News
Plans for re-balancing Oregon’s budget deficit continue to develop. Page 3A
Seven University graduates receive Fulbright Fellows positions. Page 6A
Sports
The Oregon women’s basketball team
sinks UCLA for a share of second place.
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Volume 103, Issue 83
LGBTQA
supporters
go skating
for solidarity
■Whether Skate World’s reaction
to two men hugging was due
to a bias or a rule, many students
responded with a show of support
By Diane Huber
Oregon Daily Emerald
About 30 members of the Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Al
liance and supporters laced up their
roller skates and reminisced about grade
school birthday parties at Skate World
on Saturday night.
But they were also representing visi
bility and support in response to dis
crimination several members faced the
previous Monday at Skate World in
Springfield, LGBTQA Director Chicora
Martin said.
Six or seven members of the 18- to 25
year-old LGBTQA community youth
group went skating Monday night, she
said. Two of the men were hugging, they
told Martin, when a manager came up
to them and told them they needed to
stop or leave. Skate World management
said a family had complained the cou
ple was kissing, she said.
Skate World Assistant Manager An
gus Laird said Skate World is a “G-rat
ed” establishment, and doesn’t allow
anyone to kiss in the building.
The incident had “absolutely nothing
to do with any bias — it’s a rule.” he
said. .
“Otherwise we’d get kids cuddled up
in the corner making out,” he added.
But Martin noted that the company
policy wasn’t posted in a noticeable lo
cation.
She said she doesn’t think Skate
World has a discriminatory policy, but
that doesn’t eliminate the possibility
that the complaint could have been in
stigated by bias.
“I’ve been verbally harassed at Gate
way Mall in the past. It’s more than like
ly that it was an instance of bias,
whether it was management, an em
Turn to LGBTQA, page 6A
Cold, Cruel World
Jonathan House Emerald
A lone snowperson stands outside Knight Library on a frigid Sunday afternoon. Although perhaps not the most
resplendent sculpture that has graced the University’s campus, it represents the quarter-inch of snow the National
Weather Service recorded in Eugene on Saturday night. The forecast for this week indicates an increase in temperatures
for the southern Willamette Valley, with Eugene seeing highs in the mid-40s with some light rain.
Local bars
watch for
minors,
fake IDs
■ ‘Minor decoys’ are frequenting
bars and liquor stores to ensure
that the drinking-age is enforced
By Brook Reinhard
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Oregon Liquor Control Commis
sion is stepping up efforts to keep alco
hol away from minors this year, and
University-area bars and liquor stores
are ready for the increased scrutiny.
“We’re trying to make places mind
ful of what it takes to not sell to mi
nors,” OLCC spokesman Ken Palke
said. The commission, which regu
lates alcohol sales in Oregon, offers
training to liquor vendors across the
state, and checks up on stores through
the use of “minor decoys.”
The agents are 18- to 20-year-olds
who go to liquor stores and bars and at
tempt to purchase alcohol.
“They’ll pick up a bottle of wine or
beer,” OLCC campus intervention spe
cialist David Green said. If asked to show
ED, they show real identification.
Most stores and bars pass the test — 70
percent card the minor decoy and refuse to
sell the liquor. That number jumps to 90
percent on subsequent visits, Green said.
When Willamette Plaza Liquor
Store was tested last year, “We passed
with flying colors,” manager Ken
Coldeen said.
“I asked, ‘How old are you?’ He says
‘20.’ They can’t lie to you,”*he said.
Coldeen estimated that 30 percent of
the store’s customers are students, and
said that local studies have indicated
that 10 percent of students visiting
stores in the Eugene area are underage.
“I don’t think (underage) students are
old enough to make decisions around
alcohol,” Coldeen said. “When I was
young, I thought I was 10 feet tall and
bulletproof.”
Palke said OLCC is focusing on un
derage drinking because alcohol is the
Turn to OLCC, page 4A
PFC reviews largest proposals of year, sets $1.9 million in budgets
■ Hearings were held for
the Student Recreation Center,
the Oregon Daily Emerald
and the Women’s Center „
By Kara Cogswell
Oregon Daily Emerald
During the third week of budget
hearings, the ASUO Programs Fi
nance Committee set budgets for
some of the largest programs to go be
fore the committee this year, includ
ing the Student Recreation Center
and the University Career Center.
Final 2002-03 budgets for eight
groups with hearings last week to
taled more than $100,000.
PFC increased the Recreational
Sports budget by 28.07 percent on
Jan. 22 — setting it at $136,670 for
2002-03. PFC Chairwoman Mary
Elizabeth Madden said the group
received a large increase because
some line items that had previous
ly been in the SRC budget were
moved to the Recreational Sports
budget. Recreational Sports is also
adding an assistant director posi
tion, she said.
On Jan. 24, PFC decided budgets
for six programs, including the
ASUO Women’s Center, Sexual
Assault Support Services, the Stu
dent Insurgent and the Oregon
Daily Emerald.
PFC increased the Women’s Cen
ter budget, from $120,128 this year
to $125,435 for 2002-03. Women’s
Center staff requested increases in
part to fund a new sexual assault
prevention program.
PFC increased the SASS budget
from $47,767 to $52,758, a 10.45 per
cent increase. ASUO Vice President
Joy Nair said the amount of funding
the service receives from PFC is small
in comparison to the number of stu
dents it serves, she said.
“Sixty-nine percent of (services
provided by SASS) are going to UO
students and faculty, but we only
pay for about 10.9 percent of their
budget,” she said.
Controversy held up the Insur
gent’s 2001 budget hearing, but with
in 25 minutes, PFC members voted
unanimously to increase the publi
cation’s budget by 8.62 percent to
cover rising printing costs.
PFC also increased funding for
the Emerald by more than 10 per
cent to $132,870, restoring the paper
to the level of funding granted by
PFC every year from 1997 to 2000.
Last year, PFC cut the Emerald’s
funding based partly on the assump
tion the paper could make up the
loss in fees with advertising rev
enue, Student Sen. Eric Bailey said.
After hearing about the Emerald’s
loss in advertising revenue this year.
PFC member Joe Streckert said the
committee should increase the pa
per's budget.
“Perhaps we should end the
quote-unquote ‘experiment’ done
Turn to PFC, page 4A