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Two killed in three
day hostage standoff
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A
three-day standoff inside a
suburban home ended Mon
day with the death of a
hostage and the suicide of
the murder suspect who be
gan the ordeal, police said.
Authorities said the captor,
Jamie Dean Petron, 41, killed
himself with a shot to the
chest and was found dead in
the master bedroom. The
hostage, Andrea Hall,40, had
been dead for several hours.
Hall, 40, might have been
! shot Sunday by police sharp
shooters who fired into the
; home, said Orange County
Sheriff’s Capt. Steve Jones.
It’s also possible she was hit
when Petron fired at a police
robot that entered the home
Monday morning, Jones said.
Searchers find missing
hiker in Opal Creek
DETROIT (AP) — Rescuers
found a hiker Monday who
had been missingforfivedays
in the Opal Creek area of the
Willamette National Forest.
Marchine Newton, 51, of
Canby, appeared to be in fair
condition.
Newton and her compan
ion were on a day hike
Wednesday when she fell and
hurt her knee. The compan
ion built a fire, left her with
some snacks and her Belgian
sheep dog, and went for help.
Officials expected to evacu
ate Newton on Thursday but
when they reached the spot
where she was supposed to
be, they found a note instead,
sayingshe was thirsty and was
goingtotrytohikeouton her
own.
Authorities said the case un
derscores one of the hiking
safety basics: If lost, don’t
move.
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Tuesday
July 25,2000
Volume 102, Issue 10
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University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
An independent newspaper
Officials claim WRC off to unstable start
Following the
Worker Rights
Consortium
first-ever board
meeting
University
representatives
disagree on
prognosis for
labor
monitoring
group
By Jack Clifford
Oregon Daily Emerald
Just 15 weeks after the Univer
sity signed on for a one-year
commitment to the Worker
Rights Consortium, student lead
ers and administration officials
are at odds
over the la
bor-moni
t o r i n g
group’s cur
rent state of
affairs.
P r e s i -
dent Dave
Frohnmay
er is con
c e r n e d
about the organization’s stability
following attendance Thursday
at the WRC’s first-ever board
meeting in Washington, D.C. The
University signed on with the
group April 12, an act which
came after several days of protest
by approximately 100 students
who camped in front of Johnson
Hall to urge the University to join
the WRC.
The original sign-on letter in
cluded several conditions that
the University wanted met, in
cluding more influence for the
57 university members of the
WRC, industry participation and
open meetings. Frohnmayer said
at the time that he was willing to
give the organization a chance to
show that it could follow
through on the group’s stated
goal of improving labor condi
tions at foreign apparel-produc
ing factories, owned by corpora
tions such as Nike and Reebok,
among others.
With his first good look at how
the WRC is set up and how it
may operate in the future, how
ever, Frohnmayer said his
biggest surprise at the meeting
was how much work actually
has to be done.
“This was to be signed on as a
monitoring organization,” he
Turn to WRC meeting, page 8
FROHNMAYER
Accessibility anniversary
Azle Malinao-Alvarez Emerald
The access into buildings for people with disabilites has improved since then-President George
Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into national legislation on July 26,1990.
ADA makes it 10 years
The historic
Americans
with
Disabilities
Act, which
celebrates
its 10th
anniversary
this week,
raised the
national
conscience
By Kristy Hessman
Oregon Daily Emerald
With 3,000 disability rights
advocates, members of Congress
and the Administration looking
on, President George Bush
signed the Americans with Dis
abilities Act into law July 26,
1990, the largest such signing
ceremony in history. Wednes
day marks the 10th anniversary
of the ADA and will also be a
day to reflect upon the achieve
ments in the past decade.
The ADA prohibits discrimi
nation against people with dis
abilities in employment, activi
ties of state and local
governments, public accom
modations, telecommunica
tions and transportation.
President Bush described the
ADA in 1990 as the “world’s
first comprehensive declara
tion of the equality of people
with disabilities, and evidence
of America’s leadership inter
nationally in the cause of hu
man rights. With today’s sign
ing of the landmark Americans
with Disabilities Act, every
man, woman and child with a
disability can now pass
through once closed doors, into
a bright new era of equality, in
dependence and freedom.”
Much of what the ADA has
accomplished in the past 10
years has not been directly
Turn to Accessibility, page 3
Tuition increase
likely for Oregon
undergraduates
By Tonya Alanez
Oregon Daily Emerald
Frozen tuitions at state uni
versities may soon thaw due to
the budget plan approved by the
State Board of Higher Education
on Friday.
The Oregon University Sys
tem’s budget of approximately
$1.75 billion, which seeks
$240.9 million in additional
state support, may signify an an
nual undergraduate tuition in
crease of 2.5 percent per year for
each in-state student in the
2001-03 biennium. Non-resi
dent and graduate students will
face an immediate tuition in
crease of approximately 5.5 per
cent for the 2000-01 academic
year.
“As far as I know it is an infla
tionary increase,” ASUO Presi
dent Jay Breslow said, a situa
tion which he finds acceptable.
If the increase proves to exceed
inflationary figures, however, he
said the ASUO will be working
with the Oregon Student Asso
ciation on behalf of student in
terests.
All along, OUS officials have
expected additional funding to
come from elsewhere.
“At this point, it is a built-in
assumption that the budget
would be financed by addition
al state monies and an increase
in tuition,” said Bob Bruce, as
sistant to the vice chancellor for
communications with the OUS.
“This is early in the process.
That could change.”
Turn to Tuition hike, page 3
A short budget
for the Oregon
University
System could
lead to a
possible tuition
hike for
undergrads
and a most
definite raise
for out-of-state
and graduate
students
Fire diminishes Waldo’s forest, but not beauty
A blaze
caused by
lightning
has affected
the natural
scenery of
Waldo Lake
By Inge Scheve
for the Emerald
The Waldo Lake north shore
area greets hikers, mountain
bikers, fishermen and other trail
users with a unique, almost
ghost-like trail adventure. A
large 1996 forest fire drastically
changed the scenery for those
who have seen what it used to
be.
The burned-out trails mean
Turn to Waldo Lake, page 4
A 1996 forest fire at
Waldo Lake in Central
Oregon brought a des
olate look to the land
scape. Future genera
tions will benefit from
nature’s wrath, how
ever, after the trees
reseed the area and
regeneration occurs.
Inge Scheve for the Emerald