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Volume 103,Issue 40
Ducks’ home-winning streak ends in heartbreak
■ Oregon’s dreams are dashed
as the Ducks blow a 14-point lead
in the fourth-quarter and end their
23-game home-winning streak, 49-42
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
On an afternoon that began cloudy
and ended sunny, Oregon’s sunny sea
son was suddenly clouded.
Before Saturday, the fifth-ranked
Ducks were 6-0 and aiming for a realis
tic shot at playing for the national
championship game in the Rose Bowl.
But after Stanford waltzed into
Autzen Stadium and outscored Oregon
21-0 in the fourth quarter en route to a
49-42 upset victory, all the now 11th
ranked Ducks could do was scratch
their heads and wonder.
Wonder what might have been had
they extended the nation’s longest
home winning streak to 24 games in
front of a sold-out Homecoming crowd
of 46,021.
But now, any chance of a national ti
tle? Dashed. Joey Harrington earning
the coveted Heisman Trophy? Most
likely gone. And that Autzen win
streak? Rewind to zero.
Because unlike the previous 23 home
games, the Ducks (6-1 overall, 3-1 Pacif
ic-10 Conference) couldn’t come
through in the clutch when it needed to
the most to extend their magic carpet
ride.
“You can only play with a dog so long
’til it bites you,” Oregon comerback
Rashad Bauman said. “And we got bit
today.”
Oregon entered the fourth quarter
with a comfortable 42-28 lead, but the
tide turned decidedly in Stanford’s (4
1, 3-1) direction when the Ducks’ first
two drives of the quarter ended with
Jose Arroyo getting his punts blocked.
The Ducks dodged a bullet with the
first block, as they held Stanford on a
fourth-and-goal from the three-yard
line. They weren’t as lucky on the next
block as the Cardinal recovered the punt
on the 17-yard line and on their first
play, back-up quarterback Chris Lewis
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Thomas Patterson Emeralc
Senior Josh Line
walks off the field
at Autzen Stadium
on Saturday
after Stanford
ended Oregon’s
23-game
home-winning
streak. The 49-42
loss was
the Ducks’
first defeat at
Autzen since
Oct. 11,1997.
Two men shot during Friday night confrontation
■Police are following up
on leads after an argument
resulted in the shooting
of two people on Hilyard Street
By Darren Freeman
for the Emerald
Two men were shot after an ar
gument Friday night near cam
pus, police said.
Police hadn’t released the
names of the two shooting vic
tims by Sunday night, but said
they were treated at Sacred Heart
Medical Center and are expected
to recover.
The men were outside the Hil
yard Street Market at East 17th
Avenue and Hilyard Street short
ly before midnight Friday when
an argument broke out among a
group of people gathered there.
According to police at the
scene, the perpetrator shot one
person in the stomach and
another person in the leg with
either a small-caliber pistol or a
high-powered pellet gun.
Police are looking for a 5
foot-8-inch man in his early 20s
with dark skin, dark hair and
possibly a goatee.
“There are several leads in
the area, and we’re following
up,” Eugene Police Department
Acting Sgt. Bill Solesbee said
Friday night, as'a crowd gath
ered around the crime scene.
By midnight Friday, police
had blocked off Hilyard Street
and were interviewing witness
es and searching the ground for
evidence.
One witness, an area high
school student named Joe who
declined to give his last name,
said the shooting stemmed from a
confrontation between two
groups of student-aged men.
“An argument ensued, some
pushing and shoving went on
and one guy pulled a gun,” he
said.
He said he saw a the perpetra
tor shoot one man in the stomach
and cross the street, walking
northbound along Hilyard Street.
A friend of the first victim chased
the shooter, who turned and shot
the pursuer in the leg, Joe said.
Hilyard Street Market employ
ees heard the shots and called po
lice.
“We heard the sounds inside
the store, and we thought at first
that somebody threw something
against the wall,” said Poramek
Dengsot, who works at the market.
Tony Starr, who lives near the
market and was watching police
process the crime scene, said the
shooting was “unsettling.”
“I’m not really that stressed
about it, but it does make an un
safe feeling in the area,” said
Starr, a junior philosophy major
at the University.
Darren Freeman is a freelance reporter
for the Oregon Daily Emerald.
Anthrax
infection
hits postal
employee
■The number of persons fallen ill
climbs to nine with the prognosis
of the latest case ‘not great,’ one
health commissioner says
By James Kuhnhenn & Tony Pugh
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON (KRT) - A Washing
ton, D.C., postal worker was in serious
but stable condition Sunday after being
diagnosed with a pulmonary infection
caused by inhaled anthrax, adding a
ninth victim to the roster of confirmed
cases.
Law enforcement officials intensi
fied their search Sunday for the source
of the deadly germ as more than 2,000
postal workers in and around the na
tion’s capital were encouraged to seek
testing for anthrax exposure.
In the latest case, the man worked in
a postal facility that handles mail ad
dressed to congressional offices,
prompting speculation that he might
have been infected by an anthrax-taint
ed letter opened last Monday in the of
fice of Senate Majority Leader Tom
Daschle, D-S.D.
Congressional leaders decided Sun
day to return to work as planned on
Tuesday. The Capitol will be open
Monday, but nearby congressional of
fices will remain closed as investiga
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Conference
challenges
U.S. policies
■The weekend event focused
on peaceful solutions and justice
for the situation in Afghanistan
By Marty Toohey
for the Emerald
The people and the messages at the
Peace, Justice and Globalization Con
ference this weekend at the University
ran the gamut of liberal thought, but the
overall message of the conference was
clear: The United States should stop
bombing Afghanistan, and citizens
should organize to stop the attacks.
The conference’s main coordinator,
Dave Zupan of Eugene Peace Works,
said the event went well and atten
dance was “amazingly good,” despite
low student turnout, which he attrib
uted to homecoming weekend and up
coming midterms.
Turn to Conference, page 6