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last year and the women’s basket
ball team’s back-to-back Pacific-10
championships, the University of
Oregon’s sports programs have cer
tainly moved into a new strata of na
tional attention. Such a high level of
recognition could attract increased
interest from sports gamblers, as
well, according to both Gray and
Sealby.
“I think that any time a program
gets more exposure in the general
public, I think the possibility of
more people taking notice increas
es,” Gray said. “They’re always no
ticed more when they’re on televi
sion.”
Sealby’s assessment was similar.
“I think any time you get more ex
posure, you’re more at risk for some
thing like (becoming the target of
sports gamblers),” said Sealby. “All
you have to have is a line or point
spread in a local paper.”
Some assessments of the situa
tion differ, however. Greg Graham,
an assistant coach for the University
of Oregon’s men’s basketball team,
said he feels Eugene is a safe envi
ronment for athletes and that gam
bling is not an issue for athletes at
the University.
"I think they’re aware of it, but it’s
not really something they have to
deal with,” said Graham. “I just
don’t feel we’re in that type of envi
ronment.”
Graham said that he does not
know of any University of Oregon
athlete ever being approached by
gamblers or becoming involved in
sports gambling.
According to Gray and Bill
Clever, the assistant director for
compliance, a point-shaving inci
dent may have taken place at
McArthur court in the mid-1990s,
although it did not involve Univer
sity of Oregon athletes.
During the 1993-94 basketball
season, two members of the Arizona
State men’s basketball team were in
volved in point shaving during sev
eral games. Gray and Clever said
that a game at McArthur Court be
tween the Ducks and Arizona State
University fell into the time frame
of the point shaving, and the final
score of the game may have been af
fected.
However, point shaving “certain
ly was not evident, ” Clever said.
“We’re talking about 18- to 22
year-old kids,” Clever said. “Mis
takes are part of the game. So it’s
hard to point to something and say,
‘hey, he meant to do that.’”
In the past decade, there have
been numerous incidents of athletes
betting on their own teams and at
least one survey indicating more
than two-thirds of student athletes
have gambled since entering col
lege.
In response to the recent inci
dents and findings, the National
Collegiate Athletics Association has
made sports wagering one of its pri
mary concerns, said Jane Jankows
ki, the NCAA’s assistant director for
public relations.
“The NCAA considers (collegiate
sports wagering) to be a serious
problem,” she said.
The NCAA has rules prohibiting
all sports gambling by student ath
letes, campus and conference ath
letics personnel and NCAA em
ployees.
New bylaws adopted by the
NCAA, enacted in August 2000, in
clude a zero-tolerance policy for
student-athletes who “engage in ac
tivities designed to influence the
outcome of an intercollegiate con
test or beat a point spread or bet ei
ther legally or illegally on their own
team,” according to press releases
from the NCAA.
The association has also started a
program called ‘Don’t Bet on It,’
with a 22-page guide for athletes, as
well as a series of TV advertise
ments starring former Virginia Tech
quarterback Michael Vick, UCLA
men’s basketball player Earl Watson
and University of Connecticut
women’s basketball player Shea
Ralph.
The FBI projected that in 1995,
$2.5 billion was illegally gambled
on the NCAA Division I Men’s Bas
ketball Championship, second only
to the amount gambled on the Su
per Bowl.
Shooting
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District Attorney Paul Pfingst said.
“The suspect has made statements.
I will not share the contents of the
statements with you at this time,
but there is no real answer. I am not
sure in any real way we will ever
know why.”
Fellow students and an adult ac
quaintance said they had heard the
boy’s threats over the weekend but
thought he was joking and did not
report him to authorities.
“He was picked on all the time,”
student Jessica Moore said. “He
was picked on because he was one
of the scrawniest guys. People
called him freak, dork, nerd — stuff
like that.”
Student John Schardt, 17, was in
a nearby classroom when the
shooting started about 9:20 a.m. in
a boys’ restroom and spilled into a
quad.
“I looked at the kid, and he was
smiling and shooting his weapon,”
Schardt said. “It was total chaos.
People were trying to take cover.”
Schardt said he took photos of
victims, and another student video
taped the gunman’s arrest, but au
thorities confiscated the film and
the tape.
Andrew Kaforey, a 17-year-old
senior, said he ran into the bath
room with a security guard after
hearing what sounded like a fire
cracker or a gunshot.
“He pointed the gun right at me,
but he didn’t shoot,” Kaforey said.
As he and the guard ran out, the
gunman shot the guard in the back,
Kaforey said.
Investigators said the boy used a
.22-caliber revolver, stopping once
to reload, and retreated after the
shooting into the bathroom.
The attack was the nation’s dead
liest school shooting since the
April 1999 bloodbath at Columbine
High in Littleton, Colo., where two
teenagers killed 12 fellow students
and a teacher before committing
Suicide.
In Washington, President Bush
called the shooting “a disgraceful
act of cowardice.”
“This is my worst nightmare,”
Principal Karen Degiescher said.
She said that the campus will be
closed Tuesday and that counselors
were called in to help students.
Classmates and acquaintances of
the boy described him as skinny
and the subject of constant harass
ment. Students said he boasted
about owning a gun.
Over the weekend, the boy “was
joking on and off that he was going
to come to school and shoot peo
ple,” said Joshua Stevens, 15, a
friend of the boy.
“He had it all planned out, but at
the end of the weekend he said he
was just joking and he wasn’t really
going to do it.
“I said, ‘Like, you better be.’ And
he said, ‘No, I'm serious.’”
“I should’ve stepped up even if it
wasn’t true and stuff to take that
precaution,” said Chris Reynolds, a
29-year-old who is dating Stevens’
mother.
“That’s going to be haunting me
for a long time; that’s going to be
with me for a long time. It just
hurts, because I could’ve maybe
done something about it.”
Reynolds said that the boy lives
with his father and that his mother
lives out of state. He said the boy
stayed at Reynolds’ house Saturday
night and talked about starting a
shooting spree.
“I even mentioned Columbine to
him. I said I don’t want a
Columbine here at Santana. But he
said, ‘No, nothing will happen, I’m
just joking,”’ Reynolds said.
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