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Every game isa big game The Oregon softball teams will be heavily favored—but the Ducks are still taking their matchup with Portland State very seriously PAGE 7 The Flash April awareness College students spend more on booze than they do on books. Alcohol awareness month is here, and there are plenty of sobering facts. PAGE 5 Judge rules Microsoft violated antitrust law WASHINGTON (AP)—A fed eral judge Monday found that Microsoft Corp. violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, main taining “monopoly power by anticompetitive means” and trying to take over the Web browser market. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson also ruled that Microsoft violated another section of the law by “unlawfully tying its Web browser to its operating sys tem” and may be sued under state anti-competition laws. Katz to receive breast cancer treatment PORTLAND (AP) — Mayor Vera Katz said Monday she will begin radiation treatment for breast cancer she was di agnosed with last month. Katz, 66, who was diag nosed with a form of breast cancer called ductal carcino ma in situ, said her physician successfully removed the can cerous tissues in a lumpecto my 21/2 weeks ago. Elian talks shift to giving boy to father MIAMI (AP) — The federal government Monday began working with Elian Gonza lez’s Miami relatives on a plan to turn the 6-year-old boy over to his father when he arrives in the United States, a federal official said. Meanwhile, 100 protesters outside the relatives’ Little Havana home practiced forming a human chain and vowed to stop at nothing to keep him in the country. Weather Today Wednesday RAIN POSSIBLE RAIN POSSIBLE high 57, low 38 high 58, low 40 Wednesday April 4,2000 Volume 101, Issue 123 —Q—Q-L h fi_w r h www.dailyemerald.com University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper UO graduate schools listed with the best The University’s graduate programs in architecture and education are in the nation’s top 20, and educators are not surprised By Serena Markstrom Oregon Daily Emerald Two of the University’s grad uate programs rank among the best in the country, according to a recent U.S. News & World Re port survey of U.S. graduate schools. The graduate program in the Department of Architecture ranks 15th, and the College of Education ranks 20th. Educators in the departments are happy about the results but not necessarily surprised. “It shows the continued qual ity of our program,” said Robert Melnick, dean of the College of Architecture and Allied Arts. “This is what I expect of the de partment.” Melnick said it is nice to be Turn to Rankings, page 4 Class syllabi, bios to go up on Web ■ As class evaluations go on-line, a plan to add other information is in the works On the Internet Before they reg ister, students will soon be able to see: Professor and course evalua tions Professor biogra phies Class syllabi By Emily Gust Oregon Daily Emerald The dream of giving students detailed course information with the click of the mouse has moved one step closer to reality. The Undergraduate Council and the ASUO coordinators be gan work Thursday morning to make professor biographies and course syllabi accessible to stu dents before they enroll in the class. ASUO Executive Projects co ordinator Tambi Boyle and Uni versity Affairs coordinator J.R. Fitzpatrick presented a propos al to the council that would po tentially link that information to Duck Hunt and enhance the scheduling process for Univer sity students. Those two, along with mem bers of the Undergraduate Turn to Evaluations, page 4 Catharine Kendall Emerald Dogs, such as Ginger (top), and other stray animals wait in shel ters at the Greenhill Humane So ciety to be adopted into loving families. National pet overpopulation Number of cats and dogs en tering shelters each year: 8 12 million (HSUS estimate) Number of cats and dogs de stroyed in shelters each year: 4-6 million (HSUS estimate) A fertile dog can produce an average of 2 litters in one year. A canine litter has an aver age of 6-10 animals. SOURCE: Humane Society of the United States Catharine Kendall Emerald Because of pet overpopulation, Greenhill Humane Society has lowered its adoption price for stray animals on the condition that the animals are spayed or neutered By Brian Goodell Oregon Daily Emerald The Greenhill Humane Society and the Lane County Animal Regulation Authority stepped up ef forts this month to tame Lane County’s pet overpop ulation problem. Laura Brounsten, director of Greenhill Human So ciety, said pet overpopulation is a problem in Eu gene and that something must be done to decrease the number of strays that are needlessly put to sleep every year. “We looked at a lot of stray animals and tried to see what they all had in common,” Brounsten said. “We have a huge overpopulation problem in Eugene, and most strays in our area are not spayed or neutered.” Between LCARA and Greenhill, Brounsten said, Lane County sees an average of 14,000 pets each year, half of which are strays. Compared with cities such as San Francisco, which sees nearly half as many, Brounsten said Eugene is far behind where it should be. In response to this, LCARA and Greenhill be gan new programs this week to put a stop to the problem. LCARA dropped the cost of Turn to Pet adoption, page 6 Collegiate sports gambling not s<m\ a sound bet In the wake of March Madness, officials look at the rising numbers of gamblers and caution that it hurts the integrity of collegiate sporting events By Adam Jude Oregon Daily Emerald Michigan State cut down the net Monday as NCAA basket ball champions. Meanwhile, losers of tournament pools across the country cut deeper into their checkbooks. If you were one of the many participants who filled out a bracket-for a tournament pool, the odds are not great that you were the victor — and you’re not alone. “I won [the tournament pool] the last two years,” said senior Scott Hein, an exercise and movement science major. “But this year 1 wasn’t even close.” Hein participated in a pool this year through a private group on ESPN.com, which charged him $10 to enter. According to Behavioral Health Online, an Internet based group that offers advice and support on medical issues, 55 percent of college students are casual or recreational gam blers. Recent studies suggest even more student participation in betting. At least 80 percent of students on college campuses gamble on sporting events in some form, said Keith Whyte, executive director of the Na tional Council on Problem Gambling. Despite the NCAA’s strict op position to all forms of sports wagering, the FBI projected that $2.5 billion was illegally gambled on the college basket ball championship in 1995. “Sports wagering has the po tential to undermine the in tegrity of sports contests and jeopardizes the welfare of stu dent athletes and the intercolle giate athletics community,” the NCAA states in its literature. Hein said that he only bets on March Madness for fun; he does not wager on any other sporting events. “I don’t even enjoy gambling that much,” Hein said. Gambling, however, can be addicting for many people. And some believe that wagering on Turn to Gambling, page 5 High stakes $2.5 billion was il legally gambled on the 1995 NCAA Di vision I men’s bas ketball champi onship, second only to money wagered on the Super Bowl. A study of 648 Divi sion I intercolle giate men’s basket ball and football athletes indicates that 3.7 percent had gambled on games in which they played. SOURCE: www.NCM.org
