Friday
October 29,1999
Volume 101, Issue 44
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University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
An independent newspaper
www.dailyemerald.com
Another loss, different day
The volleyball team’s on-court struggles continued last night j
as the Ducks were swept by California, setting a school
record 15-match losing streak. PAGE 11A
Skaters beware
The Office of Public Safety recommends skateboarders and
rollerbladers to exercise caution to avoid damage and
safety hazards or be prepared to pay a fine. PAGE 4A
Exhuming the past
Azle Malinao-Alvarez Emerald
The Pioneer Cemetery, located on the southern edge of campus, is currently being studied by students in the Historical Preservation
Program with emphasis on many aspects, such as its folklore and its physical components.
By Jack Clifford
Oregon Daily Emerald
Sara Francis Folts
should be celebrat
ing her 77th birth
day today.
Instead, Sara
died as an infant on
Oct. 31, 1922, a
mere two days after
she was born.
Her lichen-cov
ered, stone grave
marker is deterio
rating, perhaps giv
ing in to decades of
relentless Oregon rains. Still,
the small reminder of life’s only
certainty — death — lies with
thousands of others in the Pio
neer Cemetery, which domi
nates the southern edge of the
campus landscape.
The cemetery has a rich back
ground — including a spot on the
National Register of Historic
Places — one that can be pieced
together through conversations
with those who un
derstand its connec
tion to Eugene’s his
tory. Originally
named Odd Fel
lows’ Cemetery, af
ter the fraternal or
ganization, the
Eugene Pioneer
Cemetery Associa
tion took over con
trol and upkeep in
1930, said Ruth
Holmes, the group’s
secretary treasurer.
The EPCA has ao
proximately 200 members, and
each member pays $30 in annual
dues to help complement an en
dowment fund of $300,000 set
Turn to Cemetery, Page5A
UO, community:
no more rioting
■ Students as well as the
University and police plea
for a safe, peaceful
Halloween weekend
By Brian Goodell
Oregon Daily Emerald
It’s not a tradition, it’s a curse.
For the past three years, Hal
loween weekend parties in the
West University neighborhood
have turned ugly and violent.
Blame was tossed in every
direction — students’ abuse of
alcohol, story-hungry media,
police-brutality.
The message this year from
students, administrators and
police rings loud and clear:
Please,-not again.
Senior Ty Prichard, who was
arrested during last year’s riot,
organized an ASUO-sponsored
leafletting campaign Wednes
day night in the West Universi
ty neighborhood to educate stu
dents on how to party safely
and responsibly.
“I hope students don’t end
up in the wrong place at the
wrong time,” the philosophy
and political science major
said. “I hope students stay out
of jail. I don’t want the same
thing to happen to other peo
ple.”
Eugene Police Sgt. Rick
Gilliam said he has spent sever
al months attending meetings
and giving talks, trying to pre
vent a repeat of the past two
years’ chaos.
“We hope that if there are
some problems, that people
don’t show up to observe,”
Gilliam said. “Once the mob
mentality sets in, it can be diffi
cult to disperse a crowd.”
Since last year’s riots, Assis
Around the nation
Other universities victim to stu
dent violence in 1998:
At Ohio University, approximate
ly 2,000 people threw bottles and
pieces of asphalt at police.
At the University of Connecticut,
police arrested 40 students after
nearly 2,000 people turned a
“Spring Weekend" party into a
fight with police.
At Michigan State University, a
peaceful protest of alcohol prohi
bition turned into a 3,000 person
brawl between police and pro
testers.
SOURCE: Byron McCrae, assistant dean of
student life
tant Dean of Student Life Byron
McCrae has participated in
planning a number of Universi
ty-sponsored programs. The
University even sponsored a
nationwide teleconference in
November 1998 that looked at
the connection between alco
hol and incivility.
McCrae said the University
has also worked to initiate con
structive conversations be
tween police and students, or
ganized ride-along programs
with police officers and spon
sored a safety fair in which po
lice and public safety officers
told students how to enjoy
themselves on the weekends
without getting into trouble
with the law.
In addition, there are several
ASUO- and University-spon
sored events on Saturday night.
“It frustrates me that these
events have been perceived as
anti-riot functions,” McCrae
said. “I know a lot of these
Turn to Halloween, Page 10A
Frohnmayer still recovering, students reaching out
Well-wishers
have the
opportunity to
record their
messages on
video tape
By Maggie Young
Oregon Daily Emerald
In response to the request of University
President Dave Frohnmayer’s family to not
receive flowers or cards, the campus com
munity is coming together to send its best
wishes to the president, who continues to
stay at Suburban Health Care Systems in
Bethesda, Md.
Frohnmayer is recovering from a sudden
arrhythmia he suffered last Friday. He was
moved out of the intensive care unit at the
hospital on Wednesday.
Media Services, the campus media
center, donated its equipment and time
to compile a video with short get-well
messages. A camera was set up outside
the EMU Ballroom from 1:15 until 3
p.m. Thursday, and messages will con
tinue to be video taped today from noon
until 2:30 p.m.
It is an opportunity to give something
back to the president, Mike Majdic, TV pro
ducer and director with Media Services,
said.
“The president takes time out of his
schedule to do nice things,” Majdic said.
“He means a lot to this campus, and this is
an opportunity fo let him know.”
The news of the president’s heart ar
rhythmia has struck everyone, University
Trustee Sally McCracken said.
“It was wonderful to hear the news about
your being upgraded,” she said to the cam
era. “You have no concept about how
much your illness has affected people. Our
thoughts and prayers are with you, and
even people who don’t know you are pray
ing for you.”
Turn to Frohnmayer, Page 6A
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Catharine Kendall Emerald
Freshman environmental studies major Keigo Nakaide folds origami cranes in the
EMU. He is sending the cranes as a message of hope for President Frohnmayer.