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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.
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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