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Oregon is perfect in Pac-10 play after taking care
of visiting Stanford. PAGE 7
Tuesday
Requesting more money
Some student programs are asking the PFC for
relatively large increases. PAGE 3
January 16,2001
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By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
More than two weeks after the first 10-win
football season in school history, Oregon may
lose the coach who guided
it to such success.
Oregon head coach
Mike Bellotti was in
Columbus, Ohio, on Mon
day at the Ohio State cam
pus, where he met with
Buckeyes’ athletic director
Andy Geiger, according to
Oregon media services.
“Geiger contacted [Ore
gon athletic director] Bill
Moos last week and re
quested permission to talk
with Bellotti,” Oregon assistant athletic direc
tor David Williford said. “It is not required to
ask permission, but it is recognized protocol.”
Williford said that he had not talked with
Bellotti, but he did speak with Moos to confirm
the situation. Williford also mentioned that he
believed Bellotti was in Columbus with his
wife, Colleen.
Ohio State’s head coaching position has been
vacant since it fired long-time coach John
Cooper Jan. 2.
The Columbus Dispatch reported that Bel
lotti may also have been contacted by Geiger
last week in Atlanta at the American Football
Coaches Association meeting.
Geiger and Moos could not be reached for
comment Monday, but Geiger did talk about
the coaching search on Sunday with Columbus
television station WSYX.
“I think it will take a few more days,” Geiger
said. “I won’t get into names. There are people
involved who don’t want their name in the pa
per. This is a fairly important decision.”
Bellotti’s visit to Columbus sparks new ru
mors about his commitment to Oregon. He was
linked to the vacant Southern California job in
early December, but announced he was staying
in Eugene during a Holiday Bowl press confer
ence on Dec. 3. He also agreed to a two-year
contract extension that day to keep him at Ore
gon through 2007.
“I don’t subscribe to the ‘grass is greener’ the
ory,” Bellotti said back then. “Though some
things bear scrutiny, the bottom line is I am
very, very happy where I’m at, have been, and I
believe will continue to be.”
Bellotti, who was spotted at the Oregon
women’s basketball game Saturday, is 49-22 in
his six seasons with the Ducks. Ohio State is a
tradition-filled school that was not pleased
with its 8-4 season that ended with a 24-7 loss
to South Carolina in the Outback Bowl.
Bellotti becomes the sixth name to surface as
a possible replacement, joining Minnesota
coach Glen Mason, Youngstown State coach
Jim Tressel, Stanford coach Tyrone Willing
ham, Ohio State assistant Fred Pagac and for
mer Buckeyes standout Chris Spielman.
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Dr. Edwin Coleman, shown in his office, brings historic events to life.
The privilege makes the power
■A University professor shares his
experiences of segregation and prejudice
in a white world
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
For University professor Dr. Edwin Coleman,
segregation has been a way of life, not just a term
describing racial separation.
While he didn’t partake in the Montgomery Bus
Boycott or march for civil rights in Washington,
D.C., Coleman has seen how black stereotypes are
still entwined with past and present American
culture. “It doesn’t matter if you are in New York,
Mississippi or Chicago,” Coleman said. “A certain
element of people don’t see me. Even if I wore my
academic gown, that wouldn’t matter.”
Coleman retired in 1998 from a full-time posi
tion at the University after 33 years, but he contin
ues to bring his stories to students on campus, and
he can’t seem to keep himself away from teaching
English classes. As the eldest of four children,
Coleman grew up in El Dorado, Ark., surrounded
by poverty and racism.
“You learned to live with prejudice and made
sure you didn’t walk on the same side of the street
as a white man,” Coleman said.
Coleman said his father was a barber and his
mother cleaned a house for a white family. Cole
man remembered how they combined their wages
every week for a total of only $30 to $40. His par
ents never finished high school, but they taught
Coleman right from wrong.
He learned how to read at Fairview School in
Arkansas. The all-black school was strengthened
by teachers who were dedicated to improving stu
dent knowledge and reading skills, despite often
not having proper teaching credentials. Coleman
said his teachers used education as a way to help
black people move up in the world.
Coleman’s family later moved to the segregated
Alameda housing projects in California. The hous
Turn to Coleman, page 5
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MLKJr. Day speaker says justice goes beyond diversity
■ Dr. Julianne Malveaux’s speech
focused on economic justice, rather
than ‘softer, fuzzier' messages
By Lindsay Buchele
Oregon Daily Emerald
Dr. Julianne Malveaux, a nationally rec
ognized economist, writer and social ac
tivist, gave the keynote speech Monday
during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day
events at the Hult Center.
Her speech, given to a crowd of about 400
people in the Soreng Theater, detailed how
achieving diversity is only a small part of
what needs to be done to create economic
justice.
“Minorities can make or break corpora
tions,” Malveaux said. “If we choose not to
eat this, smoke this, buy this — we have the
control.”
The evening’s celebration, hosted by the
Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Commit
tee, was the end to a day of events, includ
ing a march honoring King. The celebration
included several selections sung by the
University’s Gospel Choir, a presentation of
awards, a dance performance, a speech by
Mayor Jim Torrey and the keynote address
given by Malveaux.
Malveaux’s speech was based on the
night’s theme: “The Economic Case for Di
versity in the New Millennium.”
“We tend to focus on the softer, fuzzier
Turn to MLK, page 5
Workers go on strike at Nike-contracted factory
The Mexican
factory makes
some apparel
for the
University
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
A labor dispute is currently in progress at a
Nike-contracted garment factory in Atlixco,
Mexico, about 65 miles southeast of Mexico
City.
The factory produces some licensed Univer
sity apparel.
According to reports from the Worker Rights
Consortium and the United Students Against
Sweatshops organization, workers at the facto
ry are on strike over illegally fired workers, rot
ten food being served in the factory’s cafeteria
and the company’s failure to pay Christmas
bonuses.
Both Nike and the University have con
firmed there is an ongoing legal dispute at the
Korean-owned Kukdong International-Mexico
factory, but neither institution could comment
on the details of the dispute.
Agatha Schmaedick, a member of USAS and
a University alumna, said the situation in Atlix
co has intensified to include clashes between
police and protesters. She said several of the
leaders of the protest have been arrested, and
others have been hospitalized with injuries re
ceived from police. Schmaedick said an
unidentified college student was questioned by
Turn to Labor, page 4