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■The hype over the Ducks’ 2001 football
campaign reaches new heights with national
magazine covers and billboards in Los Angeles
and San Francisco
By Peter Hockaday I
Oregon Daily Emerald 1
Oregon fans have always known the Ducks have if
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Two days after it was announced that Duck quarter- Mt|
back Joey Harrington would be featured on the covers jZ
of Sports Illustrated and ESPN Magazine, the Oregon Hi
Athletic Department confirmed that billboards of ^^-J**1**
cornerback Rashad Bauman and running back \ ^
Maurice Morris will be erected this weekend in \
San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively. \ **
The billboards, unprecedented simply because If
they aren’t in the team’s hometown, are being funded V
by the same group of donors that paid for a 100-foot \
billboard of Harrington in downtown New York, ac- ’
cording to Oregon Director of Media Services Dave
Williford.
“They’re basically the same style as the ones around
[Eugene],” Williford said, referring to advertisements
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Bauman’s billboard sits next to an entrance to the
Bay Bridge in San Francisco, while Morris’ image will
grace the side of Highway 405 in Los Angeles.
“It’s great that [the boosters] think those kids war
rant the attention,” Oregon head coach Mike Bellotti
said. “Not that Joey doesn’t deserve it; it’s just nice
when other kids get a shot.”
But Harrington has been the one receiving all the
national attention recently. He poses on the cover of
Sports Illustrated’s college football preview issue —
which should hit stands today — with Oregon State
running back Ken Simonton, and on the cover of
ESPN Magazine all by himself. The ESPN cover was
one of four regional covers and was distributed
across the West Coast.
Both magazines name Harrington and Simonton as
early candidates for the Heisman Trophy, given an
nually to the top college football player in the nation.
Sports Illustrated ranked Oregon State first in the
country in its preseason poll and chose the Beavers to
win the National Championship, which will be held at
Turn to Football, page 4
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City will continue negotiating with PeaceHealth
■The City Council has
removed one obstacle to
Sacred Heart’s move by not
altering a land use ordinance
By Darren Freeman
Oregon Daily Emerald
The City Council on Wednes
day scrapped a proposed land
use change that would have
blocked Sacred Heart Medical
Center from expanding into
North Eugene and directed city
staff to continue discussions
with the hospital’s parent com
pany, PeaceHealth.
While the vote dropped one
hurdle to PeaceHealth’s planned
expansion to North Eugene, hos
pital spokesman Brian Terrett
said the meeting presented a
new setback for PeaceHealth.
The council didn’t vote on a
motion to seek state dollars for
an interchange between the Belt
Line Highway and Coburg Road
that Terrett said the hospital
would need to open at its pre
ferred site near Crescent Av
enue.
“WeTe pretty disappointed,”
Terrett said after the council ses
sion. “The council had an oppor
tunity to take clear, decisive ac
tion to help us build on the
North Eugene campus. To have
the council vote only to continue
to discuss is a setback ... We’re at
the point now where we need to
take action.”
The next City Council meeting
on the issue will be held Sept.
10, after the council’s summer
vacation.
Since March, when PeaceHealth
first announced it would build a
new inpatient center to relieve
overcrowding at Sacred Heart, the
city has tried to keep the hospital
downtown to promote compact
urban growth and to keep hun
dreds of jobs in the area.
At Wednesday’s meeting,
most councilors admitted they
can’t force PeaceHealth into
building downtown but assert
ed the council should continue
seeking the best possible solu
tion for the city.
Councilors Betty Taylor, Bon
ny Bettman and David Kelly ar
gued that they still support
Turn to Sacred Heart, page 3
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University
abandons
broadcast
limitations
■After receiving a mountain of
criticism over the last month, the
school decides not to restrict the use
of sports footage
By Jeremy Lang
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University has dropped all plans
to institute a new policy that would
have restricted how long television
news broadcasters could air footage of
Duck football games.
Athletic Director Bill Moos an
nounced Wednesday that after almost a
month of public feedback and angry,
critical letters from
media groups na
tionwide, the
school will keep its
“open access” game
day policy for tele
vision journalists.
Instead of the
University imple
menting a policy,
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dustry will take re
sponsibility and po
| lice itself. But Bill Johnstone, the CEO
3 of the Oregon Association of Broadcast
ers, said his group has no plans to en
act specific rules or guidelines on
| when highlights can be aired and for
\ how long.
\ Moos said he and other members of
■ the Athletic Department have been
\ leaning toward dropping the policy
'j for the past week, a decision sparked
fa \ in part by the cries of First Amend
\ ment infringement from media or
\ ganizations ranging from The Ore
i \ gonian’s editorial board to the
| \ Society of Professional Journalists.
\ “It is in our best interest to go
" ^ ^' back to the original policy,” he
said during a press conference call. “I
don’t feel we had the arrogance to take
on First Amendment rights.”
But he added that the attention creat
ed by the University’s high ranking in a
number of national preseason football
polls and Duck quarterback Joey Har
rington’s presence on the covers of
Sports Illustrated and ESPN Magazine
played a major role in the final deci
sion.
“This is a year of all years that we
want the most exposure of Duck
sports,” Moos said.
The issue of limiting coverage grew
from a year-long dispute between ESPN
Regional Sports, which allows footage
to be aired on KEZI, Eugene's ABC affil
iate, and the CBS affiliate KVAL, which
airs Duck football game footage on its
"Inside the PAC” show.
Both ESPN and ABC are owned by
the Disney Corporation.
ESPN Regional claimed “Inside the
Turn to Broadcasters, page 3