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.”
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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
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