In command
Oded Teig, Oregon's 22
year-old freshman
from Israel with the
I’m-never-satisfied
attitude, has stormed
onto the scene to
develop into one of the
best No. 3 players in
the nation. PAGE 7
The Flash
HRA holds teach-in
regarding democracy
Last weekend, the Human
Rights Alliance focused on stu
dent concerns about workers’
rights and the University’s de
cision-making structure
through a teach-in. PAGE 5
Protesters trying
to safeguard Elian
MIAMI — Anti-Castro
demonstrators surged
through a police barricade
and formed a human chain
around Elian Gonzalez’s
house Tuesday as rumors
swept the crowd that the U.S.
government was coming to
take the boy away.
The protesters broke
through after Elian’s father
was issued a U.S. visa to come
to the United States and be
reunited with his son.
King family takes on
Georgia flag
ATLANTA (AP) — The son
and namesake of Martin
Luther King Jr. marked the
32nd anniversary of his fa
ther’s slaying Tuesday with a
march to the Georgia Capitol
to call on the state to remove
the Confederate battle em
blem from its flag.
After family members laid a
wreath at King’s tomb in At
lanta, Martin Luther King III
joined protesters on the Capi
tol steps to call for changing
the Georgia flag, which fea
tures the Confederate symbol.
WTO protests extra
struggle, police say
SEATTLE (AP) —The Police
Department’s report on
World Trade Organization
protests concedes authorities
were not ready for trouble,
though they had ample
warning that tens of thou
sands of demonstrators
hoped to shut the meeting
down.
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Five students are arrested during a
rally and protest of the University’s
delay in joining the Workers’ Rights
Consortium
By Simone Ripke
Oregon Daily Emerald
What started as a rally in support of the
Workers’ Rights Consortium at Johnson Hall
on Tuesday ended in the arrest of five stu
dents, including ASUO Vice President Mitra
Anoushiravani and ASUO President-elect
Jay Breslow.
While a group of about 150 students ex
pressed their outrage on the steps of the ad
ministration building, Anoushiravani, Bres
low, Oona Beall, Rebecca Huerta and Randy
Newnham locked arms inside the lobby and
refused to leave until University President
Dave Frohnmayer signed on with the WRC,
which would monitor labor conditions in
factories making University products.
After Johnson Hall closed at 5 p.m., a
group of about 10 Eugene Police Department
officers and five Office of Public Safety offi
cers repeatedly asked the five students to
leave. The students shook their heads or qui
Catharine Kendall Emerald
ASUO Vice President Mitra Anoushiravani is arrested during a protest in support of the WRC.
etly whispered, “no.” As an officer video
taped the proceedings, EPD officers pulled
each student away from the group one at a
time, handcuffed them and physically
dragged the peacefully resisting protesters
down to the Johnson Hall basement.
Police charged all five with second degree
trespassing and issued them citations to ap
pear in court. The students were released
from police custody in the basement shortly
after their arrests.
“Frohnmayer walked by while we were in
there and didn’t even look at us,” Anoushi
ravani said after being released.
For many students, the protest brought up
Turn to WRC, page 3
■ Brown University’s membership in
the WRC prompts Nike to cancel the
campus’s hockey licensing contracts
By Ben Romano
Oregon Daily Emerald
A move by Nike to curtail contracts with Brown
University because of the school’s membership in
the Workers’ Rights Consortium has attracted na
tional attention as universities weigh the costs of
joining the labor-monitoring organization.
The Human Rights Alliance, a University stu
dent group that has led the charge toward joining
the WRC, called Nike’s tactics at Brown “bully
ing-”
“They’re just doing it to flex muscle and get oth
er universities out of the WRC,” said Sarah Jacob
son, an HRA spokesperson.
Nike ended a three-year contract with Brown’s
men’s and women’s hockey teams to provide
equipment in exchange for signs, tickets and other
publicity.
Turn to Brown, page3
What’s the WRC?
The Workers' Righto Consortium
is a non-profit organization that
supports and verifies licensee
compliance with production
codes of conduct. These codes
of conduct have been devel
oped by colleges and universi
ties across the country to ensure
that goods are produced under
conditions that respect the ba
sic rights of workers. The WRC is
developing a network of local
organizations in regions where
licensed goodsare produced.
This network will allow the WRC
to inform workers of their rights
under applicable codes of con
duct and will allow workers to
report conditions securely and
confidentially.
SOURCE: vvww.workersrights.org
■ The Labor Code of Conduct Committee
establishes standards for contractors and
recommends that the University join WRC
By Ben Romano
Oregon Daily Emerald
University President Dave Frohnmayer received a
final draft of the Corporate Code of Conduct creat
ed by a committee he charged with the task in Janu
ary.
“I think the committee has labored very hard to
produce a document that has the University’s own
stamp on it,” Frohnmayer said. “It represents the
best thinking from an independent group of peo
ple.”
The creation of the code is in response to student
protests that began on this campus more than a year
ago. A trend toward fair, responsible trademark and
licensing practices has swept campuses across the
nation, resulting in the formation of similar conduct
codes at universities from California to Rhode Is
Turn to Committee, page 6
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Forum targets community racism issues
Before a
group of
about 150
Lane County
residents, five
panelists
discuss
matters of
racial
prejudice and
hate crimes
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
What began as a routine trip
to the grocery store became a
poignant reminder to Carmen
Bauer that racism still exists
even in the relatively culturally
tolerant Eugene community.
At a Community Alliance for
Lane County (CALC) public fo
rum on racism Tuesday night
located in the Eugene Water and
Electric Board building, Bauer
said she and her mother were
standing at a check-out line
chatting when a man standing
nearby criticized her for speak
ing Spanish in America.
Bauer, executive director of
the social service agency Centro
Latino Americano, responded
by telling the man she spoke
English fluently and asked him
if he “had a problem.” The man
then stormed out of the store
muttering that he was standing
in “the wrong-colored line,” she
said.
Bauer said she was outraged
to hear such a blatantly racist
comment, made more than
three decades after the death of
the segregationist Jim Crow
laws.
Before an audience of about
150 people, Bauer, along with
four other panelists at the fo
rum, called upon Eugene resi
dents to work together and con
tinue combating racism and
intolerance.
The forum “is in response to
increased hate crimes in our
community,” CALC develop
ment director Rod Rigues said.
“Hate crimes that happened in
other parts of the U.S. have trig
Tumto Forum, page 4
it [Thefo
rum] is in re
sponse to in
creased hate
crimes in our
community,:
Rod Rigues
CALC
development
director ^