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Once a wrestler, once a
military man and now
an Oregon cornerback
| and sprinter, Jermaine
Hanspard is one of the
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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
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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.
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May 16,2000
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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