A spring in
their step
Oregon football gets
back to work, opening
spring practice this
week. There are some
notable absentees, as
well as some significant
returnees. PAGE 11A
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Fathers get skills on
parenting
Dealing with stubborn teeth
brushers, sobbing good-byes
at day care and other issues
are the topics of discussion
at the Fathers Support
Group meetings founded by
EMU Child Care Coordinator
Dennis Reynolds. The week
ly meetings meet at West
moreland preschool on
Tuesdays. PageSA
Basketball tourna
ment a good cause
High-school students and
older are invited to test their
shooting skills and raise
funds for research for
Parkinson’s disease. The
! third annual James Warsaw
Classic 3-on-3 Basketball
Tournament will be held at
Mac Court at 8 a.m. on Sun
day. Teams interested in en
tering can sign up on-line at
www.warsawcenter.com.
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Renovations to Allen
Hall complete
After four years of banging
and clanging echoing
throughout the halls of The
School of Journalism and
Communication, construc
tion is finally complete. The
fruits of the $6 million proj
ect include several student
service centers and an out
door atrium and student
plaza. Page8A
EMU food services
make some dough
After a difficult start-up year,
The Buzz and other eateries
in the EMU are out of the red
and making profits. New tac
tics to increase sales include
taking to heart student con
cerns, offering meal deals
and keeping daily records of
expenses and revenue. Pace
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April 6,2000
Volume 101, Issue 125
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University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
An independent newspaper
Protesters
arrested
yet again
■ President Frohnmayer flies to
Washington, D.C. as students express
frustration with what they say is an
unresponsive administration
t(Frohn
mayer
should
expect
that
when he
returns,
we’ll still
be here
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By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
For the second straight day,
police removed Workers’ Rights
Consortium protesters from the
lobby of Johnson Hall on
Wednesday.
When the administration of
fice closed at 5 p.m., police re
moved Autumn De Poe, Melis
sa Unger, Aaron Blount, Felisa
Hagins, Heather Mitchell and
Benjamin Goldman from the
lobby. As officers videotaped
the incident, Eugene Police De
partment officers handcuffed all
six students, took them to the
Johnson Hall basement and is
sued them second degree tres
passing citations.
The six students refused to
leave the lobby until University
President Dave Frohnmayer
signed on with the WRC, which
monitors working conditions at
factories that produce Universi
ty licensed products.
Wednesday’s activities also
focused on educating the pro
testers on University structure
and governance. ASUO Presi
dent Wylie Chen outlined how
decisions are made at the Uni
versity and state government
Turn to Protest, page 5A
Catharine Ke
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idall Emerald
Catharine Kendall Emerald
(above) Black Pan
ther Party co
founder Bobby
Seale spoke in
front of Johnson
Hall to recognize
student protesters,
(left) Six students
were arrested
Wednesday follow
ing the second day
of WRC protests.
EMU Board considers
computer kiosk offer
The EMU
entertains the
idea of adding
a computer
kiosk,
supplied by
Campus Link,
which would
provide
additional
Internet access
free of charge
to students
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
The EMU will look different next fall if stu
dent leaders give a national organization the OK
to set up a large kiosk offering free Internet ac
cess in exchange for local and national advertis
ing.
National company Campus Link pitched its
product to the EMU Board on March 29. The or
ganization wants to put a large kiosk in the EMU
that would include computer terminals to con
nect students to local and national businesses
and provide campus maps and information to
visitors and new students. It would also offer ac
cess to e-mail accounts and telephones. Stu
dents would have unlimited access to the phone
and Internet services.
In return, Campus Link would pay the EMU
to place the kiosk and businesses would have
the opportunity to advertise in one of the hubs
of student activity on campus.
“I am interested in this,” Student Senate Pres
ident and EMU Board member Jessica Timpany
said. “It’s a wonderful service to students and
we don’t pay for it directly. They pay us by sell
ing advertising. We would profit from it and so
would local businesses.”
Turn to Campus Link, page 10A
Residents and police
to attack prostitution
■ Residents fed up with prostitution in their
neighborhoods have teamed up with police and social
workers to mull over two proposed city ordinances and
recommendations aimed at combatting the problem
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
At a glance, Eugene’s hotbed for prostitution
looks nothing like a red-light district.
Nonetheless, the vast majority of the 425 pros
titution arrests made in the past three years were
made within the residential West Jefferson
neighborhood, police said.
The unsettling coupling of a stereotypical ur
ban crime being committed in a residential
neighborhood is a dichotomy West Jefferson res
idents have joined forces to eliminate.
Residents, along with police, social service
workers and city prosecutors, formed the Pros
titution Task Force in late 1999 with hopes of
driving the flesh trade from the West Jefferson
area and off Eugene streets entirely.
The team has since combatted street-level
prostitution by working to make Eugene’s prose
cution of prostitution, which typically consists
of fines and probation, more proactive and
Turn to Prostitute, page 4A
We’re try
ing not to
make this a
one-part deal
but a contin
uous effort.
Richard Bremer
Prostitution
Task Force