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What’s for dinner? Find the lowdown on the area’s high cuisine in our annual Restaurant Guide. Inside Section Motivating moves Sarnie Parker and George Wrighster have helped each other and the Ducks. Page 5 V independent newspaper httpyAvww.dailyemerald.com Wednesday, October 10,2001 Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon Volume 103, Issue 32 U.N. reports four workers dead in Kabul ■A spokeswoman says a buildingwas hit by a bomb or missile; anti-American rioting continues in Pakistan t By Juan 0. Tamayo Knight Ridder Newspapers ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (KRT) — Four U.N. program workers on Tuesday became the first confirmed civilian casualties of the American-led war on terrorism, while a Taliban envoy said the movement’s top religious leader had escaped the U.S. air strikes. The United Nations reported that a bomb or missile had killed four Afghan workers at the headquarters of a U.N.-affiliated group on the edge of Kabul. The four were night guards with Afghan Technical Consultants, a nonprofit organ ization clearing landmines and unexplod ed ordnance, said Stephanie Bunker, spokeswoman for the U.N. Coordinator for Afghanistan. Asked if it was a U.S. bomb, Bunker read from a report that said, “Due to air attack in Kabul City, a missile/bomb struck the ATC regional office in the out skirts of Kabul,” but declined to identify the source of the report. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rums feld said he could not confirm the report. “We have no information from the ground to verify this,” he said in Wash ington. Meanwhile, Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf continued to shake up his mili tary, putting loyalists in command of areas on the Afghan border that are racked by anti American riots. Miami Herald/KRT Anti-American protesters bum and beat an effigy of U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday during a rally sponsored by Muslim extremist clerics in Rawalpindi. Pakistan. Bunker expressed concern about the se curity of U.N. operations in Pakistan, where rioting by rad ical Muslims who were protesting the U.S. strikes killed at least three people Tuesday, including two men and a 13 year-old, who were shot as a mob tried to torch a police station near the southwestern city of Quetta. The ATC compound in Yaka Toot, two miles east of Kab ul, was struck about 9 p.m., Bunker added, a time when U.S. airplanes were overhead. News reports from the Afghan cap ital said the office is near a radio tower that might have been Turn toU.N.,page3A Citizens argue against new cell phone towers ■ Community members gather to discuss the placement of towers By Brook Reinhard Oregon Daily Emerald More than 50 people showed up for a community meeting Tuesday night to ad dress concerns about the potential con struction of cell phone towers in Lane County. County Commissioner Peter Sorenson, District 3, and City Councilor Betty Taylor, Ward 2, community activists and local resi dents met in Harris Hall last night to share information about cell phone transmission towers planned to be constructed in various areas of the city. The towers range from 30 foot “mini” towers to 200-foot multiple transmission centers, one of which would be located close to campus near 15th Av enue and Villard Street. “The wireless industry insists their tech nology is safe — but we really don’t know. The jury is still out at this point,” said Martha Johnson, a member of the River Road Com munity Organization. Several issues were brought up by at tendees, including the potential hazards posed by emitted radiation and the loca tion of tower sites. “It’s an accident look ing for a place to happen,” said Donna Murray, a member of Citizens for Re sponsible Placement of Cell Phone Transmission Towers. She referred to an incident in the Midwest where a resident climbed up the tower and jumped off to commit suicide. “How many towers do we have to put up before someone says ‘no more’?” said resi dent Karl Wagenknecht, whose office is two buildings down from a proposed tower site at 15th and Villard. The site is located on Williams Bakery property. “A landowner has the right to refuse to lease the property, but the money is tempt ing,” Taylor said. Attendees were also concerned over perceived siting problems. “I’ve read through countless applications. ... They all say, ‘This is the perfect site; this is the only site,’” said event organizer Mona Linstromberg. “The telecommunications industry can break their lease contract at any time — the landowner cannot,” she added. Participants discussed the county and city perspectives on the issue. Sorenson said that a proposed county ordinance would only govern the construction of towers in Turn to Towers, page 4A $290 million budget deficit may threaten UO funding ■An expected state budget shortfall leaves the University Senate looking for financial solutions By Eric Martin Oregon Daily Emerald The University Senate faces a funding crisis as it convenes for its second regular meeting of the year Wednesday, but members hope a state budget short fall won’t mean University program cuts. State revenues could take a more than $290 million plunge, according to an economic fore cast last month. The looming budget shortfall has forced Gov. John Kitzhaber to prepare for a spe cial session to balance the budget. ' “The state economic forecast is not good, said Nathan Tublitz, senate president and biology professor. “In fact, it’s bad enough that the governor mandated a 2 percent cut in the general fund.” The cut means about $16 mil lion normally divvied among public universities could be real located to balance the state budg TUBLITZ et — a move mat could further cripple the University, which al ready believes it is handicapped by dwindling state funds. “We need to begin acting now to save money and initiate plans for budget reductions that are in line with state priorities,” Kitzhaber said in a statement Friday. Kitzhaber’s declaration left once-optimistic sen ate members calling the glass half empty. “I think the economy is soft, and it’s going south in a hurry,” said Margaret Hallock, administrative officer for the senate and director for the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. “(In June) I hoped the University could make it to the first bi ennium. Now, I’d be surprised if that would be the case.” Tublitz said the Senate Budget Committee met Tuesday with University Provost John Moseley in an emergency meeting to discuss how to mitigate the shortfall’s impact on the University. Moseley will answer questions posed by the senate in its Wednes day meeting. Until then, many senators are reluctant to comment on the specifics of the budget shortfall. Tublitz also said it’s too early to say officially how the school plans to cover its costs. "It could be done by administrative reorganization and by putting off some expansion projects,” Tublitz said. “And by using some increases in funds from other sources to shore up cuts.” The budget crisis is a stem first test for Tublitz in his first and only year as senate president. He was elected in May 2001 after four years as a senator rep resenting natural sciences and one year as vice presi dent. His term as president ends in May 2002. “I stepped forward only because everybody else stepped backward. I didn’t move,” Tublitz quipped. “I had my arm twisted, and it still hurts.” Eric Martin is a higher education reporter for the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached at ericmartin@daHyemerald.com.
