News
The ASUO Senate approves funding for
a companion service to Project Saferide.
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Commentary
Columnist Rebecca Newell has a problem with
Colorado’s football program: alleged gang rape.
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Sports
Coaches Bev Smith and Ernie Kent played Oregon
basketball, and now they’re leading like a Duck.
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Volume 103, Issue 72
Astrologer
Johanna
Mitchell blended
35 years of
experience
reading the
planets with the
performance
charisma of
Rosie O’Donnell
while giving her
predictions for
Eugene in 2002.
Mitchell said the
University has
some good
fortune in store,
but unfortunately
not for sports.
Outlook for 2002
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■A local astrologer makes predictions
for the world, the city and the university
By Mason West
Oregon Daily Emerald
Eugene astrologer Johanna Mitchell has
two keywords for the world in 2002: Confu
sion and uncertainty. But Mitchell hopes
these mental states will cause people to re
evaluate and make room for peace.
Mitchell gave her predictions for the Eu
gene community and commented on some
world events Wednesday night at Tsunami
Books. She said 2002 will not be an easy
year and people will certainly be glad
when its over, but that doesn’t mean good
things can’t happen.
“If you can offer to the world something
to be optimistic about, this is a great year,”
she said.
One of Mitchell’s optimistic predictions was
for the University: funding will increase some
time in May or June. Mitchell said although the
odds for the University receiving money may
look slim right now, “it’s in the chart.”
The chart Mitchell reads contains the lo
cation of the planets at the time of a person’s
birth. In the case of Eugene, it is the date the
city was founded. Mitchell then uses the in
terplay between the cycle of the planets in
the current year and the individual chart to
predict events by noticing dominant forces
created by the planets’ interaction.
The planets also have good fortune in store
for Eugene, possibly in the form of a Hollywood
Turn to Astrology, page 3A
EMU Board
votes to keep
tobacco sales
■ Bookstore officials say the issue is a moral one,
while EMU representatives say it’s all about choice
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
The EMU Board of Directors on Wednesday upheld the
decision to sell tobacco products in the EMU, a sharp con
trast to the University Bookstore’s decision last month to
eliminate sales.
The University Bookstore board of directors decided Dec. 4
that selling tobacco is unethical and discontinued sales Fri
day. But the majority of EMU Board members disagreed
Wednesday. They saw it as an issue of choice — and finances.
Tobacco products will still be sold at the EMU convenience
store Erb Essentials. EMU board members voted 10-4 to reject
a motion to end sales at the store.
At the bookstore, where cigarette sales make up less than 1
percent of total annual sales, directors made their decision
based largely on the health risks associated with smoking,
bookstore general manager Jim Williams said.
“We know — I know — that cigarettes kill people,” he said.
“Why would you sell something that you know kills people?”
EMU Board Chairwoman Christa Shively disagreed. Erb
Essentials does not advertise or encourage students to smoke,
she said, and students can make their own decision as to
whether they want to buy tobacco products.
“For me, it’s not an issue of morals or ethics,” she said. “It’s
an issue of choice.”
Before the meeting, board members examined information
about tobacco sales policies at other Pacific-10 Conference
schools. Board member Jake Holcombe argued that the EMU
— which makes nearly $30,000 a year from tobacco sales —
had more to lose than schools that have halted campus tobac
co sales.
“No one else was stuck between a rock and a hard place
like we are,” he said. “No one else was facing the fiscal reper
cussions we are. ”
The board’s decision ends a debate that began in October
when biology professor V. Pat Lombardi asked the board to
end tobacco sales in the EMU. The board discussed the is
Turn to Tobacco, page 3A
Celebration of King looks at Sept. 11
■ Events aim to re-examine
Martin Luther King Jr.’s
dream in light of the global
situation
By Diane Huber
Oregon Daily Emerald
Black Student Union co-di
rector Haben Woldu worries that
people today associate Martin
Luther King Jr. with a three-day
weekend in the middle of Janu
ary — and not the implications
of King’s accomplishments. •
That concern is addressed in
the theme of this month’s cele
bration of King’s life: “Redefin
ing the Dream.”
“We want to remind people
what the dream is all about, be
cause people seem to forget,”
Woldu said.
The month’s events begin at 5
p.m. today with a discussion of
the current global situation with
writer, poet and political activist
Amiri Baraka in the Gumwood
Room of the EMU. Steve Mo
rozumi, program advisor for the
Multicultural Center, described
Baraka as “the father of the black
arts movement,” and said Bara
ka will read some of his poetry
and discuss the relation between
King’s dream and world events
since Sept. 11.
Coordinators of the annual
event said this year’s celebra
tion is different from past years
because it will focus on King’s
vision for civil rights within the
context of the current global sit
uation.
Assistant Dean of Diversity
Programs Mark TVacy, one of the
celebration coordinators, said
many of King’s philosophies are
still relevant today.
The celebration events show
“how (King’s) vision has
changed society and how can we
continue his work in the face of
these changes,” he said.
Since Sept. 11, both global
and local communities are com
ing together, he said.
“King is known for trying to
bring communities together,” he
said. “What was King’s vision of
coming together in a nonviolent
way? How can we manifest that
vision in today’s situation?”
Morozumi said he thinks
ftiany people haven’t studied
King closely and know little
about him beyond his “dream. ”
“The month’s events force
one to pause and reflect on how
much of his dream has been ac
complished,” he said. “The
dream King had of a fully demo
cratic democracy is yet to be ful
filled.”
Tracy added that although
King is almost a folk legend in
America, most people associate
him only with nonviolent civil
Turn to King, page 4A
Mayor criticizes city’s
approach to business
■ Eugene Mayor Jim Torrey’s
state of the city address focused
on luring companies to the area,
transportation and the tax base
By Marty Toohey
Oregon Daily Emerald
The City Council “lost track” of eco
nomic issues over the last three years
and some policies resulted in “unin
tended consequences,” Eugene Mayor
Jim Torrey said during his sixth annual
state of the city address Wednesday.
He said that Eugene has developed
a reputation “as a city that is not open
for business,” and that he is working
with a consulting firm to create a
questionnaire for prospective busi
nesses to determine what it will take
to bring businesses into Eugene and
keep them here.
“Business as usual in Eugene just
won’t get it done,” he said.
City Councilor David Kelly, whose
district includes the University, said
Torrey should have mentioned specific
incidents before talking about unin
tended consequences.
“To me, his comments go back to an
old dichotomy,” Kelly said. “I don’t be
lieve there is a dichotomy of jobs ver
sus regulation or the environment.”
Kelly said problems lie not in the
regulations the city has passed, but in
the city staff’s implementation of the
regulation.
Torrey addressed University Presi
dent Dave Frohnmayer directly during
the speech and proposed a new park
and-ride site in the Autzen Stadium
parking lot. His plan would also include
widening and reinforcing the Autzen
.Turn to City, page.3A