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One Wild Cat Fiery guard Felicity Willis leads her Arizona women's basket ball squad into Mac Court Friday for what could be a crucial Pac-10 contest against the Ducks, PAGE 7 'Dead Man Walking’ author to speak on campus Sister Helen Prejean, author of “Dead Man Walking,” will speak today at noon in the EMU Ballroom. Her book was made into a movie starring Susan Sarandon and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Prejean, a Catholic nun, has been an activist for death row inmates since the early 1980s. Her work in opposing the death penalty has gained her nom inations for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 and 1999. Health center working to better serve patients University Health Center administra tors have proposed inexpensive ways to improve privacy throughout the health center. They are addressing the issue in response to concerns brought forth by patients. Page3 Gore beats Bradley, McCain surprises Bush in primary MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP)—Arizona Sen. John McCain scored a landslide victory over George W. Bush on Tues day in New Hampshire’s leadoff pri mary. Vice President Al Gore survived a toe-to-toe challenge from Bill Bradley in the Democratic duel. With more than half the precincts counted, Gore had 54 percent of the vote, Bradley 46. McCain rolled up 49 percent of the GOP vote, Bush 31. a Tew plane crasn victims bodies located PORT HUENEME, Calif. (AP)—The pi lots of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 Strug- | gled with a sudden control problem for at least six minutes before the jet liner plummeted into the ocean with ; 88 people aboard, federal investiga- j \ tors said Tuesday. { Nearly a day after the accident, searchers had pulled four bodies— one man, two women and an infant— l from the calm sea, which is 300 to 750 ] | feet deep in the area. Hopes dimmed l that anyone aboard Flight 261 survived. j | Three passengers aboard the Alaska Airlines jet were bound for Eugene, of- j l ficials said. The identities of two of them had not been released. Weather high 45, low 37 high 42, low 26 Today Thursday IN LIKELY Wednesday February 2,2000 Volume 101, Issue 88 n n_t* h e w r h www.dailyemerald.com University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper Number of candidates rises strongly ■ Of the nearly 30 people running for the ASUO elections, seven candidates are seeking the presidency or vice presidency ASUO race There are now sev en tickets for pres ident and vice president. 35 candidates are now running for 16 Student Senate seats. Four senate candi dates are running uncontested. The architecture and allied arts/in terdisciplinary seat is the only one open. The new president and vice president will be responsible for appointing someone to that seat. 2000-2001 candi dates for ASUO President and Vice President: Daniel Atkinson Scott Austin Jay Breslow and Holly Magner Autumn DePoe and Caitlin Up shaw C.j. Gabbeand Pe ter Larson Ed Madrid and Melissa Logan Joel Rueber SOURCE: ASUO Elections Board By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald What a difference two days can make. Almost 30 more people threw in their hats in the past two days for the up coming ASUO elections. The ASUO Elections Board moved the filing deadline back from last Fri day to Tuesday because of low candidate turnout. Only four candidates filed to run for presi dent and vice presi dent, and many Stu dent Senate seats were either open or had one candidate running uncon tested. Now, seven candidates are running for president or vice president. And the Stu dent Senate now has only one open seat and four run ning uncontested. The new president and vice president will be in charge of appointing people to the open seats after the election. Despite the handful of open or uncontested spots in the election, Senate Presi dent Jessica Timpany called the sudden influx of candi dates “a sign of healthy democracy.” In the coming weeks, the Emerald will profile each can didate for president and vice president. A voter’s guide will follow profiling the candi dates for all the seats. Vote ASUO Election Turn to Elections, page 4 Media mm Fjtui Large media corporations are combining at a fast pace, and many are debating whether this is good for consumers By Eric Pfeiffer Oregon Daily Emerald Two weeks ago, America Online and Time Warner announced a move to cen tralize their corporations into the largest media entity in history. Less than a week later, as the effects of their merger were just beginning to be assessed, the newly allied AOL Time Warner Inc. announced plans to purchase EMI, the fourth largest music distributor in the United States, ac cording to CMJ News Music Reports, The impact of large media corporations is being criticized by those who oppose consolidated media control, especially with the fate of the industry in the hands of only a few companies, and more merg ers planned for the near future. Since events such as the World Trade Organization protest in Seattle, consoli dated corporate power has become an in creasingly visible and debatable topic. One of the arguments against this trend Turn to Merger, page 6 Corporate media earnings AOL Time Warner Inc., News Corpora tion, Disney and TCI, the four largest me dia corporations, each generate be tween $15 and 25 billion in annual sales. Westinghouse, Gannett, Dow Jones and McGraw-Hill, other major corpo rations, earn an av erage of $2-5 billion in annual sales. Source: University of Wis conson-Madison Professor Robert McChesney “Corpo rate Media and the Threat to Democracy' Nine months later, sit-in protesters reflect This is the third of a three part series exploring diversity on campus. Monday: Retain ing a diverse facul ty Tuesday: Diversity interns’ efforts with student groups Today: Johnson Hall protester up date ■ Many of the demonstrators, while celebrating changes made by the administration to increase diversity, say there is still a long way to go By Edward Yuen Oregon Daily Emerald Almost nine months have passed since the Johnson Hall sit-in, where Universi ty students and faculty ral lied together and demanded that the University adminis tration take notice of and improve campus diversity. Of the 75 people who par ticipated in the May 18 sit in, many have graduated from the University, and a select group remains dedi cated to the cause, while others have stepped back to address other issues on campus. Jason Mak is one of the protesters who gathered in the Johnson Hall lobby for nine hours for the protest that s by a racial re sponse in a class e-mail discussion. The group aemanaea that University President Dave Frohnmayer meet their requests, which included requiring sensitiv ity training for faculty and giving student groups at least $1 million to help meet their diversity goals. Mak has been strongly fighting for campus diversi ty since he participated in the sit-in. He and nine other students were hired as sum mer diversity interns, a pro gram that was created by the Office of the President as a result of the sit-in. As an intern, Mak wrote rec ommendations about how the University administra tion could recruit more stu dents and faculty of color. Now as the ASUO re cruitment and retention co ordinator, and as the diver sity affairs coordinator for the Office of Student Acad emic Affairs, Mak meets with the administration and Turn to Diversity, page 4
