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Tuesday
January 23,2001
Volume 102, Issue 78
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Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Chrystal McConnell Emerald
Courtney Smith, Arlie Adkins and Serene Khader hand out cake and condoms to University students in the lobby of the EMU commemorating
the 28th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
Anniversary marked with message
■After 28 years, the landmark
Supreme Court decision Roev.
Wade still evokes strong feelings
from both sides
By Serena Markstrom
Oregon Daily Emerald
At first Emma was task-oriented:
She organized the variety of condoms
into color-specific piles and dutifully
handed them out to passersby Mon
day afternoon in the EMU. But once
the cake was cut, the toddler shifted
her focus.
“Cut it, cut it,” Emma chanted from
her mother’s shoulders. Soon she was
sticking her fingers in frosting and
licking them clean.
She joined her mother, Jen Thoenes,
a Planned Parenthood volunteer, and
members of pro-choice student groups
to celebrate the 28th anniversary of
Roe v. Wade in the EMU lobby.
The landmark 1973 decision guar
antees the right to an abortion, a right
Turn to Roe v. Wade, page 6
ASUO stretches
election period
■ Extendingstudents’votingtime is intended
toencouragea highervoterturnoutthan last year
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
In an attempt to buck the recent trend of too few voters and too
many grievances against candidates, the voting period for this
year’s student election will be longer than previous years, said
Shantell Rice, ASUO elections coordinator.
This year’s primary election will span
almost an entire week, from Feb. 26 to
March 1, and the general election will run
from March 5 to March 8, in an attempt to
boost last year’s scarce 10 percent voter turnout.
Like last year, voting will take place entirely via computer
on Duck Web.
Although Rice is still running the early stage of the election
organization alone, she said it has helped to settle small pa
perwork matters before she compiles her election board.
Rice hopes to bring four board appointees to the Student
Senate on Wednesday night for confirmation, and then the
board can get down to business.
But students with their eyes on a desk in the Executive office
or a seat on the Student Senate or other campus committees
can file for candidacy now. Packets are available in the Execu
tive office in the EMU Breezeway.
Rice hopes that a media blitz will help increase the number
of candidates too. Last year, a handful of candidates ran un
contested, and some seats were completely unfilled.
As the number of candidates rise, the chance of grievances
could increase as well. ASUO President Jay Breslow and Vice
President Holly Magner beat hopefuls C.J. Gabbe and Peter
Larson last winter after Gabbe and Larson’s campaign became
bogged down by countless grievances.
Turn to Elections, page 6
Union contract dispute
lingers at Register-Guard
■The Eugene Newspaper Guild has
reached only one compromise with
the publication since discussions
began in 1999
By Rebecca Newell
Oregon Daily Emerald
After two years of contract negotiations,
neither The Register-Guard management nor
the Eugene Newspaper Guild is expecting a
resolution in the near future.
“As of May 1, it will be two years without a
contract,” said Suzi Prozanski, guild presi
dent and a copy editor for The Register-Guard
features department. “We’re hanging in lim
bo and still operating under the expired con
tract, which is better than anything they have
on the table.”
The dispute began two years ago, when the
former contract expired and new contract ne
gotiations were initiated. Both The Register
Guard negotiating team and the Eugene News
paper Guild offered contracts proposals, but
the guild’s recommendation was rejected by
newspaper management, Prozanski said.
Guild representatives allege that since ne
gotiations began, Register-Guard manage
ment has been failing to negotiate in good
faith, resulting in little progress. Newspaper
management says the issue is one that is
drawing to a close, leaving the union won
dering when the concerns of employees will
be addressed, Prozanski said.
November marked The Register-Guard’s
first and last significant compromise during
the negotiations, Prozanski said. The Regis
ter-Guard removed a union-busting proposal
from the negotiation table, and in exchange,
the union dropped four unfair labor practice
charges against the company, she said.
“They have an ‘our way or no way’ attitude,”
said Prozanski, who has worked for The Regis
ter-Guard since 1985. “They’re trying to roll
back our rights we’ve had for the last 50 years. ”
Register-Guard publisher Tony Baker didn’t
return numerous calls from the Emerald, and
Cynthia Walden, director of human resources,
would not discuss specifics of the negotiations.
“It’s our position that we’re going to han
dle our negotiations at the bargaining table,”
Walden said. “We don’t want to bargain it in
the media.”
State Sen. Tony Corcoran, D-Cottage Grove,
who has followed the negotiations, said The
Register-Guard hasn’t been bargaining in good
faith since it hired Zinser and Patterson, a
Nashville, Tenn., law firm with a reputation
among labor organizers as a union-buster.
“They’re trying to force employees to ac
cept a management right clause that would
basically neuter the union,” Corcoran said.
“This is typical slow-down tactics, and it’s
the first time The Register-Guard has gone to
Turn to Register-Guard, page 6
Autzen expansion approved,
might force WISTEC to close
■Construction of a bustransit center
leaves the neighboring museum with
few options
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
City Council granted the University clear
ance Monday night to build a bus transit cen
ter on a parking lot near Autzen Stadium, a
lot which the Willamette Science and Tech
nology Center used to augment its revenue
by selling parking passes to football fans.
In a 5-3 vote, the council ended a months
long dispute, during which WISTEC officials
warned that the passage of the transportation
proposal would force the non-profit muse
um to close.
WISTEC Executive Director Meg Trendler
said after the decision that the museum’s
board of directors will meet today to decide
whether the museum must close its doors.
The decision was a victory for the Univer
sity, which proposed the transit center to cir
cumvent a city code that had stalled plans to
expand Autzen Stadium. The expansion
would bring 12,100 more fans to football
games, and city code requires the University
supply 1,375 more parking places to accom
modate the additional fans. The transit cen
ter would bus fans to games and negate the
need for added parking.
However, the council dished WISTEC a
major setback. WISTEC officials said that the
decision will cost the museum one-third of
its parking revenue. In total, parking revenue
constitutes roughly one-third of the muse
um’s income.
The University has offered WISTEC about
$200,000 in compensation, and Dan
Williams, vice president for University ad
ministration, said Monday that the offer still
stands.
“We’ve made a good-faith effort to mitigate
the negative consequences some members of
the community foresee,” Williams said.
But WISTEC officials said that the offer
won’t cover the museum’s long-term finan
cial needs.
Monday night, Councilor Bonny Bettman
proposed an amendment that could have
further mitigated the financial blow WISTEC
will receive, but changes to her amendment
reduced the benefit the museum could have
received.
The amendment would have placed park
ing spaces on three city lots and on Leo Har
ris Parkway under city control, rather than
leave them for the University, as current
agreements between the University and city
provide. This would have allowed the city
to raise significant funds in parking revenue
from those spaces, revenue which Bettman
suggested be allocated to WISTEC.
Turn to WISTEC, page 6