■ Police issued 29 MIPs in the campus area on Halloween night. Page 3a
■ M Wayne Morse Chair leads panel on race relations, www.dailyemerald.com
A November to Remember
The Oregon football team opens the final month of the
season Saturday. Game Day
Friday, November 2,2001
Since 1 900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 49
Wiccans
look for
apology
fromKEZI
■ Local Wiccans are unhappy
with news anchor Lisa Verch’s
report about their religion
By Brook Reinhard
Oregon Daily Emerald
It’s been hundreds of years
since witches were burned at the
stake, but local Wiccans in the
community feel they are still be
ing persecuted.
Norma Joyce, high priestess of the
local Wicca coven, said she feels
slandered by KEZI news anchor
Lisa Verch’s report on Wicca and
the Oregon Youth Authority.
“We want an apology and a fair
airing-of what the religion is,”
Joyce said.
In August, Verch was contacted
by Michelle Crane, a woman
whose son is in prison and had
met with Joyce to explore the Wic
can religion. State institutions are
required by the Federal Religious
Land Use and Institutionalized
Persons Act to provide religious
opportunities when inmates re
quest them, said Karen Andall,
spokeswoman for Oregon Youth
Authority. Wicca is a religion rec
ognized by the state of Oregon.
Crane was deeply worried about
the interaction between Joyce and
her son, and she asked Verch to re
search the topic and see if Wiccans
had a right to talk to her son with
out her permission. Crane’s son is
still a minor, and she would not re
lease his name.
Verch researched for more than a
month before determining there
was a story, Crane said.
The broadcast was 7.5 minutes
long, as aired. Six minutes of air
time was given to people who felt
Wicca shouldn’t be allowed in state
institutions. Only one and a half
minutes were allowed for support
ers of Wicca in state institutions.
“It wasn’t an indictment of Wic
ca,” Verch said. “It was examining
the system — is this a good
choice?”
Oak Creek Correctional Center
opened its doors to Wicca earlier
this year. Joyce said she and other
women of her order have been
reaching out to kids in correction
al facilities because the kids want
support.
“We teach them ethics and non
blaming behavior,” Joyce said. “ I
can teach them how to protect
themselves, but 99 percent of what
we do is dealing with the psyche.”
Crane’s son heard that Joyce was
Turn to Wiccans, page 3A
She’s a ‘Virgin Virgin’
m
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Thomas Patterson Emerald
Martha Steele, dressed as the Virgin Mary, waits in line with Jesus (John Larson) to watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show,
which was shown at the EMU Ballroom on Wednesday. Those who have yet to see the show performed live are called ‘virgins.’
Movie to premiere at Convocation
The University will continue 125th anniver
sary activities today with its annual Convoca
tion ceremony, starting at 2:30 p.m. in the EMU
Ballroom.
Convocation is the ceremony that tradition
ally marks the beginning of the University’s ac
ademic school year. Janet Fratella, coordinator
of the event, said the Convocation allows “fac
ulty to reflect on their teaching, and staff to re
flect on their work and the importance of the
University.”
President Dave Frohnmayer will begin the
event with a keynote address about the state of
the University. A series of four lectures will be
gin at 4 p.m., and they will discuss the state of
the world and the University at its founding in
1876, and how the University has changed
through the years. At 5:15 p.m., the University
will premiere the video “A History of the Uni
versity of Oregon: The Founding.”
Although Convocation traditionally marks
the beginning of an academic school year, the
University typically holds it halfway through
the first term to allow the school of music time
to practice pieces for the convocation, accord
ing to Fratella.
The Oregon Brass Quintet, University Brass
Choir and University Singers will perform sev
eral traditional selections as well as “Fanfare for
the New Millenium,” a piece specially com
posed for the Convocation by University alum
nus Bernard Scherr.
Marty Toohey
Lawsuit
alleges
race bias
atUO
■Joseph Wade is asking for
punitive damages and
his former position back
By Leon Tovey
Oregon Daily Emeralct
The Oregon Attorney General’s of
fice is working to settle a lawsuit al
leging the University and Provost
John Moseley discriminated against
a former University administrator
based on his race.
Joseph Wade, who served as di
rector of academic advising and stu
dent services from 1985 to 1999,
filed the civil rights suit in June after
he was fired by Moseley, ostensibly
because Moseley was not satisfied
with Wade’s supervision of the Spe
cial Academic Support for Student
Athletes unit.
Moseley and the Attorney Gener
al’s office declined to comment on
the specifics of the case, but the 63
year-old Wade claims that he was
fired in retaliation for a lawsuit he
filed against the University in 1996.
He dismissed the suggestion that he
Turn to Wade, page 4A
From parks
to football
yards
■ Even before Donald Duck
represented his football team,
Jim Adams was a Disney fan
By Eric Martin
Oregon Daily Emerald
What do the Internal Revenue
Service, Disneyland and “The
Shawshank Redemption” have in
common?
Each played an integral part in
Oregon offensive lineman }im
Adams’ formative years. No, Jim
wasn’t hunted by
the government’s
tax hounds and
thrown in Maine’s
notorious state
prison. But he
loves the 1994 film
starring Tim Rob
bins and Morgan
Freeman, and his
parents, Richard and Connie, work
for the IRS office in Laguna Niguel,
Turn to Jim Adams, page 4A
UNDER THE
HELMET