On the downstroke
Despite a win Monday, the Ems limp back
home after a 1-7 road trip. Page 5
Recall in progress
Bonny Bettman faces recall for her stance
on Sacred Heart’s move. Page 4
Tuesday, July 24, 2001
Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 9
Complaints
mount over
broadcast
limitations
■The issue expands beyond a
local scope as the University
receives a letter of protest from
three national media organizations
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
A letter sent Monday by three na
tional journalism groups to the Uni
versity administration is a sign broad
casters are refusing to quell their
opposition to a University-proposed
rule limiting sports highlights in news
and weekend programs.
On Monday, The Radio Television
News Directors Association, the Soci
ety of Professional Journalists and the
Reporters Committee for Freedom of
the Press sent the letter that echoed
complaints made by local broadcast
ers at a July 11 public hearing that the
proposal steps on their constitutional
ability to air footage.
“While we respect the University’s
economic interest in promoting Uni
versity athletics and preserving con
tract rights granted to its media part
ners,” the letter said, “your proposed
restrictions have gone too far and rep
resent an unconstitutional limitation
on the ability of the press to gather and
report the news.”
President Dave Frohnmayer, Vice
President Dan Williams and General
Counsel Melinda Grier all received a
copy of the letter, which urges the
University to reconsider the rule but
stops short of threatening legal action.
Last week Sen. Rick Metsger, D
Welches, a former Portland sportscast
er, said he would seek legislative ac
tion if the University's final draft isn't
in stark contrast to the current pro
posed limits.
Turn to Broadcasters, page 4
Jessie Swlmeley Emerald
Jackie Reed, an EMU board member, discusses possible solar-panel locations and designs with architecture Professor
Charlie Brown. At present, three locations are being considered.
Plans for EMU solar panels unfold
■A group of University officials, professors
and students met Friday to discuss the
design and placement of the panels
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
If the plans of four University students go as
expected, the EMU may soon be the largest so
lar energy consumer in Oregon.
Jocelyn Eisenberg and Ben Gates, the winners
of last year’s ASUO “Bucks for Ducks” contest,
have teamed up with fellow architecture stu
dents Matt Larson and Jess Ellingson to design a
set of solar panels they hope will produce more
than 30 kilowatts of energy per hour.
Eisenberg said the group set that goal in or
der to surpass the 30-kilowatt output of an ar
ray of solar panels operated by the city of Ash
land. Those panels are believed to be the
highest solar energy-producing system in the
state, Oregon Office of Energy spokesman
Christopher Dymond said.
Last Friday, Eisenberg and Ellingson met with
University professors, students and administra
tors involved with the project to discuss the de
sign and location of the panels, which they ex
pect to cover about 3,000 square feet.
The ASUO sponsored the “Bucks for Ducks”
contest last spring to generate student ideas on
how to spend a $100,000 surplus of student
fee money.
But in order to build a system that will pro
duce more than 30 kilowatts of solar energy,
Eisenberg said they will have to raise an addi
tional $150,000, which they hope to obtain from
corporate donors.
The Eugene Water and Electric Board (EWEB)
already has offered to donate a portion of the
system design costs and purchase power pro
duced by the solar panels.
Eisenberg said if they reach their goal, the so
lar panels could produce as much as 10 percent
of the energy the EMU uses. Considering all the
Turn to Solar panels, page 4
Tuition,
fees will
rise 6.6
percent
■ In addition to a 4 percent tuition
hike, students will also pay several
new fees for energy costs and
video equipment
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
University undergraduates will pay
$252 more in tuition and fees this fall
after the Oregon University System
Board approved increases for all sev
en state universities.
This is the first time in five years
that students at every school have
faced tuition increases.
The University of Oregon’s in
crease makes it the most expensive of
the seven schools, OUS Assistant
Vice Chancellor Bob Bruce said.
Southern Oregon University in Ash
land is the cheapest, he added.
The decision comes after the Legis
lature allowed tuition to rise by 4 per
cent this year and 3 percent next year,
with any additional tuition increases
requiring approval by the Legisla
ture’s Emergency Board.
But the University covered extra
expenses by also increasing fees,
bringing the total hike to 6.6 percent.
During its meeting in Portland, the
board approved increasing current fee
levels and adding a number of new
student fees, which include $125 per
term for new computer science equip
ment, $50 per term for video equip
ment in the journalism school and a
new energy surcharge of $30 per term
to cover the rising cost of power.
The total percentage increase was
still less than other schools that
raised tuition and fees between 7 and
9.5 percent overall.
Turn to OUS budget, page 3
Sacred Heart talks continue tonight
■The city will hold a public
forum this evening, but
PeaceHealth is turning away
from downtown site options
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
Tuesday night might be the
city’s last chance to woo Peace
Health into expanding its hospi
tal downtown.
Six lots near downtown that
could become sites for a new
hospital will be discussed in a
public forum at 7 p.m. Tuesday
at St. Mary’s Catholic Church,
,1062 Charnelton St.
Last week, after the forum
was scheduled, PeaceHealth,
which owns the Sacred Heart
Medical Center, announced it
would not consider building
downtown and would focus
only on expanding into North
Eugene.
This was the latest develop
ment in a nearly five-month ne
gotiation between PeaceHealth
and the city over the expansion
of Sacred Heart. PeaceHealth
wants to move most inpatient
services to a vacant lot near
Crescent Avenue in North Eu
gene, but the City Council has
been pushing to keep the hospi
tal downtown to promote com
pact urban growth and to keep
hundreds of jobs in the area.
After PeaceHealth’s an
nouncement last week, City
Manager Jim Johnson indicated
he was willing to allow the hos
pital to be built in North Eugene
so it would stay in Eugene.
However, the City Council,
which has the final say, has not
yet made such a concession.
“I hope the options the city
staff discusses will get enough
public support to make Peace
Health reconsider,” Councilor
David Kelly said.
PeaceHealth spokesman Bri
an Terrett said hospital officials
,. .Tur/i to $acred Heart, page 3.,
UO student arrested, hospitalized in Italy
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
Details are trickling in about 20-year
old University student Morgan Hager,
who was reportedly arrested and hospi
talized during a police raid in Genoa,
Italy, where she and other protesters of
the G-8 convention were sleeping,
Hager’s mother, Susan, said a U.S.
Consulate official in Milan contacted her
with the news of Morgan Hager’s hospi
talization and arrest, but her daughter’s
medical condition and charges have not
been released or confirmed.
Susan Hager said her daughter left
a month early for an exchange pro
gram in Siena, Italy, and e-mailed the
family that she was going to Genoa to
protest the G-8 meeting, and she
would be sleeping in a gymnasium j
opened specifically for protesters.
Morgan Hager’s Eugene roommate, j
J.D. Leahy, said he hadn’t heard about j
her arrest, but he knew she was going
to be in Genoa.
Her e-mail also said she was being
careful and the gym would be a safe
place to sleep, which her mother said
she believed. According to The Asso
ciated Press, police officers made their
raid Monday and arrested about 180
people. The incident comes after one
protester died Friday.
Susan Hager said she doesn’t expect
any new confirmed information about
her daughter to come until the Italian
government decides to officially press
charges. j