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Multi-talent
Santiago Lorenzo, an
Argentine Olympic
hopeful, is one of three
UO decathletes entered
in the Pacific-10 Multi
event Championships.
Competition begins
Saturday at Hayward
Field. PAGE 11
The Flash
Two compete against
DeFazio for Congress
Linn County Commissioner
John Lindsey and Winston
Dillard Fire District Captain
Wendell Robinson of Douglas
County will appear on the
May 16 primary ballot in the
Republican race for the 4th
District U.S. Congressional
seat.
The winner will take on De
mocrat incumbent Rep. Pe
ter DeFazio, D-Springfield,
who is running unopposed in
the primary. DeFazio is cam
paigning for his eighth term
of office. Page 4
Spring Pow Wow back
for 32nd year
The Native American Stu
dent Union will hold the
32nd annual Spring Pow
Wow Saturday and Sunday at
1 p.m. at McArthur Court.
While dancing will be a ma
jor part of the celebration,
the event will also feature
other aspects of Native Amer
ican culture, including food,
music and artwork.
Approximately 2,000 peo
ple are expected to be in
volved in the Pow Wow.
Page 6
Fire destroys many
New Mexico homes
Numerous homes burned
down Thursday in Los Alam
os, N.M., where the atomic
bomb was built. The wildfire
first reached Los Alamos on
Wednesday, forcing the evac
uation of the entire town and
was driven by winds of up to
45 mph.
Firefighters rushed to save
houses. Whole neighbor
hoods were reduced to smok
ing ruins. Page 6
Weather
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May 12,2000
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Financial aid can be less than expected
Almost 14,000 students attending an Oregon higher educational institution were not
awarded an Oregon Need Grant this school year.
Students not awarded grant
17 81%
4 steps to success
1. Fill out a Fret' Application for Federal
Student Aid and send it in as soon as possible.
2. Check out the Oregon Student Assistance
Commission s Web page (www.osac state.or.us)
to find out information about financial aid
scholarships distributed by the OSAC and
helpful tips to avoid scholarship scams.
3. Check out other Web sites geared to help
students find financial aid. Links to these sites
can be found on OSAC's Web page.
4 Contact your financial aid professional
I hey Gin help you with all aspects of funding
your education.
Students awarded grant
82.17%
SOURCE: Uncoil Student Assistance Commission.
Oregon Student Association
The Oregon
Need Orant
receives only
enough funds
for 82 percent
of those
students
qualified for
financial aid
By Emily Gust
Oregon Daily emerald
The Oregon Need Grant, a
program that administers
funds to Oregon resident un
dergraduate students who are
in need of financial aid* cannot
give its gifts to everyone.
“Every year, it gets drastical
ly underfunded, and the
need’s obviously there,” said
Joe Schaeffer, interim field or
ganizer for the Oregon Student
Association.
The grant is distributed by
the Oregon Student Assistance
Commission, but with the
money currently in the fund,
only 82 percent of students
who are eligible for aid actual
ly get it.
Some don’t think 82 percent
is enough; OSAC and the OSA
asked the state Legislature’s
Emergency Board last month
that an additional $670,000 be
released for the program so
that more students may be cov
ered,
Funds for the Oregon Need
Grant are set aside while deter
mining the budget in the Ore
gon legislative sessions every
other year. Daring the off
years, the stati legislature’s
Emergency Board meets to
divvy out funds to groups or
programs that may need more
money than the budget provid
ed.
With the extra $670,000, the
OSAC was hoping that 2,000
more students could receive fi
nancial assistance.
To help further the cause,
the OS A arranged a letter-writ
ing campaign to the Emer
gency Board, asking that it pro
vide the necessary funds. In
total, about 2,000 letters were
sent to the board. The ASUO
Turn to Grants, page 8
Protester-police
adverse relations
in the spotlight
■The City Council instructed the police
commission to examine the increasing level
of police confrontation among protesters
By Josh Ryneal
Oregon Daily Emerald
Hoping to defuse what some
commissioners called a “crisis sit
uation” between protesters and
the Eugene Police Department,
the Eugene Police Commission
met Thursday evening to review
city crowd control policies and
plan an increase in dialogue be
tween the two groups.
Eugene Police Chief Jim Hill
said that the police department
“really wants the community’s
involvement in this issue” and
called for community leaders
and human rights commissions
to step forward and get involved
in communication with activist
groups.
Following a number of
protests in the Eugene area that
have resulted in altercations be
tween protesters and the police,
the City Council sent a letter to
the commission instructing it to
look at the level of escalating
confrontation between them.
“I am very concerned about
the ratcheting up of demonstra
tions from certain portions of
the community,” said Hill, who
expressed concern on behalf of
his officers who he said felt
threatened by increasingly vio
lent protesters.
However, Hill said that the po
lice department is responsible to
a certain extent for its actions.
“I hold officers accountable
and myself accountable,” he said.
Greg Rikhoff, a member of the
Eugene Human Rights Commis
sion, asked the commission for
its assistance in developing “in
Turn to Police, page 5
lam
very con
cerned
about the
ratcheting
up of
demonstra
tions from
certain por
tions of the
community.
Jim Hill
Eugene Police
chief yy
Journalism school honors ethics, integrity
The Payne
Awards for
Ethics in
Journalism are
awarded to
newspapers
and individuals
who fight the
good fight
i
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
The journalism world is often
under heavy pressure from the
public and media critics who
say the industry should have
higher ethical standards. The
University’s School of Journal
ism and Communication is try
ing to change that perqeption.
With an endowment from
Ancil Payne, the former presi
dent of King Broadcasting Co.,
the journalism school has
sought to track down and com
mend those who are committed
to the values of good journal
ism. The Payne Awards for
Ethics in Journalism are intend
ed to highlight the courageous
efforts of journalists in hopes of
encouraging better practices
throughout the industry, jour
nalism school Dean Tim Glea
son said.
The first recipients of the an
nual Payne Awards — the Los
Angeles Times news staff, The
Union Democrat of Sonora,
Calif., and two newspaper edi
tors from Western Washington
University — were honored at a
banquet Wednesday during the
annual Ruhl Symposium. The
journalism school also present
ed Payne with an award for his
commitment to ethics.
“I just don’t think that jour
nalism ethics is an oxymoron,”
said Payne, a native Oregonian
who received a Pioneer Award
from the University.
Gleason said the awards are
given to those who go beyond
the normal practices of journal
ism and treat ethics seriously.
“This award is to be given to
journalists who make the right
decision when its the right
thing to do,” Gleason said.
Last September, the L.A.
Times was involved in a contro
versial deal with the Staples
Center, the city’s new sports are
Turn to Ethics, page 4
This year’s recipients
The first annual Payne Awards for Ethics in Journalism
were presented by the School of Journalism and Commu
nication for strong ethical standards.
The Los Angeles Times news staff was honored for peti
tioning an agreement between the newspapers execu
tives and Staples Center, the city’s new sports arena. Many
staff members put their jobs on the line to protect the in
tegrity of the publication.
Erin Becker and Corey Lewis, editors of The Western
Front at Western Washington University in Bellingham,
Wash., were subpoenaed by police for a videotape. The
students initially refused to turn over the tape, which
showed an animal rights group vandalizing the school.
Eventually, however, they were forced to hand over the
tape.
The Union Democrat in Sonora, Calif., would not report
the names of any murder suspects without confirmation
from the police. The newspaper stood by its ethics policy
and would not attribute information to anonymous
sources.
And! Payne, the former president of King Broadcasting
Co. and former recipient of the University Pioneer Award,
was also honored for his contribution to journalism
morals.