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
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March 27,2000
Volume 101, Issue 117
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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.