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Games people play
Gamex brings together students to
play a variety of card, board and
role-playing games /PAGE 4
Ducks force split
A 15 hit outburst in
Game 2 led the Ducks to
a win Su nday/ PAGE 11
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Volume 100, Issue 139
University of Oregon
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Student parents recognized in parade
Children march through
campus with parents and
caregivers on Friday
By Tricia Schwennesen
Oregon Daily Emerald
Dressed in a blue Scooby-Doo T-shirt,
the knee-high boy marched a few steps
ahead of his mom, dancing in the street
and shaking his hand-made instrument.
Tammy Kocian’s gaze never left her 4
year-old son Austin’s back, as she walked
behind him with his shy, 2-year-old sis
ter Hailey in her arms.
Somewhere along the way the preco
cious boy’s music-maker disappeared, but
he didn’t seem to mind as he continued to
jauntily traipse down 13th Avenue.
The trio were part of a children’s pa
rade Friday morning, in recognition of
Week of the Young Child.
“We did it for fun and visibility,” said
Megan Wheeler, parade organizer and
toddler teacher with the EMU Child Care
Development Center. “We want people
to know that some students do come here
with kids.”
About 100 kids, student parents and
their caregivers paraded from the EMU,
down 13th Avenue, up toward the
Knight Library and back through the am
phitheater to the EMU child care center.
A colorful stream of parents held their
children’s hands as they passed out can
dy to curious observers. Others blew bub
bles or played music with paper plate
tambourines and cardboard box guitars.
Tots and toddlers wore construction pa
per crowns, brown paper bag vests and
waved star wands from their seats in red,
baby stretch limousines. The Bye Bye
Buggies, pushed by their caregivers, even
had “bumper stickers” taped to the back
that read “Future College Students” and
“Week of the Young Child.”
The parade was intended to highlight
student families and the issues they face.
“Students have continued to support the
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EWEB offers
wind power
to residents
The alternative power source is
positive for the environment but
is not very cost efficient
By Amy Jennaro
Oregon Daily Emerald
In terms of energy, Eugene is going the
way of the future.
On Thursday, The Eugene Water and
Electric Board started offering citizens the
opportunity to use wind power to generate
their energy instead of the standard hy
dropower.
This is good news for citizens concerned
with the negative ef- _
fects of hydropower
ter, an on-campus
group associated Douglas Serrill
with environmental UO Survival Center
issues. _
The new program
has already been a success with customers,
EWEB spokeswoman Cathy Hamilton said.
“Some people are so excited they al
ready called in,” she said.
Hamilton said the wind will be generat
ed in Wyoming, but EWEB would not re
ject the idea to use wind energy generated
in Oregon in the future.
“It’s definitely a possibility. But in
Wyoming, the effects are great because the
wind is more stable,” she said.
The problem of maintaining a stable
source of energy based on wind power is a
major concern for some faculty members
“For Eugene to be
moving in this di
rection is a good
step,” said Douglas
Serrill, coordinator
of the Survival Cen
dams on salmon.
^ For Eugene
to be moving
in this
direction is a
good step. >>
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ly4(Js women held power on campus M
As the number of men enrolled
l plummeted, women faced new
. challenges on campus
By Sarah Kickler
for the Emerald
In the 1940s, women literally ruled the
campus.
As men left the University to defend the
country in World War n, women stepped in
throughout the campus to keep student gov
ernment, activities and the Emerald going.
- Students elected the first female student
body president since World War I, and the
first full-year female Emerald editor in chief
was hired. This trend continued throughout
the war and for a few years afterward.
Students of the ’40s dealt with challenges
ranging from finding an alternative to
Thanksgiving turkey during the meat short
age, adapting to the new atmosphere when
the University was named an Army training
base and wondering whether one’s “Army
papers” would arrive.
News of these challenges filled the
pages of the newspaper each day. The
first issue of 1941-42, edited by Helen
Angell Kitchen, examines the campus
atmosphere: “Hundreds of perplexed
18-year-ol d fellows... brood over the be- M
wildering problem of deciding exactly |
where they stand in the gigantic scale of I
world events today. Every day they write
to the Dean of Men, Virgil D. Earl, to query,
‘If I enter school now, will I be drafted at
the end of my junior year?’”
For many of these men, the answer ended
up being yes. Enrollment dropped among
men and slightly increased among women
as more and more soldiers headed off to war.
The administration took a variety of steps
to help students get as much education as
possible in the shortest period of time. These
changes included canceling spring break, of
fering a two or three-year journalism degree
and publishing a pamphlet called “War
Work for University Women,” which named
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