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.
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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.
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April 4,2000
Volume 101, Issue 123
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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