Campy
Oregon’s residence halls are overtaken by
sports camps over the summer. Page 5
Shifting boundaries
The Oregon Secretary of State’s office has
postedits redistricting plan online. Page 3
http://www.dailyemerald.com
Tuesday, July 17,2001
Since 1 900 University of 'Oregon' Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 7
A day at the fair
Jessie Swimeley Emerald
Harold Smaude on accordion and Vito on bass play pirate songs to entertain the passing crowd between performances of Circus Contraption, their tour group from Seattle.
■ Sights, smells and sounds both
weird and wonderful assailed the
senses of 44,000 visitors at the
Oregon Country Fair
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Oregon Country Fair expe
rience began at the front gate,
where on Saturday a woman
wearing pixie wings and
blowing bubbles was among those
waving in visitors.
“Proceed with the forward,” she said
with a tranquil tone, elongating the
vowels of each word. “Proceeeeed with
the forwaaaard.”
When asked about the fair, most peo
ple sigh, struggle to find appropriate
words and express feelings ranging
from adoration to indifference to
loathing. Nearly everybody says the
event is memorable.
The fair’s numbers are staggering.
This year, the fair saw 44,000 visitors,
250 art booths and 50 food vendors.
But as event spokesman Robert De
Spain said: “What people come here
for is people-watching and sightsee
ing.”
Though organizers tamed the 32
year-old fair four years ago by selling
tickets in advance and by banning
drugs and alcohol, the event is still a
spectacle of human eccentricity.
Every sense was stimulated almost
beyond comprehension.
Colors brilliant and muted, sounds
staccato and sustained and smells ap
pealing and unpleasant swirled around
Turn to Country Fair, page 4
Jessie Swimeiey Emerald
Klainda Little, 12, scrapes the bark from a twig to make a spirit stick.
She can’t remember a summer without the Country Fair.
Proposed
broadcast
limitations
arouse ire
■ Broadcasters around Oregon
believe a University proposal to limit
their use of sports footage violates
their First Amendment rights
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
Sports broadcasters are steaming
and one state senator is threatening
legislative action because of a pro
posed University policy to limit the
length of sports highlights on televi
sion newscasts.
Although broadcasters statewide
believe the proposal violates their
freedom of speech rights, they are
waiting until it becomes actual Uni
versity policy before deciding how
their stations will cover Duck sports
events in the future.
The proposal aims to restrict broad
casts to 20 seconds of game highlights
and 20 seconds of interviews during the
48 hours after any Duck game. Special
shows outside a daily sports report dur
Turn to Broadcasters, page 4
Orientation
eases new
students’
transition
■ IntroDUCKtion helps incoming
freshmen get a head start with
information sessions and the
chance to meet other students
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
Elisabeth Jackson and Stacey Stan
dridge have only known each other
since Sunday, but the two incoming
freshmen already seem like old friends.
As participants in the student orienta
tion program IntroDUCKtion, they dis
covered similar academic interests.
Now, the two plan to take classes togeth
er in the fall.
The academic advising offered dur
ing the two-day session was helpful,
Standridge said, but the best part of In
troDUCKtion was the chance to meet
new people.
“This is awesome because I met Elis
abeth,” Standridge said as she hugged
her new friend in the EMU Monday af
ternoon.
Turn to IntroDUCKtion, page 3