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1! N I VERSITY OF 0 r. ON EUGENE, OREGON
Friday
February 23,2001
Volume 102, Issue 101
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Tom Patterson/Katie Miller Emerald
No room for the sound of music
■An ever-increasing number of students and faculty members has
left the School of Music bursting at the seams
By Hank Hager
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University’s School of Music has
become so overcrowded, and space for
students to practice is in such high de
mand, that some can be found playing
their music in the bathrooms.
The school’s building, built in 1921,
was originally intended to comfortably
fit 350 students. Now there are 500 stu
dents majoring in music, and hundreds
more taking music classes.
To compound the problem, the
school continually adds faculty and
equipment, but does not have any place
to put these resources.
“We’re splitting at the seams,” said
Joan Gardner, director of development
for the School of Music. She added that
students had been practicing in any
open places, such as bathrooms and el
evators.
Ann Tedards, associate dean of grad
uate students for the school, agreed that
space is tight.
“We’ve been overcrowded for years,”
she said. “We can’t offer some classes
when we want to because we don’t
have the room.”
Tedards said the school needs to con
tinually hire faculty to meet an increas
ing demand from students.
“We have new faculty hires coming
in, but we have no place to put them,”
she said.
Music technology major Melanie
King said the high-quality faculty has
been drawing more and more students.
“We do have a really outstanding fac
ulty in so many areas,” she said. “We
have good management and pro
grams.”
Gardner said the music school hopes
to build a new performance hall that
will help to house more students in
Turn to Music school, page 3
ASUO hopefuls
go head-to-head
■ASUO Executive candidates expressed a variety of
opinions on topics such as diversity, housing and
incidental fees at Thursday night’s debate
By Beata Mostafavi
Oregon Daily Emerald
With ASUO primary elections right around the corner, the
Executive race is in full stride, and the heat is on.
Election intensity rose to higher levels at Thursday night’s
moderated candidates debate where five of the six candidates
discussed issues ranging from diversity, ASUO student in
volvement and housing to student incidental fees.
The two-hour debate was moderated by four representa
tives from the Emerald and ASUO, who asked candidates
specific questions and gave the others a chance to respond to
their opponents. The floor was then opened to the 50-mem
ber audience for additional questions and concerns.
In regard to the issue of diversity on campus, most candi
dates agreed that the current program needs improvement, al
though each team offered different approaches.
Candidates Nilda Brooklyn and Joy Nair suggested imple
Turn to Debate, page 6
Green convention
to set party focus
■This weekend’s Pacific Green Party convention
will decide the party’s future direction
By Aaron K. Breniman
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Pacific Green Party will hold its statewide quarterly
convention this weekend at the University to determine the
party’s plan of action for the next two years.
The convention begins Saturday at 9 a.m. and will be held at
Agate Hall, located at 19th Avenue and Agate Street.
“The major focus of the event will be selecting a focus, ” Pa
cific Green Party co-chairman Xander Patterson said.
Oregon Green Party member registration boomed in the past
year during Ralph Nader’s campaign for president, according
to statistics provided by the party. Membership in Lane Coun
ty jumped from 91 in January 2000 to approximately 1,300,
where it stands now. With many members disappointed that
the party didn’t gain the necessary 5 percent of the votes in
the 2000 election required to receive federal campaign money,
the party plans to put more emphasis on non-electoral efforts,
party officials said.
“Everyone will come away with something,” Lane County
Green Party coordinator John Egan. “It’s a chance for the new
ly incorporated and freshly rejuvenated members to get to
gether and discuss the issues.”
Turn to Green, page 3
ASUO candidate ties campus diversity to Super Mario Bros.
■ Executive candidate Sho Ikeda discusses issues such as diversity,
administrative relations and membership in The Church of Wazeth
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
Editor’s note: We realize some of the
content in this candidate Q£r A article
may offend readers. In the interest of fair
ness and full disclosure, however, the text
is being run in its entirety.
Sho Ikeda is a junior history major. He
is running without a running mate.
Q: What is your platform?
A: I am a member of a church called
The Church of Wazeth. I am the middle
prophet. There is a first prophet, a last
prophet, there is a sacrificial virgin. The
Church of Wazeth was founded many
years ago by some of my friends when we
discovered that Wazeth was the answer
to everything in life. Wazeth is great. He is
amazing. He is the all-knowing light —
and he hates us. The Church of Wazeth is
the biggest religion in the world. Every
member, including every member of the
[Emerald] editorial board here, is a mem
ber of The Church of Wazeth. The prob
lem is that not everyone knows they are a
member. However, and we like to publi
cize this, anyone who does not wish to be
a member of the church may be excom
municated for $5 payable to The Church
of Wazeth, money order, checks, cash all
accepted. It fits into my platform because I
want to spread the word of Wazeth to the
ignorant believers. I mean, they should be
believers, but they don’t know it yet. By
getting into this public forum, I can spread
the word and therefore enlighten many
more followers.
Q: How does the decision to run for of
fice fit into your career goals?
This is the sixth in a six-part candidate
interview series. For a correction relating
to Thursday’s installment, see page 2.
A: My ultimate career goal is to be a
martyr for our church. Therefore, by mov
ing into student government and achiev
ing a name for myself here at this school, I
can then move on into other public are
nas such as national government and
hopefully be shot down by some crazed
gunman. Therefore I would be a martyr
Turn to Ikeda, page 6
IKEDA