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
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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.
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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