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
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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
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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
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Inside
The Duck men’s
team finishes §HHp
^ seventh; the
I women come in
last. PAGE 9
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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,
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