Green Boy
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yard line as football player Michael Fletch
er attempts to return a punt.
“I’m a fanatic, not an extremist,” Fabr6
said.
The other famous mascot-bashing fan
may be his biggest competition as king of
Duck mania.
"When people think of me, its like,
‘That’s green boy,’” he said. “When they
think of him, they think of the guy with
the thing and the thing,” he said. “Where’s
that guy during basketball season?”
Fabrd plans to attend women's basket
ball games and expand his repertoire to
soccer games.
Green Boy’s alter ego was created four
years ago after the football team played in
the Rose Bowl. Fabre and several friends
painted themselves green and spelled out
"Rose Bowl” in yellow across their
chests.
“It got us a little bit of prominence — we
were known as the green guys,” he said. “I
called us the Rose Bowl posse.”
But it became increasingly difficult to
organize the group, so Fabry’s alter-ego.
Green Boy, was created.
The evolution of Green Boy came
about after a sponsorship from West
Brothers BBQ and Mona Lizza Restau
rant & Bar, which helped pay for the
new costume.“It means I sold out. I’m
corporate. Everything's for sale in this
country,” he said. “I’m happy to do it
now because on the way back from foot
ball games and other sporting events
people will actually let me ride in their
cars.”
When Green Boy painted his body it
would come off on people who hugged
him or on the inside of cars. He said he
still owes people money for ruining their
interiors.
(( A lot of people think I’m a
crazy drunk or just some idiot
who does this because he’s an
insane Ducks fan. **
Darren Fabrf
'Green Boy'
His thinks his updated look is low main
tenance and more professional.
“It comes on, it comes off. It’s skin tight,
so it shows off my physique,” he ex
plained. “The only problem with it right
now is I forgot to tell the lady to have a
zipper near the crotch area. It becomes a
real pain to use the bathroom during
games.”
Fabre said Green Boy is often misunder
stood by other Duck fans and the Athletic
Department.
“A lot of people think that I’m a crazy
drunk or just some idiot who does this be
cause he’s an insane Ducks fan,” he said.
Fabr6 still has some die-hard fans of his
own.
“Kids do love me generally. I can't re
member a single kid being afraid of me. I
have a superhero costume on, so, you
know, they’re used to it.”
Although this is Green Boy’s last term as
a broadcast journalism major at the Uni
versity, Fabre has plans for the upcoming
sports season.
“I’m looking to do TV commercials and
maybe get some action figures. For Green
Boy it’s really the tip of the iceberg.”
Kristina Ruclinskas covers student govern
mentfor the Emerald. She can he reached via
e-mail at mdyk@gladstone.uoregon.edu.
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the needs of social services for se
niors.
Opinion split down party lines.
Democrats said the priorities of
a Republican-dominated legisla
ture needed to be changed to in
clude both public education and
senior services.
‘‘I think that it’s sad when you
pit children against services for
the elderly,” said Castillo, the in
cumbent for the local state senate
district.
Republicans were concerned
about raising taxes in order to
support senior services. Seaberry
said increasing property taxes in
creases the number of seniors
who will be forced out of their
homes because they would be un
able to pay their property taxes.
Austin, Castillo’s challenger,
focused on teaching ethics to stu
dents rather than raising more
funds for public education.
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“We need to tell kids we’re not
going to fix [their mistakes],” he
said. “You need to stress person
al responsibility and accountabil
ity."
Prozanski, who is the incum
bent house representative for the
local area, talked about inserting
compassion into budgetary deci
sions.
“The issue that I believe always
is: how can we be efficient and
compassionate?” he said.
Prozanski criticized what he
feels are the current priorities of
the Legislature, focusing on leg
islative support of higher educa
tion.
“The higher education budget
has been surpassed by the correc
tions budget,” he said.
Prozanski said a focus on fund
ing higher education is needed
because higher education would
have the effect of reducing crime.
He said there is a correlation that
people who are more educated
are less likely to commit crimes.
Prozanski said he wants more
funding for social programs over
all.
“We cannot continue to fund
one agency over another,” he
said. “Until we can address all
those needs, we’re going to con
tinue to see people suffer in this
society.”
Pearson, who is the challenger
to Prozanski, said he wants to cut
the need for funding social ser
vices by instilling what he feels
are ethical values in children.
“Our future is dependent on
our children,” he said. "We need
to train them to take care of their
society. Children need to be
trained to take care of seniors.”
Dai 'id Ryan covers the Eugene City
Council, community groups and
politics for the Emerald.
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David Buchanan, director of Ore
gon Common Cause, an organiza
tion that says it wants to improve
government in Oregon and na
tionwide. “If you want to alter the
majority rule provision, you ought
to apply the same standard to your
attempts to change it.”
Becky Miller, executive assis
tant to Bill Sizemore at Oregon
Taxpayers United, defended him.
“Certain organizations have a
bone to pick with Bill Sizemore,”
Miller said. "They are using the
people’s initiative process to ma
nipulate the voters to trick them
into thinking that they’re voting
for something democratic while
making it impossible for many
voters to vote for something they’ll
want later.”
Supporters of Measure 63 claim
that Sizemore’s supermajority
vote would create a tyrannous mi
nority, in which a “no” vote is
worth more than a “yes.” Forty
percent of voters opposed to a
bond measure could keep a 60
percent “yes” vote from passing it.
“This measure is a preventative
attempt at the eroding of one of the
major tenants of our democracy,
which is that each person has one
vote and each vote has equal pow
er,” said Maria Smithson, Mea
sure 63 coordinator for Oregoni
ans for Open and Fair Elections.
“If a supermajority measure like
the one in 2000 were to pass, the
'no' votes would carry more
weight.”
Opponents of Measure 63 say
supermajorities don’t give “no”
voters an unfair advantage. Miller
said before the Sizemore-led dou
ble majority provision went into
effect two years ago, which re
quires a 50 percent turnout before
a tax increase could pass, “yes”
votes were actually given too
much weight.
“Before, there would be low
participation so they could turn
out a handful of ardent supporters
to sway the election and pass the
tax increases,” Miller said.
Voters are being manipulated
by the initiative being billed as the
“Defense of Democracy Act,” she
said.
Proponents of Measure 63 con
tend they're not against superma
jority votes altogether, because
there are certain issues which val
idate requiring more than a two
third vote, such as amending the
federal constitution,
“We don’t want to ban all super
majorities,” Smithson said. “As
voters, we should have the right to
enact supermajorities if we really
need to. However, let’s just make
sure we’re enacting it by the same
standards that it’s going to set for
ward.”
Opponents of Measure 63 argue
eliminating tax increases is a legit
imate reason for enacting the su
permajority.
"Government is growing bigger
and more controlling,” Miller
said. “It’s getting to the point
where it’s undermining the foun
dation on which this country was
built.
“The supermajority is for mea
sures that [voters] believe are very
important. In general, Americans
believe that if we can keep taxes
limited, we can retain the free
doms that we believe in, so that’s
very important.”
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