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it ain’t over ‘til it’s over
The OSPIRG issue remains embroiled in
con troversy as grievances are filed over
campaign spending and Nader’s speech/PAGE 3
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Two months after leading the Oregon women
to their first conference championship, Jody
Rungggot paid. -
She signed a four-year contract Wednesday
that reportedly makes her die third-highest pai d
women's basketball coach iathePadfic-10 Con
ference. With incentives* the contract could be
and to have that strong of a
Rung©said. “We’re all very exdt<
antes. She has also been successful in making
women’s basketball a major draw.
The Thicks led the conference and set a school
record last season by drawing 5,042 fans a game,
the 13th-best mark in the country. The year be
fore Rouge took over die program hit 1993, the
Ducks averaged 670 fans.
“Certainly she his done a wonderful job with our
women’s basketball program, ’ ’ athletic director Bill
Moos said. “The success she’s had in her stay has
been remarkable. The Pac-10 Championship is
something that al l of our programs aspire to attain,
so that was done and done very well.”
For her achievements, Runge was rewarded
with a contract that will pay her a guaranteed
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Protests continue over Nike’s labor practices
s§ Today: Students
protest against the
University’s manufac
turing license agree
ments with compa
nies that don’t honor a
labor code cs conduct
» Friday: Other
companies react to
Nike’s challenge to
fully disclose infer
Campuses across the country have
witnessed sit-ins urging schools to
reconsider contracts with Nike
By Tricia Schwennesen
Oregon Daily Emerald
Was your most comfy powder blue
Duke sweatshirt made by a worker forced
to produce apparel in an unsafe work en
vironment? Did the person who embroi
dered the mallard-green Nike “O” on
your favorite ball cap get paid enough to
live on? And exactly where are those fac
tories that manufacture apparel that sport
the most popular college names and lo
gos?
These are some of the questions that stu
dents across the country have been asking
since the discovery that some U.S. compa
nies use sweatshop labor to operate their
foreign factories.
Outraged students demand answers be
cause many large corporations hold ex
clusive contracts and license agreements
with universities. This university and 10
others — Florida State, North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, Miami, Colorado, Illinois,
Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, South
ern California and Alabama — have lu
crative contracts with Beaverton, Ore.,
based Nike.
At the University of Oregon in 1997,
student groups, including Student Ac
tion Labor and Equity and MEChA,
staged sit-ins and protests against corpo
rate sponsorship. Protesters opposed a
$25 million donation from Nike owner
and University alumnus Phil Knight be
cause the company used Third World la
TumtoNIKE, Page 9
Hurdling into the future
Senior400 meter hurdler Will
Driessen hopes to meet hisfinal
goal: a berth at theNCAAs/PAGE 11
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Volume 100, Issue 142
University of Oregon
ww.dailyemerald.com
Indecency
bill closes
loophole
The legislation criminalizes
‘private indecency, ’ a new
category of sex-related crime
By Michael Hines
Oregon Daily Emerald
Inspired by the unsettling story of a Uni
versity student, local state Rep. Floyd
Prozanski is well on his way to closing a
loophole on the Oregon sex crime books.
House Bill 2612 is legislation that is long
overdue, said the chairman of the Sex Of
fenders Supervision Network.
“If you invited a person into your home,
and the person began to masturbate in front
of you,”-said Jeff Collins, also a parole and
probation officer for Lane County, “techni
cally, under current statutes, that person
cannot be prosecuted for public indecen
cy.”
In fact, Collins couldn’t think of anything
the offender could be charged with.
Prozanski’s proposed legislation, which
passed the House unanimously last week,
would close that loophole and allow au
thorities to prosecute the offense as a sex
crime.
It’s called “private indecency,” and could
be a new and powerful law in Oregon if it
passes the Senate.
“This is trying to plug a hole that has
needed plugging for some time,” Collins
said.
The legislation could have applied to a
scenario faced by a student last May in the
residence halls. The senior, who asked to be
identified only as Sara in a Feb. 12 Emerald
story, woke up in her room to find another
student ejaculating near her head.
All the man could be charged with was
burglary. He was convicted and is now serv
ing time in jail. The convict never had to at
tend counseling.
“The whole time it was really frustrat
ing,” Sara said.
Prozanski, who called his legislation “ap
propriate and definitely necessary,” said he
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Sefton Ipock/Daify Tar Heel
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student Caitlin Salemi and Chapel Hill
resident Jason Stevens participate last week in a protest demanding that UNC
require full disclosure of die location of factories making university clothing.