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Speedster Howard Moore, a long jumper and sprinter, is bouncing back from injury. The senior is j No. 8 on Oregon’s all time 100-meter dash Iist—but he says he's more than ready to j move up. PAGE 9A The Flash New film looks at Kent State tragedy Today marks the 30th an niversary of the National Guard’s she Ling at Kent State University during a Viet nam War protest. A Universi ty senior video production major is currently working on a documentary chroni :l cling the event in which four student protesters were killed and nine others wounded.PAGE 7A Student Senate waits to decide guidelines There was no agreement Wednesday on new rules for the summer committee. Sen ators need to rewrite the rules, which were found un constitutional in February by the ASUO Constitution Court. PAGE 7A Time Warner violates FCC rules WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Communications ij Commission determined Wednesday that Time Warn er violated a communica tions law when it dropped ABC stations from its cable systems in some markets ear lier this week. ! Acting on a petition filed by ABC Monday, the commis sion found Time Warner breached a provision that prohibits cable companies from deleting local signals during the period known as “sweeps.” Sweeps is a period when ratings are used to set local advertising rates, began Thursday and runs until May | 24. The commission’s decision comes a day after the two companies called a cease-fire and set a new July 15 dead line for their negotiations over compensation for cable channels. FCC officials said enforcement actions would be considered separately. Weather Today Friday RAIN high 45, low 55 high 45, low 59 Emerald Thursday May 4,2000 Volume 101, Issue 145 —Q—Q-L_b e w ft h www.dailyemerald.com University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper Hiroshi Nakamura Emerald Chad Sullivan (left) and Laura Close (center), members of the Human Rights Alliance, argue with student supporters of Nike CEO Phil Knight across from Johnson Hall Wednesday. Rally turns argumentative Organizers say ‘Thank you, Phil’ was intended to show appreciation foralumnus donors By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald A rally to support Nike CEO Phil Knight Wednesday morn ing quickly turned into a mass argument between students wanting to thank Knight for his contributions to the Uni versity and protesters who support the Worker Rights Consortium. Organizers said the rally, which began across the street from Johnson Hall at 10:30 a.m., was not a retaliation against the students who protested outside of Johnson Hall last month in support of the University’s joining the la bor monitoring group. “We’re not here to protest the protesters or debate the WRC,” organizer Christian Pape said. “We hope [Knight] understands that this campus is not against Phil.” To display their message, Pape and the other organizers sold green “Thank You, Phil” T-shirts, adding to the white “I agree with Phil” shirts made by two sports marketing stu dents earlier in the week. Pape added they weren’t trying to make a profit off their shirts, which sold for $5 each. By mid-afternoon they had Turn to Knight rally, page 6A President of WNBA speaks at University ■Val Ackerman stresses opportunity in her keynote add ress for the Women in Sports Business Symposium Wednesday night By Mirjam Swanson Oregon Daily Emerald Crowds that showed up to watch Val Ackerman play her college ball at the University of Virginia were, in her words, “generously microscopic.” It was a different story Wednesday evening as Acker man, now the president of the Women’s Basketball Associa tion, delivered the keynote ad dress for the fifth-annual Women in Sports Business Symposium in front of approx imately 200 interested audi ence members. Ackerman discussed the challenges and benefits of the ongoing development of the WNBA and how the league’s success reflects the increasing availability of positions for women in sports. “The opportunities for women to work in sports are truly expanding,” Ackerman said. “A lot of jobs out there are really exciting. So if you have a certain skill, I can promise you that there’s almost certainly a sports application to that skill.” Some standout local athletes were among those gathered to hear Ackerman speak. The Oregon women’s basketball team’s point guard, Pacific-10 Conference Player of the Year Shaquala Williams, was there. Ackerman’s “the woman,” said Williams, a junior-to-be. “To get the opportunity to meet her and make a good impres sion on her, that can only bode well for me in a couple of years.” Also in attendance was Katy Polansky, a South Eugene High School student who is already one of the top javelin throwers' in the nation and who bypass es several full-ride scholar ships offer that Ackerman talked about in order to walk Turn to Ackerman. Daee 4A The op portunities for women to work in sports are truly ex panding. A lot of jobs out there are really excit ing. Val Ackerman president, WNBA yy Report: fewer students of color study abroad Exchange students from UO In fail 199914 percent of students at the University were minorities, and 15 percent of those who studied abroad in the 1998-99 school year were minorities. Katie Nesse Emerald ■ Only six of the 571 UO exchange program participants during the 1998-99 school year were African-Americans By Serena Markstrom Oregon Daily Emerald Though the University sends a greater percentage of its stu dents abroad than the national average, it shares the national challenge of raising the number of African-American and His panic college students who study abroad, according to Of fice of International Exchange statistics and a recent report from the U.S. Department of Education. The percentage of University students of color who studied abroad in recent years is slightly higher than the total percentage of the University population who are students of color. How ever, the University still has a low number of African-Ameri can and Hispanic students par ticipating in its exchange pro grams. Education Secretary Richard W. Riley announced in mid April that Bill Clinton will sign an executive memorandum ex Tum to Study abroad, page 4A Some times it's a problem of finding a good part ner universi ty Jack Van de Water OUS assistant chancellor
