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
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Today
Thursday
IN LIKELY
Wednesday
February 2,2000
Volume 101, Issue 88
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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