shuttle
should lose its allocation, the
court’s chief justice said
By Kristina Rudinskas
Oregon Daily Emerald
The ASUO Constitutional Court found the
ASUO Executive did not abuse its power
when it dealt with the Designated Driver
Shuttle this past summer, according to the
court’s unofficial decision released Thursday.
The summary opinion overruled the court's
previous interpretation of an executive rule
that gives the president and vice president
their powers. The court had determined in a
1997 case that the ASUO Executive was re
striated from freezing a program’s funding.
The ASUO programs coordinator had the au
thority to freeze funding in the ASUO.
The court found that the executive had ailed
reasonably to DDS’s attempts to try and pur
chase a new printer and a van with bal lot mea
sure money. DDS was allocated $50,000 to op
erate seven days a week when a ballot measure
passed in last spring’s ASUO Elections.
Chief Justice Joel Corcoran wrote a con
curring opinion that said students were pre
sented with incomplete information on the
ballot measure last spring when DDS failed
to mention its Programs Finance Committee
budget of about $26,000.
Corcoran said the court should strip the
program of the allocation.
The court refused to discuss issues of fund
ing, Oregon Minimum Wage Law, wages and
its own jurisdiction over the Clark Docu
ment, which determines how to allocate stu
dent fees. It also denied the request to inter
pret the Student Senate's actions until the
Senate is the respondent. DDS was required
to go before the senate and get approval of the
$50,000 allocation. Ballot measure lump
sums are not required to have a budget.
“Hopefully we can start moving forward
and DDS can get up and running,” ASUO
Vice President Morgan Cowling said.
DDS Executive Director Brandon Smith
said he will take this petition to the Uni ver
sity President for review. Smith also said he
would take the issue of paying ASUO work
ers minimum wage to the Oregon Bureau of
Labor and Management. Currently, many
ASUO employees are paid on a stipend.
He said he just wants DDS to be treated
like any other ASUO program.
“The system is corrupt as hell,” Smith
said. “I’ve been in student government for
four years now and I know all about the bu
reaucracy and red tape and petty [B.S.] that
runs rampant through the entire system.”
Smith also invited "anybody and every
body" to the DDS office in EMU Room 35
Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 10 p.m. for coffee and
donuts.