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In the annual concert to honor \
j the late dance department
| founder, M. Frances Dougher
\ ty, six performances by Univer
| sity faculty highlight a range
of artistic perspectives, PULSE
The Flash
Today marks second day
of ASUO primaries
The ASUO primary election continues
today at 9 a.m. and will end tonight at
5 p.m.
This year’s election will be conducted
entirely on DuckWeb. Students may
submit their votes through any com
puter with Internet access. Several
booths will be stationed on campus
containing a computers through which
students can vote.
A total of 39 candidates are running
for 23 positions within executive, Stu
dent Senate and several committees.
Six of these are executive tickets.
The general election is on March 1 and
2. These^lections will be for the re
maining candidates of the primaries,
as well as all of the ballot measures. If
a candidate receives more than 50 per
cent of the primary vote, he or she
wins outright and doesn’t have to run
in the general election.
City Council wants to revamp
neighborhood associations
Nearly one year after Eugene's City
Council devoted the funds necessary
to revitalize the city’s ailing neighbor
hood associations, the council
Wednesday night approved a set of
guidelines and a funding framework.
Groups will have to meet at least four
times per year and will have to have at
least 10 members besides the execu
tive association members must be
present at three of those meetings.
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Nine inmates shot, one
killed, during prison riot
CRESCENT CITY, Calif. (AP) — Guards
shot 13 inmates, killing one, to quell a
race riot Wednesday at a prison that
houses some of California’s most dan
gerous criminals, a prison spokesman
said.
About 200 black and Hispanic inmates
with handmade weapons began fight
| ing in a yard of the highest-security
wing of Pelican Bay State Prison, Lt.
Ben Grundy said. The violence ended a
half-hour later after guards, who first
used tear gas and pepper spray,
opened fire, he said.
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An independent newspaper
Lies, unfairness alleged in PFC
Inconsistencies
in allocating
budgets and
possible
unethical
behavior from
PFC members
raise the ire of
the ASUO
president
By Laura Cadiz
Oregon Daily Emerald
ASUO President Wylie
Chen charges that the Pro
grams Finance Committee
made dishonest decisions
during this year’s budget
process while dealing with
the ASUO’s and the Multi
cultural Center’s budgets.
He claims that the PFC pit
ted the ASUO against the
Multicultural Center be
cause both groups were ask
ing for a coordinator or direc
tor position, which both
demanded a high amount of
money. Chen alleges that
PFC Chairwoman Shantell
Rice and Vice Chairwoman
Emily Sedgwick told him
that he had to choose which
position the PFC should
fund because the PFC could
not afford both requests un
der its established 0 percent
benchmark.
Such back-room politics
directly contradict the PFC’s
claims that it looks at each
group’s budget under the
same objective criteria. Both
Rice and Sedgwick, who
help make up the six-mem
ber group that’s responsible
for allocating $2 million in
student fees to almost 100
student groups, said they did
talk to Chen about the posi
tions but don’t remember it
the way Chen does.
“She’s lying, she’s being
completely untruthful,” he
said of Rice’s claim to not
know the details of the discus
sion. Rice “specifically sat
down with me ... with Emily
Sedgwick and said, ‘Pick one
... MCC director, or the execu
tive coordinator... ’ The whole
conversation was about
choosing one or the otiier.”
Chen also alleges that dur
ing this conversation on Jan.
21 with Rice and Sedgwick,
they told him that if he didn’t
want to choose between the
positions, he could attempt
to cut budgets of other
Turn to PFC, page 4A
ii They
wanted to
make [the
ASUO] handle
the burden of
being the bad
guys.
Mitra
Anoushiravani
ASUO
vice
president
Inside
The population
of Jenny Mowe’s
hometown: 740.
The Powers High
School gym’s ca
pacity: 760.
Large enough to
accommodate
everyone in town
and the visiting
team. PAGE?
Kevin Calame Emeralc
Oregon needs redshirt junior
Jenny Mowe to stay aggressive.
By Mirjam Swanson and
Scott Pesznecker
Oregon Daily Emerald
The road into Powers is long and narrow,
winding its way through thick forest some 75
miles west of Roseburg. It’s serene but with a
touch of backwoods life. Nearing town you
pass a convenience store and groups of trailer
homes, complete with satellite dishes.
Finally, that green sign like the one every town
has.
Welcome to Powers: population 740.
So depending on where you’re from you either
shake your head in amazement, or you relate, be
cause you know how special these small towns
I can be.
The town itself consists of one main road and a
restaurant—Jack’s Place—a gas station and a few
Kevin Calame Emerald
other scattered buildings; it’s quaint and rugged
at the same time.
On the hill overlooking town is Powers High
School, enrollment 60. Nestled behind the school is
gridiron’s version of “Field of Dreams” — an old
school field used for eight-man competition, sur
rounded on three sides by stately fir trees, with the
fourth side belonging to a red-and-white set of
bleachers.
The school’s mascot is a Cruiser, the term for
someone who marks which trees to chop — not
the most P.C. of monikers.
Almost all the people in town don gear repre
senting their Cruisers—or the Oregon Ducks.
And, yes, everyone here knows everyone else.
Especially Jenny Mowe.
Welcome to Mowetown.
Speaker fights global warming misinformation
Ross Gelbspan,
a Pulitzer Prize
winner,
carefully
critiques
alleged
propaganda by
fossil fuel
companies
By Ben Romano
Oregon Daily Emerald
After “stumbling” onto a
massive disinformation
campaign waged by fossil
fuel concerns to downplay
the problem of global warm
ing, Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist Ross Gelbspan has
become one of the world’s
foremost experts on the cli
matic, political and econom
ic impacts of the continued
burning of coal and oil.
Gelbspan spoke to a
crowd of University and
community members that
filled room 100 in
Willamette Hall on Wednes
day as part of his two-day
Turn to Gelbspan, page 6A
Ryan Starkweather Emerald
Ross Gelbspan talks about the change in environmental weather patterns during a lecture in 100
Willamette.