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—Q—n-L. h e_w r b www.dailyemerald.com An independent newspaper w A solid preview • Jason Hartmann was one of the many Duck win ners in track’s season opener. PAGES 16,17 Ticket takers Frustrated with those little yellow envelopes, many drivers forget DPS officers are people, too. PAGE 4 Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Monday March 19,2001 Volume 102, Issue 117 Weather TODAY PARTLY CLOUDY high 55, low 32 Swept off the dance floor ■ Despite the strong play of its seniors, Oregon falls in the first round By Scott Pesznecker Oregon Daily Emerald SALT LAKE CITY — After closing its Pacific-10 Conference season with four wins, the Oregon women’s basketball team hoped for an NCAA Tournament appearance for its eighth straight season. It did. Then, after earning a 13th seed in the Midwest Region — a bracket in which the highest seed of a possible Oregon op ponent in the first two rounds was fourth-seeded Iowa — the Ducks hoped to overshadow their rough season with a trip to the Sweet 16. They didn’t. Oregon’s season came to an end with its 89-82 overtime loss against Iowa in front of 3,119 fans, including about 1,000 Eugene faithful, at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. “It’s a tough way for the seniors to end everything,” Oregon head coach Jody Runge said. “I’m just glad they got to go to the Tournament. They did everything I asked them to do.” The Ducks trailed by 15 points midway through the second half, but stormed back and tied the game with a 15-4 run through the next seven minutes that helped send the game into overtime. Iowa scored the first six points of the extra period and never looked back. For complete NCAA Tournament coverage, turn to PAGE 15 Punch Line -„ a Laura Smit Emerald Hannah Unkefer, a junior in journalism, learns defensive techniques in Nadia Telsey’s class, Self Defense from the Inside Out. A favorite of the Women’s Studies Program curricula, the class focuses on teaching women both verbal strategies and physical skills to ward off an attacker. Inner strength training ■ Long-time self-defense instructor Nadia Telsey empowerers her women students to fight for themselves By Andrea Patterson for the Emerald Nadia Telsey blows into the coffee shop in a whirlwind of brisk winter air, wearing blue fleece gloves and full of energetic enthusiasm. “I was literally out the door, and I went back in to answer the phone! How silly is that?” Telsey said. “It’s a good thing I did, though, be cause it was my neighbor and she was frantic,” the adjunct professor of women’s studies said. “She had a doctor appointment and her car broke down, so I let her use mine.” Telsey was just doing what she does: helping others. Telsey, 53, has been teaching self-defense for women at the University for 10 years. She is leaving at the end of winter term to have back surgery and is unsure whether she will be able to return in the fall. To those who know her, Telsey’s dedication to helping others is evi dent not only in her work at the Uni versity, but also in her everyday life. Her self-defense class is as well known to women’s studies students as the location of the nearest latt§ cart. Most students hear about her class from ecstatic friends who have taken it. The class focuses on teaching women both verbal strategies and physical skills, which will help them defend themselves against rape and domestic violence. What is remark able about this class is that women who have taken it claim the experi ence was life-altering. “I loved it,” said Sarah DeVore, a 26-year-old education major. “I feel stronger. I feel safer. I walk around with more confidence now.” DeVore took the class in the fall of 2000, and said she would recommend it to any woman who wants to em power herself. “I think Nadia will be very hard to Turn to Self-Defense, page 9 Scott Morgan The Daily Iowan UO’s Lindsey Dion drives past Iowa’s Lindsey Meder in Saturday’s loss. Gov. Kitzhaber releases budget ■ OUS officials are pleased with the latest budget proposal to come out of the state house By Andrew Adams Oregon Daily Emerald Gov. John Kitzhaber has released his second budget pro posal for the 2001-2003 biennium which includes a $45 mil lion funding increase for the Oregon University System and a $7.5 million increase for state services. The latest proposal was well-received by OUS officials, who had been anticipating a funding drought after Kitzhaber’s first budget proposal, which lowered the sys tem’s funding by nearly $100 million. In a statement released along with the proposal, Kitzhaber said he was more satisfied with the latest budget. “I believe this is a significantly improved budget over what I was able to present in my original budget in Decem ber,” he said. Kitzhaber restructured the budget by paying the federal retiree debt early and freeing up over $110 million, and by transferring Medicare dollars. In addition to the increase in higher education funding, Oregon State Police and human services also received more funds. Turn to Budget, page 13 Fee distribution still undecided ■The Multicultural Center’s ballot measure for its proposed cultural programming fund went to court Friday amid claims it would form a ‘shadow senate’ By Emily Gust Oregon Daily Emerald The grievance that stopped the ASUO general election mid way through voting two weeks ago finally had its day in court Friday, as the ASUO Constitution Court considered whether to remove the Multicultural Center’s measure from the ballot. The court had to decide whether the MCC’s proposed $18,555 cultural pro gramming fund violates ASUO rules — and whether the ASUO Student Senate is the only campus body that has the right to allocate student fee money. A decision could come during spring break or into the first weeks of spring term. Sen. Mary Elizabeth Madden and the other four senators who filed the grievance argued the cultural programming fund would essentially create a “shadow senate” — a parallel sys tem to the Programs Finance Committee fee allocation process. In doing so, it would violate the Green Tape Note Turn to h/ICC, page 11. Inside Jacobson and Cook get their day in court while the case against Brooklyn and Nair is dropped. PAGE 11
