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Memo gets an NCAA win Oregon senior captain Guillermo Carter serves to become the Ducks' first All-American with a win today in NCAA Individual Tournament play. PAGE 9A The Flash UO visitors get chance to assist child care State and local representa tives visit the University to day to support EMU Child Care Development Centers. Visitors to the ASUO Execu tive office can participate in writing letters, get informed on child care issues and talk to other students. Call the ASUO Executive of fice at 346-3724 for more de Public forum on city’s special response fee The Eugene City Council will hear public testimony to day at 5:30 p.m. in the Mc Nutt Room of City Hall on an ordinance drafted by the Eu gene Police Department. The ordinance would require ten ants to repay the city the cost of repeated police response to disorderly parties at the same address. City Hall is located at 777 Pearl St. Leadership institute to continue growth The second annual Contin ue) leadership institute meets this summer to help public representatives hone their managerial skills. About 150 leaders from as far away as Canada will gath er at the Eugene Hilton June 26 to 30. PAGE 6A University offers education on-line The Distance Education program at the University will offer 11 on-line courses this summer. The classes give students the opportunity take University classes re gardless of where they will be. Some students plan to take courses from outside the state or even from out side the country. PAGE8A | Weather Today Friday MOSTLY CLOUDY — (Mil , & rHUHDERSTORWSl high 69, low 45 high 71, low 53 Thursday May 25,2000 Volume 101, Issue 160 —Q—D_Li] fi w ft h -g www.dailyemerald.com University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper Executive passes torch and advice TheASUO Executive office has officially changed hands, and the ex-exec reflects on goals set, problems met and meetings left behind By Jeremy Lang Oregon Daily Emerald Former ASUO President Wylie Chen has a sugges tion for people thinking about run ning for student president in the fu ture: Go into the election without a campaign plat form. On Wednesday night, Chen and Vice President Mitra Anoushiravani turned the ASUO Executive office over to Jay Breslow and Holly Magner. While Chen wasn’t completely serious about abandoning the idea of a campaign plat form, the comment was a telling reflec tion on what worked and what didn’t for the exec utive this year. Chen and Anoushiravani came into office with an extensive list of campaign ANOUSHIRAVANI promises and goals. “We’d find that things we think are easy are really five-year projects,” Chen said. They also didn’t plan for the multi ple unexpected issues that arose during the year, including University Presi dent Dave Frohnmayer’s absence as he was treated for his heart arrhythmia, the Southworth incidental fee case and the Worker Rights Consortium protest. While these issues slowed their abili ty to complete their campaign goals, they were still able to deliver on many of them and handle the unexpected is sues that became just as important to students throughout the year. Chen and Anoushiravani said they credit their success and general lack of Turn to Executive, page 3A Physical therapists check stroke patient Marge Worley’s balance on a treadmill-like device. Stroke victims try new plan ■ l he university exercise and movement science department is testing a new treatment to help stroke survivors get on their feet By Adam Jude Oregon Daily Emerald For the third consecutive day, Al Christensen used his cane to hobble into Gerlinger Hall’s Motor Control Lab to participate in a therapy session re garding the “torture wheel,” as he jok ingly describes it. Someday soon — perhaps after two more weeks of intensive treatment from University physical therapists — Chris tensen hopes he will not need the cane to help him walk. Instead of dreaming about walking again, the former marathon runner may be able to live it. The 74-year-old Eugene resident, who experiences balance problems from a stroke he had nearly 12 years ago, is one of two participants in a pilot program that aims to substantially im prove therapy methods for the 400,000 Americans who survive strokes each year. “This has been my best day so far,” said Christensen, who has limited con trol of the left side of his body. Ten percent of stroke survivors re cover almost completely, and 25 per cent recover with minor impairments, according to the National Stroke Asso ciation. “I feel very lucky to be chosen and expect great things from this,” Chris tensen said. Physical therapist Laura Adomaitis, a doctoral student who is conducting the research, said Chistensen’s tests on Wednesday were part of week-long pre liminary experiments that evaluate pa tients’ specific conditions by checking their balance on a treadmill-like ma chine — Christensen’s “torture wheel.” The two stroke patients, Christensen and Marge Worley, 68, were asked to stand on the treadmill and try to remain in position as the machine sponta neously jerks. The participants are strapped into a harness to prevent them from falling. Marjorie Woollacott, the head of the department of exercise and movement science (EMS) and overseer of the proj ect, said the treadmill is like an “elec Turn to Treatment, page 7A New president guides senate to watch WRC ■The new leader establishes a subcommittee to monitor the WRC and clarify the campus debate surrounding the group By Ben Romano Oregon Daily Emerald In his first act as president of the University Senate, English Professor James Earl established a subcommittee to monitor the Worker Rights Consortium and advise the University Senate as it closely examines the issue over the 2000-01 academic year. The primary mission of the subcommittee — which is made up of two former senate presi dents, Ann Tedards and Jeff Hurwit; David Frank, chairman of the Faculty Advisory Com mittee; and Earl as an ex-officio member — is “to bring clarity to the many issues surrounding the University’s membership in the WRC.” The subcommittee will ad vise the senate’s Executive Committee, which will serve as the senate’s oversight commit tee concerning the University’s membership in the WRC, as stipulated in senate resolution US9900-10B, which was passed April 12. The resolution states that the senate will review the WRC and the University’s mem bership in that labor monitoring organization annually. “The University’s decision to join the WRC and [Nike CEO] Phil Knight’s public response created a very heated debate,” said Earl, who served as senate vice-president this year. He said the issue has angered many people about many differ ent things, such as radical stu dent activism, the University’s system of governance, politics in a state agency, bad business practices, faults with the WRC, issues of courtesy and loyalty, alumni relations, global eco nomics and collegiate sports. "These issues are so entan gled that it has been difficult Turn to Senate, page 7 A (( The Uni versity’s deci sion to join the WRCand Phil Knight’s public response created a very heated debate. James Earl new University Senate president yy
