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The link to success ' Jerilyn White has led the charge this season for the Oregon women's golf team. PAGE 7 Making their case OUS students voiced concerns Friday about the State Board of Higher Education’s business policy. PAGE 3 Tuesday April 24,2001 Volume 102, Issue 134 Weather today MOSTLY CLOUDY high 62, low 47 Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Katie Miller Emerald ■ Online classes are gaining popularity, but they aren’t for procrastinators By Hank Hager Oregon Daily Emerald Freshman Emily Gaskey said she is taking an online class because the lure of extra sleep was too great to pass up, especially when she is busy with both school and a job at the Ath letic Department. Gaskey is one of a growing number of students who have started to take University classes through the Inter net. She said she’s enjoyed not having to go to class and has learned the same amount of information a normal class would offer. But she said she misses the oppor* tunity to interact with her professor and has noticed the need to memo rize more information. Most classes offered via the Inter net in the Distance Education pro gram are designed so students need to meet with their professors only three to four times per quarter. Each class is structured differently, but most assign homework by e-mail and allow stu dents to respond electronically. Whether Distance Education cours es will gain in popularity in the fu ture and begin to rival traditional classroom learning remains to be seen, but many feel in-class learning Turn to Online, page 6 Commissionings create concerns ■The enhanced authority of the Department of Public Safety’s newly commissioned officers troubles some members of the campus community By Andrew Adams Oregon Daily Emerald Now that the Department of Public Safety has commissioned eight of its of ficers, the agency contends it will be able to serve the campus in a more pro-, fessional and efficient way and improve DPS’ handling of some incidents. But some on campus still question the need for officers to detain and search or arrest suspicious persons on campus. The staff of the Office of Student Ad vocacy criticized the plan to commis sion officers when DPS Director Tom Fitzpatrick announced in January that he would begin the commissioning process. Assistant Director Marcy Butcher said that opinion has not changed since the officers were com missioned last week. Butcher said she does not understand why DPS officers need to be able to ar rest people when the agency already has a close relationship with the Eugene Police Department. “It seems a little redundant to com mission DPS officers,” she said. She also said it was somewhat trou bling to her that DPS officers would be granted the right to arrest and search students, and those same officers would be patrolling in residence halls. While Fitzpatrick has repeatedly said commissioning officers does not mean they will soon be carrying firearms, Butcher said armed DPS officers would Turn to DPS, page 6 ii We don’t want to put students in danger or give DPS officers too much power; Jay Breslow president, ASUO Judge urges students to drink, party responsibly Mitch Crane discussed the role alcohol can play in causing sexual assault in his Monday night * presentation for Sexual Assault Awareness Week By Kara Cogswell Oregon Daily Emerald Judge Mitch Crane com pared drinking alcohol to eating chocolate cake — both may be okay in moderation, but overconsumption of ei ther one is likely to make a person sick. But while eating too much chocolate cake will result in only a stomachache, drink ing too much alcohol often leads to sexual assault, said Crane, who spoke Monday night before an audience of more than 200 people in the EMU Ballroom. Crane’s presentation was sponsored by the Greek Life Department, Oregon Club Sports, Sigma Nu fraternity and Peer Health Education as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Week. Too often, Crane said, stu dents come to college with the idea that because they are no longer living with their parents, they are free to do anything they want. For many students, this means drinking and partying as much as possible — and that, Crane said, is when tragedies can occur. “Most of time nothing bad happens,” he said. “But sometimes it does.” As an example of how drinking can play a role in sexual assault, Crane told a story about one college stu dent he referred to only as “Suzy.” Suzy, he said, was a naive college freshman — she was a virgin, and she had little expe rience with drinking. One night, she met an attractive man who seemed to be a nice guy. He invited her to a party, Turn to Judge, page 5 High costs force UO library to reduce journal selection ■ The Knight Library has had to cut back on the number of academic journals it offers and foresees another decrease in 2003 By Brooke Ross Oregon Daily Emerald Because of the high price of academ ic journals, making them available at the University’s Knight Library is be coming more complicated than the material found inside the actual publi cations. Library officials say that because the field of scholarly publishing has be come more profit-oriented, journal subscription costs have increased at an average of nine to 11 percent per year. The library sta,ff has already had to cut 2,400 journal titles and is predicting another cut in 2003. Gina Psaki, an associate professor in romance languages and chair of the li brary committee, said the national problem began when commercial pub lishing houses realized the kinds of profits they could make. “They realized university libraries had to have certain titles, so they ac quired them and started jacking up the prices,” she said. “They have an enor mous profit margin that Microsoft can only envy.” Because of the high journal prices, the library is also buying fewer books to make up for the costs. The library does this, Psaki said, so its supply of journals is not completely wiped out. “We cut across the board because we can’t afford to penalize one of our dis ciplines,” she said. Psaki said this affects everyone, be cause while graduate students and professors often require the complex journals, undergraduates usually pre fer books for their research needs be cause the language is less elaborate. “We’re accidentally disregarding our undergraduates,” she said. Turn to Library, page 6 ii Publish ersare showing no desire to change this because they have a captive audience. James Schombert associate professor, physics _n
