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Andrea Bostic moderates the debate among Socialist Karl Sorg, Republican Dr. Bill Young and Democrat Phil Barnhart (left to right) in the Ben Under
Room at the EMU on Thursday. The candidates discussed topics ranging from education to racial equality.
Panel grills candidates at debate
House of
Representatives
candidates
shared their
thoughts on
issues ranging
from education
to Measure 9
By Lindsay Buchele
Oregon Daily Emerald
Almost 30 people turned out
Thursday to hear a debate among
the three candidates running for
the House of Representatives
District 40 seat, which repre
sents the East University area.
The candidates addressed leg
islative issues that would affect
state university students in the
student-moderated debate,
which was organized by the
ASUO Executive Office.
The panel of four University
students had the opportunity to
grill the candidates — Republi
can Bill Young, Democrat Phil
Barnhart, and Socialist Karl Sorg
— on issues such as education
funding, Measure 9 and cam
paign finance reform during the
debate in the Ben Linder Room
of the EMU.
The panel included ASUO
community outreach intern Jes
sica Lurie, ASUO diversity in
tern Victoria Gonzalez, OSPIRG
intern Bret Force, and ASUO leg
islative intern Rachel Pilliod.
The ASUO Legislative Commit
tee devised the questions to be
asked and the four panelists did
the actual questioning.
The first question asked con
cerned one of the hottest issues
in this year’s election: education
funding.
“Measure 91 will be the most
harmful to school funding,”
Young said. “What we need to do
for funding is look at costs and
find better ways to use the mon
ey we have.”
Barnhart agreed with Young
but thought there was more to
the issue.
“Funding is important, and
the most deadly measures con
cerning funding are the ones that
will cut taxes,” Barnhart. “Mea
sure 8 is very loaded. We could
lose our faculty over it. ”
Sorg focused more on fixing
the current tax structure in order
to better fund education.
“We need to redo the tax struc
ture,” Sorg said. “Ifwetaxtherich
at 90 percent, we could use that
tax money to fund education. ”
Tax measures weren’t the only
ballot measures getting attention
during the debate. Each candi
date strongly opposed Measure
9, which would prohibit schools
Turn to Candidates, page 4A
Voter list slips
from ASUO
■The unintentional release of a list of student
voters generates controversy about who should
have access to the information
By Emily Gust
Oregon Daily Emerald
The ASUO accidentally released a
list of student voters that it registered
this fall, but ASUO Executive mem
bers said voters should not expect
phone calls urging people to vote for
a certain candidate.
The ASUO put its new voter infor
mation into a database for “Youth
Vote 2000,” a study run by a Yale pro
fessor who wants to examine why
students vote. ASUO members will
call students urging them to turn in
their mail-in ballots.
But a few weeks ago, two Universi
ty students who work in the ASUO
got the list, and that has graduate
English student Scott Austin asking
that any group have access.
The controversy began with what
ASUO Legislative Organizer Melissa
Unger called a “misunderstanding. ”
Alan Tauber, who helped the
ASUO file about 5,000 voter registra
tion cards in a computer database,
gave a copy of the list to senior politi
cal science major Dan Katz. At the
same time, under the impression that
she had full permission to do so, Sen.
Jennifer Greenough printed the first
1,000 names from the database,
Unger said.
Katz and Greenough intended to
use the list to help with Oregon Judge
Paul DeMuniz’s campaign for State
Supreme Court, which they both
support.
The DeMuniz campaigners called
some of the voters in the database
while they possessed the information,
Unger said. Unger said she told them
to stop calling and to provide a fist of
the people they contacted.
They have stopped calling and
have promised to deliver the list of
names.
Austin said he obtained a copy of
the fist at the same time as the DeMu
Turn to Voter list, page 4 A
Hour
biggest
concern is
the study
and making
sure it is
non-parti
san. That's
why we
don't want
to give out
the list
Brian Tanner
state affairs
coordinator
ASUO
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Outdoor adventures abound thanks to Pacific Challenge
Students travel
to Australia
and New
Zealand each
winter for
extreme sports
and wild
adventures
By Beata Mostafavi
Oregon Daily Emerald
They’ve gone rock climbing on
mountains overlooking Aus
tralian fields, bungee jumped in
New Zealand and mingled with
the natives Down Under.
Step aside, Road Rules cast,
and make room for students who
have experienced the Pacific
Challenge.
Offered every winter term for
the past 12 years, the national Pa
cific Challenge program gives stu
dents the opportunity to earn up
per-division credit while
exploring Australia and New
Zealand for eight weeks.
Four groups of 18 students,
which leave three days apart from
each other, travel through the
countryside with local guides,
not staying in one area for more
than three days. The journey
gives individuals the chance to
partake in outdoor activities that
include whitewater rafting, back
packing, scuba diving, kayaking,
surfing, skydiving and mountain
biking.
Program Director Dave Wright
began the program in 1987 as a
part of a research project to finish
his graduate studies for the
school of education at the Univer
sity. He gathered a small group of
students to accompany him, and
when student interest grew, he of
ficially began the Pacific Chal
lenge program, which now has
four groups to accommodate
every student who wants to go.
Wright said for most students, the
trip is a life-changing experience
where they learn about the envi
ronment, themselves and other
cultures.
Karen Kanes, a junior journal
ism major, participated in the
program last year and said she
went because of her love for the
outdoors and traveling.
“It was like a dream come
true,” she said.
One of the most thrilling parts
of the trip for the participants was
bungee jumping from the Kawa
rau Bridge in Queenstown, the
first commercial bungee-jumping
site in the world. The bridge is 43
meters above the Kawarau River.
Alex Hughes, a senior journal
ism major who also completed
• • Turn to Challenge, page 5A
It was
like a
dream
come true.
Karen Kanes
junior
journalism
major
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