Athletic ticket prices debated
■ The Athletic Department
Finance Committee also is
weighing the option of
season tickets for students
By Jason George
Oregon Daily Emerald
Sometimes, even a little is too
much.
At its weekly meeting, the Ath
letic Department Finance Com
mittee, the committee that con
trols student tickets to athletic
events, de
bated how
much stu
dents should
be charged
for tickets to
football
games. Students are currently
paying 52 percent of what the
general public pays for their tick
ets, said Senior Associate Athlet
ic Director Sandy Walton.
Contention arose when ADFC
Chairperson Spencer Hamlin
said that last year’s committee
members agreed to pay 50 per
cent for the tickets, not 52 per
cent.
Walton said she did not recall
agreeing to that exact figure: “It
was an approximate value.”
Both Walton and Hamlin said
they would re-examine their
notes from last year and discuss
the issue again.
Every student indirectly pays
for the tickets out of the inciden
tal fee every term. For the 1999
football season, a total of 6,098
tickets per game are available for
students.
Committee members also dis
cussed the possibility of dispens
ing a limited number of season
tickets for students next year.
Hamlin suggested a lottery sys
tem for “about 10 percent or 500”
of the student tickets.
“You could even charge an ad
ditional fee” for season tickets,
suggested Jeff Kershner, commit
tee member. He said students
might pay more through the inci
dental fee or have the option of
paying cash for season tickets,
but did not speak in favor of ei
ther option.
The group will consider the
season ticket system for the 2000
2001 football and basketball sea
sons in future meetings.
Walton said she has always
been a fan of the season ticket
system because it would alleviate
some of the burden on workers at
the EMU ticket office. She said
fewer people needing tickets to
every game would help reduce
long lines such as the ones that
have appeared this week as stu
dents wait to get tickets to the
Civil War game.
The ADFC is composed of two
student senators, Hamlin and
Jennifer Greenough; a student
representing the ASUO Execu
tive, Kershner; and an athletic
department representative, Wal
ton.
Hostage tells of kidnapping for first time
PORTLAND -— An Oregon
woman who was taken hostage
in Yemen with her parents be
fore being released last week has
publicly described the kidnap
ping for the first time in public
— in an e-mail to her hometown
newspaper.
Last Tuesday, driving from the
city of Ta’izz in the Republic of
Yemen with her visiting parents,
Marta Colburn saw a blue pick
up speed past. Men, hunched
over, were riding in the back.
“When they were approxi
mately 50 meters in front of us, a
number of them stood up and one
pointed his Kalashnikov rifle at
us,” Colburn wrote in an e-mail
to The Oregonian. “When I failed
to stop, he shot a bullet at the as
phalt in between the vehicles.
“I pulled the car onto the
shoulder and before I knew it,
they were at the door and one
was hitting the window with the
butt of his gun.”
Colburn, 41, has been on leave
from Portland State University’s
Middle Eastern program since
early 1998. She currently is di
rector of the American Institute
for Yemeni Studies in San’a,
Yemen’s capital.
Her parents, Donald and Gladys
Colburn of Portland, arrived in
Yemen last month for a visit of
several weeks. They plan to return
this week. Don Colburn, 70, is a re
tired Methodist minister, while
his 75-year-old wife is active in the
Oregon Peace Institute.
Their daughter originally
planned to stay in Yemen with
husband Bruce Paluck and 6
year-old son Cody until Decem
ber or January, but her e-mail
said she will return to Portland
at the end of November.
She said the kidnappers put
the Colburns into the back seat
of the vehicle and drove “at
breakneck speed” for seven
hours through mountainous, rur
al Yemen.
“When we arrived at the vil
lage where we were held, the
family that ’hosted’ us were very
solicitous to our needs and treat
ed us respectfully. We spent our
time in the mufraj [living room]
with the windows covered over.
There we ate, talked, slept, wrote
and kept up our spirits.”
The next afternoon, at 3:45
p.m. (4:45 a.m. Pacific time),
shells from government tanks
blasted the mountains surround
ing the village. The barrage last
ed half an hour.
“When the shelling stopped,
angry villagers gathered outside
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the house, .putting pressure on
the young men who had com
mitted this act to release us. This
action also served to strengthen
the support to us by our ’host’
family and others involved.”
About nine hours later, at
12:30 a.m., the captives were
told that negotiations were con
cluding and they soon would be
released;
“At 2:45 a.m. we were
squeezed into a Toyota pickup
and driven an hour to the Yemen
Hunt compound outside of
Ma’rib, where we rested, slept
briefly and ate breakfast. The
government helicopter transport
ed us to Ma’rib at about 8 a.m.
and we were taken by escort to
do some sightseeing.
“We were fed again and given
a huge bag of Ma’rib citrus fruit
by Yemen government employ
ees. The military helicopter then
flew us over the amazing land
scape of Yemen to San’a.”
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Media Services makes
one dam documentary
■ The film focuses on
the music Woody Guthrie
wrote and its relation to
hydroelectric power
By Maggie Young
Oregon Daily Emerald
“Roll on Columbia, roll on.
Your power is turning our dark
ness to dawn ...” The song lyrics
you belted out in elementary
school have a powerful history
behind them, and Media Ser
vices has the story covered.
“Roll On Columbia: Woody
Guthrie and the Bonneville
Power Administration,” a docu
mentary produced by Mike Ma
jdic, TV producer and Director
for Media Services, and journal
ism Professor Denise Matthews,
has been under construction for
a year and a half and is only an
online edit away from comple
tion.
Media Services is revisiting
this story to inform the people of
today about the history of our re
gion, Majdic said.
“Most people don’t know that
this music came from the same
time and the same story,” he
said.
The film centers on the rela
tionship between the Bonneville
Dam and folk singer Woody
Guthrie in the 1930s.
At that time, every municipal
ity was given the decision be
tween public and private power.
In order to sway people toward
energy from the Bonneville
Dam, the administration pro
duced a movie entitled “Hydro”
in 1939.
In 1941, a bigger version of the
film was in the works. Guthrie
was contracted to write a song
per day. In the end, he produced
26 songs in 30 days.
Before the film could be assem
bled, the United States entered
World War II and factories were
put into overload. At this time
there was no need to convince
people of the need for power.
The project was canceled, and
the music was forgotten. Eventu
ally, the music seeped out
though, Majdic said.
Woody Guthrie’s songs, such
as “Roll on Columbia” and
“Grand Coolee Dam,” became
popular in the 1950s.
Copies of the film will be
sold across the country to li
braries, museums and schools,
Majdic said. He also hopes to
air the film on the History
Channel and Oregon Public
Broadcasting.
One of the intended uses for
this film is a tool for history
classes, Majdic said. The topics
covered include the New Deal
and folk music, he said.
The concept of using this film
as teaching material is fantastic,
English Professor Kathleen Kar
lyn said. She teaches film stud
ies and would recommend this
as a tool.
“For better or worse, we live
in an age of moving images an
visual narratives,” she said.
“This is how people learn.”
This project both benefits Uni
versity students in many ways,
Media Services Director Tom
Matney said.
Several students from the
School of Journalism and Com
munication were involved in all
aspects of production, Matney
said.
“This will give them‘real
world experience and a product
that will be used nationally,” he
said.
In addition, part of the money
produced from the sales of the
film will go right back into stu
dent support in Media Services.
The funds will be used to pro
vide a scholarship for a student
in journalism or communica
tions arts to work in Media Ser
vices.
A premiere showing for Uni
versity students is in the prelim
inary planning stages and is ten
tatively scheduled for the end of
January.
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