Monday
October 18,1999
Volume 101, Issue 35
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University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
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Ready for remodeling
Gilbert Hall will undergo expansion—a project approved
last week by the Campus Planning Committee—which will
involve connecting its four buildings into one unit. PAGE 8
Ducks shoot for top
Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams expect to
battle for Pac-10 titles and secure berths in the NCAA
Tournament this season. PAGE 11
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■ The Sports Medicine and
Wellness Center offers
students a new place to go for
health care needs
By Ben Romano
Oregon Daily Emerald
A new sports medicine facility in the
Student Recreation Center is making it
easier for students to get help with
sports-related injuries.
The Sports Medicine and Wellness
Center is an extension of the physical
therapy and sports medicine clinic at
the University Health Center, said Du
ane Iversen, sports medicine and phys
ical therapy director.
“We want to encourage students to
come down and ask questions about in
juries,” Iversen said.
You don’t need an appointment to
speak with a staff member at the center.
The center assists students with physi
cal therapy needs as well as just provid
ing a place to ice one’s injuries and get
questions answered.
“We’re more than happy to see peo
ple when they need to be seen,” said
Tonya Moreland, a certified athletic
trainer and graduate student in Exercise
and Movement Science.
The facility is staffed by certified ath
letic trainers and physical therapists
Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. Consultations are free of
charge, and medical services cost the
same as at the health center.
The location of the facility is very
convenient for students, Iversen said.
“We’re in a location where all the ac
tivity is going on,” he said. The sports
medicine center is on the main floor of
the Student Recreation Center,, to the
left of the entrance.
Fumiko Saito, a senior English major,
is taking advantage of the Sports Medi
cine and Wellness Center for rehabilitat
Sports medicine and physical therapy director Duane Iversen treats student Scott Hein at tte new sTorts
medicine facility, located on the main floor of the Student Recreation Center.
ing her right knee. She had torn a liga
ment in a high school gymnastics class
10 years ago and recently underwent
surgery after the problem flared up
again.
‘ It’s convenient,” she said of the new
facility. “The health center is very far
away, especially if you have a hurt leg.
If I was using crutches it would be frus
trating.
“You don’t have to walk 10 minutes
from the health center to here to use the
weights,” she added.
The facility’s proximity to the new
equipment in the recreation center
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Film draws
protesters
■ Re-released porn film ‘Disco
Dolls in 3-D’ gets targeted for what
some call a rape scene
By Jack Clifford
Oregon Daily Emerald
A debate over the showing of a porno
graphic rftovie at the Bijou Art Cinema heat
ed up a chilly Saturday evening, with pro
testers and moviegoers verbally clashing
over the X-rated film “Disco Dolls in 3-D.”
While ticket holders streamed into the Bi
jou for the 11:20 p.m. sold-out showing, six
demonstrators gathered on the theater’s
front sidewalk and expressed their opinions
with signs and spoken objections. One
hand-held admonition read “Rape=Enter
tainment?” while another stated, “Violence
is not Sex.”
“If people come here thinking [“Disco
Dolls”] is this 3-D, kind of kitschy porn
movie from the 70s, without realizing it has
explicit violence against women, I want
them to think twice about going to see this
movie and to know that this is unaccept
able," said protester Alexandra Mock, a fine
arts major.
Mock and her allies pointed specifically
to an alleged rape scene in the movie, one
that ends with the woman being drowned in
chicken soup. Although no one in group
had personally viewed the on-screen act,
Mock said that she read about it in the Pulse
section of Thursday’s Emerald and talked
with people who had seen the movie.
“I honestly did not see a ‘rape’ scene,”
filmgoer Jennette Quam countered, as she
and her brother left the Bijou around 12:30
a.m. It was just a bunch of people having
sex. I didn’t see anyone [in the film] protest
ing the sex on the screen.”
“Disco Dolls” is a 1977 movie in re-re
lease and is gaining wide acceptance on
screens nationwide. Viewings have sold out
in cities such as Seattle and New York, and
all showings at the Bijou have sold out since
the movie opened on Oct. 8.
“I don’t know the specifics about where
[ Disco Dolls’] has been released or how
popular it is,” said Iris Bicksler, a women’s
studies major, as she sat among other pro
testers. “For me, the bottom line is when we
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raice warn University students to watch for check-fraud scam
Victims report
being conned by
a man who asked
them to cash
out-of-state
checks
By Brian Goodell
Oregon Daily Emerald
Eugene Police and area banks are
warning students about a recent string
of check fraud scams in the West Uni
versity area. Students reported four
incidents of the scam last week, and
police said they have every reason to
expect the suspect will strike again.
“The key is to make students aware
of how the scam works so we can
keep additional students from getting
ripped off,” Eugene Police Officer
James Ellis said.
On two occasions last week a man
successfully persuaded students to
cash a $500 and $600 check. He told
them he needed cash to pay for a tow
charge. He said that, since he was
from out of town, no one would take
his check. The suspect offered his vic
tims $20 to deposit his check in ex
change for cash.
“Most people want to believe that
everyone is as honest as they are,” El
lis said. “Most people are honest, but
that isn’t always the case.”
When the victims deposited the
check and saw that their account was
automatically updated, they assumed
it would be OK to turn the money
back over to the man from out of
town.
“If anyone walks up to you with a
check, don’t even cash it,” said
Stephen Harris, personal banking of
ficer for U.S. Bank. “Be very careful.
There’s an incredible amount of fraud
IC The key is to make students
aware of how the scam works so
we can keep additional students
from getting ripped off.
James Ellis
Eugene Police officer J J
that goes on in this city.”
If a fraudulent check for $500 is de
posited into an account with a bal
ance less than that amount, banks will
give 17 days to settle the difference.
Otherwise, banks are legally required
to report bad debt to the credit bureau.
The suspect was described by both
victims as a tall black male in his early
30s. The suspect was casually dressed
in a plain black Nike shirt and san
dals.
Police said the suspect is using
stolen checks, and because they know
there are still nine to 10 more checks
in the book, Ellis said he has every
reason to believe the suspect will
strike again.
“We may not stop this guy from do
ing this,” Ellis said. “But by educating
students, we can at least stop this
from happening again in the Univer
sity area.”
Ellis emphasized that people
should not be afraid to report suspi
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