Waiting... and hoping *
Michael Kasahun’s one of many men and women
Duck athletes hoping to make the NCAAs. PAGE 9
You just spent $500,000
The ASUO Student Senate granted half a million
bucks in incidental fees for special requests. PAGE 12
Thursday
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$12 million
donation
■Two alumni donate $10 million
in scholarship money to the
University and $2 million to LCC
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
Both the University and Lane Com
munity College have received multi
million dollar donations from the
Robert W. and Bernice Ingalls Staton
Foundation to fund need-based student
scholarships.
The University received $10 million
to fund 100 scholarships and LCC re
ceived $2 million for 20 scholarships.
The University’s scholarship gift is the
largest in school history, and LCC’s do
Turn to Donation, page 4
Symphony
ends year
in triumph
■The University Symphony plays
its last concert tonight and sends
off many graduates
By Brooke Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
After a year of performing throughout
the Pacific Northwest, the University
Symphony will perform its final con
cert of the season at 8 p.m. today in
Beall Concert Hall.
The group will perform two musical
works, including Peter Tchaikovsky’s
“Symphony No. 5” and Samuel Barber’s
“Knoxville, Summer of 1915.” Ann
Tedards, associate dean of the music
school and associate professor of voice,
will perform a solo with the Barber piece.
Turn to Symphony, page 8
Just say ‘Bub-Bye’
R. Ashley Smith Emerald
ASUO President Jay Breslow and Vice President Holly Magner slowly gear up to move out of their office Tuesday.
This was your Executive
■TheASUO bids farewell to Jay Breslow
and Holly Magner today after their
arduous year in the executive office
By Emily Gust
Oregon Daily Emerald
One year ago, a silver disco ball was hung
from the ceiling of the ASUO Executive office,
and a new administration began in student
government.
Today, the disco ball will come down, and the
reign of ASUO President Jay Breslow and Vice
President Holly Magner will come to a close.
After a year of rough transitions, shortened
timelines and recall attempts, Breslow and
Magner will tonight hand over the power to
ASUO President-elect Nilda Brooklyn and Vice
President-elect Joy Nair.
Over the past year, Breslow and Magner have
lent their energies to such issues as diversity,
higher education funding and community in
volvement. Breslow has spoken before state leg
islators in defense of the student incidental fee,
Turn to Jay and Holly, page 4
Earl bids
farewell
to Senate
■The governing body discussed
the resolution to cap athletic
spending in its final session
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By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
University Senate President James
Earl’s resolution urging presidents and
chancellors from Pacific-10 Conference
schools to cap ever-increasing athletic
budgets has now been approved by sev
en university senates in Oregon, Wash
ington, Arizona and California, and
UCLA is expected to
approve it soon.
Only Southern Cal
ifornia and the Uni
versity of Arizona
senates have not ap
proved the resolu
tion. Earl, an English
professor, said presi
dents at those univer
sities could not place
the resolution on the senate agendas be
fore their academic sessions ended.
Earl addressed the issue Wednesday
during the year-end University Senate
meeting, which was also Earl’s final
meeting as president. He said he has
been encouraged by the Pac-10 faculties
coming together on the issue, but he is
also gravely concerned about the grow
ing divide between “faculty idealism
and administrative realism.”
While Earl said the University is led
by a “crack team of competent officials,”
he also said he is worried about it be
coming too similar to a corporation and
less an institution of learning.
This can be seen, Earl said, by the huge
amounts of funding directed toward ath
letics, and to a lesser extent, the bypass
ing of the Worker Rights Consortium.
When the issue of university involve
ment in labor monitoring organizations
such as the WRC was killed by a policy
that the State Board of Higher Education
Turn to Senate, page 3
Jon Mouse Emerald
MCC Director Erica Fuller will step down from her position June 30. Replacing her is
Steve Morozumi, who has worked with theRajnbpw Coalition and the ACLU.
Fuller to resign from her MCC post
■ Multicultural Center Director
Erica Fuller will step down
from her position at the MCC
when her term ends June 30
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
When the ASUO Student Senate
and the executive approved funding
to hire a director for the Multicultur
al Center last year, representatives
from the two groups reasoned that
the new position would bring conti
nuity to the organization by reduc
ing turnover created when student
coordinators graduated.
U . But. it does not appear, that goal
will be achieved this year—MCC di
rector Erica Fuller has announced
she will step down from the position
when her term ends June 30.
It was a difficult decision to make,
Fuller said, but eventually she decid
ed she missed the sun and warmth of
her previous home in Florida, and
could not commit to another year at
the University.
Still, looking back on the past year,
she said her term as MCC director was
“an experience unlike anything I’ve
ever had.”
“It offered tremendous growth,” she
said. “And it clarified my commit
ment to the issues that are addressed
in the MCC.”
As director of the MCC, an organi
zation aimed at promoting and sup
porting cultural and ethnic student
groups on campus, Fuller worked
closely with students involved with
these groups.
Many are disappointed to see her
8°;.
“I wish she would have stayed an
other year,” International Student
Association co-director Andreas
Georgiades said. “I don’t think she
had enough time to do what she had
in mind.”
Patrick De Castro, director of Kul
tura Pilipinas, said leaders of student
groups often go to Fuller when they
need help with organizing events or
Turn to Fuller, page 3