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Twice is nice ! Once a wrestler, once a military man and now an Oregon cornerback | and sprinter, Jermaine Hanspard is one of the \ Ducks'busiest athletes. 1 i The5-10juniorhasit figured out PAGE 7 The Flash Oregon primary ballots due today Today is the final day to I drop off ballots for Oregon ■> primary election. Ilotscan be delivered to the EMU box outside the ASUO Executive office today from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Other area drop-off lo cations are listed on the Lane County Elections Web site, www.co.lane.or.us/elec tions/dropoff.htm. It’s too late to mail ballots via regu lar mail. Writing program encourages success The Kidd Tutorial Program, a year-long class offered through the Creative Writing Program designed to further the skills undergraduate writ ers, is accepting applications through Friday. According to faculty members involved in the program, it offers stu dents a change to learn in a small, comfortable environ ment. PAGE 5 Yoga catches some students’ interest The University offers yoga classes to help students im prove their health. Hatha Yoga, in particular, deals with physical exercises in order to achieve physical stature as well as to further spiritual awareness. PAGE 6 g Columbine shooting report released GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) —The sheriff’s department Monday released a minute-by-minute account of the Columbine High School bloodbath, con cluding the 12 students killed by the teen-age gunmen were dead within 16 min utes. The timeline appears to support the department in disputing claims by victims’ families that the officers could have saved lives if they had acted more quickly. Weather high 61, low 45 high 65, low 46 I mm Emerald Tuesday May 16,2000 Volume 101, Issue 153 —Q—nt_.ii,, e_w e h www.dai5yemerald.com University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper Dumping dilemmas Hiroshi Nakamura Emerald A dump site on Butte Road south of Creswell is recognized by neighbors as the ‘messy site.’ Garbage plan focuses on unkempt properties If coupons for free dumping don’t work, property owners will be fined for their messes By Andrew Adams Oregon Daily Emerald County officials are hoping the owners of properties lit tered with household junk, auto parts and rusty appli ances will have more incen tive to take their trash to coun ty dumps after a new program is implemented in June. The program will give prop erty owners coupons to dump free of charge as much as five pickup truck loads of refuse at any of Lane County’s 17 garbage transfer sites located throughout the area. County commissioners Anna Morri son and Cindy Weeldreyer, who represent rural areas of the county, initiated the pro gram after they learned several owners with “nuisance prop erties” could not afford to pay the $13 fee to drop off a truck load of garbage. “The property owners were Turn to Trash, page 4 WRC queries will stay hot ■An Executive Committee to be introduced May 24 will work on monitoring the group and keeping the debate alive this summer By Simone Ripke Oregon Daily Emerald While much of the Universi ty’s student population is going away for the summer, the issues surrounding the Worker Rights Consortium won’t. With the help of events such as this summer’s United Stu dents Against Sweatshops con ference and the University Sen ate’s review process of the WRC, student leaders and University officials said workers’ rights will not fall under the table. “People will still be working on it,” ASUO President-elect Jay Breslow said. “Enough people care enough about this to be watching all summer. ” Breslow said the media atten tion the issue has received might calm down, but the issue itself will not be abandoned. “There’s way too much ener gy for [that] to happen,” he said. The University Senate will be one body working on the issue during the summer through a senate review committee, which will look at how the WRC works. University President Dave Frohnmayer has said that since the University signed on with the WRC for one year on April 12, he has wanted a review com mittee to examine the issue. University Senate President Peter Gilkey said it will be up to the new University Senate pres ident, who will take over the of fice at the end of this month, to determine how often and when the review committee will meet during the summer. The com mittee will oversee the Univer sity’s membership in the appar el monitoring group and will be identical to the Senate Execu tive Committee, which typically consists of the senate president, vice president, secretary, two Turn to WRC, page 3 I would say that the governing board of the WRC should have a pret ty busy sum mer, but we as individ ual universi ties don't know yet what our roles will be Duncan McDonald University’s vice president for public af fairs and devel opment 44 Breslow, Magner envision energetic executive Adding a bit of fun to routine campus life is part of the duo’s plan to liven up relations between the ASUO Executive and students By Emily Gust Oregon Daily Emerald You probably never thought you would be able to sit in the EMU Amphitheater to watch movies under the open night sky. If the new ASUO Executive has its way, however, maybe next year you can. ASUO President-elect Jay Breslow and Vice President elect Holly Magner are brim ming with ideas such as this one to get the student public more involved with its government. “Let’s just have fun a little bit,” Breslow said. “Let’s let people re connect with the ASUO. ” One focus for the upcoming school year is taking a step back and making sure the ASUO Ex ecutive office has not over looked anyone. By that, Bres low said he wants to get students who either don’t know or don’t care about student gov ernment involved. He added that the way to gen erate interest in the ASUO Ex ecutive is by no means political. It is not sitting out in front of Johnson Hall in protest or any thing else activist-oriented. “It’s having fun on our own campus,” Breslow said. “It’s finding ways to let people from lots of different student groups and different, campus environ ments say, ‘Hey, the ASUO is doing some pretty cool stuff.’” That is just one part of Bres low’s and Magner’s evolving plans for the upcoming year. “Goal number one for the fall is obviously voter [registra tion],” Breslow said. “There’s some really important stuff, [and] there are some issues that students really, really need to mobilize around. ” Voter registration is a great project to begin the year, he ex plained. Not only is it an easy campaign to work on, but it deals with issues that could drastically affect students at the higher education level. One of the biggest measures on the fall ballot is an upcoming tax bill proposed by Bill Sizemore, which could cut funding to the University. Breslow said he hopes doing something that worthwhile will stir up a lot of energy in next year’s ASUO Executive staff. “We have some pretty dy namic ideas of how to get peo ple registered to vote,” he said. Changes within the physical structure of the office might also Turn to Executive, page 3
