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i f £ Fairy-tales come alive For one weekend a summer, men can be women, women can be wizards and everyone can make merry. It’s the Oregon Country Fair. PAGE 7 The Flash Fanconi Fund hits up the bank In efforts to raise research funding for Fanconi anemia, U-Lane-0 Credit Union will sell cards for one dollar with the hand prints of Fanconi anemia patients. The Fan coni Anemia Research Fund, established by University President Dave Frohnmayer and his wife, Lynn, has raised several million dollars for re search to combat the disease that claimed the life of two of their daughters. Non-U-Lane 0 members can stop by any branch and purchase a card. PAGE 3 Committee focuses on WRC debate The University Senate Re view Panel was established last May as a forum for dis cussing and monitoring the Worker Rights Consortium. Representatives from several factions with interests in the WRC are seated on the panel, which takes responses from University and local commu nity members in addition to researching the WRC. PAGE 6 Napster bites back against suit Claiming no culpability for users who pirated music of the Internet, the Napster MP3 site announced at a Sen ate hearing that they com mitted no illegal copyright infringements. Metallica and Dr. Dre are among the lead ing opponents in the record ing industry who oppose MP3 sites like Napster, where users can download music for little cost. Napster did, however, try to make repara tions by forfeiting lists of its users to the Recording Indus try Association of America and various musicians. PAGE 5 Weather Today Friday high 78, low 55 high 78, low 55 Oregon Daily T| T| Emerald Thursday July 13,2000 Volume 102, Issue 7 —Q—D_t* h fi w fi h www.dailyemerald.com University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon An independent newspaper zle Malinao-Alvarez Emerald Betty Taylor talks with one of the many protesters who were at the June 18 anarchist rally. TflUlOMD FOR SUCCESS An advo cate for the environment, City Coun cilor Betty Taylor represents her ward with a sense of justice By Jonathan Allen Oregon Daily Emerald On June 1,1997, police and Eugene residents tangled over a development company’s cutting down of 40 trees for the Broadway housing com plex at Charnelton Street. A peaceful protest turned vio lent as the police used tear gas to contain the crowd. Five months into her first term as the Ward 3 city coun cilor, Betty Taylor was right in the middle of it all, helping to organize the citizens who showed up that Sunday evening, observing her city’s people in action. “I was standing there with tears running down my cheeks because of the trees and the people not being lis tened too,” Taylor said. This is the Betty Taylor that Ward 3 residents and the rest of Eugene have come to know in the first four-year term of her political career. This is the Taylor who has quickly devel oped a band of followers. This is the Taylor who has been told by such city officials as Mayor Jim Torrey, “Betty, your people are here,” referring to large groups of citizen ac tivists who come out in num bers to express their opinions Turn toTaylored, page 3 Kent weighs Notre Dame ■ Oregon basketball coach is in Indiana discussing the Irish head coach position By Jeff Smith Oregon Daily Emerald Oregon basketball head coach Ernie Kent will be in South Bend, Ind., today to meet with Notre Dame officials about its vacant head coaching position — where he is reportedly Notre Dame’s number one choice. Oregon athletic director Bill Moos confirmed Wednesday that he has granted Notre Dame AD Kevin White permission to speak to Kent. “I look at it as a tremendous compliment for our coaches and their programs when other schools become interested in the success we have achieved at Ore gon,'* Moos said. The Notre Dame job became vacant Tuesday when Matt Do herty left to take over the head coaching job of North Carolina, where he once played. ESPN.com reported sources close to Kent said he’s “50-50” on whether to stay at Oregon or bolt to Notre Dame. Kent has been out of town re cruiting since Saturday and reit erated what Moos said about this being a sign of respect for Oregon. “This reinforces the things we have accomplished here have drawn a favorable response on a national scale,” said Kent, who has an overall record of 54-35 in his three seasons at his alma mater. “I want to emphasize that I am perfectly happy to be the head coach at Oregon, and this is not something I have initiated. ” ESPN.com also reported that Kent is interested in the national opportunity that the Notre Dame job would offer him — a school that has never had a black men’s basketball coach. “Ernie and I have spoken sev eral times this week regarding the developments at Notre Dame and are confident we will contin ue to do so,” Moos said. KENT I want to empha size that I am perfectly happy to be the head coach at Oregon, and this is not something I have initiated. Ernie Kent Oregon men’s basketball coach yy UO seeks amendment to help Autzen expansion H... If you add 12,000 seats, you’re going to bring 12,000 more people here, so it’s goingtoget worse. Allen Lowe Eugene senior planner jj ■The proposal to increase capacity at Autzen Stadium causes some businesses to express concerns about parking issues By Jack Clifford Oregon Daily Emerald The proposed Autzen Stadium expansion would increase seating capacity by 12,100 fans, but that phase of the project is not taking place until late November at the earliest. Before con struction even commences, the University is ask ing for city officials to amend Eugene’s parking code to avoid even more costs beyond the esti mated $80 million price tag. The Eugene code requires one parking space for each 4.4 seats in the stadium. The code currently allows for a 50 percent reduction in necessary parking spaces, as long as the University provides suitable travel alternatives to automobiles. Even Turn to Autzen, page 4 Multicultural Center closes in on director By Rebecca Newell Oregon Daily Emerald After a seemingly futile search to fill the new Multicultural Center director position, the possi bility of kicking off the new academic year with someone in the driver’s seat is now a reality. An informal group in charge of discussing the hiring, composed of the summer remnants of the hiring committee, ASUO officers and various representatives from different student organiza tions, were left with two options. The first option was to leave the position open and plan on a spring hire, leaving an additional year to expand the search. The second was to create an interim position for director, which would provide leadership for the students dur ing the school year, but allow flexibility to con tinue the search for a permanent director. But a surprising turn of events has put the near future of the position back to square one, and Turn to Director, page 6 Progress is being made in attempts to til I the Multi cultural Center director’s seat
