match for Ducks
Oregon's offense staggers a bit,
but like always, its defense is
there to save the day, as the
Ducks pick up their third Pac
10 win Thursday: PAGE?
The Flash
PFC back in the Board Room
The ASUO Programs Finance Commit
tee approved budgets for eight groups
Thursday night, increasing funding for
three programs, including Oregon Fu
ture Lawyer Association, which was not
funded by the ASUO last shoot year.
PFC members voted not to hear an ap
peal filed by the International Stu
dents Association, but they will hear
appeals from DELTA/GSO and the
Hawaii Club, both of which were not
represented at the budget hearings as
scheduled. PAGE 5
Total lunar eclipse
beautifies night sky
(AP) — Across the Western Hemi
sphere wherever there wasn’t a cur
tain of clouds, one of the greatest
shows on Earth played overhead
Thursday night: a total eclipse of the
moon.
Starting about 9:30 p.m. with a shad
ow along its left edge, the moon began
moving toward total eclipse as it crept
into Earth’s shadow.
The last total eclipse of the moon was
in September 1997. The next, on July
16, will be best seen from the West
Coast.
Columbine library to be
replaced with atrium
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — School board of
ficials voted late Thursday to replace
the Columbine High School library
where two students gunned down
their classmates in the nation’s dead
liest school shooting.
A group of Columbine students and
parents has proposed raising $3.5 mil
lion to tear down the current library,
replace it with an atrium and build a
new wing with a new library.
“We’re saying to the world that life
goes on, yes, life will be better,” Jeffer
son County School Board President Jon
DeStefano said after the 4-1 vote.
In April, 10 Columbine students were
killed in the library before gunmen Eric
Harris and Dylan Klebold took their
own lives. Two other students and a
teacher were killed outside the library.
The school was reopened in the fall,
but the library has been sealed.
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Volume 101, Issue 80
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University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
An independent newspaper
Autzen expansion hits roadblock
Some citizens
are concerned
about possible
effects of Alton
Baker Park and
surrounding
neighborhoods
By Jessica Blanchard
Oregon Daily Emerald
Plans for the $80 million
expansion of Autzen Stadi
um will remain on hold for
now, despite pressure to
stick to a tight timeline to be
gin construction.
The Campus Planning
Committee, which held a
public hearing Thursday
morning, held off on giving
their approval to the plans
after a handful of citizens
voiced their concerns about
how the expansion would
affect Alton Baker Park and
nearby neighborhoods.
Construction can only be
done between football sea
sons, and the University
would like to begin work in
Turn to Autzen, page 3
Projected renovations
The $80 million expansion project for Autzen Stadium is scheduled to be completed by the
2002-03 school year.
Centennial Boulevard
HH Autzen Stadium property^^M
New additions,
including new ramps *
_and a main staircase
[ Existing parking spaces
B Exsisting buildings and footpaths
B Exsisting fields
SOURCE: EHerbe Becket
Katie Miller Emerald
The heart of the matter
By focusing on scholarship and
brotherhood, fraternity leaders hope to
increase membership and
raise public image
By Simone Ripke
Oregon Daily Emerald
If Greek leaders on campus are right,
the end of the “Animal House” mental
ity is near.
Fraternity leaders say they have been
looking to turn away from the public
conception of partying and drinking
and hope to turn the declining trend in
membership around.
Fraternity enrollment has been de
creasing since 1990, said Jon
Williamson, executive vice president of
the North American Interfratemity Con
ference. Williamson said enrollment
dropped 25 percent and lowered the
number of fraternity members in the na
tion to 350,000 undergraduates. How
ever, Williamson said fraternity enroll
Catharine Kendall Emerald
Kevin Gelbrich,
president-elect of
the Delta Tau Delta
fraternity, has been
actively involved in
recruitment of new
members.
ment has always been cyclical and ex
pects an increase in numbers soon.
“I predict that there will be a big rise
because more and more fraternities are
getting back to their values,”
Williamson said.
Those values are brotherhood, schol
arship and community service, the
principles on which fraternities were
founded.
Public image is not the sole reason
for the decrease in membership.
Williamson said more students are
working today to finance their educa
tion and might not have the time or the
money to get involved in the Greek sys
tem.
Scott McCulloch, a senior majoring in
Turn to Fraternities, page 4
City Councilor Lee not to seek re-election
Bobby Lee, a
former ASUO
president, has
represented the
University area
for three years
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
Eugene City Councilor *
Bobby Lee, who has received
acclaim for addressing stu
dent concerns and home
lessness issues, has decided
not to seek re-election to his
council position represent
ing the University area this
year, a post he’s held the past
three years.
“It would be unfair to the
public and myself for me to
make a four-year commit
ment at a time when I need to
consider my personal and
professional development,”
Lee said.
Lee, whose term ends in
January 2001, said he will
leave the unpaid council po
sition to work in the private
sector and repay his college
loans, which he acquired
while earning both his bache
lor’s degree in sociology and
his master’s degree in plan
ning, public policy and man
agement from the University,
where he also served as the
1992-93 ASUO president.
“I’ll truly miss him,” said
Eugene Mayor Jim Torrey,
who leads the council meet
ings. “The University of Ore
gon students and faculty
have been well represented
by councilor Bobby Lee, and
the citizens of Eugene have
been well represented. ”
Lee, who was still a gradu
ate student during his first
two years on the City Council,
has outspokenly represented
students and advocated youth
involvement in politics.
Turn to Bobby Lee, page 3