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x Summer 2001
DAN 251 Looking at Dance
4 Credits in the A&L Group
• See and Discuss Great Works of Dance Art
•Take Field Trips and Movement Laboratories
Learning like you’ve
never experienced before!
NO PREREQUISITES
| NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY
THE CALENDARS ARE IN!
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Time:Master
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CALENDARS
are now in
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School Supplies!
UNIVERSITY of OREGON
BOOKSTORE
BIRKENSTOCK
Summer Tour 2001
June 29 - July 1
A BIRKENSTOCK truck loaded with over 2000 pairs of
sandals, clogs and shoes is coming to Eugene.
Save Up to 80% On
Selected Styles!
Sale Hours:
June 29, Fri 9 - 8 *
June 30, Sat 9 - 6
July 1, Sun 11 -5
Special Location:
881 Willamette St
Eugene, OR
(Formerly Timeless Antiques)
Sorry, we will not be able to hold, layaway, special order or take returns on
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181 E Broadway Downtown Eugene 342-6107
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Energy settlement
talks begin
By Mark Sherman
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Efforts to settle
claims from the California power cri
sis got under way Mdnday, as West
ern states accused power-generating
companies of overcharging them by
$15 billion in the past year.
Michael Kahn, California’s chief
negotiator, said the $9 billion in re
funds his state claims it is owed
should be the first order of business
for Curtis L. Wagner, the Federal En
ergy Regulatory Commission’s chief
administrative law judge, who is
serving as mediator for the talks.
“We want our refunds. We want
them now,” said Kahn, chairman of
the California Independent System
Operator, which manages the state’s
power grid.
Other Western states, mainly in
the Pacific Northwest, said over
charges to them amount to $6 billion.
The states claim that the compa
nies unfairly drove up prices to take
advantage of a power shortage.
Prices frequently surpassed $300
per megawatt-hour, ten times what
they were in 1999. One megawatt is
enough to power about 750 homes.
The power companies argue that
the charges were justified. In some
cases, older, more costly power plants
were pressed into service to deal with
the high demand and tight supply.
Wagner, who has said that refunds
in any settlement probably would not
exceed $2.5 billion, urged all sides to
be conciliatory. He said a brokered set
tlement should be preferable to a plan
crafted by federal regulators.
He said he was not discouraged by
the states’ hard line in the early go
ing. “Everybody has to stick to their
guns for a while,” Wagner said after
the first day of talks.
More than 150 people represent
ing about six dozen entities gathered
in a government hearing room for ne
gotiations. The talks were part of a
federal order last week extending
price controls on spot power sales in
California and imposing limits in 10
other Western states.
Wagner laid out several issues ne
gotiators will have to tackle, includ
ing how much generators are owed
for power they supplied to Califor
nia without getting paid.
The size of the refunds and the
unpaid bills “must be, both ways, re
solved at the outset to put everyone
on the same playing field,” Wagner
said. Any settlement probably
would also have to answer whether
the generators should have immu
nity from existing and future law
suits, as well as prosecution, he said.
Reporters sat in on Wagner’s open
ing statement and a marathon intro
duction in which some 150 people stat
ed their names and their employers.
“If we had known there would be
so many people here, we would have
sold tickets,” Wagner said.
The attendees included represen
tatives from California and a dozen
city and county governments, in
vestor-owned and municipal utili
ties, power generators and natural
gas companies.
After the introductions, Wagner
closed the meefing to the public, or
dering the participants not to talk to
reporters during the negotiations. He
even pledged to shred his copy of the
notes that a court reporter will tran
scribe each day.
FERC mandated that the talks last
no more than 15 days. Wagner can re
quest more time if he feels progress
is being made.
The University of Oregon'
OREGON
BACH
FESTIVAL
“A Musical Enterprise Virtually
Without Equal in America”
- Los Ant'clcs Times
What Rilling does in the Oreg<
Bach Festival is astonishing”
Washington I’os
“Its Art is Ambitious and
Performances Suave”
— Wall Street Journa
Peter & the Wolf
Classic fun for families
All tix $5
July 4, Hult Center
Sponsored by Widish Land Co
Brahms/German Requiem
Masterpiece of hope, solace,
and redemption
UO Students $10
July 5, Hull Center
Sponsored by Centermiql Bank and KVAL TV
Verdi/Requiem
Thunderous drama by
the Italian opera master
UO Students $10
July 8, Halt Center
Sponsored by United Airlines
682-5000
oregonbachfestival.com