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It’s all over The 19th-ranked Oregon softball team can't extend its tourna ment run beyond the NCAA Regionals, as Southern Mississippi hands the Ducks their final two losses of the season. PAGE 9 The Flash Stream-up and clean the river’s banks Students and community j members joined in the fifth j annual statewide “Down by the Riverside” event and worked to help eradicate non-native plants from the river’s shore. PAGE 3 L'-i, -I Workshops discuss freedom of choice A cluster of speakers in cluding Planned Parenthood representatives and State Rep. Vicki Walker joined to gether over the weekend to j speak about the pro-choice movement. PAGE 5 Walkway collapses | after stock car race j CONCORD, N.C.(AP) — The Winston stock car race was f. winding down and fans were streaming across a pedestri l an bridge to the parking lot when two loud cracks could be heard above the murmur of the crowd. With the second crack, an 80-foot section of the 320 foot concrete-and-steel walk way snapped in half and fell onto the highway outside Lowe’s Motor Speedway on Saturday night. Charter plane crash kills all 19 aboard WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A commuter plane 19 people home from a gam bling trip to Atlantic City, N.J., crashed in a ball of fire after experiencing engine prob lems while trying to land Sunday. There were no sur vivors. Fiery wreckage was spotted in some woods about 9 miles \ south of the Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton International Air- J port in northeastern Pennsyl vania. Weather Today Tuesday PARTLY SUNNY MOSTLY CLOUDY high 72, low 49 high 75, low 46 Monday May 22,2000 Volume 101, Issue 157 —Q—D-L_tL_fi_w r h www.dailyemerald.com University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper Elite athletes shine Kajrin Cal a fie Emerald ■The USC men and the UCLA women’s track teams take home Pac-10 titles after two pleasant days at Hayward Field By Mirjam Swanson Oregon Daily Emerald Southern California sprinter Angela Williams knows how happening Hayward Field can be. “I love coming here; it’s always been good,” said Williams, who’s made the trek north to Eugene since her days on Southern California youth teams. “That’s just another thing that helps me: I know this track.” Unfortunately for the Women of Troy, their arch-rivals from UCLA know it too. Turn to Pac-10 track, page 4 'hfm Inside The Duck men’s team finishes §HHp ^ seventh; the I women come in last. PAGE 9 U -V ; . . v • t f Scott Barnett for the Emerald Scott Barnett for the Emerald (clockwise from above) Stan ford’s Toby Stevenson breaks a 22-year-old Pac-10 record in the pole vault. USC’s Felix Sanchez focuses before capturing the 400 meter hurdles title. An gela Williams pulls off the double in the 100 and 200. Oregon’s Charyl Weingarten, WSU’s Molly Monroe and UCLA’s Seilala Sua finished 3-1-2 in the Emerald javelin competition. Law students graduate, anticipate success ■ Keynote speaker Nate Cole and faculty wish the 2000 graduates luck in the law profession, which shows a high percentage of careers C^lthas really disci plined me in every thing that I do. Gabrielle Valde; Wayne Morse Scholarship recipient ByWillWyer for the Emerald About 180 students from the University’s School of Law, a three-year program, received diplomas Sunday afternoon in the Hult Center’s Silva Concert Hall becoming the University’s first graduating class of the new millennium. “I want to welcome all of : you to a life in the law — a deeply and profoundly satisfy ing life in the law,” said keynote speaker Luke Cole, di Tu rn to Law school, page 7 Ryan Starkweather Emerald University President Dave Frohnmayer (left) sits among faculty at the law school’s commencement. Music, art highlight Asian heritage month The month’s concluding celebration featured non traditional storytelling and the band Innerlude By Lisa Toth Oregon Daily Emerald Hoops, pop music, performance art and sto rytelling concluded the 28th annual Asian Pa cific American Heritage Month celebration Sunday, hosted by the Asian Pacific American Student Union. “By inviting Asian-American performers to campus, holding workshops and by promoting the diversity of Asian-American culture, we hoped to bring more awareness to who we are and what we’re about,” APASU co-director Dawn Liu said. “Celebrating your culture and Turn to Heritage, page 8 Sex-assault services open to men as well ■Ten percent of reported sex crimes’ victims are male, but experts warn that men underreport sex crimes By Hiroshi Nakamura Oregon Daily Emerald Jannet Fiskio has met a lot of survivors of sexual crimes through her job as the commu nity educator for the Sexual Assault Support Services in Eugene. She said she admires victims who are try ing to recover from their painful experience Turn to Sexual assault, page 7 CC We’re here to support and educate... Jannet Fiskio community educator, S, »
