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Monday October 2,2000 Volume 102, Issue24 Weather Oh so close * Baysa and the Oregon soccer team gives a 21 Florida St a fight, but falls 1-0 PAGE 9 IUUAY Too good to be true Scam expert visits campus today armed with tactics students can use to avoid falling prey to cons PAGE 5 PARTLY CLOUDY high 61, low 42 Ducks squeeze victory out of No. 6 Washington _ . ... Dan Brunell Emerald Tuiaso-sandwich anyone? The Husky quarterback felt the crunch of a tight Oregon defense. ■Oregon vaults into the driver’s seat of the Pacific-10 Conference Rose Bowl race and into the Top-10 with a big win over the Huskies By Jeff Smith Oregon Daily Emerald Another week, another Top-10 victim to Oregon and its hallowed Autzen Stadium. First there were the No. 6 UCLA Bruins. The Ducks crushed them, 29-10, on Sept. 23. Then there were the No. 6 Washington Huskies. Oregon outplayed them, and captured the 23-16 win on Saturday in front of 46,153 fans — the third-largest crowd in Autzen Stadium history. And now there are the No. 9 Oregon Ducks. After beating two of its highly-ranked Pacific-10 Conference rivals in back-to-back weeks, Oregon jumped 11 spots in The Associated Press poll — as well as right into the thick of the Rose Bowl race. Oregon beat its Northwest rival for the fifth time in seven games, and sent many visiting Husky fans back home to Seattle in a bad mood. Oregon fans, however, have begun to sense a faint hint of roses in the air. “We can’t look too far ahead because there’s a lot of football left to be played,” Oregon quarterback Joey Harrington said. From here on out, each game gains importance, especially the Civil War contest at Oregon State on Nov. 18. Student tickets for that game at Reser Sta dium go on sale at 9 a.m. today at the Casanova Center near Autzen. Tickets can only be purchased in person and cost $24. If Oregon keeps this up, that could be the game that determines The Rose Bowl. For complete game coverage, turn to SPORTS, page 9 Department of Public Safety vehicles violate ODOT laws ■ Utticialssay red and blue lights may only be used on emergency vehicles By Rebecca Newell Oregon Daily Emerald When the University’s Department of Public Safe ty patrol vans began falling apart last year, campus se curity upgraded its fleet to sleek new patrol cars, out fitted with red and blue emergency lights, similar to those on police vehicles. But what seemed like a convenient improvement could put DPS in hot water because the department is not authorized to use the red and blue lights, accord ing to area law enforcement agencies and the Oregon Department of Transporta tion. According to Oregon statutes, blue lights are per mitted only on police or emergency fire vehicles. DPS cars don’t qualify as either. “No security vehicles can have red and blue lights unless they are a cer tified police officer,” said Allen Charn, deputy direc tor of the Oregon Depart ment of Public Safety, Stan dards and Training. “It’s the law.” DPS Director Tom Fitz patrick said the department chose to use the red and blue lights without check ing the legal restrictions. “We feel comfortable us ing the red and blue lights because we feel safer,” Fitz patrick said, adding that the lights are more recog nizable than the yellow and green used on the old patrol vans. “We feel it’s in the best interest of the community to have lights that people recognize,” he said. “We did not go and ask for per mission.” The issue raises ques tions about the identity of Turn to DPS, page 7 DPS recently purchased cars with red and blue lights, though the legality of the lights is being question by area law enforcement agencies™ Scholarships, recruiting responsible for big freshmen influx The University boosts efforts to draw Oregon’s best and brightest high school students By Simone Ripke Oregon Daily Emerald If campus seems just a little more crowded this fall than it has been in the past, a bigger and brighter freshman class than the University has seen in years might explain that phenomenon. Although official numbers won’t be available until the end of the fourth week of fall term — that’s when students tend to set tle down after adding and drop ping classes throughout the first few weeks — University officials expect the class of just over 1,900 resident and 707 nonresi dent freshmen to be the second largest ever. Thanks to those new faces on campus, University officials ex pect the total enrollment to jump from 17,278 last fall to about 17,700 this fall. “This freshman class is by far larger than it was last year,” said Jim Buch, the University’s asso ciate vice president for enroll ment management. “I think that’s a direct reflection of the quality of the University.” Buch said this fall’s freshman class is not only the largest since the record of just more than 2,800 set in 1988, but on average its members are also the smartest ever, averaging GPAs of 3.41 and Scholastic Achievement Test scores of 558.1 in the verbal sec tion and 555.2 in math. “Not only are the numbers up, but the quality is up as well,” Buch said. He said he attributes the rise in high achievers among incom ing freshmen to efforts in recruit ing and the availability of schol arships designed to keep bright high school students in Oregon. The Dean’s Scholarship, which is available to high school graduates whose transcripts show that they have completed Turn to Enrollment, page 7 -J-—1-1-1-*-1_L lM
