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Volume 102, Issue 151
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Forecast
won’t stop
tuition hike
■After a tough wrangling session
in Salem this year, the state’s
higher education budget is still
coming up $96 million short
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
The May economic forecast, one of
the last pieces of the state budget puz
zle, has been released, and there ap
pear to be few implications to the high
er education budget.
However, a 4 to 5 percent tuition
hike is now almost assured, as no ma
jor funds have been found to help fill
holes in the state budget.
While the forecast does paint a
slightly rosier picture, it does not have
any significant positive impacts for
funding for Oregon’s seven public uni
versities. Those close to the budget
wrangling taking place in Salem say
that while the picture hasn’t improved,
it hasn’t worsened, which in this fund
ing period may actually be a good re
sult.
Oregon University System
spokesman Bob Bruce said the budget
forecast “shows only a modest im
provement” to the state budget, and
can not be directly applied to higher
education.
Released Monday by the state De
partment of Administrative Services
through the Office of Economic Analy
sis, the forecast is an analysis of Ore
gon’s economy in relation to the rest of
the nation, and provides a base for the
formation of the state’s budget. While
the state’s overall budget will remain
$12.1 billion for the 2001-2003 bienni
um, there is now an extra $20 million
for legislators to add into the budget
mix.
Bruce said OUS will remain opti
mistic about funding and said there
will be a renewed effort to fill some of
the holes.
“We have people in Salem working
on this all the time,” he said.
Turn to Budget, page 3
Marchers will take back city streets
■The 23rd annual Take Back the Night March will focus
on combating oppression and empowering victims
By Lindsay Buchele
Oregon Daily Emerald
The streets of downtown Eu
gene will be filled tonight with
voices saying, “Hey hey, ho ho,
sexual assault has got to go”
when an estimated 500 people
take part in the 23rd annual Take
Back the Night March.
Sexual Assault Support Ser
I™.
vices and the University
Women’s Center are hosting the
event, which will begin at 6:30
p.m. in the EMU Amphitheater
and will feature music, commu
nity speakers, the march and an
open forum for sexual assault
survivors.
“The march in Eugene has
come to symbolize a stand
against not only sexual assault,
but also against all forms of op
pression,” said Katie Antos, the
community education coordina
tor for SASS.
Antos said the idea sprouted
from an International Women’s
Day Celebration held in Brussels,
Belgium in 1976. The celebration
grew in conjunction with the In
ternational Tribunal of Crimes
Against Women and spread
throughout the world as a grass
roots effort aimed at raising
awareness about violence against
women.
The first march in the United
States took place in San Francis
co in 1978 and drew 5,000
women marchers, Antos said. It
was an effort that shut down San
Francisco’s pornography strip for
one night.
Eugene’s version of the march
features several local speakers, in
cluding community activists and
Turn to March, page 3
On a whiff and a prayer
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Nothing says spring term like whiffleball, right? Pete Korstad connects with a Todd Johnson pitch in front of the University Health Center Wednesday afternoon.
One survivor’s story brings campus sexual assaults to fore
■A woman’s struggle to overcome the trauma of sexual
assault may help others to reach for help as well
By Beata Mostafavi and Emily Gust
Oregon Daily Emerald
It was the first weekend of school
during her freshman year, and
Paige*, a recent pledge at a Univer
sity sorority, was partying at a house
with some fraternity members and a
couple of friends.
Paige had no idea that within the
next few hours, she would be vio
lated—causing her anguish and forc
ing her to lose an entire term of school
— and that the pain would only stop
pulsing after she took a step forward
to fight what had happened to her.
Paige is one of many students that
have experienced sexual assault in
their lifetimes, yet often their stories
are never told.
According to the FBI, rape is one of
the most underreported crimes, and
nine out of 10 cases are never brought
to the attention of authorities.
Between January and March,
Sexual Assault Support Services
had contact with 964 sexual assault
survivors, including 270 Universi
ty students.
But in the University’s Depart
ment of Public Safety’s records for
1999, no cases of rape were reported
at the University.
Director of DPS Tom Fitzpatrick
said no one reported any cases of
sexual assault to DPS, even though
organizations and University de
partments are supposed to file re
ports of rape with DPS every year.
This year, however, there will be
at least one case included in the
University’s report.
Filling in the gaps
At the party, Jared*, whom Paige
had met at a football game a few
days earlier, gave her a glass of “jun
gle juice,” a mixed alcoholic drink.
A short time later, she began to feel
ill. Paige knew almost no one at the
party, so she asked Jared to give her
a ride back to the residence halls.
But before taking Paige home,
Jared said he needed to stop on the
way and pick something up at his
fraternity. Paige later realized that
the fraternity was not on the way, as
Jared had told her. Rather, it was in
the opposite direction.
“I remember the red light before
crossing the street [to the fraterni
ty],” she said. “And that’s where I
Turn to Survivor, page 4