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End of story Renee Baumgartner, the women's golf coach, says she has enjoyed helping the Ducks become one of the nation's better teams. She'll step down after this week's NCAAs. PAGE 11 .—-----: The Flash Naturalist author Williams delivers speech Terry Tempest Williams, re cipient of the 2000 Robert D. ■. Clark Professor in the Hu manities, spoke to a crowd of §§f nearly 660 Tuesday night in | the EMU Ballroom. A packed 2? EMU Ballroom listened to IH William’s interpretation of 15th century artist Hierony mous Bosch’s famous paint ing, “The Garden of Earthly §§§ Delight,” which has been her f§| subject of study for more v? than seven years. PAGE 3 Columbine tapes ordered released ||„ Jefferson County District Judge R. Brooke Jackson or dered the Jefferson County Sherrif’s Office to had over videotapes of the Columbine High School shootings. The decision came after numer ous families sued the police ; over alleged misconduct re §§J garding the fatal incident on |||| April 20, 1999. Audio clips, which include police radio Hi ffff communications, were also ordered to be handed over | HI but only after references to a ■|| suspect who was later cleared are edited out. PAGE 5 Government eases foreign gun sale restrictions The State Department and the Pentagon announced Ilf Tuesday that the U.S. would a be easing restrictions on in ternational weapon sales in cluding licensing of weapons contracts. Secretary of State ||f Madeleine Albright was ex l|| pected to comment on the move sometime today. The move would make it easier I for U.S. forces to share III weapons and provide Ameri can technology with allies. PAGE 6 Today Thursday -.•" — PARTLY CLOUDY PARTLY CLOUDY high 73, low 49 high 71, low 46 Wednesday May 24,2000 Volume 101, Issue 159 _Q_n t h ft w ft h ^ www.dailyemerald.com University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper Networking connections Thanks to a ballot measure passed last week, EWEB is con sidering a telecommunications infrastructure that would compete with major providers such as AT&T and US West. Fast Internet service mulled ■ EWEB will decide whether to construct a fiber-optic network five times faster than current dial-up connections By Darren Freeman Oregon Daily Emerald Eugene residents tired of listening to a dial tone every time they connect to the Internet might have access to a high-speed fiber-optic network owned Turn to EWEB service, page 9 Activist Nike factory vet speaks at UO ■ Roselio Reyes, who worked at a Nike factory in the Dominican Republic, has a dismal opinion of working conditions there By Simone Ripke Oregon Daily Emerald About 150 students filled a room in the Knight Law Center Tuesday night to hear a former Nike factory worker speak about his experience at a factory in the Dominican Republic and to learn first hand what one for mer worker thinks the Worker Rights Consortium the Univer sity joined last month can do to improve labor conditions. Labor conditions at factories producing Nike apparel abroad have been an ongoing contro versy and were put under the microscope when student pro testers demanded that the Uni versity join the WRC. One for mer Nike worker now shared his story about working at such a factory and told students about what he called poor labor standards. Roselio Reyes, who is now a labor organizer and student ac tivist, is visiting the United States for a second time to raise awareness of the conditions he had to work under when he Turn to Nike labor, page 10 Reported Nike con ditions Allegations of former Nike factory worker Roselio Reyes: inhumane work ing conditions long days with few breaks no right to organize low pay inaccessible or dirty bathrooms women were forced to take pregnancy tests oppressive management no education or advancement no access to medical care Free clinic to open, ease patients' burdens ii The needs of the person pre vail, not the time clock or the dollar. Gail Winterman clinic manager ■The Volunteers in Medicine Clinic, opening in October, will be another option for those in need By Andrew Adams Oregon Daily Emerald Diane Maria, a 60-year-old retired social worker, is afraid of slowly “dying in pieces” from her diabetes, because her $900 monthly income from widow’s benefits does not even come close to covering her medication costs to treat her sickness. “Every single month I have to find a source for what I Turn to Free clinic, page 9 Ryan Starkweather Emerald Located on W. 11th Ave., the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic will provide free clinics to people unable to af ford medical treatment. The Eugene clinic will be one of seven nation-wide. ASUO grants student fee money to Justice for All The group was also awarded money from theASUO Executive’s private fund raising By Emily Gust Oregon Daily Emerald Two months ago, student groups such as the pro-life or ganization Justice For All would not have received a pen ny from the University’s inci dental fee. But after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in March on the Southworth v. University of Wisconsin case, it paved the path for groups with membership restrictions to share in the wealth of the inci dental fee system, which funds ASUO programs, the EMU and athletic tickets. The decision also gave student groups the ability to spend their money for political means, something that didn’t exist be fore the deci sion. That doesn’t mean that the path hasn’t been rocky, howev er, when it came to declaring Justice For All an ASUO-recog nized group this term, allowing it to collect money from the in cidental fee. Even so, the group got its recognition and its mon ey last Wednesday amidst dis pleasure and resignations from other members of the ASUO. “After the Southworth case, instead of eliminating the stu dent fee ... it actually opened up our ability to fund more pro grams that may not have been funded,” ASUO President Wylie Chen said. Known for bringing the Genocide Awareness Project to campus last fall, Justice For All is a student organization that Turn to Justice For All, page 7 No one's allowed to break the law in our group. Scott Austin Justice for All fund-raising chair
