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A good start
The Oregon wrestling team opened its season with a
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Since 190 0' University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Monday
November 13,2000
Volume 102, Issue 54
Weather
TODAY
CLOUDY
high 40, low 35
. Dan Brunell Emerald
Oregon wide receivers Keenan Howry (left) andMarshaun Tucker (right) celebrate after Howry caught a 29-yard touchdown pass from Joey Har
rington early in the fourth quarter to give the Ducks their first lead of the game, 18-17. Oregon’s 25-17 victory over Cal was its eighth straight.
Down to the wire
■ Both the Ducks and Beavers win, keeping the Rose Bowl up for
grabs in next week’s highly anticipated Civil War
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
The stage has been set for the biggest
Civil War ever.
Oregon beat California, 25-17, on a
cold Saturday afternoon in Autzen Sta
dium. The win guaranteed the Ducks
of at least being the Pacific-10 Confer
ence co-champions and kept the na
tion’s second-longest home winning
streak alive at 20 straight games. It also
marked Oregon’s eighth straight victo
ry of the season, second only to Okla
homa’s nine.
Then all eyes were glued to the tube
for the Saturday night contest between
Oregon State and Arizona in Tucson,
Ariz. If the Beavers had lost, Oregon (9
1 overall, 7-0 Pac-10) would be headed
to the Rose Bowl.
Instead, Oregon State won — con
vincingly — 33-9, to keep the race for
the roses alive and make next week’s
matchup in Corvallis as big a game as
there can be. Especially considering
that Oregon climbed one spot to No. 5
in the Associated Press poll, while the
Beavers jumped to No. 8.
“It’s been a banner year for Oregon
football, and we have a chance to do
something special next week,” Oregon
athletic director Bill Moos said...“We
have a chance for a 10-win season and
chance for a Pac-10 championship and
Rose Bowl berth.”
Should Oregon lose, however, it
could be headed back to the Sun Bowl
in El Paso, Texas, for the second
straight year. In order for Oregon State
to go to the Rose Bowl, it must beat the
Ducks and hope Washington State
beats Washington. The Huskies get the
ticket to Pasadena if they beat the
Cougars and Oregon loses.
All Oregon cares about, though, is
that it still controls its own destiny.
“We’re co-Pac-10 champions right
now, but that’s not enough,” junior cor
nerback Rashad Bauman said. “I don’t
like to share anything, so we’ve got to go
out there next week and get this victory
and get ready for the Rose Bowl
Oregon will have closed practices all
week to help keep the players focused
on their preparations for Saturday’s
12:30 p.m. contest at Reser Stadium.
The stakes will be high and no doubt
the anticipation will be hard to contain
as the week goes on.
“This is going to be the biggest game
that anybody here has ever played in,”
said junior quarterback Joey Harrington,
who completed 20 of 35 passes for 252
yards and a touchdown, as well as rush
ing in for two other touchdowns. “It’s go
ing to be fun. Everybody’s going to be
fired up, and it’s going to be a loud, hos
tile environment. We’ll really be playing
for bragging rights in the state, and we re
ally want to come out on top. ”
For complete game coverage, turn to
Sports on page 7
Smoking ban
faces Council
■ Some local businesses are on fire about a
proposed smoking ordinance
By Rebecca Newell
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Eugene City Council will decide tonight whether to
wipe out smoking in public establishments entirely, but the
decision may still be put before voters.
The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall, but the vote
on the ordinance is fifth on the agenda.
On Sept. 25 the council passed two of the three tobacco-re
lated ordinances set before it. The first ordinance tightened
laws pertaining to tobacco sales, and the second banned
smoking in business establishments with two or more em
ployees but excluded bars and bingo halls for a separate vote.
The third ordinance, which Eugene Mayor Jim Torrey said
should pass tonight, would ban smoking in bars, taverns and
bingo halls.
“I believe now there are enough councilors to vote yes to
pass it,” Torrey said.
Taking into account both business interests and the health
considerations of non-smokers, the council added an amend
ment to allow bars a separate smoking room.
Tu rn to Smoking ban, page 6
Florida re-counts
again-by hand
■ Democrats say the ballot re-count is necessary for
the democratic process, but Republicans disagree
By Ron Fournier
The Associated Press
The legal skirmishing quickened in the overtime race for
the White House as Vice President A1 Gore’s lawyers argued
Sunday night that painstaking election re-counts have been
allowed “since our nation’s founding.” Republicans said the
practice exposes decisive Florida to political “mischief’ and
human error in Democratic-controlled counties.
Updated voting figures in Florida gave Republican George
W. Bush a 288-vote margin out of some 6 million votes cast
with re-counts under way in four counties. The vice presi
dent leads in the nationwide popular vote, but the Electoral
College tally is so close that whoever takes Florida almost cer
tainly will win the White House.
Top Bush adviser James A. Baker III said the GOP legal
team will argue that manual re-counts in only four of Flori
da’s 67 counties would constitute unequal treatment under
Turn to Re-count, page 6
University educational icon leaves law school legacy
ineM5
million
donation will
be used for law
school
scholarships
and
professorships
By Gabe Dickinson
For the Emerald
Former University law school
Dean Orlando John Hollis’ estate
carried out his last wish on Friday
afternoon, in the form of a $4.5
million gift to the institution that
he helped build and preserve for
the majority of his life.
The donation, which will be
used exclusively for third-year
law student scholarships and pro
fessorships, is the largest scholar
ship in the law school’s history
and second largest overall. The
largest donation was $10 million
from Phil Knight in 1996, which
was used to build the law center
that bears his family name.
“This contribution represents
the fruit of a civil servant who has
given his life’s work back to his in
stitution and students,” said
Robert Lowry, who represents the
Hollis estate, in an afternoon dedi
cation ceremony.
Rennard Strickland, dean of the
law school, accepted the contribu
tion for the school.
Strickland praised Hollis as “a
legend, not only in the history of
the University of Oregon School of
Law, but in the history of Ameri
can law and education as a
whole.”
The estate also donated a few
other tokens that belonged to Hol
lis. Among the items were his
original teaching contract, which
promised him $220.84 a month af
ter the 1933 legislative addendum
lowered salaries because of the
Depression.
Hollis accumulated his fortune
mainly through stocks and bonds.
“He had a great attention to de
tail,” Lowry said Sunday in a tele
phone interview, “He knew what
companies would last, and he just
stuck with them. ”
Hollis had no children to whom
he could leave his money. He
lived a basic and frugal life, Lowry
said, and only bought a new car
every 15 years.
The $4.5 million check to the
law school represents the vast ma
jority of his wealth. The total will
increase once the value of his es
tate, including his houses and car,
is assessed.
Hollis graduated from the law
school in 1929 with a doctorate of
Turn to Law donation, page 6
CC He had
a great
attention to
detail.
Robert Lowry
representa
tive, Hoilis
Estate