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Let’s play two The No. 23 Oregon softball team says aloha today at 2 p.m. double header against Hawaii. The Ducks ride a 5-game winning streak going into the nonconference games. PAGE 7 The Flash Students sign environ mental pledge Looking for a way to show your support of Earth Day and? Then Ecopledge.com has your ticket. Students and eco-friendly consumers can log onto the Web site and sign a pledge vowing to re fuse to seek employment with corporations, including Coca-Cola, Nestle and Disney, until the companies comply with environmental stan dards. So far, ASUO Student Body President-elect Jay Breslow and others have shown their support by sign ing the pledge. Page 4 Anarchists disrupt forum Members of Eugene Anar chists for Torrey (EAT) prompted a Eugene mayoral candidate to drop out of the race Tuesday during a panel discussion between candi dates and high school stu dents. Uriah Murray pulled out of the race, stating he didn’t want to be a part of the “cutthroat, capitalist sys tem.” Page 6 Two killed in shooting at senior apartment LINCOLN PARK, Mich. (AP) — A tenant at a senior-citi zen apartment house opened fire with a rifle Tues day after he was summoned to a meeting because of neighbors’ complaints about his vulgar language, authori ties said. Two women were killed and a third woman was critically wounded. The man was taken into custody about 3:20 p.m. when police stormed his apartment, said police Lt. Donald Gentner. The man did not resist and was not in jured, but was on narcotics and taken to the hospital for observation, Gentner said. He was in fair condition. Weather Today Thursday •• • CLOUDY high 62, low 41 high 65, low 42 iso PARTLY CLQODt Wednesday April 19,2000 Volume 101, Issue 134 -2—Q--LiL_£_eb ^ wwwdailyemerald.com University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper Legacy of demonstrations Protesters surrender demonstrators protested the University’s decision to keep ROTC programs on ca.„pU>. archive 1970. The A heated history The University has long been an inferno of activism and protest By Simone Ripke Oregon Daily Emerald When the Johnson Hall pro testers began occupying the area outside the administration building two weeks ago, they added some history to the steps of a building and a campus that have been subject to sit-ins, protests and riots more than once. As the Johnson Hall protest ers, who camped outside the building for more than a week, packed up their tents last Thursday, former students who attended the University 30 years ago remembered what some call the most in tense moments in the history at the University. April 15 marked the 30-year anniversary of a protest sparked by the University Sen ate’s decision to retain the ROTC program on campus. At a time when many students at campuses nationwide were protesting the U.S. government and the Vietnam War, the deci sion of the University Senate to keep the Army ROTC and Air Force ROTC programs on cam pus was felt as a slap in the face to some students who had been against the war. Jim Mogan was an ASUO Turn to Protest, page 3 Social critic fights racism ■Tim Wise rails against what he says is an underlying racism in society that often goes unnoticed by the majority of Americans By Emily Gust Oregon Daily Emerald With words aimed at break ing down the walls of institu tional racism in America, prominent social critic Tim Wise delivered an impassioned speech, “Beyond Diversity: Challenging Racism in an Age of Backlash,” to a group of about 250 students and com munity members Tuesday night in the EMU Ballroom. Through the speech Wise as serted th&t racism was not only the problem of people of color, but white people as well. He maintained that institutional racism is bound up in American society, and it is time for every one to look at the fundamental systems and overturn them. Wise is a social activist who Turn to Wise, page 5 a n ^ aboutfirst and fore most under standing the institutional and struc tural barri ers that pre vent diversity. Tim Wise social activist _n Health plans propositioned ■ The Oregon University System’s proposal would require insurance coverage for all students, but would reduce each student’s per term cost By Adam Jude Oregon Daily Emerald The Oregon University Sys tem is moving one step closer to requiring its students to carry health insurance beginning next fall. A proposal will be submitted to the Oregon State Board of Higher Education at its meeting in Portland on Friday. An OUS special task force — created last year to find affordable measures of health coverage — is recom mending that a basic insurance^,, plan be mandatory for all of the OUS’s 60,000 students. “I would love to see mandato ry health insurance for all col lege students,” said Bob Petit, a medical administrator in the Turn to Insurance page 4 The Oregon Uni versity System’s universal health care plan, if ap proved, would: »cover 60,000 students in the OUS^s seven cam puses •costeach stu dent an estimat ed $14 to $17 per term •begin at the University in 2001 •support out-of state students, but not students studying abroad DeFazio argues against WTO, for debt relief Congressman Peter DeFazio also scorned the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank By Andrew Adams Oregon Daily Emerald Students and Eugene com munity members gathered in 180 Prince Lucien Campbell Tuesday from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. to hear Rep. Peter DeFazio (D) speak out against the World Trade Organization (WTO), In ternational Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Many Rivers Group, the Lane County chapter of the Sierra Club, and the Survival Center, a campus organization, invited Rep. DeFazio to speak. A crowd of 150 students attended the lecture, which was one of many stops by Rep. DeFazio in the Eugene area during a two week recess of the U.S. House of Rep resentatives. Rep. DeFazio was highly crit ical of the global trade organiza tions. Chief among his criti cisms was his perception that corporate greed for profit would soon erase any chance for global protection of the en vironment and worker rights to be enacted. “The WTO has very weak provisions for protecting natu ral resources and workers,” he said. The speech comes in the wake of large scale protests against the WTO, IMF and World Bank in Seattle last win ter and just recently in Wash ington D.C. Rep. DeFazio par ticipated in both protests marching with members of la bor unions, which he strongly supports. Not only did Rep. DeFazio say he felt that the organizations have little regard for the natural world and laborers, he also said Turn to DeFazio, page 5 DeFAZIO
