Friday, January 11,2002
Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 103, Issue 73
Night Ride shuttle will serve men and women
■The new service will benefit
those individuals who are
prohibited from using Saferide
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
University shuttle service Project
Saferide will remain open to
women only, but in order to comply
with a settlement reached with the
federal Office for Civil Rights,
Saferide directors are devising a
similar transportation service avail
able to men and women.
The new service, Night Ride, may
begin running as early as this sum
mer, Saferide co-director Nikki
Fanchersaid.
Fancher, who is directing the pro
gram with Saferide co-director Mor
gen Smith until Night Ride directors
can be hired, is coordinating the
program with help from the Les
bian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,
Queer Alliance.
Night Ride coordinators hope the
service will benefit groups of stu
dents who may feel unsafe on cam
pus but who are either uncomfortable
using Saferide or are not allowed to
use the service, such as gay men, men
of color and transgender individuals.
“It’s unfortunate that it took a rul
ing by OCR to force Saferide and
people who support Saferide to start
Night Ride,” she said. “But we be
lieve what we’ve created in Night
Ride is a very beneficial service. ”
Night Ride, which will offer rides
to groups of three or less by reserva
tion, will operate in much the same
way as Saferide, Fancher said. The
Department of Public Safety has do
nated one van to the program; a sec
ond, wheelchair accessible van will
be shared with Saferide, she said.
The concept for Night Ride devel
oped during meetings with students
and administrators held throughout
fall term in response to an OCR in
vestigation of a gender discrimina
tion complaint filed against the Uni
versity, she said.
Filed by an anonymous Universi
ty student last year, the complaint al
leged that the University violated Ti
tle IX of the Education Acts of 1972
because Saferide prohibits men
from riding in or driving shuttle
vans. Title IX prohibits sex discrimi
nation in programs or activities that
receive federal funds. Saferide, an
ASUQ recognized program funded
Turn to Night Ride, page 5
lb
World Trade
Center Building
No. 7, ruined
in the Sept. 11
attacks, is in the
demolition
process. Some
city workers have
yet to be given
jackets that
feature
New York’s new
Twin Tower-less
skyline.
Additional
photographs are
available online
at the Emerald
Website.
Rebuilding
lomas Patterson Emerald
A fence abutting New York Harbor, within sight of Ground Zero, proclaims the might of the ‘facades
of marble and iron’ that make up the ‘proud and passionate, meddlesome, mad extravagant city.’
By Thomas Patterson
Oregon Daily Emerald
N
EW YORK — The silence hit
me first.
New York City is big, sure,
with the expected big-city
noise. Any city with more than double
Oregon’s population will buzz with ac
tivity, but New York seems much more
muted these days.
Fewer angry taxi drivers honking at
angry pedestrians. Less cell phone chat
ter. Less hustle, less bustle.
I spent a large chunk of December
wandering through the injured city. Peo
ple everywhere — from hot dog vendors
to the suit-and-loaferset—said “please”
and “thank you” and “you’re welcome”
with a frequency and a sincerity that I
never saw during previous visits.
The good people of New York carry
this awful year, this annus horribilis of
2001, like a burden on their backs. Boy,
did they cheer the dropping of the ball
on tired Times Square. They want to
move beyond the painful past, away
from strangers from far away encroach
ing with their cameras.
It’s strange. The babies don’t scream on
the rush-hour subway; their big eyes just
swivel around in constant awe. You meet
their respectful, understanding eyes with
yours and a message is received: “I never
will have the decades of innocence you
took for granted. I will never have that lux
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to commuters or out to the scenery. The
children of New York have grown up in
a hurry, but they seem neither scared nor
full of reproach despite the scary, re
proachful world — and the charge to re
build it — they have been handed.
It’s just that all of a sudden they are
aware of their surroundings.
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howto fill.”
Still, they cannot
look away, staring up
E-mail photo editor Thomas Patterson
at tompatterson@dailyemerald.com.
Ducks make out like banditos at Fiesta Bowl—before expenses
The Ducks’
BCS shares
from the bowl
game will
be placed
in the general
athletic fund
By Eric Martin
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Ducks’ appearance in the 2002
Tostitos Fiesta Bowl secured $2.2 mil
lion for the Athletic Department and
enough tortilla chips and tangy salsa to
supply the snacks for one massive Su
per Bowl party.
“We had way too many Tostitos,” said
Tom Larson, director of finance and con
tracts for athletics, who attended the Jan.
1 Fiesta Bowl with colleagues and regu
larly raided the Pupks’ complimentary
cornucopia of chips and dips.
But like the chips, which disappeared
after steady sampling from Duck play
ers, coaches and administrators, much
of the $2,210,000 has been consumed to
cover expenses.
Athletic directors have already ear
marked and allocated the BCS cash into
the operating budget to cover expenses,
such as uniforms, coaches’ salaries and
student-athlete financial aid.
“That’s a building block to set up the
budget It’s expected,’.’ Associate AtWefc
ic Director Dave Heeke said.
The Athletic Department’s operating
budget is $29 million this year, BCS cash
included. Larson said the department
lumps the BCS money into its general
fund, and at that point, the directors
can’t track what each BCS dollar fi
nances in the department.
“All of our income comes into the
same general fund, and all of our ex
penses come out of the same fund,” Lar
son said. “There’s no way anybody can
relate a particular, dollar of income to a
particular dollar of expense.”
Share and share alike
Oregon’s BCS payments are influ
enced by much more than the final score
or the team’s final poll ranking.
The total revenue for 2002 BCS games
is $75 million, the largest chunks of
which are divided into six “base shares”
— an equal amount to each conference
that has a team in the BCS’s Fiesta, Sugar
and Orange bowls.
Turn to Bowl games, page 6