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Lindquist lovin’ life as a Duck Junior transfer Ben Lindquist, averaging nearly six points per game, has been a pleasant surprise for Oregon. PAGE 13 The Flash University once again accepting blood donations Today is the second day of the Univer sity’s annual blood drive, which is in its 17th year. This year, at least 200 stu dents are expected. Students desiring to donate blood should report to the EMU Fir Room be tween 10a.m. and 3p.m. People with type A negative blood are especially encouraged to participate. PAGE 5 First lady to sit down with David Letterman ALBANY, N. Y (AP)—To show she’s fun ny, tough, good under pressure and well worth the votes of millions of New Yorkers. That’s got to be one of the top 10 rea sons—maybe the only one, really— for Hillary Rodham Clinton to show up as a guest on tonight’s “Late Show with David Letterman.” She’s been resisting invitations for months. Not too surprising, perhaps, considering that Letterman—the quintessential New Yorker from Indi ana who lives in Connecticut—has made a running gag of calling her a carpetbagger from Arkansas. Mrs. Clinton's spokesman, Howard Wolfson, said she had wanted to wait until she moved to New York. Bradley attacks Gore’s stance on tobacco issues DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Bill Bradley accused Al Gore on Tuesday of flip flopping in Senate votes on smoking and tobacco, opening a new health care front in their fight for the Democ ratic presidential nomination. Gore said it sounded like Bradley was get ting desperate. Appearing at an elementary school, Bradley pointed in particular to a 1985 vote in which Gore opposed efforts to block a cigarette tax reduction. “I thought it was an appropriate thing to raise at this time,” said Bradley. “It lays out a very clear point in time when there was a disagreement over who supported big tobacco.” Bradley defended selecting a 15-year old vote. “I’m hitting tobacco because tobacco happens to be something I’ve hit for IByears,” Bradley said. “Asforthe past, the past leads to the future.” Weather Today Thursday high 41, low 31 high 40, low 30 Wednesday January 12,2000 Volume 101, Issue 74 _o_Ql. ii ,,e_w e b ^ www.dailyemerald.com University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper Jeffrey Stockton Emerald Getting thebaJl-j-j • rolling The women’s basketball team looks to two program assistants to make sure they have the supplies they need to make another run at the Pac-10 title By Simone Ripke Oregon Daily Emerald When the women’s bas ketball team arrives at McArthur Court for practice, everything they need is al ready set up. It is not magic, but two program assistants make sure the team does not have to jump through any unnec essary hoops during prac tices and games. Nicole McElhany, a senior business and psychology double major, and Krista Poehler, a first-year graduate student majoring in busi ness, are program assistants for the woman's basketball team. They are responsible for everything from getting out basketballs for practice, labeling and filling water cups, organizing the locker rooms, supplying coaches with their favorite color markers and rebounding during practices. “We just make it easier for the coaches and the players to just focus on what they need to do,” McElhany said. The program assistants, Turn to Basketball, page 3 Women’s basket ball managers Krista Poehlerand Nicole McElhany join in a team hud dle during last Fri day’s practice at McArthur Court. 44 with out them, we couldn’t run the program. Fred Litzenberger women’s bas ketball assis tant coach Physicists creating computer device A project to develop a quantum logic gate could revolutionize computing by enabling a computer to do more than one task at a time By Davin Tryon for the Emerald University physicists are leading a three-university effort to create a computer that could be millions of times faster than any of today’s computers. Six University professors and a group of graduate stu dents are working on the proj ect to create a device called a quantum logic gate that would enable a computer to do multi ple tasks at once. Research is also being conducted on the projected by the University of Colorado-Boulder and the Uni versity of Arizona. Michael Raymer, a physics professor and leader of the re search team, said this device Turn to Computer, page 4 Jeffrey Stockton Emerald Physics major Doug Rutledge (left) and graduate student David Foster analyze a quantum optics experiment relevant to the development of a new micro-processing device. Marching band policy invokes grievance Scott Austin says the band doesn’t follow ASUO rules and should not receive funding until changes are made By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald The ASUO Pro grams Finance Com mittee decided to postpone approving the Oregon March ing Band’s budget for the 2000-01 year af ter OMB member Scott Austin filed a grievance with the ASUO Constitu tion Court. In his grievance, Austin claimed the voting procedure for the OMB’s band council is not democratic and breaks ASUO rules. “Even though any member of the [OMB] can run for a position on the council, the members of the previous year’s council are the only ones who are allowed to vote, not the entire marching band,” Austin said at Wednesday night’s meeting. The band council controls the inci dental fee money allocated to the OMB. The PFC decided to postpone then decision until the Constitution Court makes a decision on Austin’s griev ance. PFC member Alex Pederson said the decision needed be postponed. “Ethically, I feel the PFC should not fund a group that is inconsistent with the ASUO Constitution,” Peder son said. OMB director Todd Zimbelman said he was confused about the pro cedure that led to the decision. “I didn’t understand the process of operation that happened here tonight. It seems [the PFC] was not even clear,” Zimbelman said. However, he is neither upset bv the PFC’s decision nor worried about the future of the marching band. “This won’t affect anything right now. The outlook is very good for us,” Zimbelman said. Austin said he isn’t trying to deny the band funding or ruin it in any way, only to make sure all ASUO programs follow ASUO rules. “I don’t want to defund them. I’m in the band, for Heaven’s sake. But by laws have to be changed, and I see it to be a fairly easy process,” Austin said. The PFC did successfully approve the budgets of seven other ASUO programs Wednesday night, includ ing the Student Senate and Interfra temity Council. As in previous meet ings, many of the budgets approved by the PFC were less than those pro Tum to PFC, page 3
