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Hoping for fast times Everyone who's anyone in American track and field will be at the Mount SAC Relays this weekend, including members of the Oregon men's and women's team, mat 9 1 : ,P'1 % ■ * ft Fhe Flash Deadline postponed Procrastinators will be re ceiving a reprieve when it comes to filing their income taxes this year. The tradition al April 15 deadline for filing state and federal income taxes falls on Saturday this year, prompting the Internal Revenue Service to extend the deadline until April 17. Tax returns must be post marked no later than mid night Monday to avoid fines and penalties. CIS department will open doors to public In celebration of its 30 year anniversary, the De partment of Computer and Information Science will hold an open house and din ner Saturday. The event will feature a speech by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dough Hofstadter. The open house will begin at 1:30 p.m. in Deschutes Hall. Hofstadter’s lecture, “Will Spiritual Robots Re place Humanity by 2100?” will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Willamette Hall. PAGE 3 Elian departure stalled After Elian Gonzalez’s great uncle’s failure to surrender the boy Thursday, the gov ernment extended its dead line to seize him, allowing a delay of three or four days, according to the Justice De partment. A momentary feeling of re lief and triumph overcame Little Havana residents and Elian’s Miami relatives. PAGE 4 Friday April 14,2000 Volume 101, Issue 131 —Q_n-1. h e_w e h ^ www.dailyemerald.com University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper Deal could steal student seats ■ To increase revenue, the athletic department proposes selling a portion of student seats to the general public (i The Uni versity is for students, and the stu dents are... the ones who are the mostenthu By Simone Ripke Oregon Daily Emerald Students might have to scoot over and make room for the general public at pre season, non-conference foot ball games at Autzen Stadi um next fall, giving up what students say are prime seats. The athletic department Finance Committee and the Athletic Department stagnat ed in negotiations Tuesday about preseason student tickets when the ADFC re fused to sign a contract that would move students out of Section 9 at the stadium. The Ducks will play against the University of Nevada and the University of Idaho before the begin ning of fall term. Students have had Sec tions 5 through 9 for the past 13 years during regular and preseason games, but only about 2,500 students have at tended preseason football Turn to Autzen, page 7 Autzen Stadium seating in dispute Students might have to give up Section 9 to paying ticket holders for preseason football games. propose) seating sponsor section ns "20 1 I 21 Ij ^22 Supporters explain WRC, their passion While none of the other schools in the Oregon Uni : versify System have signed the WKC, 44 schools | around the nation are members, including: UOA 4 s %/% Indiana University of M ichigan Unwereitv of Wisconsin DePaui University University of Minnesota Georgetown University Boston College University of Illinois Columbia University University of North Carolina Untweisity of Iowa ** '■ ■ V? ■ The WRC, which strives to educate consumers about university apparel, has been backed by Rep. Peter DeFazio By Ben Romano Oregon Daily Emerald The Worker Rights Consor tium has recently garnered much attention at college cam puses across the nation. Still, many in the University com munity don’t know what the or ganization does or who is in support of it. The WRC “comes out of what students were doing against sweatshops,” said tthe consortium’s this concept or this vision of how they could change things in sweatshops,” Turn to WRC support, page 6 H We're very support ive of the WRC. Peter DeFazio U.S. representative _n Weekend conference set to educate residents The Eco-Design Arts Conference gives citizens and students a chance v to contribute to the development of the area By Serena Markstrom Oregon Daily Emerald At this year’s Eco-Design Arts Conference, “Ecology of Home,” which started Thursday, students, faculty and community members had the opportunity to have direct input into a Eugene development project’s final stage. This intensive final stage is called a charrette, and proposed suggestions to this particular project will be reviewed this afternoon from 4 to 6 p.m. in room 206 of Lawrence Hall. This project focuses on the 160 acres slated for development in the west Eugene area, which the federal government has designat ed wetlands. The charrette was only one aspect of the conference, which continues today through Sunday and is hosted in Lawrence Hall. Any one who wants to learn more about sustain ability and how it can be incorporated into all types of design projects is welcome to at tend the annual conference put on by the group Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sus tainability (HOPES). “The conference will provide a forum to Turn to HOPES, page 6 Discussion at protest sparks controversy ■ Two GTFs hold their discussion sections on the steps of Johnson Hall, claiming the protest illustrated the themes of the class By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald Elissa Farjah was looking forward to hav ing some of her spring term classes outside — she just didn’t think it would include holding class in the middle of a protest. On Monday, the freshman’s social inequal ities discussion section moved out of the classroom and onto the steps of Johnson Hall, where students have spent more than a week protesting in support of the Worker Rights Consortium. “I felt like I was put on display right there on the steps,” Farjah said. “I felt like a pro tester, but I didn’t want to.” The leaders for the two discussion sections held at the protest and professor for the class stand behind their actions. They claim the la bor and power issues that have sparked the Turn to Protest class, page 5 update Protesters outside Johnson Hall have vowed to remain on the lawn until theirdemandsare met for improved University gover nance and a five year contract with theWRC. Wednesday, Uni versity President DaveFrohnmayer signed on with the WRC, but only for a one-year contract.
