Harris keeps on
keeping on
Despite still recovering from a
torn ACL, Harris is one of the
Ducks’best wrestlers with a
16-9 record this season.
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The Flash
Departures dominate Student
Senate meeting
In its first meeting of winter term, the
Student Senate saw three resignations
Wednesday night. Sens. Andrew
Schneider and Scott Shoji announced
their departure from the senate, and
Sen. Eric Pfeiffer left his position of
senate ombudsman.
Pfeiffer will remain a senator but relin
quishes his ombudsman post, which is
responsible for interpreting ASUO
rules and investigating grievances filed
by students in the senate.
The two senator resignations Wednes
day and one from last term leave three
open spots on the Student Senate.
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Author of ‘Caucasia’ to give
reading
Author Danzy Senna will read her new
novel at 8 p.m. tonight at 123 Pacific
Hall. Senna’s book is currently a work
in-progress with a title that has yet to
be released.
Her first novel, “Caucasia,” was a story
that probed into the various aspects
and difficulties of interracial mar
riage. Senna has had a strong back
ground in writing and race, as her
mother was a white poet and novelist,
and her father was a black scholar of
race and history.
Debra Gwartney, assistant director of
the University’s program in creative
writing, said Senna was invited to the
University because of the style and
content of her writing, which Gwart
ney described as clear and distinctive
about interracial family life.
For more information, call 346-3944.
White House earmarks $27
million for toxicity tests
WASHINGTON (AP)—The White House
wants to spend $27 million to develop
blood tests for measuring toxic sub
stances in humans. The money also
would be used to help communities use
the tests to investigate unusually high
cancer rates or chemical accidents.
The funds, to be included in President
Clinton’s2001 budget, would more
than dou ble what the government
spent last year to develop ways of
measuringtoxic exposure in humans.
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State of the city
Eugene Mayor Jim Torrey reflected on the past year and set goals for the next during his State-of-the-City address.
Mayor Jim
Torrey
delivered his
State-of-the
City speech
to a receptive
audience
Wednesday
Mayor addresses Eugene
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
Eugene Mayor Jim Torrey’s third
annual State-of-the-City address
was interrupted early Wednesday
afternoon, when a member of Eu
gene Anarchists for Torrey (EAT)
stood up and yelled, “I’d hate to in
terrupt this schmooze fest, but
Leaning into his microphone,
Torrey interrupted the man and
promised to later meet with the an
archists if he were allowed to con
tinue his speech without further
interference.
Unfazed, Torrey applauded the
city’s encouragement of public in
put, reflected on the past year’s
achievements and set new goals.
Citing citizen participation in
transportation planning, land
management and public safety leg
islation, Torrey said, “We give peo
ple an opportunity to tell us what
they think, and we listen to what
they say.”
Except for a handful of quips
shouted by one of the about half
dozen EAT members present, the
remainder of the speech went
smoothly and received several vol
leys of applause from the nearly
300 people convened at the Eu
gene Hilton.
One of Torrey’s most passionate
Turn to State of city, page 4A
Debate continues
over compensation
■ The University Senate continues
to debate a plan to redistribute
the funds for faculty salaries
By Ben Romano
Oregon Daily Emerald
The debate on faculty compensation in
tensified during the University Senate
meeting Wednesday afternoon.
Presented before the group of professors,
administrators and students was US9900
7, a resolution to redistribute faculty salary
increases in a more equitable way, and the
Senate Budget Committee White Paper, a
comprehensive, long-term plan to elevate
faculty compensation to bring the Univer
sity in line with comparator universities.
The new Oregon University System
budget model, which went into affect in
July 1999, is one major factor responsible
for the discussion of faculty compensation
Turn to Senate, page 6A
Hillel awarded grant
for community use
■ The Jewish student union receives the Cummings
Award, a grant to be disbursed over two years
Hillel
Turn to Hillel, page 6A
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
When Oregon Hillel, the foundation for
Jewish life at the University, decided to fo
cus on social activism this year, its members
didn’t know they’d be spending $10,000 to
do it.
In December, just before winter break,
Hillel was given Cummings Award, desig
nating it as a “TzedekHillel” (Tzedek is He
brew for justice and fairness) and requiring
it to spend $10,000 each year on social ac
tivism programs on campus, such as home
lessness and environmental issues.
The Cummings foundation will grant the
group $5000 in 2000-01 and $2500 in 2001
02, with Hillel responsible for coming up
with the rest cf the funds.
The grant is part of a shift in the focus of