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tmeralds open season Michael Mallory is one of many new faces on the Ems this season ex pected to improve the team considerably from its previous two years. PAGE 7A The Flash Local activist hones leadership skills Susan Sygall was named a MacArthur Fellow by a Chica go-based foundation for her work in teaching leadership skills to people with disabili ties. The organization she founded in 1981, Mobility In ternational USA, has worked with over 76 countries and boasts over 1,400 alumni. Page 3A University professor will fill new position University biology profes sor Karen Sprague will begin her new role as the Universi ty’s first vice provost for un dergraduate studies on july 1. The position was created to oversee academic advis ing, multicultural affairs, stu dent retention programs and the implementation of un dergraduate programs devel oped by the Process for Change. PAGE 5A Cougars are on the prowl in Lane Country In 1994, Measure 18 put a ban on using dogs to hunt cougars, which is part of the reason why the cat’s popula tion in Lane County is grow ing. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has re ported 42 dead cougars in a 15-mile radius of the Eugene Springfield city limits in the last six years. But still, the chance of an attack on a hu man is low. Page4A From Tinseltown to Titletown In case you missed it, Los Angeles won the NBA cham pionship Monday night over the Pacers, 116-111. It’s the Lakers’ first title since 1988. PageIOA Weather Tomorrow high 85, low 50 high 82, low 50 'W"M^ Oregon Daily *■ ■» Emerald Tuesday June 20,2000 Volume 102, Issue 1 —Q—DL_b e w r h ^ www.dailyemerald.com University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper Arrests exemplify weekend unrest Azle Malinao-Alvarez Emerald Steve Heslin, holding the megaphone, spoke several times during Sunday’s ‘Carnival Against Capital.’ Other speakers included University sociology professor Julia Fox. ■ Around 60 to 70 were arrested this weekend, some of them protesters, some of them onlookers By Jack Clifford and Rebecca Newell Oregon Daily Emerald Several dozens people ar rested over the weekend dur ing what organizers called a “Carnival Against Capital” were being released one by one, every hour, from the Lane County Jail late Monday night. The heavy police presence out in force beginning late last week netted approximately 60 to 70 arrests of anarchists, pro testers and apparently people who were just bystanders to the entire scene. Will Winget was one of those arrested at about 9 p.m. Sunday under the Washington-Jefferson Bridge — site of Sunday afternoon’s “historic re-enactment” of the June 18, 1999, protest that turned into a downtown Eu gene riot. “They just walked up to him and said ‘We’re arresting you for disorderly conduct,”’ Winget’s friend Walt Hunt said Sunday night. “We were just standing here watching the ac tivity. But about an hour earli er when the state riot people came in they had those long, white batons, and they were pushing everybody back down the street. And they kind of came up behind us. He doesn’t move that fast, and they kind of pushed him into a tree. “What they do is they see you doing something two hours earlier, and then they ar rest you at a vulnerable mo ment,” Hunt said. Terry Schoonmaker was one of the first released from the jail, and that followed the cus tody referee office’s procedure of letting out people with med ical problems or no serious pri or criminal record first. Schoonmaker said he was ar rested Sunday night at Second Avenue and Adams Street, af ter police ordered a large group of protesters to leave the coun ty jail vicinity. Schoonmaker said he began walking toward a Quik-Stop Market near Cham bers Avenue, when police stopped him and ordered him to take off his backpack. They then informed him that he was being arrested after Schoon maker refused to give his iden tity until he was told why he had been stopped. Upon being released Mon day night, Schoonmaker said he was unable to recover some of his belongings, including his shirt, coat and backpack. Coun ty jail officials did return his seizure medication, but Turn to Arrests, page 6A Concerns evident in peaceful park protest By Jonathan Allen Oregon Daily Emerald If you had been at Washington-Jef ferson Park during the day on Sun day, you might not have expected the chaos that ensued when the sun went down. Around the park, there were no lines of police officers in riot gear, no streams of bicycles and few visible squad cars. “We want a peaceful event, and we didn’t want to have to deal with po lice going out and negotiating direct ly with the anarchists,” Ward 3 City Councilor Bobby Lee said in the still sunlit park. He was part of a liaison program that had members in yellow hats, hoping to talk to the anarchists and mediate disagreements. A gathering of anarchists engaged in its historic re-enactment of the protest from one year ago, and sever al people — from anarchists to Uni versity sociology professor Julia Fox to civilians in black shirts expressing their support — spoke about what the anarchist movement means to them. The only overt group besides the anarchists was a sea of white shirts, members of the neutral observer pro gram who met before the gathering at Eugene’s Rose Garden near the Willamette River a few blocks away to receive their instructions to only observe and not interact. The police were at the park, but Turn to Anarchist rally, page 5A Azle Malinao-Alvarez Emerald Several anarchists hide behind ‘police’ puppets during the short ‘historic re enactment’ section of Sunday’s rally. Summer session offers mixed plate of classes ■ Summer classes offer students a chance to play catch up or ease their work loads during regular terms By Suzanne O’Kelley For the Emerald From a year’s worth of Italian credit to a weekend of environ mental awareness in the moun tains, the onset of summer session gives students a wide range of op portunities for both personal en richment and career development. The session, which began last Monday and ends Sept. 1, offers courses of varying lengths: eight week courses, four-week courses, one- to two-week intensive work shops and seminars, and numer ous weekend workshops. Summer session offers students many benefits not available dur ing the rest of the year, including smaller class sizes, condensed course lengths and the opportuni ty to catch up or get ahead for graduation, according to the Ad missions Office. In addition to classes offered during the rest of the year, students can take advan tage of special summer-only inno vative courses, often numbered 410/510 or 610, seminars, num bered 407/507 or 607, or work shops, numbered 408/508 or 608. “Eugene is fun in the summer,” admissions officer Joann Zum brunnen said. “Teachers come to class in Birkenstocks and shorts.” Students’ reasons for taking summer courses vary. Many see the session as a way to ease their future course loads. Junior Noushin Shakiba is taking physics this summer to satisfy a require ment that she won’t have time to fulfill in the fall. “It shouldn’t be too hard since I’m only taking one class this summer,” Shakiba said. About 6,000 students are cur rently enrolled for this summer, and the admissions office expects that number to increase to at least 6,500 by the end of the session. Summer session students pay for each course separately, unlike the rest of the year when tuition is fixed. Resident students pay $249 to enroll in the first course and $77 for each additional class. The initial course costs non-residents $286, and $114 for subsequent classes. On-campus housing is avail able to students on a week-to week payment schedule. The cost varies by date. Students can choose between Carson, Morton and McClure residence halls, and the University Inn is also avail able. In between classes, students have access to most facilities. The EMU is open during the summer from 8 a.m. to early evening, Mon Turn to Summer, page 5A
