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
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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.
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April 14,2000
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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.
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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:
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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
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■ 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
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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.