_Q__oL b e_w e h ^
www.dailyemerald.com
An independent newspaper
Where will they go?
Angelina Wolvertand the Ducks seem WNIT
bound as their season winds down. PAGE 7
Wednesday
A fine distinction
It's not too late to nominate faculty for the
University's Distinguished Teaching Awards. PAGE 3
February 28,2001
Volume 102, Issue 104
Weather
today
PARTLY CLODD Y
high 53, low 25
S I N C F
of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Chrystal McConnell Emerald
Gabbie Hendel, Brice Terrible and Hedi Frieders take care of office business as they prepare for Lesbopalooza.
LGBTAto host Lesbopalooza
■This yea r’s two-day Lesbopa looza wi 11
include band performances, fire
dancing and a Tupperware party
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
Gabbie Hendel, the current co-director of the
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Alliance,
has given extensive time and energy to plan Les
bopalooza, the group’s main event for the term.
But this will be die last event Hendel plans before
she graduates.
Hendel said she hopes to leave her position in
capable hands—someone who is motivated and
creative, and willing to sacrifice his or her time to
benefit the most organized queer program in Eu
gene.
“We are looking for someone willing to contin
ue working on making this an open space where
anyone feels welcome,” Hendel said. “I think that
our staff is very homogenous, and I’d like to see
more diversity on our staff. ”
Hedi Frieders, Hendel’s girlfriend, said the staff,
including the new co-director, needs to work to
put on enough events for the whole community,
not just lesbian events.
The LGBTA provides services to the University,
including referrals, social, political and educa
tional events, and runs a lending library that keeps
the staff up-to-date on various events and issues.
But for now, Hendel said she is putting in more
than 45 hours a week planning Lesbopalooza for
Friday and Saturday. This year, instead of a day
long event, Hendel said performances will be bro
ken into two nights to accommodate the more
than 600 people expected to attend.
“The purpose of [Lesbopalooza] is to bring the
University of Oregon, the Northwest and Eugene
an unprecedented cultural event,” Hendel said.
Hendel said the “two dazzling nights of cultural
Turn to LGBTA, page 3
City Council affords WISTEC
new hope of staying open
■The Eugene city manager will assist the
museum with negotiations to acquire its
land and building leases
By Lindsay Buchele
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Willamette Science and Technology Center
determined Monday it will likely be able to remain
open, despite initial fears that the museum would
be forced to close.
City Manager Jim Johnson gained unanimous ap
proval Monday night from the Eugene City Council
to help WISTEC work toward acquiring its land and
building leases, which are both owned by the city.
Johnson said the council’s decision acknowl
edges the work WISTEC and the city manager are
doing and gives the organization the blessing to
continue.
“They’ve given me the authority to negotiate the
transfer of the building lease and the land lease and
to do it in the best public interest,” Johnson said.
This is imperative to the museum, said Meg
Trendler, WISTEC executive director.
“Acquiring our lease would give us a form of col
lateral,” Trendler said. “Before businesses will in
vest in us and support our programs, we have to
prove that we’re going to be around. ”
Trendler said by acquiring both leases, the non
profit museum can prove to investors that it has
every intention of putting donations to good use.
WISTEC’s existence was threatened after the
council voted in January to let the University use
the parking lot adjacent to Autzen Stadium, from
which WISTEC created parking revenues, for a bus
transit center. The transit center is part of the expan
sion plan for Autzen, which would otherwise re
Turn to WISTEC, page 4
Guild solicits action
from R-G subscribers
■ The Eugene Newspaper Guild urged The Register-Guard’s
subscribers to cancel their subscriptions as a show of support
By Aaron K. Bremman
Oregon Daily Emerald
Escalating its long-running contract
dispute with management of The Regis
ter-Guard, the Eugene Newspaper Guild
has issued a call to action for the paper’s
subscribers: Cancel subscriptions.
Foreshadowing the contract negotia
tions that will resume this week, the guild
asked subscribers to call the paper and
cancel subscriptions Tuesday to show
community support for the guild. And to
prevent permanent damage to the paper’s
circulation base, the guild requested those
canceling subscriptions to call back Fri
day to restart delivery, a guild release stat
ed.
Eugene Newspaper Guild President
Suzi Prozanski, who is also a copy editor
at The Register-Guard, said that as of Tues
day afternoon about 300 people had con
tacted the guild to cancel subscriptions
for the week.
Newspaper management doesn’t
“want to know how much community
support we have,” Prozanski said. “And
believe me, we have a lot.”
Publisher Tony Baker failed to return
numerous calls from the Emerald, and
Cynthia Walden, director of human re
sources at The Register-Guard, declined
to discuss contract issues.
“I’m not prepared to answer any ques
tions regarding this at this time,” she said.
“Were going to handle this at the bargain
ing table, not in the media. ”
The Register-Guard’s circulation de
partment failed to return calls by the
Emerald requesting statistical informa
tion on cancelled subscriptions for the
day.
The guild is made up of about 150 em
ployees at The Register-Guard, including
reporters, retail and classified advertising
personnel, and workers in the circulation
department, among others. Many mem
bers of the guild passed out fliers to
friends and supporters asking them to
cancel subscriptions.
Tuesday’s newspapers in The Register
Guard news boxes throughout Eugene
were wrapped in a dummy front page crit
icizing the newspaper’s management in
several satirical headlines and articles.
“Contract Now’1 Wat> rvped in uuck blacK
letters over the Register-Guard masthead,
and “Local Newspaper Gets Greedy” was
the lead story of the dummy page.
While Prozanski said this was not a di
rect action of the guild, she assumed that
the dummy covers were placed on the
newspapers by a group supporting the
guild’s efforts.
Much of the guild’s frustration has re
sulted from the dramatic changes in con
tract wording that have occurred in recent
years. The Register-Guard hired Zinser
Turn to Guild, page 4
OSPIRG stays on ballot
despite illegal postering
■ But campaign publicity issues still face the Elections Board as it
investigates a grievance against Executive candidate Bret Jacobson
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
The ASUO Elections Board reprimand
ed the OSPIRG campaign Tuesday for im
proper postering, but the group’s budget
measure will remain on the general elec
tion ballot.
The board is still investigating a griev
ance filed late Tuesday by vice presiden
tial candidate Jeff Oliver against presiden
tial candidate Bret Jacobson, however,
and the board hopes to have a decision
late today.
Bill Beutler, a member of the Honesty
campaign, filed the OSPIRG grievance, a
move that is the latest in a string of accusa
tions of improper postering or posters be
ing tom down by rival campaigns.
In the grievance, Beutler asked the
board to remove OSPIRG from the ballot
for the March 5-8 general election.
Instead, the board created a new “three
strikes” policy for groups found breaking
elections rules with their poster use. First
offenders such as OSPIRG will receive a
verbal warning, and a second offense will
require campaigners to remove all posters
and give them to the board, but allow
them to then place new posters.
Elections Coordinator Shantell Rice
said the consequences of a third offense
would be decided on a case-by-case basis.
Allegations of improper poster use
“come up every year,” Rice said. “Some
one has a grievance about it.”
In his grievance, Beutler said identical
OSPIRG posters appeared on the bulletin
board outside Chapman Hall, a popular
spot on campus for campaign posters and
advertisements.
Elections rules limit each campaign to
one visible poster per bulletin board.
Rice said the violation required action
but wasn’t severe enough to remove OS
PIRG completely from the ballot.
Beutler called the decision a partial vic
tory because the board agreed that OS
PIRG broke elections rules, but he’s not
sure whether he will pursue his effort to
remove the group from the ballot.
“I’ll be interested to see if OSPIRG will
clean up its behavior,” he said.
Voters will decide in the general elec
tion whether to approve OSPIRG’s budget
for next year at a total of $144,426, or
about $2.88 per student per term.
OSPIRG opponents disapprove of how
the group sends a portion of its student
funds off campus and also uses student
Turn to Honesty, page 4