Tarika
to go-go
The band from Mada
gascar has a sound that
ranges from African,
Polynesian, Filipino
and more. They play
the WOW Hall tonight.
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The Flash
ASUO approves
War in Peace fund
The ASUO Senate met
Wednesday night for its
third meeting of the sum
mer. The main focus of
the meeting was the Sen
ate’s unanimous ap
proval to give the Japan
ese Student Organization
$450 to help fund its War
in Peace ceremony that
will take place next week
in the EMU Amphithe
ater.
Memorial to be set
on Thurston grounds
SPRINGFIELD (AP) — A
committee has decided to
place a memorial to the 1998
shootings at Thurston High
School on school grounds
and include the names of all
those killed, reversing earlier
plans to refer to the victims
anonymously.
Two of the four people
killed were students, while
the other two were the par
ents of the convicted killer,
Kip Kinkel.
The father of Mikael Nicko
lauson, one of the slain stu
dents, has argued the memo
rial should refer to all the
victims but name only his son
and Ben Walker.
Kinkel was sentenced to
life in prison for killing his
parents, Bill and Faith
Kinkel, then going to
Thurston High School the
next day and shooting 27
classmates, killing Nickolau
son and Walker.
Nickolauson’s father has
said he prefers a separate
memorial for the Kinkels,
but he declined to comment
on the committee’s plan to
include all victims in one me
morial.
Members of Walker’s fami
ly did couldn’t be reached for
comment.
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Erica Fuiler-Shindler brings years of experience working with students to the University.
Multicultural
Tasker.
The rigorous
search fora
Multicultural
Center
director is
complete
with a
University
alumna
stepping up
By Tonya Alanez
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University’s newly
created position of Multicul
tural Center Director has
been an elusive one to fill.
But with years of multi
cultural-based awareness,
Erica Fuller-Shindler ap
pears to be a perfect fit.
She initially turned down
the offer in May due to per
sonal reasons, but a change
of circumstances brought
Fuller-Shindler to the Uni
versity after all. She was the
selection committee’s top
candidate all along and is
now serving as the one-year
interim director and will be
eligible to apply for the per
manent position at the end
of her term, which expires
June 30,2001.
Fuller-Shindler is no
stranger to Oregon. She was
born and raised in the state,
growing up in the coastal
community of Bandon and
attended the University for
her freshman and sopho
more years of college.
“In terms of changes since
I’ve been here, there have
been no changes in the past
10 years,” Fuller-Shindler
Turn to Multicultural, page 4
Major dreamers
hope to attract
baseball team
■ MLBoregon.com pitches its
campaign for a major league
baseball franchise in Portland
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
If you happened to be at Safeco
Field Wednesday afternoon for the
Seattle Mariners-Oakland A’s base
ball game, there was a good chance
you saw a banner with the words
“Oregon A’s” on it.
The banner is part of a promotion
al campaign by MLBoregon.com, a
new group that is assisting the city
of Portland in attracting a Major
League baseball franchise to the
state.
The reason it chose Wednesday’s
venue as the place to launch this
summer’s campaign is because of
the potential relocation of the Oak
land Athletics, one of baseball’s
many small-market teams in finan
cial trouble.
MLBoregon.com is headed by Dr.
G. Lynn Lashbrook, an adjunct pro
fessor at Pacific University and Ore
gon State University. Lashbrook’s
goal this summer is focused on
spawning interest from the entire
state in bringing professional base
ball to Portland.
“We are one major step away from
making the MLB dream a reality,”
Lashbrook said. "That step is the fi
nancing of a Major League ball
park.”
MLBoregon.com will try to gain
momentum for such financing to
take place through the use of state
issued lottery bonds designated for
economic development. Lashbrook
is encouraging “people to contact
their local legislators and sign peti
tions.”
Even with such efforts made by
MLBoregon.com and the Portland
Baseball Group, there are some
doubts as to whether Portland could
compete financially at the major
league level.
Turn to Baseball, page 3
The
batter’s
stats
MLBoregon.com
is headed by Dr.
G. Lynn Lash
brook,an adjunct
professor at Pa
cific University
and OSU.
Portland is the
only market out
of the 34 mar
kets in the coun
try without two
pro franchises.
Portland ranks
22 nd overall
with 1.7 million
people, more
than Milwaukee,
Cincinnati and
Kansas, which all
have teams.
Source:
MLBoregon.com
Lane delegates off to GOP convention in Phillv
A handful of
Lane County
Republicans,
along with a
cadre of
protesters,
head to
Philadelphia
for the national
convention
ELECTIONS
By Kristy Hessman
Oregon Daily Emerald
There’s a party of elephants
heading to Philadelphia.
Republicans, protesters and
a few Oregonians make up
those who are expected to at
tend the Republican National
Convention, which begins
Monday and ends Wednesday
in Philadelphia.
An estimated 45,000 GOP
supporters will pour into the
“city of brotherly love” to take
part in the gathering.
“I believe there are about 12
or 13 delegates who will be go
ing from Oregon,” said Sandy
Reed, a convention delegate
from Lane County and presi
dent of Republican Women of
Central Lane.
Also from the local area,
University alum Jeff Osanka
will serve as an alternate dele
gate.
“There will be around 2.000
delegates and 2,000 alternate
delegates,” Osanka said.
“They will be on the floor at
all times, although alternate
delegates are not allowed to
vote.”
Neither of the two Lane
County representatives have
attended the convention in the
past, but both have been as
sured that it
Inside
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Bush’s choice of
Cheney for vice
president draws
mixed opinions.
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is going to be
an exciting
time.
“Being a
delegate .{or
alternate del
egate] means
access to
everything,” Osanka said.
“You get to wander around the
floor and talk to people in
your section, and you get to go
to all of the parties and gather
ings.”
Reed has also been prepar
Turn to Convention, page 6
Emerald
Texas Gov. George Bush, shown here in Portland this past May,
hopes to energize the Republican convention crowds.