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Volume 100, Issue 49
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Having a hand in success
Bill Moos discusses his experiences in his four years as athletic director for the University of Oregon in his office at the Casanova Center.
Wendy Fuller/Emerald
Athletic director Bill Moos
invests each day in achieving
more for his department
By Joel Hood
Oregon Daily Emerald
The first thing you notice about him are
his hands.
His hands — my God! — it’s as if he’s
wearing two of those giant foam fan hands
you get at baseball games. It’s as though
he’s got a catcher’s mitt ratcheted to each
wrist.
Bill Moos has made good use of these
hands his entire life: first as a young boy
growing up on his parents’ wheat and cat
tle ranch in eastern Washington, then as
an all-Pacific-8 Conference tackle at Wash
ington State, and now in his most chal
lenging role as CEO of the University of
Oregon’s massive athletic department,
which operates with an annual budget of
close to $25 million.
There are a great many ways to measure
success. Success by a football team is de
termined by its wins and losses. Success
for an athletic department is determined
by how much money it raises.
That’s where Moos’ hands come in. He
uses them to introduce clients, to open
lines of conversation, to close deals. As a
result, the Oregon athletic department has
been able to invest more than $30 million
into expanding its sports facilities in
Moos' four years as director.
12:30 p.m., three hours until kick-off
Moos takes time in the mid afternoon
before kickoff to catch up on a few of the
things he hasn't had time during the week
to address. He reads the mail, writes a cou
ple of letters. He is visited by a long-time
friend, Lindsey Hughes, who was an assis
tant coach at Washington State when
Moos was a student. Hughes has made the
trip from Seattle to catch a glimpse of No.
12 Oregon this weekend. Although tickets
for the Ducks’ Homecoming game against
Southern California have been sold out for
days, Moos arranges to have his old friend
watch the game from Oregon’s sidelines.
His seat is just slightly worse than that of
Turn to MOOS, Page 4A
Newsgroup
case faces
an appeal
The University ruled the removal
of newsgroups teas not religious
discrimination and will form a
committee to address the policies
By Tricia Schwennesen
Oregon Daily Emerald
Religious discrimination was not the ba
sis for removing three on-line newsgroups,
but the groups must be restored to the Uni
versity’s main news server by Nov. 10, Uni
versity President Dave Frohnmayer has
ruled.
Kerry Delf and her husband, Craig Hunt,
remain dissatisfied and plan to appeal the
decision to the chancellor.
Frohnmayer’s decision came after a
month of investigating the students’ charges
that the University Computing Center and
news manager Joe St Sauver removed the
newsgroups based on content.
St Sauver and Joanne Hugi, the director of
the Computer Center, did not return phone
calls from the Emerald this week.
Delf and Hunt filed their formal grievance
in early August with the Office of Affirma
tive Action. It alleged religious discrimina
tion was the reason the newsgroups alt.pa
ganism, alt.satanism and the entire
alt.magick hierarchy were removed.
Newsgroups are on-line addresses
where people can post messages and ex
change information about a specific topic.
Some students use newsgroups for re
search purposes.
“Under the law, we’re looking for some
sort of differential treatment,” said Ken
Lehrman, the director of the Office of Affir
mative Action. “We couldn't find evidence
to suggest that they were taken off for that
reason.”
Mark Zunich, the primary investigator in
the case, said that he could not discuss what
evidence was found to support either posi
tion, but that both sides provided a lot of
documentation.
Turn to NEWSGROUPS, Page 3A
witnout absentees counted, some measures are still undecided
The passing or failing margin
has become narrower on some
measures as more absentee
ballots are tallied
By Felicity Ayles
Oregon Daily Emeraid
For the most part, the local ballot mea
sures have been decided, but some were too
close to call on Thursday because the absen
tee ballots were not all counted.
For Bill Sullivan, co-chair of Library
NOW, the group formed to support Measure
20-02, it’s obvious that a new library is in
Eugene’s future even though absentee bal
lots have reduced the passing margin.
On election night, Measure 20-02, which
allocates funds to run the new Eugene Pub
lic Library, was passing with 72 percent of
the vote. As of Thursday, the measure was
still passing but with only 68 percent of the
vote.
“We still feel very confident that we’ll
pass,” Sullivan said. “We expect to be in the
low 60s, which is still a commanding lead.”
Sullivan compared the outcome for the
measure to a football game.
“It’s the third quarter and you’re up by
two touchdowns,” he said. “You don’t want
to call the game yet.”
Sullivan said that only one-fifth of absen
tee votes have been counted and that they
tend to be more conservative.
However, Bob Trickett, director of pro
grams for Kidsports, an organization that
supports Measure 20-03, said the absentee
ballots probably won’t make much of a dif
ference to that measure.
Measure 20-03 would allocate funds for
parklands throughout Eugene and was pass
ing with 71 percent of the vote as of Thurs
day.
“Historically, absentee ballots have been
a more negative vote,” he said. “But it’s ob
vious that the community supports this
measure by a high margin.”
Measure 20-99 would implement a citi
zen’s review board for the Eugene police de
partment. On election day, the measure was
passing with a 12 percent margin, but as of
Thursday, the gap was closed to only eight
percent.
Carol Berg, member of the Community
and Police Partnership, a committee that
supports measure 20-99, said that it is cur
rently difficult to say whether or not the
measure will pass but she is still optimistic.
“I hope that we do ultimately prevail,”
she said. “Win, lose or draw, a real state
ment has been made."
Three of the six local measures have been
close from the beginning.
Measure 20-04, which would place a
memorial flag on Skinner Butte, was failing
with 48 percent of the vote in favor as of
Thursday. But a spokesman for the Veterans
of Foreign Wars, the organization which put
the measure on the ballot, said that although
the polls change daily, he is optimistic that
the measure will pass.
Lane County measures 20-05 and 20-06,
which would allocate funds to improve
Lane County’s justice system, have been
neck-and-neck since election night. As of
Thursday, Measure 20-06 was passing with
50.5 percent of the vote and Measure 20-05
was passing with 51 percent of the vote.
Lane County public information officer
Mike Moscovitz said he is “cautiously opti
mistic" that it will pass.
“Without all of the absentee ballots, there
is no way to tell what the outcome will be,”
he said.