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
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