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.
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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.
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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.
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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