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.
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Legacy of demonstrations
Protesters surrender
demonstrators protested the University’s decision to keep ROTC programs on ca.„pU>.
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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
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and fore
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standing the
institutional
and struc
tural barri
ers that pre
vent
diversity.
Tim Wise
social activist
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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