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Friday
June 8,2001
Volume 102, Issue 166
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Former Duck heads down ‘Pac-10 highway’
R. Ashley Smith Emerald
Bev Smith was enthusiastic in a Thursday press conference that announced her as the new coach.
■Canadian coach Bev Smith is‘excited
and thrilled’ to head women’s basketball
at her alma mater
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
After a spring filled with a resignation and an
in-depth investigation, the Oregon women’s bas
ketball team has finally added a new head coach
to its equation.
Bev Smith, a 41-year-old former Duck star
from 1978 to 1982, was announced Thursday as
the new coach by Athletic Director Bill Moos in a
press conference at the Casanova Center.
“I turn my back on this program for a couple
minutes, and everything breaks loose around
here,” said Smith, who becomes the fifth head
coach in the program’s 28-year history. “It’s great
to be back. I’ve tried to temper my excitement
and enthusiasm for the last month and a half, be
cause I didn’t want to let it go until I was down
here and able to shake Bill Moos’ hand.
“And I’ve done that, so it’s all happening right
now to me.”
Smith signed a three-year contract with a base
salary of $105,000 per year, although with incen
tives and other contracts, it could reach $182,500
annually. She will receive a combined $60,000
per year from the Oregon Sports Network for ra
dio and television deals and from Nike for shoe
and apparel agreements.
The Salmon Arm, British Columbia, native has
no Division I collegiate head coaching experi
ence, but she has been the Canadian National
Team’s coach since 1997.
Smith will take over a program that has been
to eight straight NCAA tournaments under for
mer head coach Jody Runge, who resigned April
30, but Smith believes that there won’t be any
added pressure from the high expectations.
“I don’t think anyone can put as much pres
sure on winning as I will on myself,” said Smith,
who announced that she will retain Oregon as
sistant coach Dan Muscatell and make him an in
tegral part of her staff.
As for the players, junior forward Alyssa
Fredrick said the common mood among the team
members is relief now that it’s all over with.
Smith met with team members Fredrick, Kourt
ney Shreve, Jamie Craighead, Alissa Edwards
and Katy Polansky Thursday morning and hopes
to contact the rest of the team while she remains
in town until Monday.
“She seemed pretty excited about the job,”
Fredrick said. “It’s a sigh of relief that it’s over. I
think she’s going to be interested in knowing us
as people and not just as a person with a number
and a name on our back.”
Although the Runge situation will be hard for
many to forget, Smith said the key will be to re
spect the players’ feelings toward it and try to
provide a new and “fun” atmosphere in which to
build a future.
Turn to Smith, page 8A
Summer will slow services
■ During the summer, many campus
services will cut back their hours to
adjust to the decrease in business
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
For those students who want to roll out
of bed on their summer Saturday after
noons and grab a cup of coffee, scale the
rock-climbing wall or check out a library
book, think again. Many campus services,
including the University Health Center
and the EMU, will be open less as an ad
justment to the decrease in business once
the school year ends.
The University Health Center will not be
open over summer weekends. As a result,
when students call during those times to
contact a health care professional for ad
vice, they will be transferred to a represen
tative at the Harbor View Medical Center
in Seattle, Wash.
Bob Petit, an administrator with the
health center, estimated that about 3,000
students take advantage of the services the
health center offers over the summer, as
opposed to more than 12,000 who use the
center during the academic year.
“It is a different flow,” Petit said. “The
student body we are serving is much
smaller.”
The health center will close when the
summer term ends Sept. 7 and will reopen
when fall term begins Sept. 18.
The Student Recreation Center’s hours •
will also change for the summer. Drew
Gilliland, the assistant director of Physical
Activity and Recreation Services, said the
recreation center usually sees a 60 percent
drop in the number of students using its
services.
“There’s not much wait to get on a piece
of equipment during the summer,”
Gilliland said.
For students who are not taking classes
but are enrolled in the University, or for
students who have just graduated, there is
a $25 summer rate to use the recreation
center. Gilliland said PARS is hoping to
sell about 1,000 passes. While there will be
no intramural activities offered, physical
education classes will still be available
during the summer term. Gilliland recom
mended registering early for popular class
es such as rock-climbing and yoga.
He said there will be more open pool
hours for lap swimming and open recre
ation swim, and the student tennis center
will also remain open during the summer.
The EMU food services during summer
will also be limited in terms of variety,
hours and days of operation. All food serv
ices will be closed June 16 and 17, and the
Cyber Cafe and the Marketplace will be
closed for the summer. The EMU building
will be closed on weekends.
EMU Food Service Director John Costello
said use of EMU food services is about 65
percent slower in the summer than during
the school year. He added that there is also a
proportionate decrease in the number of em
ployees who staff the food services.
While the EMU food services lose mon
ey during the summer, Costello said, they
also have an obligation to provide services
to students and faculty who are still on
campus.
EMU Director Dusty Miller said the
EMU will be busy during IntroDUCKtion
sessions this summer.
“We try to show for those students and
parents who are visiting the University the
services and programs that they can
choose from or that are here to help them,”
Turn to Slowdown, page 4A
UO to work on labor rights
via research, cooperation
■ Despite the University not being a
member of labor monitoring
organizations, it will continue to
address the issue of workers’ rights
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
Research and education are how the
University will likely confront the issue of
labor abuse in coming years, according to
leaders of the administration, faculty and
student activists.
After more than a year of occasionally
raucous debate between students and ad
ministrators that included an encampment
by student activists on the lawn of Johnson
Hall and a mandate by the State Board of
Higher Education that effectively ended
the issue, those behind labor monitoring
say they are still committed to ensuring the
University’s role in the global labor debate.
“What I concluded after the study of this
issue is ... we need to embed our concern
about human rights into our curriculum,”
said Professor David Frank, director of the
Honors College and the chairman of the
University Senate ad hoc committee that
developed the University’s Licensee Code
of Conduct and recommended joining the
Worker Rights Consortium.
The University had been negotiating for
membership into the WRC and had be
come a member of the Fair Labor Associa
tion, a labor monitoring group with indus
try representatives on its board, after
several weeks of demonstrations by stu
dents. In February of this year, however,
the State Board of Higher Education quiet
ly passed a state policy that would make it
illegal for universities to do business in a
politically partial fashion. The policy ef
fectively ended any debate on the Univer
sity becoming a member of a labor moni
toring group.
Frank said that because of the policy, he
envisions a center to study human rights in
a global perspective. This center would
bring together elements from various aca
demic departments in a fashion similar to
the University’s Center on Diversity and
Community, which should become a fix
ture on campus in a few years and coinci
dentally also came about because of a sit
in at Johnson Hall.
The University administration has al
ready pledged $100,000 towards CODAC,
and the student government also gave
$200,000 from its overrealized fund to the
project. Frank said he hopes the University
will make the same kind of pledge of sup
port toward a center on human rights.
Dave Hubin, University executive assis
tant president, said the idea of a center is the
right kind of approach for the University in
handling such issues as labor monitoring.
“I know that there’s administrative sup
port for that,” he said. “To study a crucial
issue like that is exactly what the Univer
sity should do.”
However, when asked about funding the
center, he said it was far too early to speak
in terms of how much and when. He said
the administration has engaged in only the
most preliminary of talks about a center for
Turn to WRC, page 5A