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Put me in, coach
I Alyssa Fredrick has waited to
show what she can do—and
now with increasing playing
time, the agile forward is
beginning to look like a real
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Beer garden nixed by senate
| The Student Senate voted Wednesday
night to kill a ballot measure for a
campus beer garden. The measure,
- which would have been put to the stu
dents in the upcoming ASUO elections
— had been previously approved last
week by the senate, which called it
back for review Wednesday night.
Many senators said they changed their
vote because too many unanswered
questions remained about such a plan.
| “I’m still all for this, but it was put to
gether really quickly. There are a lot of
sub-issues that need to be dealt with,”
Sen. David Sanchez said. PAGE 3A
Seton Hall mum on arson
report; plans new sprinklers
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (AP)—Officials
refused to com ment Wed nesday on a
published report that a deadly dormi
tory fire at Seton Hall University was
deliberately set.
The Star-Ledger of Newark quoted
unidentified law enforcement sources
in a report Wednesday saying that in
vestigators believed the fire was not an
accident a nd that at least fou r suspects
had been identified.
Three 18-year-old students died in the
Jan. 19 blaze. No charges have been
filed.
McCain trying to turn
primary win into cash
WASHINGTON (AP) —John McCain
rushed to turn his New Hampshire
landslide into the cash necessary to
keep his presidential campaign going.
His campaign’s Web site took in
$500,000 in contributions within
hours of McCain’s victory over Texas
Gov. George W. Bush in Tuesday’s GOP
primary.
McCain volunteers spent Wednesday
on the phone, asking potential sup
porters to donate or help raise money,
and the Arizona senator sched u led a
fund-raiser in South Carolina on
Wednesday night.
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Helen Prejean speaks during a press conference at Central Presbyterian Church. Prejean, a
Catholic nun, wrote ‘Dead Man Walking,’ which was made into a motion picture.
The/ngel of
DEATH ROW
Sister Helen Prejean, crusader against
the death penalty, speaks on campus
By Serena Markstrom
Oregon Daily Emerald
As she licked the envelope
addressed to a death-row in
mate at Angola prison in
Louisiana, Sister Helen Pre
jean thought she was only
doing a good deed for a man
sentenced to die. She didn’t
know that once Pat Sonnier
received the letter, her life
would never be the same.
Since that day in 1983, she
has educated audiences of as
few as three people on the
death penalty. Wednesday
she reached a few more as
660 students, community
members and faculty packed
the EMU Ballroom to hear
her speak.
In her four-day stay in Ore
gon she will attempt to add
support for an upcoming ini
tiative, co-petitioned by for
mer Gov. Mark Hatfield, that
seeks to replace the death
penalty with life without pa
role and restitution for capi
tal offenses. Prejean also is
Turn to Prejean, page 3A
44 When
you live a
life of priv
ilege, you
don't
know you
have a life
of privi
lege.
Helen
Prejean
author
World’s oldest sandals
on display at museum
The shoes,
made of woven
twine, are
10,000 years
old
By Serena Markstrom
Oregon Daily Emerald
Waffle irons may have
revolutionized running
shoes, but weaving is how
the world's oldest shoes
were crafted. And Oregon is
the birthplace of both.
A pair of 10,000-year-old
sandals are part of “Sage
brush, Cedar and Tule: 10,000
Years of Oregon Basketiy,” an
exhibit on display at the Uni
versity Museum of Natural
History until March 26.
Throughout time, native
people in Oregon have re
lied on the resources of the
ocean and coastal rivers to
create the tools needed for
survival. The pieces “are
utilitarian, but very beauti
ful,” said Loretta Plaa, mu
seum volunteer.
The exhibition, which be
gan Jan. 11, brings together
ancient and contemporary
works of basketry, including
the woven sandals.
The shoes were discov
ered in 1938, at Fort Rock
Cave near Bend, but no one
knew how old they were un
til recently.
Thomas Connolly, direc
tor of archaeological re
search at the University, said
scientists did seven radio
carbon date tests on the
Turn to Sandals, page 3A
These sandals—the oldest shoes in the world—were found
in 1938 at Fort Rock Cave near Bend.
Vegetarian restaurant chain expands service
Meatless trends
•Twenty percent of American adu Its are likely to look
for a restaurant that serves vegetarian items.
•Half of all American households eat two or more
meatless suppers each week.
• Twenty percent of American households eat four or
more meatless dinners each week.
• Eighty-eight percent of the people who do notea!
meat do so for health reasons.
SOURCE: Vegetarian Resource Group, National Restau
rant Association
■Andrew Mnasn restau
rants serve specially pro
duced meatless patties
By Brian Goodell
Oregon Daily Emerald
Last year, Gardenburger
received negative attention
from student groups op
posed to the patty-maker’s
unethical treatment of its
workers. MEChA, the Uni
versity’s Hispanic and Chi
cano student movement,
was one of the biggest propo
nents of banning Garden
burger products on campus.
“We were mostly opposed
with the way they treat their
farm workers,” MEChA
member and Junior Business
Major Miguel Chapa said.
“We got Gardenburger off
campus, and now we’re try
ing to ban all Flav-R-Pac
Turn to Smash, page 3A
Andrew
Smash is cut
ting-edge.
Peter Jameson
founder, CEO
Jamie’s Great
Hamburgers
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