Ducks look
to the future
Despite losing a few key
seniors, young players
I ike freshman Chris Car
nahan give one cause
to believe the future is
bright for Steve N osier's
squad. PAGE 7
The Flash
Former Nike factory
worker to speak
Former Nike employee
Roselio Reyes will speak
about his experience as a fac
tory worker in the Domini
can Republic at the Knight
Law Center in Room 110
tonight at 7 p.m.
Reyes worked at a factory
that produces Nike and colle
giate apparel and is current
ly on his second speaker tour
in the United States. The tour
is sponsored by United Stu
dents Against Sweatshops,
the group that helped create
the Worker Rights Consor
tium.
Fire alarms regularly
triggered at hospital
False fire alarms are a
rather normal occurrence at
Sacred Heart Medical Center.
According to hospital offi
cials, alarms have been set
off up to about five times a
week recently and continue
to sound somewhat often.
Frequent construction proj
ects may be the cause for
many of these instances.
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Neutral observers
oversee UO events
The Office of Student Life
sponsors the Neutral Observ
er Program at the University,
an organization that provides
volunteer observers at cam
pus events. The observers
serve as impartial witnesses
in case any controversies
arise.
The program was imple
mented at the University in
1990 but was established at
other universities in the
1960s.
Currently, the University’s
Neutral Observer Program
consists of 10 volunteers
made up of faculty, staff and
students. PAGE 5
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The health center has conducted tests
on 275 students so far this term and
encourages others to take advantage
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
The World Health Organization estimates that
16,000 people are infected with HIV, the virus
that causes AIDS, every day.
About one in 500 university students in the United
States is HIV-positive, according to the American Col
lege Health Association.
With these alarming statistics in mind, the Univer
sity Health Center is trying to decrease the number
of sexually transmitted infections on campus with
free tests and an HIV awareness program.
With about two weeks remaining in the term,
the health center is hoping to utilize all of the
money from a grant it received to promote
health education. Particularly, health
educators are hoping that they can
use the money to test more students
who are at risk for HIV.
“We have the resources to do 100
more tests,” University Health Educator
Annie Dochnahl said. “If we don’t, we lose
With the support from the E.C. Brown Charita
ble Trust, the health center has conducted HIV tests
on 275 students so far this term. The trust has also en
abled the health center to bring the Multicultural
AIDS/HIV Peer Program, a traveling HIV awareness
group from the University of California at Berkeley, to
the University of Oregon for several performances. Part
of the Brown funds also support a promotional cam
paign about the importance of using contraception
during sexual intercourse.
Instead of students who Dochnahl describes as
“worried well,” she said she would prefer to have
students who are at a higher risk of transmitting the
virus take the free test. Unprotected sex and shar
ing needles are the most common methods of
contracting HIV.
Turn to HIV tests, page 3
City scrambles
for alternative
station plans
■Voters rejected the ballot measure to build
new police and fire stations, but the current
building is still too small and unsafe
By Josh Ryneal
Oregon Daily Emerald
After the May 16 failure of
Eugene Ballot Measure 20-31,
which would have funded the
construction of new downtown
police and fire stations, Eugene
police and fire departments
have been left wondering how
they will function in the
cramped quarters of City Hall.
The measure was defeated in
the election, with 53.5 percent
of voters opposed to assuming
the $36.6 million responsibility
for building the new stations.
The measure was put on the
ballot not only because the po
lice and fire departments don’t
have enough space but also be
cause recent examinations of
the City Hall building revealed
that it would not hold up dur
ing a major earthquake and
could cripple those vital servic
es when they are most needed.
Mayor Jim Torrey said he
thought the measure failed in
part because of voters in the
Bethel area, which was one of
the last communities to be an
nexed to Eugene.
“Typically, the Bethel area is
Turn to Stations, page 4
(( Now we
have our en
tire patrol
force housed
there, along
with
archives and
things like
uniform
storage—a
lot of critical
operations
in a space
that's not
big enough.
Rick Siel
lieutenant,
Eugene Police
Department
Luxury home sale to benefit Fanconi fund
A local couple
expressed their
support for the
Frohnmayers
andtheFanconi
Anemia
Research Fund
by building
the house
By Ben Romano
Oregon Daily Emerald
In the two days following the
unveiling of a 4,074-square-foot
home overlooking the
Willamette River, which will be
sold to help support Fanconi
Anemia research, the site has
been the focus of enormous
public interest.
“We’ve had at least 400 peo
ple in the house,” said Ruby
Brockett, a broker and owner of
Prudential Preferred Proper
ties, the real estate agency sell
ing the home. She said 15 to 20
people is a good turnout at a
typical home showing.
People are interested in both
the house and the mission be
hind its creation, Brockett sqid.
That mission started with
Greg and Linda Roberts, own
Turn to Fund raiser, page 3
Azle Malinao-Alvarez Emerald
A 4,074 square-foot home, now open for show, will be sold to help support Fanconi Anemia research.
Severed dog paws found on local golf course
Officials
express
concerns about
the way the
paws were
removed from
theanimal
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
Animal abuse investigators
say they still have no leads in
the case of two severed dog
paws found at the Fiddler’s
Green Golf Course in northwest
Eugene.
A groundskeeper at the golf
course, adjacent to Highway 99,
discovered one paw near the
15th green and the other near
an irrigation control box. After
analyzing the paws, which
were found Saturday, Lane
County Animal Regulation au
thority manager Mike Welling
ton said the animal was likely a
longhaired dog, such as a Gold
en Retriever.
The LCARA, which has in
vestigated only a few animal
mutilation cases in the past sev
eral years, has since been
searching listings of lost dogs
and interviewing nearby resi
dents in an attempt to identify
the dog and locate witnesses.
Wellington said the paws,
one front paw and one back
paw, seemed to have been sur
gically removed.
Turn to Dog paws, page 3