Scoring a new home
The Autzen Stadium scoreboard moves to
a higher location. Page 5
Financial turmoil for the Bijou
Owner Michael Lamont predicts difficulties
unless patronage picks up. Page 3
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Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 11
Chilibrating victory
. _ Jessie Swimeley Emerald
Going m underdogs’ and coming out top cats, Chet Christy ‘Kitty Kat’ Kik and her Culinary Kittens, Kim ‘the Cat’ Celeste and Marc ‘Tom Cat’ Hanks, hold their check lor $100
Saturday after winning first place in the chili cook-off at the inaugural Eugene Chilibration. Kitty Kat and her kittens were almost unable to compete, but they came back to beat
many local restaurants. The trio’s secret for hot, hot chili is eight or nine different kinds of peppers
Charges against UO
student dropped
The Associated Press reported
Saturday that junior art major Mor
gan Hager has been released from
jail in Italy after being arrested and
hospitalized during protests in
Genoa, Italy, last week.
Charges were dropped against
Hager, 20, of vandalism, resisting ar
rest and possession of arms such as
sticks and bottles, but she was or
dered to leave the country.
Hager’s parents, Susan and Chris,
flew to Italy last week to meet her
and bring her home early this week.
Genoa police raided the quarters
where Hager and other protesters
slept, reportedly based on tips that
the “Black Bloc,” a protester sect
that has caused violence at previous
demonstrations, was housed there.
Susan Hager said her daughter has
always believed protests should be
nonviolent affairs, and added that
she sustained bruises and a fractured
arm in the raid.
Hager’s order to leave the country
could interfere with her plan to
spend fall term studying art in Siena,
Italy.
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Receipt of parking tickets upsets
some Relay for Life participants
■ DPS says it was clear the motorists
needed to plug the meter, but some of those
cited believe they shouldn’t have been
ticketed at a fundraising event
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Department of Public Safety issued a
number of parking citations at last weekend’s Re
lay for Life at Hayward Field, and a handful of
those ticketed say the University should donate
the fees to the relay.
Complaining that it is unfair to ticket people at
a charity event, some people are even talking
about not paying their tickets, said Ricardo Mar
tinez, a mechanical designer with Balzhiser &
Hubbard Engineers, a firm that participated in
the relay.
“People were rallying to try to raise money for
a great cause, and at the end of the event thev had
to pay out money,” Martinez said. “I think it was
just a way of getting extra bucks.”
DPS Director Tom Fitzpatrick said the depart
ment has no plans to void the tickets, but encour
aged spurned motorists to file a petition at the
DPS office adjacent to Earl Hall. Petitions are re
viewed by officials outside the department.
“The meters clearly state they are in place and
valid Monday through Saturday, and people
parking there are subject to being charged,” Fitz
patrick said.
Keith Hubbard, the co-owner of Balzhiser &
Hubbard Engineers, received a ticket Saturday
and said the University should have exempted
people at the relay from parking restrictions.
“There are many events where they have ex
emptions,” he said. “It seems to me the cancer so
ciety ought to be worth one.”
He added that his company, which participat
ed in the relay the past three years, will be back
next year.
“It’s an irritant, but for people involved, can
cer is far bigger than a ticket,” he said.
The American Cancer Society, which hosted
the relay, received no parking complaints and
will not object to citations issued to people
parked illegally, society spokesman Don Oaker
son said
“Everybody was told a meter is a meter, and if
you park at a meter you pay,” he said. “I thought
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Broadcast
policy will
be altered
■ After a wave of protest from
journalists, Athletic Department
officials say the policy to limit sports
footage will show changes
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
Athletic Department officials said a
new policy governing how broadcasters
cover University sports events should
become official this week, but the final
draft will look different from the cur
rent version that has caused an uproar
among journalists nationwide.
Assistant Athlet
ic Director Dave
Williford said the
department hopes
to remain on sched
ule by having a pol
icy decision by the
beginning of Au
gust.
“I don’t think it’s
very long before an
exact policy comes
out,” he said.
Last week, Athletic Director Bill
Moos admitted the policy will have a
different look than its current proposed
position, but he wouldn’t say how it
will differ.
Moos said he didn’t want to harm re
lationships between the University and
its “friends in the media” who are be
hind an avalanche of criticism of the
University, which Moos admitted was
unexpected.
Under the currently proposed poli
cy, the University would restrict tele
vision stations to 20 seconds of high
lights and interviews for 48 hours
after a game and 30 seconds for up to a
week after the game. After one week,
no footage could be broadcast without
the permission of ESPN Regional, the
network that owns most rights to Uni
versity sports broadcasts.
Broadcasters that violated the rule
could face the loss of their press passes
and access to future games.
Moos has final approval of the poli
cy, but Williford said the administra
tion remains involved in the process.
“It’s Bill’s call, but the administration
will know what that call is,” he said.
Earlier this year, ESPN contacted the
University because KVAL, Eugene’s
CBS affiliate, ran an “Inside the PAC”
show', which ESPN believed infringed
on its contracted rights. The policy was
drafted to address those concerns.
Complaints from local and national
media groups that the proposal violates
their First Amendment rights started af
ter the University held a public hearn
July 11. Three national media organiza
tions — the Society of Professional
Journalists, the Radio-Television News
Directors Association and the Reporters
Committee for Freedom of the Press —
sent a letter to President Dave Frohn
Turn to Broadcasters, page 4
MOOS