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March 7,2001
Volume 102, Issue 111
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Making the right strides*
The wrestling team was pleased with its season as
a team, despite some tough losses. PAGE 7
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Judicial review
University law students saw the Oregon Supreme
Court in action on campus Tuesday. PAGE 3 high 60, low 41
Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene,
Oregon
Rallying support in Salem
R. Ashley Smith for the Emerald
I Students from the University of Oregon were joined by Portland State University students Abbie
Andette, Sweeta Derrow, and Irene Schwoeffermann at the higher education rally on the steps
of the state Capitol. University President Dave Frohnmayer (left) joined 250 University of
Oregon students at the rally.
I Crowd gathers in Salem
to support universities
■ 1,500 people rallied on the
Capitol steps Tuesday to call for
more university funding
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
SALEM — Speaking to a deafening
crowd of hundreds, state legislators,
students, faculty members and busi
ness leaders praised Oregon’s universi
ties Tuesday and demanded the
schools receive more funding.
The speakers joined nearly 1,500
people on the steps of the Capitol to
call for the Legislature to bring the Ore
gon University System’s funding up to
a minimum level and not approve the
$96 million shortfall in the budget pro
posed by Gov. John Kitzhaber.
Students, alumni, faculty and ad
ministrators from all seven schools of
the OUS carried placards and balloons
and dressed in their schools’ colors to
show their support for higher educa
tion in Oregon. They danced and
shouted under the shadow of the Capi
tol dome to the tunes of the University
Turn to Rally, page 4
EWEB approves moderate rate hike
■The board voted for a 5.4
percent increase, which is
substantially lower than an
earlier proposal of 15 percent
By Lindsay Buchele
Oregon Daily Emerald
After months of deliberation, the Eu
gene Water and Electric Board voted
unanimously last night to enact a 5.4
percent increase in Eugene residents’
electric rates.
This is significantly lower than the
previously proposed 15 percent rate
that EWEB’s board had been consider
ing before. The board was faced with
deciding on an increase after this year’s
drought and the deregulated energy
market' in California drove market
prices up.
The Bonneville Power Administra
tion, which provides almost half of
EWEB’s generated power, is also plan
ning on raising rates as much as an esti
mated 250 percent next October.
A fifteen percent increase was still
one of three increase options EWEB’s
Fiscal Services Supervisor Dick Varner
proposed to the board at last night’s
meeting. Another option Varner pro
posed was no increase, but it was the su
pervisor’s recommendation that a 5.4
percent increase would be the most
beneficial to the community.
“The staff feels that a 5.4 percent in
crease is moderate enough that it would
be supportive of our financial needs
and still send the appropriate price sig
nals to encourage consumer conserva
tion,” Varner said.
Board President Dorothy Anderson
agreed, saying that no one wants to see a
15 percent increase, but no increase
Turn to EWEB, page 6
UO to cut ties
with WRC, FLA
■The issue won't die, professors say, but the
method of University involvement will change
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
University President Dave Frohn
mayer has announced that he will fol
low the opinion of General Ccftmsel
Melinda Grier, effectively keeping the
University from becoming a full mem
ber of either the
Worker Rights
Consortium or the
Fair Labor Associ
ation.
Frohnmayer
said he will wait
to make his final
decision until af
ter a University
Senate ad hoc
committee work
ing on the labor-monitoring issue de
livers its report But Frohnmayer said it
is doubtful that the report will affect
his decision.
The decision ends a nearly two-year
Turnto WRC, page 4
ii The
committee
and myself
don't
believe
there’s
any way
around the
roadblock
in this issue.
James Earl
president,
University
Senate
Collegiate sports
betting may end
■Congress is debating a bill that
would make gambling on
college sports illegal in all states,
including Nevada
By Marty Toohey
for the Emerald
A bill in the U.S. House of Represen
tatives and its Senate counterpart might
aid the NCAA in its ongoing attempt to
eliminate collegiate sports gambling.
The bill, H.R. 3575, would elimi
nate all legalized forms of gambling on
collegiate sports in all 50 states. It is a
follow-up to the 1992 Professional and
Amateur Sports Protection Act, which
prohibited all wagering on amateur
and professional sports events in all
states, except those already conduct
ing sports gambling or that had enact
ed legislation in an attempt to do so.
Nevada, the only state since 1992
that has conducted legalized sports
gambling, thus betting on college
sports, would lose its protection under
the “grandfather” clause.
In 1996, Congress created a National
Turn to Gambling, page 6
ASUO Election
The ASUO ballot measure election begins today and runs until 5
p.m. Friday. Students can vote via Duck Web on funding
measures for OSPIRG and the Multicultural Center. The ASUO
Constitution Court postponed the candidate election until
spring term so it can rule on a grievance appeal filed by
disqualified candidates Bret Jacobson and Matt Cook.
For more about the election and grievances, see page 3.