Larger than ‘larger than life’
*NSYNC takes over the record charts and
the cover of Pulse this week. Page 5
Spend the weekend with a bowl
The first ‘Chilibration’hits Eugene on Friday
with endless eating possibilities. Page 5
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Thursday, July 26,2001
Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 10
Local jobs are tough to find but still available
■The market is tougher than last
year, but those providing
employment assistance say finding
work isn’t a lost cause
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
As a veteran of the ups and downs of
the Eugene job market, Honi Newhouse
never expected to find a job easily.
But a month after graduating from the
University, she is still without work, and
attracting the attention of employers has
been even more difficult than she ex
pected.
“I’ll call back three or four times and
get no response, ” she said. “It’s been just
kind of frustrating, generally.”
Her friends and roommates are also
having trouble finding jobs this summer,
she added. And they are not the only ones.
With recent layoffs at two local manu
facturing plants and a down-turning
economy, the job market right now is
“considerably worse than last year,”
said Gloria Mulligan, the job placement
supervisor at the Eugene office of the
Oregon Employment Department.
Last Tuesday, the computer-chip
manufacturer Hynix, formerly known as
Hyundai, announced it would lay off
600 workers at its Eugene plant just six
weeks after Weyerhaeuser Co. laid off
140 workers when it closed a Spring
field manufacturing plant.
Other local employers are eliminating
positions as well, Mulligan said. And
the layoffs, as well as an increased num
ber of students seeking work, have
pushed the unemployment rate in Lane
County up to 6 percent in June, 1.3 per
cent higher than the national average.
With so many people looking for jobs,
students often have a harder time than
other people seeking employment be
cause they have less work experience,
Mulligan said. •
But there are still jobs out there, she
said, especially if students are willing to
take a lower pay rate than they might like.
Right now, she said, most of the jobs
listed with the employment department
database that require little experience
pay minimum wage.
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Jessie Swimeley Emerald
Using the database at the Oregon State Employment Office, Haley Bremer joins others in the search for the ever-elusive job.
Picture of events surrounding Hager grows clearer
■The University student suffered bruises
and a broken arm during the police raid on
the Genoa, Italy, gymnasium where she
was staying for the G-8 protest
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
The parents of junior art major Morgan
Hager flew to Italy Wednesday morning to find
their daughter, who was beaten and arrested
during a police raid on anti-globalization pro
testers of the G-8 summit in Genoa, Italy.
Hager’s mother, Susan, said the U.S. Con
sulate in Italy provided her with detailed infor
mation about her daughter Tuesday afternoon
after waiting for more than 48 hours knowing
only that she was under arrest and hospitalized.
A student in the Honors College who comes
from Portland, Hager suffered a fractured arm
and bruises on her back, arms, shoulders and
legs, Brian Oberle, a U.S. Consulate general in
Milan, Italy, told Susan Hager. But she added
that Oberle said her daughter’s injuries could
have been much worse compared to others
who were arrested in the raid and injured over
the weekend during the protest.
Hager and others are being charged with
conspiracy to engage in looting and vandal
ism, resisting arrest and possession of arms for
having sticks that could be used as weapons,
Susan Hager said.
According to news reports from Genoa, as
members of the eight largest industrial nations
began their summit to combat slowing eco
nomic growth Friday, police shot and killed
one protester.
Hager was staying in a gymnasium that the
Genoa Social Forum had set up as a safe place
for protesters to sleep, Susan Hager said. A
major media center had been set up next door.
But according to other news reports, when
Genoa police received a tip that the forum was
also housing members of the Black Bloc, a
group that has advocated and performed vio
lence at other anti-globalization protests, offi
cers stormed the gym and arrested 93 protest
ers. Sixty protesters were later treated for
injuries.
Although protesters fought back when the
police began to use force, Susan Hager said
her daughter has never viewed violence as an
avenue for social change, and is certain her
daughter is not affiliated with Uny group that
would advocate violence during a protest.
One of Hager’s University roommates,
junior linguistics major J.D. Leahy, agreed
that although Hager is one of many people
upset with the push for globalization, she
Turn to Hager, page 4
UOmay
return
Grayson’s
donation
■The University will enter
negotiations concerning the money,
which Jeffrey Grayson allegedly
made by swindling investors
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University announced Wednes
day it will consider returning $800,000
donated by Jeffrey Grayson, the former
president of the bankrupt Portland in
vestment firm Capital Consultants.
General Counsel Melinda Grier will
begin talks in coming weeks with court
appointed receiver Thomas Lennon,
who in June asked the University to re
turn the money.
Grier is currently on vacation and un
available for comment.
Still, administrators have stated they
haven’t decided whether to hand over
the dough.
“The University cannot simply give
away money without a clear legal rea
son to do so,” President Dave Frohn
mayer said in a written statement.
“Similarly, the foundation has a fiduci
ary responsibility to the many donors
who have entrusted their funds to them
on behalf of the UO.” .
In 1997, the University named the
former law school after Grayson, who
promised to donate $1.5 million to the
University. Since then, the University
has received about $800,000 and re
modeled Grayson Hall, while the feder
al government has shut down Capital
Consultants for bilking investors and
making bad loans.
The U.S. Department of Labor and
the Securities and Exchange Commis
sion seized Capital Consultants in Sep
tember and ordered Lennon to liquidate
the company.
Lennon, who reported the business
had bilked $355 million from investors
and union pension funds, alleges that
Grayson’s many high-profile philan
thropic donations over the past five
years were made with money that the
company didn’t legally have. He has
stated in court records that Capital Con
sultants was already insolvent when
Grayson pledged his donation to the
University.
The University administration, the
University of Oregon Foundation and
the foundation’s board of trustees did
not return the Emerald’s phone calls
before press time. But in Wednesday’s
written statement, Allan Price, the
vice president for university advance
ment, and foundation president Vin
ton “Slim" Sommerville echoed
Frohnmayer’s statement that the Uni
versity will do what’s right once it’s
clear what that is.
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