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Devastating Both the women's and men's basketball teams are one-and-done after suffering stunning upsets in the final seconds of overtime in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on March 17. PAGE 9A The Flash Academy Awards prize movie industry “American Beauty,” “The Matrix,” “The Cider House Rules” and “Girl, Interrupt ed” were among the movies awarded with Oscars during the Academy Awards Sunday night. “American Beauty,” the big winner, left the evening with five awards. Check out the Academy Awards Web site at www.os cars.org. PAGE6A Cancun this year’s spring break capital CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Leaving behind traditional spring break spots like Day tona Beach, Fla., and South Padre Island, Texas, a record number of U.S. college stu dents have descended upon Cancun this year, turning the resort into the hottest party spot around. MTV films kids wriggling in their bikinis. E! Entertain ment Television scours the beach for lurid footage. Jose Cuervo and Corona sponsor events at discos that compete for the word-of-mouth title of the least-inhibited party. Kingdome demolition attracts spectators SEATTLE (AP) —Thousands reveled in a party atmos phere surrounding Sunday’s implosion of the Kingdome, leveled to make way for a new Seahawks football stadi um in Pioneer Square. The Seattle Mariners left the mul tipurpose Ki ngdome last sea- - son for Safeco Field, across the street to the south. The implosion occurred on schedule at 8:30 a.m. Sparks from a 21.6-mile web of det onation cord flickered over the dome, exploding in a se ries of loud bangs. Then the 25,000-ton roof collapsed in ward, disappearing in a mas sive sandy dust cloud and shaking the earth. Weather Today Tuesday BAIN LIKELY RAIN LIKELY high 53, low 38 high 53, low 37 jj ^ Oregon Daily ^ Monday March 27,2000 Volume 101, Issue 117 o_oL_b_e_w_e_b_ www.dailyemerald.com University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper Furthering education Ryan Starkweather Emerald University students from MEChA talk with a group of Jefferson Middle School students at a Ganas tutoring session. Through the Ganas program, the younger students receive help in all subjects. Eugene middle schoolers get UO students as tutors The Ganas tutors give Latino and Chicano middle school students some one on-one help in their studies By Serena Markstrom Oregon Daily Emerald Aimee Larsen, a Universi ty senior, helps Tania Guillen sound out some words in her social studies homework about the three branches of U.S. government. “Ex-ec-q tip,” Guillen repeats as she tries to finish the assignment. Guillen is a middle school student, and Larsen is help ing h,er learn in a program called “Ganas.” The program sends University students to visit area middle schools and tutor students in every sub ject. And as an added bonus, both the middle school and the college students are learn ing with Ganas. Before Guillen’s last session, Larsen didn’t know that “bicameral” meant “having two houses.” Four years ago, Jim Garcia, then director of the office of multicultural affairs, started Ganas at Kennedy Middle School. The purpose of Ganas, which means “desire” in Spanish, is to help Chi Tum to Tutors, page 7A Court rules incidental fees are legal ■ The fee system-survives supreme scrutiny, but questions remain as more groups may be able to claim rights to the funds By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald The University dodged a S5.5 million bullet on Wednes day. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the in cidental fee system — which funds about 90 student pro grams, the EMU and student athletic tickets at the Universi ty — is constitutionally legal. The case began at the Univer sity of Wisconsin during the 1995-96 school year when stu dents Scott Southworth, Amy Schoepke and Keith Bannach objected to paying incidental fees to groups with political views that differed from theirs. They believed funding groups ranging from multicultural groups to WisPIRG — Wiscon sin’s version of OSPIRG — was in violation of their First Amendment rights to free speech. Southworth and his support ers argued that free speech in cludes the right not to speak. The students’ obligation to pay the fee would be a form of com pelled speech and a violation of their right not to speak. But in the majority decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court said the fee helps universities fulfill a vital mission “to facili tate a wide range of speech.” Kennedy went on to write, “The university may determine that its mission is well served if students have the means to en gage in dynamic discussions of philosophical, religious, scien tific, social and political sub jects in their extracurricular Turn to Student fees, oaee 4A reinforces any questions and erases any doubt people have about paying the fee. Wylie Ciien ASUO president Census information vital for state funding Filling out your 2000 census forms helps to determine funding for several programs in your community that you and many others use daily By Sara Lieberth Oregon Daily Emerald You may use it to write a research paper. You may encounter its effects when you pay rent or ride the bus or sit in a classroom. It determines a myriad of services and programs you come into contact with daily, and it asks only that you spend 10 minutes filling out a form every 10 years. The U.S. Census, conducted decennially since George Washington’s administration, is crucial ly instrumental in providing communities with everything from congressional representation to schools, highway construction, hospital servic es and programs for the elderly. Completing an accurate count of every citizen in the country is no easy task, however, as the 2000 census’s $5 million budget confirms. The majority of households receive the “short form” Turn to U.S. Census, page 6A Teacher, class evaluations should be on-line for fall ■ The ASUO hopes the evaluations, previously in pamphlet form, will help students schedule classes By Emily Gust Oregon Daily Emerald After three years of struggling to find a way to provide students with the results of faculty evaluations, the ASUO has finally discovered a solution. Answers to the four University-wide ques tions contained on every teacher evaluation are currently being placed on-line and are expect ed to be ready by the end of May in time for fall 2000 registration. A link on Duck Hunt will lead students to the scores their prospective faculty and/or course choices received in pre vious evaluations. Professor of geology Jack Rice, who has been helping in this process through the computing Turn to Evaluations, page 8A On the Web The tentative plan to post course and faculty evaluations on the Internet: First, students com plete evaluations at the end of the term. Results should be accessible on Duck Hunt in a few weeks. Information for spring term 2000 will be available on the Web in the fall.
