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The accidental death of an OSU student at Lake
Shasta heightens concerns over safety. PAGE 3
Wednesday
May 16,2001
Volume 102, Issue 150
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Textbooks
put bind
on wallet
■The University bookstore and
professors are looking for ways
to ease the cost of textbooks
By Hank Hager
Oregon Daily Emerald
Registration for fall term begins May
• 21, which means students have to de
cide which classes to take and at what
time to take them. But another factor is
„ starting to play a role in students’ deci
sions: the rising cost of textbooks.
Chris Standish, book division man
ager for the University Bookstore, said
he is worried about the increasing cost
of textbooks.
“I am [concerned] because I think
they’ve gotten to the point where stu
dents may be making a choice to not
buy the books any more,” he said. “If
money becomes an issue, that’s not
right.”
Standish said the bookstore is look
ing into ways to combat the problem.
“We’re always looking at new elec
tronic options,” he said. By placing
some books online, he said, students
may be able to buy a password that en
ables them to get the information they
v. need. By doing so, costs that are nor
mally applied because of the produc
tion of the books may not apply.
But Standish added that a plan to
place books online may pose a problem
to students who are not able to access
the Internet on a regular basis.
Standish said he gets complaints
mostly from students who believe
books are getting too expensive. This of
ten occurs when students purchase
course packets, which are usually snip
pets of books that are photocopied and
Turn to Textbooks, page 4
. # R. Ashley Smith Emerald
Tne Rev. Stephen Mathison-Bowie denounced capital punishment Tuesday night during a vigil against the
execution of Timothy McVeigh in the EMU amphitheater.
Vigil held in light of execution
■A small crowd gathered
Tuesday night to protest
the death penalty
By Beata Mostafavi
Oregon Daily Emerald
While some people may
find convicted Oklahoma city
bomber Timothy McVeigh’s
death sentence a favor to soci
ety, others believe the exact
opposite.
In light of McVeigh’s
planned June 11 execution, a
group of individuals from dif
ferent faith communities
protested capital punishment
through a vigil Tuesday night.
Many shared the belief that
the death penalty only perpet
uates a “cycle of violence” in
society.
Individuals stepped up to
the EMU amphitheater podium
to light candles and observe
moments of silence to think
and pray about the “horror” of
the execution, which they be
lieve is “dehumanizing.”
But as they did so, student
Ali Parman stepped up to the
small crowd of about 15 and
asked if any one had been in
Oklahoma City at the time of
the 1995 bombing. As every
one shook their heads no, Par
man told them that she had
„been there.
“When I walked out of my
house, I could smell corpses,”
she said
She described her experi
ence as an Oklahoma resident
Turn to Vigil, page 4
Shooting
suspect
arrested
■ No one was injured by the
three shots fired outside the Chi
Psi fraternity Monday morning
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
Police arrested a 46-year-old Eugene
man early Monday morning after shots
were fired near a University fraternity
house.
The incident occurred near the Chi
Psi fraternity, located at 1018 Hilyard
St., at 2:15 a.m. Detective Greg Reeves
of the Eugene Police Department vio
lent crimes unit, said Eugene police re
sponded to a call from area residents
that shots had been fired.
When they arrived on the scene, offi
cers were informed that the suspect had
been seen in the area armed with a
handgun. Three fraternity members in
formed the police they had engaged in
a verbal dispute with the suspect, John
Patrick Reilly.
“Reilly was trespassing on their prop
erty,” Reeves said. “They told him to
take an alternative route, and Reilly had
a problem with that and brandished his
handgun.”
Reeves said the fraternity members
went inside the house, and Reilly later
returned to the neighborhood and pro
ceeded to fire three shots. Reeves said
the shots did not damage or hit any
thing, and police report it is unclear
what exactly Reilly was shooting at.
Patrol officer Carl Stubbs located Reil
ly walking outside around his residence,
967 Patterson Dr. # 8, and noticed he
matched the description of the suspect,
Turn to Shooting, page 4
Lecture explores
nature of humans
■ UCLA professor James Wilson discussed human
virtue and character in an address Tuesday evening
By Brooke Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
Shedding some light on why people behave the way they
do was the subject of a special campus lecture Tuesday, titled
“Moral Intuitions.”
James Wilson, UCLA professor of management and public
policy, addressed several dozen attendees on human virtue
and character and covered topics including why people lie
and feel the need to help others in trouble.
His speech was part of the Oregon Humanities Center’s
2000-2001 Kritikos Lectures. He will speak again Thursday
in Portland about United States crime rates.
Wilson said when people normally think of the word
virtue they often think of sexual abstinence or faithfully at
tending church. But he said simply being a fair, sympathetic
person is what having good character is all about.
He said he disagrees with some of the common ways
V.Turn to Lecture, page,3, ......
In
your corner
Adam Amato Emerald
Nathan “The
Physics Major”
Osborn rests
between rounds
with trainers
Ryan Stewart
(left) and Sean
Codetta. The
Theta Chi
member beat
Greg“The
Notorious” Bae
from Delta
Sigma Phi by
TKO in Tuesday’s
Smoker at Mac
Court. Proceeds
from the Greek
System’s Smoker
Boxing
Tournament will
benefit the Big
Brother/Big
Sister program.